2021🌟30-Pound Challenge🌟

October 1- 183.4 - I'm up 2.4 lbs since yesterday. I've been losing and gaining the same 5-7 pounds since I started this challenge. Over calories today, but
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🥅(1348/1247)
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🥤(26 oz / 40 oz --- not counting the Eegee's I had because it's not water or soda)

October 2 - 181.9 - down 1.5 from yesterday. Hmmm.... I sometimes doubt the veracity and accuracy of my scale, but we'll see. Tomorrow will probably be a wash - I'm going to the Diamondbacks/Rockies game with my daughter the teacher (she's one of several getting an award from the D'Backs as a "Most Valued Teacher" and will be awarded $1000 to use in her classroom for STEM supplies, I think she said). It will be my first MLB game ever, although I used to go to the AAA games all the time when I was in Jr. High. Anyways, we'll be eating at the ballpark, probably.
😅 -(78 minutes bike ride; 10 minute dog potty walk)
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🥅 -(1426/1784 - had to go into exercise calories, but still not too bad)
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🚴🏻‍♀️ -(13 miles)
📚☕ -(my bike ride is time for me to not think about the problems in my life. In fact, I can't even tell you what I *did* think about... My mind just wandered the whole ride. I plan to do some "mindfulness" stuff on my phone later tonight, but even if I don't get that done, the bike ride worked.)
🥤(26 oz / ~60 oz -- yeah, water is a problem... LOL)

October 3 - 181.6 - down 0.3 from yesterday, but will go up tomorrow because McDonald's for breakfast, ball field pizza for lunch, and Carl's Jr for dinner. I expect to be up by a couple of pounds, if not tomorrow than within a couple of days.:)Still, no regrets, I had fun with my daughter.
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🥅 -(3652/1247)
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📚☕ -(I may not have been on my own, but I was out doing something different)
🥤 -(16 oz (H20)/52 oz (Dr Pepper) / 30 oz (regular pepsi))

October 4 - 183.4 - expecting this, still not liking it. Ah well.
😅 -did about 30 minutes of walking tonight, trying to figure out where the hell my bus was going to be due to the incident at the train station yesterday morning. You may have seen/heard about it on the news. DEA agent was shot and killed, another was wounded, as was a Tucson PD officer. The train depot is across the street from the bus transit station so things were all messed up still yesterday afternoon.
📔 -Yep, I did.
🥅 -(1655oops... that's how much over I was not calories. Should have been 2902/1247. That's the Ultimate Cheeseburger, Fries, and Coke I had for dinner.)
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📚☕ -It was unintentional me time, but while trying to catch my bus, I walked through one of the areas of town I wish I could live in. Adorable old homes from the 20s and 30s. Saw one for sale and looked it up. $599,000. And that, my friends, is why I will never be able to live in that area.:)
🥤- (32 oz H2O / 32 oz reg Coke)

October 5 - 183.4 - no change from yesterday. Tomorrow will probably go up again since I ate cheesecake today. A big piece of pumpkin cheesecake from Olive Garden. The rest of my food was within calories budget, but that was definitely not.
😅 -Remember, I'm only aiming for 20 minutes or more. I did it, but barely.:)
📔 -Tracking, even if I'm estimating, is really just about the easiest thing for me.:)
🥅 -(1720/1247)
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📚☕ -In my own little world on the bus going home today.
🥤 -(67.6 oz H2O / 0 oz soda (only because I'm out and the vending machine was out of order. LOL))

October 6 - 183.0. Well, I didn't see that coming.:)My bus was a little late getting me home tonight so I didn't have a chance to eat dinner before having to leave for chorus rehearsal. That led to me get a piece of pumpkin bread and some Ritz Bitz during the break. It wasn't enough to ease my hunger completely, so when I got home, I made myself a quesadilla. Why does cheese have to be so high in calories??? Also, while I was at rehearsal, my daughter had her dog outside to play with her "boyfren." Sienna and Valentine are quite the item around the complex. Hahahah! Anyways, my daughter and Valentine's human were sitting on the ground while the two dogs wrestled around them. At some point, Sienna fell into my daughter, the hardest part of her head hit Aislinn in the mouth, and broke a tooth, knocking about half to 3/4 of it out. So, tomorrow, Aislinn will be calling around to find out who will accept my CareCredit card in payment. Blah.
😅 -Some walking, some stretching. Not a lot, but it was just over 20 minutes.:)
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🥅 -(1246/1247)
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📚☕ -Chorus rehearsal. I wish I was a better singer. Why, oh why, couldn't I have been born with perfect pitch instead of being so beautiful? Hahahahahahah


🥤 -(33.8 oz H2O / 32 oz Earl Grey Lavender Tea (brewed it myself so just water, tea, and sugar free vanilla:)/12 oz Diet Dr Pepper)

October 7 -181.0 - suspect this is mostly water weight as I had a mostly liquid diet yesterday.:)I also expect it will go up tomorrow. Why? Because food.:)
😅 -got my 20-22 minutes of walking plus another 5 or so of jogging around the parking lot.
📔 -I even went back and added in the candy I ate.
🥅 -(1605/1247) - candy and later on, my girls ordered me sticky toffee pudding after dinner because it's been my go to dessert at that restaurant for awhile now and they decided I deserved it after the past couple of weeks. And, while I may not have "deserved it, or even *needed it*, I ate it.
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📚☕ -Not even trivia tonight felt like "me time" today.
🥤 -H20 = 33.8 oz; hot tea = 16 oz; Diet Dr. Pepper = 12 oz; unsweetened iced tea with lemon = ?? I lost count after about 4 glasses as the server kept filling it up for me.

October 8 - 181.4. Not unexpected given last night.:)It will be up again tomorrow because it was "Tucson Meet Yourself" today at lunch and I know a lot of people here use the nicknames "Tucson Eat Yourself" or "Tucson Feed Yourself." Lots of cultural groups and some food trucks set up booths or on the street and sell food. I thought about getting something other than my usual. But the heat (it was in the mid to upper 90s) and the long lines at some of the things I was interested in had me breathing a sigh of relief when there was no line at the Greek booth. Spanokopita, dolmathes, baklava, and lemonade. Yum.
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🥅 -(1890/1247)
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📚☕not today... I brought my lunch back to my desk and actually did some work while I was eating.:(
🥤 -: (H2O - 33.8 oz, cup of hot tea - 16 oz, Diet Soda (Dr. Pepper/Pepsi) - 52 oz , lemonade - 16 oz)

October 9 - 182 - Not up that much. But that will change.:)Went to Phoenix to have lunch with my son today. Just him and I, for a change. He wanted sushi. I've not eaten much in the way of that and am really unfamiliar. Had a hard time logging it and finally just gave up and picked some of the higher calorie options and hoped I'd get enough. Then I upped the ante and had Jack in the Box for dinner. I think we all know how that turned out. That's two weekends in a row. And two weekends they got my order wrong. Le sigh. Oh, and my laptop is being difficult. Part of the reason I'm delayed with posting this is because the damned thing wouldn't load up.
😅 -After I got home from Phoenix, I helped my girls decorate for Halloween, so my exercise was going up and down the step ladder, up and down the stairs (had to see how it looked!), and bending over to pick up everything I dropped. LOL
📔 -- even if it was mostly guess work and estimates.
🥅 -(3291/1247) You know, this day was not that unusual food-wise (well, except for the sushi) but I think this is probably a pretty good estimate of many of my past weekends calorie-wise. Why does the stuff I like have to be so high in calories?
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📚☕ -I had a total of 3.5 hours driving time by myself. Not sure it was really "me time," but that hour and a half at lunch with my son was definitely for me.:)I wish I'd gotten a picture. Oh well, next time.
🥤 -I don't know how much I drank, but I'm pretty sure none of it was water. Lots of iced tea (unsweetened), no soda.

October 10 - 183.6. Woop! There it is.... And it will probably be up again tomorrow.
😅 -The best laid plans.... I intended to get up and run or ride this morning. I didn't set my alarm. Mistake. I didn't get up until late and then did nothing except go get breakfast (hamburger patty, sliced tomatoes, and poached eggs - blew it with the whole wheat toast though), then come home and do laundry and sit around futzing with my computer. It's dead. Something about a registry? Sigh. I just want to try to get the stuff off the hard drive before I dropkick it to the garbage. But that's an expense that will have to wait. Le sigh.
📔 -I do track daily. Everything. I may not like what I see, but I can't seem to change it. I really need to get past this block in my brain.
🥅 -(1686/1247) Better than yesterday at least. And I had pizza for dinner (cauliflower crust/anchovies (don't judge)/spinach/mushrooms/onions/artichoke hearts/black olives.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -I jogged around the complex with the dog, but that doesn't count.
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October 11 - 183.4 - Didn't see that coming. I really thought it would go up.
😅 -it was slow, but I got about 40 minutes of walking in today.
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🥅 -(1151/1247) Sadly, part of that was a Kit Kat and one fig newton. I could have knocked 300 calories off if I hadn't eaten those. And I really do need to start eating more veggies again.
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📚☕ -I don't count grocery shopping as "me time."
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October 12 - 182.5 - it's amazing how much the weight comes off when I'm not stuffing my face with super high calorie nummies. :s:/
😅 -I don't remember doing it, but sometime between Monday morning and when I went to bed last night, I completely turned off my alarm and I woke up about an hour after my normal time. Called the bus schedule on my phone and it looked like, maybe, I could make it. So, I quick-marched across the street, and got to the bus stop with what I thought was a minute or two to spare. After waiting a bit, I checked the website again and apparently the bus I needed had already passed and was already a mile and a half up the road. The next bus wouldn't get me to work on time, so I hoofed it back across the street and drove myself to work. That eliminated a couple of relatively short walks for me, but those are part of my daily "exercise." When I got home, I didn't go anywhere or do anything, except walk the dog late last night.
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🥅 -(1193/1247)
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📚☕ -I listened to a couple of LevelHead exercises last night before bed, but as I kept dozing off, I guess that's not really me time. (I whine enough about stuff as it is... I hate to add the extra whining about lack of time/money to do things I want to do, so consider this an ongoing whine for me and I won't mention it again. Maybe.:))
🥤 -(16.9 oz H2O / 24 oz Diet Dr. Pepper / 48 oz (the mug holds 16 oz - I love it) hot cinnamon spice tea w/sugar-free vanilla... lots of fluid, not enough "just water.")

October 13 - 181.4 - Down a little more. It won't last. I'm stressing over *kitten* and I know I'm going to blow this somehow.
😅 -walking/stretching - nothing to really break a sweat, but there ya go.
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🥅 -(1283/1247) Only 36 over, but over is over.
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📚☕Chorus tonight.
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October 14 - 179.8 Woot! But it will be up tomorrow. Took my daughter to the dentist today. $$$$$$$ Yeah, I had Mexican food for lunch and beer at dinner. I wanted beer at lunch too. I'm not liking this no computer at home thing at all. I tried to post something from my phone last night and three times I managed to delete it or lose it somehow. Will try to make notes so I can fill this out on Monday.
😅 -No exercise today. Did Geeks Who Drink tonight and when I got home, the dog had already been walked.
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🥅 -(1895/1247) - Enchiladas, refried beans, chips for lunch... salad, sweet potato fries, Kiltlifter for dinner... oh... and creme brulee for dessert. If my weight's not up tomorrow, I'll be surprised.
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📚☕ -Trivia with Megan. Yeah.
🥤 -(I'm only saying no because of the beer. I actually had more water than soda today. That's weird.)


October 15 - 181.8 - Just like I said. Not surprised.
😅 -I didn't make any notes about exercise, but I gave myself 3 yesses in my other challenge so I exercised at least 20 minutes today.;)
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🥅 -(1176/1247) - I was still hungry after dinner and later in the evening I had some herring and "cheesebread" (keto bread with string cheese on it, nuked to melt the cheese). I was still under calories for the day, so I guess maybe I hadn't had enough to eat during the day.
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🥤 -According to my notes I had no water at all today. At least, not plain water. I had tea.

October 16 - 179.6 - down a little. Not sure how well this will hold. I've been eating my emotions today. Did lunch at a local cheesesteak place and I got double meat and double cheese... I went out later, by myself, and after buying some Hallowe'en decor, I bought myself ice cream... and then I didn't have dinner, but had a late night snack of Wheat Thins. 😅 -55 minutes run/walking. I was going to ride this morning, but had a soft tire. Obviously I don't learn my lessons very well. Tried to use the same pump that I tried to use a couple of months ago on my daughter's bike. A pump that not even two experienced cyclists could get to work. So... my soft tire is now completely flat. Luckily, this time I was in my living room instead of a couple of miles into my ride. So... I backed the bike back into its spot, changed my clothes and went for a run. Did 5k. And later in the day walked Sienna and let her play with her boyfren.
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🥅 -(1816/1587) Yeah... see above.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -I did pretty well, going out. Was on my way to a much faster time than I've had lately. Okay, maybe only a minute or so, but still.... Well, there is a slight uphill grade to the path when I turn around. It's not something I notice when I'm walking. But, boyohboy, let me be on my bike or trying to run? I notice every damned millimeter of incline. I slowed way down and ended up a bit slower than some of my more recent runs. Bummer, dude.
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📚☕ -Counting my run for this.
🥤 -H20 = 50.7 oz / 48 oz of diet soda

October 17 - 179.6 - That's a bit of a surprise, so I'll take it after yesterday. I did even worse with food today. And, despite everything I've heard about how exercise is supposed to help boost your mood, today it didn't work. I took Sienna out for a walk this morning. I left in a meh mood, cried through a good portion of the walk, and 3.24 miles later, I came home in a much worse mood than I started with. And I cried on and off all day. Food traps were the dark chocolate KitKat (king sized) that I ate instead of lunch, the Italian food from Oregano's that I didn't even like, but ate all of it (except the majority of the sauce) for dinner, and the Pecan Pie Blizzard (medium) that I had for dessert. Yeah... the weight will be up in the morning. 😅 -About 90 minutes walking the dog, than about another hour or so wandering the aisles of the grocery store, and maybe another 10-15 minutes of dog walking. Maybe the slow stroll at the store doesn't seem like exercise, but it helped me get well over 10,000 steps.:)
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🥅 -4065/1576
🏃🏻‍♀️ -Didn't run. Walked.
🚴🏻‍♀️-The tire is still flat. The bike shop I was going to go to was closed. But now I'm thinking I might see if I can afford a new pump, the "old fashioned" kind that stands on the floor and you pull the handle thing up and down.
📚☕ -Nobody ever said "me time" had to be a good time. So, I guess my walk was "me time."
🥤 -m Um, I may have had one bottle of water. I had two or three glasses of iced tea with dinner.

