Oh good morning!
last night was the first night I was up really late and not in a sleep mood. I read online and was in Facebook till around 2am. It's ok though as I slept till almost 10am!
breakfast gummy vitamins 2 servings lol 50, oatmeal with craisins and almond milk 350, iced coffee 50. 450.
And laundry is DONE :) food shopping is for tomorrow early in the day :)
snack of kombucha mixed with wine (last of the wine until I find something tomorrow lol) 200
1pm lunch leftover chicken 250, mashed potatoes 200. 450-500
3pm snack dove milk chocolate 100
4:45 pb on cracker 100, oranges 150, ricky gave me walnuts 50
dinner of leftovers turkey meatballs just 2 100, cabbage and peppers 100, chips 350.
2100....2 more chocolates before bed,
2200 total still decent.
hour walk and did leg strength exercises
talked with a couple friends tonight :-)
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reading textbook - this chapter 4 is all done but also the most boring chapter !
glad I did weights late last night bc they are now done :)
will prob do a leg workout while watching people's court / judge Judy with afternoon on tv
gives me a broad open schedule for today - laundry is being done, guinea page has been cleaned. I may go to supermarket later this afternoon or wait to go early in the morning tomorrow which is probably the better scenario, actually. So yeah, I will go food shopping tomorrow morning and not this afternoon !
today I will read my textbook and yes it will be a very simple day. I will walk a little with Ricky I am sure. Maybe some bike.
Progress as of today: -3 lbs lost so far, only 1 lbs to go!
10am breakfast cold oats with almond milk and craisins 350, 2 servings sugary vitamins 50, iced coffee 50. 450.
1pm Lunch: leftover chicken and mashed potatoes smaller servings. Chicken150, mashed potatoes 200. 350. Orange 50. Kombucha and wine mix 150.
6pm Dinner Mac and cheese 450, cabbage and peppers 50, orange 50. 550-600
9pm snack of aminos in water with stevia and Rice Krispie treat 150
10:30 chocolate 100
2am rice Krispie treat and pb 200 can't sleep finally :)
2050.....
both laundry and food shopping will not be done yet. Laundry is downstairs and I'm not eager to do it for another few days or less depending how messy the Guniea pig cage is! Food shopping will prob happen Thursday or Friday.
I have therapy phone call tonight and weights / abs / pushups today along with a shorter walk with ricky around neighborhood.
1pm was lunch
2:30 went on a walk instead so will prob do weights tonight late after therapy call, otherwise tomorrow morning. Walked all the way till 4:30
5pm I'm walking with ricky - cancelled
dinner was at 6:30
8pm phone call with therapist , weights went on from 9pm till 10:30pm :)
Progress as of today: -3 lbs lost so far, only 1 lbs to go!
I didn't get to weights last night; you're doing better than me!
And yes I’m REALLY working to keep the weights in as I worked very very hard in the past to get to where I am :)
Keep on, J!
9:30 am breakfast cold oatmeal with almond milk 200, craisins 150, iced coffee 50.
Almost noon - wine / kombucha 150
1pm lunch: leftover Taco Bell chicken chalupa 400 approx and dried fruit not the low sugar kind jackfruit 150 very fresh and delicious ...
3pm chocolates and aminos drink 100
big dinner 750. Mashed potatoes, chicken, roasted asparagus.
2000. Happy.
The weather was all clear by 7pm so after dinner I went for a half hour walk around the neighborhood.
also did leg exercises today and reading my textbook.
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very bad weather here too with a rainstorm all day and also high winds here. Will be inside for the day, possibly doing laundry today but most prob waiting until Thursday to do it. Possibly cooking a meal again tonight - chicken. But thinking to wait on the meal as well.
edit - will cook the chicken meal tonight since I have a lot of time to do it and I could use fresh, healthy meal options these next few days until I go to supermarket either Wednesday or Thursday or even Friday.
Progress as of today: -3 lbs lost so far, only 1 lbs to go!
You seem to be holding up well. Are you? Sometimes I feel like slowly sliding back into slug status, but then I try to switch gears. The struggle is real, at least for me. Maybe you have a secret to making this work for you!
Yeah I am holding up well because our unemployment is raised to $1100 per week during this time from the usual $504.
