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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Delightful Den on March 27, 2014, 08:55:28 am
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Hi everyone,
I haven't been active on the forum for quite a while. I just want to let you know I am ok. I have been busy and tired and I am only cooking to eat. Even then I hardly use Thermi I have fallen into just making anything easy that does not require thought and limited preparation.
My department at work was hit very hard by the Govt cutbacks and redundancies last year. Almost 20 of my colleagues lost there jobs (about half or or department) and those of us that are left wish we were made redundant. >:(
We went back to the US at Christmas to visit family. Both of my DDs and their boyfriends traveled back too. The eldest DD and her partner traveled with us. We visited Charleston SC, Washington DC and NYC as well as the family in South Carolina. My girls both got engaged while we were in the US. We are very happy though feeling a bit shell shocked. ;D :P
I am currently training for the Busselton Ironman 70.3 triathlon. I have engaged the services of a coach to try and advance my training and set a PB for this distance. She is pushing me hard and consequently I am shattered most days. Some weeks I am racking up 15 hours of training a week on top of full time work. So you can understand why my cooking has dropped off. :P
I will make an attempt to become more active on the forum. I have been working on a NY style pizza dough recipe. I think I have it almost perfected and should post it soon, but be warned it is not for the faint of heart. I only use a relatively small amount of yeast and cold proof it for between 2-3 days and then hand shape the dough, no rolling pin to avoid degassing the dough.
Dennis
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Maybe you should change your name to Distant Den ;D great that you've popped in and agree that you certainly have a lot going on to keep up with. Make sure you eat well as that is the most important thing. Looking forward to seeing your dough recipe when it's time.
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Great to hear you are fit and well Den but it's just life getting in the way of spending time on the forum. ;)
Like CP looking forward to your Pizza dough recipe ;)
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Thanks for dropping in to say you are ok DD, much appreciated. Congratulations to your two DD's.
I'm another one who is looking forward to the pizza base. It will be rather tasty proving for that length of time.
Take care. I can well imagine how work is. :-\
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Hi Den, thanks for explaining your absence. We often wonder where some of our previously frequent contributors have gone. Look after yourself and congratulations to the girls on their engagement. I hope you've started saving for their weddings down the track ;)
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Glad alls well Den.
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Den, lovely to hear from you. Such a lot happening in your life. Two weddings,wow, hopefully one will have a longer engagement and give you time to catch your breath.
Best of luck for the ironman, oh to be so dedicated.
Looking forward to the pizza dough.
Take care
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Lovely to hear from you again Den. No surprises that you have been too busy to cook and post on this forum. Congratulations on your DD's engagements.
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Thanks for stopping by Den, it's great to hear from you and catch up with what you've been up to.
Congratulations on your DD's x 2 engagements.
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Judy orignally the weddings were planed for one this Oct (just before harvest- he's a farmer) and the other for November next year. DD2 has just advised it was all getting too hard planning and she has postponed until Sept next year. She wants to get married on the farm and they will be living on the farm by next year. Both girls have said they are funding their own weddings, we will help of course but luckily with two so close together I don't have to fully fund both. They are also both going low key, one on the farm and the other a picnic wedding on he fiance's parents property in Margaret River.
CP I have not been eating as well as i should be. I am tired all the time and eat way to much sugar and crap trying to keep my energy up. I really need to eat more steamed veggies, poached or grilled meat and whole grains with only a small amount of fat from nuts, evoo and avocado. Unfortunately DW is not impressed when I start cooking like that. She would just eat tinned spaghetti all the time if iI ate like I should.
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Hi Den good to hear from you again. Congratulations on your DD's engagements. Work stress is hard, similar things happening at my work too, hold in there !
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Wow Den, been wondering where you had gone. :)
Glad you popped in, and congrats on your DDs's engagements. ;D
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Glad you are okay Den and congratulations on your DD's engagements.
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Great to see you back up and running again Den (excuse the pun). What a time you have been having, but it sounds as though you are starting to settle back down again. Best wishes to you DDs and good luck with your Ironman challenge.