October 20 - 181.4
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October 1- 183.4 - I'm up 2.4 lbs since yesterday. I've been losing and gaining the same 5-7 pounds since I started this challenge. Over calories today, but
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🥅(1348/1247)
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🥤(26 oz / 40 oz --- not counting the Eegee's I had because it's not water or soda)

October 2 - 181.9 - down 1.5 from yesterday. Hmmm.... I sometimes doubt the veracity and accuracy of my scale, but we'll see. Tomorrow will probably be a wash - I'm going to the Diamondbacks/Rockies game with my daughter the teacher (she's one of several getting an award from the D'Backs as a "Most Valued Teacher" and will be awarded $1000 to use in her classroom for STEM supplies, I think she said). It will be my first MLB game ever, although I used to go to the AAA games all the time when I was in Jr. High. Anyways, we'll be eating at the ballpark, probably.
😅 -(78 minutes bike ride; 10 minute dog potty walk)
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🥅 -(1426/1784 - had to go into exercise calories, but still not too bad)
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🚴🏻‍♀️ -(13 miles)
📚☕ -(my bike ride is time for me to not think about the problems in my life. In fact, I can't even tell you what I *did* think about... My mind just wandered the whole ride. I plan to do some "mindfulness" stuff on my phone later tonight, but even if I don't get that done, the bike ride worked.)
🥤(26 oz / ~60 oz -- yeah, water is a problem... LOL)

October 3 - 181.6 - down 0.3 from yesterday, but will go up tomorrow because McDonald's for breakfast, ball field pizza for lunch, and Carl's Jr for dinner. I expect to be up by a couple of pounds, if not tomorrow than within a couple of days.:)Still, no regrets, I had fun with my daughter.
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🥅 -(3652/1247)
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📚☕ -(I may not have been on my own, but I was out doing something different)
🥤 -(16 oz (H20)/52 oz (Dr Pepper) / 30 oz (regular pepsi))

October 4 - 183.4 - expecting this, still not liking it. Ah well.
😅 -did about 30 minutes of walking tonight, trying to figure out where the hell my bus was going to be due to the incident at the train station yesterday morning. You may have seen/heard about it on the news. DEA agent was shot and killed, another was wounded, as was a Tucson PD officer. The train depot is across the street from the bus transit station so things were all messed up still yesterday afternoon.
📔 -Yep, I did.
🥅 -(1655oops... that's how much over I was not calories. Should have been 2902/1247. That's the Ultimate Cheeseburger, Fries, and Coke I had for dinner.)
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📚☕ -It was unintentional me time, but while trying to catch my bus, I walked through one of the areas of town I wish I could live in. Adorable old homes from the 20s and 30s. Saw one for sale and looked it up. $599,000. And that, my friends, is why I will never be able to live in that area.:)
🥤- (32 oz H2O / 32 oz reg Coke)

October 5 - 183.4 - no change from yesterday. Tomorrow will probably go up again since I ate cheesecake today. A big piece of pumpkin cheesecake from Olive Garden. The rest of my food was within calories budget, but that was definitely not.
😅 -Remember, I'm only aiming for 20 minutes or more. I did it, but barely.:)
📔 -Tracking, even if I'm estimating, is really just about the easiest thing for me.:)
🥅 -(1720/1247)
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📚☕ -In my own little world on the bus going home today.
🥤 -(67.6 oz H2O / 0 oz soda (only because I'm out and the vending machine was out of order. LOL))

October 6 - 183.0. Well, I didn't see that coming.:)My bus was a little late getting me home tonight so I didn't have a chance to eat dinner before having to leave for chorus rehearsal. That led to me get a piece of pumpkin bread and some Ritz Bitz during the break. It wasn't enough to ease my hunger completely, so when I got home, I made myself a quesadilla. Why does cheese have to be so high in calories??? Also, while I was at rehearsal, my daughter had her dog outside to play with her "boyfren." Sienna and Valentine are quite the item around the complex. Hahahah! Anyways, my daughter and Valentine's human were sitting on the ground while the two dogs wrestled around them. At some point, Sienna fell into my daughter, the hardest part of her head hit Aislinn in the mouth, and broke a tooth, knocking about half to 3/4 of it out. So, tomorrow, Aislinn will be calling around to find out who will accept my CareCredit card in payment. Blah.
😅 -Some walking, some stretching. Not a lot, but it was just over 20 minutes.:)
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🥅 -(1246/1247)
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📚☕ -Chorus rehearsal. I wish I was a better singer. Why, oh why, couldn't I have been born with perfect pitch instead of being so beautiful? Hahahahahahah



🥤 -(33.8 oz H2O / 32 oz Earl Grey Lavender Tea (brewed it myself so just water, tea, and sugar free vanilla:)/12 oz Diet Dr Pepper)

October 7 -181.0 - suspect this is mostly water weight as I had a mostly liquid diet yesterday.:)I also expect it will go up tomorrow. Why? Because food.:)
😅 -got my 20-22 minutes of walking plus another 5 or so of jogging around the parking lot.
📔 -I even went back and added in the candy I ate.
🥅 -(1605/1247) - candy and later on, my girls ordered me sticky toffee pudding after dinner because it's been my go to dessert at that restaurant for awhile now and they decided I deserved it after the past couple of weeks. And, while I may not have "deserved it, or even *needed it*, I ate it.
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📚☕ -Not even trivia tonight felt like "me time" today.
🥤 -H20 = 33.8 oz; hot tea = 16 oz; Diet Dr. Pepper = 12 oz; unsweetened iced tea with lemon = ?? I lost count after about 4 glasses as the server kept filling it up for me.

October 8 - 181.4. Not unexpected given last night.:)It will be up again tomorrow because it was "Tucson Meet Yourself" today at lunch and I know a lot of people here use the nicknames "Tucson Eat Yourself" or "Tucson Feed Yourself." Lots of cultural groups and some food trucks set up booths or on the street and sell food. I thought about getting something other than my usual. But the heat (it was in the mid to upper 90s) and the long lines at some of the things I was interested in had me breathing a sigh of relief when there was no line at the Greek booth. Spanokopita, dolmathes, baklava, and lemonade. Yum.
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🥅 -(1890/1247)
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📚☕not today... I brought my lunch back to my desk and actually did some work while I was eating.:(
🥤 -: (H2O - 33.8 oz, cup of hot tea - 16 oz, Diet Soda (Dr. Pepper/Pepsi) - 52 oz , lemonade - 16 oz)

October 9 - 182 - Not up that much. But that will change.:)Went to Phoenix to have lunch with my son today. Just him and I, for a change. He wanted sushi. I've not eaten much in the way of that and am really unfamiliar. Had a hard time logging it and finally just gave up and picked some of the higher calorie options and hoped I'd get enough. Then I upped the ante and had Jack in the Box for dinner. I think we all know how that turned out. That's two weekends in a row. And two weekends they got my order wrong. Le sigh. Oh, and my laptop is being difficult. Part of the reason I'm delayed with posting this is because the damned thing wouldn't load up.
😅 -After I got home from Phoenix, I helped my girls decorate for Halloween, so my exercise was going up and down the step ladder, up and down the stairs (had to see how it looked!), and bending over to pick up everything I dropped. LOL
📔 -- even if it was mostly guess work and estimates.
🥅 -(3291/1247) You know, this day was not that unusual food-wise (well, except for the sushi) but I think this is probably a pretty good estimate of many of my past weekends calorie-wise. Why does the stuff I like have to be so high in calories?
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📚☕ -I had a total of 3.5 hours driving time by myself. Not sure it was really "me time," but that hour and a half at lunch with my son was definitely for me.:)I wish I'd gotten a picture. Oh well, next time.
🥤 -I don't know how much I drank, but I'm pretty sure none of it was water. Lots of iced tea (unsweetened), no soda.

October 10 - 183.6. Woop! There it is.... And it will probably be up again tomorrow.
😅 -The best laid plans.... I intended to get up and run or ride this morning. I didn't set my alarm. Mistake. I didn't get up until late and then did nothing except go get breakfast (hamburger patty, sliced tomatoes, and poached eggs - blew it with the whole wheat toast though), then come home and do laundry and sit around futzing with my computer. It's dead. Something about a registry? Sigh. I just want to try to get the stuff off the hard drive before I dropkick it to the garbage. But that's an expense that will have to wait. Le sigh.
📔 -I do track daily. Everything. I may not like what I see, but I can't seem to change it. I really need to get past this block in my brain.
🥅 -(1686/1247) Better than yesterday at least. And I had pizza for dinner (cauliflower crust/anchovies (don't judge)/spinach/mushrooms/onions/artichoke hearts/black olives.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -I jogged around the complex with the dog, but that doesn't count.
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -
🥤 -

October 11 - 183.4 - Didn't see that coming. I really thought it would go up.
😅 -it was slow, but I got about 40 minutes of walking in today.
📔 -
🥅 -(1151/1247) Sadly, part of that was a Kit Kat and one fig newton. I could have knocked 300 calories off if I hadn't eaten those. And I really do need to start eating more veggies again.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -I don't count grocery shopping as "me time."
🥤 -


October 12 - 182.5 - it's amazing how much the weight comes off when I'm not stuffing my face with super high calorie nummies. :s:/
😅 -I don't remember doing it, but sometime between Monday morning and when I went to bed last night, I completely turned off my alarm and I woke up about an hour after my normal time. Called the bus schedule on my phone and it looked like, maybe, I could make it. So, I quick-marched across the street, and got to the bus stop with what I thought was a minute or two to spare. After waiting a bit, I checked the website again and apparently the bus I needed had already passed and was already a mile and a half up the road. The next bus wouldn't get me to work on time, so I hoofed it back across the street and drove myself to work. That eliminated a couple of relatively short walks for me, but those are part of my daily "exercise." When I got home, I didn't go anywhere or do anything, except walk the dog late last night.
📔 -
🥅 -(1193/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -I listened to a couple of LevelHead exercises last night before bed, but as I kept dozing off, I guess that's not really me time. (I whine enough about stuff as it is... I hate to add the extra whining about lack of time/money to do things I want to do, so consider this an ongoing whine for me and I won't mention it again. Maybe.:))
🥤 -(16.9 oz H2O / 24 oz Diet Dr. Pepper / 48 oz (the mug holds 16 oz - I love it) hot cinnamon spice tea w/sugar-free vanilla... lots of fluid, not enough "just water.")

October 13 - 181.4 - Down a little more. It won't last. I'm stressing over *kitten* and I know I'm going to blow this somehow.
😅 -walking/stretching - nothing to really break a sweat, but there ya go.
📔 -
🥅 -(1283/1247) Only 36 over, but over is over.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕Chorus tonight.
🥤 -

October 14 - 179.8 Woot! But it will be up tomorrow. Took my daughter to the dentist today. $$$$$$$ Yeah, I had Mexican food for lunch and beer at dinner. I wanted beer at lunch too. I'm not liking this no computer at home thing at all. I tried to post something from my phone last night and three times I managed to delete it or lose it somehow. Will try to make notes so I can fill this out on Monday.
😅 -No exercise today. Did Geeks Who Drink tonight and when I got home, the dog had already been walked.
📔 -
🥅 -(1895/1247) - Enchiladas, refried beans, chips for lunch... salad, sweet potato fries, Kiltlifter for dinner... oh... and creme brulee for dessert. If my weight's not up tomorrow, I'll be surprised.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Trivia with Megan. Yeah.
🥤 -(I'm only saying no because of the beer. I actually had more water than soda today. That's weird.)


October 15 - 181.8 - Just like I said. Not surprised.
😅 -I didn't make any notes about exercise, but I gave myself 3 yesses in my other challenge so I exercised at least 20 minutes today.;)
📔 -
🥅 -(1176/1247) - I was still hungry after dinner and later in the evening I had some herring and "cheesebread" (keto bread with string cheese on it, nuked to melt the cheese). I was still under calories for the day, so I guess maybe I hadn't had enough to eat during the day.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕
🥤 -According to my notes I had no water at all today. At least, not plain water. I had tea.

October 16 - 179.6 - down a little. Not sure how well this will hold. I've been eating my emotions today. Did lunch at a local cheesesteak place and I got double meat and double cheese... I went out later, by myself, and after buying some Hallowe'en decor, I bought myself ice cream... and then I didn't have dinner, but had a late night snack of Wheat Thins. 😅 -55 minutes run/walking. I was going to ride this morning, but had a soft tire. Obviously I don't learn my lessons very well. Tried to use the same pump that I tried to use a couple of months ago on my daughter's bike. A pump that not even two experienced cyclists could get to work. So... my soft tire is now completely flat. Luckily, this time I was in my living room instead of a couple of miles into my ride. So... I backed the bike back into its spot, changed my clothes and went for a run. Did 5k. And later in the day walked Sienna and let her play with her boyfren.
📔 -
🥅 -(1816/1587) Yeah... see above.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -I did pretty well, going out. Was on my way to a much faster time than I've had lately. Okay, maybe only a minute or so, but still.... Well, there is a slight uphill grade to the path when I turn around. It's not something I notice when I'm walking. But, boyohboy, let me be on my bike or trying to run? I notice every damned millimeter of incline. I slowed way down and ended up a bit slower than some of my more recent runs. Bummer, dude.
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Counting my run for this.
🥤 -H20 = 50.7 oz / 48 oz of diet soda

October 17 - 179.6 - That's a bit of a surprise, so I'll take it after yesterday. I did even worse with food today. And, despite everything I've heard about how exercise is supposed to help boost your mood, today it didn't work. I took Sienna out for a walk this morning. I left in a meh mood, cried through a good portion of the walk, and 3.24 miles later, I came home in a much worse mood than I started with. And I cried on and off all day. Food traps were the dark chocolate KitKat (king sized) that I ate instead of lunch, the Italian food from Oregano's that I didn't even like, but ate all of it (except the majority of the sauce) for dinner, and the Pecan Pie Blizzard (medium) that I had for dessert. Yeah... the weight will be up in the morning. 😅 -About 90 minutes walking the dog, than about another hour or so wandering the aisles of the grocery store, and maybe another 10-15 minutes of dog walking. Maybe the slow stroll at the store doesn't seem like exercise, but it helped me get well over 10,000 steps.:)
📔 -
🥅 -4065/1576
🏃🏻‍♀️ -Didn't run. Walked.
🚴🏻‍♀️-The tire is still flat. The bike shop I was going to go to was closed. But now I'm thinking I might see if I can afford a new pump, the "old fashioned" kind that stands on the floor and you pull the handle thing up and down.
📚☕ -Nobody ever said "me time" had to be a good time. So, I guess my walk was "me time."
🥤 -m Um, I may have had one bottle of water. I had two or three glasses of iced tea with dinner.

October 18 - 181 - Told ya!;)Binged on chocolate again today - Cadbury dark chocolate. Yum. - Need to get a grip, though. The numbers will be up again tomorrow, I'm sure.
😅 -Got over 20 minutes in - with walking and chair dancing. Does chair dancing even count? Luckily, I got the 20 in with just the walking.
📔 -
🥅 -(1304/1247) 490 calories of that is the chocolate bar. Was eating my salad at lunch today. It was one of those bagged salads you can get at the grocery store. I was just poured it out on the plate and picked at it without really looking at it while I played on my phone. Looked over at it and saw something weird... looking more closely, I realized it looked like a dead fly or something. Yeah... totally lost my appetite and threw out the rest of the salad. *shudder*
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -No real "me time" today, sadly.
🥤 -no water.. not even one bottle. But, Diet Dr. Pepper? Oh yeah.

