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Good Morning FS Family, I'm hoping everyone has recovered from the holiday feasting and shopping...if you indulged in any manner. Many of my customers claimed total bankruptcy after the two day splurge. Oddly enough, it was not food overindulgence that created the most complaints...it was what everything cost..especially food. I notice trends with my customers, primarily over 65 and on a fixed income. Grocery store prices are really giving them a beating right now...and not a single solitary one of them will accept a loving gift to help them through the end of the month crunch. God Bless and keep safe our hard-working and proud poor. These folks here worked in the fields for most of their lives and due to the lack of farm workers protections in the past, they spent over half of their productive years with no social security participation, by them or their employers so most of them draw less than 800.00 per month. The really sad thing is, most of their earnings went to buy property and now owning that property makes them ineligible for most other forms of public assistance. Good budget management gets them through, but with this years spiraling costs they are falling short of the basics. I had a sweet lady yesterday who came in with 30.00 of rolled change to buy a money order and a stamp to pay for her burial insurance. I'm not supposed to accept change for money orders because they are a daily accountable item and the money has to be deposited daily and we are not allowed to deposit change. I took it anyway and when she left I took the rolled coins out of the drawer and did a debit card swipe for the transaction. I put the change in my car, I will use it over time by buying it back when I need more change. They have grown children who work and help support them, but the amount of support from them is also affected by the current high cost of sustenance. I guess that is one more thing to count as a blessing right now. If you have a roof over your head, food on the table, lights and gas are on and you have enough money to make it to your next payday, you are deeply blessed. I am deeply blessed and I am full of gratitude that I can assist, even in such a small way for my customers too proud to ask for or accept money assistance. A little kindness makes the rough patches a little less bumpy.
I'm pleased to show a loss after this fast, day one was rougher than usual, but I was feeling the fasting glow by day 3. All in all, my holiday was a blessed one and the feeding backlash was not a set-back. I'll take it!! Ya'll have a great day!
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241.2 lb
Lost so far: 55.8 lb.
Still to go: 61.2 lb.
Diet followed 100%.
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Diet Calendar Entries for 30 November 2023:
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1305 kcal
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Fat: 58.80g | Prot: 144.81g | Carb: 44.61g.
Breakfast: Land O'Lakes Heavy Whipping Cream, PB2 Foods PB2 Pure, Badia Chia Seeds, Nutricost Grass-Fed Whey Protein Concentrate Unflavored, Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa Powder, Bob's Red Mill Flax Seed, Silk Pure Almond Milk - Unsweetened Original, Coffee. Lunch: Deviled Egg, Chicken of the Sea Sardines Mediterranean Style. Dinner: Land O'Lakes Whipped Heavy Cream, Strawberries (Unsweetened, Frozen), Unsalted Butter Stick, Broccoli Flower Clusters, Venison/Deer. Snacks/Other: Now Foods Organic Spirulina Powder, Lemon Juice (Canned or Bottled), Better Body Foods Baobab Superfruit Powder, Sunfood Super Foods Organic Moringa Powder, Athletic Greens Athletic Greens, Ginger, Now Foods Magnesium Bisglycinate Powder, NoSalt Nosalt, Water. more...
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2667 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Standing - 1 minute, Resting - 15 hours and 59 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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losing 2.0 lb a week
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So, another update, the first batch of Secret Santa boxes was delivered last night and two of the recipients appeared in the Post Office, all smiles. The told me about the police pulling into their driveway and bringing the box up on the porch, when they stepped outside the officers told them that a group of anonymous citizens donated the boxes and the city picked random water bill addresses to deliver them to. They were telling me what all was in the box...much to my surprise they mentioned cash along with the gift certificate and the food. I guess someone else donated the cash, it was also 50 bucks......I oooohed and ahhhhhd and said, well that's mighty nice of them! Ms LouAnn who is raising two granddaughters because her daughter died of cancer was near tears...she said it was a blessing that is gonna help out so much! I wanted to cry! She asked if I knew who might have done it and though I hated to do it, remaining anonymous was something the Ladies Club was keen on maintaining, so I denied knowledge of it, but said there's plenty of folks in town that could afford to do it. So, they left headed for Food Lion to go shopping for things needed and the rest of Christmas dinner. The other 10 will be delivered tonight. My nosy self is wondering who tossed in the cash.....I have not seen any of the ladies club members to ask.
16 Dec 23 by member: debrafrederick
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