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I kind of forget that Sedona does have a winter. Good suggestion from DD about traveling. My grandmother toured England, Scotland, and Ireland as a single in a group of other singles and she made some great friends.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
132.6
Raining again and I am calling it officially Fall. Flannel sheets and downy comforters on bed. Love love snuggling into that stuff which partially makes up for the much too early daily darkness.
Saturday laundry and kitchen cleaning done and since everything looked so very nice DH and I put up the last of the season's tomatoes and green peppers into a lovely meat sauce. Too lazy to can so into the deep freeze with it. Had some over a baked sweet potato for supper and it was yummy.
Vegging on sofa watching old Perry Mason episodes with Kurt and, of course falling asleep. Tomorrow looks like an early wake up with the time change (retirement bonus is not having to be on anyone's schedule- so there.)
153.9. Bout the same. Wi**** would start going down again. The only thing I feel I should change is to add exercise. Just can't seem to get that motivation! I don't want to up my med dose as I feel I'm restricting calories just fine.
Last day for the kids to be here. The visit was nice but it will be nice for it to be just us again and not worry about meals and activities for others.
Went out for pizza tonight. Good, I ate my standard 2 slices from a 12 inch thin crust wood grilled pizza with just mushrooms and cheese. I ordered an Old Fashioned but could only drink half (if that) of it. Tirzepatide has really taken my interest for alcohol away. I think it is affecting my libido too which is sad! Makes sense though in how it works!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
Greetings all
Fall has arrived for sure. Ok by me. Jus****ched our football team lose a heartbreaker. Oh well. Only a game. At least we had a few hours without election news.
Got a call from the nephew - the one who is expecting the baby after years of IVF. They had important news. They had been told they were expecting a boy by previous doctor. Today they get told it's a girl! Some kind of screw up in which report the doctor was reading because they had multiple embryos. They don't care so it's all good. But jeez, how goofy is that!! I am kind of glad.
Peps have you ever had body fat percentage calculated? Might be interesting. Some of us are just made to be thicker than others. Or so I tell myself. I do recall that to maintain at my low weight I could only do about 1200 calories per day. Not sustainable long term. Maybe just my rationalization.
Hoping to get back to my walking soon. This afternoon has been a cough fest even with the meds. It's all sinus driven. Makes me miserable.
Yep I really don't care about daylight time but easy for me to say. Agreed that it is uncivilized to go to work and come home in the dark.
Exotic trips CC! Sounds like your friends have the right idea. Do it while you can. And boo on the freezer. Nothing lasts anymore.
We still have cold cuts and veggies. I think I am going to cook some of the veggies as it's kind of comfort food in the cold.
Still floundering around with the gallery lease. These people are not being very cooperative.
Not much else. Diane S
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We've had 4 refrigerators in the 37 years we've lived in this house, 2 stoves, and the original washer and dryer. I'm thinking whatever makes refrigerators refrigerate is not very hardy or durable. Even the stove, we didn't replace it because it stopped working, we replaced it because I wanted a glass cooktop. I would have liked to see if the original electric stove could have kept going. I think it could! But yeah, refrigerators and freezers are too delicate.
on 11/2/24 2:02 pm
Today's gripe! I have a stand alone freezer in my laundry room (left by the previous owners). It's a Whirlpool. They had a part on order to fix it (it won't stay cold and hovers around 25-30 degrees, which is not food safe) that didn't come in until well after I took possession of the house. So I paid for the part when it came in and the service call. Then less than a year later the same part broke again. I had that fixed. Now it's broken AGAIN. I believe I have some warranty on the part (but not the $150 service calls), but I don't see this issue improving with time. I think I should just get a new non-Whirlpool freezer. But in researching freezers, every single one from all the brands has complaints! Freezing over inside, compressors breaking, losing entire freezers of food. It's so discouraging. What happened to solid appliances that work for decades? And the dimensions are all over the map so only the one I had will fit in the cabinet the way this one does. Others are too tall or too deep. So next to the matching fridge which does keep temperature, it's going to look funny. And the one that I think will look the least funny and is not a Whirlpool is backordered until December.
So I cleaned out my main freezer and Tetrised everything from the other one in there. Once again, nothing is easy!
I decided to be happy at a higher weight. It was too hard to stay at the calorie deficit I needed to loss anymore. Maybe one day I will. I could go up one more dose in Wegovy, or switch to Zepbound, or take my Wegovy every 7 days instead of every 9 days like I've been doing.
There are no easy answers to this. I absolutely understand why you want to get under 200. Physically, its probably the right thing for your body. Psychologically it's a very powerful number.
on 11/2/24 1:47 pm
I think they were very successful in their working lives! He ran marketing for Atkins, she was a biochemist for Proctor and Gamble (funny to hear her early career stories of being the only woman on the original Always development team having to explain pad absorbency needs to a bunch of men). They sold their home on the sand in San Diego to move to Sedona. She said they decided not to get a second home and put that money toward travel instead. They do phenomenal trips. And even after all their years together they genuinely love spending time with each other. It's really lovely to see.
I'm not sure how I feel about the time change. If we didn't fall back, it would be dark here until 8:30 or 9:00 am in the winter. But in order to have some light in the morning, we have the sun setting around 4:30 during peak dark days in December. As it is, I go to work in the dark, and, if I stay late, return in the dark. So maybe it would be better to have the hour of light in the evening. When we spring ahead, by June we have the sun up by 5am and setting around 9:30 pm. I LOVE it. Is summer considered standard time?
Went for coffee this morning, and then to the mad house known as Costco. I think its best to avoid Costco on Saturday, but we needed a few things and decided to get it over with. I cleaned out the fridge to make room for the new food. DH loves to leave jars and bottles of things in the fridge with a tablespoon of product in them. Once that task was done, I cleaned out some pots and the flower bed in front of the house. We had a frost that killed the tender flowers, but the snapdragons soldier on. Some still have buds, but even if we don't have a hard freeze, I don't know if there is enough light for them to open. But I left them in place, all the same.
I finally got on the scale to discover that I was in the low end of my range. So here I was, considering being an ostrich, even though my clothes felt fine, even though I didn't look any different, because I was sure I was going to be up several pounds. The mind games we endure with the scale and weight in general.
I really need to do some basic cleaning chores, but have so little interest in getting them done. I know I'll feel better once that's behind me, so I should get going.
I am in a mood about weight loss! It's okay and I am not seeking consolation or commiseration, just voicing here cuz I think y'all get it.
I have reached that God awful stage of weight loss where I have to deal head on with the eating disorder garbage to continue to lose weight. That means for me I have to start making emotionally uncomfortable choices. And because I am not calorie counting or tracking grams of macros (other than loosely tracking protein intake to make sure I'm close to 100 grams per day), the choices have to be made. In the long run, this is a good thing. In the short term, IT SUCKS!
This type of issue brings out my inner Varuca Salt. Because I was "good" yesterday and had to make a hard choice, my inner petulant child wanted and expected a significant drop in the scale this morning. No such luck!
I also want to lose about 35 more pounds. Not sure if that is realistic. Logically, yes it is. Emotionally, physically, I'm not so sure. I have to drop at least 25 so I'm securely under 200. I will not be satisfied being over 200. Muscles or not, I really don't think I should weigh more than 200 for my height. (Remember top of the healthy BMI range for me is 159.)
Anyhow, that is where I am today... Other than that I'm busy with dog grooming and getting pics of the RV so the listing agent can get them posted!
Satisfying Saturday to one and all....