I am trying to do my typical routine for physical exercise because I am not working and have little distraction in my home at al! I’m now back to trying to read my textbook as well. I have a simple life here at home and enough friends/ family contact to be totally ok , yes I am.
If I were working I would probably be more stressed with everything going on for sure .
I’m also delving into more cooking which is comforting me to know i am capable of preparing these meals myself !
Time away from work is being used decently although I admit to lots of relaxing on couch :)
Happy Easter to all who celebrate :) Still sleeping around 10hrs.
10am cold oatmeal and almond milk 200, vitamins, yogurt last one till I go shopping 150, coffee 50. 400.
snack while starting weights chocolate and spritzer 200, later kombucha mixed with seltzer too. 50.
2:30 leftover pork loin not much 100 on wrap 100 with melted butter 100. 300 pop chips sea salt 100, more wine 100
1150...
Chalupa 450? Had a lot of meat, little cheese, cabbage 100. 550 orange z100
1800
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im sorta talked out with phone calls and glad to have a day of quiet and more catch up :)
I may decide to do laundry tonight but more probably it will be waited on further until Wednesday :)
I am doing abs and weights today. Walked lots yesterday so I'm keen on staying home today and maybe sitting outside later on balcony in sunshine if its warm enough.
no real cooking today. Still have a bit of my roast pork loin to enjoy.
the chicken is frozen in my freezer as I don't want to make it until after this weekend is over.
whenever I do decide to go to the grocery store, I may buy a little more Chicken to cook and practice my skills on:) not getting another food deliver until next Thursday after this one as I have a lot of food around the kitchen that I can use like tuna, beans, etc. if I don't my chicken, I may buy meat to make chili. Im not sure but def needing a grocery list. At least I am good on toilet paper tissues and paper towels :)
wishing everyone well <3
Progress as of today: -3 lbs lost so far, only 1 lbs to go!
Sounds like you had a lovely day, and I'm glad to hear you rested up after all the walking yesterday - what an adventure that was!
good morning! overall, i slept 10-11 hours. i had woken up 2 hours earlier, around 8am, and put my phone onto one of the short CALM app meditations. Well, it puck me back to sleep until around 10am! LOL.
late 10:40 breakfast: yogurt chobani fruit on bottom 150, oatmeal cold with almond milk 200. coffee 50. 400.
12:15 granola bar and pb: 200...then leaving to go to cemetary.
late lunch at cemetary: wrap 120 with leftover baked salmon 150: around 300.
snacks: bite size snickers... 50 per piece...150.
5pm back at home wine/kombucha 150
7pm seltzer with stevia, gummies 150, ice cream 150.
1500....
2.5hr stroll around cemetary
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Today Ricky and I decided to do a drive to a cemetary that is well known but in a different county. It's around 30 minutes away and over a bridge as well. I need the driving practice a bit and it was planned we do something bigger on the weekend since Ricky is still working from home during the week. I'm looking forward to going there and getting some outdoor exercise in. We are leaving our apts around 12:30pm to go there. I still have a full tank of gas but might get some gas on the way home from this day trip. I have gloves in my car i can use when getting gas.
That's it for today. I was able to cook another meal from the meal kit last night and it was even better than the salmon one. It had pork loin which stayed juicy with roasted squash and cooked rainbow chard. a good meal. I'm giving Ricky the other pork loin today as he said he would take it for a snack, LOL, while he walks at the cemetary he said he'd just it the pork loin! haha it's not on a bone or anything, so he asked me to put it in a bag for him....LOL.
Later today i don't have many plans. I need to take the recycling downstairs as it's really building up!
And i'm still reading the textbook again...not starting another story book till i at least finish a chapter or two from this textbook....
i will prob give a call to my friend Christine today. i'm a bit talked out as yesterday i got even more phone calls than planned, but, i should call her even if it's short because i said i would.
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Progress as of today: -3 lbs lost so far, only 1 lbs to go!
Oatmeal with almond milk cold 200, last of the nasty chobani choc/almond butter yogurts 200, kombucha 50.
Snack before / during slow bike ride inside while chatting with friend FaceTime Wine spritzer 100
1pm lunch - rest of yesterday's veggies 100 and salmon (still have a little more) 300 on a wrap 100. 500gunmies 150.
chocolate and tootsie roll pop 120
7pm more chocolate 80
1400...
total 2000.
