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You know you are getting old when:

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It's absolutely normal in german restaurants to order a "senior-portion" or a "small-portion", if you don't like a regular one. Especially, because german restaurants since the 2000's got that nerving habit, to serve you really too big regular portions. Just too big for a normal adult, like one and a half portion or even more! A "senior-portion" is always recommendable, here!! :)
 

2jakes

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What works for me, is small portions.

As a news photographer, always on the go, I developed the habit
of eating small portions all day.
Even on holiday feasts.
Also cycling, tennis has helped me not be overweight.
This was something that wasn’t planned on my part,
it’s just the way it is for me.

I still eat “junk” food but in moderation.

I’m not saying this as the way to lose weight...
I’m just sayin’....
 

2jakes

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It’s true what Fading Fast said about leaving the plate and not finishing everything.

After a short while I feel satisfied.

The trick for some is probably to be able to “push" the plate away.

@ Trenchfriend
Dark chocolate malts works like a charm when it comes to “roughage”....;)
 
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I have jumped on the latest fad wagon. I fast for 24 hours each week, eating dinner on Thurs night about 6:00 PM and then fasting (water only) until dinner on Friday. It supposedly has great health benefits in many aspects, weight control, brain health and overall well being. There are multiple ways of doing it and it does not have to be a full 24 hours or a complete fast. My wife takes a salad for lunch on the Friday as it is hard for her to go the full 24 during a work day.
 

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I have jumped on the latest fad wagon. I fast for 24 hours each week, eating dinner on Thurs night about 6:00 PM and then fasting (water only) until dinner on Friday. It supposedly has great health benefits in many aspects, weight control, brain health and overall well being. There are multiple ways of doing it and it does not have to be a full 24 hours or a complete fast. My wife takes a salad for lunch on the Friday as it is hard for her to go the full 24 during a work day.



When you begin fasting for 24 hours, are you physically active?

Or is this a time period where you are not active & do not require
nourishment?
 
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When you begin fasting for 24 hours, are you physically active?

Or is this a time period where you are not active & do not require
nourishment?
I have the Friday off so my activity level is lower than a work day but I use it as a chore day, shopping, laundry etc. But it does afford me the luxury of sitting down whenever I wish. But for a 24 hour period hunger is usually not a problem. My wife however is smaller and does need a few calories at the Friday lunch to see her through the day. But as I said the info I have read is not doctrinaire about the "how" and anyway you can lessen the load on the digestive system is beneficial. If you want to do the optimum they advise doing the 24 hour fast twice a week but I am not ready (if ever!) for that. If you google "fasting for brain health' or some version of that a ton of links will appear.
 

Stearmen

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You know you are getting old when you recall the time
when you could build a fire in the backyard and burn
leaves & trash on the ground.

Also the neighbor kept chickens & goats in her yard.
This was not a farm.

And I never could eat a chicken that my grandma would kill .
I recall her twisting off it’s neck, plucking off the feathers
afterwards.

Oh my... the “fabulous fifties” :(
Several of my neighbors have chickens, and we are smack dab in the middle of a city of over 400,000 people.
 

Stearmen

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You come out of the Grocery store, wheel your cart down the isle, (I always park at the end) and you see that your truck is gone! Heart failure big time! Then you look over, and realize, Next Isle! :confused:
 
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You come out of the Grocery store, wheel your cart down the isle, (I always park at the end) and you see that your truck is gone! Heart failure big time! Then you look over, and realize, Next Isle! :confused:

No problem. We got big, oversized parking-areas on supermarkets here, too. ;)
 
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You come out of the Grocery store, wheel your cart down the isle, (I always park at the end) and you see that your truck is gone! Heart failure big time! Then you look over, and realize, Next Isle! :confused:
I haven't done that, but I have walked out of the grocery store and spent several seconds looking for my truck before I remembered I was driving my wife's SUV. :rolleyes:
 

2jakes

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Not only do I know I’m getting old,
but now I feel like I am not of this earth anymore.




I remember a video game in the 90s
called Pokemon.

Not sure about “Pokemon Go”.
Curious, I asked someone about this.

They replied:
“What planet are you on?
Surely you’ve heard of “virtual reality?



I nodded ...”oh sure!


But just between us...
I have no idea. :(
 
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Stearmen

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I haven't done that, but I have walked out of the grocery store and spent several seconds looking for my truck before I remembered I was driving my wife's SUV. :rolleyes:
The worst part of the experience was, this is far from the first time I have done that!
 

2jakes

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The worst part of the experience was, this is far from the first time I have done that!

When I park the SUV in a huge crowded parking lot. I go to the area that comes close to where I
believe I parked.
I use the keypad & click the lock mode which activates the horn to signal that it’s in the lock mode
and I’m able to locate the SUV easily.

On the few occasions I park my 1939 Ford panel, for some reason,
I have no problem locating it. :D
 
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Not only do I know I’m getting old,
but now I feel like I am not of this earth anymore.

I remember a video game in the 90s.
Curious, I asked someone about this.

They replied:
“What planet are you on?
Surely you’ve heard of “virtual reality?



I nodded ...”oh sure!


But just between us...
I have no idea. :(
To be perfectly honest, sometimes the advances in electronic technology (particularly with regards to entertainment electronics) is the one thing that makes me feel old. Video games, cell phone apps, tablets, notebooks, and so on, are things I have little or no interest in. I barely use my cell phone as it is, so 99% of it's capabilities will never be used by me. But sometimes it seems everyone around me has intimate knowledge of these devices, and it makes me feel as if I should at least know about them even if I don't use them or I'll find myself getting left behind.
 

LizzieMaine

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We've gotten a tablet computer at work for dealing with scan-at-the-door print-at-home concert tickets, and I can barely turn the thing on. I'm not inadept technically by any means, but the swipe-and-touch interface is so completely counterintuitive to anything I've ever learned to do that I can't get it to work most of the time and have to have one of the kids do it. And after touch-typing 80wpm on a physical keyboard for a living for most of my life, I can't get a handle on these touchscreen keyboards at all. I don't see any circumstance in the universe where I would consider them an "improvement," let alone actually practical to use.
 

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