59Carol's Journal, 31 December 2022

I hate gaining weight especially when it is clear that I was eating a lot of calories and that is why! This week I gained 1.2 pounds. This month I gained 4.4 pounds. Totally not what I want but what I did.

I know it is the Christmas season but frankly that is one day and I was not dealing with the Christmas party scene. I overate on Christmas and the days following there were some leftovers... and so on.

I gained 3.2 pounds two weeks ago, gained 2.4 pounds last week and gained 1.2 pounds this week. This is so typical of me! I tend to not go to extremes (think over correcting a car on bad roads!) so I have been slowly (painfully slowly) dialing it back.

This year did not meet my goals on the weight front. To give context - in 2019 I lost 49.8 pounds, in 2020 I lost 16.2 pounds, in 2021 I lost 13.2 pounds and this year in 2022 I gained 16.2 pounds!! I totally wiped out my loss in 2020.

Looks like my goal in 2023 is to lose 16.2 pounds (ideally 19 pounds). Very doable about 1.5 pounds per month. I can do this provided that I don't have 'runs' of gaining weight. That really is the problem. I need to lose or maintain my weight. It is the gains tha make it hard (I gained 28.4 pounds last year but lost enough to make it a 16.2 gain overall)

This last week has been all about snow in my world. Christmas Day my 91 year old father-in-law ditched his car in my driveway. On the 27th I was barely able to get out of my driveway nearly getting stuck twice. That night a huge snow dump. I was effectively snowed in. I was plowed out yesterday at noon! I celebrated by getting groceries!

184.4 lb Lost so far: 84.1 lb.    Still to go: 14.4 lb.    Diet followed reasonably well.

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1458 kcal

Fat: 38.59g | Prot: 101.96g | Carb: 176.50g.   Breakfast: Chobani Oat Nog, Boiled Egg, Frozen Blackberries, Synergy Gingerberry Kombucha (Bottle), Spectrum Organic Ground Flaxseed, Oatmeal, Green Tea. Lunch: Red Beans and Rice, Signature Select Stir Fry Vegetables, McCormick Ground Cumin, Tone's Ground Cumin, Crisco Extra Virgin Olive Oil Spray, Orca Bay Alaska Pollock Fillets, Apples. Dinner: Chicken Breast, Cooked Green Cabbage (Fat Added in Cooking), Brown Rice (Medium-Grain, Cooked). Snacks/Other: Nabisco Social Tea Biscuits. more...

2139 kcal

Activities & Exercise: Resting - 14 hours and 25 minutes, Dance (slow step) - 20 minutes, Sleeping - 9 hours, Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 15 minutes. more...