20200629 Daily report – hot weather edition

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.

They ate it as fast as I made it!

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