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@jakedduck1

@imallears
You make some valid points. Funny thing is I use to love to cook and bake. I liked to make candy. I seldom eat sweets anymore and do eat quite healthy now bellyaching every inch of the way. I usually have 4oz of meat, potato veggies sometimes a salad. When my dad was alive we all went on a 700 calorie diet. Everything had to be weighed and measured but we all got full and had everything from appetizers to desert and never had any cravings. I use to eat every meal at the bakery and have a couple candy bars with a root beer float every night in bed. I’m not as active as I use to be when my pain was controlled with Fentanyl. I control it more now by staying off my feet. One reason I don’t cook or do anything for a prolonged time. After awhile I just collapse. Trying not to take any pain meds. I should hire someone to cook that way for me. I have a gal who cooks for me occasionally, guess she need to come more often. I hired her to help with my Mom but she’s not showing up.
Jake

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JK | @contentandwell | Jun 13, 2019

@jakedduck1 It sounds as if you actually have a valid reason for not cooking if being on your feet for too long is a problem. Did you have your own bakery?
If the person you hired is not showing up as regularly as she should, it's time to find a new homeworker. I suspect there are many out there.
JK

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imallears | @imallears | Jun 13, 2019

@jakeduck

Hi,
Well your situation is different and understandable. If it is an option for you to hire a cook/housekeeper then maybe she or he would be willing to make several meals that could be frozen. So you do have will power if you can stay off pain meds. But being inactive probably leads to the food cravings . A rock and a hard place for sure.

I’d like to know if your family owned or ran a bakery too.....how interesting.

I remember root beer floats...wow and an orange drink and hot dog with relish at Coney Island...Eggcream sodas.....and the first White Castle hamburgers.....the best things ever back then....and those little wax bottles that were filled with liquid...use to chew the wax and spit it out.....and a bottle of Pepsi with a whole sleeve of Ritz crackers while reading the latest Nancy Drew book....omg I need a snack.....

Stay well....FL Mary

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