Lately, as in this current calendar month, I have been finding that I am just plain not-really hungry at breakfast time, yet if I don't have the usual protein-rich breakfast (and often small but protein-rich lunch of greek yoghurt with fruit) then the wannna-graze nibbles set in later in the day. Hence the "affair of the molecularity unstable fresh raisin bread" that makes up my pair of back-to-back unintentional pass days this month.

I MOSTLY have plain air-popped popcorn as a default go-to for a sense of bulk in an evening snack (have for years, that's the way I prefer my popcorn now!) Other things incorporated too - but they are more in the treat-myself category (relatively higher calories / less filling-satisfying if the "main eve snack entry")

I reached Goal ~April 1 - have been mentally in "Stabilization Stage" of life-journey, (Increased from "weight-loss intake range" to "maintenance intake range" slowly and systematically over ~ a six week period) and have settled well into more than a month of BOTH drifting within a one-pound range most days AND now consistently eating at the MP-recommended maintenance calorie range plus eat most exercise calories. And DH and I do more evening walks on top of that now

I have also just within the past two weeks or so greatly increased my exercise-calories burned per minute ratio by opting for the bike in the basement rather than the walking briskly Wii-based exergame that has been my default cardio for years. Mostly due to time-considerations while doing sufficient exercise to burn the higher maintenance calorie intake.


I can't COUNT on doing the evening walk - and working from home means little in the way of NEATs throughout the "work day". Working from home won't be changing any time soon