Day 22 – 16:8 CD
Yesterday report
– [x] FD800
– [x] Cardio
Weigh in this morning is 140.5. Very pleased. The last time I was solidly at a weight in my 130’s was about the time we married, more than 25 years ago. I keep wondering if I should try on my wedding dress and see if I can fit in it again, but want to wait til I get to my goal weight.
Memory time: I do fit into my alternate wedding dress. Lol, I had two. One I found immediately after we got engaged at the local department store – just a beautiful simple a-line ivory dress with an eyelet part around the shoulders. It swung and twirled, and was perfect for dancing. This made my mother sad, though, as it was pretty clear I was her one mother-of-the-bride chance, so she asked me to get married in a formal wedding dress and change into the dancing dress at the reception. I’m so glad I did, we spent such wonderful dozens of hours looking for one then having fittings for that formal dress. The shop we finally found it at was about an hour’s drive from us and we would make a day of it when we needed to go there, and found the most wonderful Italian bakery/cappuccino place nearby. Several older Italian men sat at a card table in the corner every time we went there and we used to entertain ourselves making up stories about their lives. Starbucks was barely a thing then, so a cup of delicious cappuccino was a real treat we had not been able to indulge in since we had lived in Italy. I will never not miss her, but I have such rich memories.
Basta! On the subject of weddings, @froby79 I look forward to your wedding updates, and did I miss it? Did you get the menu sorted?
@northgeorgia, Lol Happy 2sday indeed! You are doing so well! Inspiring!
@flourbaby Enjoy your birthday! Like you, I eat well on my holidays, but often wear out a pair of shoes for my holiday walking! That generally keeps the pounds from piling on.
@i-hate-lettuce The trick for me is to jump back on 5:2 when I return from holidays! That is when my mojo is weakest but needs to be firm! I’m going to try to keep you in mind next time!
@daffodil2010 I’m envious of your rural walks (and walking company). I love walking in cities and rural areas, but find myself bored with walking in me extensive residential area. As the weather has been pretty nice here the past couple of weeks, I’ve been doing my hula hooping outside in my yard – I am enjoying the breeze and sunshine.
@at I ‘virtually’ close my kitchen door (my kitchen doesn’t actually have doors, and is a necessary passage through way so I can’t actually do that) at night. I usually go brush my teeth when I officially ‘close’ it. That makes a huge difference to my mindset.
Question for the calorie counters among us: I make a lot of stews and soups and my husband makes big batches of chilli and other dishes. I can portion these easily (1 cup frozen servings) but honestly, have no idea how I to count calories because the ‘recipes’ are most often whatever veg is on hand and widely varying meat weight (which often goes in with bones to complicate estimates). I feel like I’m missing something, any tips?
Warm thoughts to everyone 😀
2:56 pm
22 Feb 22