tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50985018101039462032024-03-13T14:03:13.850-05:00Between the TicksThat's when real life happens!Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.comBlogger495125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-81080865737245419492016-03-13T22:06:00.003-05:002016-03-13T22:06:51.151-05:00Zombies Run! 5kSo I'm going to talk about one of my favorite apps of all time. As an app it is available for both IOS and Android for less than 5 bucks.<br />
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So the basic idea behind the app is that is it a couch to five kilometer training app. It is designed to take someone who is a none runner and train them up to be able to complete a 5-kilometer run. All of this over the course of an 8-week program. Each week is made up of 3 identical sessions, that get harder as the program continues.<br />
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What makes this app so much fun in my opinion is the story aspect of the program. You take on the role of Runner #5 a new addition to Camp Able. The world has been overrun by zombies and you are being trained by the Camp Able Doctor and Sam the radio room to be a runner for the camp. One day you will be out running in the zombie wilds collecting much-needed supplies but not until you are ready if the doctor has anything to say about it.<br />
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I've been using the app every summer for the last three years. Until this year I've gotten stuck at the end of week 3 and have never been able to get past it. This past week for the first time I've made it past week 3 and in fact I have completed week 4 as of tonight. In fact to night I saved runner #6 life. That runner had been cut pretty badly and was on there way back to Camp Able. The problem was that they had three zombies hot on their heels. I, as Runner #5, was the only runner available to go out and distract the three zombies so that she could make back to the base and get the medical help that she needed to live. It was an exciting run and I had a great time saving the other runner. I can't wait to find out what comes next<br />
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You can find out more about it here <a href="https://zombiesrungame.com/">https://zombiesrungame.com/</a>Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-69064825573921711092016-02-25T14:34:00.000-06:002016-02-25T14:34:22.753-06:00Cross post from Between the RollsFor an RPG Night with Cliff Update please visit<br />
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http://betweentherolls.blogspot.ca/2016/02/rpg-night-with-cliff-feb-24-update.htmlRandilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-85898498621399204912016-02-23T13:06:00.001-06:002016-02-23T13:06:35.761-06:00Exercise plan revisited<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyrOn8g_c1BXurxfjToCElhIJwNTxWmngrVakteBh5K_6G5vLF9vh55631hSHiikURVdx2iiTdMN_nz4aoPNs4-BM9q5LHwqMZooBnb9unySfQ9gkebvWbZS_nFxrS-2mWznshyOXEeYgO/s1600/billteddoctor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyrOn8g_c1BXurxfjToCElhIJwNTxWmngrVakteBh5K_6G5vLF9vh55631hSHiikURVdx2iiTdMN_nz4aoPNs4-BM9q5LHwqMZooBnb9unySfQ9gkebvWbZS_nFxrS-2mWznshyOXEeYgO/s320/billteddoctor.jpg" width="259" /></a>Ok so lets all jump in to the phone booth with Bill, Ted and the Doctor and travel back in time to January 16th when I said I would originally post this. <br />
So back on January 6th I posted some goals for 2016. One specific goal was about exercise planning;<br />
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Build to a weekly exercise routine<br />
I find that I easily fall in a routine that lacks exercise. So much of my life and the things I enjoy are sedentary that I need to work to actively make physically activity apart of my daily / weekly routine. By January 16th I will post a weekly schedule that will show my intended out routine. Then by the end of January I'll post a follow up to show how I've been doing on it.</blockquote>
I kinda failed on the deadline I set it seems so with the help of the doctor and friends I'll try and clear that up.<br />
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So here is the exercise plan as it stands now. <br />
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<li>Zombies Run! 5k App every second day until it is completed. Then move on to the main Zombies Run! app to maintain and continue the pattern that I've established. For this part of the plan I am 4 sessions in to the program. There are 3 sessions per week and I have just started week two. As a reward for finishing a week I will be spending time in the pool and hot tub . I think this habit has really taken root already. The other morning was a none run day and shortly after I woke up I realized that is wasn't a run day and was disappointed by that fact.</li>
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<li>Yoga I've been introduced to a Yoga class that I very much enjoy. It is only once a week but I make the effort to try and make out. The price is reasonable, it is by donation , so I try and make sure I have ten bucks to toss into the bucket at the end of the class. I've also found in a couple of situations in my daily life where the stretches I have learned have indeed been helpful. </li>
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<li>Exercise Equipment; is something I want to start doing after my runs, but to date it is not something I've been able to include. I have walked through the equipment and looked it to try and figure out some type program for myself. Also I have spoken with a couple of people I consider to be knowledgeable about such things to get their suggestions.</li>
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That is the plan as it stands right now.<br />
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<br />Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-24448090472894029762016-02-22T22:33:00.000-06:002016-02-22T22:33:11.247-06:00Encounters to RPG night with Cliff<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN">Cross Posted from Between the Rolls, my gaming blog</span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://betweentherolls.blogspot.ca/2016/02/encounters-to-rpg-night-with-cliff.html">http://betweentherolls.blogspot.ca/2016/02/encounters-to-rpg-night-with-cliff.html</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">About 7 years ago my wife and I were interested in
checking out the latest addition of Dungeons and Dragons (4th edition). We made a few
calls to the local game stores and discovered that Wizards of the Coast
was just about to launch their Encounters program.
Which was basically a on going adventure that was provided by them and
broken into weekly installment. The program was great and by the end of
my first adventure I found myself as one of the DMs running the weekly
events.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">It has been a long time since those early days of <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1812774482" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Wednesday</span></span>
night gaming. Looking back I've got to say it has been one of the best
experiences of my life. I've made some amazing friends over the
years. A few of which I basically consider
family at this point. People I never would have met if I hadn't
committed to running all these games.
