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Thanks for all of the protein suggestions. I boiled up a dozen eggs this morning and made 2 of them into modified deviled eggs for lunch and added a beef stick for the extra protein. The modification was using Walden Farms honey Dijon mustard instead of mayo. Their dressings have zero calories, carbs, sugar etc. I used their dressing in a past weight loss program in egg salad and remembered it worked pretty well.

We had flash flooding today. Ended up with a little pond in the backyard. We were out shopping and the rain was coming down so hard it was hard to see the road. 5 inches in one hour! A dam broke in a community about an hour away. What a mess!

I'm actually finding it hard to get 1000 calories in at this point. I have to eat with a purpose for sure. Got a variety pack of pure protein ready made shakes. Hope I like them. I'm giving up on the protein powder I bought! I think it has been the biggest contributor to my GI woes.

Nothing much going on except shopping and cooking today. DS #2 comes home tonight, DS #3 comes home tomorrow and DC #1 will pop in as they can between work. Tomorrow we need to cut down a tree that unfortunately didn't survive the curb appeal we put around it a few years ago (root had to be cut to put in the curbing). It was a beautiful Autumn Blaze maple too! Darn it all! It still has a few green leaves on it but is for sure dying and we don't want buyers next year having to deal with it or making us deal with it at the very end! We jacked up a sinking landing to our steps also for that very reason! The joys of owning (and selling) a home! It will be me doing a major clean out like Liz next year.

Nice that you got a break today after a delayed travel day. Cool that you rode first class!

Yeah for DDs fiance having a truck. Invaluable! I imagine you feel a little lighter each time a load leaves your house.

We had an adventure yesterday. We got to the airport extra early because we thought there might be traffic snarls due to the holiday. San Diego looks like it goes all out for the 4th, which makes sense since it has so many navy and marine bases in the vicinity. Turns out we didn't need to get there early, because our plane had no pilot, and we had to wait for them to arrive on a different flight. So the delay was 4 hours. Delta removed some of the sting by bumping us up to 1st class. Since I've never traveled for work, or ever earned 1st class money, this was the only time I've been so upgraded. It was fun. :) I think getting upgraded to Comfort + or even the exit row is a big coup. It's going to be difficult when I return to steerage in a couple of weeks.

Looks like it rained and stormed quite a bit while we were gone. No worries about my flowers, they were well watered. It's fall temps today, partly cloudy, and will probably rain again over the next few days. We are sunburned (opps!) from San Diego and thankful for a stretch of sunny days.

My parents had unexpected company yesterday (which I like, because they need some novelty once in awhile), but now they are tired, and asked us not to come today. That actually works well for us. Now I can unpack and wash clothes, and get some groceries. We will go tomorrow instead.

The pig roast at friends was okay. I enjoyed talking to the friends, but didn't know anyone else and they (40 or so people) are all related, so were into catching up with themselves family reunion style. So we left around 7, home hours before fireworks. We had the gray and dreary day yesterday with rain this morning. Steamy now (RIP my hair) and more rain later.

Down a pound of my 2 pound bounce up this morning, but even though I've done okay weight loss-wise, I am no Liz! I still want to eat even on the new 10mg. And it's harder here in MI as it's one long foodfest from June through September. A little disheartening as I would love to not have an appetite on this, but I absolutely do. I'm not going to forget to eat, have to force a few bites, or eat under 1000 a day. It's still a struggle for me to not overeat. Hard not to compare my experience to others and be bummed it doesn't work as well for me!

Kirby did great with the fireworks! So proud of him.

I should probably take him for a walk. We walked a little over 2 miles yesterday and he brought home a tick. Blech.

Have a great day!

Interesting - I have similar aversions/likes. I usually crave sweets and really don't care about them now. Salty stuff often tastes too salty. I still like wine but not much of it. Mexican tastes great.

I eat a lot of eggs, cottage cheese, tuna and shrimp to get protein. I use Fairlife vanilla protein drink as my coffee creamer. I also have some bags of Quest protein chips for snacks but find that I really don't want them much.