Pretty well. I’m not quite well, but not sick either. Drippy nose, potential for sore throat and bacterial infection if I didn’t take Theraflu and DayQuil to stop the postnasal drip. But I have. I’m sleeping late in the morning: until 8; but I’m having no trouble concentrating. This morning’s addition is a headache, but not a bad one.
Weather’s staying drippy and cold. I told Jane at breakfast I think we need to devote 2 hours a day to whittling down that massive pile of basalt chips that’s on our righthand half of the driveway, blocking Jane’s car. We have 2 wheelbarrows. I shovel and load a ‘barrow, and Jane rolls it and dumps it where she wants. There are some places we know we need deeper gravel, and we can start with those.
Wind blew over the fishfood and spilled it last night, so I have to make a run to the store to get some more, and I think it’s time to go to winter food. I’d have liked to give them more protein before the chill, but once the water chills into the 50’s, it’s time to switch to wheat germ, which is easy to digest.
The feel in the air this year is of an early winter, and that wouldn’t be unwelcome: we had no-winter last year, which meant pests didn’t get frozen out, and that meant a hard summer of whacking and tending. So I could go with some snow.
We’ve had one of the worst years for allergies down here in the Okies. A lot of rain in the spring, nice weather and everything bloomed and seeded like mad. My allergist’s office was jammed when I went to get my monthly shots.
We need a really hard freeze to finally get rid of the muck in the air.
I just had to wipe off my eye makeup and take 2 DayQuil: my nose is itching like crazy. Oh, for one good freeze!
The nose isn’t so bad. It’s the itching in the ears and really sore throat that drive me crazy.
We’re getting hammered by a “Winter Storm”–in September. Tie it down!
Joy. I personally really want to know WHO ordered up THIS weather? I haven’t got the yard battened down for winter yet, we should have at least another month before this carp becomes seasonal weather!
Sigh, I suppose 35 mph sustained winds with gusts to 50 will knock all the dead needles out of the trees so I can get them off the roof and out of the gutters early this year….
“Carp”, that’s a koi isn’t it? 😉 😉 😉
We’re having off-and-on rain a few more days, which is quite welcome, both for rain and for lower temps. Winter last year had only two or three cold snaps, but otherwise mild. Rainy, cooler weather is a good sign of fall approaching here. We might luck out and get a more normal winter this year, which would be welcome. Fewer allergens, fewer bugs, both much desired.
Feel better soon!
Ah…koi grazing a field of wheat. What a pastoral–but somehow un-aquatic–scene. Really?
Weather was nice today: just too warm to want to do things outside (except near the beach), but just the right temperature to dine with Al Fresco. You know Al, I’m sure. Looks like we’ll be switching between a little cool and a little warm for a bit.
I saw my doc for the first time after starting 5:2-ing. Down 23 pounds. My doc and I tend to butt heads at times, generally cordially, since my earlier internist was a professor and my doc’s teacher. The prof was a compulsive teacher, so if I don’t know my bones, I do know general principles. But this visit we hardly disagreed at all, and the doc was quite interested in 5:2. My labs were excellent! Woo-hoo!
My doc had ragged on me to lose weight because of my BMI. He said lots of things like the computer said it, it was a standard, yadda-yadda-yadda. And I said things like it dates to the early 19th century, it’s a square function when it should be a cube if not a 4th power, I’m too tall for it to be reasonable. This time when he mentioned that my BMI was good, it was, “But it doesn’t really mean anything”! Progress! (We also agreed that programmers tend to go off and implement what they like, and generally suck at figuring out what their customers really want. Um, yep!)
5:2 got so easy I went to alternate day “fasting”* for the last month. (*500 kcal women; 600, men.) In the last few weeks it was getting as much weight off as possible before the doc visit. When I needed two feed days in succession, I fasted (completely) for 24 hours before eating the second feed day. So, I’ve kicked back for a couple days, essentially going back to 5:2. I’m going to try to get back to alternate days until I hit target, but once the Trader Joe’s starts carrying pumpkin pies–don’t want to miss them! (They have many good holiday foods, but the pumpkin pies aren’t hugely high-calorie, unlike some other stuff.)
This is one of those times I wish I were a habitual diary-keeper, so I would know what I had done when. The whole “fasting” thing has gotten so easy, despite my little vacation now, I’m a little concerned I’ll have trouble stopping, and be able to stay in the 5:2 pattern (for health and longevity reasons) but keep weight-stable and not go anorexic. Many problems happen keeping stable after the diet. Well, having to eat chocolate chip cookies to keep my weight stable wouldn’t be the worst fate, I suppose….
(He says Pollyannaishly.)
It is possible to make a sliced pumpkin pie which tastes much the same as the usual pumpkin custard. Take the spices and sweetener and shake, stir or top your pumpkin pieces in that, then just pour them into your pie shell and bake it until the pumpkin is tender. Same taste, many fewer calories…
But I’m not just a ‘Murrican, I’m a nearly hopeless cook. I burn water. “Usual custard” is an oxymoron; I had to look custard up. The only pie I’ve made in my life was spelled “pi”. But I do appreciate the thought and hope someone else among us can use your excellent advice.
I had too many carbs on our weekend down in the Tricities and put on the usual 4 lbs for a weekend of indulgence.
I’ve now gotten them off, and am back to 178.
Thing is—though I can indulge and go to 182…it’s 182, not 232.
I don’t have to face a lifetime of no-cream-pie. I just have to figure that a weekend with cream pie is going to put on 4 pounds and I’ll spend a week getting rid of it.
On that thought, I can get through the holidays. Party 3 days, back to the strict form of the diet, and I’m not yo-yo’ing, I’m climbing the ladder down.
I’m trying to figure out maintenance now. I need to be in the 145-149 range for 6 weeks to get to lifetime on Weight Watchers (free tools and only weigh once a month) and so far for the last 2 weeks I’m still losing.
This is harder for me than losing, unfortunately.
My downfall is Reese’s Pieces. Absolutely addicted. Not good. Oh, and BTW, all that weight you lost, I found it. I’d offer to give it back but wouldn’t it be nice if when we lost weight, we could just pass it along to some malnourished children? Altruistic dieting. That would make losing weight twice as good.
Somebody is more than welcome to my hips.