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWG_jkgkKSb8JU2cBL8wDhXgIW087l5-8_tnRpjj8xYCdrl1P-0DddSlZ9pjaqFa7GvGnv1wSZ8rT8q7hkoXVfSh3l8QjSxKTWCioKzRQ-4_gFHq0uWLxW-a94f2WoU6xOzX6DQwmb6pIO/s1600/Edge-of-the-Empire-Corerulebook_FFG_2013.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWG_jkgkKSb8JU2cBL8wDhXgIW087l5-8_tnRpjj8xYCdrl1P-0DddSlZ9pjaqFa7GvGnv1wSZ8rT8q7hkoXVfSh3l8QjSxKTWCioKzRQ-4_gFHq0uWLxW-a94f2WoU6xOzX6DQwmb6pIO/s1600/Edge-of-the-Empire-Corerulebook_FFG_2013.jpg" /></a><span lang="EN">A
lot has changed over the years. D&D Encounters,
has changed to a different program, I'm not involved with it any
longer. The players who used to be with me
when I ran Encounters have joined me for the last two or threes playing
in what has become known as "RPG Night with Cliff"
We no longer play D&D 4th or even 5th edition for that matter. We
get together to play a variety of Role-playing games. With special
attention to the games that don't often get the attention they deserve.
Here is a list of some of the RPGs we have done to date: Fate, Dragon
Age, Fiasco, Star Wars, Numenera, Savage Worlds Dead Lands, Cosmic
Patrol. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN">We will play a game for several months in order to
complete a single adventure and then move on to a new system. This
model has worked great for the store where we play because of my players
pick up at least the core rule book. They have also
been very accepting of me running the occasional game of a system that
is old or that they can't get in.
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<span lang="EN">Right now we are playing the Star Wars RPG produced by
Fantasy Flight Games. This is a returning system that we have played
before. As a group we are working our way the the published adventure
"Mask of the Pirate Queen." I'll be trying to
post more about our on going adventure at this blog. I want to make
this somewhere people will come back to visit and check out.
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNiOx1MzlelmlNZz9j0DZ-bBnyqN77gILnbTz4lsMW7oFYGD4C1oWCmzYOiFzH7wtOUZQ4lA2QHzUDH1dgJhpTiTeVG9Qr3p60ZYAhyphenhyphenm1OKOewUQafb1S5UxxlAjwzfO-MUhNt6Xns-BOq/s1600/pirate.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNiOx1MzlelmlNZz9j0DZ-bBnyqN77gILnbTz4lsMW7oFYGD4C1oWCmzYOiFzH7wtOUZQ4lA2QHzUDH1dgJhpTiTeVG9Qr3p60ZYAhyphenhyphenm1OKOewUQafb1S5UxxlAjwzfO-MUhNt6Xns-BOq/s1600/pirate.png" /></a><span lang="EN"><i><b>***The Following will contain adventure spoilers, if you
are playing in the adventure please don't read this for your own
enjoyment.**</b></i><b>*</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">A quick bit of background</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">The PC's have been hired by a large crime family and
tasked with the job of bringing in the Pirate queen that has been
targeting them. The crime family was able to provide the group with
three separate leads that they hoped would lead them Sorority (that is the name of the pirate band) All of the leads have
been explored and that has lead the group a crater valley elsewhere on
the planet. Last week they forcefully dealt with some of the pirate
security and they are about to arrive at their strong
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<span lang="EN">Our next game is <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1812774483" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Wednesday the 24th</span></span>. So expect an adventure update then.
</span>Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-64727481375624115452016-01-13T11:08:00.002-06:002016-01-14T08:32:41.035-06:00A Surreal WeekendIt has been an oddly surreal weekend. A very enjoyable one to be sure, but surreal none the less. It started on Tuesday night while talking with tamile and roswyne. The idea came up of going to Fargo for the weekend. It was just a random trip or anything the was a charity fundraiser being hosted by the same group that puts on one of our favorite annual conventions, <a href="http://www.fargocorecon.org/" target="_blank">Corecon</a> House the person it was for has long been a major fixture of the convention and is one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. He has also been battling cancer, which as it turns out is a very costly endeavor in the United States (more on that later) <br />
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So planning the trip turned into something of a cluster fuck. Which I guess in a lot of ways is why I don't like to plan trips at the last minute. It started out as a day trip four hours down spend the day and the four hours back. For the record I hate trips like that. You spend more time driven then you do at the place you are driving too. It seems wasteful and like stupid idea to me. So I started exploring a few options for crash space. With little to no effort found crash space for Friday and Saturday. Roswyne was comfortable. Being down that long or being tied to our schedule, so she made other plans. I tried to adjust what I had started to set up to accommodate what she needed. Which didn't work out at all. So rather than taking one car that could easily have fit 5 people we traveled in separate cars and honestly hardly saw each other over the course if the weekend. In the end I guess it wasn’t to big of a deal one way or the other. By all reports she had a good time and I had a good time, which in the end is the important part. <br />
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In our car was tamile, naivara and myself. Now normally naivara suffers from a condition jokingly called carcolypse, you put her in a moving car at highway speeds and she is asleep. That didn't happen on the drive down which lead to one of the better discussions the three of us have had since our break up as a trouple. The three of us talked about a lot of different things and I think we were able to clear the air on a lot of things. tamile and I also found a fair amount of time to talk this weekend as well. I think it put the two of us back on a better track for our relationship in a time that we really needed it. Honestly I think tamile and I need to make a point of taking car trips of a minimum of 4 hours on a regular basis. We both tend to talk with each other really well and open up while trapped in a car moving over 100 kilometers per hour.<br />
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The point behind the trip like I mentioned was to help support friend who is undergoing treatment for cancer. Now this wasn’t for moral support, this was about financial support to help cover the cost of his care. I heard a few numbers tossed around over the weekend about exactly what his treatment was costing. All of the numbers seem to me to be ridiculously high (1 quote went as high as half a million), but I have been assured by Americans who are familiar with the system that they are certainly within the realm of possibility. As a Canadian and someone who has grown up with socialized medicine this completely boggles my mind. Now thankfully in my friend’s case he does have medical insurance coverage. I don’t know to what extent it will be covered it wasn’t really any of my business.<br />
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Another friend who I saw while down there had also just undergone a major medical incident and had spent two weeks in intensive care. She had no coverage, so she is going to have to pay for that all out of her own pocket as I understand the American system. The cost of that stay is going to follow her around forever. The amount of money it would cost for a two week stay in an IC unit up in the hundreds of thousands am sure. <br />
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I did some quick googling and they even have a special term for this type of debt “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_debt" target="_blank">Medical Debt</a>” The link will take you to the Wikipedia page that discusses the term. After this weekend I don’t think I have ever been more thankful to be a Canadian. Sure we might have long wait times to see a doctor at the emergency room, but I would rather sit around for 8 to 10 plus hours to see a doctor then have to work for the rest of my life to pay of the debt that was incurred because of the visit.<br />
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If you are reading this and would like to help out my friend house please visit <a href="http://houseiswheretheheartis.com/" target="_blank">House Is Where the Heart Is</a> page to make a donation. <br />
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<br />Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-65276103979031506962016-01-06T22:38:00.001-06:002016-01-06T22:38:09.440-06:00Goals for 2016<div class="MsoNormal">
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I don't like to make resolutions for the year ahead. I much prefer to think of them as goals for the new year.
