Beautiful sunrise this morning

I woke up before sunrise this morning and got to see a beautiful sunrise. This is making my day that much better.

Hopefully we will hear that the part for Linda’s scooter is in and we can get our scooters tomorrow.

Now to my weight, well it is down just a little this morning. I am adjusting my eating and slowly adjusting to a lesser amount of calories. I am trying not to deprive my body and myself but to adjust down so I can get my weight back to where it was. I know this goes against the intuitive eating, but I am just adjusting to now being able to walk as I have bee in the past. And I am doing this by portion control and not by removing foods I love. Linda is also learning new recipes and that is making it interesting. 

Update: 

We got the call we were waiting for, we are going first think in the morning to get our scooters. It will be a very long day about 500 miles round trip.

Still raining this morning

I am struggling with my weight at this time. Most of it is due to us moving and the stress and what has to be done when moving out of state. A lot of it is no walking at this time. Some of it is the adjustment to the weather, and the new neighborhood. And then there the fact there is no super HEB here to get the bulk foods that we were use to eating. We are making the needed adjustments and to be honest we love the area and our neighbors. I am slowly working my calories down some. And I can honestly say that each week I have been at are just below calories in VS calories out. And while I know have truly gained some weight, most of the extra weight is water weight. I am much smarter and on top of things now than I was back in 2014 when I gained so much weight back. And even with the weight I have gained my jeans, and other cloths still fit just about as good as before this gain. I also have to be honest with myself and say I am not sure I need to lose the weight that I gained. I am feel great, I just need to get my head straight and allow my body to adjust to what it knows to be its happy weight. And I just need to work more on eating correctly and listening to my body’s needs. 

We may be going to get the Scooters Saturday? I am not really crazy about drive the highways around larger cities on a holiday weekend. But I do want to get our scooters. I also want to feel like I can go my way and my wife can go her way at times. Sure I love going places with her but time a lone is also good. And I miss my walks that I can be allow with my thoughts and God. 

I worked today on the garage, and have cleaned up enough to be able to get the scooters in the garage. And boy have we got a lot of stuff that needs to be gotten rid of. 

Woke up to rain

It was rain when I got up and has been raining off and on all day. 

We called the motorcycle shop and we maybe getting our scooters on Friday, it depends if a part makes it in for Linda’s scooter’s front rack. The part is ordered and may make it in tomorrow if not it will be on Friday. Not sure if I will agree to drive there and back on Saturday. But if we wait it will be Tuesday before we get them. 

Now to my weight and eating issues. I am slowly getting my eating under control. But I still am not getting my walks in. I hope after the scooters get home I can start walking. But I do have a day or two that I need to put the mud flaps on them, and I need to make sure I take care of them so they do not rust. 

Have you ever been so mad you want to scream?

For over a week now I have been trying to get SuddenLink to fix my services. Every time I call can them to get answers and to get something done it is another excuse and another lie. They have never followed through with what they said they would do. I finally went to the SuddenLink store here in the Village and was able to get the modem that was left here on Friday taken care of to get my internet up, but I still do not have home phone service. I have been told a number of times they would have a service tech out to find out later that was a lie and it would not even happen or it was going to be even a later day and time than I was told. I do not know how a company that runs their business like this can stay in business.  Oh, yes I do! They are the only choice we have here in the Village for cable and high speed internet. Sure I could get services from AT&T for my phone, then get a Dish Network or some other satellite company in here to put a dish on the roof, and to run cable all around the house, but that looks like crap. But I would still have to have Suddenlink to get my high speed internet. I have never figured out what the satellite companies will not use the cabling that is in the house, and that was even true where I moved from and all of the homes were brand new. It was so sad to see new homes that I knew had cable installed when the home was built with crappy looking cable running around the house and holes drilled to put the satellite cables beside the cables already there. I even get into a fight with a Dish network guy about it. He could not understand why I was using cable when he could put in the Dish network service, and it made him mad when I say I was not going to allow the crappy looking cables to be run all around my new home. The house has new cables already in the house and it was going to be used. His commit was the company rule was to only use their own cable installs. So I told him to take a hike.

My weight is up again, I do not understand it. I do know that I am eating less than I am burning off. But I also know that my salt is still up too high. I also know that my muscles are sore and I believe they are holding water too. I can say this my cloths are not fitting too tight. 

