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11 marzo 2022

Thrilled to be below 130 but admit it's actually impossible for me to lose that much since a pound is 3600 calories and I didn't have a deficit of 2880. It must be water, etc. Also, I had grapes yesterday so am very surprised, thought it might be up a little. Yesterday I took about 6 bags of groceries to the gal that I help with food. She is in very poor shape but I don't help with anything other than groceries. Then I went to Home Depot and bought a bunch of Heirloom seeds for vegetables and 3 fifty-pound bags of washed sand. I saw one video on Youtube with a gentleman using sand as a seed-starter medium. My efforts at growing are not very good and I often forget to water things but I plan to continue trying. My numerous slips of basil are not starting to water root at all and about one-fourth of them died. Maybe they aren't supposed to be in a sunny window. Next time I go to Home Depot I'll buy some of that powder that helps to grow roots. I did tell my husband I bought 3 bags of sand for seed starter and got away with it.

He helped me drill holes near the bottom in the 2 storage containers I bought to make raised beds, rather than in the bottom of them for drainage so tree roots can't grow up into them. Living in Southern California we don't have much rain so I can let some water sit in the bottom. My husband has no idea I hope to have many but am just starting with two. Buying the cheapest ($7. at Walmart) 18 gallon totes that aren't clear (opaque) I will put branches in the bottom hoping the holes won't get clogged with dirt. Then I will mix kitchen scraps with leaves, grass clippings, and shredded paper, and put some compost on the top. There is so much I don't know, but this seems much less expensive than just buying all potting mix. The last 2 weeks I threw out so many kitchen scraps that I was saving for these raised beds because they rotted. I didn't know if I could still use them with fuzzy mold on them. I have no idea how you tell if they have disease. I have been saving all kinds of disposable food containers to start seeds and slips in. Time to start poking holes in the bottoms of those. I bet I am a couple months late in doing this as usual. Like I said I am no farmer. Are you thinking of growing something for hard times ahead?

Peso:	Disminuído hasta ahora:	Aún para ir:	Dieta seguida:
58,8 kg	0 kg	7,5 kg	Bien

(12 comentarios) Perdiendo 1,9 kg a la Semana

10 marzo 2022

The weight usually comes off faster if it's only been up for a couple of days or so. Yesterday was day 2 of no wine or sweets, even though I was very tempted when I went to cook dinner. I resisted and am surprised I wasn't tempted to have sweets later. When I go on maintenance, by that time I have denied myself for so long, I feel like I deserve to have some fruit other than berries, and that is where I usually go off track. Although I was very strict yesterday I did indulge in an orange so am delighted that weight that has only been on for about a week came off. Even though it is full of sugar I don't count it as a dessert. As my weight gets lower I probably won't be able to lose if I partake in extra fruit other than berries. I've been through this routine hundreds, maybe thousands of times.

Peso:	Disminuído hasta ahora:	Aún para ir:	Dieta seguida:
59,1 kg	0 kg	7,8 kg	Bien

(2 comentarios) Perdiendo 2,5 kg a la Semana

09 marzo 2022

Yesterday was day one (again) of not having sweets or wine. There is no date or particular weight set for limiting myself and that may be a fatal flaw. Usually, I have more resolve if I chose a date (not too far off) of being able to have wine or even a sweet. But either “jags” my sugar addiction. I can barely get away with having pasta or potatoes once in a while. We will see how long I can go. It was close to 2 months last time and accomplished losing 10 lbs and going into the 127s which satisfied me greatly. A pound a week is enough for me.

It's embarrassing to admit that I couldn't find the top part of my food processer to slice the 14 lbs of baby carrots that I brought home Sunday for the dehydrator. Although my kitchen is torn up because we were preparing to tear the tile out, I also believe it's possible my husband threw it out with the multitude of my things he disposed of from the garage a month ago. It was imperative that I either deal with the carrots or lose them since I didn't have room for them in the refrigerator but left them in the cold garage for 2 nights. Tuesday the weather warmed up so it was now or never. I ended up hand-cutting each and every silly one of the baby cuts the long way to make them thin enough. Since I had to blanch them any way I just boiled them a minute longer so they would be soft all the way through to cut easily. They are lightly cooked rather than the short blanching required to dehydrate but I plan to powder them anyway. It's always a hassle to boil them (in 7 batches). After 2 lbs I couldn't stand at the sink any longer cutting them with my bad back but was able to sit in front of the TV leaning back on pillows with the cutting board on my lap, then had to place them alternating cut side up then down to make room for all of them (albeit crowded) on the dehydrator trays. Whew...

Peso:	Disminuído hasta ahora:	Aún para ir:	Dieta seguida:
59,4 kg	0 kg	8,2 kg	Bien

(1 comentario) Perdiendo 2,5 kg a la Semana

08 marzo 2022

It's hard to be honest with myself. I had planned to not weigh today because I was actually higher yesterday than this weight. It's like if I turn my back on reality maybe it will disappear and maybe I can change it before anyone (including myself) knows the truth. Totally childish thinking! Obviously, I am very divided which is only one of my various problems. I had gone one day with no wine, but as I was making dinner I thought a little wine is good for me and I can hold out the rest of the day without sweets. I made Costco's lobster ravioli for me but my husband won't eat it, so I made some Bertoli's cheese ravioli for him to have after his big wonderful salad. I put lots of butter and parmesan on it, the way he likes pasta, but he put it on the kitchen counter and without a word, left in the car. I guess he went out to dinner because he was gone more than an hour. He didn't say anything when he came home but I guess I'm lucky that he said good-night to me when that time came. I had 2 big cookies while he was gone.

