Saturday, July 2, 2022

Rain, rain, go away! I know we need it but it changes our plans for the day. We were going to go to a couple of Mike's granddaughter's softball games at a tournament in Rhode Island but apparently they are already calling the games off. We will likely still go to Providence to meet a couple of friends for lunch but then have to make our way back over the bridge. Hopefully the traffic will have died out by then but we may end up stuck in it which is always frustrating.

Not much else going on. I seem to be on a mussel kick when we go out to eat. I think I have had the mussel appetizer as my meal the last 3 times we went out for dinner, one being last night. I figure that is healthier than eating something like pasta or a burger.

Have a satisfying Saturday!

I too think mussels are a better choice than a lot of other restaurant foods. Lots of protein, and, as you pointed out before, getting them out of the shell gives you a chance to eat slowly and savor them.

Its overcast here, rained during the night. Our plan is to eat lunch at a fish shack type place on the coast before we go to the concert. We ate there last year on my birthday, and it was some of the best lobster and white fish ever. But if its raining, not so good.

The concert venue is right on the coast, and has a wall of glass behind the stage/ performance area framing the ocean view. The first time I went to this town about 5 years ago I knew I wanted to attend a performance there on day. Well today's the day. We will see a string quartet, something I really enjoy. If I do indeed get to have the perfect lobster roll, it will be a 5 star day. However it all goes down, it is going to be awesome.

We forgot to pack our scale! My husband ordered a cheap one from Amazon. You get what you pay for, because this scale is crack! It swings 10 pounds in the same day. Not a reliable baseline. We'll have to wait until we visit DD's apartment on Thursday. I'm eating some caloric foods, but I'm pleased with my portion sizes, and I'm not snacking much. We share a lot of meals with my Aunt and Uncle. They are naturally thin people, and don't enjoy heavy foods. They like fish, and stir fry and bean soup etc. So that helps too. It's easy to fool yourself, but I feel like I definitely have not gained. I'm going to put on just washed white jeans in a little bit. That will be a baseline too :)

Yes, jeans definitely work as a baseline!

Yes, it's the portion sizes that turn perfectly fine to eat foods into the devil. If I could moderate that aspect (and the foods I most need to moderate seem to be those slider foods which the sleeve is no defense for) all would be well in my world.

Enjoy your seafood- sounds so yummy. Anything available here in the "interior" is not hardly worth eating.

Update: At least one of the granddaughter's softball games is back on as the thunderstorms are supposed to be later than originally predicted. Hopefully this means that DD and her DH's lobster and concert proceed with more or less dry weather too.

Rain rain go away, at least for the day!

I guess it's a raining day in New England! And here, I feel like "when it rains, it pours".... 2 pups have fevers and really mucousy poop. Hoping it's something treatable like ****idia.... We started all 14 pups on Panacur last night. Fingers Crossed....

Got interrupted and took some time to take puppy temps and I'm happy to report both pups have temps back in the normal range. Breathing much easier.....

GOAT v2.0 saga continues.... Still in shop. No word on when it will be ready. I'm beginning to resent this vehicle. I have found a much younger sister/brother of GOAT (under 10 years old) with only 13K miles on it. I am pretty much ready to take a financial hit and trade GOAT v2.o in for GOAT v3.0. Goat 3.0 would come with no rehab work needed either. I could eventually replace flooring, but other than that, it's good to go.

On the weight, eating dysfunctional side of things: Do you still ever suffer from delusional thinking, e.g. "I cut out wine this week, so I should drop a few pounds," or "I'm only eating two meals and a snack every day. I should lose weight," but you really have no weight loss plan in place? I am guilty of that in a big way. It's one of the things I've learned about myself and accept. What is eluding me is my lack of commitment to a weight loss plan that will work. I know I have deprivation issues and that is what my eating disorder plays upon, but whoa, I sure am feeling the sting of not being okay with an actual weight loss plan. Perhaps this is all part of the process. I would like the process to be just a tad quicker.... (said with jovial frustration and a bit of self deprecation!)

My food plan/goal for this week remains simple: eat 2-3 fruit and at least one serving of greens per day and make sure I eat by noon each day. (I often don't eat until later and that is becoming a problem.)

Ron got home last night from his conference in Louisville. His plane was delayed so he landed at 1:20 am. We were back home by 2:30 am. I was in bed by 3 am. Got up at 7:00 am for the dogs and tried to go back to sleep. I did doze on and off until about 8:30. I have a feeling I might be tired later. But first I have to entertain a puppy buyer.... Not too many quiet moments around here lately.

Happy Saturday!

Do you still ever suffer from delusional thinking, e.g. "I cut out wine this week, so I should drop a few pounds," or "I'm only eating two meals and a snack every day. I should lose weight," but you really have no weight loss plan in place?"

I think this is why people say "I've been on a diet forever and never lose weight!" The fact that they aren't eating everything they want and thinking about weight loss makes it feel like they are dieting (and failing). It's very similar to me feeling like I'm busy with moving stuff, when in reality I'm thinking/worrying about what I need to do to move so it feels like I'm doing something, when thinking isn't doing even though it's taking up mental energy. Mental energy doesn't produce the results of physical energy.

My daughter and I say to each other while eating indulgently, "Why can't I lose weight?". Of course we know full well at that moment what we're doing, but it is easy to kid yourself many days. I went through a period of taking pictures of everything I ate to give myself a visual of what I was consuming. Sometimes I still try to do a mental rsview, and picture each snack and meal in my head. So easy to skip over something, and never have any recollection that you ate it.

Lazy day! I did figure out how to make an appointment with the AZ DMV to get a license and reregister my car. So that's in a few weeks (eek).

Showered and used some new very expensive hair frizz spray and I think it's as frizzy if not more. Sigh.

Still fleshing out my lists for moving and taking. I took a shirt I bought and it's replacement to the UPS store to ship them back. I have a lot of them as I like them. The first one had one sleeve that's several inches smaller in diameter. The replacement did too. There must somewhere be a bunch of XL sleeves on small shirts! Then to the grocery store to buy stuff for the salad I'm taking to my friend's 4th barbecue. They live right next door to one of the high schools and the city sets off fireworks there.