Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 259

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  • SheilaBoneham
    SheilaBoneham Posts: 3,223 Member
    musicsax wrote: »
    SheilaBoneham wrote: »
    fmfdfa2020 wrote: »
    SheilaBoneham wrote: »
    quiltingjaine wrote: »

    @SheilaBoneham Pasta or pizza - same result for me. I just TRY to avoid wheat.

    @quiltingjaine When we have pasta at home, we use red lentil or black bean pasta, but restaurants…. I had planned to get something without pasta, but the primavera was singing to me. 😊

    @SheilaBoneham - I have to admit, I've never heard of red lentil or black bean pasta. We've been experimenting with no-wheat options when baking, with pasta, etc. Where do you buy your red lentil or black bean pasta?

    Pretty much any grocery store. We shop mostly at Meijer and Kroger and both carry them. We also get chickpea pasta, which I didn’t mention. I’m actually not crazy about the black bean pasta—it falls apart easily—but I like the other two, esp the red lentil.

    I'm not a great fan of chickpea pasta, I find it all tends to stick together and look a bit of a mush. It's ok if the pasta is completely covered in veggies & sauce. I've bought green pea pod pasta this week to try.

    @musicsax You’re correct, the chickpea spaghetti does clump up into a mushy mess. We get the rotini, which works better. But I prefer the red lentil pastas. Let us know how the green pea pod pasta is, please!
  • musicsax
    musicsax Posts: 4,610 Member
    edited May 14
    quiltingjaine wrote: »
    @Chapter_3 & @musicsax I hope you get to experience been a GGM (great grandma) too!!!

    That is well in the future for me - my oldest DGC is just 6 years old, but yes, I am hoping that will come -- eventually :p
  • _JeffreyD_
    _JeffreyD_ Posts: 2,028 Member
    Chapter_3 wrote: »

    The “Tough-love” situation culminated Sunday. Our world will either turn upside-down or get better… not over yet…

    @Chapter_3 Hang in there. I have an ongoing tough-love situation in my life that both turned things upside down AND got better. Rinse and repeat. For my own sanity and happiness it's a daily process of managing my expectations. My favorite saying is "expectations are premeditated resentments."

    Hugs to you.
  • judefit1
    judefit1 Posts: 1,052 Member
    @ Chapter_3 : I feel for you with whatever "tough love" you're dealing with at the moment- I've had it too and it's so difficult to figure out the balance between too much and not enough action, and to realize the results are out of my hands.
    Sending hugs.
  • Chapter_3
    Chapter_3 Posts: 884 Member
    _JeffreyD_ wrote: »
    Chapter_3 wrote: »

    The “Tough-love” situation culminated Sunday. Our world will either turn upside-down or get better… not over yet…

    @Chapter_3 Hang in there. I have an ongoing tough-love situation in my life that both turned things upside down AND got better. Rinse and repeat. For my own sanity and happiness it's a daily process of managing my expectations. My favorite saying is "expectations are premeditated resentments."

    Hugs to you.

    Gosh, I love this. Thank you. A good mantra and hugs to you too!
  • Chapter_3
    Chapter_3 Posts: 884 Member
    judefit1 wrote: »
    @ Chapter_3 : I feel for you with whatever "tough love" you're dealing with at the moment- I've had it too and it's so difficult to figure out the balance between too much and not enough action, and to realize the results are out of my hands.
    Sending hugs.

    Thank you Julia. Spent almost 3 months trying to figure out what we should actually do/say… Now only time will tell… we are finally prepared to follow-though on worst-case-scenario. Hugs back!
  • Chapter_3
    Chapter_3 Posts: 884 Member
    _JeffreyD_ wrote: »
    Male: 66
    6’-2”
    OSW: 237.8 (Nov. 2016)
    OGW: 199 (just to say I did)
    Maintenance Range Goal: 200-205

    Goals for this round:

    1. Log my food daily; try to eat cleaner.
    2. Daily exercise; at least some movement…
    3. Drink 90 oz. water.
    4. Break 220 at least once.


