Weight the same as yesterday.   Beginning to conclude 1000 cal is my daily requirement.   Can't lose weight if it's higher. Reading 1200-1500 is typical for my size.   Guess I have slower metabolism.   Which I'm reading is healthy. 

Getting stressed over the Monday doc visit. Reading a minor knee ligament sprain should heal in 2-4 weeks and I'm like 2-3 months.   Currently thinking it's a tear that will require surgery. Read it is usually done with either local or general anesthesia.   This one study said local easier on the patient. Shorter recovery & the general better for the surgeon. Why?   All the better for their upcoming Farrari payment?  

Annie, did you see the article above in today's WaPo?   I'd call that a meal!   Looks wonderful, but oh! The calories!  Deep fried sausage.  

Made a fortuitous discovery re frozen  vegetables. They are apparently precooked to some degree & if defrosted only need to be heated in the microwave.   Love this mix.  Skipped the beans for dinner, went with the cabbage & onions & veg mix. John Clement says we eat too much protein.  50 grams a 4 days a week is ok with 3 days at 25 grams.   Something to do with nitrogen metabolism.  I need to reread this section of his book.

 Calculating my daily nutritional intake. 52 gms protein. 36 grams fat. 87 gms carbs.   900 calories.  Trying to eat same things everyday: soybeans, vegetables, 2 multigrain English muffins topped with hot mustard and cheese or PB and honey.  Some days I am off & eat a banana or dessert nights.   But other days I am not hungry and eat less.   There's room for optimization in these choices & I'm working on it.

The 116+ didn't last the night, so I'm back in the 117s.   Oh well, tomorrow is another day & I'll be good today.

Checked on the kombucha.  Day 5.   Has floating cultures, sure as hell hoping they're the good guys and not deadly pathogens.   Saw ppl selling their homemade starters for as low as $6 on eBay. The first I noticed were by big companies who wanted $35.   Read more reviews and seems ppl getting good results with SCOBYs from both sources. Me May just buy one on eBay for my next experiment.

 So this is my dinner for the next 3 or 4 days.   No breakfast or lunch anymore.   Just dinner and something between 9-10pm.  Cooked the cabbage with onions.   Tossed them in first. Followed HOP's suggestion to use olive oil. Added 2 tablespoons and seemed like way too much.  Don't mind the 240 calories; food looked oily.   Tasted great.  Planned on waiting until 5 to eat when the husband does, but was starving in the kitchen while fixing dinner for the doggies. So sampled it.

Big overnight weight drop, which means of course, it won't stick.   That's the way it goes with me. I could fast all day & still have it pop by dawn tomorrow.   Goal remains to hit 115 by 1/1/21 & I see that on the horizon! 

Checked the black garlic after 7 days and it's black!   Very good, but the store bought was better.   They said it was aged 90 days.   Quickest times I'm reading about are 9-12 in a dedicated garlic maker.   Mine should arrive Friday. Will test the garlic in the rice cooker on days 10, 11, etc.

 Was reading on CNN and an Amazon   Cyber Monday ad popped up.   Annie, been thinking about a pressure cooker ever since you mentioned your husband uses one for beans.   Beans are part of my Super Nutrient diet, so will always have some in the fridge, ready to heat up.    It wasp $79, same model $99 last week as I recall.

Lost my eBay bid on a black garlic fermenter and it was just as well.   The seller invited offers and he countered mine with 54 cents less on an $80 machine.  Many on eBay, running significantly below the $120 Amazon price.   Chose this seller over others because he said he was in NJ and rest In California.   So!   turns out they are all in China.   If you click in the right place, their true location is revealed, however a few appear to use a US account of someone else.   After more research decided upon an entirely different machine at Amazon that cost $120. Multifunctional.  Can make black garlic, natto, yogurt and rice wine.   Only interested in the former pair.

The two rice cookers still making the garlic. Will test a bulb from one on Friday, about the 12th day.  Can't fathom these ppl saying the stench is horrendous and to place the cookers in the garage etc. No odor unless I'm standing near the pot.   Has to be a bunch of Liar Bloggers who never made any! 

Tried this for dinner.   Bland!   An Indonesian soy product, no better nutritional value than the boiled soybeans. They often deep fry it and smother with sauces.   I heated this in the microwave and used hot sauce.   Was curious, won't buy again.   Costs a lot more than the beans. 
Had with the cooked slaw.   Maybe 400 calories, tops.  Can't wait until my English muffins with PB & honey later.   Pic not uploading. 

LOOK, HOP! 

Not my usual dinner of soybeans & cabbage.   Made a pot roast with potatoes, carrots and onions for the husband.   Only had the veggies, but soaked up the gravy with a fat wheat roll.   Easily 500 Cals if not considerably more.   My bad.

 Weight has stabilized.   Not losing more because I am eating more and not exercising.   Knee still sore and doc appointment not until 12/7.  Hoping he says exercise away, it won't make things any worse. Really want to hit 115 by 12/31/20, but if not, then early 2021.