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With that in mind I also make sure that they are
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<b>Specific</b> (Goals must be clear and unambiguous)
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<b>Measurable</b> (Results must be able to be measured in
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<b>Attainable</b> (Goals must be realistic and attainable by the average employee)</div>
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<b>Relevant</b> (Goals must relate to your organization's vision and mission)
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I'll be keep these in mind as I write my own goals for 2016. Looking at the list means of each letter you can see that they were intended for a group or organization but that doesn't make them any less valuable to an individuals goals. </div>
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<b><u>Health:</u></b></div>
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<li>Complete Zombies Run couch to 5k:</li>
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This is to be completed by tamile's birthday June 20th. It will go a long way towards my own journey of health. Completing this has also been a long time goal for me as well, and it is one that I will see completed at long last this year.</div>
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<li> Build to a weekly exercise routine</li>
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I find that I easily fall in a routine that lacks exercise. So much of my life and the things I enjoy are sedentary that I need to work to actively make physically activity apart of my daily / weekly routine. By January 16th I will post a weekly schedule that will show my intended out routine. Then by the end of January I'll post a follow up to show how I've been doing on it.</div>
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<u><b>Personal:</b></u></div>
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<li>Get my drivers license.</li>
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I've had my beginner's license for a long time at this point and it is time I get off my ass and be able to drive on my own. Far to often there are things I miss out on because of my inability to drive myself to them. <br />
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<li>Lifestyle Skills and Power Exchange</li>
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There are a number of different skills that fall in to the kink lifestyle that I have dabbled in. I really want to take the time to learn to make use of these skills in more in-depth. I want to be able to use them in scenes at will, without having to take the time to for example look through a book as I'm working. <br />
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An important part of those lifestyle skills include developing a relationship with someone to whom I can have an on going power exchange relationship. I have parts of that style of relationship with two people at the moment but know that it could be so much more.<br />
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<li>Clear attendance record at work.</li>
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This is a simple one. All I need to do is not miss work and it will take care of itself.<br />
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<li> Successfully launch and fulfill Casting KickStarter</li>
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<li>Complete test and prototyping for Gnome Care and continue working on other games</li>
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<li>Develop a regular meditation practice</li>
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A few times over the last couple of years I have started to try and set up a meditation practice. The times I have started the practice I have very much enjoyed the experience and felt better for it. I want to be able to develop a practice that allows me to tap into that experience.<br />
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Anyways those are my goals for 2016. It took me longer to post them then I had intended, but they were up and posted before the end of the first week. So I'm happy with that accomplishment. <br />
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Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-64110914074434128422015-12-28T12:39:00.001-06:002015-12-28T12:39:17.700-06:00The WallI was going through an old thumb drive the other night looking for a project and delete off the old crap that was on it when I came across something I had written. It was originally written on May 2nd, 2008. I never did get beyond the Wall that I face at the time. Post surgery as you will already know I am way beyond that wall now. Still I found it interesting to reread something from then. <br />
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So as you can see from the graph
above I’ve been battling a plateau for roughly the past two months at this
point. For me the plateau has been 360
or as I’ve come to refer to them as ‘The Magic Number or The Wall’. At first I thought I was just having a lazy
week after having a good work. Then I
started looking at more closely as it continued for several weeks and knew I
had to off hit a plateau and that if I was serous about this that I would have
to take steps to break through. <o:p></o:p></div>
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First off I
want to address the terminology being used because I really don’t like it. A plateau is some where that mountain climbs
stop and take a rest, may take a few pictures and enjoy themselves, for them it
is a goal. For people trying to lose
weight a plateau is a point of frustration it is something that stops us and
gets in our way. It certainly isn’t
something that we strive for or reach for.
So I say lets call it what it really is a wall. Its something that we have to push through or
climb over, it is in the end something to get past. Now that we’ve got that out of the way and
are speaking the same language lets get on with the blog.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s my
opinion that in order to beat something it is best to learn as much as you can
on the subject. That way you have the best
possible tools to achieve your goals. So
off to the internet I went, I learned that ‘walls’ apparently come from two
different possible sources. One of the
possibilities even claims that other is a biological impossibility. I’m by no means a medical expert so I won’t
even try and guess who is right in this and just present them to you as two
separate concepts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The first
theory I came across on why have these walls when working to lose weight goes
something like this. The body needs a
certain amount of calorie energy to get through the day. After all it has to do
the basic things that we all feel are so important to continued life like Heart
pumping, Lungs expanding and contracting, the kidney’s filtering and so one. As we cut down our weight the amount of
caloric energy we expend to stay alive goes down as well. . <o:p></o:p></div>
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The next
theory is the so called “Starvation mode” and it goes something like this. Our body detects the reduction in calories
and interprets that message as meaning that food is scarce. So it goes in to what could best be described
as a sort of power saver mode and saves any extra energy it can. It makes sense in a lot of ways to me and
would be a good survival method if food really was scarce. Sadly in this case the body is miss-interpreting
the message. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Some people
say that the second one is biologically impossible, like I said earlier am not
going to try and figure out who’s right and who’s wrong. In the end the reason this happens is less
important then what to do about it when it does happen. That’s the real reason am sure many of you
are reading this blog entry so lets get right in to that. <o:p></o:p></div>
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During my search
every link I clicked offered me a new method to push through the wall or in
some cases several of them..</div>
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Change things up if you have been focusing mostly on cutting
back the calories then switch to focusing on burning the calories through
exercise or vice versa. If your already
doing both try changing the amount you’re working out and increasing the
intensity and or the resistance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you are not already doing so start a food an exercise
log, Keep track of everything you eating
the calories too when possible. Also
including in that what you do for exercising.
