YAYYY!!!

[thisnewday]

So this morning I made it to the Community Youth Center, where I do my treadmill routine, for the first time since "The Big Pull" at the dentist's last week. Yayyy!!!

I actually had 2 appts this week, Monday and Tuesday, Monday for another refitting of the upper and Tuesday for a re-do of the lower crown that he wasn't happy with. And, while there, I asked him if I could re-start my daily fitness routine without blowing out the newly-formed clots over my extractions and he said, yes, they're well-established, no problem.

And so, this AM, I did a reduced walk of 30 minutes on the treadmill and then came home and did about 2/3 of my normal strength/balance/flexibility routine. Which felt really, really good. Not enough to overdo it, but just enough that I felt like I was becoming active again after a short but complete layoff. And that's how I like to do it, what I've found works for me ever since I started doing this at the age of 12-13.

Which makes me pretty happy for the rest of the day's prospects. I have a dinner defrosting in the microwave--which I'm gonna destroy in the blender and eat before the grandson's varsity soccer game this afternoon. This evening, I'll do an oatmeal/banana/strawberry smoothie, maybe some journaling or a movie, then off to bed by 10...

LPK
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9.25.2019

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[rosegardenfae]

Glad to hear you are back at it. The smoothie doesn't sound half bad and incredibly healthy.

Ever forward...;-p

[thisnewday]

Thanks! The actual "recipe" is 1 organic banana (chunked & frozen), 1 cup frozen organic blueberries, strawberries, or dark cherries, 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 cup plain organic almond milk, 1/2 cup organic instant oatmeal, and--just for some high-calorie, ultra-tasty naughtiness, lol--1/3 cup Nutella chocolate hazelnut spread.

(Because the Nutella--or the store-brand spread I actually use--is such a PITA to clean off the utensils, I keep it in the fridge so it hardens up and put it in chunks into the measuring cup of almond milk until the level comes up another 1/3 cup or so and then dump the whole thing in the blender. Easy-peazy, as my El Ed friends are so fond of saying, lol.)

Then, just blend the bejeezus out of it and enjoy. I suppose--and I certainly don't recommend this--you could use a tbsp or so of organic cocoa and eliminate the calories in the Nutella, but that's like, well, just a sacrilege...

[rosegardenfae]

You've got this worked out to a real science.

I have strawberries, blueberries, and bananas in the freezer.

Could substitute yogurt for the almond milk?

No Nutella, didn't grow up eating it and haven't eaten it much.

What I really want is for someone to make me one and hand it to me. Hah

[thisnewday]

Yeah, I'm the Bill Nye of the Ninja blender, lol. And I do think that yogurt would be a GREAT substitute for the almond milk. Which, to me, tastes like it was wrung out of damp tree bark.

I only use it because my diminutive and frankly gorgeous cardiologist has made it clear that, if reason fails, she will kick my a$$ the next time she sees me. And I totally believe that she would do that.

Please be assured that, if I my arms were just a l-i-i-i-tle bit longer, I'd make one and hand it to you, lol...

[rosegardenfae]

Anah loves almond milk. I have no idea why. Almonds I love, coconut milk I love... eh, almond milk not so much. But one must what one must do. My biggest dairy intake is half and half in my morning tea and cheese.

Aww thanks for the smoothie thouht lol, I knew you were a gentleman and a scholar. ;p

[thisnewday]

"...a gentleman and a scholar." Although something of a dinosaur. You know, the one with short arms, lol...

[rosegardenfae]

I do so enjoy that you make me laugh. Thanks.