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I've decided to try to take it easy this weekend, if I can. I'm usually so lazy and don't do much all day so this burst of activity trying to get the house ready to put up for sale is a big change. I keep a pedometer in my pocket and have been getting in well over 10k steps just around the house with some trips to the grocery store, etc thrown in. Yesterday was the lowest in about a week at 12k. Today I need to rest my knee, ice it several times and do the physical therapy exercises. I really felt the pain overnight and had to take Ibuprofen around 2am. I had furniture taken away yesterday. I don't have a sofa now. The one I had was shredded by the cats on all the corners so don't want that when people are looking at the house. The idea is to buy a new sofa when I move in a material they are less likely to scratch and to buy more cat scratching posts and towers. They will use those and leave the furniture alone but I had a moving company come out to my house 2 years ago and they said not to move the big towers because they add cost to the move. I also had the bed in the guest bedroom taken away. There is carpet in the 3 spare bedrooms and I'm having the carpets cleaned soon. Even though the carpet is less than 3 years old, there was nothing but cat hair under the bed. They love being under beds! I don't like carpet and put the luxury vinyl plank flooring everywhere else 3 years ago. The carpet was a mistake. I gave my kitchen table to my sister a couple months ago. So all I have is one bed, 2 o!d kitchen table chairs (I think they were my grandparents'), and wooden trays for meals. Basically I will just rest with a wedge pillow on the bed, have coffee on the front porch or deck where i still have some chairs. Other than that I will be working in the house. Today I will vacuum the guest bedroom and clean the floors where the sofa and entertainment center were.
My eating was good again yesterday with the Asian chicken salad, blackberries, 1/4 bagel and I logged everything. Last trip to the grocery store I bought a bag of Kraft caramels which can be dangerous. The idea always is to have something like that in the house when I want something sweet, but I usually eat too many. I thought about them yesterday but didn't open the bag. That is a victory for me! The goal is 0-2 a day and I hope I haven't finished the bag before I go to Oregon in April so I can take 1 for each day I am gone.
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1263 kcal
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Fat: 41.63g | Prot: 75.72g | Carbs: 142.35g.
Breakfast: Cream (Half & Half), Sugar, Coffee, Thomas' Plain Bagel, Philadelphia 1/3 Less Fat Cream Cheese. Lunch: Drained Mandarin Orange (Canned or Frozen), Taylor Farms Mediterranean Crunch Chopped Salad (Salad Only), Ken's Steak House Lite Asian Sesame Dressing, Avocados, Fresh Gourmet Wonton Strips Authentic, Trader Joe's Raw Sliced Almonds, Sanderson Farms Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast. Snacks/Other: Kraft Traditional Caramels, Crystal Fat Free Milk, roasted salted pumpkin seeds, Blackberries. more...
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You have gotten rid of so much that it should be easy to move and show the house. I'm not crazy about carpet too and wish I could get rid of it in my entire house but hubby likes it.
23 Mar 24 by member: -MorticiaAddams
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Thanks Morticia! I have some furniture inherited from my parents, a curio cabinet with doors with glass, an etagere (I think, open glass shelves to display things), a sofa table and 3 dressers for bedrooms. Still have most of the kitchen items to pack, dishes, utensils,etc. Not looking forward to packing up the kitchen. I can't believe how many big boxes I have of Christmas stuff even after going through it and getting rid of about half of it.
23 Mar 24 by member: Fritzy 22
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I read your comment that you didn’t open the bag of caramels and that your plan was to eat 0-2 a day. I thought, “wow! How can she do that?” I tried that once and went through them amazingly fast! Then I looked at your diet calendar and saw 6 caramels logged. My (unsolicited) advice is to do what I did. I threw out what was left of the bag. Probably one of the worst “treats” you can give yourself, and if you’re like me, they only make you crave MORE sugar. Sad but true! 😝
26 Mar 24 by member: Broccolibabe
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Thanks Broccolibabe, the caramels are gone! My plan didn't. I took just 3 days to finish the bag. What i have figured out is when I am on my feet all day doing things I don't even worry about food at all. Last week when I was getting my house ready to show I was so busy I forgot I had the caramels in the pantry. Then I did very little over the weekend because my knee was bothering so much afterv300 trips up and down the garage steps during the week. The caramels were calling to me! It's always my goal to be able to have something that I love, either sweet or salty in the house to have just for when I need something sweet (or salty). The only time recently I was sucessful was with a package of 12 frozen hash brown patties. Normally, I finish those off quickly, but I had only 1 or 2 a day until they were gone. So I think I need to wait until I reach maintenance before trying the caramels again.
26 Mar 24 by member: Fritzy 22
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You’re like me, I don’t think about food until I’m bored. Then I think I’ll just have one, and then I have 10! 😜Ugh! Wish I could be satisfied with “just a taste” but it never works that way for me. Good luck with your trip and selling your house! Sounds like everything is moving forward nicely for you.
26 Mar 24 by member: Broccolibabe
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