I am going to post here about my weight loss, mostly for a record for myself of the ups and downs. I also journal by hand in a notebook, but this will be more detail, since I don’t write by hand very good, so I tend to be brief.  If it is encouraging to you, feel free to read; if not, don’t feel you need to!

I stepped on the scale with a lot of trepidation this morning, since I’d had a very discouraging week, weight-wise (I do weigh every day unless I forget and eat first) and was delighted when the slider went down and down from 198, where I’d hoped to be, to 196. As frequently is the case, I’m puzzled about that extreme loss between yesterday and today, because I didn’t do anything differently than the previous days.  But, hey, I’ll take it!

The real joy of the day was when I went for my walk/racewalk/run. I’d done an easy workout Friday, then taken off from all exercise Saturday and Sunday to let my sore knee/leg rest and it was feeling pretty good. But I did decide not to do any racewalking, because that is what irritated it in the first place. So I substituted jogging for the racewalking for the first entire mile, which was a lot further than I’ve run in a long, long time! That was very exciting for me, because I miss running. So I’m hopeful that when I get this weight off, I will be running regularly again for longer distances. My feet still got pretty numb by the time I got home, but I tend not to notice that anymore, since I’ve had it for so long.

I enjoyed what I’d planned for meals and snacks last week. We had soup and a salad every day for lunch, but alternated between canned green pea soup and lentil soup (Progresso), home-made potato soup, and home-made chicken vegetable soup. I discovered my new favorite food – smoked salmon. I can’t explain just how good that tastes to me!! I sampled it at Sam’s Club and bought some, even though it is about $15.00/lb. (maybe more…). I just flake off a little and put it on my salad and that flavor overpowers any other flavor, so I can enjoy it while still only eating a small amount each day. Seriously, if you haven’t tried it, you really should. Dad thinks it tastes like Kipper Snacks, but I disagree – to me it is way better, but it does have that smoky flavor of Kipper Snacks.

Being stuck in this house, unable to go outside (like we were for Saturday and Sunday) is like being in a tiny calf hut that they put the veal calves in. Even walking from one end of the house to the other is only about 20 steps and walking from the living room to kitchen or bedroom is half that many. So we don’t get hardly ANY activity on those days. That’s one big disadvantage of a small house. So I was really glad I could get out today. We did go to Michael’s on Saturday afternoon, so we walked around a little there. And yesterday we went to Walmart, which was a bit more walking. But the days were mostly sitting. UGH!

I got a lot of crafting done, though. I modge-podged a bunch of craft tubes to use for holding my electrical cords; I did some knitting on big needles – working on a scarf for me. I finished a hat for Dad on the knitting loom and started another for someone. Maybe today I’ll also start on a page for the scrap book I’m making on raising my kids. Dad gave me the book for Christmas and I have a LOT of pictures that I could put in it!