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staying home all day since I have enough to do -
DONE SOME back to reading textbook :)... want to do much more !
also will cook another meal or both so the ingredients don't go bad - need to open up the paper bags to see what's going on with the other two meals ...might freeze the meat for one of them and cook 3rd meal next week. Will cook pork tenderloin and maybe a veggie or I may just save the veggies to cook in a couple days.
calling French friend around 11-1pm sometime in there...nice long chat !!! I ended it bc i was getting hungry :/
DONE will use bike during some court tv- done for over hour while on phone with French friend
DOING NOW AT 2pm :-) gotta do weights done :)
will do stepper for 10-15 min too maybe....
Progress as of today: -3 lbs lost so far, only 1 lbs to go!
How is your French friend doing? How is it there with the virus?
I'm so proud that you are able to be self-disciplined to read the textbook. Those can be difficult to read without the class part to go along with it.
Yeah the textbook is on simple subject matter as its not math or science but yes the textbook is hard to follow and I find myself constantly rereading parts before moving ahead.
French friend makes half her normal salary on unemployment which is low and her fiancé had broken up with her several months before this virus occurred. She wasn’t able to get find a new apt to move into so they are still stuck quarantined together ! He’s a good man though and not doing anything to hurt her purposely or not. Just sucks they have to be together in a one bed apt. But they are getting along enough she said.... in France you cannot travel anywhere and are supposed to stay within one kilometer of your home. Seems France has a firmer approach than us in terms of quarantine!
10am Breakfast oatmeal and almond milk cold 200, yogurt 150, iced coffee 50, gummy vitamins 2 servings lol of a higher sugar type 50...450.
1pm snack chocolate and wine and kombucha mix light on the wine not much. 200
650...little more wine/kombucha while cooking the first salmon meal I ordered ....150
4pm salmon dinner with veggies and chips 850 - extremely full feeling
6:30 snack while reading my textbook again gummies and wine / seltzer mix 250
1900
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reading the book, 10% left then I'll switch back to the textbook for project management which I'm still on break from!....finished the book.
left to drive somewhere close with ricky for a walk since the weather has cleared up after the rain :-)
today is upper body and abs with a walk later. - did the walk nice walk today in a very expensive neighborhood nearby I don't usually go by with ricky and weights are skipped until tomorrow morning :-)
Progress as of today: -3 lbs lost so far, only 1 lbs to go!
A drive and a walk sound line a lovely idea. I love to walk through fancy neighborhoods to admire the houses and landscaping. Wouldn't really want it for myself - too much to clean and keep up.
Did you celebrate Passover?
Yes I felt lonely too when the book was over just like you talk about feeling !
The drive and walk was amazing too.
No Passover - I stayed in my apt and didn’t go home to parents bc my mom is having a challenging time with the 1.5yr old baby and couldn’t make the whole meal anyways plus the social distancing so I stayed in my own place ...
How many people would your meal feed? How does that work? Can you prep for 1 or 4? Is it flexible like that?
I'm very excited for your new experience! Inquiring minds want to know!!
Yes you do chop veggies and yes you do mix a few ingredients together to make sauce. The meals are supposed to take 40 minutes but I do say that’s the FASTEST. Seems that I like my veggies more roasted and they seem to need more time in the oven than the recipe / directions says. The recipies have been good in these two meals but sometimes I feel there’s been too much use of honey in them! Today I was supposed to add honey on top of roasted squash and I decided not to use it because roasted squash and amazing just with oil and pepper and doesn’t need honey ! Waste of calories.
The fish and meat taste and texture have been excellent.
I’ve either added too much oil or not enough when I roast the veggies lol. Just because I don’t do it enough at home previously so I’m still learning . But the directions in roasting veggies seem to show the shortest time they’d take and they seem to need several more minutes to roast - today I cooked them liken 20 extra minutes to roast squash
10am Oatmeal, mango Chobani, coffee 400.
1pm wine/kombucha 150
2pm lunch fried egg 100, wrap 100, salami 100, gummies 100...400, 50.
4pm chocolate 100
1100 ....
7:30pm dinner gummy vitamins a bit much 50, cabbage 50, salami 50, pizza 300. ...450.
