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John Deere Doug
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Posted: 9 May 2009 10:53 am |
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Hey Nancy, How are you doing. I have been so busy at work and trying to cut grass with all this rain. I cut 8 acres and it is even flooded on the hills. I got my big lawn mower stuck and had to bring a track machine hope to pull it out. No time to fish, I hate that because the catfish are hitting good now.
Anyway, my appitite has gone crazy and I am trying to crack the wipe on it. Good to see you are sticking with the diet.
Doug
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 10 May 2009 01:49 pm |
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Hey Doug, we've been having above normal rain also, but I'll take it. After 3 years of drought they threatened rationing water last summer in some towns here.
Last week I cranked up our little tractor and used the box blade! Those box blades are handy. It's not a John Deere. It's called a Boomer, diesel, made by New Holland/Ford, rated at 30hp I think. We also have a mower, scoop and posthole digger. I'm getting better at switching attachments. But I think I would prefer a separate tractor for each attachment.
The weight is staying off, but I'm still counting calories. Don't know if I trust myself to just wing it. Had 3 meatball subs since I last talked to you (not all on the same day), but still kept under 2000.
Last edited on 10 May 2009 01:55 pm by Nancy_in_GA
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Scoobees
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Posted: 11 May 2009 03:48 am |
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Hey Nancy! Thanks for stopping by my diary; glad you enjoyed the pictures...I tend to get carried away sometimes!! 
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 12 May 2009 03:19 pm |
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Reporting in. Joined the Independence Day Challenge, mostly to make sure I maintain, but also because it looks like so much fun. Put down a 2lb goal loss. I'd hate to make the team pounds lost go up just because of me, so I'm going to try for it. Maybe that fat on my waist and knees will go away with 2 more lbs.
Date/Weight/Calories
05/04 122.0 1770
05/06 123.0 1890
05/07 123.0 1730
05/08 122.5 1750
05/09 122.5 1730
05/10 122.0 1700
05/11 122.5 1670
Average: 122.5 lbs, 1749 calories/day
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John Deere Doug
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Posted: 24 May 2009 11:24 am |
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Hey Nancy.......Where you at???????
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 24 May 2009 08:42 pm |
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Doug, I've been posting daily on the Exercise Challenge. Hope you're having great fun at your cookouts.
It's hard to get back to posting in a diary once you quit doing it daily. I guess first I should at least be accountable for calories and weight since last time. This starts with when I joined the ID Challenge on May 7th. Start weight 122.5. Goal is only 2 pounds. It's fun.
Week 1
Date/weight/calories
05/08 122.5 1750
05/09 122.5 1730
05/10 122.0 1700
05/11 122.5 1670
05/12 122.0 1780
05/13 121.5 1750
05/14 122.0 1700
Averages: 122.1 1726 cals/day
Week 2
Date/weight/calories
05/15 122.0 1600
05/16 121.5 1580
05/17 121.0 1680
05/18 121.0 1700
05/19 121.5 1640
05/20 122.0 1980
05/21 122.0 1700
Averages: 121.6 1697 cals/day
Nothing eventful happened since last time except I've been exercising following the Heart Association guidelines on the challenge. It's been really good. I can definitely tell a difference.
Oh, and a fight with HSBC Mastercard about two unauthorized charges from TLG (Trilegiant). It seems like the credit card company is award of this but doesn't care. TLG has been sued and lost in Conn. and Calif. already for illegal charges, and there are hundred of complaints on the internet still. Check your credit card bills for TLG charges! About to go back to hauling cash around.
Today was the first day that I wanted to eat junk. A whole 2 cup package of sf pudding with bananas. Not too awful, I guess. But up to 1100 calories already at 3:30pm. Cleaning out my bathroom top to bottom today. Hopefully that will keep me busy.
Oh yes, and I wore shorts out in public for the first time today in probably 20 years! Still got fat knees, though.
I'm spending the weekend cleaning house---long, long overdue. Hope everyone else is having a good weekend.
Happy Memorial Day!
Last edited on 24 May 2009 09:32 pm by Nancy_in_GA
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 30 May 2009 02:26 am |
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Weekly update. Been doing basic exercise for 7 weeks now. It's increasing maintenance level, maybe to ~2000 calories/day, I think.
