59Carol's Journal, 27 June 2020

Finally, a big step downwards! 2.6 pounds. That is pretty substantial. It is not shocking to have lost since I was under my window for 6 days and in the window for one. I averaged 120 calories below the bottom end of my window this week. I don't think I have ever had that pattern before. Interestingly I did not intentionally plan to be this low. Each day things came up where I wasn't eating all of my planned snacks that add up to 190 calories per day. Otherwise I ate what I planned. Next week I plan to stay more in the window however it is good to know that this is a way to get on track again. This month was one of two weeks of gaining and two weeks of losing so the net for the month is down 2.4 pounds. Good thing this week was a substantial loss! The big picture is that I have averaged a 0.8-pound loss per week for the past 96 weeks.

I do deserve some gold stars due to the busyness of this week. Dave and I met a man who became a good friend shortly after we married so about 43 years ago. He is an artist who sandblasts. I asked him to make my husband's headstone. He was willing but wanted the art. I approached a young lady who went to school with my daughter and works on my son's magazine who is a graphic artist. Dave and I knew her and her family well. She worked with us and created the vision that our family wanted. That is the art that we gave to our sandblaster friend. On Father's Day he called me to say the stone was done and he was heading up here (650-mile trip one way) to deliver it. He picked up a friend of my husband's from when Dave was in Junior High School on the way. The two fellows arrived on Tuesday and left on Thursday. There was a family barbecue after we laid the stone on Wednesday. We stayed up late and played Euchre with the grandkids, my daughter and the two fellows into the wee hours. And I still ended up under my calorie window all three of those days!

And the lesser gold star... I managed to get the camp cot back into its bag with no missing pieces and nothing sticking out!

195.8 lb Lost so far: 72.7 lb.    Still to go: 25.8 lb.    Diet followed reasonably well.

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1192 kcal

Fat: 36.62g | Prot: 78.89g | Carb: 140.01g.   Breakfast: Oatmeal, Whole Milk Plain Yogurt, Whole Milk, Kombucha, Tea (Brewed), Honey. Lunch: Lettuce Salad with Assorted Vegetables, 365 Greek Yogurt Plain, Jimmy Dean Bacon & Spinach Frittatas. Dinner: Cooked Zucchini with Tomato Sauce (Fat Not Added in Cooking), Rainbow Trout (Farmed), Cascadian Farm Riced Cauliflower Blend with Stir-Fry Vegetables. Snacks/Other: 365 Greek Yogurt Plain, Back to Nature Sesame Seed Rice Thin Crackers, Trader Joe's Antipasto Mediterranean Vegetables, 365 Greek Yogurt Plain. more...

2544 kcal

Activities & Exercise: Circuit Training - 20 minutes, Resting - 12 hours and 58 minutes, Stretching (yoga) - 17 minutes, Dance (slow step) - 20 minutes, Sleeping - 9 hours, Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 1 hour and 5 minutes. more...