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Hello Secret Friends,
Ten weeks until my daughter's wedding in September. I have been really good at trying to eat well, but to not be logging food or calories. I have been experimenting with that trying to reach an 'organic' pattern for me of eating and maintaining etc. Well let me tell you how that went...
I was doing just fine, until a series of life events compounded. It wasn't that I stressed and began to eat. It was more like the food opportunities (once in a lifetime) were presented.
We were invited to a very close friend's wedding in Germany for May. This was not on our radar, but when we learned of the wedding, we knew that we would go and that other Europe to do travel plans, on the back burner were also suddenly imminent-- Visit relatives in Norway, visit a sick friend in England, check in with another friend in Antwerp, Belgium. A couple weeks in france added on for our 35 anniversary (Normandy, Brittany and the Loire Valley).
I don't have to tell you that hospitality involves feeding the guests and we were invited to numerous homes and out to gatherings. After 2 weeks into the trip, my husband could not button his dress pants for the wedding! Even so,I did well overall I gained 3-5 (my weight, at any given time is a changing#). My husband gained 10+, but he loses weight by just blinking!
On the return from our trip, my father-in-law suddenly fell ill and passed. This has been hard because the heart heaviness makes you feel physically ill/off and in a kind of limbo from reality. I found myself snacking on stuff I don't, usually touch. I recognized this from when I get sick I tend to eat more, trying to get some relief from symptoms. Do any of you experience that?? So the grief triggered the same kind of subliminal actions in me.
Time to be back on track - recording to get to my goal 10 pounds down.
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156.0 lb
Lost so far: 29.0 lb.
Still to go: 11.0 lb.
Diet followed poorly.
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Diet Calendar Entries for 16 July 2017:
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1451 kcal
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Fat: 71.75g | Prot: 64.70g | Carb: 110.48g.
Breakfast: Butter, Toasted Whole Wheat Bread (Commercial), Eat'n Park Home Fries, Fried Egg, 2% Fat Milk, Price Chopper Sliced Bacon. Lunch: Lifeway Foods Original Kefir, Apples. Dinner: Daisy Light Sour Cream, Mayonnaise, Egg, Penne, Kirkland Signature Boneless Skinless Chicken Thighs. Snacks/Other: Red Table Wine, Ocean Spray 100% Juice Cranberry. more...
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2541 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Hanging Laundry - 30 minutes, Yard Work (gardening) - 3 hours and 20 minutes, Resting - 12 hours and 10 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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gaining 0.2 lb a week
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