Date/Weight/Calories
05/22 121.5 1760
05/23 121.5 1820
05/24 121.5 1870
05/25 121.5 1720
05/26 121.0 1730
05/27 120.0 1560
05/28 120.5 1900
Averages: 121.1 and 1766 cals/day
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 12 June 2009 04:27 am |
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I've been humming this song for 3 days and it was driving me crazy because I didn't know where I heard it or the name of it. So I found this website (musipedia.org) where you enter what they call a contour search. All you have to know is whether the next note goes up, down, or stays the same. It's called Parsons code. And the site gives you a list of possible songs.
Turns out it's "To a Wild Rose" by Edward MacDowell (a REAL, REAL oldie. The composer died in 1908). It was the first match. That is so neat! But where the heck did I come up with that one? Piano lessons when I was a kid, maybe?
Anyway, back to business. I'm still keeping calorie totals and weighing every day:
date/weight/calories
05/29 120.0 2000
05/30 120.0 2080
05/31 120.0 1800
06/01 120.5 2070
06/02 121.0 2020
06/03 121.0 1840
06/04 120.5 2050
Averages: 120.4 and 1980 cals/day
date/weight/calories
06/05 120.5 2000
06/06 122.0 1900
06/07 121.5 1860
06/08 122.0 1960
06/09 121.0 1960
06/10 120.0 2400 (meatballs and banana nut bread  )
05/11 121.0 1800
Averages: 121.1 and 1940 cals/day
Last edited on 12 June 2009 04:28 am by Nancy_in_GA
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 19 June 2009 04:30 am |
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I should add about 500 calories somewhere 2-3 weeks ago because I took half a bottle of DayQuil for a cold, and didn't even think about checking how many it had. Wasn't worth it.
date/weight/calories
06/12 121.0 2030
06/13 120.5 2020
06/14 120.0 1860
06/15 120.0 1770
06/16 120.0 1850
06/17 120.5 1600
05/18 120.0 2000
Averages: 120.3 and 1876 cals/day
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 26 June 2009 05:09 am |
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Not much new here. Joined a gym Wednesday for 3 months to see how it goes. Got to try most of the equipment the first day. Sure beats doing strength exercises at home. Now I have to buy some clothes to wear there. My black running shoes won't cut it either.
date/weight/calories
06/19 120.0 1860
06/20 120.0 1720
06/21 120.0 1820
06/22 119.0 1810
06/23 119.0 1800
06/24 119.0 1900
06/25 119.5 1820
Averages: 119.5 and 1819 cals/day
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 4 July 2009 01:49 am |
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A sidebar: Our city announced Monday that they had finally picked up all the debris from the March 1st snowstorm (only 6" of snow).
Summary of last week:
Date/Weight/Calories
06/26 119.0 1930
06/27 118.5 1860
06/28 119.0 1900
06/29 118.0 1900
06/30 118.0 1890
07/01 119.0 1720
07/02 118.0 2000
Averages: 118.5 and 1886 cals/day
Time to look back on the last 6 mos, settle on the level of calories for maintenance, and come up with a simplified plan for the long term. For the last 12 weeks I've been doing exercise regularly, but just the minimum recommended levels (5 days cardio & 2-3 days strength per week). I broke down the time period into 3 segments to see if there were any noticeable differences:
(1) Weight loss period, very low calories (60 days, Jan5-Mar5)
(2) Near goal weight, easing calories up to maintenance (40 days, Mar6-Apr14)
(3) Maintenance plus regular exercise (78 days, Apr15-Jul2)
I lost weight after period (1) but it was partly because I figured maintenance too low, and partly because of the Ind Day Challenge. I felt guilty not trying to lose something.
At the beginning the weight was higher so more calories were required, but the difference in RMR calories from max to min weights for me is only 123. I did do some sporadic high intensity exercise in periods 1 and 2. Lowering the start weight by a pound (due to water?) changes things a bit. Not sure how to interpret the results or if there is even enough data to bother looking at it.
Anyway I guess I'm now settling on about 2000 calories for maintenance with exercise.
The fact that that puts me in the "extremely active" category convinces me that I'm counting calories a little too high. I do always round up to the nearest 10. Went back and adjusted the first couple of weeks from the diary because I was counting one item clearly too high, and added 500 for the DayQuil. But as long as I continue to count too high in the same way, it shouldn't matter.