October 21 - 180.0
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 22
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 23
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 24
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 25
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 26
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 27
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 28
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 29
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 30
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 31
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 1- 183.4 - I'm up 2.4 lbs since yesterday. I've been losing and gaining the same 5-7 pounds since I started this challenge. Over calories today, but
😅
📔
🥅(1348/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤(26 oz / 40 oz --- not counting the Eegee's I had because it's not water or soda)

October 2 - 181.9 - down 1.5 from yesterday. Hmmm.... I sometimes doubt the veracity and accuracy of my scale, but we'll see. Tomorrow will probably be a wash - I'm going to the Diamondbacks/Rockies game with my daughter the teacher (she's one of several getting an award from the D'Backs as a "Most Valued Teacher" and will be awarded $1000 to use in her classroom for STEM supplies, I think she said). It will be my first MLB game ever, although I used to go to the AAA games all the time when I was in Jr. High. Anyways, we'll be eating at the ballpark, probably.
😅 -(78 minutes bike ride; 10 minute dog potty walk)
📔 -
🥅 -(1426/1784 - had to go into exercise calories, but still not too bad)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -(13 miles)
📚☕ -(my bike ride is time for me to not think about the problems in my life. In fact, I can't even tell you what I *did* think about... My mind just wandered the whole ride. I plan to do some "mindfulness" stuff on my phone later tonight, but even if I don't get that done, the bike ride worked.)
🥤(26 oz / ~60 oz -- yeah, water is a problem... LOL)

October 3 - 181.6 - down 0.3 from yesterday, but will go up tomorrow because McDonald's for breakfast, ball field pizza for lunch, and Carl's Jr for dinner. I expect to be up by a couple of pounds, if not tomorrow than within a couple of days.:)Still, no regrets, I had fun with my daughter.
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -(3652/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -(I may not have been on my own, but I was out doing something different)
🥤 -(16 oz (H20)/52 oz (Dr Pepper) / 30 oz (regular pepsi))

October 4 - 183.4 - expecting this, still not liking it. Ah well.
😅 -did about 30 minutes of walking tonight, trying to figure out where the hell my bus was going to be due to the incident at the train station yesterday morning. You may have seen/heard about it on the news. DEA agent was shot and killed, another was wounded, as was a Tucson PD officer. The train depot is across the street from the bus transit station so things were all messed up still yesterday afternoon.
📔 -Yep, I did.
🥅 -(1655oops... that's how much over I was not calories. Should have been 2902/1247. That's the Ultimate Cheeseburger, Fries, and Coke I had for dinner.)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -It was unintentional me time, but while trying to catch my bus, I walked through one of the areas of town I wish I could live in. Adorable old homes from the 20s and 30s. Saw one for sale and looked it up. $599,000. And that, my friends, is why I will never be able to live in that area.:)
🥤- (32 oz H2O / 32 oz reg Coke)

October 5 - 183.4 - no change from yesterday. Tomorrow will probably go up again since I ate cheesecake today. A big piece of pumpkin cheesecake from Olive Garden. The rest of my food was within calories budget, but that was definitely not.
😅 -Remember, I'm only aiming for 20 minutes or more. I did it, but barely.:)
📔 -Tracking, even if I'm estimating, is really just about the easiest thing for me.:)
🥅 -(1720/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -In my own little world on the bus going home today.
🥤 -(67.6 oz H2O / 0 oz soda (only because I'm out and the vending machine was out of order. LOL))

October 6 - 183.0. Well, I didn't see that coming.:)My bus was a little late getting me home tonight so I didn't have a chance to eat dinner before having to leave for chorus rehearsal. That led to me get a piece of pumpkin bread and some Ritz Bitz during the break. It wasn't enough to ease my hunger completely, so when I got home, I made myself a quesadilla. Why does cheese have to be so high in calories??? Also, while I was at rehearsal, my daughter had her dog outside to play with her "boyfren." Sienna and Valentine are quite the item around the complex. Hahahah! Anyways, my daughter and Valentine's human were sitting on the ground while the two dogs wrestled around them. At some point, Sienna fell into my daughter, the hardest part of her head hit Aislinn in the mouth, and broke a tooth, knocking about half to 3/4 of it out. So, tomorrow, Aislinn will be calling around to find out who will accept my CareCredit card in payment. Blah.
😅 -Some walking, some stretching. Not a lot, but it was just over 20 minutes.:)
📔 -
🥅 -(1246/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Chorus rehearsal. I wish I was a better singer. Why, oh why, couldn't I have been born with perfect pitch instead of being so beautiful? Hahahahahahah
🥤 -(33.8 oz H2O / 32 oz Earl Grey Lavender Tea (brewed it myself so just water, tea, and sugar free vanilla:)/12 oz Diet Dr Pepper)

October 7 -181.0 - suspect this is mostly water weight as I had a mostly liquid diet yesterday.:)I also expect it will go up tomorrow. Why? Because food.:)
😅 -got my 20-22 minutes of walking plus another 5 or so of jogging around the parking lot.
📔 -I even went back and added in the candy I ate.
🥅 -(1605/1247) - candy and later on, my girls ordered me sticky toffee pudding after dinner because it's been my go to dessert at that restaurant for awhile now and they decided I deserved it after the past couple of weeks. And, while I may not have "deserved it, or even *needed it*, I ate it.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Not even trivia tonight felt like "me time" today.
🥤 -H20 = 33.8 oz; hot tea = 16 oz; Diet Dr. Pepper = 12 oz; unsweetened iced tea with lemon = ?? I lost count after about 4 glasses as the server kept filling it up for me.

October 8 - 181.4. Not unexpected given last night.:)It will be up again tomorrow because it was "Tucson Meet Yourself" today at lunch and I know a lot of people here use the nicknames "Tucson Eat Yourself" or "Tucson Feed Yourself." Lots of cultural groups and some food trucks set up booths or on the street and sell food. I thought about getting something other than my usual. But the heat (it was in the mid to upper 90s) and the long lines at some of the things I was interested in had me breathing a sigh of relief when there was no line at the Greek booth. Spanokopita, dolmathes, baklava, and lemonade. Yum.
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -(1890/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕not today... I brought my lunch back to my desk and actually did some work while I was eating.:(
🥤 -: (H2O - 33.8 oz, cup of hot tea - 16 oz, Diet Soda (Dr. Pepper/Pepsi) - 52 oz , lemonade - 16 oz)

October 9 - 182 - Not up that much. But that will change.:)Went to Phoenix to have lunch with my son today. Just him and I, for a change. He wanted sushi. I've not eaten much in the way of that and am really unfamiliar. Had a hard time logging it and finally just gave up and picked some of the higher calorie options and hoped I'd get enough. Then I upped the ante and had Jack in the Box for dinner. I think we all know how that turned out. That's two weekends in a row. And two weekends they got my order wrong. Le sigh. Oh, and my laptop is being difficult. Part of the reason I'm delayed with posting this is because the damned thing wouldn't load up.
😅 -After I got home from Phoenix, I helped my girls decorate for Halloween, so my exercise was going up and down the step ladder, up and down the stairs (had to see how it looked!), and bending over to pick up everything I dropped. LOL
📔 -- even if it was mostly guess work and estimates.
🥅 -(3291/1247) You know, this day was not that unusual food-wise (well, except for the sushi) but I think this is probably a pretty good estimate of many of my past weekends calorie-wise. Why does the stuff I like have to be so high in calories?
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -I had a total of 3.5 hours driving time by myself. Not sure it was really "me time," but that hour and a half at lunch with my son was definitely for me.:)I wish I'd gotten a picture. Oh well, next time.
🥤 -I don't know how much I drank, but I'm pretty sure none of it was water. Lots of iced tea (unsweetened), no soda.

October 10 - 183.6. Woop! There it is.... And it will probably be up again tomorrow.
😅 -The best laid plans.... I intended to get up and run or ride this morning. I didn't set my alarm. Mistake. I didn't get up until late and then did nothing except go get breakfast (hamburger patty, sliced tomatoes, and poached eggs - blew it with the whole wheat toast though), then come home and do laundry and sit around futzing with my computer. It's dead. Something about a registry? Sigh. I just want to try to get the stuff off the hard drive before I dropkick it to the garbage. But that's an expense that will have to wait. Le sigh.
📔 -I do track daily. Everything. I may not like what I see, but I can't seem to change it. I really need to get past this block in my brain.
🥅 -(1686/1247) Better than yesterday at least. And I had pizza for dinner (cauliflower crust/anchovies (don't judge)/spinach/mushrooms/onions/artichoke hearts/black olives.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -I jogged around the complex with the dog, but that doesn't count.
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -
🥤 -

October 11 - 183.4 - Didn't see that coming. I really thought it would go up.
😅 -it was slow, but I got about 40 minutes of walking in today.
📔 -
🥅 -(1151/1247) Sadly, part of that was a Kit Kat and one fig newton. I could have knocked 300 calories off if I hadn't eaten those. And I really do need to start eating more veggies again.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -I don't count grocery shopping as "me time."
🥤 -


October 12 - 182.5 - it's amazing how much the weight comes off when I'm not stuffing my face with super high calorie nummies.
😅 -I don't remember doing it, but sometime between Monday morning and when I went to bed last night, I completely turned off my alarm and I woke up about an hour after my normal time. Called the bus schedule on my phone and it looked like, maybe, I could make it. So, I quick-marched across the street, and got to the bus stop with what I thought was a minute or two to spare. After waiting a bit, I checked the website again and apparently the bus I needed had already passed and was already a mile and a half up the road. The next bus wouldn't get me to work on time, so I hoofed it back across the street and drove myself to work. That eliminated a couple of relatively short walks for me, but those are part of my daily "exercise." When I got home, I didn't go anywhere or do anything, except walk the dog late last night.
📔 -
🥅 -(1193/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -I listened to a couple of LevelHead exercises last night before bed, but as I kept dozing off, I guess that's not really me time. (I whine enough about stuff as it is... I hate to add the extra whining about lack of time/money to do things I want to do, so consider this an ongoing whine for me and I won't mention it again. Maybe.:))
🥤 -(16.9 oz H2O / 24 oz Diet Dr. Pepper / 48 oz (the mug holds 16 oz - I love it) hot cinnamon spice tea w/sugar-free vanilla... lots of fluid, not enough "just water.")

October 13 - 181.4 - Down a little more. It won't last. I'm stressing over *kitten* and I know I'm going to blow this somehow.
😅 -walking/stretching - nothing to really break a sweat, but there ya go.
📔 -
🥅 -(1283/1247) Only 36 over, but over is over.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕Chorus tonight.
🥤 -

October 14 - 179.8 Woot! But it will be up tomorrow. Took my daughter to the dentist today. $$$$$$$ Yeah, I had Mexican food for lunch and beer at dinner. I wanted beer at lunch too. I'm not liking this no computer at home thing at all. I tried to post something from my phone last night and three times I managed to delete it or lose it somehow. Will try to make notes so I can fill this out on Monday.
😅 -No exercise today. Did Geeks Who Drink tonight and when I got home, the dog had already been walked.
📔 -
🥅 -(1895/1247) - Enchiladas, refried beans, chips for lunch... salad, sweet potato fries, Kiltlifter for dinner... oh... and creme brulee for dessert. If my weight's not up tomorrow, I'll be surprised.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Trivia with Megan. Yeah.
🥤 -(I'm only saying no because of the beer. I actually had more water than soda today. That's weird.)


October 15 - 181.8 - Just like I said. Not surprised.
😅 -I didn't make any notes about exercise, but I gave myself 3 yesses in my other challenge so I exercised at least 20 minutes today.;)
📔 -
🥅 -(1176/1247) - I was still hungry after dinner and later in the evening I had some herring and "cheesebread" (keto bread with string cheese on it, nuked to melt the cheese). I was still under calories for the day, so I guess maybe I hadn't had enough to eat during the day.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕
🥤 -According to my notes I had no water at all today. At least, not plain water. I had tea.

October 16 - 179.6 - down a little. Not sure how well this will hold. I've been eating my emotions today. Did lunch at a local cheesesteak place and I got double meat and double cheese... I went out later, by myself, and after buying some Hallowe'en decor, I bought myself ice cream... and then I didn't have dinner, but had a late night snack of Wheat Thins. 😅 -55 minutes run/walking. I was going to ride this morning, but had a soft tire. Obviously I don't learn my lessons very well. Tried to use the same pump that I tried to use a couple of months ago on my daughter's bike. A pump that not even two experienced cyclists could get to work. So... my soft tire is now completely flat. Luckily, this time I was in my living room instead of a couple of miles into my ride. So... I backed the bike back into its spot, changed my clothes and went for a run. Did 5k. And later in the day walked Sienna and let her play with her boyfren.
📔 -
🥅 -(1816/1587) Yeah... see above.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -I did pretty well, going out. Was on my way to a much faster time than I've had lately. Okay, maybe only a minute or so, but still.... Well, there is a slight uphill grade to the path when I turn around. It's not something I notice when I'm walking. But, boyohboy, let me be on my bike or trying to run? I notice every damned millimeter of incline. I slowed way down and ended up a bit slower than some of my more recent runs. Bummer, dude.
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Counting my run for this.
🥤 -H20 = 50.7 oz / 48 oz of diet soda

October 17 - 179.6 - That's a bit of a surprise, so I'll take it after yesterday. I did even worse with food today. And, despite everything I've heard about how exercise is supposed to help boost your mood, today it didn't work. I took Sienna out for a walk this morning. I left in a meh mood, cried through a good portion of the walk, and 3.24 miles later, I came home in a much worse mood than I started with. And I cried on and off all day. Food traps were the dark chocolate KitKat (king sized) that I ate instead of lunch, the Italian food from Oregano's that I didn't even like, but ate all of it (except the majority of the sauce) for dinner, and the Pecan Pie Blizzard (medium) that I had for dessert. Yeah... the weight will be up in the morning. 😅 -About 90 minutes walking the dog, than about another hour or so wandering the aisles of the grocery store, and maybe another 10-15 minutes of dog walking. Maybe the slow stroll at the store doesn't seem like exercise, but it helped me get well over 10,000 steps.:)
📔 -
🥅 -4065/1576
🏃🏻‍♀️ -Didn't run. Walked.
🚴🏻‍♀️-The tire is still flat. The bike shop I was going to go to was closed. But now I'm thinking I might see if I can afford a new pump, the "old fashioned" kind that stands on the floor and you pull the handle thing up and down.
📚☕ -Nobody ever said "me time" had to be a good time. So, I guess my walk was "me time."
🥤 -m Um, I may have had one bottle of water. I had two or three glasses of iced tea with dinner.

October 18 - 181 - Told ya!;)Binged on chocolate again today - Cadbury dark chocolate. Yum. - Need to get a grip, though. The numbers will be up again tomorrow, I'm sure.
😅 -Got over 20 minutes in - with walking and chair dancing. Does chair dancing even count? Luckily, I got the 20 in with just the walking.
📔 -
🥅 -(1304/1247) 490 calories of that is the chocolate bar. Was eating my salad at lunch today. It was one of those bagged salads you can get at the grocery store. I was just poured it out on the plate and picked at it without really looking at it while I played on my phone. Looked over at it and saw something weird... looking more closely, I realized it looked like a dead fly or something. Yeah... totally lost my appetite and threw out the rest of the salad. *shudder*


🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -No real "me time" today, sadly.
🥤 -no water.. not even one bottle. But, Diet Dr. Pepper? Oh yeah.

October 19 - 181.2 - And here I go again... And again, I sabotaged myself. In other news, I haven't been sleeping well and I guess I turned off my alarm this morning because I remember hearing it go off once. While I missed my bus, I wasn't quite as late as I was the last time I overslept. At least not until I got on the road. About 95% of the red lights, including all but one of the "hawk lights" for pedestrian crossings. A slightly mixed up order from Dutch Bros., and I was done with the day before I was half-way to work. Blah
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -(1665/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -
🥤 -Only 16.9 oz of water. Lost track of the diet soda. And my tea was "blended" (which was *not* what I ordered, but was okay, because at least it was the right "flavors.

