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Diet Journal: Weight-loss Progress – Day 34 August 8, 2017

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CURRENT PROGRESS: 17.2 pounds lost in 34 days.
That’s at a rate of .5058 pounds per day.
Projected weight loss over 180 days = 91.05 pounds.
Starting weight on July 5, 2017, was 281.2 pounds.
Day Twenty-nine: August 8, 2017 – This morning’s Weigh-in was 263.6 pounds and that’s a loss of 3.0 pounds since August 3.

It’s been five days since my last post. I’ve been very busily working around the house moving from room to room, preparing for my mother’s inevitable move-in with us this coming Sunday evening. I’m eating the same as I have been. I wanted to touch on something that was not really illuminating but a confirmation of something I considered to be true, but without direct proof. Last week, my wife had an event to attend hosted by her employer, so she wasn’t going to be coming home for dinner.

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Goals and Plans – Decisions, decisions

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My elderly mother is moving in with us next week. We’re having to rearrange the entire house to accommodate her. Our home is fifty years old and needs lots of work. I’ve spent the last week rewiring our bedroom after the old aluminum wiring melted, causing a short that killed the entire bedroom circuit. Not that that is finished, my wife and I have decided that instead of giving mom one of the spare bedrooms that we use as an office, we’ll give her the master bedroom.

The Master has a bathroom of its own along with a dressing area and a door that opens into the kitchen that I added for us years ago. The room we were going to give her is at the other end of the house bookended by another bedroom with a bathroom sandwiched between. That old bathroom needs a lot of work. I removed the tub several years ago because tree roots had entered from under the foundation, most likely due to the leak in the drain, and they had traveled up into the wall causing wood rot in the studs. Now that space is empty and there is no bath or shower.Continue Reading

Diet Journal: Weight-loss Progress – Day 29 August 3, 2017

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CURRENT PROGRESS: 15 pounds lost in 29 days.
That’s at a rate of .5172 pounds per day.
Projected weight loss over 180 days = 93.10 pounds.
Starting weight on July 5, 2017, was 281.2 pounds.
Day Twenty-nine: August 3, 2017 – This morning’s Weigh-in was 266.2 pounds and that’s a loss of 1.4 pounds since August 1.

This diet is pretty much becoming a habit. I’m eating fruit, bananas, and strawberries whenever I feel like a snack or maybe a carrot, but mostly I’m not feeling the need to snack. As I said in my previous post, I’m drinking a mix of lemon and lime water with black and green teas and that seems to be helping to assuage with my appetite. I’m eating 9 ounces of chicken breast per day with a mix of vegetables, acorn – yellow – spaghetti – and zucchini squashes, cabbage, carrots, onions, celery, broccoli, brussels sprouts, spinach and some fresh tomatoes from my tiny garden.

Today’s “Whine” is that I miss cheese, beans and rice, and tortillas. I miss soft tacos and fajitas, something we made quite often.

As of right now, the plan is to carry on with the Paleo Diet. It seems to be working as well as can be expected. At the current trend, I’ll reach 188.10 pounds on my Goal Date of January 3, 2018. That weight will still be 33.1 pounds short of my Goal Weight of 155 pounds, but it will be significant loss nonetheless. As of right now, I’m following the philosophy of not working out, no strenuous exercise until I’m light enough for it not to be damaging to my joints. I’m hoping that when I get to 200 pounds, I can begin some light exercise, maybe some mild cardio, that will increase my average loss per day. Having decided to run a marathon as a goal for next year, I need to find a training regimen and figure when to start. I’m going to reach out to Eddie Izzard to find out how he trained for a marathon that eventually led him to run 27 marathons in 27 days.

I really admire @eddieizzard for his physiological transformation from running.

Daily Journal – August 1, 2017

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I’m having to learn how to wire an old 1960’s ceiling fan that has an atypical wiring scheme. It’s not that much fun. It’s interesting, however, the internet is rife with ceiling fan wiring diagrams, but nothing like what I have. We love this fan. It’s the fastest ceiling fan either of us has ever experienced. I think it could easily cause a concussion, possibly even death if it hit someone just right. Meaning, it’s a very powerful fan. We’d like to keep it.

This is impacting my writing time. I’m unemployed right now and looking for a full-time job. I’m fixing the wiring in our house, not to mention that I’ve had to help my elderly mother move that past weekend. She is about to move in with my wife and me in two weeks. It looks like she’ll be here for about 9 months, or more. Our home is small. It’s just been my wife and me in this house for eighteen years and I have a music studio that is being taken over by my mother. That’s where I write when I write. It’s where I record the podcast when I do that. It’s where I go to be alone. It looks like I’m about to have to learn a new way to get along each day.

I’m not sure how moving into share my wife’s room will be. We have a small three bedroom two bath house. We each have a room for computers and to be alone, though we really just started utilizing them that way in the past year or so. I have to move all of my music gear into that room and there isn’t enough room for it. I’m probably going to have to sell or store guitars and amps and other items. We also have a bathroom that needs a new shower so I’ll be putting in a new showed this next week and building a new storage shed in the back yard to store mom’s things. She’s paying $120 per month to store her belongings now, so it’s cheaper for her to just build a shed, store her things here and not to mention I’ll get to put my stuff in there too.

I’m looking for a job, but it feels like I already have one.

I’ve also recently discovered bookbinding. I’m about to embark on a journey of discovery to see if I have a talent or can develop the skill to bind books. I’ve found two schools that seem to have good reputations, one in Telluride, Colorado and the other in Virginia. If you have any information on Bookbinding, please share with me what you know and I’d love to hear from you.

That’s it from me for today. Type at you soon.
Go out and make something you love!

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