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 10 July 2009 04:19 am |
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Well I don't like the results after going to 2000 calories/day for a week. The 117.5 was my lowest weight since being an adult (actually since 8th grade). Now it's crept steadily up to 120. I don't mind being 120, but the trend is spooky. If I go above 120 tomorrow morning, I'm adjusting down to 1900 calories per day. I counted pretty closely this week, tried to get very close to the 2000 by adding peanuts. Maybe I'm counting more correctly now. Maybe I need to give it more time. Geesh, why is this so hard to figure out?
Date/Weight/Calories
07/03 117.5 2000
07/04 118.5 2000
07/05 119.0 2000
07/06 119.0 2000
07/07 119.0 2000
07/08 120.0 2000
07/09 120.0 2000
Averages: 119.0 and 2000 cals/day
ETA: Either I'm crazy or there is something wrong with the labeling on the physicsdiet charts. The charts in my previous post are screenshots of the graphs I saved on Photobucket on July 3rd, not dynamic charts from physicsdiet website, yet the label says the data goes to July 9th.  Last edited on 10 July 2009 04:34 am by Nancy_in_GA
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 10 July 2009 01:49 pm |
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Weight is 119.5 this morning, so maybe it's stopped going up.  I have been working out with weights almost every day for the last two weeks. Maybe I'm building some muscle. I can feel the difference. Still thinking of cutting back to 1950.
Don't really know why finding this number is so important to me, because I don't want to spend the rest of my life counting calories that precisely. It's just something I'm hung up on now. Anyway it's kept me on track another week, so for whatever reason, that's good.
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 11 July 2009 07:10 pm |
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Back down to 118.5 today in spite of sticking with the 2000 calories for 2 more days. So I guess the answer was...I didn't wait long enough. But that doesn't explain the spike.
I think it was two things---eating a lot of salt and not exercising at as high an intensity cardio for the last week. Been concentrating more on strength. Last night I jogged one mile and then 3/4mi on an elliptical that forced you to actually pull with your arms a lot. HR was consistently above 150 on the elliptical after the run. Lots of sweating, but drank lots of liquids, too.
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 17 July 2009 04:34 am |
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Weight seems like it has stabilized at 2000 cal/day if I do minimum recommended exercise. But it just "feels like" a little too much. Maybe because I'm eating more just before I go to bed lately. So I'm going to continue trying to hold at exactly 2000 for at least another week or two.
When I gradually eased up after losing enough weight, each time I increased the calories by 100 a day I felt stuffed. Now after several weeks near 2000, I've gotten "used to it" and want more (sigh). Was hoping that wouldn't happen.
When I eat something without protein, or simple carbs, just before bed I wake up hungry in the morning. Last night it was banana and pineapple. Obviously better to not eat anything before bed, but if I do it should include some protein or complex carbs---just like breakfast.
Date/Weight/Calories
07/10 119.5 2000
07/11 118.5 2300 (forgot a big item)
07/12 119.0 1700 (made up for it)
07/13 119.0 2000
07/14 119.0 2000
07/15 119.5 2000
07/16 119.0 2000
Averages: 119.1 and 2000 cals/day
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 24 July 2009 01:39 pm |
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Been eating lunch out a lot lately with friends. It's hard to be very precise with calories when you eat meatball subs, bacon and cheese burrito, etc. All bad. But I'm still eating a lot of vegetables otherwise. The trend has been ever so slowly upward, so I'm going to go back down a little in calories. This morning's weight was down to 118.5 already. Coincidence I guess. Once again, this tinkering around with calories has kept me from overeating for another week, so whatever it takes...
Date/Weight/Calories
07/17 119.0 2000
07/18 120.0 2000
07/19 120.5 2000
07/20 120.0 2000
07/21 120.5 2100
07/22 120.0 1950
07/23 119.5 1800
Averages: 119.9 and 1979 cals/day
Last edited on 25 July 2009 03:28 am by Nancy_in_GA
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 28 July 2009 05:19 am |
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For some reason I feel like writing in this diary tonight, so here goes.
Tonight I went for a fast walk around town at 8:15 pm, trying to get in some cardio. It was getting near dark. There was a tall young man in front of me on the sidewalk, dressed casually, walking extremely slowly and he kept looking back, so I crossed the road. Then I came up behind another man doing the same thing. I sensed now that they must be together, but it was in a safe place, so I decided to pass. Then he turns and offers me some religious literature (somewhat of a relief). I guess this is a new strategy. Cover both sides of the road and it's harder to say "no, thank you" when you're both walking in the same direction. Then I met another one coming home and was able to say "Got one already, thank you."