October 23
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 24
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 25
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 26
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 27
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 28
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 29
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 30
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 31
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 1- 183.4 - I'm up 2.4 lbs since yesterday. I've been losing and gaining the same 5-7 pounds since I started this challenge. Over calories today, but
😅
📔
🥅(1348/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤(26 oz / 40 oz --- not counting the Eegee's I had because it's not water or soda)

October 2 - 181.9 - down 1.5 from yesterday. Hmmm.... I sometimes doubt the veracity and accuracy of my scale, but we'll see. Tomorrow will probably be a wash - I'm going to the Diamondbacks/Rockies game with my daughter the teacher (she's one of several getting an award from the D'Backs as a "Most Valued Teacher" and will be awarded $1000 to use in her classroom for STEM supplies, I think she said). It will be my first MLB game ever, although I used to go to the AAA games all the time when I was in Jr. High. Anyways, we'll be eating at the ballpark, probably.
😅 -(78 minutes bike ride; 10 minute dog potty walk)
📔 -
🥅 -(1426/1784 - had to go into exercise calories, but still not too bad)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -(13 miles)
📚☕ -(my bike ride is time for me to not think about the problems in my life. In fact, I can't even tell you what I *did* think about... My mind just wandered the whole ride. I plan to do some "mindfulness" stuff on my phone later tonight, but even if I don't get that done, the bike ride worked.)
🥤(26 oz / ~60 oz -- yeah, water is a problem... LOL)

October 3 - 181.6 - down 0.3 from yesterday, but will go up tomorrow because McDonald's for breakfast, ball field pizza for lunch, and Carl's Jr for dinner. I expect to be up by a couple of pounds, if not tomorrow than within a couple of days.:)Still, no regrets, I had fun with my daughter.
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -(3652/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -(I may not have been on my own, but I was out doing something different)
🥤 -(16 oz (H20)/52 oz (Dr Pepper) / 30 oz (regular pepsi))

October 4 - 183.4 - expecting this, still not liking it. Ah well.
😅 -did about 30 minutes of walking tonight, trying to figure out where the hell my bus was going to be due to the incident at the train station yesterday morning. You may have seen/heard about it on the news. DEA agent was shot and killed, another was wounded, as was a Tucson PD officer. The train depot is across the street from the bus transit station so things were all messed up still yesterday afternoon.
📔 -Yep, I did.
🥅 -(1655oops... that's how much over I was not calories. Should have been 2902/1247. That's the Ultimate Cheeseburger, Fries, and Coke I had for dinner.)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -It was unintentional me time, but while trying to catch my bus, I walked through one of the areas of town I wish I could live in. Adorable old homes from the 20s and 30s. Saw one for sale and looked it up. $599,000. And that, my friends, is why I will never be able to live in that area.:)
🥤- (32 oz H2O / 32 oz reg Coke)

October 5 - 183.4 - no change from yesterday. Tomorrow will probably go up again since I ate cheesecake today. A big piece of pumpkin cheesecake from Olive Garden. The rest of my food was within calories budget, but that was definitely not.
😅 -Remember, I'm only aiming for 20 minutes or more. I did it, but barely.:)
📔 -Tracking, even if I'm estimating, is really just about the easiest thing for me.:)
🥅 -(1720/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -In my own little world on the bus going home today.
🥤 -(67.6 oz H2O / 0 oz soda (only because I'm out and the vending machine was out of order. LOL))

October 6 - 183.0. Well, I didn't see that coming.:)My bus was a little late getting me home tonight so I didn't have a chance to eat dinner before having to leave for chorus rehearsal. That led to me get a piece of pumpkin bread and some Ritz Bitz during the break. It wasn't enough to ease my hunger completely, so when I got home, I made myself a quesadilla. Why does cheese have to be so high in calories??? Also, while I was at rehearsal, my daughter had her dog outside to play with her "boyfren." Sienna and Valentine are quite the item around the complex. Hahahah! Anyways, my daughter and Valentine's human were sitting on the ground while the two dogs wrestled around them. At some point, Sienna fell into my daughter, the hardest part of her head hit Aislinn in the mouth, and broke a tooth, knocking about half to 3/4 of it out. So, tomorrow, Aislinn will be calling around to find out who will accept my CareCredit card in payment. Blah.
😅 -Some walking, some stretching. Not a lot, but it was just over 20 minutes.:)
📔 -
🥅 -(1246/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Chorus rehearsal. I wish I was a better singer. Why, oh why, couldn't I have been born with perfect pitch instead of being so beautiful? Hahahahahahah


🥤 -(33.8 oz H2O / 32 oz Earl Grey Lavender Tea (brewed it myself so just water, tea, and sugar free vanilla:)/12 oz Diet Dr Pepper)

October 7 -181.0 - suspect this is mostly water weight as I had a mostly liquid diet yesterday.:)I also expect it will go up tomorrow. Why? Because food.:)
😅 -got my 20-22 minutes of walking plus another 5 or so of jogging around the parking lot.
📔 -I even went back and added in the candy I ate.
🥅 -(1605/1247) - candy and later on, my girls ordered me sticky toffee pudding after dinner because it's been my go to dessert at that restaurant for awhile now and they decided I deserved it after the past couple of weeks. And, while I may not have "deserved it, or even *needed it*, I ate it.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Not even trivia tonight felt like "me time" today.
🥤 -H20 = 33.8 oz; hot tea = 16 oz; Diet Dr. Pepper = 12 oz; unsweetened iced tea with lemon = ?? I lost count after about 4 glasses as the server kept filling it up for me.

October 8 - 181.4. Not unexpected given last night.:)It will be up again tomorrow because it was "Tucson Meet Yourself" today at lunch and I know a lot of people here use the nicknames "Tucson Eat Yourself" or "Tucson Feed Yourself." Lots of cultural groups and some food trucks set up booths or on the street and sell food. I thought about getting something other than my usual. But the heat (it was in the mid to upper 90s) and the long lines at some of the things I was interested in had me breathing a sigh of relief when there was no line at the Greek booth. Spanokopita, dolmathes, baklava, and lemonade. Yum.
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -(1890/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕not today... I brought my lunch back to my desk and actually did some work while I was eating.:(
🥤 -: (H2O - 33.8 oz, cup of hot tea - 16 oz, Diet Soda (Dr. Pepper/Pepsi) - 52 oz , lemonade - 16 oz)

October 9 - 182 - Not up that much. But that will change.:)Went to Phoenix to have lunch with my son today. Just him and I, for a change. He wanted sushi. I've not eaten much in the way of that and am really unfamiliar. Had a hard time logging it and finally just gave up and picked some of the higher calorie options and hoped I'd get enough. Then I upped the ante and had Jack in the Box for dinner. I think we all know how that turned out. That's two weekends in a row. And two weekends they got my order wrong. Le sigh. Oh, and my laptop is being difficult. Part of the reason I'm delayed with posting this is because the damned thing wouldn't load up.
😅 -After I got home from Phoenix, I helped my girls decorate for Halloween, so my exercise was going up and down the step ladder, up and down the stairs (had to see how it looked!), and bending over to pick up everything I dropped. LOL
📔 -- even if it was mostly guess work and estimates.
🥅 -(3291/1247) You know, this day was not that unusual food-wise (well, except for the sushi) but I think this is probably a pretty good estimate of many of my past weekends calorie-wise. Why does the stuff I like have to be so high in calories?
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -I had a total of 3.5 hours driving time by myself. Not sure it was really "me time," but that hour and a half at lunch with my son was definitely for me.:)I wish I'd gotten a picture. Oh well, next time.
🥤 -I don't know how much I drank, but I'm pretty sure none of it was water. Lots of iced tea (unsweetened), no soda.

October 10 - 183.6. Woop! There it is.... And it will probably be up again tomorrow.
😅 -The best laid plans.... I intended to get up and run or ride this morning. I didn't set my alarm. Mistake. I didn't get up until late and then did nothing except go get breakfast (hamburger patty, sliced tomatoes, and poached eggs - blew it with the whole wheat toast though), then come home and do laundry and sit around futzing with my computer. It's dead. Something about a registry? Sigh. I just want to try to get the stuff off the hard drive before I dropkick it to the garbage. But that's an expense that will have to wait. Le sigh.
📔 -I do track daily. Everything. I may not like what I see, but I can't seem to change it. I really need to get past this block in my brain.
🥅 -(1686/1247) Better than yesterday at least. And I had pizza for dinner (cauliflower crust/anchovies (don't judge)/spinach/mushrooms/onions/artichoke hearts/black olives.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -I jogged around the complex with the dog, but that doesn't count.
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -
🥤 -

October 11 - 183.4 - Didn't see that coming. I really thought it would go up.
😅 -it was slow, but I got about 40 minutes of walking in today.
📔 -
🥅 -(1151/1247) Sadly, part of that was a Kit Kat and one fig newton. I could have knocked 300 calories off if I hadn't eaten those. And I really do need to start eating more veggies again.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -I don't count grocery shopping as "me time."
🥤 -


October 12 - 182.5 - it's amazing how much the weight comes off when I'm not stuffing my face with super high calorie nummies.
😅 -I don't remember doing it, but sometime between Monday morning and when I went to bed last night, I completely turned off my alarm and I woke up about an hour after my normal time. Called the bus schedule on my phone and it looked like, maybe, I could make it. So, I quick-marched across the street, and got to the bus stop with what I thought was a minute or two to spare. After waiting a bit, I checked the website again and apparently the bus I needed had already passed and was already a mile and a half up the road. The next bus wouldn't get me to work on time, so I hoofed it back across the street and drove myself to work. That eliminated a couple of relatively short walks for me, but those are part of my daily "exercise." When I got home, I didn't go anywhere or do anything, except walk the dog late last night.
📔 -
🥅 -(1193/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -I listened to a couple of LevelHead exercises last night before bed, but as I kept dozing off, I guess that's not really me time. (I whine enough about stuff as it is... I hate to add the extra whining about lack of time/money to do things I want to do, so consider this an ongoing whine for me and I won't mention it again. Maybe.:))
🥤 -(16.9 oz H2O / 24 oz Diet Dr. Pepper / 48 oz (the mug holds 16 oz - I love it) hot cinnamon spice tea w/sugar-free vanilla... lots of fluid, not enough "just water.")

October 13 - 181.4 - Down a little more. It won't last. I'm stressing over *kitten* and I know I'm going to blow this somehow.
😅 -walking/stretching - nothing to really break a sweat, but there ya go.
📔 -
🥅 -(1283/1247) Only 36 over, but over is over.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕Chorus tonight.
🥤 -

October 14 - 179.8 Woot! But it will be up tomorrow. Took my daughter to the dentist today. $$$$$$$ Yeah, I had Mexican food for lunch and beer at dinner. I wanted beer at lunch too. I'm not liking this no computer at home thing at all. I tried to post something from my phone last night and three times I managed to delete it or lose it somehow. Will try to make notes so I can fill this out on Monday.
😅 -No exercise today. Did Geeks Who Drink tonight and when I got home, the dog had already been walked.
📔 -
🥅 -(1895/1247) - Enchiladas, refried beans, chips for lunch... salad, sweet potato fries, Kiltlifter for dinner... oh... and creme brulee for dessert. If my weight's not up tomorrow, I'll be surprised.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Trivia with Megan. Yeah.
🥤 -(I'm only saying no because of the beer. I actually had more water than soda today. That's weird.)


October 15 - 181.8 - Just like I said. Not surprised.
😅 -I didn't make any notes about exercise, but I gave myself 3 yesses in my other challenge so I exercised at least 20 minutes today.;)
📔 -
🥅 -(1176/1247) - I was still hungry after dinner and later in the evening I had some herring and "cheesebread" (keto bread with string cheese on it, nuked to melt the cheese). I was still under calories for the day, so I guess maybe I hadn't had enough to eat during the day.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕
🥤 -According to my notes I had no water at all today. At least, not plain water. I had tea.

October 16 - 179.6 - down a little. Not sure how well this will hold. I've been eating my emotions today. Did lunch at a local cheesesteak place and I got double meat and double cheese... I went out later, by myself, and after buying some Hallowe'en decor, I bought myself ice cream... and then I didn't have dinner, but had a late night snack of Wheat Thins.
😅 -55 minutes run/walking. I was going to ride this morning, but had a soft tire. Obviously I don't learn my lessons very well. Tried to use the same pump that I tried to use a couple of months ago on my daughter's bike. A pump that not even two experienced cyclists could get to work. So... my soft tire is now completely flat. Luckily, this time I was in my living room instead of a couple of miles into my ride. So... I backed the bike back into its spot, changed my clothes and went for a run. Did 5k. And later in the day walked Sienna and let her play with her boyfren.
📔 -
🥅 -(1816/1587) Yeah... see above.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -I did pretty well, going out. Was on my way to a much faster time than I've had lately. Okay, maybe only a minute or so, but still.... Well, there is a slight uphill grade to the path when I turn around. It's not something I notice when I'm walking. But, boyohboy, let me be on my bike or trying to run? I notice every damned millimeter of incline. I slowed way down and ended up a bit slower than some of my more recent runs. Bummer, dude.
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Counting my run for this.
🥤 -H20 = 50.7 oz / 48 oz of diet soda

October 17 - 179.6 - That's a bit of a surprise, so I'll take it after yesterday. I did even worse with food today. And, despite everything I've heard about how exercise is supposed to help boost your mood, today it didn't work. I took Sienna out for a walk this morning. I left in a meh mood, cried through a good portion of the walk, and 3.24 miles later, I came home in a much worse mood than I started with. And I cried on and off all day. Food traps were the dark chocolate KitKat (king sized) that I ate instead of lunch, the Italian food from Oregano's that I didn't even like, but ate all of it (except the majority of the sauce) for dinner, and the Pecan Pie Blizzard (medium) that I had for dessert. Yeah... the weight will be up in the morning.
😅 -About 90 minutes walking the dog, than about another hour or so wandering the aisles of the grocery store, and maybe another 10-15 minutes of dog walking. Maybe the slow stroll at the store doesn't seem like exercise, but it helped me get well over 10,000 steps.:)
📔 -
🥅 -4065/1576
🏃🏻‍♀️ -Didn't run. Walked.
🚴🏻‍♀️-The tire is still flat. The bike shop I was going to go to was closed. But now I'm thinking I might see if I can afford a new pump, the "old fashioned" kind that stands on the floor and you pull the handle thing up and down.
📚☕ -Nobody ever said "me time" had to be a good time. So, I guess my walk was "me time."
🥤 -m Um, I may have had one bottle of water. I had two or three glasses of iced tea with dinner.

October 18 - 181 - Told ya!;)Binged on chocolate again today - Cadbury dark chocolate. Yum. - Need to get a grip, though. The numbers will be up again tomorrow, I'm sure.
😅 -Got over 20 minutes in - with walking and chair dancing. Does chair dancing even count? Luckily, I got the 20 in with just the walking.
📔 -
🥅 -(1304/1247) 490 calories of that is the chocolate bar. Was eating my salad at lunch today. It was one of those bagged salads you can get at the grocery store. I was just poured it out on the plate and picked at it without really looking at it while I played on my phone. Looked over at it and saw something weird... looking more closely, I realized it looked like a dead fly or something. Yeah... totally lost my appetite and threw out the rest of the salad. *shudder*
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -No real "me time" today, sadly.
🥤 -no water.. not even one bottle. But, Diet Dr. Pepper? Oh yeah.

October 19 - 181.2 - And here I go again... And again, I sabotaged myself. In other news, I haven't been sleeping well and I guess I turned off my alarm this morning because I remember hearing it go off once. While I missed my bus, I wasn't quite as late as I was the last time I overslept. At least not until I got on the road. About 95% of the red lights, including all but one of the "hawk lights" for pedestrian crossings. A slightly mixed up order from Dutch Bros., and I was done with the day before I was half-way to work. Blah
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -(1665/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -
🥤 -Only 16.9 oz of water. Lost track of the diet soda. And my tea was "blended" (which was *not* what I ordered, but was okay, because at least it was the right "flavors.

