59Carol's Journal, 30 January 2021

I am logging in a gain of exactly what I lost last week. I am disappointed but not surprised - there were two East Indian meals and most insidious of all I bought some Young Coconut slices which are amazing and I am not eating them in moderation. In some ways I am glad that I haven't gained more! It is the end of the month and the good news for me is that I have lost a total of 3.8 pounds despite this morning's gain.

I put the dried dates in a less accessible place and that has worked well. I will need to do the same with the coconut this morning. I do find that making it less convenient to eat certain calorie dense foods is a passive way of controlling my intake.

I may be about a week from having my basement renovations completed! To my pleasure I have finally been successful in attaching a picture to this entry. These are my basement steps. What you aren't seeing are the beat-up rough wood that was heavily painted in a Crayola purple. Heavily painted to fill in the gouges and dents! You can see a little of the purple where we will be finishing the trim next week. Now these have oak planking on top - oak I have had sitting here for literally decades! The vertical faces are a blue subway style tile that is the same as my kitchen backsplash. The barnboard that you can see are the boards I took off my old well house last summer. The wood piece on the white tile separates the heated floor from the non-heated floor. The heated floor is slightly higher due to the heating wires so we needed a transition. This transition was in my garage from a different project my husband had been working on. The floor tile is tiled right over the cement that was there.

179.6 lb Lost so far: 88.9 lb.    Still to go: 9.6 lb.    Diet followed reasonably well.

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1240 kcal

Fat: 54.11g | Prot: 38.26g | Carb: 171.48g.   Breakfast: Essential Everyday Frozen Red Raspberries, Sukang Maasim Datu Puti Vinegar, Walnuts, Oatmeal, Tea (Brewed), Spectrum Organic Ground Flaxseed, Synergy Gingerberry Kombucha (Bottle). Lunch: South Beach Diet Oven Roasted Vegetables, Splendid Spoon Cauliflower Potato Chowder, Apples, Cumin, McCormick Ground Cumin, Kroger Red Wine Vinegar. Dinner: Trader Joe's Organic Lentil Vegetable Soup, Garlic Powder, Bragg Nutritional Yeast Seasoning, Raw Vegetable, Cumin, Green Leaf Lettuce. Snacks/Other: Honeycrisp Apples, Regal Young Coconut Slices, Walnuts, Green Tea. more...

2211 kcal

Activities & Exercise: Resting - 13 hours and 10 minutes, Stretching (yoga) - 30 minutes, Sleeping - 9 hours, Weight Training (moderate) - 10 minutes, Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 1 hour and 10 minutes. more...