For some reason this is annoying to me. I guess it's my problem.
Unfortunately I took $2 with me so couldn't resist stopping to get some food---potato chips and diet coke was all I could get for $2. How stupid. At 30 minutes stopped at a park and ate the junk and watched a hummingbird visit the impatiens, then went on for 20 more minutes.
There is a bar/outdoor restaurant along this route. Some day when I see anyone there over 40 I think I will try to muster enough courage to stop and get a drink. I just feel mischievous for some reason. Haven't been to a bar for a long time.
Got in touch with my old girlfriend from 3rd grade through high school, who I haven't seen in over 20 years. We have been exchanging e-mail for a couple of days. Her sense of humor comes through on her e-mail, just the same as it was when we were kids. Our HS class is having a reunion in October, but I don't think I'll make it. It is over 500 miles away. There were over 300 in our graduating class and I never knew most of them. Only about 20 have signed up so far. Pretty sad.
Last edited on 28 July 2009 05:22 am by Nancy_in_GA
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 30 July 2009 02:33 pm |
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After dropping calories to 1900 the weight dipped back down to 117.5 on Sunday! Go figure. Too soon to be related. The key is no doubt salt and water, and if I really wanted to get to the bottom of this I'd record them, but I'm too lazy. Also exercise (sweating) and I don't know how to record that.
Found the nutritional info for my favorite sub shop on the web! I had been guessing the calories in their meatball subs, and it turns out I was only off by 3 calories (0.4% over)! I really didn't want to give those up completely, they're my only indulgence, and now I don't have to. Hopefully I'll tire of them soon. Still eating fruit and vegetables, though.
Before I joined CPH in January (at 145lbs) I had to be eating WAY more than 2000 calories/day, for sure never less, cause I still feel like I'm on a "diet" at 1900. That means I'd best never stop keeping track of calories, or I'll be right back up there. I'd like to learn how to do a rough estimate in my head without writing everything down. Maybe break down the day into parts (meals, snacks) and set limits for each part.
OTOH, I guess I could just forget it, assess the damage after a few weeks, then try to join a challenge to drop off what I've gained. So far, there's something about this "public disclosure" of eating habits that really seems to help. Thanks  !
Date/Weight/Calories
07/24 118.5 1900
07/25 118.0 1900
07/26 117.5 1900
07/27 119.0 1900
07/28 118.0 1900
07/29 119.0 1900
07/30 118.5 1900
Averages: 118.4 and 1900 cals/day
Last edited on 31 July 2009 03:24 pm by Nancy_in_GA
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 6 August 2009 01:54 pm |
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This 1900 calorie limit is more challenging than 2000. How can 100 calories make that much difference? It must be psychological. Of course I realize I don't hit exactly 1900 because I don't weigh things, just measure volume or go by packages, but I try.
Yesterday had an attack on vanilla wafers early in the day, running calories up to 1600 before dinner time (sigh). So I find a head of cabbage in the refigerator, and boiled the entire head for later use. Four cups of cabbage sure takes away any empty feelings. Didn't realize cabbage had so much calcium---and sodium. So sodium doesn't have to taste salty? 'Cause I still salted the cabbage lightly.
Still had calories to spare by bedtime and even had to supplement with peanuts (and more vanilla wafers). I cannot buy vanilla wafers any more!
Weight unbelievably consistent this week:
Date/Weight/Calories
07/31 118.0 1900
08/01 118.0 1900
08/02 118.0 1900
08/03 118.0 1900
08/04 118.0 1900
08/05 118.0 1900
08/06 118.0 1900
Averages: 118.0 and 1900 cals/day (that was easy to calculate)
Last edited on 8 August 2009 05:37 am by Nancy_in_GA
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Sylphide
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Posted: 9 August 2009 12:08 pm |
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Hi Nancy! I just read the last page of your diary and I had to say how impressed I am with your meticulous records and great graphs! One hundred eighteen pounds sounds like a dream weight to me, so it's really inspiring to see it can happen if we just keep on counting those calories.
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 10 August 2009 02:01 pm |
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Thanks for stopping by, Sylphide. You can do it!
I'm going to cut out some of these boring numbers and just report high, low and averages, I think.
Always late to find out about things, I just discovered Saturday that Google maps "street view" is a free service. This is just about the greatest toy ever invented! Talk about an excuse for time-wasting...