October 20 - 181.4 - upcreep.... sigh...
😅 -(Do you get extra credit for walking in heels? No? Well, you should!)
📔 -
🥅 -(1422/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Had chorus tonight. ♪♫♪♫♫♪
🥤 -


October 21 - 180.0 - This is going to be up tomorrow. I went waaaaayyyy overboard today. I don't know why I do that to myself.
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -2454/1247 ... yeah... I know...
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -
🥤 -Not much water today. Hell, not much of any fluid today.

October 24 - 183.0 - and here is yesterday all caught up to me... but tomorrow will be up again. I've not been good today either. Salad for dinner. Funny thing is, that doesn't even disappoint me like it once would have.
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 25
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 26
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 27
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 28
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 29
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 30
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 31
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 1- 183.4 - I'm up 2.4 lbs since yesterday. I've been losing and gaining the same 5-7 pounds since I started this challenge. Over calories today, but
😅
📔
🥅(1348/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤(26 oz / 40 oz --- not counting the Eegee's I had because it's not water or soda)

October 2 - 181.9 - down 1.5 from yesterday. Hmmm.... I sometimes doubt the veracity and accuracy of my scale, but we'll see. Tomorrow will probably be a wash - I'm going to the Diamondbacks/Rockies game with my daughter the teacher (she's one of several getting an award from the D'Backs as a "Most Valued Teacher" and will be awarded $1000 to use in her classroom for STEM supplies, I think she said). It will be my first MLB game ever, although I used to go to the AAA games all the time when I was in Jr. High. Anyways, we'll be eating at the ballpark, probably.
😅 -(78 minutes bike ride; 10 minute dog potty walk)
📔 -
🥅 -(1426/1784 - had to go into exercise calories, but still not too bad)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -(13 miles)
📚☕ -(my bike ride is time for me to not think about the problems in my life. In fact, I can't even tell you what I *did* think about... My mind just wandered the whole ride. I plan to do some "mindfulness" stuff on my phone later tonight, but even if I don't get that done, the bike ride worked.)
🥤(26 oz / ~60 oz -- yeah, water is a problem... LOL)

October 3 - 181.6 - down 0.3 from yesterday, but will go up tomorrow because McDonald's for breakfast, ball field pizza for lunch, and Carl's Jr for dinner. I expect to be up by a couple of pounds, if not tomorrow than within a couple of days.:)Still, no regrets, I had fun with my daughter.
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -(3652/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -(I may not have been on my own, but I was out doing something different)
🥤 -(16 oz (H20)/52 oz (Dr Pepper) / 30 oz (regular pepsi))

October 4 - 183.4 - expecting this, still not liking it. Ah well.
😅 -did about 30 minutes of walking tonight, trying to figure out where the hell my bus was going to be due to the incident at the train station yesterday morning. You may have seen/heard about it on the news. DEA agent was shot and killed, another was wounded, as was a Tucson PD officer. The train depot is across the street from the bus transit station so things were all messed up still yesterday afternoon.
📔 -Yep, I did.
🥅 -(1655oops... that's how much over I was not calories. Should have been 2902/1247. That's the Ultimate Cheeseburger, Fries, and Coke I had for dinner.)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -It was unintentional me time, but while trying to catch my bus, I walked through one of the areas of town I wish I could live in. Adorable old homes from the 20s and 30s. Saw one for sale and looked it up. $599,000. And that, my friends, is why I will never be able to live in that area.:)
🥤- (32 oz H2O / 32 oz reg Coke)

October 5 - 183.4 - no change from yesterday. Tomorrow will probably go up again since I ate cheesecake today. A big piece of pumpkin cheesecake from Olive Garden. The rest of my food was within calories budget, but that was definitely not.
😅 -Remember, I'm only aiming for 20 minutes or more. I did it, but barely.:)
📔 -Tracking, even if I'm estimating, is really just about the easiest thing for me.:)
🥅 -(1720/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -In my own little world on the bus going home today.
🥤 -(67.6 oz H2O / 0 oz soda (only because I'm out and the vending machine was out of order. LOL))

October 6 - 183.0. Well, I didn't see that coming.:)My bus was a little late getting me home tonight so I didn't have a chance to eat dinner before having to leave for chorus rehearsal. That led to me get a piece of pumpkin bread and some Ritz Bitz during the break. It wasn't enough to ease my hunger completely, so when I got home, I made myself a quesadilla. Why does cheese have to be so high in calories??? Also, while I was at rehearsal, my daughter had her dog outside to play with her "boyfren." Sienna and Valentine are quite the item around the complex. Hahahah! Anyways, my daughter and Valentine's human were sitting on the ground while the two dogs wrestled around them. At some point, Sienna fell into my daughter, the hardest part of her head hit Aislinn in the mouth, and broke a tooth, knocking about half to 3/4 of it out. So, tomorrow, Aislinn will be calling around to find out who will accept my CareCredit card in payment. Blah.
😅 -Some walking, some stretching. Not a lot, but it was just over 20 minutes.:)
📔 -
🥅 -(1246/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Chorus rehearsal. I wish I was a better singer. Why, oh why, couldn't I have been born with perfect pitch instead of being so beautiful? Hahahahahahah



🥤 -(33.8 oz H2O / 32 oz Earl Grey Lavender Tea (brewed it myself so just water, tea, and sugar free vanilla:)/12 oz Diet Dr Pepper)

October 7 -181.0 - suspect this is mostly water weight as I had a mostly liquid diet yesterday.:)I also expect it will go up tomorrow. Why? Because food.:)
😅 -got my 20-22 minutes of walking plus another 5 or so of jogging around the parking lot.
📔 -I even went back and added in the candy I ate.
🥅 -(1605/1247) - candy and later on, my girls ordered me sticky toffee pudding after dinner because it's been my go to dessert at that restaurant for awhile now and they decided I deserved it after the past couple of weeks. And, while I may not have "deserved it, or even *needed it*, I ate it.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Not even trivia tonight felt like "me time" today.
🥤 -H20 = 33.8 oz; hot tea = 16 oz; Diet Dr. Pepper = 12 oz; unsweetened iced tea with lemon = ?? I lost count after about 4 glasses as the server kept filling it up for me.

October 8 - 181.4. Not unexpected given last night.:)It will be up again tomorrow because it was "Tucson Meet Yourself" today at lunch and I know a lot of people here use the nicknames "Tucson Eat Yourself" or "Tucson Feed Yourself." Lots of cultural groups and some food trucks set up booths or on the street and sell food. I thought about getting something other than my usual. But the heat (it was in the mid to upper 90s) and the long lines at some of the things I was interested in had me breathing a sigh of relief when there was no line at the Greek booth. Spanokopita, dolmathes, baklava, and lemonade. Yum.
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -(1890/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕not today... I brought my lunch back to my desk and actually did some work while I was eating.:(
🥤 -: (H2O - 33.8 oz, cup of hot tea - 16 oz, Diet Soda (Dr. Pepper/Pepsi) - 52 oz , lemonade - 16 oz)

October 9 - 182 - Not up that much. But that will change.:)Went to Phoenix to have lunch with my son today. Just him and I, for a change. He wanted sushi. I've not eaten much in the way of that and am really unfamiliar. Had a hard time logging it and finally just gave up and picked some of the higher calorie options and hoped I'd get enough. Then I upped the ante and had Jack in the Box for dinner. I think we all know how that turned out. That's two weekends in a row. And two weekends they got my order wrong. Le sigh. Oh, and my laptop is being difficult. Part of the reason I'm delayed with posting this is because the damned thing wouldn't load up.
😅 -After I got home from Phoenix, I helped my girls decorate for Halloween, so my exercise was going up and down the step ladder, up and down the stairs (had to see how it looked!), and bending over to pick up everything I dropped. LOL
📔 -- even if it was mostly guess work and estimates.
🥅 -(3291/1247) You know, this day was not that unusual food-wise (well, except for the sushi) but I think this is probably a pretty good estimate of many of my past weekends calorie-wise. Why does the stuff I like have to be so high in calories?
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -I had a total of 3.5 hours driving time by myself. Not sure it was really "me time," but that hour and a half at lunch with my son was definitely for me.:)I wish I'd gotten a picture. Oh well, next time.
🥤 -I don't know how much I drank, but I'm pretty sure none of it was water. Lots of iced tea (unsweetened), no soda.

October 10 - 183.6. Woop! There it is.... And it will probably be up again tomorrow.
😅 -The best laid plans.... I intended to get up and run or ride this morning. I didn't set my alarm. Mistake. I didn't get up until late and then did nothing except go get breakfast (hamburger patty, sliced tomatoes, and poached eggs - blew it with the whole wheat toast though), then come home and do laundry and sit around futzing with my computer. It's dead. Something about a registry? Sigh. I just want to try to get the stuff off the hard drive before I dropkick it to the garbage. But that's an expense that will have to wait. Le sigh.
📔 -I do track daily. Everything. I may not like what I see, but I can't seem to change it. I really need to get past this block in my brain.
🥅 -(1686/1247) Better than yesterday at least. And I had pizza for dinner (cauliflower crust/anchovies (don't judge)/spinach/mushrooms/onions/artichoke hearts/black olives.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -I jogged around the complex with the dog, but that doesn't count.
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -
🥤 -

October 11 - 183.4 - Didn't see that coming. I really thought it would go up.
😅 -it was slow, but I got about 40 minutes of walking in today.
📔 -
🥅 -(1151/1247) Sadly, part of that was a Kit Kat and one fig newton. I could have knocked 300 calories off if I hadn't eaten those. And I really do need to start eating more veggies again.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -I don't count grocery shopping as "me time."
🥤 -


October 12 - 182.5 - it's amazing how much the weight comes off when I'm not stuffing my face with super high calorie nummies.
😅 -I don't remember doing it, but sometime between Monday morning and when I went to bed last night, I completely turned off my alarm and I woke up about an hour after my normal time. Called the bus schedule on my phone and it looked like, maybe, I could make it. So, I quick-marched across the street, and got to the bus stop with what I thought was a minute or two to spare. After waiting a bit, I checked the website again and apparently the bus I needed had already passed and was already a mile and a half up the road. The next bus wouldn't get me to work on time, so I hoofed it back across the street and drove myself to work. That eliminated a couple of relatively short walks for me, but those are part of my daily "exercise." When I got home, I didn't go anywhere or do anything, except walk the dog late last night.
📔 -
🥅 -(1193/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -I listened to a couple of LevelHead exercises last night before bed, but as I kept dozing off, I guess that's not really me time. (I whine enough about stuff as it is... I hate to add the extra whining about lack of time/money to do things I want to do, so consider this an ongoing whine for me and I won't mention it again. Maybe.:))
🥤 -(16.9 oz H2O / 24 oz Diet Dr. Pepper / 48 oz (the mug holds 16 oz - I love it) hot cinnamon spice tea w/sugar-free vanilla... lots of fluid, not enough "just water.")

October 13 - 181.4 - Down a little more. It won't last. I'm stressing over *kitten* and I know I'm going to blow this somehow.
😅 -walking/stretching - nothing to really break a sweat, but there ya go.
📔 -
🥅 -(1283/1247) Only 36 over, but over is over.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕Chorus tonight.
🥤 -

October 14 - 179.8 Woot! But it will be up tomorrow. Took my daughter to the dentist today. $$$$$$$ Yeah, I had Mexican food for lunch and beer at dinner. I wanted beer at lunch too. I'm not liking this no computer at home thing at all. I tried to post something from my phone last night and three times I managed to delete it or lose it somehow. Will try to make notes so I can fill this out on Monday.
😅 -No exercise today. Did Geeks Who Drink tonight and when I got home, the dog had already been walked.
📔 -
🥅 -(1895/1247) - Enchiladas, refried beans, chips for lunch... salad, sweet potato fries, Kiltlifter for dinner... oh... and creme brulee for dessert. If my weight's not up tomorrow, I'll be surprised.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Trivia with Megan. Yeah.
🥤 -(I'm only saying no because of the beer. I actually had more water than soda today. That's weird.)


October 15 - 181.8 - Just like I said. Not surprised.
😅 -I didn't make any notes about exercise, but I gave myself 3 yesses in my other challenge so I exercised at least 20 minutes today.;)
📔 -
🥅 -(1176/1247) - I was still hungry after dinner and later in the evening I had some herring and "cheesebread" (keto bread with string cheese on it, nuked to melt the cheese). I was still under calories for the day, so I guess maybe I hadn't had enough to eat during the day.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕
🥤 -According to my notes I had no water at all today. At least, not plain water. I had tea.

October 16 - 179.6 - down a little. Not sure how well this will hold. I've been eating my emotions today. Did lunch at a local cheesesteak place and I got double meat and double cheese... I went out later, by myself, and after buying some Hallowe'en decor, I bought myself ice cream... and then I didn't have dinner, but had a late night snack of Wheat Thins. 😅 -55 minutes run/walking. I was going to ride this morning, but had a soft tire. Obviously I don't learn my lessons very well. Tried to use the same pump that I tried to use a couple of months ago on my daughter's bike. A pump that not even two experienced cyclists could get to work. So... my soft tire is now completely flat. Luckily, this time I was in my living room instead of a couple of miles into my ride. So... I backed the bike back into its spot, changed my clothes and went for a run. Did 5k. And later in the day walked Sienna and let her play with her boyfren.
📔 -
🥅 -(1816/1587) Yeah... see above.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -I did pretty well, going out. Was on my way to a much faster time than I've had lately. Okay, maybe only a minute or so, but still.... Well, there is a slight uphill grade to the path when I turn around. It's not something I notice when I'm walking. But, boyohboy, let me be on my bike or trying to run? I notice every damned millimeter of incline. I slowed way down and ended up a bit slower than some of my more recent runs. Bummer, dude.
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Counting my run for this.
🥤 -H20 = 50.7 oz / 48 oz of diet soda

October 17 - 179.6 - That's a bit of a surprise, so I'll take it after yesterday. I did even worse with food today. And, despite everything I've heard about how exercise is supposed to help boost your mood, today it didn't work. I took Sienna out for a walk this morning. I left in a meh mood, cried through a good portion of the walk, and 3.24 miles later, I came home in a much worse mood than I started with. And I cried on and off all day. Food traps were the dark chocolate KitKat (king sized) that I ate instead of lunch, the Italian food from Oregano's that I didn't even like, but ate all of it (except the majority of the sauce) for dinner, and the Pecan Pie Blizzard (medium) that I had for dessert. Yeah... the weight will be up in the morning. 😅 -About 90 minutes walking the dog, than about another hour or so wandering the aisles of the grocery store, and maybe another 10-15 minutes of dog walking. Maybe the slow stroll at the store doesn't seem like exercise, but it helped me get well over 10,000 steps.:)
📔 -
🥅 -4065/1576
🏃🏻‍♀️ -Didn't run. Walked.
🚴🏻‍♀️-The tire is still flat. The bike shop I was going to go to was closed. But now I'm thinking I might see if I can afford a new pump, the "old fashioned" kind that stands on the floor and you pull the handle thing up and down.
📚☕ -Nobody ever said "me time" had to be a good time. So, I guess my walk was "me time."
🥤 -m Um, I may have had one bottle of water. I had two or three glasses of iced tea with dinner.

