Getting old sucks...
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While I ended up paying full price, I'm still not mad. Changed wheels over yesterday sitting comfortably and dropped all the bolts into the tray instead of having them rolling around on the floor. So much better.
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I'm using a height adjustable old roll about steno chair with the back removed ($10 at thrift store). I deserve better but I'm cheap.
Even this is a little high, I imagine a chair would be worse. Drawer has a ratchet, set of 3/8's sockets, some screwdrivers, pliers, hammers, etc. so most jobs can get done without going to big tool box. Speeds things up.
In a perfect world the vehicle goes up and down and tilts. The toolbox follows you like a motorized golf cart. Reality sucks.
The stool I bought from you is perfect height / utility for my needs. In all honesty I may speak to some of my 3d printing buddies and see if they can print me up some bolt holders / pockets for it and make a hexagonal storage system.
I was looking for shallow drawers. Finding a stool with all of the features I wanted at a price I was willing to pay was not going well. This got close enough in all categories.
Here's a free tip for the older folks:
Spelled braap wrong.
Those aren't my tiny hands and microscopic thumbs.
Would also be better to write on a pair of gloves, just in case.
This may sound like BS, but I read and watch videos about how cutting out sugar and carbs reduces, and often eliminates, aches and pains. I didn't really buy into it 100%.
A couple months later I was trying to drop some weight and decided to cut all (or as much as possible) carbs and sugar from my diet for a month. 3 days in I noticed the aches I have every morning just getting out of bed were reduced a lot. I assumed it was coincidence. A week later, the were gone. I could wake up in the morning and basically spring right up, no pain. And I have a long history of back pain that includes herniated discs (L5 and S1). I felt so good that I cut sugar for several months, and felt great. As I let sugar creep back into my diet, ached and pains started to flare up again.
Today, I don't make a point of not eating sugar or carbs (I actually eat a lot of carbs), but I eat about 70% less sugar than I used to and I fell about 70% better than I used to.
I believe this could help you, and a lot of people.
A little about me:
I'm 48. Hurt my back when I was 28. Was laid-out for 3 years. Started exercising when I could bare it 3 years following my injury, which was about one day every 3 weeks. Eventually it became 2 or three days in a row every 3 weeks or so, and it very slowly got better. About 6 years following the injury I was 95% recovered. Started fasting 4 years ago, 14-16 hours every weekday. For three years now I only eat 1 meal a day Monday to Friday, 1 big meal with lots of small meals or snacks on weekends. I cut back on sugar for 2 years now. My back is now what I would describe as 99%. It's strong, and I can do everything anyone else can do, but it will usually flare up with pain for a week or so once a year, usually when I start to become less active in the fall.
The key thing I'm missing, if I want to improve my chances of being around for my kids when they start their own families, if exercise. I'm starting a simple daily 30 minute exercise bike program now. It's not easy to motive myself since my usual mode of exercise has always been organized ball hockey. For me, if it's not fun, it's hard to stick to. I'm 48, and my youngest are 4 and 8, so I need to stick around for a long time.
If I go Nazi anti sugar I feel noticeably better in a couple of days. Sugar is in almost every processed food including salad dressings etc. Artificial sweeteners are worse. Unfortunately I have a sweet tooth so Christmas and birthdays result in a chocolate buffet.
It helps immensely but is so hard to keep up. Sugar has get into everything at this point.
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50-50 you throw out your back.
That's a sneeze for me.
When I was doing my "Nazi anti-sugar", I made peanut butter balls using stevia. They came out tasting okay, but the sweetener didn't react the same as refined sugar, so the peanut butter mix was too soft. My solution; I added flour. That turned out to be a big mistake. After eating a couple I had bad stomach pains. After some research I found out it's not safe to eat raw flour. It's supposed to be cooked in something.
Being stubborn, and in love with peanut butter balls, I restricted myself to one per sitting. It still caused a slight discomfort in my belly, but I ate them all. Haha
Point is, although I drank my coffee black, I used stevia a lot and did not get the aches and pains caused by sugar and carbs. I'd actually make Kool-Aid using the non-sweetened pouches and 8 teaspoons of stevia rather than drink ultra-sweet apple juice, cranberry juice, grape juice, etc..
Quick tip: Your body burns fat and glucose for energy. Glucose is MUCH easier for your body to burn. When you eat carbs, your body converts that to glucose (at about a 1:1 ratio I believe, not 100% sure). That's why carbs are bad. We all have excess fat on our bodies because when we eat, we take in sugar, fat, and carbs. The body burns the sugar, then the carbs as glucose, and stores the fat for later use. "Later use" never comes because we eat more sugar and/or carbs, and store more fat. See the trend?
When you go a length of time without eating, let's say over night, you feel hungry. This hunger is the body telling you to eat sugar or carbs so it can get easy energy rather than burn fat. If you ignore this for 15 minutes, it goes away, because your body has now switched to burning fat. About an hour later your body will try again to get you to eat. Ignore it and it'll go back to burning fat. This is what happens when you fast, and why you drop weight so much faster when fasting. It's not just calorie restriction, it's forcing your body to burn fat.
The keto diet (which I don't do, too picky) uses a similar effect. Cut sugar and carbs so even when not fasting your body only has fat to burn. Your body becomes a fat burning machine, which they call ketosis.
*Not mentioned is the burning of protein. My research never reached that point, but I believe a small amount of protein is used in burning the fat or glucose, and it can be burn if fat or carbs are not available. Not sure.
Based on this info, imagine how bad ice cream. And my favourite desert is a root beer float! lol