I was up until almost 3:00am Saturday night, looking up every house and apartment I've ever lived in, and the house of most anyone I've ever known the address or remember the location of. Can't believe they even have a street view of my father's mother's old house on a little rural road outside a town of population about 50 in West Virginia!
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Sylphide
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Posted: 11 August 2009 12:57 pm |
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| Nancy, I read this last night about nine o'clock and my husband and I ended up spending hours doing the same thing. I just wish I had more addresses. I looked up our old house in Warner Robins and saw how the Pampas Grass had overgrown (we hated that stuff) then went looking for the house I grew up in in WV. What fun!
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 23 August 2009 07:27 am |
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It's been a couple of weeks since updating. Five days without a computer was an eye-opener. It's amazing how much time I waste on this thing. The first day without it I was actually getting stuff done.
Got a lot of things happening the next few weeks. Our EZGO finally quit for good. A guy is picking it up on Wednesday for servicing. Another man is coming to install a new debris trap on the overflow pipe on our dam. The same man will deliver and stack 100 bales of hay for the winter, grade out a road through the woods, and install two large culverts. I need to be there to "supervise."
Need to paint my mother's garage. This will be my first attempt at spray painting. I'll start on the back side where it won't show. I really enjoy trying things for the first time just to see if I can do them. Not much interested in doing them a second time, though, especially if it involves work.
I've also decided to build the base cabinets for my kitchen from scratch, using the face board, doors, and drawers from the old ones. Mainly because ready made cabinets are so cheaply built, my house is so old nothing is square, and it would require two visits from a plumber. I've set a deadline for Thanksgiving (being realistic). My mom and I built our goat barn from scratch, so I've got all the tools.
I conducted an experiment on Wednesday. Foreseeing early in the day that I would probably go over the 1900 calorie limit (my mother made sauerkraut balls and banana nut bread again), I decided to just eat whatever I wanted and sure enough I went for the junk food (crackers, bread, muffins). Well the sugar spikes came back worse than ever, and I ended up with almost 2800 calories for the day, and could have gone on, but called a halt. The total amount of food seemed like nothing. Not sure if I'm kidding myself that this was an "experiment," or maybe it was just a "binge" in disguise. Bring back those vegetables!
The most revolting development was that I finally broke down and bought a set of digital scales, and the darned things weigh 3.4 pounds heavier than the old ones. But they weigh the same up to 25 lbs. I have over 6 months of data using the old scales on physicsdata.com which I have no intention of converting. I'm guessing the new scales are closer to the true weight. That puts me at approximately 121.5 instead of 118. So I'm closer to the average (130) of the normal weight range for my height (111-149) than to the lower limit. Tempted to join the next challenge and try for a real 118 on the new scales. I'll probably never get this close again so now's the time to do it if I'm ever going to.
Well here are the stats for the last 14 days (8/07-8/20):
High / Low / Average
Weight: 119.5 117.5 118.3
Calories: 2780 1700 1961
Hope everyone is having a good weekend!
Last edited on 23 August 2009 07:31 am by Nancy_in_GA
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John Deere Doug
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Posted: 23 August 2009 10:49 am |
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| Hey Nancy, Just sopping in to say hey. Grilling season is killing me..LOL...My weight is all over the chart....176 to 181.....I will have to get a handlen on it after labor day..LOL.
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 10 September 2009 11:26 am |
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I see one reason why some think that eating late at night keeps you from losing weight. The weight is going to be higher first thing in the morning. Makes sense because there are simply fewer hours to burn the calories. Got to give it time if that is the routine. If it's haphazard then just have faith in the calorie counts.
I've been eating some late dinners lately because the gym is crowded until about 8pm. So dinner has been as late as 10pm, when I get back. The weight is slightly higher in the morning on those days, and of course I've got to have the morning cups of (black) coffee, so it does no good to wait. But the problem is I still wake up hungry if I eat late at night. Not so otherwise.
Well the calories have been slightly higher lately. Got to watch it. And I've got to start keeping a notebook in the kitchen because I keep eating things and forgetting to write them down. These new scales are causing extra work. I'm going to shift to them to report in the diary, but keep the old scale on physicsdiet.com. Too many entries to change now.
