11/22/2019 Weigh In

212.0. No change since 11/17; that was Sunday and today is Friday. I stepped on the scales yesterday, but did not have time to make the blog entry.

It's been five days without change. I hate ... HATE ... plateaus. They are frustrating as all get out. If this one does not break tomorrow, I will do an egg-grapefruit day tomorrow to kick it into gear.

Next week is Thanksgiving. I'm off to the Boston area to visit my daughter; we plan to do sushi on the holiday itself (no one in my family, including me, likes turkey). I'm staying in a friend's condo in Gloucester, MA, about two blocks from the beach ... to which I will go and walk. I can walk a beach for miles and miles. The ocean air, even in late November, does something for me.

Jim wanted to be scattered at sea. I will fill four small urns with his ashes, one each for his three sons and one for me, and keep those, and I have part of his ashes (and his eyeglasses) in a lovely rosewood box urn on my dining-room mantel. That box urn I will eventually cause to be interred in a national cemetery (he was a veteran, and I will have my ashes interred with his when the time comes), but I will do as he wished and scatter the rest of his ashes on the Gloucester shore this Thanksgiving. It's been five years as of 12/7; it's time to follow his wishes.

Today's Plan:

Pre-breakfast: Lemon juice, vitamins
Breakfast: Bran pancake, strawberries, water
11 am: 5 minutes on NordicTrack
Lunch: Chicken/Fish, salad, water
2 pm: Wasa, water
4 pm: Wasa, water
5 pm: 5 minutes on NordicTrack
Dinner: Chicken/Fish, salad, water
7 pm: 5 minutes on NordicTrack
7:30 pm: Apple, water
9:30 pm: Yogurt

11/2/2019 Weigh In

216.0. No change.

It's a gray day. We had a big windstorm a couple of nights ago that knocked most of the leaves down from the trees, so it's beginning to look a lot like winter. I already can't wait for the dead sticks that are the hibernating trees to come to life again ... in May. And Daylight Savings Time ends tomorrow. Darkness will reign. In 50 days, we'll have the winter solstice ... and then Christmas is upon us. And another year will be gone into the history books.

Winter is not my favorite season. Jim died in the winter (Dec 7). The days are short in the winter, and the nights long; I don't react well to that much darkness. It's always a sad season for me. But then spring comes and things look up again ... eventually.

At least there's no snow on the ground ... yet.

Meanwhile, we go through day by day. Just because winter is a sad season does not give me a reason to break my healthy eating. So ...

Today’s Plan:

Pre-breakfast: Lemon juice, vitamins
Breakfast: Bran pancake, strawberries, water
11 am: 5 minutes on NordicTrack, water
Lunch: Fish, salad, water
2 pm: Wasa, water
4 pm: Wasa, water
5 pm: 5 minutes on NordicTrack
Dinner: Chicken stir-fried with bok choy, water
7 pm: 5 minutes on NordicTrack
7:30 pm: Apple, water
9:30 pm: Yogurt

10/9/2019 Weigh In

224.75, down from yesterday's 225.75.

Another pound gone! 

The rate won't last, but I'll take it while it's good for the taking.

Today I have meetings all day. That means, of course, that I must brown-bag my lunch and daytime snacks. I have herbal tea and Wasa at work, but no salad or protein (other than protein powder which is not in the Plan). I shall bring with me a bag of salad greens and a cooked salmon fillet. As my husband always said, "Prior planning prevents poor performance." 

Today's Plan:

Pre-Breakfast: glass of lemon juice, vitamins
Breakfast: bran pancake made with cinnamon and stevia, water
10 a.m.: herbal tea, water
Lunch: salad, salmon, water
2 p.m.: Wasa, water
4 p.m.: herbal tea, Wasa, water
Dinner: salad, chicken, water
7:30 p.m.: apple, water
9:30 p.m.: 1/2 C Greek yogurt with cocoa powder and almond extract, water

UPDATE:

Yeah, the schedule worked sort of okay today. And the herbal tea worked magnificently as a midmorning and mid afternoon pick-me-up. I had fish for dinner rather than chicken. I was hungry at dinnertime, but the salad, fish, apple and water filled me nicely, and 1/4 C of yogurt was probably overkill.

Weighing In - 3/16/2017 and Happy Birthday to My Husband

252.75 this morning. Yesterday was 254.25. And, despite shoveling far too much snow yesterday, I feel good.

The consistent 1.5-2 lb/day thing will end fairly soon; this diet pulls fluids through the kidneys. Once that normalizes, fat will come off, and that leaves far more slowly than does water.

Today begins the Reducing Diet. 950-1200 cals daily. I have in the past regularly broken that and still lost weight like a bandit. I break it with fruit. I eat more fruit than the DC diet allows. Well, sue me; it still works at the rate of 10 lb/month.

I celebrate my husband's 73rd birthday (the third birthday since his death in December 2014) by commencing on the path to get healthy. I think he'd like that.