It gives you a good picture of what your doing and not doing so you can
really examine the changes you’re making to your life styles.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Change some of your eating habits can help so try reducing
the carbohydrate and fat in take and eat more protein calories. Just be sure to keep the daily protein calorie
intake under 25% of your calories. You
can also try having days that are less restrictive in your diet plan. That will sometimes help to keep the pounds
coming off this is sometimes called Zig Zagging the calorie intake. Along the same lines you can also adjust the
sizes of the meals you eat through out the day and have several smaller meals /
snacks through out the day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I want to close with one site I came across that encouraged
you to hang in their and keep it up.
Even though your not losing weight at the rate you might like, it is
likely that your still losing although gradually. This suggestion struck me personally as the
height of stupidity and that it would only lead to further frustration. So don’t just hang in there do something
about it make changes and try in things.
Push through that wall and remember there will be another one at some
point you broke through this one and you will break through the next one as
well.</div>
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Your friend in weight loss who won’t give up and hopes you
don’t either. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-11241499127085534192015-12-19T21:08:00.001-06:002015-12-19T21:08:57.669-06:00Birthday dinner surprise<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><a href='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MhlXz5Maljo/VnYbxwhQnEI/AAAAAAAABrw/ZA-dqS9bLkk/s2560/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg' onblur='try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}'><img border='0' src='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MhlXz5Maljo/VnYbxwhQnEI/AAAAAAAABrw/ZA-dqS9bLkk/s640/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg' style='display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;'/></a><br/>
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Tonight's birthday dinner turned into something a little more for my youngest daughter</div>Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada49.906498 -97.12903tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-23689329223447334282015-12-16T14:07:00.000-06:002015-12-16T15:49:48.447-06:00A life time of Star Wars<br />
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First off there are no risks of spoilers here I haven't seen the movie yet and I've also stopped reading anything Star Wars related on the internet.<br />
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Star Wars has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. When the first movie came out on May 25, 1977 I was a year and half old. The story I've always been told by my mom is that I was taken to the first movie at the driven in because my mom couldn't find a babysitter. I have absolutely no memory of this at all, but I would like to imagine that I was spell bound staring at the screen watching the bright flashes of light flash a cross the screen with each blast shot.<br />
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Of course I realize that as a 1 and half year old I likely couldn't even see the screen and I certainly had no concept of what was happening in the movie. What I would have known is that my mom was excited and happy. Knowing what I know of kids that likely would have made me happy as well. Either way it is mostly speculation the only fact I can confirm is that I was there. The rest of the movies in the original serious I remember seeing in theaters as well. Although I don't remember much about them personally. I do recall seeing Return of the Jedi at Grant Park theater with my neighbor, although I have no clue why I would have seen it with him. <br />
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Star Wars toys fueled my imagination easily as much any of my other toys. I remember grand adventures played out in my backyard where the falcon would land in the grass and my action figures would battle it out in what to them was waist high grass. It went to encourage me to start reading other adventure books, and guild my friends through adventures of our own.<br />
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In many ways it shaped the person I am today. A love of Star Wars lead to a love of Science fiction in general. From that I discouvered role-playing games and in turn fandom. There isn't a day that goes by in my life when I don't interact with someone I might because of my time in Fandom. Granted that isn't to hard to say since I met my wife through fandom :)<br />
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by the time the second three movies that came out I had two daughters that I could bring along with me and introduce to the world of Star Wars. Of course they had already seen the movies we owned the VHS we were savages. But the thought of reading the scroll at the start of the Phantom Menace always brings a smile to my face. Some jerk in the theater "shhhh" us as we were reading quietly to hear. The people around us were so offended by his action that they started reading along with us. <br />
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Now with the new movies about to start I'm happy to say that I have a ticket in had for my grandson and I can't wait to take him to see it this Sunday.<br />
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Thank you George Lucas for bring a universe to life and having such a huge impact on my life.<br />
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<br />Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-24969012972429912902015-12-08T15:15:00.000-06:002015-12-08T15:15:22.072-06:00Major MilestoneI can't believe it, last night at TOPS *LINK* I broke 300 pounds. Honestly I don't remember the last time I weighed this little. A week ago I was really close to achieving this milestone. In fact the scale took almost a full 30 seconds to determine my weight.<br />
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This week when I stepped up on to the scale it locked in almost right away 296.75lbs. I have no clue when I last weigh this little. The lowest weight I can recall was about 6 or 7 years ago when I was actively attending a boxing class several times a week. Even then I couldn't break past the 350 barrier. This time I did it.<br />
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cn4Q7CEyXT4/VmdIZ8P0KwI/AAAAAAAABjk/TKrt9Il_ZQs/s2560/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cn4Q7CEyXT4/VmdIZ8P0KwI/AAAAAAAABjk/TKrt9Il_ZQs/s640/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" border="0" /></a>Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com2Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada49.877674 -97.12495tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-3651275101699653662015-12-07T12:01:00.002-06:002015-12-23T11:31:51.079-06:00A long over due update.Wow, it feels like forever since I've written anything here. That likely is because it has been forever since I've written anything here. At first I had what I thought was a good reason, but that went away about a month and a half ago when I told naivara about the new girlfriend Roswyne Remember that cute red had I met at one of our house parties back in September. Well She has become my girlfriend, I would say that has been going really well over all. We talk a lot and spend a ton of time together, while both still are left wanting even more time together. <br />