Stats:
For the 13 days from 8/21 through 9/02:
High | Low | Average
Calories: 3000 | 1710 | 1938
Weight(old): 120.0 | 117.1 | 118.7
Weight(new): 123.4 | 120.5 | 122.1
For the week from 9/3 through 9/9 (synchronizing with new challenge)
High | Low | Average
Calories: 2090 | 1670 | 1927
Weight(old): 118.6 | 117.0 | 117.8
Weight(new): 122.0 | 120.4 | 121.2
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 17 September 2009 03:02 am |
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Finding it harder to keep under 2000 calories because I've been working in the kitchen a lot. This week my problem is plain old graham crackers. They're not even that good, but I can't lay off of them.
Stats for week of 9/10 through 9/16:
High | Low | Average
Calories: 2180 | 1810 | 1950
Weight: 123.4 | 120.4 | 121.5Last edited on 17 September 2009 03:04 am by Nancy_in_GA
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Hiker
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Posted: 17 September 2009 11:33 am |
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Hey Nancy, looks like you did a good job staying under your 2000 calories for the week. Working in the kitchen makes it incrediably hard so a few graham crackers is a good choice I think. Are you doing a lot of canning or something else that keeps you in the kitchen?
I know you are trying to more or less maintain, I swear that is so much harder than losing I feel your pain. 
I like the way you average for the week as well as track your high low. If I get a little more ambitiuos I may steal your idea.
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 23 September 2009 02:28 pm |
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Hiker, I'm building new base cabinets for my kitchen using the doors and drawers from the old ones. The important words about the graham crackers is "a few." I can't do just a few. Maybe we should crank up your maintenance challenge again. I really liked that idea.
Well, the only way I can hit close to 1900 calories every day seems to be to plan the day out in the morning and stick to it. Not sure if I want to put that much effort into eating for the rest of my life. But on average I'm doing OK, I guess, a little high. The key seems to be portion control and vegetables and not have anything in the house that is easy to fix. If it tastes good don't eat much of it, unless it's vegetables (except potatoes).
Week's stats:
High | Low | Average
Calories: 2320 | 1640 | 2013
Weight: 121.2 | 120.0 | 120.5
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jackbenimble
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Posted: 26 September 2009 12:17 pm |
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Hi Nancy,
Thanks for stopping by my journal. I just checked out your first and last page entries. Wow, you really did an amazing job, going from 145 to 118. Or should I say from 148 to 121 :)) Nothing like an off-kilter scale; although either way, you've done fantastic.
I've personally never counted calories, mostly based on laziness. Plus I have a theory that if you use common sense, your weight will reflect that. However, common sense may be easier to enforce when your looking at those hard numbers...
Jack
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 27 September 2009 12:49 am |
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Ahh, common sense. I don't have it when it comes to food. For instance today....
It's been raining again and I hit the refrigerator early. Reached 1850 calories by 3pm. Nothing since then, but I've got a batch of blueberry muffins in the oven---850 calories and I know I'll eat all of them.
Now why did I go and do that? I could go the rest of the night without eating. I've done it before. Too late now unless I decide toss them. It will take 3 days of undereating to make up for that. Stupid.
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Terabyte
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Posted: 27 September 2009 01:17 am |
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Nancy: Wow! It is comforting for me to know that even the Great Dieting Queen screws up every now and then. Girl, I have had mornings where I hit 1850 before it's even noon (which is even more embarrassng than being drunk before noon, in my book). If you want my advce though, to feel better about the whole thing
GET RID OF THE MUFFINS
you don't have to necessarily throw them out, you could give them to a neighbor or drie them down to a homeless shelter or something. And if you do that, you will feel even better about yourself.
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 27 September 2009 01:27 pm |
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Terabyte wrote:
GET RID OF THE MUFFINS
Too late! But I figure there will always be some days like this. I have to learn how to deal with it and compensate.
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 30 September 2009 02:22 pm |
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Low temperatures have dipped into the 50's here. My weight always drops a little when the weather turns cold suddenly. Unfortunately it comes right back if it turns hot again. Must have something to do with water retention and heat. Does anyone else experience this?
Week's stats: (9/24 through 9/30):
High | Low | Average
Calories: 2700 | 1750 | 2014
Weight: 120.6 | 119.6 | 120.0
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 30 September 2009 08:28 pm |
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Just did some Googling and read on several websites that during periods of high temperatures the body is less efficient at removing fluid from its tissues. So if true that explains my drop in weight when it cools off. Interesting.
