The floor is finished

Up at daylight, just could not sleep. We have moved the Texas fountain to where we really want it, and the installers have finished the floors. Now we wait for the installer to install my storm door on my office. 

My weight is up a little but I am not worried. I will get if off once things settle down, and I can eat less salt. 

I finally finish bagging up the leaves from my neighbors side yard next to our home. Too tired to say much to night. I am also posting a few pictures of the fountain. 

I am tired

Yesterday the floor installers worked on installing the new floor in the house and they should finish it today. Linda and I put together our swing for the front yard. I have never seen one swing that caused so much issues getting it put together. The temperature was in the high 80s yesterday and looks to be close to 90 most of the week. But it does not seem that bad with all of the trees here. We seem to have just enough of a breeze along with the trees to make it comfortable. 

I ate poorly yesterday, eating a couple slices of pizza for lunch, and enchiladas for supper. I stayed in budget but the salt was way over the top. 

I am posting a few of the pictures from yesterday.

Eating too much good food

Well, it is a beautiful day today, sunny, cool start but a warm afternoon. I have opened the windows to allow the house to air out. The new flooring is going to be smelling up the house and also letting off of fumes that can be harmful for a while. 

Church was great with a great message, I only wish I could put all of the surrounding noises and happenings out of my mind. I wish I could meditate to the point that I could but every unimportant thing out of my mind, it seems the stuff that does not really mean anything is what clutters my mind. 

Now for the title of this blog, you can gain weight by eating too much good food. Even though you are doing what you believe is correct if you do not do it in moderation then you are going to eat too many calories and you will end up gaining weight if you eat more calories than you burn day after day. It is not bad to eat over what you burn once or twice a week as long as you are eating below budget more often than you are eating over budget. Now if you are trying to lose weight you had better be eating more under what you burn than if you are just trying to maintain your weight. Even if you are eating to maintain you still will have ups and downs in your weight, that is all a part of life. More than likely you will have those ups and downs due to salt, and or eating protein, normally meat that takes longer to digest, so it sticks around longer. Also as you age and you get AGE spots on your skin it is due to your body heading up from trying to digest protein, normally from meat. I am also learning and finding out we do not need that much protein from pure protein foods, we get protein from eating veggies, green veggies are the best, and even some fruit. Also, grains have proteins, but we as humans should not be eating any type of grain very much if any. Yes, I just said that grain, whole grain even is not really good for us. Grains go straight to belly fat on men. Grain causes our bodies to generate insulin which if we generate too much insulin it turns stored as fat. I am also finding out that not only grains do this but most fruit, and all potatoes, and any veggie that has seeds that we eat. So all beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, and others causes our bodies to generate insulin which ends up as fat. Also, I have learned that any veggie that has seeds are really fruit, and not veggies. There is a Doctor that is saying that we should not eat any fruit that is not in season. And we should not eat any bean or seed, other that tree nuts, and that peanuts are not really nuts but a seed in the bean family. Also, that we should not be having any dairy after we are old enough to not be growing. Well, I am having a hard time doing this, I love my milk. And I love my meat. So my thinking is that I will do my best to cut back on the bad things, and increase my eating of the good stuff as I can. I am hoping to get my last bit of belly fat off. And to hopefully get to feel even better and hopefully start to sleep better. I believe this is all about learning and moving in to doing things better even though you are older and set in your ways. We as humans can get better as we age if we just try and keep learning and evolving. 

A beautiful day

Woke up with a headache, but still was a beautiful sunny day. 

My weight was up a pound, but it is to be expected after a loss two days in a row. I am still eating below my burn calories, even the other day when I was over budget. I had eaten less then my burn calories for the day. 

Today we are trying to get things ready for the flooring to be installed. So I cleaned out my office as much as possible, and moved the modem and router back to the kitchen so they are not in my office. I am hoping they will do my office early in the process so they can move some of the stuff from the rest of the house out in my office. My wife has her sewing room in pretty good shape for the flooring install. Tomorrow we have to take down the TV and other electronics so they are out of the way before they get here Monday morning. 

I took some time and took the scooter out and rode around some new areas of the Village I have not ridden before and had to stop and start on some steep hills both up and down. I am getting better at starting and stopping and I am getting use to having cars following me. 

Cloudy and warm

It is trying to rain I believe it did rain yesterday afternoon and evening. I woke up to another 0.8 pounds down, even with me giving in to a cup of ice cream last evening, and going over budget for the day. I am eating well below my budget most days so giving my body a treat and fooling it every now and then is a good thing. 

We are waiting for Lowe’s to deliver the flooring for our home, Then on Monday they will begin installing it. I will be glad to get this over with. Linda is talking about going with our friend to Erie, Pa for July and August and leaving me here to fend for myself. I am not sure how I feel about it. Part of me says it will be a good time to try my thoughts on eating a much more plant based diet of green leafs. Part of me does not like being alone, even if I will have our guys here with me. 

Today we have things we need to take to the restore place and we need to take to the storage unit.  Not sure if I will be able to get to the trail to walk from the looks of the weather.

Cloudy, warm and humid.

Not a bad day at all,  but it is little humid. My weight is down this morning to 193.2, the first real down turn so far. 

Trying to get things ready for the new floor to be installed next week. And finding things to move to the storage garage where the camp trailer belongs. 

Went to Cedar Creek Hiking Trail this morning and did my walk again, can you say two days in a roll. Nice walk but humid. The ride over was not bad, I am getting somewhat more use to the scooter. The ride back became a little dicey due to it starting to misty rain. I am not ready to deal with the rain as of now. 

My eating habits are slowly becoming what I would like them to be. I am not eating that much. And as long as I keep my salt and sugar down I do not seem to even think about eating. 

I am going to post pictures of the trail I walked today.

We had a great trip

We had a great trip to Texas, Taylor, Round Rock, Temple, Cedar Hill, DeSoto, and Dallas. Drove about 1400 miles round trip, pulling the travel trailer most of that time. The weather was warm, but nice the whole time. We did have problems with the trailer and it back at the dealership for repairs. We had issues with it not sealing when it is up, and also with issues getting it down when we were breaking camp. The Jeep got almost 19 mpg for the whole trip with is great when most of that was pulling the trailer.

My weight is very staple at this time I weigh the same this morning after the trip as I did the morning we left for the trip. I did keep my calories down while eating out a lot, but the salt intake was up and I can fill it in my feet and hands. I am hoping that my weight will come down after I detox the salt out of my system. 

I managed to get out and hike this afternoon, I managed about 4 miles and it was very humid and warm. 

“Everyone if you really want to understand insulin, and our issues with our western food supply then you need to read the following two books by DR. Steven R. Gundry.: "The Diet Evolution" and "The Plant Paradox". Even if you do not believe what he is saying just read it to understand what our farmers, and commercial farming is doing to us, much less our food factories, and even our doctors, and government. These books are eye openers.”  

With this in mine I am slowly going to change my eating habits. I will eat my greens, and less meat and I hope to slowly cut back on my milk drinking.  

Ok here are some of the pictures from the trip and from the hike.