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Anyways it is what it is and the time away from blogging is time away from blogging. It certainly is something that I have missed doing on a more regular basis. My intent is for this to be the first of a number of regular posts.Yes if you've read the blog for any amount of time you will know that this isn't the first time I've said something like that, and to be sure it won't be the last time I say it either.<br />
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Anyways here are some quick high level updates to get everyone caught up on my universe.<br />
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<ul>
<li>Still happily married to tamile</li>
<li>Have a wonderful new girlfriend Roswyne</li>
<li>Effects of Weight loss surgery continue to be felt. As of my last weigh in I'm currently at 300.5lbs. That is a hundred pounds lost since July when I started the boost diet.</li>
<li>I've recently switched from iPhone to Android for my cell phone.</li>
<li>I've gone up to full time hours as of today. (Not sure how I feel about this yet, other then that it needed to be done.)</li>
<li>I'm getting a ton more driving in, and getting closer and closer to feeling confident enough to go for my license.</li>
</ul>
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Anyways I guess that is enough for now, I'm sure there will be other posts in the coming days exploring different things.Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-13539657063366051202015-09-23T16:01:00.001-05:002015-09-23T16:01:37.050-05:00Meditation #1A few years ago I picked up a book called "The Best Guide to Meditation" written by Victor N. Davich. It is a really interesting book on how to meditate. The point of the book is to work through it step by step learning along the way to make meditation apart of your daily life.<br />
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I have tried a couple of times over the course of the last couple of years to make it a part of a daily practice but it has never really worked out for me. So this time around I'm going to try something different. I'm going to attempt (Do or Do not, there is no try) to blog about my progress and my experiences on a regular basis.<br />
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The first mediation in the book was about recalling a time in your life when you were living in the moment. A time when you weren't worried about what had happened in the past or what was going to be happening in the future. All in all I didn't have a lot of moments like this that came to mind, I am often a person whose head is thinking about tomorrow or is reliving a moment from his past thinking about how he could have handled a situation differently and playing out what ifs in my head.<br />
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Here are a quick run down of the 3 moments that came clearly to mind, there were other moments but I couldn't hold on to any of them long enough to get a feel for what they were. Also the exercise wasn't about holding on to the memories it was about letting them flow in and out of your mind.<br />
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<li>My granddaughters first steps, I was laying on the floor playing with her and helping her walk around when she took a few steps on her own. In fact she was holding my phone at the time and it was recording video. It is a file I will always treasure.</li>
<li>Driving in the car with tamile while we were on our little house road trip. It wasn't clear to me where we were driving or anything along those</li>
<li>I was swimming I think at West Hawk Lake the time I went there with my eldest daughter and tamile. </li>
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Over all I came out of the exercise feeling pretty good about it and about myself. We will see how it goes this time around. Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-22603419347660759392015-09-07T17:19:00.000-05:002015-09-07T19:38:15.428-05:00The good, the bad, the ugly and a questionIt has been an eventful weekend to say the least. I'm truly glad it turned out the way it did as it is the last weekend before I return to work. With the Doctors ok I'll be back on tomorrow Tuesday. On one hand over all I'm not thrilled to be going back. I'm enjoying the time at home working with tamile, getting stuff done around the house, and even doing some writing. That being said I also know it is important that I get back in to the regular routine of working a daily job.<br />
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So lets start with the good of this post. This Friday after running errands and a meeting we spent the evening babysitting two of the grandkids. It was the two grandkids that we don't see as often so it was a lot of fun. The four of us played, cuddled and watched a bit of TV. tamile took care of putting the older one to bed and I took care of putting the baby to bed. It was only willpower that kept me awake through the process. We were going to offer to keep them over night but they came by early to pick the kids up.<br />
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The weekend continued to be good Saturday afternoon was spent at a local game store running a demo of a new game called Nefarious. It was a pretty good game and I will likely write a review of it in the next few days. That evening was when the real fun began. tamile and I hosted our first party since June. <br />
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In the past we have regularly hosted kink focused parties. Basically once a month we invite over friends to hang out, chat, have a few drinks, share our kinks with each other, and even demonstrate a few kinky things to the room. We tried a couple of things differently this time around. We invited less people so those who did attend had more space. It made for a way more intimate evening. Everyone who came out played in some way or another, which I am pretty sure is a first. tamile and I started off the evening with a great flogging scene, it had been to long since we did that.. Our Brandon family followed up with their own impact play scene. A few people did some electro play, I got to have a small electro play scene with a regular attendee and then followed it up with an electro play and impact play with a first timer to our parties. A very cute (Currently red headed) woman the scene was really good and fun to play with. All in all it was a great night. One of the more enjoyable parts was a sitting four people across our three person couch. I had tamile pressed into me on one side and the red head on the other. It was a rough place to be sitting for sure with both of them cuddling up into me. Somewhere between 3 and 4 in the morning the last of the guests left.<br />
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Sunday continued to be good our home based gaming group met and started a new adventure for the first time since last April. It was a pretty good session all. There wasn't a lot of things happening in it, but everyone had fun and we got the adventure started.<br />
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Now for the bad is that the weekend is nearly over.<br />
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Last but not least the ugly. I normally wear a kilt to kink events. tamile makes a wonderful cargo kilt that are awesome to wear and comfortable as hell. I have two wonderful kilts that she made and to be honest they are far from ugly. What is ugly is they they don't fit anymore. I can't say that this is a bad thing but at the same time I can't call it a good thing either. Which is what makes it ugly? I want to be happy and excited by them not fitting but it also means I am without a cargo kilt for a while.<br />