It is the last week of March and we should be hearing soon that Linda’s scooter has made it to the states. Then it will be just how long it takes to get to the dealership. 

Update

The tech that came out this morning knew what he was doing. He had to completely redo what the tech Friday night screwed up. We do not have any bad cables like the tech Friday said. The only problem really was that the filter and the splitters did their job and was taken out from the lightening strike. The tech today replaced the filters, and grounded the cables they way they need to be something else that the tech the Friday did was leave the ground off. 

Update #2

Just got an email that my wife's GTS300 (Scooter) is now at the dealership, so it should not be long now.

Finally

We have finally gotten our Jeep and camp trailer registered in Arkansas, as well as having our drivers license. I cannot believe just how much cheeper it is here to register the Jeep and trailer, we paid less than half of what it would cost in Texas to register the Jeep alone to register both here. And that is not even including having to get an inspection for both in Texas. Here in Arkansas we have locked in our property tax for ever to what it is now, and it will not change by increasing the value of the house. We are paying about one-tenth of what we were paying in Texas for property taxes here in Arkansas. We did have a bit if confusion on what we needed for our information but really and truly it was not a bad process. 

I have been running around today to get the registration done and to get an appointment to get the jeep maintenance appointment. I will be at the Jeep most Monday to get that taken care of. I also stopped by the VA to see about getting an appointment and will have to wait for them to get approval from me to use the VA in Hot Springs, I really thought that had been taken care of. 

I also stopped by Brenda’s shop and found out that my nephew is in bad health and we are not sure what is going to happen there. 

My weight is up again. I am getting really worried that I am not going to be able to reverse it. Somehow I have got to get where I can walk again. Or I am going to have to figure out how to stop eating. 

What a week

The week has been great with so much I have down and things I have seen and learned. But the week has been bad too, my diet has suffered very badly. 

Sunday evening we had a storm roll through the area and our internet, house phone, and cable has been down ever since, and they will not have any one out to fix it until tomorrow evening. I know that part of the reason is that we have not been here so they could work on it. 

Monday we set up our banking here local, and we got our drivers license changed over to Arkansas. 

Tuesday I went on a men’s retreat up north of here to a monastery, and Linda went to a sewing class, where she ended up trading in her new sewing machine for a better one, I figured she would be doing it. 

Wednesday I finished up the retreat and returned home to fall a sleep while waiting for Linda to get home from the sewing class with her new machine. Then we went out to eat. 

Today we went to count votes for the POA election, that is a stressful job that Linda and I both feel we do not want to do again. Sure it was a good experience but not think you. 

My diet is crazy and out the window again this week and still not able to get any walking in. 

Sunday and cloudy and trying to rain

Saturday was a really lazy day I spend some of the time reading. I also did not really feel great. I believe that I have allergy issues. My weight yesterday morning started out really high, I was very bloated but after taking my diuretic I begin to get rid of the water weight. This morning my weight is back down to 192, I am still two pounds heavier that at the first of the year, and I am still not getting my walking in. I know it is not really going to happen that much until we get this house in order. We are going to be really busy for a while. We have both have a list of things this coming week. Monday we set up back accounts locally, and we will finally get our drivers license, and registration taken care of. Tuesday I go to a Men’s retreat that is mostly Tuesday afternoon, night and Wednesday morning. Linda has a sewing class all day Tuesday and Wednesday. Then on Thursday we count the votes for the POA board election. Friday hopefully we can work on the house some more. So I am not sure how my eating is going to go this week. Hopefully I will at least be able to eat reasonably. I do not hold out any hope to keep the salt level down. 

My blog this week more than likely will not happen until Friday then it will be a summary of the week. 

Beautiful sunset from our front yard

Spring is here

Cloudy damp morning "A lesson from my experience”