    Round 259 Posts
    This is my posting format….

    Month/Day: Scale Reading - First thing today after bathroom visit before getting dressed.
    / Logged Food - yesterday; Exercise – yesterday; water - yesterday / Comment

    Previous posts:

    5/6: 223.4
    /logged; exercised; 70 oz water/
    Just barely made the calorie budget but managed to drop a few ounces. I grilled pork chops for the fam yesterday and I have to say they were a masterpiece. I didn’t just look at them.

    5/7: 223.6
    /logged; exercised; 66 oz water/
    A little disappointing for as much exercise as I did yesterday. Group fitness class (I was a good student) and lawn mowing. Food was on the salty side and bumping it’s head on breaking above the budget though.

    5/8: 223.8
    /logged; exercised; 66 oz water/
    Golfing today. I will be using some different from the usual muscles. I will avoid injury by not trying to literally kill the ball. Easier said than done.

    5/9: 222.2
    /logged; exercised; 66 oz water/
    I should have had a bottle of water with me on the golf course. Late lunch after golf was good enough for lunch and supper. The good news is I ordered the coleslaw instead of french fries. The bad news is I ordered a pork tenderloin sandwich. It was one of the good ones; freshly made, not frozen; not pounded out paper thin. Enough with the food fantasy…

    Going to try to capitalize today on this minor bump downward.

    5//10: 221.0
    /logged; exercised; 66 oz water/
    I see many of us have the telltale DNA marker of the double slash between the 5 and the 10. We are copy//paste sons and daughters of quiltingjaine .

    5/11: 223.6
    /logged; exercised; 90 oz water/
    Hoping to get out and fish with my DS and DGS today. I don’t care if I catch a thing but my 7 year old DGS really needs to. 😊

    5/12: 220.8
    /logged; exercised; 80 oz water/
    DGS didn’t catch anything, but he had the most fun fishing I have witnessed from him so far. He actually seemed to embrace the adage “ they don’t call it catching; they call it fishing.”
    Last night was crystal clear in Illinois, but no northern lights when I looked.

    5/13: 221.6
    /no logging; no exercise; 66 oz water/
    And lots of mother’s day mouth mischief. Other than that, it was a great day honoring the mothers in my life. My mom, my wife, and my daughter-in-law. Such a beautiful spring day.

    5/14: 221.2
    /logged; exercised; 70 oz water/
    Yesterday was a day of running errands. It was our day to take DGS to and from school; some window washing; some bill paying for my parents; some gardening help for DW (she is the gardener, I am the brute force sometimes needed); Doing group exercise class with DW; Watching my DGS play baseball (so to speak)

    I actually love being retired and on to the next thing…

    5/5: 223.8
    SW on day before this round.

    5/15: 219.8
    /logged; exercised; 70 oz water/
    Well that was dramatic.

    The last piece of home made rhubarb pie was sitting in the pie plate on the kitchen counter yesterday. As I was washing the breakfast dishes, I dropped a pan in the dish water sending a “cannonball” like spray everywhere including all over the pie. Dishwater turns my stomach. (it’s a mental disorder) Yes, I tossed the pie and broke 220. Maybe unrelated, but symbolic at least.

    I just had an idea. Have a spray bottle of dishwater handy, and spray it on anything over “the budget.”

    This round ended well in spite of the sketchy Sunday behavior. On to the next round.