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Finally the question; I have been only posting this blog for a while now and I was reminded today that I have a couple of other blogs. Ones that are specifically focused on gaming and the other one focused on Kink. Should I go back to posting about those other topics specifically to those other blogs and try and generate more content or should I just keep posting everything to this one?Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-44893308668080250272015-09-03T23:12:00.000-05:002015-09-03T23:12:44.235-05:00Doctor's Follow UpSo today was my follow up with the doctor who did my by-pass. I find it amusing that all of the doctors I have met and dealt with through the whole process have been skinny. The same is true of everyone that works at the Victoria clinic as well. No way to know if this was an intentional decision or if it was just random but it certainly does stand out. Even the hot resident doctor with the sexy accent who did the initial question was skinny. Anyways it was just an observation that I wanted to share. <br />
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So the appointment was pretty good. The doctor gave me a clean bill of health and I've got the ok to go back to work. He asked how everything was going if I was exercising and so on. My only short fall has been that I've been forgetting to take my last vitamins of the night. So they made a point of reminding me about that and how important it is. At the end of the appointment I was told I would be put on the regular follow up schedule. So now I have a follow up in 6 months and then again at the end of the year. After that if all is still go then I will be going to yearly follow up appointments.<br />
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I think the real important and enjoyable part of the appointment was sitting in the waiting room. In total there were 5 of us that were actively talking. 3 of us had our surgeries within a day of each other and had met in the hospital. 1 woman who was scheduled to have her surgery in 10 days and the last person had the surgery a year ago last March. All of us readily shared our experiences with each other and everyone was happy and open about sharing. We had all taken slightly different paths; for example some of us have been open about our surgery others have and are keeping it secret.<br />
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One of the funny things about the discussion was that the woman who had had her surgery over a year ago also had a cast on. Based on that and her physical appearance all the rest of didn't think she had a bypass until she came out and said so. I can't imagine being at a point that when someone looks at me they wouldn't know I was once fat.Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-73301110542848278632015-08-31T22:42:00.001-05:002015-08-31T22:42:20.809-05:005 week updateAugust has been a hell of a month. My body has pretty much got used to the effects of the surgery. I've only found a couple of things so far I can't eat. The big one so far is French Toast, it is a bit of a blow as I've always been a rather large fan of French Toast. If that is the worst of it I'm sure I will live. I've had a lot of ups and downs along the way. Some days are still better then others and I'm sure that will continue.<br />
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At this point the biggest thing I need to focus on is taking my time while eating and making sure I get in plenty of activity. We have picked up a Y membership, but haven't been able to make it down yet. Our first scheduled gym time is tomorrow morning. tamile has plans to go do aquafit with one of the ladies from our TOPS group. I'm planning to hit the track and run week 1 session 1 of Couch to 5K Zombies Run. Surprisingly enough I'm super excited about being able to start the Sessions. It feels weird to say but it is true.<br />
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The loss of weight isn't the only changes that have been happening around the household. We have redecorated what is now the guest room. It still feels a little weird to call it that. tamile and I have also worked through a lot of different things and have reaffirmed our power exchange. It has been really good and things are working well for us. I've also been encouraged to start writing again. Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-70669826263824318632015-08-11T17:16:00.001-05:002015-08-11T17:16:33.317-05:003 weeks less a day post surgeryWell it will be 3 weeks since surgery as of tomorrow. All in all I'm hugely happy with the results.I'm working my way back towards more solid food. It seems like everyone is really different when it comes to how they get back to eating. I was speaking last night with the person who had surgery the same day that I did and she was still on soft food. The sad and difficult part is that just because you can eat something one day there is no guarantee that you will be able to eat it the next.<br />
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Just yesterday I had intense stomach pains after eating some pork chop. I had eaten the exact same thing only the night before for supper. For the most part I'm doing pretty good with solid food. I chew the hell out of it to be certain. I think the biggest part of it is portion control. This is something I'm still having a hard time on this one. While I was working on this entry I stopped to make myself some lunch. The plan was simple I was going to have a cheese quesadilla, I initially planned on A quesadilla shell folded in half. When I pulled out the shell it looked small so I pulled out a second one. As I was making it the thing looked small enough. Then I ate it slowly and chewed a lot but by the time I finished I knew I had eaten to much. I'm starting to think that about half of what I consider a good sized portion, might be the way to go. I guess this might be why they say 4-6 weeks off to learn these things.<br />
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Anyways here is a little hard data about the weight loss.<br />
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<ul>
<li>June 15 - 404.7lbs</li>
<li>June 22 - 397lbs</li>
<li>June 29 - 400.5lbs</li>
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<li>July 2nd Boost Diet Started </li>
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<li>July 6 - 391.7lbs</li>
<li>July 13 - 385.6lbs</li>
<li>July 20 - 378lbs</li>
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<li>July 22 - Surgery Date</li>
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<li>July 27 - 370.3lbs</li>
<li>Aug 4 - 358.4lbs</li>
<li>Aug 10 - 354.2lbs</li>
</ul>
Total weight lost from June 15 to Aug 10th 50.5lbs<br />
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Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-89640894321247391052015-08-04T00:25:00.001-05:002015-08-04T00:35:26.614-05:00Food As RewardThe day I was out walking with tamile and we started talking a little bit about what exactly food is to us and how we see it. One of the things the we realized as we talked was that we both see food as a reward. In seconds as we talked both of us rattled off a number of examples where we rewarded ourselves with food for a job well done.<br />
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<li>A new job? lets celebrate by going out to a restaurant.</li>
<li>Kids Birthday? lets have the family over for dinner & cake.</li>
<li>The kids sports team did well? Then lets get the Ice-Cream on the way home.</li>
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I'm pretty sure that you get the idea. Not really sure what the origin of this behaviour is but it seems to be pretty consistent across most of the people I know. More then once I've seen a coach with the whole sports team out for Slurpees or Ice Cream.<br />
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We need to get away from this. Why should food be used as a reward? I guess in a lot of ways it is just easy. Food is everywhere so that makes it super easy to get and give as a reward. With a little extra effort a better reward shouldn't be to hard to come up with.<br />