Woke up to a cloudy sky and a very light rain. Yesterday was a welcome rest from the day before. The only real thing we did was go to a meeting about the POA election that we are going to help with the counting. My weight is up a little this morning and I believe it is due to the few chips that I ate late last night. While I am trying to lose some weight I refuse to allow myself to be deprived of food that I love. I am learning to manage what I eat and to control the amount that I eat. I also have my budget set lower that I really have to have it set. I do this so I do have the room if needed to as most of you say cheat. For me I am teaching myself to eat intuitively. All eating intuitively means is to eat the way we did when we were kids and we stopped eating and left food on our plates, yes if you are like me your mom and dad did tell you to clean your plate. My mom did not push me to eat more than I wanted and did allow me to leave food on my plate as long as dad was not at home. I cannot remember many times my dad was not at home for our evening meal, and my mom would put less on my plate and tell me if I wanted more to serve myself. That was her way of letting me eat the amount I wanted. As most of the kids my age back at that time I was a tall and skinny kid. I was allowed to eat anytime I felt the need to eat. But I was also a very busy kid working on the farm and orchard, and also after the age of 16 I worked in a country town grocery store. I was also busy with the FFA, and other school activities such as basketball, baseball and track. I was never really good at sports, and I believe it was due to not having the time to really commit myself to sports. It was a different time back then sports was just another class at school, it was not extra credit it was required. It was a very small school so everyone did their part so we could have sports. 

So why is intuitive eating so important? If you are really into eating for your body’s needs you eat to fulfill the body’s needs. You eat to fuel your body. You do not really eat to entertain yourself. Food is for survival first and for entertainment last. I am finding it easier that I expected to get back to eating for my body’s fuel. And in doing so I am finding that my body needs more than I was giving it at times. And I am finding that my body needs food that I was refusing to allow it to have. I am also finding that with the different seasons my body needs different foods. Intuitive eating is all about listening to your body and understanding when your stomach is full enough. It is reading the little messages that are telling you that you are becoming hungry and to eat a small snack or meal before you are starving. When you are overly hungry is when you binge. You also binge when your body is demanding some nutrition that you are depriving your body of. I found that most of time my body felt deprived of carbs. You see carbs are very important to your well being and nutrition. And your body’s real fuel for being active is carbs. Proteins are for rebuilding your muscles. And fats believe it or not are needed to help prevent your body from storing fat on your body. 

The key is to eat slow so you know when you have had just enough food to satisfy your needs. And also to listen to your body to read the messages that you need something to fuel yourself during the day between meals. 

Now I am going to add this because this is very important. Even with intuitive eating it is still about “Calories in and Calories Out” But if you are really good at intuitive eating you know how to balance the calories. I have to say I am not there yet. I am working on it. I am also very much a person of habit and logging on loseit is a habit that I am not ready to break and may never break.

Another beautiful day

Another cold morning but it will get up to about 70 today. The truck came and picked up the empty POD so our driveway is open again. Our garage is full and now we have almost all of our furniture, all that is life is two of our recliners that is in the POD that is still in storage. I sure as hell do not know where all of this stuff is going. A lot of it has to go to charity or just gotten rid of there is no way we have room for it. 

I am down another pound this morning, down to 192. I am sure that most of the weight I have lost so far is water weight due to salt. I am still 3 to 4 pounds heavier that my lowest back in December. I know yesterday I said that I set my goal weight down to 180, but I have really been thinking about it and feel that is too low, so I have adjusted it to 185. My calorie budget I have adjusted up to 1850 from 1800, I just cannot seem to eat that little at this time. My 28 day average is down to 1947, and I would like to see it at 1900 or less soon. Once I reach my goal weight what ever that may be when my body settles down to it I believe that my calorie intake should be between 1950 and 2000, and if I really get active then I can afford to have a few days of more than that for treats. Again this week I am eating above my calorie budget but still dropping weight so that tells me, I am either only losing water weight or I am more active than I believe and that the apple watch is showing. 

I do know this my skinny jeans still fit great, and some of my more loose fit jeans that are the same waist size are falling off of me. So I must be doing something right. The weather here is slowly warming up, and that is great it is the middle of March so that means we should be getting our scooters in about 15 days. I am looking forward to getting around the Village on my scooter, and hitting the trails. 

Just as I believe I have this process all figured out my body throws me a curve ball. Never allow yourself to think you have the calorie budget totally figured out always stay on your toes, and monitor your body. I am not really saying you should weigh yourself everyday or even every week. I am say just be in tune with your body. Your body will send you messages letting you know how you are doing in feeding it and keep it active. How do your cloths fit? How do you feel over all? How is your bodily functions going? All of these things are more important than the almight scale. 

