Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 151

heaviest weight: 225 pounds (Mar 23, 2021)
current weight: 192.5
goal weight: 130

weight lost round 150: 3 pounds

goal for round 151: 190

5/22: 192.0 (walked/hiked over 2 hours yesterday; learned the hard way that ticks can survive a shampoo; raining today but still plan to do day 2 week 1 of C25k)

5/23 - 192.0 (got medium walk in this morning before the rain returned)

5/24 - 191.5 (sunshine at last! Woods walk in my afternoon! Ordered a new sleeping bag for my little camping adventures, as my old holofill bag from the late 1980s seems to have lost its warmth. I can't go too far because I have horses and poultry, dogs and cats, and nobody I trust to look after them in my absence. But I have found several very nice little camping spots within 1-2 hour's walk of my place, and the rest of my backpacking gear is awesome.)

5/25 - 191.0 (brilliant day out there; off on another long walk today; cool + sunny + breezy = no blackflies (hopefully); repeating week 1 of C25k and it was actually easier than it was last week when I started it; I think it's a good idea if I take my time with this; Delila the hen is determined to hatch out a nest though I keep removing the eggs; as the three roosters are her brothers and her father, I think it's probably a bad idea and I don't need more roosters and I don't eat eggs so it's just a bad all-round idea, as I keep explaining to her)

5/26 - 191.0 (looks like rain out there, and I'm off to the dentist shortly; hopefully any rain will blow over before the afternoon so that I can go out and have a walk in the woods with the blackflies and ticks (and my dogs). Also plan another week 1 episode of C25K. My ultimate plan is to be able to run the 5km race on campus in mid October, in about 30 minutes. Of course, that race might be canceled again this year because of covid. I haven't run it in years. I used to challenge my students: if they could beat me, I'd give them a bonus mark on their semester. Would they make us run it in masks I wonder? Last time I ran it, I came in 59th out of 100 runners, and when another university employee asked how I did and I told her (I was kinda proud and had beat my students), she looked sympathetic and said "never mind; you'll do better next year." What a way to rain on my parade!

5/27 - 190.5 (rainy day, so no long woods walk for me today; I'm going to have to have a go on the elliptical for exercise, At least I got in a short dog walk before the rain set in. I've been eating very well since I started planning and recording everything I eat, and the last few days I have even surpassed my 8c fluids goal, which is usually a trial for me, and I've been getting more than 500 calories of exercise (and I don't use MFP's values because they seem totally out of whack) each day.)

5/28 - 190.5 (rain held off, so we went for a woods walk but many hungry mosquitoes have suddenly joined the fray, so it was pretty hellish, bug-wise with black flies and mosquitoes swarming around, all trying to get a piece of me. And let's not forget the ticks, as much as I'd like to. At least the blackflies and mosquitoes have the decency to stay outside, but the ticks hitch a ride on me and the dogs, right on into the house. Off to the grocery store and the feed store and the tack shop (for horse fly spray) this morning. Am debating if I should get a large dark chocolate bar. Will I have the self-control to eat just one square per day (20 calories)? I dearly love chocolate but don't want to set myself up for a feeding frenzy. And there's day 3 of week 1 C25K for my early evening plans. )

5/29 - 190.0 (goal achieved for this round; yesterday it was beautifully cool and breezy and the bugs, even the ticks, were in short supply, so we had a wonderful 2-h walk. Big black bear (tracks went right past my place) got into the neighbour's compost bin again. Let's hope they (the neighbours) figure it out and leave the compost bin in their big drive shed until trash day. I don't have a garage or drive shed, but apparently my compost bin (I'm a vegan) is not worth bothering with anyway. A few years back a black bear pawed up my car, leaving some scratches and big muddy paw prints all over it. There was no food left in the car overnight, but I had transported dog and cat food in it that day. Today is an easy day for me, just a 1-h walk and some easy upper body work with 5-pound hand weights (it's all I have).)

5/30 - 189.5 (yay! into the 180's at last. A new "decade" is always a reason to celebrate - but with more exercise, NOT more food. Another cool and cloudy day, but no rain in the forecast so we might go for the super long walk/hike through the tick-infested woods to the junction of two large streams. I'm hoping that it'll be a pretty spot. Looks gorgeous on google satellite maps, anyway, with tall trees. Oh, by super long I mean about 2.5 hours I estimate. That's as far as 1 can go for a walk from my house without crossing a road or going anywhere near civilization. I don't want to take the dogs anywhere in a car. They're still pretty skittish around other people (they're rescues from LA, flown in when such things were still possible and the shelters there were still kill shelters; in fact one of these girls was on death row because she was biting people and they strongly advised me to pick another dog; so glad I stuck with my little Chiweenie, Darla (I sometimes call her "Bitey girl" as a joke, though!))

5/31 - 189.5 (fantastic walk yesterday, except for ticks; the junction of the river and the large brook was a beautiful spot and well worth the walk; I will definitely be back. On an old track, I passed over an old wooden culvert, carefully pieced together like the staves in a barrel, and in remarkably good condition. Drizzling today, so maybe a short 1-h walk or maybe not, depending on the weather. Hope everybody had a successful round and a successful month. And now on to June!

Result for round 151: -3 pounds