VivianS Frday, January 8, 2021 to Friday , January 15, 2021
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Weight on January 8, 2021: 146.4
Weight on January 15, 2021: 145.2
Change in weight: - 1.2 pounds
Compliance to Maxim Weight Loss checklist = day and *
Non compliance to MWL checklist = day x and explained error.
1. Start each meal with a soup and / or salad and / or fruit. * * * *
2. Follow the 50 / 50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate ( by visual volume ) with nonstarchy vegetables and 50 % ( by visual volume ) with minimally processed starches. Choose fruit for dessert. * * * *
3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts, too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them. * * * *
4. Eliminate all animalfoods ( dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood ). * * * *
5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods ( i.e. , nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy ).
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6. Eliminate any added oil. * * * *
7. Eliminate all higher calorie - dense foods including flour products ( i.e. , bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes ), puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit. * * * *
8. Don't drink your calories ( especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages ). * * * *
9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself. * * * *
10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily ( i.e. , brisk walking ). X X X X
Friday, January 8, 2021. statistics : 146.4 pounds, 35"waist
Saturday, January 9, 2021 statistics : 147.3 pounds, 35"waist
Sunday, January 10, 2021 statistics : 146.2 pounds, 35"waist
Monday, January 11, 2021 statistics :145.4 pounds, 35"waist
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 statistics : 147 pounds, 35"waist
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021 statistics : 145.4 pounds, 35"waist
Thursday, January 14, 2021, statistics : 144.2 pounds, 35"waist
Friday, January 15, 2022, statistics : 145.2 pounds, 35"waist
On Friday 1/8/21 the children stayed home from daycare. Mom and Dad promised to take the little boy for a haircut, but they didn't. That task was mine on Monday when the children were again sent home from daycare. I did cut his hair and then gave him a soothing bath. Little darling girl had to be treated for head lice again and all the washing and cleaning had to be done again. I have not needed brisk walking to get my exercise done.
Warning: Joke approaching! It looks like the one member of the household who has not been treated for lice will need the old fashioned treatment. While he is sleeping, I will call Delilah's barber and have him shave off half Dad's hair, set fire to the other half and stab each louse when it runs out of the fire! Of course, Dad will complain of a stabbing headache after he is treated for lice. Ha!, Ha, ha ha!
Question: After all these centuries of lousy living, why don't humans have herd immunity to lice?
Answer: Lice are not viruses. Soap and water plus fingernails, combs and medicines kill them, not the immune system. No go ask someone who actually knows. This journal is supposed to be about what we eat, not what is eating us. The trouble is if something is bugging us, we often eat what is handy instead of what is necessary to thrive.
Like dead heart tissue, some things can't be fixed. If we can't fix what is bugging us, we must learn to cope, accept, ignore or otherwise deal with what is bugging us. My hope is that my attempt to fix things that bother me won't make the situation worse. I am grateful for the guidance I have had from the Maximum Weight Loss team. Without the facts I might have believed that the highly touted meatless burger might be good for a human body (other than the stock holders of the corporation). A salad in a taco shell is one of the most calorie laden things on the menu of another fast food place.
The fast food that is best for me is the salad I just chopped and dropped in my bowl. Want fast food? Learn to chop faster.
The more I prepare the same menu item, the more shortcuts I have found. I can make the basic soup portion of 6x4 soup (.5 cup of instant brown rice, .25 cup of quinoa, .25 cup of lentils and .25 cup of dried split peas, one 8 oz. pack of sliced portobello mushrooms, one 8 oz. pack of white sliced mushrooms and 8 cups of filtered water.) I chop a couple of onions and some garlic and throw those in the pot. I let that cook, cool and I use a .25 metal measuring cup to put into 10 jars. (4 are pint jars for the days I travel to my niece's house and the other 6 are 12 oz. jars.) The next day I chop the sweet peppers which are frozen raw. I add about 2 tablespoons of sweet bell peppers to each jar. I drain and divide the contents of two small cans of sliced water chestnuts and add those to the 10 jars. Each day I add .5 cup of frozen green peas to the 6x4 soup along with an extra .5 cup of filtered water. The little boy I love calls the water chestnuts "apple" and crunches them happily. I say, " No, that's a water chestnut." He knows what he knows. He won't eat apples that are not crunchy. I won't either.
Dad did get his lice treatment before he went to sleep! He didn't want to get a stabbing headache or a new hairstyle.
The little ones went back to daycare yesterday!
Beloved and I attended another birthday party. He told me he is proud of me for losing weight and keeping it off. He is concerned about the fat laden dessert...cake icing. He said it made him feel.sick.