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<li>A new job? What about getting some new clothes or something cool to have with you at the job. Like some kind of desk sitter.</li>
<li>Kids Birthday? Have the family over for gifts and a visit. Skip the cake, it is a tradition that isn't really needed. A quick bit of Google-Fu says cakes come from around the 1400s in Germany. Maybe we need to change just how we do cakes, Maybe there is some type of better option. I'm not to sure what it is but I do want to try and figure it out. Maybe just skip the icing?</li>
<li>Sports team did well? Save the money you would have used on ice cream and get them something they can you use for the next game. Maybe some better equipment, help pay for team photos, have Gatorade on hand for the next game (Sure it is food, but at least it is good you)</li>
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Anyways hopefully this will at least give you something to think about.<br />
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I was going to say that I hoped this post gave you some "Food for Thought" but I thought better of it.<br />
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There is a quote I found that is apparently attributed to Drew Carey;<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Eating crappy food isn't a reward, </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>it is a punishment" </i></span></span></div>
Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-5468176492432249702015-07-31T00:57:00.001-05:002015-07-31T00:57:56.000-05:00By Pass Update: Day 8So it has been a 8 days since I had the surgery. All things considered I'm doing pretty good and feeling pretty good. Each of the incisions, but 1, have started to develop some wonderfully colourful bruises. The one that hasn't bruise up is healing amazingly well. The second worst bruise of the lot wasn't part of the operation but from the bloody Heperin shot I received the next day.<br />
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Next lets look at food. Things have changed a little bit since I last posted. Don't worry, Jell-O is still my best friend. Now with that out of the way I have gotten to try a few new things as well. I absolutely loved the Mango Hurricane Booster Juice, with it I had a protein booster. That was a big help with my daily protein. It was so nice and smooth going down too. The one rule I did break was I used a straw. They say that you are not supposed to use straws because it introduces to much air into the stomach. I didn't really have any problem with it.<br />
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The next day tamile made bison burgers for herself and pureed about 2 or 3 oz of one of them along with a bit of beef broth. I can't begin to describe just how good this tasted. It was pretty much the first amount of meet I had eaten in some time. I was tempted to add some ketchup or maybe even some relish but I decided against it. I wasn't sure how the ketchup my cause it to clump up in my stomach. As for the relish I don't really have a reason why I didn't bother with that I just didn't.<br />
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More news as it happens.Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-51314604477083774012015-07-28T12:46:00.000-05:002015-08-11T14:53:07.955-05:00Day 6 Update<b>Been a rough couple of days. Stomach felt really twisted, and bloated. Thankfully no throwing up, The feeling has mostly past at this point. Still not pleasant. Watching what I'm eating very closely and still trying to stay active. It is such a weird balancing act.</b>Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-27258013235780784072015-07-26T12:10:00.001-05:002015-07-26T12:12:11.153-05:00Day 4 By Pass UpdateWell it has been four days since the by pass. All in all I'm doing pretty good. I've still only had a single bowel movement and I would very much like to start having them with some amount of regularity.<br />
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Saturday was pretty exciting, Months before I knew I would be having the surgery we had signed up for the Winnipeg 5k Color Me Rad run. I was honestly pretty torn about how I was going to deal with this. At first I had considered just going to cheer them on and sitting at the finish line waiting for them. Then I considered walking as much of it as I could and just doubling back to the finish line. I went back and forth on this a lot since the surgery and before hand. Saturday morning I was getting dressed and pulled out the shirt I had worn to the other color me rad runs I had done. It was pretty much decided at that point I was going to walk as much of it as I could. I nearly dropped out around the 4 kilometer mark. But I decided I had gone that far another kilometer wouldn't hurt. I'm really glad that I made it to the finish line and did the whole route. It felt like a really big accomplishment. Granted there is still apart of me that is fairly certain that while it was an accomplishment it was also a stupid decision. In the end I guess I don't really care all that much I accomplished what I set out to do. Next year I will be running it one way or the other.<br />
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We finished off the day with a stop at Ikea. tamile and I needed new bed side dressers for our room. I was so waiting for someone to ask to help me find something I wanted to say I was looking for the shower displays to get cleaned up. Sadly no one asked me anything but tamile and our friend did enjoy a snack afterwards.<br />
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Once home a nap was had followed by a shower, in which a lot of the bandages came off. Then the evening was spent babysitting the the grandkids who for the most part did a good job of not poking my stomach.<br />
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<br />Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-42552328385779872072015-07-24T18:38:00.001-05:002015-07-24T18:38:09.460-05:00By Pass update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-87053626571570998592015-07-24T13:50:00.000-05:002015-07-26T12:13:51.062-05:00Gastric By Pass - Blow by BlowSo this post is basically going to be something of a blow by blow of everything I remember from my Gastric By Pass procedure. Obviously I won't remember all of the details I plan to share what I can. It will be some what graphic in parts because I don't intend to hold back.<br />
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The day started just before 7 in the morning when we headed to my daughters place. The plan was for her to drop us off at the hospital and avoid paying for parking all day. Hospital check in was super easy, they collected some basic information and sent us on our way. The next room was admitting, Here they basically get you set up for the surgery. I was taking in to the back by a little old lady who I think was a hospital volunteer. She gather up all my personal effects and other belongings. Everything was tagged and bagged so it would be easy to move around with it me. While here they also set up the IV, of course now I am a mover so as soon as you try and put a needle in me I tend to try and pull away. So this took a couple of tries. My gods did that thing hurt, although not as bad as the Heperin (We'll get to that later).<br />
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One problem I did have through out the whole admitting process is that I was supposed to remove all jewelry. Well I have one ear ring that I've had in my ear for over 20 years at this point. When my wife and I first got married we were basically broke. So one of the things that we did to celebrate are marriage is we got our ears pierced. The problem this caused was that I haven't taken it off in over 20 years. The two pieces of the ear ring we figured have oxidized together. The nurses tried to use forsips to remove them twisting and turning them. But nothing would get it off. There was talk of cutting it off, but in the end they left it in and just taped it down. my favorite part about the ear ring was Dr Andrews comment about it. When he arrived in informed he had had an extensive conversation about it with the nurses. An other one of the people I met with refereed to it as the infamous ear ring. <br />