KOMBUCHA Experiment #1.   Took liberties with the recipes. Poured 16 oz of raw unpasteurized GT in 2 quarts of tea.   Used 3 black bags, 2 geeen and 2 decaffeinated black (latter found lurking in cabinet)

Added 3/4 Cup granulated sugar.  Cooled tea to 85 degrees and poured in GT.   Lots of SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony Of Bacteria & Yeast) in bottle.   If it goes forth and mutiples, I'm in business. Put in bird room, warmest in house, 70-74.   The cloth is to keep undesirables out and allow CO2 to escape. Will add flavors and possibly a sweetener later.   The raw GT tasted like crap compared to the peach/ pineapple flavor.now

Got glucose meter to work & disappointed with the result of 107.  John Clement says fasting level ideal at 75-85, under 95 ok.  Only a cup of coffee all day, a little chocolate soy protein mix added.   May have not sufficiently hydrated today which could also raise levels.

Meant to try reading first thing in AM, but broke fast by eating 2 bananas in the middle of the night.   Will try to avoid the same tonight & drink more water.

I was 99 after a 12 hr fast in July.   Expected much better after losing over 15 pds. & a far superior diet.   Of course some margin of error to be expected between the lab and my cheapie ReliOn.

Same old boring dinner: soybeans and cooked slaw.   Annoyed I couldn't get a slot at Walmart pickup today & have to wait until 9AM tomorrow.   Lots of cabbage, garlic & onions.

Couldn't get a glucose reading.   Tried 3X.   Not enough blood twice and on the third failed to correctly insert test strip.   Now know how to do it, but not up to a 4th prick.  Maybe later.  Need to press the lancet device more firmly into the side of my finger to get a decent sample.

My live long and well guru, James Clement, is big on macadamia nuts, as I probably mentioned. Took a second look.   He recommends 4 oz a day.   They average $20/pd.   Or better put $20 is the best price.  Considered ordering until I saw over 800 Cals in that 4 oz!  JFC!  No way for me. Seriously doubt Clement does that daily.  Image below is for  1 oz.

He's also big on monitoring bio markers such as glucose among numerous others.  Bought the Reli system at Walmart.   Had the best reviews.   Seems insurance pays for far more expensive systems, but can limit test strips etc.  Many ppl saying Reli was the best backup.   Took weeks to summon up courage to prick.   Bought the little auto-lancet device.  Painless, but got the most minuscule bead of blood out.  Failed, no reading.  Trouble shooting and will get it to work.   He says early AM (before breakfast) reading of 85-90 is ideal.   Up to 115 after a meal good.   I was 99 at the last lab test in July and am very curious to see if better diet and weight loss since then has improved my glucose level.

Weird how some gifs animate here and others don't Two rice cookers on now making black garlic & waiting for temperature to equilibrate on another crockpot.   Other one got too hot (160).   The black garlic averages $30 a pound & I can buy the fresh for $3/pd. Very faint pleasant aroma in kitchen near the pots. Don't know why some are complaining the stench is so ghastly they use the garage.   Concluding some posters never actually made black garlic.

Added black tea and granulated sugar to pickup order. Only ingredients needed for the kombucha recipe. I have other teas and brown sugar here, no black or granulated.   Not understanding why the recipes for making kombucha from a bottle are multi-stepped .    Say to start with 4 oz of the bottled tea, 8 oz water and some sugar and let ferment for maybe 10 days.   Then add more of the same & ket ferment longer, until one gets up to a gallon.  Don't see why I can't pour the entire bottle into a gallon of tea.   May do just that.   Nothing to lose other than the $3 GT tea.

 Added a bottle of GT kombucha to Walmart list.  No idea if I will like this brew, but already thinking about making my own from this bottle.   I have a nice collection of peach and raspberry flavorings from my adventures in making Snapple.

 Dinner, yet more soy beans and cooked slaw.   Liking fried sliced up whole cabbage better and won't be buying the raw slaw anymore.   plan to fry the cabbage with onions.

Same dinner at 5PM: soy beans and cabbage. Ok, had a few bites of meatloaf.   One of the dogs is quite elderly and has decided he wants only my homemade meatloaf, so I'm making a really huge  one pretty much every other day.   He is a big boy, maybe 125 pds. Can't resist a few bites when it comes out of the microwave.   Difficult as well to avoid snacking on the parrots' pistachios which is their evening treat.   Avoided that today by giving them nuts after I had dinner when I was full, instead of later.

Finished off my small jar of black garlic last nite.   Won't buy more, am determined to make my own,  Ordered the better rice cooker from Amazon, will arrive tomorrow.   Added 3 (1.5 pds) garlic bulbs to my pickup list.   Searched for cheaper bulk sacks of garlic and nothing to be found.   Many sellers wanted up to $15 a pound!  Don't get it!   supposedly easy to grow.

soybbeans and cooked cabbage have become my dinner staple, the first meal of the day which I eat between 4 & 5.   Filling until maybe 9, then  I have 2  hi fiber English muffins with mustard & whatever & the other with nut butter & honey.

HOP, looked at kombucha.  Added a bottle to my pickup list.   This brand had more appealing flavors than GT.   Do you like kombucha because of health benefits or for the flavor?