Beautiful and sunny day

The day started off down right cold, below freezing. It has turned out to be very nice short sleeve shirt type of weather. We opened the POD and emptied it with the help of a couple of guys we hired to help us. Now we have a garage full of boxes and stuff we have to figure out what to do with. I have carried and moved more weight today than I can remember since we moved in the first two trucks. We have one more POD that has a lot of cloths and stuff in it. I look at what we have here and I shack my head. I believe that most of this is going to have to be given away. And that we have paid storage on it for nothing. I wish my wife would have listened to me and we had gotten rid of it before we ever packed up. 

My weight was down just a little this morning, I am now just 3 pounds above my goal weight of 190, well at least it is my real goal for now. In loseit I am showing my goal as 185 just so I have something to keep me motivated. Like I have said before 185 is not a weight that I have ever spend anytime at, so it is not a weight I feel is one of my set points. I do believe that I managed to keep my weight at about 190 long enough that it is now a set point. The dietitian that I went to for over 4 years believe that my weight is great at about 190 and so do I. The doctors that I have seen for my blood pressure have all pushed for me to weigh 185 and that is fully dressed, that would mean that I would have to weigh 176 - 180 to ensure that I could weigh in at a doctor’s office at 185. Would I like to be down to that weight? I am not sure? Now, as I am said before when I turned 21 my weight was 167-170, and that was just before going into Navy Bootcamp, and when I finish bootcamp I was weighing 205 - 215 and to be honest I was not feeling that great, and I did feel FAT. And to be honest again I feel FAT at 190 and I do have more fat around my belly than I really feel I should have. My thinking at this time is do keep my calories at 1800 calories a day minimum and not eat over 1900 on a 28 day average. At this time my 28 day average is 1975. And my 7 day average is 1930, but this is much better than what it was couple of weeks ago. 

Another sunny beautiful day

This morning started out by being woke up with the POD being delivered without any warning. The POD guy showed up earlier than what we were told. Tomorrow we will have some help here to unload the POD. Today I used the blower to blow the leaves in the back yard and bagged another bag of leaves, then I bagged 3 bags out of my neighbors yard. The neighbor has a throat cancer and is going to have chemo and surgery so I am going to help out with the yard.

My weight was down this morning again. I had a good day eating yesterday and my salt intake is down a lot. This evening I cheated and had a half a cup of ice cream. So I am over budget today. I know that one day of not so great eating is not going to kill me or my diet. 

This is the beautiful tree in our front yard here in the Village.

Beautiful Sunny Day

The sun is sunning but it is a cold start to the day and will stay cool all day. For most of this week we should have the sun but showers on Friday and maybe the weekend and warming up.

My weight is down a pound this morning to 194, this is a good start. I do believe it is only water weight loss, but I will take it. I have cut my calories down to 1800 calories. I know it is only an estimate but it is enough of a cutback that it seems to have started working. What I have done is fill my need for sugar with fruit, and got a way from pastries and chocolate. It is the little changes that make the big differences most of the time. Let me explain something to you while I am talking calories and estimates. I do not really measure my food, I only estimate how much I eat, over the last 7 years I have become fairly good at it. My way of measuring my intake is by how my stomach feels, how full I am? Also, by how comfortable my stomach is, always trying to make sure I have eaten enough I am not going to be hungry in an hour, but making sure I am not stuffing myself. This is a balancing act, and it is only working for me as long as I stay away from refined sugar, and refined wheat and processed foods. Yes, I did say I have to stay away from refined sugar, and refined wheat, and processed foods.  I do eat bread, but it is whole grain bread, and my wife is making it for me. I do eat oatmeal, and we buy only steel cut oats. I do eat cereal but again I make sure it has no added sugar and it is only whole grains. I was eating dark chocolate covered ginger, but I became addicted to it and was eating way too much so I have stopped eating it. I now buy ginger root, and grind it up and at it to my hot tea in the morning, and that is all that I need. I am also back to apple cider vinegar in the morning. A tablespoon full of apple cider vinegar in warm water works great and does the same as the ginger. 

Again it is the little things in our diets that make the difference in whether we gain, lose or maintain our weight. 

Cloudy morning

We had a few storms and a little rain yesterday and last night. Nothing bad here but close by there was some damage due to hail. The forecast is for cool nights and nice days for most of the week. But this is also going to be a very busy week with one of our PODs due in on Tuesday, and our new kitchen range, microwave, and refrigerator due in on Monday. We have help coming on Wednesday to unload the POD but then we have to do the unpacking of it. Thursday we have a meeting about the POA election that is the next week. Then the next week I have a UMM retreat on that Tuesday and Wednesday, then on Thursday we have to do the counting of the POA election. It is also getting close to my reunion in Texas, and us getting our scooters. It just does not seem that we can get a break so I can get to a walking routine. And we still will have a POD to unload even after this one. 

