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Well pffft. As soon as I decide I won’t worry over it going up a few pounds (I’m still in the range I want to stay forever) it drops again! I’m all honesty I was running late so only remember 122 not the 0.8 so I went with the highest my scale shows so it could be a bit less.
Yesterday: pulled pork bbq sandwich and chips for lunch (my great uncle passed Sunday and I’d driven the hour and change to see my great aunt and this was food someone had brought buy so I was allowed the job of reheating the food-don’t care for baked beans and potato salad so skipped those). Dinner was chicken fajitas. Snacks oh dear snacks lol. That was 6 pieces of fudge. Yes 6!!! As my midnight snack and one cookie. Lunch was a guess as I didn’t bother taking my scale and measuring cups. Pulled pork bbq can range from 200 to like 600 kcal a cup and I eyeballed it at about 1/2 a cup. Medium bun and about 3/8” thick on the bun and not packed. Fluids: 2 propel, one was the 16.9 and the other bigger one from a gas station- 20? 24?, one glass of sweet tea and 3 mugs of coffee. Not the greatest for water or even total fluids actually.
Stress is not a factor in this loss. I’m calm. He’s in a better place, he’s lived a decade longer than anyone expected thanks to an LVAD but my heart hurts for my aunt. She’s handling it much better than I expected but then again she’s constantly surrounded by people and she’s of a generation where they don’t openly show emotion like todays generation. When I came in she about squeezed the life out of me but she tried to comfort me rather than let me comfort her. She has always been a saragote mom to me, more so since mom passed in ‘13. I’m lost in these situations but thankfully I was allowed to get out and reheat lunch then order table clothes. I ordered flowers and was surprised that I was the first. Rushed home to get the youngest, picked up snacks then my oldest from her test retake then back for the middle from her meeting only to find out there was no meeting and they thought she went home on the bus. Flew home and halfway there she calls from the school saying there’s a mistake and she had been at the meeting but everyone was missing each other while we all looked because they were using different hallways and I was going from the back door to the front sending my oldest in to look and ask while I sat with the youngest. So many emotions in that 15 minutes!! Got them home and cleaned my kitchen, made fajitas, found out my oldest ‘forgot’ homework. She has a D and if she doesn’t bing it up in a week she’s out the rest of the season. No ball for her! And she still forgot! She couldn’t take her quiz because she forgot her notes yesterday so has to reschedule that this week-on tournament week!! I sat them down last night and explained that they’ll come second this week. They’ve always came first but if my aunt needs me the kids will just have to remember their own things like homework and figure out how to do things without my constant reminders. I have a feeling I’ll have my oldest cell phone before the week is out. Second time this week she ‘forgot’ homework and studying yet she didn’t forget to text her friends and get on her streaks or whatever.
Our eggs are a week late in hatching. Last time I opened them up and ended up killing a couple chicks. They had filled up the egg but refused to hatch. When I broke them open they were alive so I guess just 7-10 days late. This time I’ve vowed to leave them in 6 weeks over the required 3. Maybe they just take longer than the books say. Time to get another batch ready I guess. Oldest gets extra points from her science teacher for taking pictures at different stages so the teacher can go over it with the class. Our hens are eating the eggs sometimes and we have to get rid of them. It’s a struggle to get the eggs before they can eat them. Fake eggs are working some. I enjoy rolling one across the ground and watching the hens hurt their beak pecking at them! A few now stand back and watch the first few to see if they actually break the egg. Perhaps I’ll break them if the habit! Chickens are pretty stupid so it’s a toss up.
Today I plan to sit around and do very little. Have pictures to get on the pc, check on packages coming, figure out how to backup this stupid phone without losing everything in the cloud (190/200 used and my phone has 90/256 on it with next backup 30gb). I need to take from the phone to pc to external backup to flash drives and I need to do it by months end. 2000 videos taken down to 270 lol. Still have 6,000 pictures due to a recipe folder so I should hand write those out 🤯😖. I need to see which dresses fit even though my family is big on wearing what you always do to church and funerals. Uncle Mickey always saw me in jeans but would tease me when I dressed up. I think my aunt would remember this and smile about his teasing so I’ll see if the new dress fits and is appropriate or one of my old dresses. It’ll be hot in the small church with so many packed in and cold at the graveside. Makes choosing an outfit even harder if I can’t go with jeans and my camo 0 degree coat.
Man this week is a bit overwhelming and busy! Oldest won her game 17-15 and plays tomorrow and Saturday. Middle plays Saturday too. Both have practices tonight (BB and archery), Friday is the funeral and Sunday is practice again with games next Monday and Tuesday and so on. My next free day is the 24th!
Anyone reaching this point realizes how overwhelmed I am based on this super long post lol. What do you do for loved ones who say there will be too much for them tie at so not to bring food, too many hands trying to help so no help wanted/needed? It seems everyone coming by is given a job to do but I’m ah hour and 10 minutes away therefore get no jobs. I heated the lunch, put away scrapbooks and ordered the table clothes with my prime. I’m just used to BEING there and someone has always told em to go fetch this, clean that or any number of chores. I’m left blowing in the wind promising to keep my phone handy and rush over there if they need me. I’m not stressed, I’m calm and collected but it’s like I’m frozen in time sitting here waiting. If they don’t need me though it either means my aunts are doing too much or there’s many people lightening their burden. Moms gone and she was the one who helped the most and delegated so I’m at loose ends. I’m not good with this stuff if you can’t tell. While I have time I will look up good freezer meals so I can make up and send for later. Cooking for one will be hard and my aunts share and butcher a beef and pig each year. UM had a lot of dietary restrictions so I don’t really know what my aunt likes. I have a feeling my aunts, who are neighbors in the country, will be sharing some meals now as it’s easier to cook for two than one. Any meal recipes that freeze well and can be frozen in single portions would be truly appreciated if anyone has any! These ladies taught me most of what I know and most of the meals I make so I need something different that they won’t be making themselves. Can you freeze cooked rice? My aunts are heavy so I would rather make healthier meals but neither one will eat Keto type foods. One aunt seems to do poorly on high carb foods and the other does poorly on high fat foods. This is just by watching their weight and what they eat when we go over. Of course both like carbs and meat. One loves veggies from her garden, the other hasn’t eaten a veggie in my presence in years. Both enjoy sandwiches a couple lunches a week, but someone brought them tons of cold cuts. Again, at a loss and food is the only thing I can think of to help!
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55.7 kg
Lost so far: 17.1 kg.
Still to go: 0 kg.
Diet followed: Reasonably Well.
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View Diet Calendar, 16 January 2019:
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1228 kcal
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Fat: 56.03g | Prot: 60.90g | Carbs: 123.68g.
Breakfast: Folgers Breakfast Blend Coffee with 3 Splenda, Jack Link's Original Beef Jerky (50 Calorie Pack). Lunch: Campbell's Healthy Request Chunky Sirloin Burger with Country Vegetables Soup. Dinner: Butterball Everyday Turkey Bacon Lower Sodium, Land O'Lakes Salted Butter, Sara Lee Delightful Healthy Multi-Grain Bread, Fried Egg. Snacks/Other: Snickers Snickers Bar (1.86 oz), Claeys Old Fashioned Hard Candies, Gilliam Stick Candy. more...
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Losing 5.7 kg a Week
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