Today is Day 318 of my Daily Food Diary. 318 DAYS without a single miss! 🤩
Today, I am celebrating another non-scale victory. This morning, I checked my blood pressure – 100/65. I also checked my blood oxygen 95% and pulse 74 btm. My scale fluctuates a few pounds every day, but today I weighed in at 122.6 pounds (normal for my 5′-1″). All in all, not bad for my current age 70 yrs and 4 months. 😁
Yesterday, I received my latest Amazon order:
Collagen drops for Molly (the jury is still out as to how they are helping her, but they obviously aren’t hurting and she seems to scratch less than she did)
A case for my new phone – It’s a teal wallet type that holds my bank cards, health card, driver’s license and the like. It works for me – better than anything I could find here.
And… pink earmuffs to keep my ears comfy, cozy on our Molly walks.
No, I did not know they would be that big and fluffy. Also NO, I will not care when it is 40 below and I am out plodding through the snow with Molly and Dan.
Daily Food Diary – Day 318
Breakfast:
(1) c coffee (2)
(23) brown sugar shreddies (210)
(1/4) c 2% milk
Snacks:
(1) apple (95)
(1/4) c Planters dry roast peanuts (324)
(14) low salt chips (130)
(1) snickerdoodle (90)
(48) Oz water
Supper:
(1) sourdough bun (190)
(2) top butter (68)
(3) Oz mini steaks (200)
(1/8) c mushrooms (5)
(1/4) c onions (15)
(1) c airfield French fries (115)
(2) Belgium chocolate cookies (95)
Total consumed calories:1579
Total used calories: 210
(30) minutes walking (137)
(30) minutes treadmill (73)
Total net calories: 1369
Net calories goal: 1208 – 1369 = 161 over 👎
That’s it for today. Take care and have a great day! 🤗💗
For our grandson Logan who turns four years old today. We have never met him, but we think of him and his brother, Dominic every day. 💝
Yesterday was a rather challenging day for me. I was just off, and while there were some bright moments along the way, there were some that were less than brilliant.
The Good! I received a few items that I ordered from Amazon. This isn’t something that we do often, but for some odd reason there is a shortage of squirrel peanuts in our stores these days, so I put together a small order.
If you haven’t tried these crackers or salted nuts, they are both amazing. I don’t know how Amazon sells Costco products. Since I cannot handle Costco’s bare cement floors (or their location here), I really appreciate it.
I also got a sundress for myself, which is super comfortable and fits quite well.
More Good! I cleaned out my dresser drawers, tossed a number of items, and sorted and folded the rest. I noticed that somehow, something had slid under the bottom drawer so with some finagling and some help from Molly, a ruler, and a small flashlight, I found a favourite pair of socks, a couple of bras, and SEVERAL unopened packages of pantyhose from my office days. Weird – I always wondered where they went.
The Bad! While my morning walk with Molly was pretty good yesterday (as our morning walks generally are), the evening one was bad. I had a bruised toe that was very painful, the mosquitos were terrible, and Molly was distracted and disturbed by every barking dog we passed – and we passed a lot of barking dogs!
Also Bad! Since I started my mission to get fitter back in February, I have shaken things up every few weeks by adding new healthful activities (like walking Molly), improving my diet, and the like. Yesterday I needed a shake up so I turned to something a few fellow bloggers, most recently Dwight from Faded Jeans Living , have tried. I decided to give cold showers a go. This was a stretch for me because I do not enjoy showering at the best of times (bubble baths thank you) and apparently our cold water is piped in straight from the North Pole. But, I have been reading up on this practice, there are a number of benefits that do sound reasonable, and I am no quitter. So, as much as that was one unpleasant split second after I turned the hot water off, I am not done. I will definitely giving this another – and several more tries before I throw in the towel, so to speak.
The Ugly! Molly is not the first dog I have had. She is not even the first BIG dog I have had. Up north, we had a sizeable Springer Spaniel who was aptly named Sprocket. But, yesterday, I had a big dog moment that I was NOT prepared for.
Major PuddleMolly’s water dishMolly
I don’t know exactly what happened, but Molly came crashing into the porch, holding up one injured paw, and despite my best efforts, swallowed an entire sparrow before I could figure out how to get it out of her mouth or bribe her with something that would be less disgusting than eating an entire bird. 🤢
I can’t believe our veterinarian gives me regular diet advice like, “you can start giving Molly an additional 1/2 cup of dry food a day” or “Molly is too young to have bones or bully sticks”. Molly eats wood (in fact she eats trees), she chew on rocks, she eats anything out of the recycling bin, and now she eats entire birds – beak, feathers and all! (I am not even sure it was dead).
Today is looking up to be a less intense day all around. It is cool and raining out. Molly is relatively mellow and it is time for me to get something productive done around here.
Seclusion 101 with AnneMarie 