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Perfect example of water retention due to sodium. Had smoked salmon with my dinner, didn’t overeat during the day, I did have a glass of water in the middle of the night because I took an ibuprofen. Yesterday, 17K steps, cleaned the car, went to Costco. So a lot of movement. Blob is way down, muscle way up and I am holding a ton of water. How much of this is “real”? Not really any of it. Except that I expect to finish the pack of smoked salmon today, it should be normal the day after tomorrow. I’ll eat the salmon early and drink a ton of water and we’ll see what happens tomorrow morning. Just thought it would be good to show the effects of sodium and the insights that a smart scale, however much they may be off, can bring as far as insight. I could be sitting here freaking out that OMG, i ate 100g of pasta and gained two pounds. No, it’s fluid retention and it’ll be fine. In other news, my oranges are amazing this year. Unfortunately, because they all ripen at the same time, I’ll be putting a lot on the sidewalk to share with neighbors. Long walk last night, a couple shorter ones during the day, washed the car, might detail the inside today and try to remove some dog hair from the passenger compartment. Talked with a neighbor coming out of the big canyon yesterday, she said there’s enough traffic down there to feel safe, so we’ll do that one rather than my little one going forward. The rangers patrol it, so the encampments are small and they stay to themselves. Wearing the right shoes for that this morning. Extended weekend rules even though I already answered some emails. Walking away from the computers. Onward! How Lili sees herself laying on the couch. Honestly, I swear she’s related with the amount of food she puts away. WEIGHT 162.2 lb BMI 32.8 FAT MASS 63.9 lb LEAN MASS 98.3 lb WATER MASS 68.8 lb BONE MASS 5 lb MUSCLE MASS 93.3 lb
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162.2 lb
Lost so far: 18.8 lb.
Still to go: 27.2 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entry for 15 January 2024:
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1133 kcal
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Fat: 32.00g | Prot: 105.04g | Carb: 105.62g.
Breakfast: Egg White, Egg, Whole Milk. Lunch: Trader Joe's Ahi Tuna Steaks. Dinner: French or Vienna Bread, Trader Joe's Ahi Tuna Steaks. Snacks/Other: Raspberries, Whipped Cream (Pressurized Container), Swiss Miss Milk Chocolate Hot Cocoa Mix (Envelopee), Simply Protein Dark Chocolate Sea Salt , White Chocolate. more...
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gaining 10.5 lb a week
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That's Lili! I thought it was a bear. Look at that tummy! What a pretty picture!
15 Jan 24 by member: Fritzy 22
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Fritzy, It’s a polar bear sleeping in lavender or lupine flowers. Lili just envisions herself as huge and ferocious. She also eats like a bear.
15 Jan 24 by member: Katsolo
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Kat, I feel silly! I thought it looked like a polar bear but I know Milk is white. I was wondering where those pretty purple flowers are with the weather we've been having in California. I admit, there are lots of posts where I don't have a clue what people mean.
15 Jan 24 by member: Fritzy 22
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Lili is White (so is milk, I hate auto correct!)
15 Jan 24 by member: Fritzy 22
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What do you mean by enough traffic in the big canyon to feel safe? Are you talking about homeless encampments in the little canyon? Im confused.
15 Jan 24 by member: Yearofhealth2023
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What do you mean by enough traffic in the big canyon to feel safe? Are you talking about homeless encampments in the little canyon? Im confused.
15 Jan 24 by member: Yearofhealth2023
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I love oranges, nothing like home grown ones! 💜🍊🍊
15 Jan 24 by member: Diana 1234
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YOH, I live 12 miles from the US-Mexico border. Without getting political, there are sizable homeless camps in a lot of places and it’s made it dangerous to go places I used to love. They also pushed the homeless out of downtown and they hide where they can. It’s sad. That said, I’m not about to walk in remote places where there are groups of men I don’t know anything about. The big canyon has trails, open spaces and the rangers try to keep it clean and safe. Lots of people walk through there, especially after they built bridges and stuff during the pandemic. It’s a great place to get away. There was one bigger camp down there previously, but it’s been cleared out. They’ll clear the little canyon soon because there’s a school nearby. They just stopped during the holidays.
15 Jan 24 by member: Katsolo
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So we have a family member who is 2 years sober after decades of drug abuse and 12 years of homelessness with all that entails, criminal activity, sleeping outside, witnessing horrific violence being a victim of said violence. She is in her mid 50’s and we did a LOT of work to get her into rehab (for the 2nd time) and had more help to get her into a sort of housing unit for 18 months where they had accountability daily for sobriety and was right next door to AA meeting in the downtown area of a largish city. We took her home a couple nights ago and her entry is in the alley between two buildings and there were a couple of homeless men sitting on the ground behind a dumpster doing drugs while she is struggling to find her keys. Another homeless younger big guy comes from around the corner walking right next to our car. I felt so unsafe and vulnerable. She is in subsidy housing now and as she has no job (and every excuse why she cant get one) this is all that works. It is scary for her sobriety to have that going on right outside it is scary for someone like me to pick her up or drop her off there. And we are only talking about 3 men and i was with hubs at the time. I couldnt imagine walking/hiking near an encampment. It’s not a negative political statement it is just reality.
15 Jan 24 by member: Yearofhealth2023
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That’s exactly it. There are places you just can’t go anymore. I’m lucky in that my neighbors and I look out for one another, but I also try to be safe in my wanderings. Sad that this is the state of things right now, but it is what it is.
15 Jan 24 by member: Katsolo
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She should have her keys ready before she ever gets to the door. Basic self defense tactic.
15 Jan 24 by member: Katsolo
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Agreed i wanted to scream TBH. It’s her mama we just lost and she is having a rough time. She wont get a job she has no resources and her sweet mom was like her personal chauffeur and bank. I tried to tell M.I.L. That one day if she wasn’t here no one was going to want to do that and she needed to break the dependency so she would get a job but deaf ears and here we are. She dropped her keys at the door just as guy was walking by passenger side (my side) of car. She’s oblivious to how scary it is but ive never been in that world, never done drugs, never drank much nor even smoked so to me it’s like a difference planet. They need so much help but at some point they have to help themselves as well. O boy. Im ranting. Sorry.
15 Jan 24 by member: Yearofhealth2023
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Ugh. Best wishes to her, that’s going to be a hard path forward.
15 Jan 24 by member: Katsolo
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