    Historical Averages:
    R 94: 210.7 (20191108 = date of the last day of the round)
    R 95: 210.3
    R 96: 210.5
    R 97: 211.3 (20191208)
    R 98: 212.7
    R 99: 212.5* (some ghost vaycay entries)
    R 100: 215.0* (ghost vaycay entries) (20200107)
    R 101: 216.0* (some ghost vaycay entries)
    R 102: 212.6
    R 103: 211.9 (20200206)
    R 104: 210.9
    R 105: 212.5
    R 106: 211.2 (20200307)
    R 107: DNF
    R 115: 215.6 (20200605)
    R 116: 213.7
    R 117: 213.1
    R 118: 212.1 (20200705)
    R 119: 212.4
    R 120: 211.5
    R 121: 207.9 (20200804)
    R 122: 207.4
    R 123: 207.3
    R 124: 209.4 (20200903)
    R 125: 208.9
    R 126: 209.6
    R 127: 209.1 (20201003)
    R 128: 210.0
    R 129: 210.6
    R 130: 210.7 (20201102)
    R 131: 211.5
    R 132: 209.2
    R 133: 211.7 (20201202)
    R 134: 211.0
    R 135: 211.5
    R 136: DNW (20210101)
    R 137: DNW
    R 138: DNW
    R 139: 215.7
    R 140: 215.2 (20210210)
    R 141: 213.6
    R 142: 212.8 (20210302)
    R 143: 211.5
    R 144: 212.2
    R 145: 211.6 (20210401)
    R 146: DNW – scale broke during this round.
    R 147: 213.1
    R 148: 212.3 (20210501)
    R 149: 209.7 (vacay 2nd half)
    R 150: 210.4 (vacay 1st half)
    R 151: 210.7
    R 152: 211.0 (20210610)
    R 153: 210.7
    R 154: 210.6
    R 155: 210.0 (20210710)
    R 156: 210.9
    R 157: 210.6
    R 158: 207.8 (20210809)
    R 159: 207.9
    R 160: 205.9
    R 161: 206.2 (20210908)
    R 162: 205.9
    R 163: 206.8
    R 164: 207.1 (20211008)
    R 165: 207.0
    R 166: 207.3
    R 167: 207.8 (20211107)
    R 168: 206.2
    R 169: 207.3
    R 170: 208.2 (20211207)
    R 171: 208.6
    R 172: 207.4
    R 173: 210.5 (20220106) Mostly estimated
    R 174: 210.5 Mostly estimated
    R 175: 211.8 Mostly estimated
    R 176: 213.6 (20220205)
    R 177: 214.6
    R 178: 213.7
    R 179: 213.7 (20220307)
    R 180: 213.7
    R.181: 214.2
    R 182: 216.4 (20220406)
    R 183: DNW
    R 184: 216.2
    R 185: 217.0 (20220506)
    R 186: 216.8
    R 187: 215.9
    R 188: 217.1 (20220605)
    R 189: 216.2
    R 190: 215.5
    R 191: 217.3 (20220705)
    R 192: 217.9
    R 193: DNW
    R 194: 215.2 (20220804) Some guesstimates early I the round with no scale.
    R 195: 216.2
    R 196: 213.8
    R 197: 216.0 (20220903)
    R 198: 213.6
    R 199: 214.7 (partial round)
    R 200: 215.4 (20221003)
    R 201: 215.6
    R 202: 214.8
    R 203: 215.7 (20221102)
    R 204: 216.7
    R 205: 217.2
    R 206 DNW
    R 207: 217.4
    R 208: 218.6
    R 209: DNW (20230101)
    R 210: DNW
    R 211: DNW
    R 212: DNW
    R 213: DNW (20230210)
    R 214: 222.5 (post-surgery date)
    R 215: 221.5 (20230302)
    R 216: 222.2
    R 217: 221.8
    R 218 – 226 no data. AWOL
    R 227: 224.8
    R 228 – 242 no data. AWOL
    R 243: 225.3 (20231207)
    R 244: 224.4
    R 245 - 249 AWOL
    R 250: 226.2
    R 251: 227.4
    R 252: 226.1 (20240306)
    R 253: 223.0
    R 254: 223.6
    R 255: 224.4 (20240405)
    R 256: 221.7
    R 257: 220.4 incomplete
    R 258: 223.2 (20240505)
    R 259: 222.1

    I like to track averages due to my wild fluctuations. For the same reason, I like to weigh daily so I can see the lows from time to time. It gives me hope.

    Now, this is what I call a WIN!!! I believe you just “Leveled up (down) to a new DECADE!” Way to go!!!

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