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The good news is that I lost a pound this week...(yesterday it would have been 2.4). Once again it is no secret why it wasn't more. This week I was significantly over in calories 3 days, 2 days doing well and 2 days over in calories. Last week I think it was something like every day was over!
This week I was away from home for 3 days and really struggled to find food that I wanted to eat. Part of the problem is that many restaurants were closed or were only able to offer take out. Take out food seems to lend itself to deep fried everything and other disasters. I was working a casino for the Women's Shelter which meant very late nights also not conducive to eating well especially since we could only eat from the onsite cafe.
I am looking forward to eating normally this up coming week. I just plain feel better when I do. I was so darn glad to eat my homemade oatmeal when I got home!
More rock has gone up on my house however there is no way this is going to be finished before winter sets in. The temperature has to be 3C to 6C (or warmer) to set properly. Looks like rain today and Monday so that is leaving Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday and then they will pack it in until spring. Guess it is an exercise in patience!
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75.7 kg
Lost so far: 46.0 kg.
Still to go: 0 kg.
Diet followed: Reasonably Well.
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View Diet Calendar, 23 October 2021:
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1302 kcal
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Fat: 42.54g | Prot: 34.02g | Carbs: 203.24g.
Breakfast: Silk Cashew Milk, Tea (Brewed), Spectrum Organic Ground Flaxseed, Oatmeal, Bragg Organic Apple Cider Vinegar, Synergy Gingerberry Kombucha (Bottle), Prune Puree, Private Selection Frozen Wild Blueberries. Lunch: Red Beans and Rice, Bragg Organic Apple Cider Vinegar, Tone's Ground Cumin, McCormick Ground Cumin, Apples, Signature Select Stir Fry Vegetables, Olive Oil, Butter. Dinner: Great Value Garbanzo Beans, Olive Oil, Hale and Hearty Mushroom Barley Soup, Whole Foods Market Nutritional Yeast, McCormick Ground Cumin, Ginger, Great Value Garlic Powder, Raw Vegetable, Great Value Romaine Lettuce. Snacks/Other: Syrup, McGavin's 60% Whole Wheat Bread, Butter, Blueberries (Unsweetened, Frozen), Green Tea. more...
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2116 kcal
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Exercise:
Resting - 12 hours and 20 minutes, Stretching (yoga) - 20 minutes, Dance (slow step) - 20 minutes, Sleeping - 9 hours, Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 2 hours. more...
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Losing 0.5 kg a Week
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23 Oct 21 by member: Shrewdness
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When I was in high school, our house burned down. We had to live in a motel and eat all meals out for 6 months. It's amazing how quickly you can get sick of eating out. I remember my mom used to love the strawberry pie at the Big Boy. Within 2 weeks, she couldn't even look at it anymore. We even stopped going to the Big Boy altoghether for a while.
23 Oct 21 by member: liz-andra
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I know you've got this Carol. Sorry you won't finish the house this year, but you certainly have made tremendous progress! This is Autumn in Houston, high tomorrow 88°, no winter in sight, trees are still green. 🍁
23 Oct 21 by member: shirfleur 1
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Liz Andra- eating out gets really old fast. I usually feel like I could have made it better myself! When I do go out I want to eat food I don't know how to cook or items that are especially well done. I really don't like most of the food on offer. It just isn't satisfying. My daughter's home burned down a few years ago. That is a difficult experience in and of itself. It must have been devastating for your family.
24 Oct 21 by member: 59Carol
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Shirfleur- We are sure on opposite sides of the weather spectrum. Using the Farenheit scale - I am hoping to get to 37 by mid morning and a high of 43 today. We can make that work on the house! It is when it dips below 37 that it isn't possible! It rained yesterday and it is expected to rain tomorrow. Trying to find the windows of time!
24 Oct 21 by member: 59Carol
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59Carol, it was such a fluke thing. There was a pre-wired light over the kitchen sink, and the fire started in that. Later there was a class action suit about it because it happened in so many cases. Anyway, my mom came home from a late meeting and said she smelled smoke. We all laughed at her because she was always thinking something was wrong. She was looking all over for the source of the smell when we got a call from the neighbors saying our roof was on fire! We got out of the house just before the roof caved in. Living in a motel is a crazy way to spend your senior year in high school, and because I was so young, that's what I focused on. But now, looking back, I realize how lucky we were that the neighbors saw the flames and called the fire department and then us. We could have died or been horribly burned. We were so, so blessed.
24 Oct 21 by member: liz-andra
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Hope the weather cooperates so you can get it done. My older son lives in Fairbanks, and it's getting down into the teens now. Sometimes when we talk there is a 100° difference in temperature between here and there.
24 Oct 21 by member: shirfleur 1
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Liz andra- my daughter's fire was caused from an underground fire started miles from her home in the muskeg. A farmer was burning brush piles and lit an underground fire. He was not following the rules around brush burning. Anyway it erupted and started the spruce trees on fire and it literally burned spruce trees in a one/two mile line straight into her yard. Her house was the only one burned. The heat was so intense it melted the rims off her truck. There was literally nothing left but ash. She noticed ashes hitting her house. So she and her son just left the house with the clothes on their backs, were picked up by a neighbour whose vehicle was comandeered by the forestry people who came by helicopter to evacuate her. She was lucky as well. I am so glad your family escaped safely.
25 Oct 21 by member: 59Carol
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Shirfleur - that is one thing about the internet it is easy to assume everyone is experiencing the same weather when in fact we are so far flung. Weather really does affect our day to day experience. Ours changes fairly quickly and can be extreme so we are quite focused on what it is doing!
25 Oct 21 by member: 59Carol
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59Carol Wow! I had no idea that could happen! How frightening! I'm glad she and her son escaped, but how awful to lose everything like that.
25 Oct 21 by member: liz-andra
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lizAndra- crazy crazy random event. It was way more devastating than I expected. I am sure your family found that as well. Truly having nothing but the clothes on your back is a strange feeling. It has been 4 years now and she is still realizing that she doesn't have something that she remembered having.
26 Oct 21 by member: 59Carol
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Yes, it's the loss of the sentimental things that is the hardest.
26 Oct 21 by member: liz-andra
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Carol, it has been such a long time since I last saw your journal. I know you have been working on your home for so long snd making it so beautiful. I realize I have not heard or read "muskeg" for decades. How terrifying that must have been for your girl. I hope you are clear skied enough to see the northern lights over the next few days. . They are supposed to be good enough even we might get a glimps in Washington this weekend! I know... Probably not the least exciting for you, but it has been a good many years for me! 😁 Have a great weekend!
30 Oct 21 by member: melissatwa
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Thank you Melissa! I have been working hard on my home and it is nearly done. I just have to wait until spring to get the last bit done. I am hopeful that some of the large debris (old vehicles, etc) will finally be gone in the next couple of weeks. Then finally everything is where I want it! Northern Lights makes a person know why they live here. I can't imagine ever taking them for granted. The are such an unexpected gift. I love it especially when they dance.
30 Oct 21 by member: 59Carol
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