Sunday, December 30, 2018

Weight: 134.8
Macros: Calories - 1,466, Carbs - 97, Fats - 48, Protein - 101, Fiber - 15
Sleep hours: 8
Vegetable/Fruit Servings: 7
Water glasses: 2
Exercise: 14,000 steps, 60" yoga
Meditation: Yes

Yesterday was a good day. Took a lovely walk with friends in the cold (32 degrees), then went out to lunch and ran some errands. I got another good night's sleep and can feel how good eight solid hours of rest is for my body and soul. The eyelid continues to improve slowly.

Today is the serious packing day. Happily, I have all the laundry baskets I need. I'll walk with friends again and in the afternoon enjoy a visit from my niece.

I'm on the upswing.

;)

;) Love your sister's suggestion !

1. Within Range: yes
2. General Wellbeing: 8 on SS
3. 10,000+ Steps: 9481
4. Fitness: mall walking
5. Self-Care: taking care of burn; added waterpik to daily regimen
6. Play/Leisure: reading, knitting
7. Intention: Finish 2018 the way I intend to start 2019.

Going to have a quiet NY Eve at home, then have friends in NY Day for board games and supper. I'm going to make a white chicken chili, for something different. I'm going grocery shopping for random needed ingredients today, as I fear it will be a zoo tomorrow. DD, your new car sounds great ! I couldn't live without my heated seats ! (Shel...never used them in the summer....) Ann, you sound great, and your wink makes me smile ! Peps... love the photo of you and BFF !! The respect and affection are palpable.

Weight 121, calories 1437. What? A drop with calories higher than planned? Most of the excess sweets are gone and my dropping weight will give me incentive to eat on plan for the most part now, I hope. This is the point where my body has seemed to resist going below for a few months now. I haven't been under 120 since October 13 (and only for a day) and not in my 115-118 range since July 27. The last time I was fully hovering in that range daily was the month of June.

So exciting to be packing for NOLA! I always used to pack in laundry baskets to go to cottages in the summer. Now I pack in boxes and ship for Florida (LOL).

Yesterday we had a nice visit with our friends from support group. DH complained about the croissant I got him (too big) and his friend got nudgy after an hour and told his wife they needed to go because he had things to do (she said that didn't). That is his constant anxiety about feeling that he should be doing something though he doesn't know what it is. Sort of like taking a couple of kids along for coffee hour...

Today I need to pay bills, do laundry and start taking down some Christmas decorations. I am going to do the trees the day before we leave because I like the lights, but I want to work on getting everything else down prior to that. We fly back south in 5 days and other than today there is something going on every day.

Have a super Sunday!

Unknown weight.

Yesterday we entertained some friends to watch the Orange bowl. It's too bad they (OU) completely shot themselves in the foot in the first quarter; I thought it would be a bloodbath. But it was actually a pretty competitive game during the last 3 quarters. But there's no coming back from a 28 deficit against a team like Alabama. That's okay. This was always supposed to be a rebuilding year for OU. And they finished with a Heisman winner and an appearance in the Orange Bowl. Pretty good.

I love the holidays and I'm sad to see them go, but I think I'll also be relieved. I'm so sick of leftovers and things out of place. But I must admit, the house feels so barren when all the decorations are down. I'm thinking of taking myself out to Pier 1 or another décor store to shop for a few winter-woodland type decorations. I want to keep it very neutral and clean, but some greenery and birch and whites might be nice. This is my least decorated season because I have Easter, then pretty soon thereafter I go into patriotic décor, fall, Christmas...

Pretty chilly here so I served potato soup (using leftover potatoes) and ham and cheese sliders and leftover goodies last night.

Today should be pretty slow paced, which I don't mind.

Though I'm going to take some decorations down today, I'm leaving the trees up until Thursday, the day before we leave for Florida. I love sitting by a lit tree.

Supah Sunday to you all!

Yesterday, MFP tracking fell to the wayside by end of day. Not a bad day of eating, just not weighing food and tracking. Today's another day. I have to be careful not to fall into "well, now the day is ruined" thinking in pretty much every category of my life.

Peps, I enjoyed your museum trip! It is fun to play tourist in your hometown. ;), I can't remember, are you having new lenses made for NOLA or is there still a chance you might have the surgery before you go? BB, you have inspired me to drop by Pier1 sometime, I had totally forgot about that store.

Crisis adverted: I could hear the water begin to boil in the instant pot and then became alarmed when I saw the plastic pressure knob wasn't on the lid and steam was jetting out the top. Anyhoo, I found the lid in the closet floor and (with visions of DianeO dancing in my head) managed to put it on without a burn.

Nothing to do with food or fitness: the NYT's has a Sunday feature about how an individual spends his/her Sundays. Sometimes, I am interested, but most of the time I just click then leave. This week it was on Deepak Chopra and it has pictures of him in his house as well as a description of his activities. I approve of his anti-gravity recliner. I zoomed in to read the titles of his book collection. I am embarrassed by my noseiness but decided to share, anyway. D Chopra's Sunday

Find Peace, maybe while sitting in an anti-gravity recliner.

Shel

Shel, I'll be in NOLA only 2 (maybe 3) weeks before my second (tentatively scheduled) surgery. At this point, I'm getting more accustomed to wandering around in public while simultaneously left-sighted like a sniper and right-sighted like a mole at high noon. For now, my plan is to continue this "on the one hand, on the other hand" lifestyle until I can be surgerized.

By the way, I've been told that glasses at this point (with an Rx for only the right eye) would result in double vision. I can see how that could happen, since I've come to appreciate that the artificial lens inserted in my left eye during cataract surgery magnifies everything by about 20%.

Oh! And for weeks post-first-cataract surgery that extra magnification had my dysmorphia amped up in high gear, since my body looked incredibly larger to me in my huge bathroom mirrors than it did pre-op.

The **** they don't tell you about cataract surgery before you have cataract surgery could fill a ******g book.

;)

Hmmm... Interesting factoids about cataract surgery.

Love this comment by Chopra: "Everyday reality is a lucid dream, and I reflect on that. Then I detach from it and let it go. Experience is ungraspable. It's all snapshots."

That certainly sounds like my take on it all. However, I still try very hard to make sense of it all. Maybe I'll dial that part down.