Thursday, July 22, 2021

Finally a sunny, not too humid summer day! Yesterday we went to Mike's beach and split a burger at a cool restaurant out there. Really a nice way to spend a hot, humid day!

Today my 9 month old great nephew is bringing his Mom and maternal grandmother here to spend the day with his paternal grandmother and 2 great-aunts (LOL). I am looking forward to a day of cuteness.

Tonight Mike and I will actually be alone for once as DS is taking our friend's wife to NH for a procedure to get clothes. Our friend is gaining strength slowly after his coronary but still isn't strong enough for a cardiac catheterization. We are feeling hopeful but he really isn't out of the woods yet.

I have a healthy plan for food today. Hopefully I will follow it! I was realizing that next weekend I will see several former co-workers at a retirement party and it would be good to lose a couple of pounds by then.

Have a safe and healthy Thursday!

I love that Mike is willing to share meals with you. DH and I used to do that, but he doesn't want to very often now. It would be better all around, calories and $ if we returned to this habit. And I don't even want half, 1/3 to a 1/4 of the meal should do it.

Today is going fine foodwise, yesterday no. But back at my lower carb eating. This morning I had to sit at the DVM for hours to get driver's license renewed. Probably helped with the eating, as I was stuck there with no snacks! Then BFF and I were going to go to the beach, but it is now very overcast. If it would rain, it would be very, very welcomed. So we're going to go to a movie this afternoon, Road Runner, the documentary about Anthony Bordain.

Not much else. Maybe a Costco run.

Cool gray day here with rain a possibility. Last night's party was fun. Even though I feel "fat", I wore a pretty new dress and got nice compliments about looking good from people I haven't seen in a while. It was another realization that so much of all of this is mental. And that my perception of how I look is not necessarily a reflection of me but a disconnect between where I am and the fantasy of what I wish I weighed. "I'm not there so it must be bad." Would I look better? Probably. But that doesn't mean I should be hidden in a cupboard right now. It's like how I felt fat as a young person when looking back, I wasn't more than a little overweight. Argh.

Tonight we have people coming over for dinner. They are my guinea pigs for a new recipe: https://themodernproper.com/pork-banh-mi-burger

Not low calorie, but they look delicious.

Jus****ched a big raccoon waddle across the lawn and climb the big maple out front. Another devourer of fallen mulberries.

I think that's all I have. Hope everyone is well!

I wasted so much time as a teenager thinking I was fat. Trying not to waste any of "my golden years" doing the same thing.