Now to what is really bothering me, my weight. I am slowly managing to cut my calories. My body is not allow me to cut calories all at once I am having to slowly back off on how much I eat. And I am getting back to eating lots more veggies and fruit. I am still eating lots of nuts. But I am cutting way back on the sweets. I do not plan on cutting sweets completely out due to my low blood sugar. I really do not want to lose below say 188. But I also believe but I am not sure that this is not really one of my set point ranges. I know I have a set point range in and around 210, and if that is true then my next set point range should be around 180, if you believe the books. I have never held my weight in that range before so I really do not know. My ranges I know of are about 168, then it jumps to the 210 range. I believe I should be able to create a range in the 190 area if I can manage to work on it. 

This morning to squirrels were playing in the big tree in the front yard and it was fun to watch them. They both looked to be young, I would say about a year old maybe. 

Not happy with myself

I am gaining weight, some maybe water but I am still gaining and it is because I am not getting my walks in as I should, and I am eating too much with not doing my walks. I am removing from the house everything that I know I can binge on. I am also not able to get the needed fruits, and veggies I need to replace the crap I have been eating. I will get this back under control. But I have got to be patient and cut my intake down due to the lack of my walking. I know me and I cannot do it cold turkey I have to back off slowly. I am finding to try and do it all at once I end up eating more I have been. So it may take me a few weeks to reduce the calories I am eating. I know I am not going to be able to do daily walks for the for seeable future, there is just too much to do here at the house. I am also going to reread “The Diet Fix” and “Intuitive Eating”  this will help me refocus myself. The problem is I know what I need to do but I am having a problem getting back on track. 

Beautiful Sunny day

The morning started off cold, but it is becoming a beautiful day. 

I am removing all of my trigger foods from the house so I can get back to basics. My weight this morning is holding, but I am not happy with feeling bloated most of the time. I know it is due to way too much sugar and also water weight due to salt. So I am kicking my believed cookies, ice cream, and dark chocolate ginger out. And with my wife and I planning our meals a week at a time it will help. 

I will be walking again to day. I need to exercise and the peace of mind that it gives me. The walking here is really hard at this time but I know it will get easier as I get back to my form. I am excepting that I will no longer be walking 5 or 6 miles at a time, well not for a while at least. I am looking forward to getting the scooters so I can feel free to go to the trails that I want to go to. And I can also explore the area more and maybe find good fishing places. 

I did a 2.27 mile walk, and it is so hilly that I climbed 39 floors. I believe this was the hardest walk yet, but I did see a beautiful area that I want to explore more but I believe it will have to be with the scooter. The hills seem like they are straight up and down. There is some very beautiful scenery in the area farther on from where I managed to get to. I do not thing I have worked this hard since climbing the World Trade Center Tower steps from the garage to the roof, back when I was in my mid 20s. 

This is to add to the earlier one today.

I am busy and I am still getting in about 10K steps a day but I am not doing the type of walks I was doing. I am also doing a lot of lifting and moving boxes and other stuff around. I just feel it is a lot more important at this time to get the house together so when I do really get back to my walks I can concentrate on my walks. I would love to be out walking. You see for me a 15 minute walk is nothing in my mind. I have it in my I have to get at least 4 miles nonstop to make it even worth my time. It is not as if I am inactive, it is that I am not doing what I love doing. I can say this with pride that I am eating less than I am burning, but not by as much as I was use to doing. I can also say with pride that my clothes fit even better than they did before. I am working a hack of a lot more muscles than what I was doing by just walking. So what is my problem I am not sure it is mental I believe, my brain is telling me I am not doing what I should even though I am doing as much or more physical work. And whether we like it or not our brains have a lot to do with our weight and bodies. But if you will allow yourself to listen and I mean really listen to your body's rhythms you will learn to eat correctly. Sure it is still about calories in and calories out, but it is about not really having to count the calories you learn just how much you need to eat. But in doing so you will have to learn to except yourself and your body for what it is. And not expect it to be what your mind's eye says it should be.

