Sunday February 5

We are in Savannah - we ate in a wonderful old building on the riverfront last night.  We loved it in the historical district - we will be back when it is warmer to spend more time!  Today we only have a 6 hour drive, so we are on the home stretch.  I have no idea about weight or calories but my scale for Florida has been shipped.

I hope all is well with all of you.  I'll try to catch up on postings over the next couple of days. Have a wonderful Sunday (and GO PATRIOTS!).

139 Partly water, partly carbs. Considered doing my big compression wrap for the first time since before Christmas, but I'm going to hold off and see where I land tomorrow. I want to get a nice long walk in with Sadie, if the wind stays down and it gets above 20.

Starting to pack for CA, leaving early Friday AM. I HATE boarding Sadie, but I LOVE visiting my daughter. Ugh !

Blood work and pneumonia shot tomorrow AM, then puttering and errands at home.

Welcome Sherri ! You've found a great place to process progress toward maintenance of healthy living !

Diane

My SIL said someone at Zumba was taking about doing a compression wrap. What does it actually do?

Compression wraps can be used for different reasons.  The more common reason is for general athletics. There are those that believe that they help muscles perform better and/or recover more quickly during exercise. 

Both DianeO and I have need for medical compression wraps.  In my case, most of my lymph nodes were removed from one arm at time of mastectomy several years ago.

The wrap provides graded compression to move the lymph up and out of the arm.  One of my wraps is a series of bandages that I layer on.  This is incredibly bulky so I would normally just use at night tho lots of people wear it 24 hours.  Another is a custom sleeve which is less effective that than the other but works better under clothes.  

I decide which (if any) of the wraps to wear depending on what I feel like whi*****ludes what I want to wear.   Both limit mobility but to varying degrees.  I wouldn't use either in a yoga class.  

Weight this morning: 134.8

Macronutrients yesterday:  Cals - 1,431, Carbs - 180, Fat - 47, Protein - 65, Sugar - 96, Fiber - 25

­Exercise yesterday:  None

Veggies/fruits yesterday:  5 (goal is 7)

Weather today:  Nice - 60 F, partly cloudy, not windy

Plans for today:  Laundry, a nice warm walk, work on speech, crosswords with hubby (and Super Bowl?)

Neither of us are big football fans, so we may or may no****ch some of the big game.  BTW, I remember hearing about five years ago prior to WLS (when I was on my last big meal-in-a-box diet before regaining all the weight I'd lost on that diet, too) that the Super Bowl is the biggest calorie-intake day of the year - even bigger than Thanksgiving.  No idea if that's actually true.

Liz - Yea for Savannah and y'all's fine time there.  Really can't believe we haven't been to Savannah yet.  Safe travels on down to Florida. 

Historically I was never a big football fan either. I just liked the parties. But it is hard not to get caught up in Brady and the Patriots.

I was in Boston just after Brady's suspension for deflateglate.  Signs were up EVERYWHERE demanding his release from suspension.  Being from Seattle I enjoyed it greatly ;) But he (as always) had the last laugh.  Enjoy the game!  It is great fun to have the hometown team in the game. 

135.6 same. No exercise yesterday. In fact I was a slug with less than 4,000 steps for the day! Yikes

I'm not a football fan at all. May peek in at some commercials or the half time show but that is about it. No super bowl fare for us today. We will stop by our favorite Mexican place after church which is a common occurrence on Sundays. Dinner will most likely be FFY, which in our house means fend for yourself! I'll probably have a protein bar

I've been scouring the internet for homes and/or rentals in FL....just in case. Probably shouldn't waste so much time and energy until we know for sure. That was one big reason my steps were so low yesterday!

Eating wasn't so great. Definitely some contamination going on! Here are the macros:

No wt today. House sitting. Calories 1468.  

Got the car unloaded and took one of the poodles and the boxer for a run. We were in a vehicle so no steps for that.  The other poodle stayed in the kennel because of recent hip surgery.  We would have hiked but weren't dressed for it.  Had to keep the boxer out of the woods because of an eye infection and he can't see good enough to keep out of the bushes.  

Saw about 20 wild turkeys on the way to the shop in the woods.  Just standing in a field like they owned the place.  

More later, David

152.1 - two pounds lost in two days. Stress!!

sorry this is so long - just a bit of background...

Going to visit my parents today. They live about an hour and 15 minutes away. Daddy (83 yrs) is having surgery on Tuesday to replace his prosthetic knee  which had to be removed five months ago after a 22 month bout with infections. He has been on an "antibiotic spacer" and a PICC line ever since, trying to get the infection under control. He has lost about 40 pounds, feels a lot better, and is much less confrontational than he previously was! That's the good news.

Politically, we are miles apart, and my daughters are Chinese, which can make it even more difficult, as he can be very racist, even tho he adores my girls wholeheartedly. They have an enormous motorcoach which they will never be able to use again, and I am going to bring the subject up of me taking it over. Expecting a lot of pushback - "it is too big for one person", etc. But I can handle it, especially with my girls' help - they are amazing kids!!!  And anyhow, not only did he teach me to drive all over again after the drivers ed teacher got thru with me, plus I was stationed in Naples, Italy for 2 1/2 years and never got into an accident that was my fault, but also, he has had some pretty sizable fender benders in the darn thing himself!!! :)

If a new job isn't rapidly forthcoming, which I have to accept as a distinct possibility, I am thinking of selling the house right before the end of the school year, or possibly renting it out, and going on the road for the summer. Visiting all the national parks, etc!!

Tomorrow I gird up my loins and start flooding my contacts with resumes.  But I am also very seriously looking at starting an online business that I can run from anywhere. After I took early retirement from the Navy, at age 37, I was a writer, an HR consultant, a website developer - which I still do - and a successful commercial butterfly farmer.  Income during those years was erratic, but was starting to really take off when I made the choice to go back into the corporate world.

My entrepreneurial antennae are on full alert.  One of the things I wish my parents had taught me was "find your passion and then find a way to monetize it." I try to teach my girls to do just that, yet every day they have been watching me go in to a job I increasingly dislike. What sort of example is that for a parent to set?! We only have one life...

Sheri