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Good to hear from you Dash. Co grats to your daughters, love weddings :)
Looking forward to pizza dough recipe :)
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Good to hear from you DD. Sounds like you are super busy. Congratulations on the girls engagements. :D
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Glad your are ok Den, Congrats to your 2 Daughters :) :) :)
You must eat a bit better with all the training you are doing, take care.
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Good to hear from you Den good luck with the weddings and ironman :)
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A full and interesting life DD. Good luck in the Ironman.
Looking forward to that pizza dough.
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Congratulations on the girls engagements DD
PIZZA YUM ;D
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Hi DD it's good to hear from you. Your holiday looked amazing on Facebook. Congratulations to the girls on their engagements. Hoping they don't decide to have babies together. Then you'll really be busy! Good luck with the triathlon. It's good to have something to think about that's not work related. Take care of yourself xox
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I'm surprised you found time to drop in now with all that is going on in your life. Sorry to hear about your trials and tribulations but pleased to hear of engagements and Ironman and even a new Pizza dough - sounds like something we might need to try. Take care of yourselves and enjoy this time
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Good luck with your training DD and your DD weddings. I hope things improve at work. Also looking forward to your recipe :)
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DD I'm concerned that you are not eating properly You are not going to reach your full potential if you are going to exercise at full hilt but grab at sugar hits to get you through. You need to talk to your PT and get some easy peasy recipes off her that you can make. I think you may also need to confess that you are not eating properly so that you can reach your full potential as you are training so hard and the human body can only take so much before other complications kick in like chronic fatique etc.
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Sorry Mum I'll try to eat better. ;D
I have a confession to make that only 3 other people know. I struggle with binge eating. Like a true binger I do my best to hide it from everyone, including family. I am trying to conquer it but for every two steps forward I seem to take a step backwards. When I am tired and stressed is when I tend to binge. Lately I have been tired and stressed a lot. :(
Before now I have only ever told DW (she was aware I didn't hid it as good as I thought), Amy and the person who is helping me to beat it. I hope that publicly acknowledging this problem is another step on the road to recovery. :)
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DD I can truly understand that. I certainly used to do it too. A block of chocolate or a packet of biscuits couldn't beat me. If it was there I would eat it. I agree that the time we do it more is when we are tired and stressed. It is so easy to compensate with food.
Do take care of yourself and try to reduce the stress. I know what the Ed Dept is like and it can create it by the bucket load. Especially when they are putting people off.
I have no quick fix solutions. Just take care, you are a sensible fella with his head screwed on the correct way. Hugs to you.
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Den take care. at least take small steps forward.
everything takes time, :) I eat chocolate when stressed.
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Den, congrats on being Man enough to admit your problem. :D A lot wouldn't.
I am the opposite - I can't eat when stressed!
Take care and let us know of any way we can help. :-*
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Acknowledging a problem is the biggest step Den - good on you for sharing with so many people and at least you are doing something about it. Good luck with conquering this problem, rooting for you big time :-* :-*
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Good luck with it den and thanks for sharing such a personal thing. We are all here for you. If a few thousand forum cult members can't get you through it, no-one can 😘
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DD please look after your self :-*
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Dear Den we all have our demons. Thanks for trusting us enough to share. Just tell it like it is. One day at a time. We all try to get that balance in our lives. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes seems impossible.
You are a good man. Take it easy . You expect more from your self perhaps than others.
Gretchen
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Thanks for your support everyone. :) :)
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Might I add that we all have "demons" but it's very brave of you to tell us yours.Take care of yourself DD :-*
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DD, good to hear from you. Hang in there .
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Den, sounds human to me. Be kind to yourself. X
Astarra, oh how i wish i couldnt eat when i was stressed. Certainly would be a different shape.
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Den, sounds human to me. Be kind to yourself. X
Astarra, oh how i wish i couldnt eat when i was stressed. Certainly would be a different shape.
I wish I wouldn't eat when I am NOT stressed!
Gert
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Great to hear from you, and trusting us enough to share, we all have our demons, one day at a time.
You will get there.