Journey to Knowing

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Just decided, assuming my foot thing works out, that for my 50th in March I'm going to do a 50 mile hike. Coming up with smaller and smaller scale goals is helping.

IF worked well yesterday and today. I can feel my inclination to go grab something to eat. But it's not obsessive. I keep thinking of that river rafting tour and the cool clothes and hiking equipment I can fit. I've stopped weighing every morning. Don't know if that will help or hinder. Meeting my calorie intake with healthy food again. Getting creative. No milk or bread so I mixed peanut butter with granola. It was really good. 53 more hours till my pay posts.
 
You would have to lose weight doing that I would think. I think I could go for 12-8 or 11-7. I'll give it some more thought.
 
I'm amazed at how well I slept last night and the energy. It was hard fitting all the calories into 8 hours - especially wo dairy. Didn't expect that. Maybe I can do higher calorie meals to meet the 1650. And as I lose weight, that count will decrease.
 
I screwed up with eating today. Peri (my cat) has pre-renal failure and she stopped eating and had stomach issues. Finding her in my 900sqft condo took an hour. Then I had to leave and was gone helping a friend longer than expected. She still wouldn't eat when I got home and was dehydrated so had to give her fluids and go buy a jar of baby food. By the time I got back I was an hour late for my eating deadline so I grabbed a tag of grapes and that was it. I am just under 1,000 calories for the day with a decent amount of walking. It may be a long night lol. But thankfully Peri is feeling better. She ate a teaspoon of baby food and she's drinking water again. And at least I have the food I didn't eat today for tomorrow.

Hopefully I'll go for a hike in the forest park nearby tomorrow.
 
LOL! Myfitnesspal took 30 calories off my daily intake. Another yay! Who would have ever thought I'd celebrate my calorie limit going down? It's the little things. And the 4.2 drop from last week feels so awesome.
 
I so want chocolate! Not sure if it's habit, self sabotage, or just my menopausal hormones are demanding chocolate. Ugh! 12 hours till I can eat. No way am I messing with this momentum. I think for breakfast I'll have alpaca burger, a scrambled egg and grits with a rootbeer. Oh and maybe some chocolate if I go grocery shopping at 2am when I get paid. I see my new primary in the morning. Usually not a pleasant experience. Hopefully she'll be nice.
 
Fyi, I just happened to see on my Facebook feed that craving chocolate means the body needs magnesium. I have a magnesium hot drink so fixed a mug and all cravings gone. May be placebo/psychosomatic but it worked. Trying to stay up for pay to post so I can process cat food orders and maybe go food shopping. Though shopping while fasting is most likely not smart.
 
Pay finally showed up. Doctor visit was awesome other than waiting 75 minutes. She's going to be a good match. She's familiar with my two health challenges which is rare. And she didn't insist on steroids for the poison ivy. She actually advised against it based on my other stuff. Yay. She was concerned about the weight but I avoided the weight loss speech by telling her I've been losing weight - 23lbs yesterday. I added a month into the time to avoid the losing too fast lecture. Then I got lunch at the farmers market hotbar. So so good and my macros are perfect for the day!

I'll make soup and bake the turkey tenders tomorrow and I should be set for a couple of weeks. It's so good to have oranges again. I bought no bread and the only dairy is some honey yogurt that I'll use in a smoothie. I think I'm okay.
 
A lightbulb went off on my way home. I have a gene mutation that blocks my cells from getting out toxins...basically a folic deficiency. So it makes sense that when I exercise all out and require my cells to work extra hard at detox, that I get tired, sick, and the weight loss halts. I've never been very gentle with myself and this new way of supporting my body with nutrition, adequate rest, and proper movement is really teaching me how to be compassionate. I'm starting to understand what love really means. Hokey but true.
 
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A lightbulb went off on my way home. I have a gene mutation that blocks my cells from getting out toxins...basically a folic deficiency. So it makes sense that when I exercise all out and require my cells to work extra hard at detox, that I get tired, sick, and the weight loss halts. I've never been very gentle with myself and this new way of supporting my body with nutrition, adequate rest, and proper movement is really teaching me how to be compassionate. I'm starting to understand what love really means. Hokey but true.
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There's nothing hokey about learning to give yourself some understanding & compassion. Glad the doctors visit went well :)
 
Made it. I ate my food in the 8 hours....which can be quite a challenge. I'm 262 calories under but as long as I get 1350, I'm good. I figure the counting is never exact so there's probably more in there than the app says. And if not, 1350 is high enough to slide past the edge of emergency shutdown mode. I'm following my body and holding back on moving more which seems to be working. When I did the liquid diet for 9 months a decade ago, my doctor would say less movement equals more weightloss. He advocated for getting to a weight it was safe to move more and then adding in exercise (and more calories). It's totally counterintuitive but works.

Tomorrow I have to drive an hour with four cats in the car. And I'll be gone for several hours during my food window so I'm trying to figure out how to fit everything. I may need to extend to 9 or 10 hours.

Trying my best not to weigh until Sunday. It's incredibly taxing lol. And the poison ivy I hope will be done with me by the end of the week. I've still got to wash my boots.
 
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Made it. I ate my food in the 8 hours....which can be quite a challenge
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Well done! :)
 
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