Saturday, May 25, 2019

Weight 133.4 (minus 1.1), calories 945. Gotta love how fast the first few pounds drop when we go back to controlled eating. Of course, then there are the remaining ones that hang and hang...

It was great to hear from Dave - keep posting Dave, we LOVE to hear about your granddaughters. Interesting how in the same week new life arrives and another life leaves. We have all the important stories here that we are living through.

It is sunny out and supposed to be in the low 70's today! DD is here and we will belatedly celebrate her 31st birthday late this afternoon.

Good start so far: DH is still in bed and there are no pee trails into the bathroom. So it may be a good day! I'm going to finish my coffee then take a walk with Justice followed by a shower.

Have a super Saturday!

Weight: 138.4
Macros: Calories - 1,264, Carbs - 130, Fat - 28, Protein - 112, Fiber - 25
Sleep hours: 7 hours
Veggie/Fruit Servings: 10
Water glasses: 1
Exercise: 4,000 steps + 20 minutes yoga@home

Not much new here ... will be mowing this morning and running errands this afternoon.

I've been listening to podcasts from past years' U. Iowa summer writing workshops and enjoying them. Yesterday I listened to a couple on (1) writing taboos, e.g., what is (and isn't) cultural appropriation; (2) feminine and masculine writing voices (spoiler: old white guys define "good writing"). If anyone wants to check out U.Iowa writing podcasts, they're here.

Today's theme: Get up and do what needs to be done. Listen here.

138.6

Liz, I am sorry you are daily dealing with the stress of daily anticipating business unfinished and now, seemingly, incompletable. What out there can resolve this issue- hoping you find the answer.

Oh, Peps-these entanglements that came with MIL's passing must be causing difficulties with getting on with the true business of grieving, and,yes, in celebrating a life well lived and loved. Hoping....

Hope- a strange word I use a lot and wonder at the power and truth found within it. A belief that what is wonderful (new babies, reunions with friends, adventures) will continue? Or maybe that what is sad and distressful will cease? Or that change is possible-tomorrow does not have to be the same as today. I'm thinking of you, dear David. I know what it is to be stuck in depression- to feel the inability to move ones self out of the mire. The food, the pain, the alcohol. I am Hoping for you that light will shine upon you and that belief in the hope of change will spark strength, courage, and redemption--a restorative ability to move positively into a state of joy.

Ann- exact time and route not quite set yet. I have traveled through West Plains to Florida Panhandle several times. Am looking to see if going or returning that way is the better idea. Hoping (yes, that word used again!) this happens!

Hoping for all today that good times continue, that sad, or bad, or painful times pass quickly, problems solved, tasks completed...That life moves forward for all of us in a way that, what ever we encounter, it is used for our good and growth- to help ourselves and empower us to help others.

I refrained from posting this yesterday, but given the response to MIL's sudden death, I really want to share this photo with you. This is MIL an hour or so before she died. This is what she was doing when she passed on. When I look at it I can't feel sad or distraught about her passing. I find the photo to be otherworldly, heavenly. Yesterday I found myself several times mentally congratulating MIL on her exit. What southern debutante wouldn't revel in such an exit?

Absolutely! That's how I want to go!

Gosh, gosh, gosh! Me, too.

1000 amens to all of that, Peps!

As for me on the weight front.... I'm up 1.8 pounds from Thursday. No real surprise there. I hit the sugar yesterday. Family death will to that to me, I guess. I am going to give myself credit though, because it could have been far worse. I maintained a level of normalcy to my sugaring. If I was an 8 year old no one would have thought too much about my sugaring yesterday.

Today I have a client in the morning. Then I need to work on Liza a little bit before her new mom arrives today. I also have to put together a contract for the sale. Hoping (there's that word!) I can get the printer to work. We also have some major cleaning up to do. The house is really quite messy. It's actually beyond messy.... It's dirty! I need the rain and dribbling to stop and for summer to get on with it! It's much easier to keep the house in order when I don't have wet dogs with muddy feet to contend with.

Today's theme is DE-SUGAR & GET THINGS DONE

Well, I faced the music and weighed today. Good lord. Onward and downward, one hopes...

I need to get back on a food routine. No more takeout/delivery/fast food. More cooking. I leave next Friday for Michigan, so the change of scenery can also be a time for renewed good habits (minus the endless ****tail/appetizer/dinner parties). I know what to do. I just have to do it.

Ferg needs a bath in a bad way. I was putting it off because I know he hates baths and to be clean and I wanted him to be happy, but he seems good, so the grime has got to go today. And it's good exercise for me.

Also need to start my list and planning to relocate for summer. Ought to keep me busy for awhile!

I guess we both faced the music this week... I am finding it somewhat easier to get back on a better routine here than in Florida so hopefully Michigan will help you too. Certainly anything that raises one's spirits is helpful regardless.