Well! According to my website’s software, my blog’s readability is low. This is because the writing is too complex. I apologize to my reader. I won’t make that mistake again! Until tomorrow, when I forget.
I made chili for dinner. Usually I do the all the big cooking on the weekends, but yesterday I decided I had cooked enough with the vegetable curry. I was feeling a bit lazy. Actually, I only tasted the chili. It didn’t seem appealing to me. My guess is I have picked up an intestinal bug – other members of the Doctor family have been complaining also. And I had that unusual weighing on Saturday. But it didn’t keep them from eating it! Just me.
My food intake and calorie count
Breakfast – 2x servings of raisin bran crunch with milk (250)
- 500 calories
Lunch – tea (80); 2x toast (100) 3T hummus (35); 2T olive tapenade (25);
- 430 calories
Dinner – bread (150); pancakes (150); chili (50);
- 350 calories
Snacking – pretzels (150); chocolate (110); ice cream (350);
- 610 calories
Total for the day: 1890 calories (limit 1850)
Sunday weighing, hot weather
Saturday my weight loss was minimal. I wondered if it was a fluke. On Sunday I weighed myself again. I was just making sure that my Saturday weight was real. Apparently it isn’t! I weighed 237.6 on Sunday. That’s a swing of more than two pounds in one day. So I am pretty sure my stomach is out of order.
In the last year, whenever I got sick I just indulged myself and ate pretty much as much as I wanted to feel happy. Then I went back to my weight control discipline once I got better. Maybe that way, I got the idea that dieting while sick didn’t do much for my weight. Now, I am trying more to get away from eating for reasons other than physical hunger/need. So this weekend and today I tried to keep my reasons for eating simple and direct. I did change the kinds of foods I was eating. Some things just seemed more appealing. And I pretty much have been keeping to my calorie count.
It was another hot-ish day (88, humid) and I had to go out in the afternoon – the hottest part. When I weighed a lot more, it was very uncomfortable to be in the hot weather and I felt hot all the time. Even indoors, it took a long time to get cool. Since I have gotten more disciplined, even though I am 40+ pounds away from my goal, the heat bothers me less. I wonder what it will be like once I am even thinner! It will take until next summer to find out. Even if I lose 2 pounds per week, it will take 20 weeks to get there. There is no guarantee I can keep that pace up. That means it might take even longer.
Something to look forward to! Make sure you have something you are looking forward to.
-The Doctor