October 18 - 181 - Told ya!;)Binged on chocolate again today - Cadbury dark chocolate. Yum. - Need to get a grip, though. The numbers will be up again tomorrow, I'm sure.
😅 -Got over 20 minutes in - with walking and chair dancing. Does chair dancing even count? Luckily, I got the 20 in with just the walking.
📔 -
🥅 -(1304/1247) 490 calories of that is the chocolate bar. Was eating my salad at lunch today. It was one of those bagged salads you can get at the grocery store. I was just poured it out on the plate and picked at it without really looking at it while I played on my phone. Looked over at it and saw something weird... looking more closely, I realized it looked like a dead fly or something. Yeah... totally lost my appetite and threw out the rest of the salad. *shudder*


🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -No real "me time" today, sadly.
🥤 -no water.. not even one bottle. But, Diet Dr. Pepper? Oh yeah.

October 19 - 181.2 - And here I go again... And again, I sabotaged myself. In other news, I haven't been sleeping well and I guess I turned off my alarm this morning because I remember hearing it go off once. While I missed my bus, I wasn't quite as late as I was the last time I overslept. At least not until I got on the road. About 95% of the red lights, including all but one of the "hawk lights" for pedestrian crossings. A slightly mixed up order from Dutch Bros., and I was done with the day before I was half-way to work. Blah
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -(1665/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -
🥤 -Only 16.9 oz of water. Lost track of the diet soda. And my tea was "blended" (which was *not* what I ordered, but was okay, because at least it was the right "flavors.

October 20 - 181.4 - upcreep.... sigh...
😅 -(Do you get extra credit for walking in heels? No? Well, you should!)
📔 -
🥅 -(1422/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Had chorus tonight. ♪♫♪♫♫♪
🥤 -


October 21 - 180.0 - This is going to be up tomorrow. I went waaaaayyyy overboard today. I don't know why I do that to myself.
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -2454/1247 ... yeah... I know...
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -
🥤 -Not much water today. Hell, not much of any fluid today.

October 22 - 181.6 - Told ya. - For what it's worth, I had my first date in close to 10 years tonight. We went to a football game at the UofA. If you follow PAC12 football at all, you know that UA is something like 0/17 before tonight... now, after blowing a 13-0 lead, their record is 0/18. Sigh. However, I am not yet sure how I think the date went. He spent more time talking to the guy sitting on the other side of him. We may go out again. We may not. (How crazy is it to be just starting dating at the age of 63? I never thought I'd be alone, if I lived this long. Yeah, yet another way in which my life isn't turning out as I'd thought it would. Hahahaha) Won't be running in the morning as it's now almost 1:00 a.m. I'll be having lunch with some of the other members of the reunion committee as we'll be checking out a potential venue for our "mini reunion."
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 - :-1 1850/1247
🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1
🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1
📚☕ -: I thought about considering the date as "me time," but decided that it really wasn't what *I* consider "me time."
🥤 -

October 25 - 183.8
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 26
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 27
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 28
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 29
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 30
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 31
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 1- 183.4 - I'm up 2.4 lbs since yesterday. I've been losing and gaining the same 5-7 pounds since I started this challenge. Over calories today, but
😅
📔
🥅(1348/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤(26 oz / 40 oz --- not counting the Eegee's I had because it's not water or soda)

October 2 - 181.9 - down 1.5 from yesterday. Hmmm.... I sometimes doubt the veracity and accuracy of my scale, but we'll see. Tomorrow will probably be a wash - I'm going to the Diamondbacks/Rockies game with my daughter the teacher (she's one of several getting an award from the D'Backs as a "Most Valued Teacher" and will be awarded $1000 to use in her classroom for STEM supplies, I think she said). It will be my first MLB game ever, although I used to go to the AAA games all the time when I was in Jr. High. Anyways, we'll be eating at the ballpark, probably.
😅 -(78 minutes bike ride; 10 minute dog potty walk)
📔 -
🥅 -(1426/1784 - had to go into exercise calories, but still not too bad)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -(13 miles)
📚☕ -(my bike ride is time for me to not think about the problems in my life. In fact, I can't even tell you what I *did* think about... My mind just wandered the whole ride. I plan to do some "mindfulness" stuff on my phone later tonight, but even if I don't get that done, the bike ride worked.)
🥤(26 oz / ~60 oz -- yeah, water is a problem... LOL)

October 3 - 181.6 - down 0.3 from yesterday, but will go up tomorrow because McDonald's for breakfast, ball field pizza for lunch, and Carl's Jr for dinner. I expect to be up by a couple of pounds, if not tomorrow than within a couple of days.:)Still, no regrets, I had fun with my daughter.
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -(3652/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -(I may not have been on my own, but I was out doing something different)
🥤 -(16 oz (H20)/52 oz (Dr Pepper) / 30 oz (regular pepsi))

October 4 - 183.4 - expecting this, still not liking it. Ah well.
😅 -did about 30 minutes of walking tonight, trying to figure out where the hell my bus was going to be due to the incident at the train station yesterday morning. You may have seen/heard about it on the news. DEA agent was shot and killed, another was wounded, as was a Tucson PD officer. The train depot is across the street from the bus transit station so things were all messed up still yesterday afternoon.
📔 -Yep, I did.
🥅 -(1655oops... that's how much over I was not calories. Should have been 2902/1247. That's the Ultimate Cheeseburger, Fries, and Coke I had for dinner.)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -It was unintentional me time, but while trying to catch my bus, I walked through one of the areas of town I wish I could live in. Adorable old homes from the 20s and 30s. Saw one for sale and looked it up. $599,000. And that, my friends, is why I will never be able to live in that area.:)
🥤- (32 oz H2O / 32 oz reg Coke)

October 5 - 183.4 - no change from yesterday. Tomorrow will probably go up again since I ate cheesecake today. A big piece of pumpkin cheesecake from Olive Garden. The rest of my food was within calories budget, but that was definitely not.
😅 -Remember, I'm only aiming for 20 minutes or more. I did it, but barely.:)
📔 -Tracking, even if I'm estimating, is really just about the easiest thing for me.:)
🥅 -(1720/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -In my own little world on the bus going home today.
🥤 -(67.6 oz H2O / 0 oz soda (only because I'm out and the vending machine was out of order. LOL))

October 6 - 183.0. Well, I didn't see that coming.:)My bus was a little late getting me home tonight so I didn't have a chance to eat dinner before having to leave for chorus rehearsal. That led to me get a piece of pumpkin bread and some Ritz Bitz during the break. It wasn't enough to ease my hunger completely, so when I got home, I made myself a quesadilla. Why does cheese have to be so high in calories??? Also, while I was at rehearsal, my daughter had her dog outside to play with her "boyfren." Sienna and Valentine are quite the item around the complex. Hahahah! Anyways, my daughter and Valentine's human were sitting on the ground while the two dogs wrestled around them. At some point, Sienna fell into my daughter, the hardest part of her head hit Aislinn in the mouth, and broke a tooth, knocking about half to 3/4 of it out. So, tomorrow, Aislinn will be calling around to find out who will accept my CareCredit card in payment. Blah.
😅 -Some walking, some stretching. Not a lot, but it was just over 20 minutes.:)
📔 -
🥅 -(1246/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Chorus rehearsal. I wish I was a better singer. Why, oh why, couldn't I have been born with perfect pitch instead of being so beautiful? Hahahahahahah
🥤 -(33.8 oz H2O / 32 oz Earl Grey Lavender Tea (brewed it myself so just water, tea, and sugar free vanilla:)/12 oz Diet Dr Pepper)

October 7 -181.0 - suspect this is mostly water weight as I had a mostly liquid diet yesterday.:)I also expect it will go up tomorrow. Why? Because food.:)
😅 -got my 20-22 minutes of walking plus another 5 or so of jogging around the parking lot.
📔 -I even went back and added in the candy I ate.
🥅 -(1605/1247) - candy and later on, my girls ordered me sticky toffee pudding after dinner because it's been my go to dessert at that restaurant for awhile now and they decided I deserved it after the past couple of weeks. And, while I may not have "deserved it, or even *needed it*, I ate it.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Not even trivia tonight felt like "me time" today.
🥤 -H20 = 33.8 oz; hot tea = 16 oz; Diet Dr. Pepper = 12 oz; unsweetened iced tea with lemon = ?? I lost count after about 4 glasses as the server kept filling it up for me.

October 8 - 181.4. Not unexpected given last night.:)It will be up again tomorrow because it was "Tucson Meet Yourself" today at lunch and I know a lot of people here use the nicknames "Tucson Eat Yourself" or "Tucson Feed Yourself." Lots of cultural groups and some food trucks set up booths or on the street and sell food. I thought about getting something other than my usual. But the heat (it was in the mid to upper 90s) and the long lines at some of the things I was interested in had me breathing a sigh of relief when there was no line at the Greek booth. Spanokopita, dolmathes, baklava, and lemonade. Yum.
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -(1890/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕not today... I brought my lunch back to my desk and actually did some work while I was eating.:(
🥤 -: (H2O - 33.8 oz, cup of hot tea - 16 oz, Diet Soda (Dr. Pepper/Pepsi) - 52 oz , lemonade - 16 oz)

October 9 - 182 - Not up that much. But that will change.:)Went to Phoenix to have lunch with my son today. Just him and I, for a change. He wanted sushi. I've not eaten much in the way of that and am really unfamiliar. Had a hard time logging it and finally just gave up and picked some of the higher calorie options and hoped I'd get enough. Then I upped the ante and had Jack in the Box for dinner. I think we all know how that turned out. That's two weekends in a row. And two weekends they got my order wrong. Le sigh. Oh, and my laptop is being difficult. Part of the reason I'm delayed with posting this is because the damned thing wouldn't load up.
😅 -After I got home from Phoenix, I helped my girls decorate for Halloween, so my exercise was going up and down the step ladder, up and down the stairs (had to see how it looked!), and bending over to pick up everything I dropped. LOL
📔 -- even if it was mostly guess work and estimates.
🥅 -(3291/1247) You know, this day was not that unusual food-wise (well, except for the sushi) but I think this is probably a pretty good estimate of many of my past weekends calorie-wise. Why does the stuff I like have to be so high in calories?
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -I had a total of 3.5 hours driving time by myself. Not sure it was really "me time," but that hour and a half at lunch with my son was definitely for me.:)I wish I'd gotten a picture. Oh well, next time.
🥤 -I don't know how much I drank, but I'm pretty sure none of it was water. Lots of iced tea (unsweetened), no soda.

October 10 - 183.6. Woop! There it is.... And it will probably be up again tomorrow.
😅 -The best laid plans.... I intended to get up and run or ride this morning. I didn't set my alarm. Mistake. I didn't get up until late and then did nothing except go get breakfast (hamburger patty, sliced tomatoes, and poached eggs - blew it with the whole wheat toast though), then come home and do laundry and sit around futzing with my computer. It's dead. Something about a registry? Sigh. I just want to try to get the stuff off the hard drive before I dropkick it to the garbage. But that's an expense that will have to wait. Le sigh.
📔 -I do track daily. Everything. I may not like what I see, but I can't seem to change it. I really need to get past this block in my brain.
🥅 -(1686/1247) Better than yesterday at least. And I had pizza for dinner (cauliflower crust/anchovies (don't judge)/spinach/mushrooms/onions/artichoke hearts/black olives.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -I jogged around the complex with the dog, but that doesn't count.
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -
🥤 -

October 11 - 183.4 - Didn't see that coming. I really thought it would go up.
😅 -it was slow, but I got about 40 minutes of walking in today.
📔 -
🥅 -(1151/1247) Sadly, part of that was a Kit Kat and one fig newton. I could have knocked 300 calories off if I hadn't eaten those. And I really do need to start eating more veggies again.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -I don't count grocery shopping as "me time."
🥤 -


October 12 - 182.5 - it's amazing how much the weight comes off when I'm not stuffing my face with super high calorie nummies.
😅 -I don't remember doing it, but sometime between Monday morning and when I went to bed last night, I completely turned off my alarm and I woke up about an hour after my normal time. Called the bus schedule on my phone and it looked like, maybe, I could make it. So, I quick-marched across the street, and got to the bus stop with what I thought was a minute or two to spare. After waiting a bit, I checked the website again and apparently the bus I needed had already passed and was already a mile and a half up the road. The next bus wouldn't get me to work on time, so I hoofed it back across the street and drove myself to work. That eliminated a couple of relatively short walks for me, but those are part of my daily "exercise." When I got home, I didn't go anywhere or do anything, except walk the dog late last night.
📔 -
🥅 -(1193/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -I listened to a couple of LevelHead exercises last night before bed, but as I kept dozing off, I guess that's not really me time. (I whine enough about stuff as it is... I hate to add the extra whining about lack of time/money to do things I want to do, so consider this an ongoing whine for me and I won't mention it again. Maybe.:))
🥤 -(16.9 oz H2O / 24 oz Diet Dr. Pepper / 48 oz (the mug holds 16 oz - I love it) hot cinnamon spice tea w/sugar-free vanilla... lots of fluid, not enough "just water.")

October 13 - 181.4 - Down a little more. It won't last. I'm stressing over *kitten* and I know I'm going to blow this somehow.
😅 -walking/stretching - nothing to really break a sweat, but there ya go.
📔 -
🥅 -(1283/1247) Only 36 over, but over is over.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕Chorus tonight.
🥤 -

October 14 - 179.8 Woot! But it will be up tomorrow. Took my daughter to the dentist today. $$$$$$$ Yeah, I had Mexican food for lunch and beer at dinner. I wanted beer at lunch too. I'm not liking this no computer at home thing at all. I tried to post something from my phone last night and three times I managed to delete it or lose it somehow. Will try to make notes so I can fill this out on Monday.
😅 -No exercise today. Did Geeks Who Drink tonight and when I got home, the dog had already been walked.
📔 -
🥅 -(1895/1247) - Enchiladas, refried beans, chips for lunch... salad, sweet potato fries, Kiltlifter for dinner... oh... and creme brulee for dessert. If my weight's not up tomorrow, I'll be surprised.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Trivia with Megan. Yeah.
🥤 -(I'm only saying no because of the beer. I actually had more water than soda today. That's weird.)


October 15 - 181.8 - Just like I said. Not surprised.
😅 -I didn't make any notes about exercise, but I gave myself 3 yesses in my other challenge so I exercised at least 20 minutes today.;)
📔 -
🥅 -(1176/1247) - I was still hungry after dinner and later in the evening I had some herring and "cheesebread" (keto bread with string cheese on it, nuked to melt the cheese). I was still under calories for the day, so I guess maybe I hadn't had enough to eat during the day.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕
🥤 -According to my notes I had no water at all today. At least, not plain water. I had tea.

