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We're having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave...
Summer heat has arrived here in the Portland area. Whew! Thank goodness for air conditioning. Unfortunately, my MS heat intolerance is flaring up something fierce, making it difficult for me to do my beloved Zumba.
Thursday July 3 was particularly annoying; I wore my ice-filled cooling wrist wraps, but still got overheated so that my nerve signals to my muscles were getting messed up, my tremors flared, and I was a bit dizzy. My friends noticed, and made suggestions. My instructor noticed, and asked one of my friends to help me. Jody asked a wonderful woman dancing by the big fan to trade places with me, which she gladly did. I was fine with the fan cooling me.
Sunday was rough again, even though I took extra ice packs, including ones to wrap around my neck and ankles. Today, I went to Pilates instead of Zumba Gold. A different instructor, and she kicked my butt. :o) Didn't help that the room was hot; better when she turned on the little fan in the front of the room.
I love challenging myself, and will continue to do so. Today I did these mermaid leg raise things that I know will have me sore in places I didn't know I had muscles in!
My weight is stable; I'm okay maintaining my goal weight, though I'd prefer to be 5 pounds lighter or so. I'm focused on being as fit as possible by the time I schedule my other knee replacement. My partner comes first; scheduling a lumbar injection soon, then a laminectomy when that wears off, or work levels off.
I must get up and make dinner, and Mexican skillet dinner, low-sodium enough to send a few servings to my partner's mom, along with some of the turkey meatloaf I'm baking early tomorrow morning (before it gets real hot!).
Ain't no rest for the wicked...I listen to too much KINK radio, lol!
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135.0 lb
Lost so far: 67.0 lb.
Still to go: 0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entries for 07 July 2014:
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2073 kcal
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Fat: 62.52g | Prot: 105.42g | Carb: 283.16g.
Breakfast: Bob's Red Mill Organic 100% Whole Ground Golden Flaxseed Meal, Hy-Top Frozen Dark Sweet Cherries, Water, So Delicious Coconut Milk Unsweetened, Garden of Life Raw Protein Chocolate Cacao, MEDAGLIA D'ORO MEDAGLIA D'ORO INST COF, MiraLAX Miralax. Lunch: Seapoint Farms Dry Roasted Edamame (Seapoint Farms), Water, Starbucks Nonfat Iced Latte (Venti), Trader Joe's Natural Turkey Jerky. Dinner: Chopped salad with garbanzos, Mexican Skillet Dinner. Snacks/Other: Hershey's Chocolate Syrup, Water, Dreyer's Slow Churned Rich & Creamy Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, Ripple Brand Collective bark THINS, Fiber One Chewy Bars - Oats & Chocolate. more...
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1896 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Yard Work (gardening) - 10 minutes, Housework - 1 hour, Sitting - 4 hours, Shopping - 15 minutes, Driving - 25 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours, Resting - 9 hours and 10 minutes, Pilates - 1 hour. more...
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steady weight
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