Wednesday March 22

Good morning from Florida. It was beautiful here yesterday: In general it has been cool at night, sunny and warm during the day and very low humidity. Weight 114.75, calories 1148. My birthday excesses seem to be receding, though I have a suspicion that the scale here is about a pound lighter than the one in Massachusetts. I'll never be able to be sure though because during the travel I have to eat, drink and use the bathroom!

The flooring is going in, with the main room and kitchen completely emptied of furniture. This is going to be fairly disruptive, but our friends in the park are gone for the next couple of weeks and left a key so we could stay there if necessary. I may go there to work today.

Have a good Wednesday!

Weight today: 134.2

Macros: Cals - 1,528, Carbs - 155, Fat - 60, Protein - 89, Sugar - 91, Fiber - 17

Veggies/fruits: 5 (goal is 7)

Sleep hours: 8 (goal is 8)

Exercise: None

Plans for today: Aquarobics, errands, reading, crosswords with hubby

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Liz, your new floors project sounds like it's going very well. Yes, it's disruptive, but it'll go fast, and then you'll have a good foundation on which to create the space you want.

Here we're getting very excited about our upcoming cruise. It's a transatlantic crossing (Florida to Portugal with stops in Bermuda and the Azores). Last fall we did a similar trip in reverse (Barcelona to Barbados). We love these repositioning trips with long sea days. We completely unplug (no email, internet or phones) and treasure the artificial alternate universe that exists in the middle of the ocean. I do yoga and stretch classes and walk a lot. Hubby reads a book a day. We play team trivia and eat delicious, healthy food and let very nice people spoil us rotten. It's bliss!

Nice trip! When do you leave and how many days?

We'll be gone 17 days, and the cruise is 13 days. We board the ship on March 31. :)

WT 217 OTD. Calories 1590

Diuretic back on board. Steps are slowing down I think. Maybe I need to switch to something easier for a while.

Storms last night woke me and the dogs. I really don't care for storm season here.

Ann, hope your cruise goes well. It sounds like fun. I don't travel. I just don't leave home much except for this move.

More later, David

Thanks, David. Some journeys are longer than they look. You've undergone a lot of changes lately yourself. :)

Good morning everyone.

a very rough night with very severe legs cramps. Ouch and ouch. But they are done and the rain is lashing down.

Attended a meeting last night in the coldest room in the world as the heat was not working. My goodness it was frigid.

Good day with lots of walking and fairly reasonable food choices.

Good morning, everyone!

125's. My scale appears to be working again.

I'm adjusting to my new work schedule but more slowly than I would hope. Today is a day off but I probably need to spend a couple of hours preparing for a presentation tomorrow. My downtown bosses say that my on-site bosses shouldn't have us do that kind of work because we will burn out. That's right but neither boss gives an inch.

I don't quite understand the local "rain-year" which doesn't run Jan-Dec. But, the local university meteorologist says that the 1st 5 months of the rain year have yielded an entire year of rain. It wouldn't have to rain at all the final 7 months and it would still be average. Plus, there is good snow pack. We are rich.

Enjoying our (unfortunate) common ground of past fat humilation. Overweight kids these days have many more clothing choices. Still, this year my heart ached for a (super?)morbidly obese Highschool freshman cello player who apparently couldn't afford or couldn't fit in the stock orchestra dress for the first concert. Instead she wore a ragged black tshirt and black leggings so tight every fold was accentuated. The second concert was the black tshirt and long black skirt so better. The 3rd concert it was the Official Dress of the orchestra. I wanted to cheer. Maybe someone reached out to help. Wi**** had been me. I didn't know how to bring it up --- no doubt related (in part) to my my own old insecurities.

Hug your health today.

Shel

204. Feeling good, knowing I am doing everything correctly.

My son put chicken and broth in the crock pot yesterday, cut up an onion, some celery, only a few small potatoes and set it to heat while I was at work. This was very stressful for my son who suffers from severe mental illness in which stress can trigger a break. Luckily, I made it seem like it was no big deal if he was able to do it or not, but he wanted this for dinner, so he soldiered on. (I put the lid to the crock pot in the wrong cabinet! I never put it there, but he looked till he found it.) When I got home, I heated the cauliflower rice, added some seasonings and mixed veggies and BOOM dinner. It was really very good, so hurray!

My childhood messed up my physical and mental health. My mother took me to a diet doctor when I was 11 who prescribed speed and limited me to 20 carbs a day. My dad did the diet with me. (Backstory, when my father first asked my mom on a date, she told him to lose weight and ask again. My dad did!) After gaining that weight back plus some, I did Lean Line (anyone remember Lean Line? Their brand's cheesecake for breakfast every day.) When I gained back the weight from that, I did Weigh****chers. All before high school. I was told that this extreme yo yo dieting destroyed my metabolism.

Calories - 1583; protein - 123; carbs - 117; fat- 69 (protein 31%, carbs 30%, fat 39%)

Carbs higher than ideal, but I had to eat out last night since I had to drive to Menlo Park to pick up the new (to me) van. Calories were still in range. I am down 4 pounds since Sunday. I'm happy about tha****er weight, sure, but still it's rewarding.

My cold is still zapping me, but I'm functioning. I can't tell how much of the feeling tired is the cold and how much is the new med. I could seriously take a nap right now, which is highly unusual for me.

I'm trying to wrap my head around the concept that my coping skills and the exertion of control on my eating that I did as a child no longer serves me in the same way it did back then. Peeling away the layers of 45 years of eating habits that served as coping mechanisms is not easy. The wonderful thing about this is I get to do it all without dealing with the old extreme hunger. That is such a blessing. I had some hunger yesterday, but it was manageable and I knew I could eat later.

Puppy is getting the hang of eating, but really doesn't want to wean herself. She is really devoted to nursing and clearly is not ready to give it up! She is going to be a 5 weeker (meaning she won't make the transition to food until she's five weeks old). 5 weekers are always hard on their mamas!

Day 3 of a reset can be tricky, so I'm keeping that in mind today. I feel true hunger as I write this, so it's probably time to get something in my gut other than coffee, water, and vitamins!