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Good luck with the moving planning! We still need to go through and get rid of lots of stuff but are still thinking of having an estate sale and either buying new or buying a home that is already furnished.

I hope this dose increase gives you more restriction. Once you are more in charge of your food environment, I think you'll return to a quicker pace of losing. You've done so well this summer, and now you can build on that.

When Covid showed up in spring of 2020, we were told it was especially dangerous for "elderly". Oh those poor old people I thought. Then I read that the old people they were talking about were 60 years +. I was coming up on 59. Suddenly those poor old people were me!

Age is so interesting. If you have a strong hold on your marbles and good mobility, that feels youthful no matter the date on your birth certificate. My dad at 83 falls in that category despite his cancer and periodic stent clogs. He would not get lost in the woods. While some is bad luck, how much marble retention is in our power through behavioral habits is an interesting subject that I'm not sure science has a clear grasp on yet. I do think food, particularly sugar, holds a significant role. Instead of what we were told about sugar rotting your teeth, the focus should be on sugar contributing to rotting your brain. Ironically, even knowing that connection I eat too much of it. Similar to eating too many calories, it's the fight between the pleasure of immediate reward versus long term health, which feels like a problem for a later date.

After the fire department, the gas company, and the irrigation company came (they also cut through a sprinkler pipe), we might get a gate today. It looks great. My shower before we went to dinner was lukewarm with the gas shut off, so my lifelong training as a native Californian and recent Arizonan to take very short showers was put to good use.

Sometimes September here is freezing with endless winds from the north and sometimes it's like this - warm and beautiful. 6 days until I return home and it's becoming unseasonably cool in AZ (which means 70s this time of year).

After bumping up my dose to 12.5, I had bad reflux yesterday. I ended up taking 2 Prevacids and chewing several Tums. Today feels better. I'm happy to be on 12.5 as that was 10 weeks on 10 and the effectiveness was really waning. A super responder I am not.

I was reading a ridiculous story about Kate Moss's sister who weighs in the 120s and her "overdose" on Ozempic and her message to everyone about how dangerous it is. She had seizures from dehydration and ended up in the hospital. A) she is a waif and shouldn't have been taking it, B) she got it from a friend who bought it "under the counter" so zero doctor involvement, C) she took a huge dose. It's not a dangerous drug, it's just dangerous to idiots!

Anyway, enough rambling, I should go get dressed! Take care all...

Liz, that was a serious expedition y'all did. I'm impressed.

Question for Liz: Do you have any idea how your calories are averaging over the course of your post-weight-loss 10 weeks of maintenance? I'm not too far from your weight right now and am trying to figure out my maintenance calorie budget at this weight.

Question for Diane S: Do you know how old the "elderly" lady was who was found after 2 days in the woods (yay!)? That word is getting my attention a lot lately, given my upcoming last-year-before-turning-80.

Yesterday, we accomplished neither the mowing nor the mopping. Instead, we made some plans/lists about all the remaining chores, packing, decluttering and eventually moving that needs to happen between now and mid-December.

Today I'll visit the local moving companies and learn about what's involved in moving a grand piano. I will also join my old Ozarks book club for a discussion about historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's new book, "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s." Should be a good conversation.

I hope your day's a good one.