This afternoon I managed a 55 minute walk behind my neighborhood, that was 2.6 miles an elevation climb of 825 feet, and my apple watch said I climbed 21 floors. Some of the climbs in this area are well greater than 15% grade. I do not seem to have too much issue with the climbs it is going down the hills that bother me more. I have the same issues with stairs, I can climb them much easier than I can climb them much easier than go down them.

A cool sunny day today

I slept in late again, this is becoming a habit. My weight is the same, and I am so surprised. I did have a binge yesterday, I have to stop it and I am having such a hard time persuading myself to do so. On a good note I have started back on my apple cider vinegar every morning, and my hopes is that I can stop eating the dark chocolate ginger, that will save me a lot of calories. I am also hoping to get back to walking. I keep saying that and it seems that something always gets in the way of me doing so. 

I have to say this I am listening to my stomach and body and It is having me eat more that my mind believes that I should. My mind wants me to cut way back but my body and stomach is saying different. And to be honest it is my body and stomach that is winning out at this time. My brain/mind may be the problem here and not my body, I am holding my weight very well at 193.4. Now lets look at my weight history. At age 21 and just before going in the Navy I weighed 167-170, after Bootcamp I weighed 210-225. I stayed at 210-230 my whole time in the Navy (8 years). After getting out of the Navy, and taking a job that had me setting in a classroom all day for about 4 months I had gained to almost 245. After the classroom time I was very busy and on the go for about a year and lost done to 210-225. Then I had to change jobs, and was on my feed and working at work bench for the next 12 years and I maintained my 210-225 weight, by bicycling after work and on weekends, and by being very active at work. Then I switched jobs and for 3 years I was doing another job that had me on the go and also setting at a bench my weight stayed very close to the 210-230 weight. Then I ended up changing jobs again and still staying on my feet and doing this job for 5 years and still kept my weight at 210-230.  But then I also started studying to be a Software Engineer. I switched to being a support person for Microsoft Software and was setting all day everyday, and I gained up to 290 over 15 years or so that I did the job with different companies. I decided I had to do something to get my weight down and I started by doing a portion control diet and walking I lost down to as low as 194. Then I was forced to retire and I began gaining back up until I reached 250. I refocused myself and I am back down. I have gotten as low as 187.5 and I am now averaging 193.5. This 193.5 is below what I weight most of my adult life. And even now without walking I am active but not as active. I am also eating less than I was back with most of my life. Sure I am older and I do not need to eat as much.  So my dilemma is do I go back to pushing my weight lower or do I except the fact that I am at the weight I should be at. While I know that I have had doctors tell my I should weigh no more than 185, and I know that for my height that the BMI charts say I should be somewhere between 155-184, but that has not worked for me except when I was a teen between 16-20 years old and that is when I was always called a skinny kid. I would love some feedback on this but I know in the end I will be at what my body finds to be its happy weight. 

Another beautiful day

Today is sunny but windy. The huge tree in out front yard is trying to either leaf out or go into some type of flowering. We had to get our gas bottles changed out due to the use of the fireplace. 

I cannot believe it I slept in until 9:00 this morning. The first time I have been able to do that since moving up here. 

My weight is about the same, and I still have not managed to get back to walking. I hate that too. I am slowly getting my eating back under control. We are planning meals a week at a time again. The planning ahead has been a big help in the past. But I have to get back to walking. I do not feel that is going to really happen until we get the scooters so I feel better at getting to the walking trails. Also we have one of the PODS due in here next Tuesday, so we will be busy with more stuff to put away or organize to get rid of. I really am looking forward to getting the scooters here. We now have almost all of our needed items for the scooters, the only things left is not that important other than the scooters themselves. We have floor mats to come sometime late this week or early next, and we have my riding jacket which is really only a rain coat. The chocks are ready to go along with everything needed to trailer the scooters home.

We have our bird feeders, and hummingbird feeders out and ready for the birds. We have garden soil now so we can start the grow box garden. 

The guy and gales are happy with having the doggy door and the fence so they can come and go when they need to do their business. They are also very happy they do not have to be pinned up at all times. 

And we are finally getting use to saying our new address and home phone number. 

Stop just Stop please

I have to stop gaining and get back to what works for me. It is not that I am eating the wrong foods, it is that I am not being able to do my walks the way I was and that I am not burning the calories off. My calories eaten is not that bad and to be honest with my self I am balancing out the total calories burned with the calories eaten. So why am I gaining? I just am not getting the type of activity that I was doing. I also know this when I do my daily walks I do not eat as much. For me I do not eat as much when I am walking, why? I cannot really answer that question other than to say, I do not take food with me when I walk I am out of the house and walking for at least an hour and a half. That is a time that I do not think about food, or even drinking anything.  I know what has to been done I just cannot seem to be able to do it with the unpacking of the house and everything else that is going on. 