Last week he asked me to buy Rice-A-Roni out of nostalgia from 40 years ago. I made the chicken flavored pilaf with turkey breast but he wouldn't eat it. He ate his big salad but left the pilaf on the kitchen counter. I admit I didn't like the turkey breast either. It tasted like deli lunch meat which we aren't used to. I now have this humongous turkey breast that I will cut up and give away. The night before I had Boar's Head natural hot dogs but he wouldn't try them, so I made a "Killer Salad" as we call it. I had 3 kinds of fresh berries to make a homemade shortcake but he just had berries in yogurt.

I brought a bunch of organic carrots home to slice and dehydrate Sunday but I can't find the top to my food processor with my kitchen torn up. I had also brought home 14 boxes of fresh blueberries that I had to go through to pick out several spoiled ones in most boxes. Because they won't dehydrate if the outer shell is not broken, I put them in the freezer to accomplish that, rather than blanch them or try to poke each one. They sure could be used on top of oatmeal, French Toast, or crepes but I already have too many berries in the freezer. Last week I brought home 6 lbs of frozen organic wild blueberries and dehydrated them for food storage backup.

For the last several days I have been studying Bokashi Composting where you use lactic acid bacteria to ferment your kitchen waste. After most of the day yesterday of reading and reading about it, I came upon a website that said it really isn't worth doing because it only ferments the food, not really composts it and you still have to put it in the ground to do that. I can't deal with a compost pile because I can't turn it with my bad back. We have one of those heavy plastic compost tumblers but I can't turn it by myself. We have too many trees to keep the roots out of areas I could plant in. I want to use raised beds because our soil here is just ground-up granite on the top and solid granite underneath. I bought 2 plastic totes so far but haven't started them because I need to poke holes near the bottom. Maybe I can do it with a nail and hammer, or may-beeeee I might still be able to get my husband to help me. He said he doesn't have a portable drill (I dare not buy one), and to not buy a used soldering iron because he has one. Will he allow melted plastic on it? I'm in a holding pattern. He does not like me to buy mulch, and didn't like it that I bought the totes. I have grown many slips for sweet potatoes, have growth on many regular potatoes to plant, and am trying to water-root about 30 or 40 basil slips. I brought so much basil home last week, I made 13 plastic bags of chopped fresh basil in olive oil with 2 to 6 tablespoons in each bag. I don't really have a green thumb but think we all better start trying to learn to grow a few things (even if on a balcony or in our kitchens) to supplement our eating in case things get tough, which I suspect. I start many things but complete few.

By the way, maybe I should say I didn't pay for the food I'm telling you about because it was leftovers from a big food giveaway. Yes, I had to go through the blueberries, and even "work" on the fresh basil tearing the brown parts off. Not everyone is willing to do that when the grocery stores get rid of things, but I am willing. Once upon a time, I spent 8 hours picking off all the dark spots off of 23 cases of fresh raspberries. We had frozen raspberries for a year.

Peso:	Disminuído hasta ahora:	Aún para ir:	Dieta seguida:
59,8 kg	0 kg	8,5 kg	Poco

(1 comentario) Ganando 0,6 kg a la Semana

06 marzo 2022

I fell off the wagon. Well, maybe I jumped off the wagon. Once you are off it's extra hard to get back on, because all your addictions are raging. I could make excuses that it started with a couple of times of having severe back pain and taking 2 Advil and a couple of glasses of wine (which does help). Then there were the times I got really upset with my husband (like when he erased all my e-mails or threw away some of my stuff) and had a couple of glasses of wine while making dinner. It's a miracle I'm not an alcoholic. No, it's the Lord holding on to me. Now it's time to stop the sugar madness. I'm up to 3 desserts a day. I'm still doing IF most of the time, and not really eating much bread, but if I don't stop the sugar, that's next. When I'm being strict I don't understand people that aren't, and think that generally people are fooling themselves at what they can eat and "hope" they can lose weight. When I'm binging I don't know how to become resolved and take the hard leap to break the addictions. I'm more and more anxious about #1 the war and what's coming in shortages and changes to our lifestyle, and #2 our daughter and husband are coming in about two weeks for hubby's birthday and how will I ever get the house cleaned up. I've been buying extra as a "prepper". I had taken all the stuff out of the top shelves of the kitchen cabinets to get ready to change the countertops and that project is stalled and now I've got a big pile of canned foods etc. on the dining room floor, plus all my dehydrating things about. Our daughter is not a prepper and doesn't understand or approve of me at all and is quite critical. I get very nervous when she is coming to visit, and am having trouble sleeping which of course just makes everything worse. I'm getting pretty skitterish. Things between my husband and I are mostly quiet and cool at the moment. I guess it's me that's quiet and cool. It's been months since there has been a kiss, a hug, or even a touch. I just try to keep the peace. I'm kind and giving on the surface but down deep inside something is dying. And I even think it's okay. It's getting me ready for the next stage of my life. The Lord holds on to me.

Peso:	Disminuído hasta ahora:	Aún para ir:	Dieta seguida:
59,6 kg	0 kg	8,3 kg	Poco

(3 comentarios) Ganando 1,0 kg a la Semana

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