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My one friend who claims that she is about the same weight is making cookies, pies, cakes and fresh bread & rolls a lot more often and seems to be running errands and taking walks a lot less. Hmmm.
I keep reading posts here and elsewhere from people frantically searching for flour and yeast- apparently they're scarce right now and many have resorted to buying 25-lb. and 50-lb.bags of flour because that's all they could find. A whole lotta baking going on.
My supply hasn't budged. I bake only for the church coffee hour and that's not happening even after we open for services again.
I've been shocked I lost a couple pounds, despite feeling like I am eating more. I think it is because I don't have easy access to the grazing food I used to eat near work. And I haven't had a Hershey bar since March! (Avoiding going in stores since then.)
I've been shocked I lost a couple pounds, despite feeling like I am eating more. I think it is because I don't have easy access to the grazing food I used to eat near work. And I haven't had a Hershey bar since March! (Avoiding going in stores since then.)
Good for you! My problem is that I keep buying party size bags of Hershey's miniatures. Because they're small, you know. But we're already on our fourth bag. I'm cutting back, though - I only allow myself four per day.
I am down about 4 lbs, from 168 lb (76 kg) to 164 lb (74 kg). For a male age 65, 6 feet tall, I don't want to weigh any less. I have been eating mostly home cooked meals, using lots of fresh steamed veggies with all meals. That's no big change from the past, but what has changed is I don't stop and buy any snacks at a convenience store. I also have been eating almost no take out food from sandwich shops or restaurants. This means that my carb consumption has dropped, and that alone makes a big difference. After a week or so, I became used to this change and I don't crave the between meal snacks anymore.
It continues to amaze me, how often we find testaments of personal improvement, be it in habits or diet or wherewithal... frugality, self-reliance, minimalism, fervent cutting of waste or of the froth of dissolute indulgence. Everyone, it seems, is returning to a purer and more righteous proto-state, discarding the sordid trappings of automated, processed and fabricated modernity. It's as if we have a sort of Amish virus, an attack of wholesomeness and untrammeled simplicity. Suddenly we're all mending our own clothing and preparing our own meals from scratch, with hearty testimony of how wonderful it feels, how liberating it is, how it sheds the excess weight and lowers the blood-pressure.
Well, I personally don't celebrate such a change. The whole point of modernity is specialization and acceleration. We specialize narrowly to our professions, and within our professions. Others perform the chores, the mundane routines, the services and so forth. By specializing we become even more efficient, accelerating the generation of new knowledge, and the reduction of that knowledge to technological innovation: new products and services. I do not relish a more rugged, self-reliant past of the generalist, who milks his own cow and churns his own butter and sews his own shirts, and uses farm-labor as surrogate for lifting weights. And I sincerely hope that this back-to-basics renunciation of modernity is a temporary lapse, which will soon be reversed.
Well, I personally don't celebrate such a change. The whole point of modernity is specialization and acceleration. We specialize narrowly to our professions, and within our professions. Others perform the chores, the mundane routines, the services and so forth. By specializing we become even more efficient, accelerating the generation of new knowledge, and the reduction of that knowledge to technological innovation: new products and services. I do not relish a more rugged, self-reliant past of the generalist, who milks his own cow and churns his own butter and sews his own shirts, and uses farm-labor as surrogate for lifting weights. And I sincerely hope that this back-to-basics renunciation of modernity is a temporary lapse, which will soon be reversed.
I understand what you're saying, but “modernity” hasn’t been an unqualified success. All this technology was supposed to provide us with more freedom but what it has done is made it impossible to unplug from work.
“Others perform the chores...”—so you’re in favor of the economic disparity that in part is driving the division in this country? Our school system is jumping through hoops trying to provide internet access to those families who can’t afford it so their kids can continue learning while schools are shut down. It never occurred to many that some families don’t have internet access.
I’m not sure all this “progress” is truly progress. And I think smartphones are, by and large, a huge negative to quality of life.
I have managed to keep my weight the same....just. Too many snacks at home. I am really sick of cooking and of us both being around at lunch time. DH has still been able to go to golf but they have not been able to have their bars and restaurants open so he comes home. Tomorrow week they should be open.
I have not been sleeping well along with many people I know. Bit better now as mostly I was worried about my kids dealing with working from home and trying to homeschool the kids. Kids all back to school tomorrow so I can sleep more easily.
Otherwise almost everyone here is healthier than usual as there is almost no flu about. No ordinary viruses circulating. They think the combination of social distancing and closed borders have been the reasons.
Good for you! My problem is that I keep buying party size bags of Hershey's miniatures. Because they're small, you know. But we're already on our fourth bag. I'm cutting back, though - I only allow myself four per day.
I’m there with you on the chocolate addiction. I get the Milka chocolate bars at the international grocery in all the fun flavors. I am addicted and need to step away. I have probably gained about five pounds, although I seem to gain weight a bit in the warmer months, so this is not unusual for me.
Otherwise, I have had a lot more stress. My apartment has had nonstop construction since November, and it has been worse since the shelter in place since I’ve been stuck here and everyone else has been stuck here. I am trying to buy a house as well, so I have gotten a lot more stress-related headaches.
I have been exercising regularly- usually at least 5 times a week, sometimes six, so that is not an issue.
It continues to amaze me, how often we find testaments of personal improvement, be it in habits or diet or wherewithal... frugality, self-reliance, minimalism, fervent cutting of waste or of the froth of dissolute indulgence. Everyone, it seems, is returning to a purer and more righteous proto-state, discarding the sordid trappings of automated, processed and fabricated modernity. It's as if we have a sort of Amish virus, an attack of wholesomeness and untrammeled simplicity. Suddenly we're all mending our own clothing and preparing our own meals from scratch, with hearty testimony of how wonderful it feels, how liberating it is, how it sheds the excess weight and lowers the blood-pressure.
Well, I personally don't celebrate such a change. The whole point of modernity is specialization and acceleration. We specialize narrowly to our professions, and within our professions. Others perform the chores, the mundane routines, the services and so forth. By specializing we become even more efficient, accelerating the generation of new knowledge, and the reduction of that knowledge to technological innovation: new products and services. I do not relish a more rugged, self-reliant past of the generalist, who milks his own cow and churns his own butter and sews his own shirts, and uses farm-labor as surrogate for lifting weights. And I sincerely hope that this back-to-basics renunciation of modernity is a temporary lapse, which will soon be reversed.
Your post is so well-written. A pleasure to read.
But I do disagree. I question this viewpoint of modernity.
If "the whole point of modernity is specialization and acceleration" we are headed down a rabbit hole I wish we could avoid. Our planet has reached maximum carrying capacity with population and consumption. A return to basics would slow down our future disasters--including more pandemics. Not to mention starvation for so many.
Backyard farming is much easier on the land and transport costs than mono-culture factory farming and factory meat production-- and the rapid deforestation that is happening globally in order to provide more ag land.
The canary in the mine are the myriad species that have recently --or soon will--become extinct. This list is accelerating. When will humans be added to that list if we continue down the acceleration road we're on?
No, my wish is that we continue to slow down, consume less, and create a better life of self-reliance for our species while we can--and before it's too late.
There is a limit to growth and consumption--and we, imho, have reached it. We cannot continue to over-consume our dwindling resources.
To paraphrase an old Loving Spoonful tune: "Slow down, you move too fast -- you've got to make our resources last."
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(Avoiding going in stores since then.)
But we're already on our fourth bag. I'm cutting back, though - I only allow myself four per day.