Cloudy and some rain and cooler

Woke up to light rain and clouds and cooler temperatures. Went to the early church service. It was a great message again. I really like the pastors and the messages. I also like that most everyone is about our age. We checked in on the road issues with the road out and it is just as I  figured it is the area of the road that parallels the road we live on. 

Breakfast was eggs over hash browns, with melted cheese and gravy. And I had my normal milk with whey protein. I am also back to taking my apple cider vinegar in the mornings. We are almost back to normal now so we are beginning to plan our evening meals for the whole week. This should help me get back into the eating habits again that I need. I am also hoping to be able to walk more. Except for rain today and to night and maybe in the morning we should have a nice week even with it being cooler than it should be Wednesday evening and Thursday. 

After breakfast I put together the yard wagon that we got at Home Depot yesterday, and I also put the scooter wheel chokes together that we need to trailer the scooters when we go pick them up. With the weather getting better I am looking forward to getting out on my scooter and seeing the Village. 

A beautiful day

It has been a sunny and warm day. We have been busy looking around and shopping. We went to the lookout here in the Village and I will have a few pictures at the end of this blog. We also drove to Benton and we got a new stove, microwave, and refrigerator. My wife also found the sewing center she was hoping for here in the area, and the surprise is that it is also the appliance center we got here new kitchen appliances. Then we also went by Home Depot and got a new lawn wagon, it was cheaper to get the new wagon than it was to get new wheels for the one we have. Then we went grocery shopping for a large number of stuff we needed. This is the first large scale grocery shopping we have down since getting here.

I had Smart Bran, a banana, and milk with whey protein for breakfast, and I got one of my dizzy spells this afternoon and had to get a snickers bar so I can eat something. This got me over the dizzy spell and let me make it to dinner. I am under budget for today so I am happy about that. 

 Below is the pictures from the Lake Lago Lookout

I am struggling at this time

I am struggling with my weight at this time. I am still below what I weighed between 2012-2014, but I am up almost 4 pounds from my lowest. I know what my issue is and I am struggling to get it under control. I am now doing my daily walks like I was, but I am getting some exercise in the form of working on the house and yard but that just is not enough. I am hoping with the weather starting to get better I can get out and walk more, that will help a lot. But I am also not eating correctly, I am eating way to much bread and sweets, which would not be a big issue if I was walking daily. But I have to say this my cloths are not, I repeat my cloths are not fitting tighter than they were when I was at my lightest. And that is a none scale victory. I am going to try to get down this year to at least 185. I really believe I can do it. But I have to get back to my daily walks. 

It is another beautiful sunny day today, I went to the most challenging trail in the Village and walked 4.4 miles round trip, which gave me a climb of 21 floors. And of course what I went up I had to also go down. This is one of the reason I wanted to me to the Village. I am going to challenge myself before the season is over to walk the full length of the trail which is I believe 8. 2 miles. 

Finally we see the sun.

Hopefully the fence guys get out and finish the fence today. Linda is about to pull someone’s head off if it does not get finished soon. 

Well, I need a haircut so I am planning to go to my sister’s barbershop for a haircut. I also need to work in the yard and rake up more leaves and bag them. But for now we have fog and sun not sure which is going to win. 

My weight is still an issue, I am not doing what I should be doing at this time. I say I am but then I screw up and eat things I should not. I am also back to taking apple cider vinegar in the morning. I am hoping I can do it and stop eating so much of the dark chocolate ginger. I believe that I am eating way to much sweets and that is making me want to eat more.

Today we got the rest of our scooter stuff, the only thing I need to do now is decide if I am going to get a riding suit or riding jacket and pants. I really cannot make my mind up to do so. I am never wore anything special for riding except the helmet. 

I managed to clean up the limbs and the rest of the leaves that needed to be cleaned out of the back yard. I have 30 big yard bags full of yard waste out front ready for the waste big up tomorrow morning. 

While I did go over budget today I still burned a lot more than I ate, so I feel good about that. But I am very tired and I sure hope I sleep good tonight.