October 16 - 179.6 - down a little. Not sure how well this will hold. I've been eating my emotions today. Did lunch at a local cheesesteak place and I got double meat and double cheese... I went out later, by myself, and after buying some Hallowe'en decor, I bought myself ice cream... and then I didn't have dinner, but had a late night snack of Wheat Thins.
My relatively newly found Aunt (I guess it's been about 1.5 years now since I hooked up with my birthfather's side of the family - some of them at least) texted me to let me know that one of my half-sisters (discovered about the same time as me) was going to OK to spend Thanksgiving with them. Aunt Pat (who is only about 4 years older than I am - she was the baby of the family) wanted to know if I wanted to go too. I have no money to travel, nor can I get the time off this late in the season. So, that was a no. Later on, my half-sister messaged me to tell me she was going to stop in Tucson either on her way to OK or on her way back. She wants to get together with me and with our half brothers, if they're willing. So, we'll see what happens
😅 -55 minutes run/walking. I was going to ride this morning, but had a soft tire. Obviously I don't learn my lessons very well. Tried to use the same pump that I tried to use a couple of months ago on my daughter's bike. A pump that not even two experienced cyclists could get to work. So... my soft tire is now completely flat. Luckily, this time I was in my living room instead of a couple of miles into my ride. So... I backed the bike back into its spot, changed my clothes and went for a run. Did 5k. And later in the day walked Sienna and let her play with her boyfren.
📔 -
🥅 -(1816/1587) Yeah... see above.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -I did pretty well, going out. Was on my way to a much faster time than I've had lately. Okay, maybe only a minute or so, but still.... Well, there is a slight uphill grade to the path when I turn around. It's not something I notice when I'm walking. But, boyohboy, let me be on my bike or trying to run? I notice every damned millimeter of incline. I slowed way down and ended up a bit slower than some of my more recent runs. Bummer, dude.
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Counting my run for this.
🥤 -H20 = 50.7 oz / 48 oz of diet soda

October 17 - 179.6 - That's a bit of a surprise, so I'll take it after yesterday. I did even worse with food today. And, despite everything I've heard about how exercise is supposed to help boost your mood, today it didn't work. I took Sienna out for a walk this morning. I left in a meh mood, cried through a good portion of the walk, and 3.24 miles later, I came home in a much worse mood than I started with. And I cried on and off all day. Food traps were the dark chocolate KitKat (king sized) that I ate instead of lunch, the Italian food from Oregano's that I didn't even like, but ate all of it (except the majority of the sauce) for dinner, and the Pecan Pie Blizzard (medium) that I had for dessert. Yeah... the weight will be up in the morning.

Figuring my half-sister had already reached out, I messaged my half-brother tonight to see if he'd be okay if we all did the "gathering" as a group. Him, his brother and/or kids (if interested), me and my kids, and our half-sister. He hadn't heard from our sister, so he was surprised but was willing to do something with all of us. He and I have actually met and we had an official DNA test done at a local lab, which verified we're half-siblings. (We are 8 months apart in age, went to high schools just a couple of miles apart, and had a few potential crossings in our youth... also found out that he and his brothers were/are good friends with my ex-sister-in-law's husband and all of us were at their wedding. Small world.) As far as I know, there are a total of 7 kids with 5 mothers. Good ol' dad took the "go forth and multiply" thing a little too seriously. He was actually married to three of the women. My mother, whoever she was, wasn't one of those women as he was married to my brother's mom at the time. The three youngest half-siblings have exhibited no desire to get to know me or my other half-sister. One of them actually told our Aunt that she really didn't want anything to do with any of us. My brother that I met? Apparently Dad kept their existence a bit of a secret from his other kids. As for me, he probably never knew, or if he did, he either didn't believe or didn't care, because I was told that noone ever came forward to claim paternity and the only hint was that my birth mother apparently gave me his last name in the adoption papers because that's the last name in my name change papers from after the adoption was finalized. The other half-sister at least had his name on his birth certificate. Their loss.
😅 -About 90 minutes walking the dog, than about another hour or so wandering the aisles of the grocery store, and maybe another 10-15 minutes of dog walking. Maybe the slow stroll at the store doesn't seem like exercise, but it helped me get well over 10,000 steps.:)
📔 -
🥅 -4065/1576
🏃🏻‍♀️ -Didn't run. Walked.
🚴🏻‍♀️-The tire is still flat. The bike shop I was going to go to was closed. But now I'm thinking I might see if I can afford a new pump, the "old fashioned" kind that stands on the floor and you pull the handle thing up and down.
📚☕ -Nobody ever said "me time" had to be a good time. So, I guess my walk was "me time."
🥤 -m Um, I may have had one bottle of water. I had two or three glasses of iced tea with dinner.

October 18 - 181 - Told ya!;)Binged on chocolate again today - Cadbury dark chocolate. Yum. - Need to get a grip, though. The numbers will be up again tomorrow, I'm sure.
😅 -Got over 20 minutes in - with walking and chair dancing. Does chair dancing even count? Luckily, I got the 20 in with just the walking.
📔 -
🥅 -(1304/1247) 490 calories of that is the chocolate bar. Was eating my salad at lunch today. It was one of those bagged salads you can get at the grocery store. I was just poured it out on the plate and picked at it without really looking at it while I played on my phone. Looked over at it and saw something weird... looking more closely, I realized it looked like a dead fly or something. Yeah... totally lost my appetite and threw out the rest of the salad. *shudder*


🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -No real "me time" today, sadly.
🥤 -no water.. not even one bottle. But, Diet Dr. Pepper? Oh yeah.

October 19 - 181.2 - And here I go again... And again, I sabotaged myself. In other news, I haven't been sleeping well and I guess I turned off my alarm this morning because I remember hearing it go off once. While I missed my bus, I wasn't quite as late as I was the last time I overslept. At least not until I got on the road. About 95% of the red lights, including all but one of the "hawk lights" for pedestrian crossings. A slightly mixed up order from Dutch Bros., and I was done with the day before I was half-way to work. Blah
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -(1665/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -
🥤 -Only 16.9 oz of water. Lost track of the diet soda. And my tea was "blended" (which was *not* what I ordered, but was okay, because at least it was the right "flavors.

October 20 - 181.4 - upcreep.... sigh...
😅 -(Do you get extra credit for walking in heels? No? Well, you should!)
📔 -
🥅 -(1422/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Had chorus tonight. ♪♫♪♫♫♪
🥤 -


October 21 - 180.0 - This is going to be up tomorrow. I went waaaaayyyy overboard today. I don't know why I do that to myself.
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -2454/1247 ... yeah... I know...
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -
🥤 -Not much water today. Hell, not much of any fluid today.

October 22 - 181.6 - Told ya. - For what it's worth, I had my first date in close to 10 years tonight. We went to a football game at the UofA. If you follow PAC12 football at all, you know that UA is something like 0/17 before tonight... now, after blowing a 13-0 lead, their record is 0/18. Sigh. However, I am not yet sure how I think the date went. He spent more time talking to the guy sitting on the other side of him. We may go out again. We may not. (How crazy is it to be just starting dating at the age of 63? I never thought I'd be alone, if I lived this long. Yeah, yet another way in which my life isn't turning out as I'd thought it would. Hahahaha) Won't be running in the morning as it's now almost 1:00 a.m. I'll be having lunch with some of the other members of the reunion committee as we'll be checking out a potential venue for our "mini reunion."
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 - :-1 1850/1247
🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1
🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1
📚☕ -: I thought about considering the date as "me time," but decided that it really wasn't what *I* consider "me time."
🥤 -

October 23 - 181.8 - No surprise. I didn't eat well yesterday, nor had I been eating all that well previously, and today? Today will definitely show up tomorrow. Oh yes, it will. -- Had lunch with members of our reunion committee at a venue we're considering for a Schmooze-fest/Happy Hour in April. There were 7 of us there, approximately half of the actual committee. Of those 7, I'd gone to school with 3 of them since elementary school (i.e. *more* than 50 years ago), and with the other three since junior high. One of them also went to Sunday School/Hebrew School with me and we had our Bat Mitzvahs together as neither of our families had the wherewithal to throw on their own a huge shindig like our contemporaries were having. So, since our birthdays were only a couple of months apart, we did it together. That was 50 years ago last month. After all the others left, she and I moved to some Adirondack chairs in the grass on the patio of the restaurant and just talked for almost two more hours. It was a lovely way to spend the afternoon.
😅 ---- I did get a little over 20 minute of walking in, but it was slow and broken into two walks with the dog.
📔 -
🥅 -4253/1247 --- yes, you read that right... Just over 3000 calories more than I'm supposed to have. Tomorrow will be as bad. What did I have today? Donut holes, egg nog (low fat, but that doesn't mean anything), flatbread (wild mushrooms, taleggio, leaks, and truffe oil); a Carl's Jr Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger and fries. Do I regret any of it? Yeah, I actually do. Everything from Carl's Jr. It just didn't satisfy like it once might have... and the fries were cold. And I ate the whole container of donut holes. I regret not saving some for tomorrow.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Definitely... the time with my friends, particularly the two hours with Rae, made the whole day worthwhile.
🥤 -

October 24 - 183.0 - and here is yesterday almost all caught up to me... but tomorrow will be up again. I've not been good today either. Salad for dinner. Funny thing is, that doesn't even disappoint me like it once would have.:)
😅 --Pretty much the same as yesterday
📔 -
🥅 -(3598/1247) - The way I've been eating the past week or so is not very different from the way I was eating back when I started here again. I'd say it's pretty clear how I got to weigh as much as I did.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ --- I really need to get a different pump, take a chance at the gas station, or take my bike in somewhere. Sigh.
📚☕ -
🥤 -

October 25 - 183.8 - Saw my bus leaving the stop as I walked out the front door. Oops. Drove to work. Ate too much all day long. Yeah... I suck.
😅 -
📔 -I tracked, but I probably missed stuff.
🥅 -(2266/1247) Slightly better than yesterday
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -
🥤 -

October 28 - 182.4
😅 - Just the walking to/from the bus/work, but it got me the 20 minutes, even if it was just a schlep.
📔 -
🥅 -
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ - Trivia with daughter tonight - that leads to excess calories, which I'd already blown by breakfast. Stupid flavored oatmeal.
🥤 -

October 29
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 30
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 31
😅
📔
🥅
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤

October 1- 183.4 - I'm up 2.4 lbs since yesterday. I've been losing and gaining the same 5-7 pounds since I started this challenge. Over calories today, but
😅
📔
🥅(1348/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️
🚴🏻‍♀️
📚☕
🥤(26 oz / 40 oz --- not counting the Eegee's I had because it's not water or soda)

October 2 - 181.9 - down 1.5 from yesterday. Hmmm.... I sometimes doubt the veracity and accuracy of my scale, but we'll see. Tomorrow will probably be a wash - I'm going to the Diamondbacks/Rockies game with my daughter the teacher (she's one of several getting an award from the D'Backs as a "Most Valued Teacher" and will be awarded $1000 to use in her classroom for STEM supplies, I think she said). It will be my first MLB game ever, although I used to go to the AAA games all the time when I was in Jr. High. Anyways, we'll be eating at the ballpark, probably.
😅 -(78 minutes bike ride; 10 minute dog potty walk)
📔 -
🥅 -(1426/1784 - had to go into exercise calories, but still not too bad)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -(13 miles)
📚☕ -(my bike ride is time for me to not think about the problems in my life. In fact, I can't even tell you what I *did* think about... My mind just wandered the whole ride. I plan to do some "mindfulness" stuff on my phone later tonight, but even if I don't get that done, the bike ride worked.)
🥤(26 oz / ~60 oz -- yeah, water is a problem... LOL)

October 3 - 181.6 - down 0.3 from yesterday, but will go up tomorrow because McDonald's for breakfast, ball field pizza for lunch, and Carl's Jr for dinner. I expect to be up by a couple of pounds, if not tomorrow than within a couple of days.:)Still, no regrets, I had fun with my daughter.
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -(3652/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -(I may not have been on my own, but I was out doing something different)
🥤 -(16 oz (H20)/52 oz (Dr Pepper) / 30 oz (regular pepsi))

October 4 - 183.4 - expecting this, still not liking it. Ah well.
😅 -did about 30 minutes of walking tonight, trying to figure out where the hell my bus was going to be due to the incident at the train station yesterday morning. You may have seen/heard about it on the news. DEA agent was shot and killed, another was wounded, as was a Tucson PD officer. The train depot is across the street from the bus transit station so things were all messed up still yesterday afternoon.
📔 -Yep, I did.
🥅 -(1655oops... that's how much over I was not calories. Should have been 2902/1247. That's the Ultimate Cheeseburger, Fries, and Coke I had for dinner.)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -It was unintentional me time, but while trying to catch my bus, I walked through one of the areas of town I wish I could live in. Adorable old homes from the 20s and 30s. Saw one for sale and looked it up. $599,000. And that, my friends, is why I will never be able to live in that area.:)
🥤- (32 oz H2O / 32 oz reg Coke)

October 5 - 183.4 - no change from yesterday. Tomorrow will probably go up again since I ate cheesecake today. A big piece of pumpkin cheesecake from Olive Garden. The rest of my food was within calories budget, but that was definitely not.
😅 -Remember, I'm only aiming for 20 minutes or more. I did it, but barely.:)
📔 -Tracking, even if I'm estimating, is really just about the easiest thing for me.:)
🥅 -(1720/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -In my own little world on the bus going home today.
🥤 -(67.6 oz H2O / 0 oz soda (only because I'm out and the vending machine was out of order. LOL))

October 6 - 183.0. Well, I didn't see that coming.:)My bus was a little late getting me home tonight so I didn't have a chance to eat dinner before having to leave for chorus rehearsal. That led to me get a piece of pumpkin bread and some Ritz Bitz during the break. It wasn't enough to ease my hunger completely, so when I got home, I made myself a quesadilla. Why does cheese have to be so high in calories??? Also, while I was at rehearsal, my daughter had her dog outside to play with her "boyfren." Sienna and Valentine are quite the item around the complex. Hahahah! Anyways, my daughter and Valentine's human were sitting on the ground while the two dogs wrestled around them. At some point, Sienna fell into my daughter, the hardest part of her head hit Aislinn in the mouth, and broke a tooth, knocking about half to 3/4 of it out. So, tomorrow, Aislinn will be calling around to find out who will accept my CareCredit card in payment. Blah.
😅 -Some walking, some stretching. Not a lot, but it was just over 20 minutes.:)
📔 -
🥅 -(1246/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Chorus rehearsal. I wish I was a better singer. Why, oh why, couldn't I have been born with perfect pitch instead of being so beautiful? Hahahahahahah
🥤 -(33.8 oz H2O / 32 oz Earl Grey Lavender Tea (brewed it myself so just water, tea, and sugar free vanilla:)/12 oz Diet Dr Pepper)

October 7 -181.0 - suspect this is mostly water weight as I had a mostly liquid diet yesterday.:)I also expect it will go up tomorrow. Why? Because food.:)
😅 -got my 20-22 minutes of walking plus another 5 or so of jogging around the parking lot.
📔 -I even went back and added in the candy I ate.
🥅 -(1605/1247) - candy and later on, my girls ordered me sticky toffee pudding after dinner because it's been my go to dessert at that restaurant for awhile now and they decided I deserved it after the past couple of weeks. And, while I may not have "deserved it, or even *needed it*, I ate it.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
🚴🏻‍♀️ -
📚☕ -Not even trivia tonight felt like "me time" today.
🥤 -H20 = 33.8 oz; hot tea = 16 oz; Diet Dr. Pepper = 12 oz; unsweetened iced tea with lemon = ?? I lost count after about 4 glasses as the server kept filling it up for me.