We are not obligated to eat cake or the icing. I can roll food around on my plate like my mother in law used to do to make it appear as if she had eaten. I have to clean food off other people's plates with a wet cloth or their used paper napkin as I rake food into a trash can or it will go into my mouth. I also must use a long handled dust pan and broom to get food from the floor or I can use a wet cloth to do the same job. I think I ate popcorn with my hands so much that my fingers touch food, elbow bends, mouth opens and it's a slam dunk without a jump. It is a conditioned response that I must to be mindful of at all times. Some people have criticized me for wiping the floor with my wet cloths, but they don't live in my home and are not happy being with me due to their perfectionism, so they can stay out of my presence. I have plenty of clean cloths to use. I have a cloth mop I use. I see no difference in cleaning the floor with a cloth and cleaning with a washable cloth mop. Either a washing machine works well enough to clean the cloths and the mop head or you don't have to be in my house.
Since I am not a good cook, I serve on the clean up crew when we have large gatherings. Once at an outdoor party, a friend of mine with a good sense of humor saw me dragging a heavy black trash bag to the dumpster. He joined me in pulling the bag and said, "Oh, Vivian, you didn't have to bring your lunch!
Ha! Ha, ha, ha!"
Lately my canvas bags with my lunch and the fruit for the kids have started to feel really heavy. The truth is that it is probably all those years (decades) I am dragging behind me.
I cooked fresh collard green again this week. I include as much of the stems as I can. They are soft when cooked and really help prevent constipation. Beloved doesn't like the smell, but he tolerates it because he knows how beneficial they are to me and how much I enjoy them.
I am finally getting some sleep. I slept 2 hours past my alarm. Since Momma and Nannie are with the kids, all I hope to do is read to the kids tonight before bed while they eat fruit. They will eat fruit, but hide and seek may over rule reading books. My sweet girl came back to me after her bath and we read one baby board book. That makes 901 books for her that we have counted and recorded before she enters kindergarten. It's like calories consumed. The books you don't record add up quickly and are important, but books you record are recognized and contribute to your understanding of what has gone into the child's educational experience, especially the ones the child has heard again and refer to in their speech. Baby Bird passed 1,000 books in December. He has had books read to him since the day he was born. He couldn't run away from me! He was not free to choose whether he looked or listened. The little girl has been more selective with her feet. If she doesn't like the book, she walks away. He can, too, now.
Calories eaten mindlessly make you wonder why your triglycerides and cholesterol are high. When you start noticing and recording, you find out that Nannie makes linguine with margerine and garlic salt. Maximum Weight Loss checklist thinking would knock those out of baby bird's fingers when he wants to feed me in play and think, "No, thank you! Linguine is a highly refined, calorie laden flour product which is not good for me. It has added oil and added salt." I eat what I prepare myself.
This week has been good in spite of all the extra hours of washing, mopping, and shopping for toboggans for Baby Bird's hair bare head. I rejoiced that the children passed the examination at daycare, and watched carefully as each child was examined for heat lice. These are not my children by birth, but they are my children by love. All things are possible with God. Even getting two adults at home to continue their own lice treatment and daily examinations to keep the lice killed and prevent future infestations. Everybody has to follow the same rules or everybody suffers. We are all tired, but we must be clean. Two little visitors can bring thousands of unwanted guests. Same thing for pets. Cat will damage the inside of the house and bring in unwanted fleas. Momma wants her cat, but doesn't care who suffers because of it. She feeds two extra cats outside, plus the opossum and racoon. Her disability causes the rest of us to suffer, but we still love her.
After a lifetime of struggling with my weight, I now understand and implement the rules of eating high nutrition, low calorie density food.Thank you, MAXIMUM WEIGHT LOSS team, especially Jeff N. You have made me understand how costly the fat I eat is to my waistline and my health. When the doctor told me to stop losing weight for now, I am staying within the guidelines that she told me: 143 to 150 pounds. I will have a blood test on February 1st and see my internist on Feb.8th. I rechecked my schedule and found my mistake. I thought that my appointment was on Feb. 3. This journal has proved its worth again. Thank you for allowing me to continue writing. I can do this writing while lying on my bed in the dark. My neck doesn't hurt and I can think well enough to come to some conclusions that help me.
I hope you are learning the value of the Maximum Weight Loss checklist and are having success in your weight loss journey! Most importantly, I hope your health is improving and you are enjoying your life even with the challenges.
I hope to write to you next week! I will have a new search word. To find the newest journal entry, think of the alphabet used for spelling airplane call letters. To find the silly jokes, search for "Ha! Ha, ha, ha!" A merry heart does good like a medicine.
VivianS