Ice cream 250
1 chocolate 50
1850, good.
30 min slow and easy bike, hour walk
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just reading this book called Far from the Madding Crowd. I only have about 20% left of it. really a great book with lots of plot twists and excitement !
tomorrow my food orders will hopefully arrive and I'll start cooking either tomorrow or Friday !!!
I'm thinking about switching back to oatmeal in the morning too...
Ending was kinda anticlimactic not the best ending :( too short at the end !
10:45am cold oatmeal with almond milk 200, coffee 50, darn gummies lol 200
12:15 snack of chocolate 150
2pm lunch - 2 fried eggs 150, butter 50, wrap 100, with garlic powder, wine mixed with seltzer and stevia 100
4:30-5pm snacks 1 Reece's thin dark chocolate 60, wrap with pb 250
snack after walking but before therapy at 8 - wine - water with stevia- coconut water 150 and nut butter 100 followed by quick dinner squash 200 and salami 100.
gummies and a chocolate .... soon these gummies will be done ! 200.
2050...
still reading my book. Last night had a psychiatrist appt over the phone to renew rx. And tonight I have a therapist appt. makes me not want to talk to friends / family and just enjoy the day alone ! Anyways I'm still enjoying this book and still sleeping quite a bit even if I wake up during the night I'm overall sleeping a good deal!
did upper body and 15 min stepper
will go out for evening with with ricky around 5pm
cookee spaghetti squash and will do more reading - not in mood for therapy session today but have to obviously !
Progress as of today: -3 lbs lost so far, only 1 lbs to go!
And yes I cannot believe how much I’m sleeping !
woke up sooo late today around 10:30am. i have been going to sleep later, is why. i'd rather go to sleep earlier, so it won't be too much of a challenge when i go back to work! anyways, enough about that!
Happy Monday to everyone despite the politcal / health unrest!
began with coffee and gummies LOL (i've already eaten my way thru 2/3 of my entire gummy order of MANY, many gummies - and that's good since they are not veery beneficial to my health it'll be good to MOVE PAST THEM for awhile!
gummies and larger coffee 250.
1pm lunch: remainder of the turkey bacon 100, wrap 100, fried egg 100, wine/kombucha mix 150...450.
3:30 kombucha and 2 last kiwis 150
4:45 found a protein bar 200
7:15pm dinner cooked cabbage 100, meatballs with a very little bit of cheese (frozen and friend had cooked it for me - I was saving it for a good time to reheat!) 350, leftover kombucha 50. 500-550? Wine/kombucha 150
Gummies 100
. And couple chocs at middle of night 100
1950
did a ton of reading a novel today :)
I'm happy to say yesterday i used my stepper, bike and upper body weights. Planning to walk outside in beautiful spring weather (64F) today with sunny skies.
I will be going thru my legal vocab words 2x today of the half i've studied.
I will read for 20-30 mintues from my Proj Managment textbook.
I will read a book i have on my phone thru free amazon prime books - the book i had to return to the NY Public Library when i thought we were moving offices (we never did since it was the week this pademic was getting real in mid March). so i'm glad this book was on Amazon prime, i added the kindle app to my phone, and that i can continue to read it for FREE! it's amazing i can keep reading right where i left off. i started reading it yesterday or the day before and really enjoying the book. it's called Far From the Maddening Crowd. a very old classic that was turned into a movie as well.
Progress as of today: -3 lbs lost so far, only 1 lbs to go!
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I've never taken more than one dose of vitamins a day because they are so strong...is it okay to take more?
I am just hooked on this new flavor at the moment which are very sugary and very soft. No it’s not worth taking extra I am just a little too hooked on them and they are high calorie compared to most so I am counting them with my calories
Donkey on 04/15/2020:
Unlike myself, lol, you seem to be eating less during the shelter-down!
Good for you for getting through a boring chapter! I hope the next chapters are better reads. It's not easy to get through dull reading.
And you got all that cleaning done! Whoopee!
I’m trying to make good choices with the eating. Also, since I am home and waking up late, I’m eating more carbs for breakfast and relaxing a bit on having any protein with breakfast. I am going for what tastes I like as well as using up some things I have found around the apt.
I’m still on that chapter but almost done - finishing today !!!
Finishing tomorrow ;/