October 8 - 181.4. Not unexpected given last night.:)It will be up again tomorrow because it was "Tucson Meet Yourself" today at lunch and I know a lot of people here use the nicknames "Tucson Eat Yourself" or "Tucson Feed Yourself." Lots of cultural groups and some food trucks set up booths or on the street and sell food. I thought about getting something other than my usual. But the heat (it was in the mid to upper 90s) and the long lines at some of the things I was interested in had me breathing a sigh of relief when there was no line at the Greek booth. Spanokopita, dolmathes, baklava, and lemonade. Yum.
😅 -
📔 -
🥅 -(1890/1247)
🏃🏻‍♀️ -
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📚☕not today... I brought my lunch back to my desk and actually did some work while I was eating.:(
🥤 -: (H2O - 33.8 oz, cup of hot tea - 16 oz, Diet Soda (Dr. Pepper/Pepsi) - 52 oz , lemonade - 16 oz)

October 9 - 182 - Not up that much. But that will change.:)Went to Phoenix to have lunch with my son today. Just him and I, for a change. He wanted sushi. I've not eaten much in the way of that and am really unfamiliar. Had a hard time logging it and finally just gave up and picked some of the higher calorie options and hoped I'd get enough. Then I upped the ante and had Jack in the Box for dinner. I think we all know how that turned out. That's two weekends in a row. And two weekends they got my order wrong. Le sigh. Oh, and my laptop is being difficult. Part of the reason I'm delayed with posting this is because the damned thing wouldn't load up.
😅 -After I got home from Phoenix, I helped my girls decorate for Halloween, so my exercise was going up and down the step ladder, up and down the stairs (had to see how it looked!), and bending over to pick up everything I dropped. LOL
📔 -- even if it was mostly guess work and estimates.
🥅 -(3291/1247) You know, this day was not that unusual food-wise (well, except for the sushi) but I think this is probably a pretty good estimate of many of my past weekends calorie-wise. Why does the stuff I like have to be so high in calories?
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📚☕ -I had a total of 3.5 hours driving time by myself. Not sure it was really "me time," but that hour and a half at lunch with my son was definitely for me.:)I wish I'd gotten a picture. Oh well, next time.
🥤 -I don't know how much I drank, but I'm pretty sure none of it was water. Lots of iced tea (unsweetened), no soda.

October 10 - 183.6. Woop! There it is.... And it will probably be up again tomorrow.
😅 -The best laid plans.... I intended to get up and run or ride this morning. I didn't set my alarm. Mistake. I didn't get up until late and then did nothing except go get breakfast (hamburger patty, sliced tomatoes, and poached eggs - blew it with the whole wheat toast though), then come home and do laundry and sit around futzing with my computer. It's dead. Something about a registry? Sigh. I just want to try to get the stuff off the hard drive before I dropkick it to the garbage. But that's an expense that will have to wait. Le sigh.
📔 -I do track daily. Everything. I may not like what I see, but I can't seem to change it. I really need to get past this block in my brain.
🥅 -(1686/1247) Better than yesterday at least. And I had pizza for dinner (cauliflower crust/anchovies (don't judge)/spinach/mushrooms/onions/artichoke hearts/black olives.
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October 11 - 183.4 - Didn't see that coming. I really thought it would go up.
😅 -it was slow, but I got about 40 minutes of walking in today.
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🥅 -(1151/1247) Sadly, part of that was a Kit Kat and one fig newton. I could have knocked 300 calories off if I hadn't eaten those. And I really do need to start eating more veggies again.
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October 12 - 182.5 - it's amazing how much the weight comes off when I'm not stuffing my face with super high calorie nummies.
😅 -I don't remember doing it, but sometime between Monday morning and when I went to bed last night, I completely turned off my alarm and I woke up about an hour after my normal time. Called the bus schedule on my phone and it looked like, maybe, I could make it. So, I quick-marched across the street, and got to the bus stop with what I thought was a minute or two to spare. After waiting a bit, I checked the website again and apparently the bus I needed had already passed and was already a mile and a half up the road. The next bus wouldn't get me to work on time, so I hoofed it back across the street and drove myself to work. That eliminated a couple of relatively short walks for me, but those are part of my daily "exercise." When I got home, I didn't go anywhere or do anything, except walk the dog late last night.
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📚☕ -I listened to a couple of LevelHead exercises last night before bed, but as I kept dozing off, I guess that's not really me time. (I whine enough about stuff as it is... I hate to add the extra whining about lack of time/money to do things I want to do, so consider this an ongoing whine for me and I won't mention it again. Maybe.:))
🥤 -(16.9 oz H2O / 24 oz Diet Dr. Pepper / 48 oz (the mug holds 16 oz - I love it) hot cinnamon spice tea w/sugar-free vanilla... lots of fluid, not enough "just water.")

October 13 - 181.4 - Down a little more. It won't last. I'm stressing over *kitten* and I know I'm going to blow this somehow.
😅 -walking/stretching - nothing to really break a sweat, but there ya go.
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🥅 -(1283/1247) Only 36 over, but over is over.
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October 14 - 179.8 Woot! But it will be up tomorrow. Took my daughter to the dentist today. $$$$$$$ Yeah, I had Mexican food for lunch and beer at dinner. I wanted beer at lunch too. I'm not liking this no computer at home thing at all. I tried to post something from my phone last night and three times I managed to delete it or lose it somehow. Will try to make notes so I can fill this out on Monday.
😅 -No exercise today. Did Geeks Who Drink tonight and when I got home, the dog had already been walked.
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🥅 -(1895/1247) - Enchiladas, refried beans, chips for lunch... salad, sweet potato fries, Kiltlifter for dinner... oh... and creme brulee for dessert. If my weight's not up tomorrow, I'll be surprised.
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📚☕ -Trivia with Megan. Yeah.
🥤 -(I'm only saying no because of the beer. I actually had more water than soda today. That's weird.)


October 15 - 181.8 - Just like I said. Not surprised.
😅 -I didn't make any notes about exercise, but I gave myself 3 yesses in my other challenge so I exercised at least 20 minutes today.;)
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🥅 -(1176/1247) - I was still hungry after dinner and later in the evening I had some herring and "cheesebread" (keto bread with string cheese on it, nuked to melt the cheese). I was still under calories for the day, so I guess maybe I hadn't had enough to eat during the day.
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🥤 -According to my notes I had no water at all today. At least, not plain water. I had tea.

October 16 - 179.6 - down a little. Not sure how well this will hold. I've been eating my emotions today. Did lunch at a local cheesesteak place and I got double meat and double cheese... I went out later, by myself, and after buying some Hallowe'en decor, I bought myself ice cream... and then I didn't have dinner, but had a late night snack of Wheat Thins.
My relatively newly found Aunt (I guess it's been about 1.5 years now since I hooked up with my birthfather's side of the family - some of them at least) texted me to let me know that one of my half-sisters (discovered about the same time as me) was going to OK to spend Thanksgiving with them. Aunt Pat (who is only about 4 years older than I am - she was the baby of the family) wanted to know if I wanted to go too. I have no money to travel, nor can I get the time off this late in the season. So, that was a no. Later on, my half-sister messaged me to tell me she was going to stop in Tucson either on her way to OK or on her way back. She wants to get together with me and with our half brothers, if they're willing. So, we'll see what happens
😅 -55 minutes run/walking. I was going to ride this morning, but had a soft tire. Obviously I don't learn my lessons very well. Tried to use the same pump that I tried to use a couple of months ago on my daughter's bike. A pump that not even two experienced cyclists could get to work. So... my soft tire is now completely flat. Luckily, this time I was in my living room instead of a couple of miles into my ride. So... I backed the bike back into its spot, changed my clothes and went for a run. Did 5k. And later in the day walked Sienna and let her play with her boyfren.
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🥅 -(1816/1587) Yeah... see above.
🏃🏻‍♀️ -I did pretty well, going out. Was on my way to a much faster time than I've had lately. Okay, maybe only a minute or so, but still.... Well, there is a slight uphill grade to the path when I turn around. It's not something I notice when I'm walking. But, boyohboy, let me be on my bike or trying to run? I notice every damned millimeter of incline. I slowed way down and ended up a bit slower than some of my more recent runs. Bummer, dude.
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🥤 -H20 = 50.7 oz / 48 oz of diet soda

October 17 - 179.6 - That's a bit of a surprise, so I'll take it after yesterday. I did even worse with food today. And, despite everything I've heard about how exercise is supposed to help boost your mood, today it didn't work. I took Sienna out for a walk this morning. I left in a meh mood, cried through a good portion of the walk, and 3.24 miles later, I came home in a much worse mood than I started with. And I cried on and off all day. Food traps were the dark chocolate KitKat (king sized) that I ate instead of lunch, the Italian food from Oregano's that I didn't even like, but ate all of it (except the majority of the sauce) for dinner, and the Pecan Pie Blizzard (medium) that I had for dessert. Yeah... the weight will be up in the morning.

Figuring my half-sister had already reached out, I messaged my half-brother tonight to see if he'd be okay if we all did the "gathering" as a group. Him, his brother and/or kids (if interested), me and my kids, and our half-sister. He hadn't heard from our sister, so he was surprised but was willing to do something with all of us. He and I have actually met and we had an official DNA test done at a local lab, which verified we're half-siblings. (We are 8 months apart in age, went to high schools just a couple of miles apart, and had a few potential crossings in our youth... also found out that he and his brothers were/are good friends with my ex-sister-in-law's husband and all of us were at their wedding. Small world.) As far as I know, there are a total of 7 kids with 5 mothers. Good ol' dad took the "go forth and multiply" thing a little too seriously. He was actually married to three of the women. My mother, whoever she was, wasn't one of those women as he was married to my brother's mom at the time. The three youngest half-siblings have exhibited no desire to get to know me or my other half-sister. One of them actually told our Aunt that she really didn't want anything to do with any of us. My brother that I met? Apparently Dad kept their existence a bit of a secret from his other kids. As for me, he probably never knew, or if he did, he either didn't believe or didn't care, because I was told that noone ever came forward to claim paternity and the only hint was that my birth mother apparently gave me his last name in the adoption papers because that's the last name in my name change papers from after the adoption was finalized. The other half-sister at least had his name on his birth certificate. Their loss.
😅 -About 90 minutes walking the dog, than about another hour or so wandering the aisles of the grocery store, and maybe another 10-15 minutes of dog walking. Maybe the slow stroll at the store doesn't seem like exercise, but it helped me get well over 10,000 steps.:)
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🥅 -4065/1576
🏃🏻‍♀️ -Didn't run. Walked.
🚴🏻‍♀️-The tire is still flat. The bike shop I was going to go to was closed. But now I'm thinking I might see if I can afford a new pump, the "old fashioned" kind that stands on the floor and you pull the handle thing up and down.
📚☕ -Nobody ever said "me time" had to be a good time. So, I guess my walk was "me time."
🥤 -m Um, I may have had one bottle of water. I had two or three glasses of iced tea with dinner.

October 18 - 181 - Told ya!;)Binged on chocolate again today - Cadbury dark chocolate. Yum. - Need to get a grip, though. The numbers will be up again tomorrow, I'm sure.
😅 -Got over 20 minutes in - with walking and chair dancing. Does chair dancing even count? Luckily, I got the 20 in with just the walking.
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🥅 -(1304/1247) 490 calories of that is the chocolate bar. Was eating my salad at lunch today. It was one of those bagged salads you can get at the grocery store. I was just poured it out on the plate and picked at it without really looking at it while I played on my phone. Looked over at it and saw something weird... looking more closely, I realized it looked like a dead fly or something. Yeah... totally lost my appetite and threw out the rest of the salad. *shudder*



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📚☕ -No real "me time" today, sadly.
🥤 -no water.. not even one bottle. But, Diet Dr. Pepper? Oh yeah.

October 19 - 181.2 - And here I go again... And again, I sabotaged myself. In other news, I haven't been sleeping well and I guess I turned off my alarm this morning because I remember hearing it go off once. While I missed my bus, I wasn't quite as late as I was the last time I overslept. At least not until I got on the road. About 95% of the red lights, including all but one of the "hawk lights" for pedestrian crossings. A slightly mixed up order from Dutch Bros., and I was done with the day before I was half-way to work. Blah
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🥤 -Only 16.9 oz of water. Lost track of the diet soda. And my tea was "blended" (which was *not* what I ordered, but was okay, because at least it was the right "flavors.

October 20 - 181.4 - upcreep.... sigh...
😅 -(Do you get extra credit for walking in heels? No? Well, you should!)
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October 21 - 180.0 - This is going to be up tomorrow. I went waaaaayyyy overboard today. I don't know why I do that to myself.
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🥤 -Not much water today. Hell, not much of any fluid today.

October 22 - 181.6 - Told ya. - For what it's worth, I had my first date in close to 10 years tonight. We went to a football game at the UofA. If you follow PAC12 football at all, you know that UA is something like 0/17 before tonight... now, after blowing a 13-0 lead, their record is 0/18. Sigh. However, I am not yet sure how I think the date went. He spent more time talking to the guy sitting on the other side of him. We may go out again. We may not. (How crazy is it to be just starting dating at the age of 63? I never thought I'd be alone, if I lived this long. Yeah, yet another way in which my life isn't turning out as I'd thought it would. Hahahaha) Won't be running in the morning as it's now almost 1:00 a.m. I'll be having lunch with some of the other members of the reunion committee as we'll be checking out a potential venue for our "mini reunion."
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📚☕ -: I thought about considering the date as "me time," but decided that it really wasn't what *I* consider "me time."
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October 23 - 181.8 - No surprise. I didn't eat well yesterday, nor had I been eating all that well previously, and today? Today will definitely show up tomorrow. Oh yes, it will. -- Had lunch with members of our reunion committee at a venue we're considering for a Schmooze-fest/Happy Hour in April. There were 7 of us there, approximately half of the actual committee. Of those 7, I'd gone to school with 3 of them since elementary school (i.e. *more* than 50 years ago), and with the other three since junior high. One of them also went to Sunday School/Hebrew School with me and we had our Bat Mitzvahs together as neither of our families had the wherewithal to throw on their own a huge shindig like our contemporaries were having. So, since our birthdays were only a couple of months apart, we did it together. That was 50 years ago last month. After all the others left, she and I moved to some Adirondack chairs in the grass on the patio of the restaurant and just talked for almost two more hours. It was a lovely way to spend the afternoon.
😅 ---- I did get a little over 20 minute of walking in, but it was slow and broken into two walks with the dog.
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🥅 -4253/1247 --- yes, you read that right... Just over 3000 calories more than I'm supposed to have. Tomorrow will be as bad. What did I have today? Donut holes, egg nog (low fat, but that doesn't mean anything), flatbread (wild mushrooms, taleggio, leaks, and truffe oil); a Carl's Jr Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger and fries. Do I regret any of it? Yeah, I actually do. Everything from Carl's Jr. It just didn't satisfy like it once might have... and the fries were cold. And I ate the whole container of donut holes. I regret not saving some for tomorrow.
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October 24 - 183.0 - and here is yesterday almost all caught up to me... but tomorrow will be up again. I've not been good today either. Salad for dinner. Funny thing is, that doesn't even disappoint me like it once would have.:)
😅 --Pretty much the same as yesterday
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🥅 -(3598/1247) - The way I've been eating the past week or so is not very different from the way I was eating back when I started here again. I'd say it's pretty clear how I got to weigh as much as I did.
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October 25 - 183.8 - Saw my bus leaving the stop as I walked out the front door. Oops. Drove to work. Ate too much all day long. Yeah... I suck.
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📔 -I tracked, but I probably missed stuff.
🥅 -(2266/1247) Slightly better than yesterday
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October 26 - 185.0 - Color me not surprised. Sickened. But not surprised.
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🥅 -(1776/1247) Down some, but still way too many carbs. I've got to get down a bit (okay, a *lot*) before the 4th or I'm going to be reamed by the dietician. Le sigh. Not that she could make me feel any worse than I do to myself. Ah well....
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📚☕ -Got a little reading in at lunch. I should have worked through lunch, but I needed the downtime.:)
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