What do you do in retirement? (besides travel)

[RX8]

I drive a school bus.

 

[pedro47]

I drive a school bus.

No way RX8, you must have a lot of patience. Good Luck.
Please be careful.

 

[RX8]

No way RX8, you must have a lot of patience. Good Luck.

The middle school students are actually a lot of fun. There are some challenging times but overall they are very well behaved. In fact, I think I would do this for no pay as I feel that I am doing something important. Luckily, the only option is for them to pay me.

 

[DrQ]

As I've detailed in another post, I have concentrated on diet and exercise to lose weight and build muscle in preparation for hip replacement surgery.

To that, I follow the training that I received in school and work (quality control, six sigma, TQM, ITIL ...) is that you can't change a thing unless you measure a thing.

I have the following devices:

• Blood Glucose (finger stick)
• MyFitnessPal (food diary)
• Blood Pressure Cuff
• Scale
• Fitbit

They all have their own apps and some use Android's Health Connect, but I can't find one app that can take all the sources and provide a "single pane of glass" for all the parameters of interest to me. So I decided to "Roll my own" Microsoft's Power BI Desktop, which is free.

Here is what I get so far:

This is a combination of data from MyFinessPal, Withing scale and Fitbit. There are others, but these are the best that show the integration of data.

My GP wants it sent to add to my records.

 

[Talent312]

One more thing I do... Eat.
My doc was concerned that I was losing weight (20 lbs in 6 mos),
Doughnuts (boston cream or jelly) and bagels with cream cheese
seem to have stabilized my weight.

My doc said, "Those are whole wheat doughnuts, right?"
I replied, "Sure,"

 

[AwayWeGo]

bagels with cream cheese

Cement donuts.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[pedro47]

I once gained 25 pounds by eating Krispy Cream jelly donuts at work with my morning coffee break and my afternoon coffee break.

Gaining the weight was easy; but losing 25 pounds was very hard. Just be careful with your weight gain and what you eat to gain weight.

 

[DrQ]

I once gained 25 pounds by eating Krispy Cream jelly donuts at work with my morning coffee break

I love Panera's Orange scones with my coffee, but it is limited to at least once in a two-week period, maybe longer.

 

[WaikikiFirst]

Microsoft's Power BI Desktop, which is free. Here is what I get so far:

Great "BI" (Body Intelligence). a question and 2 comments
on 9/2 & 9/4, your biggest exercise days, you didn't eat anything special, and in fact you ate only avg or less from the 2nd to the 5th. Why not?
On those big workout days, feed the machine.
More protein. Given your goals and weight, I (not a nutritionist, but hey) would say you should consume at least 150 g of protein/day. You only hit that 2x in the month.
More eggs is an easy add, if you like them. Oh, have you supplemented amino acids?

 

[DrQ]

Great "BI" (Body Intelligence). a question and 2 comments
on 9/2 & 9/4, your biggest exercise days, you didn't eat anything special, and in fact you ate only avg or less from the 2nd to the 5th. Why not?
On those big workout days, feed the machine.
More protein. Given your goals and weight, I (not a nutritionist, but hey) would say you should consume at least 150 g of protein/day. You only hit that 2x in the month.
More eggs is an easy add, if you like them. Oh, have you supplemented amino acids?

Great questions. My nephrologist wants me to limit protein to under 130 grams/day

I'm about to do a reset as I'm being kicked out of PT (2x a week) this week. I will replace it with going to the gym 3 times a week and I will have to see what the numbers say. I'm within 15 lbs of my interim goal of 220 (from 350) lbs which I need to hold for three months to qualify for skin removal surgery. And then there is my orthopedic surgeons opinion on my hip.

Lots of changes

 

[DrQ]

More eggs is an easy add, if you like them

My DW goes with me to PT and on those days my favorite brunch is:

• 3 poached eggs
• 3 chicken apple sausages (44g)
• 1 cup of mixed fruit
• 1 buttered English muffin
• Black coffee

 

[MrockStar]

10 1/2 Months away from retirement, so i will post here once Oct 1st, 2026, rolls around.

 

[ScoopKona]

I cut down trees
I eat my lunch
I go to the lavatry'
On Wednesdays I go shopping
And have buttered scones for tea

 

[TUGBrian]

i run a popular timeshare owner website!

 

[bizaro86]

i run a popular timeshare owner website!

I spend my time surfing a popular timeshare owner's website

 

[SmithOp]

@DaveNV I did not know you had taken up writing. We have a former neighbor and friend that recently retired from teaching and has her first book coming out soon. Her wife used to buy storage lockers, and was on one episode of Storage Wars in the Bay Area.

Home - Julie Snider

juliesniderauthor.com

They will be joining us in December for a short cruise, another retirement thing we enjoy but I suppose it counts as travel. Living close to Long Beach ports we take cruises to enjoy the ships, never getting off in the Mexico ports we've visited many times.

 

[DaveNV]

@DaveNV I did not know you had taken up writing. We have a former neighbor and friend that recently retired from teaching and has her first book coming out soon. Her wife used to buy storage lockers, and was on one episode of Storage Wars in the Bay Area.

Home - Julie Snider

juliesniderauthor.com

They will be joining us in December for a short cruise, another retirement thing we enjoy but I suppose it counts as travel. Living close to Long Beach ports we take cruises to enjoy the ships, never getting off in the Mexico ports we've visited many times.

Dave, that's cool to hear! Always enjoy knowing about other writers. I did a lot of technical writing when I worked in IT and in the Navy. Writing for pleasure is a whole different animal. It's great fun.

We'll be passing by you in December, picking up a cruise ship in San Pedro for one of those dreaded Mexico cruises they like to do so often. This one will take us to three ports we haven't seen, so there will be a bit of "getting off the ship" going on.

Dave