LW: 130.4
TW: 128.8

I am so sorry to once again be logging late. I did weigh yesterday and that's what I posted. Today I'm up a bit to 129.4. I did pretty good with total kcals this week and with the exception of Halloween, did much better with sugar and fat. On Halloween I had two of those small packages of M&M's and one mini Almond Joy. I had allowed for the calories, but not for what those calories come from!

Yesterday, I was able to walk with Toni in the morning, which is something different. She is having to flex her work day to accommodate some work that needs to be done in the evenings when her residents are home. It worked well for me, too, since we left in the afternoon to visit some friends we haven't seen in person since Covid hit. They live a few towns northwest of us. He's a hospital nurse, so the past two years have been tough for them. He got Covid early in the game before vaccines were available. Thankfully, he's a strong, healthy guy and he pulled through okay and is now triple vaccinated, but he's still working extra hours, as most nurses are. Anyway, when we got home around 10 p.m., I had a couple of phone messages I had to deal with and then I was just pooped.

Sheesh, Loa is just a beautiful baby. And I think your hair looks great. I had a few low lights put in mine on Tuesday and had it cut shorter! The low lights are because I'm going almost white and I was tired of looking like a Q-tip! My stylist used a dark blonde, so it's a subtle change. And I decided that I just wanted a shorter do--in fact, I want him to cut my ears out more next time. I'm really getting brave.

Lois, I'm glad you had a fun time on Halloween with Rhea and that the massage helped with your headache, neck and back pain. It's so hard to work at a computer like you do when you're having that kind of pain.

Kelly, I am glad that you're getting extra time with Diesel and I hope that you have some good things coming to balance out these bumps in the road.

I will be back later to post some goals for the week, since that helps to keep me on track. I'll also share the "peaches" story. I have a few things I need to get done, but didn't want to delay checking in any longer.

Hi, Ladies. I didn't get back here yesterday. We went for a drive to see what fall foliage there is. It is not going to be a pretty fall (sigh). The maples are orangish, and the oaks are sort of yellow, but there's a lot of brown and green, and a fair number of naked trees (which l do like to see against the sky). Then we did volunteer work last night and then hubby started packing for his "pre-hunting trip" trip. I can't say much since I do eat meat and this meat is more humanely obtain than that we get from grocer and the fall trips are the only time he gets to be with his cousins, but he gets so focused on that that honestly, I could disappear and it it would probably take him some time to notice that I'm gone!

Anyway, it was late to bed and very early to rise. I had showered, dried my hair and dressed, run the vacuum, made the bed, dusted the upstairs and read the paper by 8 a.m. Not my usual nonwork day. But at least this will give me a shot at turning my days and nights around before daylight saving ends this weekend.

As far as goals, I am going to continue last week's goal of trying to get a daily burn of at least 1700 kcals. I can achieve my 10k step goal and still not make that. It takes some extra "push."

And as far as the peaches story--you ladies may not find it that funny, but it hit me as hilarious back when it happened. I was married at 19 (beginning of my junior year of college) until I was 35. He was a graduate student and a perfectly nice human being, but we simply were not well matched once we left the university life. We stayed together many years, but after a number of years of trying to get him to get treatment for clinical depression that was taking us both down the rabbit hole, I called it quits. Three months after that I met my current mate, although I met him just a few weeks before he was deployed for six months. And then he was back in Norfolk for only a couple of months before he was deployed for a second six months, so we actually started dating about a year after we first met. Anyway, after the divorce, I had little contact with my ex, and in the early fall of 2019, we were getting ready to take a trip and were talking to our neighbor who pet sits when the phone rang. Hubby saw on the caller ID that it was my ex and he handed me the phone, saying, "You may want to take this." Since at that point I had spoken to my ex only once in almost 20 years, we were both thinking that perhaps he was calling because someone I had once been close to had died. So I answered the phone, and he asked, "Is this _______?", and when I replied "yes," he said, "Would you like some peaches?"

I swear. It was the oddest thing ever! I told him no, that we were leaving on a trip and they probably would not be good by the time we returned. He said, "okay--we have a lot of peach trees and I thought I'd ask." Really. Why not give them to a friend or neighbor? Why not donate to a shelter? But no--after 20 years, he suddenly calls. No "hello, how have you been?" No, "I know it has been quite some time." Just, "Do you want some peaches?"

It might not be that funny to others, but it tickled my funny bone, and every now and then, I just look at hubby and say, "Would you like some peaches?" and we both collapse in giggles.

LOL, Kelly. I don't think he planned to poison me. And we don't have bad feelings for each other, so he doesn't need an excuse to contact me. Which is why it was so weird.

I'm checking in this morning to make a promise to you ladies that I will eat NO ice cream today. I don't know what gets into me when hubby is out of town. The last half gallon we bought, I didn't eat a bite of it. But yesterday, I found myself pulling the ice cream out of the freezer twice! It's only the fact that I walked more than an hour and half yesterday that allowed me to have a small deficit at day's end. But of course, I exceeded my 12-1300 actual calories goal. So since I know that if I promise something here, I'll stick to it, I'm promising to not have any ice cream, candy, cookies, etc. today.

And Lois, don't be so hard on yourself. Sometimes it is okay to let go of someone. That does not necessarily make you a hard or closed person. I certainly don't perceive you as such.

Well, I got a reminder that weight is fickle. Yesterday, I had no sugar and lots of vegetables. My protein was fish. And I got in extra activity, achieved my "burn" goal, and had about a 400 kcal deficit at the end of the day. And this morning, I weighed 131--up more than a half pound from when I last weighed on Thursday. Since I still had a deficit the day of the "ice cream indulgence," I assume this is just part of the natural fluctuation, but it's frustrating.

Sheesh, I do the same thing you do. When hubby is going away, I envision being able to watch my intake better and get in extra activity. And so often, the opposite happens.

Got a call from hubby yesterday morning. It seems he was hit with serious cramps in his quads and hamstrings again Friday night. Apparently, he and his cousin were headed out to dinner, but had to go back home until he could get the cramping under control. When he told me about it, he sounded so sad. I know he's afraid that unless they determine the cause of these and treat them, he is not going to be able to do some of the things he loves. It seems to happen when he has had some outdoor activity. Hopefully, we'll get the results of the blood tests he had done last Tuesday. They are checking to make sure it's not a non-lyme tickborne issue.

Well, I'm off to the grocery store. I'm going to try a new recipe tonight for lentil soup. Hope everyone is having a good weekend. Thinking about you all.