It also just dawned on me that I've never seen an odd fraction of a pound show up on my new scales---only even numbers. It does report in 0.1 kilogram increments. It seems that it would have to be specifically programmed NOT to report in 0.1 lb increments, unless it measures in kilos and then converts. Do you suppose someone read that the scale was not accurate to less than 0.2 lbs and programmed it that way? Ha! I'd like to think not.
I guess if this worries me then I have too much time on my hands.
Last edited on 30 September 2009 08:29 pm by Nancy_in_GA
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Hiker
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Posted: 30 September 2009 11:46 pm |
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| Nancy, there may be something too that theory. I know when it's warm my hands are definatly bigger. I've always attributed it to my body retianing more water when it's warm but I really have no idea. It is interesting though.
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 3 October 2009 09:23 pm |
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| Deleted post. Just testing because I can't post on the exercise challenge thread. Last edited on 3 October 2009 09:25 pm by Nancy_in_GA
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 5 October 2009 02:17 pm |
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Oh boy, I visited my mother Sunday and she had fixed homemade pot pie (pork) and sausage biscuits for snacks. Needless to say the eating was not good.
I don't have a clue how to count the pot pie. I'm guessing 1000 calories, but could be more. Got to watch it, the last few days I've been well over 2000 calories total. I think it's time to go back into diet mode for a day or two before things start getting out of control.
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 6 October 2009 03:26 am |
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Attempting to break the overeating cycle today, I kept calories to 1050 by dinner time. Then went for a walk and to the gym instead of eating dinner. Had a huge plate of boiled cabbage fried in 1.5 tbsp of butter at 9pm. Mmmm.
I hope that's it for the day. Nothing good left in the house to eat right now anyway.
Total so far: 1340
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 7 October 2009 04:04 am |
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Second day of self-imposed punishment for overeating on the weekend. Logged 1000 calories by 5pm. Went for a walk at normal dinner time. Had a pile (1.5c) of candied carrots (butter and sugar), sf choc pudding and ff Coolwhip at 9:30pm.
Total: 1550 calories
More than I had planned, but at least under 1900. Back to normal (whatever that is) tomorrow.Last edited on 7 October 2009 02:10 pm by Nancy_in_GA
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 7 October 2009 02:23 pm |
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Weight this morning was 119.4 and the average calories for the week looks better now.
Back to meatball subs.
Week's stats: (10/01 through 10/07)
High | Low | Average
Calories: 2660 | 1340 | 2000
Weight: 120.6 | 119.4 | 120.0
Last edited on 7 October 2009 02:24 pm by Nancy_in_GA
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 8 October 2009 08:19 pm |
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Maybe I've stumbled onto a possible maintenance strategy here. After two days back in diet mode, I didn't automatically jump right back up to high (like 2500+) calories. The next day was 1900, most of it in the late evening, and I could have easily skipped a couple hundred of those. And today is going reasonably well, so far.
So I could try weighing in every Monday, assessing the damage, and doing either one or two diet mode days, then ---sort of like you guys and your UDD days, only at a maintenance level. Mine would be more like
UUUUUDD
I'm just afraid to not count calories on the up days. I actually go more by the calorie counts than by the scales. Maybe I'll try it for a couple of weeks and also count calories, and see how it goes.
Last edited on 10 October 2009 11:10 pm by Nancy_in_GA
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 10 October 2009 03:43 am |
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Before the days of automatic washers and dryers, and wash & wear clothes, my mother would usually do the washing on Monday and the ironing on Tuesday. Surely cutting back on calories just on Monday and Tuesday would be easier than that!
(I'm trying to talk myself into this new plan)
Purposely ate pretty much whatever I wanted today and the total is only 2300 calories, but I feel stuffed. That's odd. I should double check and see if I missed something. This part of the plan is the easy part.
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 12 October 2009 04:22 am |
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Expecting a gain tomorrow due to eating 4 cups of homemade vegetable soup with saltines today---very heavy salt all around. Also the weather has turned warm here again.
Assuming 2000 calories maintenance (which may, or may not, be correct), I overate by a net 820 calories since last Tuesday. So tomorrow and Tuesday I'm shooting for an average of about 1550 cal per day ("The Laundry Diet").
Got plenty of good things to eat in the fridge---deviled eggs, cantaloupe, cabbage, peas, carrots, broccoli, lettuce, salmon, lowfat cottage cheese, bananas and pineapple. No excuses. Putting it in writing. We'll see....