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All in all admitting was basically prep time. One by one the doctors and nurse I was going to be working with. No that isn't the right way to put it I wasn't doing anything with them they were working on me. First was the admitting nurse who went through a battery of questions. Later came two nurses who went through the same battery of questions. how was your boost diet? when was the last time you ate and drank anything? The whole process was very repetitive at that point. After the nurses had finished one of them pulled out a razor and shaved my stomach. I was honestly surprised by how much hair I really had on my stomach. He also shave the top portion of my groin. A vibrating razor at the base of your shaft didn't feel as good as one might expect.<br />
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After they were done, a student anesthetist came by, he basically went through the same questions with a focus on any past operations I had experienced. The one thing that really excited him was that dentures. It meant that I was a whole lot easier to work with for them. According to regular Anesthetist said I was their dream patient. A little while later after that a man name Mark arrive to escort me to the OR. I'm not certain but that seemed to be his only job. A friend who had undergone the surgery told me the walk to the OR reminded her of the Green Mile. I couldn't help but think about that as I walked to the OR.<br />
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The OR room reminded me a lot of something out of the show ER, It seemed pretty high tech. I was introduced to everyone in the room while I was sat on the chair in the centre. I honestly don't remember any of the names, other than Dr Andrews. The biggest thing I remember about my time in the OR was that one of the nurses kept insisting I had to higher on the chair. The problem was that I'm 6'4" and for whatever the reason they didn't want my feet hanging over the edge of the bench. I remember wiggling up the bench and my butt feeling like it was half way up the incline. I was sure I was going to slide back down it once the procedure started but I didn't I guess.<br />
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I woke up about 4 to 5 hours later in recovery.<br />
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The procedure was done through 6 incision. I was honestly fairly surprised by how many incisions they had to do. I thought that there would be a lot less. <br />
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Apparently one of the doctors had come to me and told me that everything had gone fine and that the operation had been a success. I don't remember his visit but he did come by later in recovery and tell me the same thing. The other thing that they say you might or might not remember is the removal of the pipe they put down your throat. I didn't remember it at all.<br />
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A few family members came and visited, I passed a gas a couple of times. Honestly I figured ya me, The last gas I passed was liquidy so I thought figured it was time for the washroom. Sadly for me it was blood. Apparently sometimes it comes out that way. They took some blood from me to follow up on it and do some testing. it has been two days now since the procedure I still haven't taken a shit yet. So far that has been the only complication I've faced. Hopefully I will go to the washroom soon.<br />
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Anyways that is pretty much everything that happened.<br />
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Two things that I forgot: the nurse would not let tamile stay with me in the recovery room over night. This was something that they were not really clear about during the lead up. They basically said it was up to the nurse.<br />
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Second was the Heperin, I mentioned it earlier but didn't go into any real detail. I was woke up in the middle of the night by one of the nurses. She informed me it was time to for my Heperin shot. It is a blood thinner meant to help reduce the risk of blood clots. Coming to me in the middle of the night saying it is time for a needle really isn't the best way to get me to take it. So I turned it down in the middle of the night. Later the next day when I was a wake and was asked about it I took it. If you are going to take this shot ask for it in the stomach. It still hurts like an SoB but apparently it is better to do that then getting it in the arm.Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-31232892780437136442015-07-21T22:46:00.001-05:002015-07-21T22:46:23.128-05:00Surgery timeWell tomorrow morning is surgery time. Nervous, excited and scared all rolled in to one ball of emotions.Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-54529335983109788152015-07-14T21:30:00.002-05:002015-07-14T21:30:50.111-05:00Boost is not the same as foodWell it has been almost two weeks of Boost at this point. I've done my best to keep true to the diet, it hasn't always been easy and I haven't always been successful. That being said I have lost 17 pounds since I started the Boost diet which is something I'm pretty damn happy about and excited by as well. Tomorrow I go in for my pre op appointment, honestly I have no idea what to expect. I'm figuring it will be a lot of boring weight, height, all that normal stuff. Who knows maybe there will be something interesting and some new news.<br />
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One of the things I started doing was to come up with a short list of things I've always wanted to do but that my weight has prevented me from trying. <br />
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<li>Kayaking</li>
<li>Rock Climbing</li>
<li>Standing Peddle Board</li>
<li>Biking (I do this one already but I'd like to be able to do more.)</li>
<li>Skydiving</li>
<li>Sex (I do this already too, but I know it is so much better when one is skinner) </li>
<li>Water Sking</li>
<li>Hiking Trails (Again I can do this already, but I don't have the stamina to really hike) </li>
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<br />Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098501810103946203.post-44082238398635627342015-07-05T02:55:00.001-05:002015-07-05T02:55:42.499-05:003 days in to Boost and a weekend update.It has been three days since I've started the boost diet. For those of you who don't know what that is my only source of food is Boost Diabetic. I'm allowed to drink 5 bottles of boost each and every day. Oddly enough it hasn't been as hard as I thought it would be. The biggest challenge has been making it through all five. I've found by the 5th on at the end of the day I just want to skip it.<br />
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The trick I'm finding is not to cheat. It hasn't been easy and I haven't been perfect either. I have cheated a couple of times; I licked a Pringle chip and oh my gawd was it freaking good. I've also had a couple of pieces of lamb that was had for dinner this evening. I'm interested to see how it all plays out when I get on the scale on Monday. <br />
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This weekend alex and I were able to make it down to Pelican Rapids to visit Sam, Terri, and their family. Visiting these people does wonders for my relationship with Alex, and it does world of good for me.Randilin Trouplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219977132553165890noreply@blogger.com0