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 12 October 2009 02:55 pm |
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I knew it! Up a pound since yesterday. Ears ringing. Have 6 more cups of this soup in the fridge.
And... woke up to a hard blowing rain from the east (very unusual to come from the east here) and I've got a leak in the roof/ceiling upstairs---so bad I had to put a bucket under it, just like in the movies!
It's on the side of the chimney. Had it before and thought I had it fixed. One step forward, two steps back. Maybe I'll just wait until the next rain from the east comes. Don't want to deal with this right now.
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Posted: 13 October 2009 01:34 am |
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Hi Nancy,
Just checking in. What's going on? Do you live on farm? I ask because I saw you mention something about tractors. Or is it just a *big* yard?
--Jack
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 13 October 2009 03:51 am |
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No way, Jack, I live in the city. My mother lives on a farm and I try to take care of things out there for her. It's her tractor. Too much work on a farm for me.
It rained 4.3 inches this morning before 1:00pm! No wonder the roof leaked. Supposed to rain more tomorrow. Rain always makes me want to sleep all day. No exercise.
It is 10:45 pm and I've logged in 1300 calories so far, including 2 more bowls of that salty soup. That means the weight will stay up another day. Will probably just stop there and leave more for tomorrow.
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jackbenimble
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Posted: 14 October 2009 02:03 am |
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Hey Nancy,
I see, that explains it. I couldn't quite figure it out. Yeah, the farm sounds like a lot of work. It's really nice of you to help out your Mom.
I actually am thinking of moving to more rustic setting myself. I like driving along the long roads with not stop lights and lots of trees. I actually take the long way to work just to do that.
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 14 October 2009 03:36 am |
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Weight this morning was 119.4. Calories for Monday & Tuesday: 1350 and 1600 (so far). Average: 1475. Did 15 mins on an elliptical tonight and it said I can eat 1.5 extra graham crackers for all that effort  . Thanks a lot! Back to normal tomorrow....
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 16 October 2009 04:13 am |
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Weight Wednesday 119.2 lbs.
Week's stats: (10/08 through 10/14)
High | Low | Average
Calories: 2460 | 1350 | 1947
Weight: 121.0 | 119.2 | 120.0
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 22 October 2009 03:43 am |
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Still tinkering around with maintenance....
The last time I seriously dieted was in 2002---went from 150 to 125. Gained back up to 145, but it was gradual over 6 years. The trouble is I stopped losing weight just where I wanted to be (125), so I was higher than I wanted to be most all of those 6 years. I don't want to do that again. It seems like I always ate much more than I do now. To gain at the rate of 25 lbs in 6 years would be only 40 extra calories per day on average, so there must have been some down days, too, but I don't remember any.
Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday I decided to eat anything I wanted and see what happened. The total came in at approx 3000 calories each day. It seemed like I was eating all the time. The first day there was a lot of junk in the house and I was on a mission to get rid of it. On Saturday I wanted to see if sweets made any difference, so I made a 4"x9" cake, smothered it in icing and ate the whole thing. No sugar spikes at all because stomach was never empty. For this 3 day experiment I probably gained one pound. At 3000 cals/day I would gain 100 lbs a year, but it didn't seem like more than I used to eat.
But you know what?!! I found out that it wasn't all that much fun. Maybe because I didn't have Hershey's kisses or pizza or cheesecake in the house. Eating was more like just something to do to keep from doing other things I didn't want to do---like time-wasting (are you there, Nir?). But I also stuff food in my mouth while I'm busy working on something where I have to make a lot of decisions. It's like a reason to take a break to avoid making decisions, or stall while I think about them.
Maybe if I just keep Hershey bars, pizza and cheesecake out of the house, keep busy, and don't worry so much about making mistakes it will be OK.
I know that this last summer has been the best summer ever. I felt comfortable wearing shorts in public and could go walking in 95 degree heat and not be miserable. And though I thought 125 was my ideal weight I'm liking 120 better. Unfortunately it makes for even more wrinkles.
Glad I joined the Halloween Challenge. Sure 'nuff my weight was up almost exactly one pound this week, so the last week of the challenge I hope to drop that extra pound.
Week's stats (not pretty): (10/15 through 10/21)
High | Low | Average
Calories: 3250 | 1830 | 2414
Weight: 123.0 | 120.2 | 121.4
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