Another weekend/Project Update

I didn't do much this weekend so I don't have much to
say. I sat on the patio yesterday for a couple of
hours and read the paper and completed the crossword.
That was about as ambitious as I got.

When Bro got home from work on Friday night he asked
if I wanted to go chair shopping on Saturday. I
jumped at the chance because the chair he was
replacing was his recliner. Which is falling apart.
Little screws, nuts and bolts keep falling off and I
vacuum them up (clang! bang! rattle rattle!) without
knowing they're there. Then, on Wednesday night I
noticed two springs had fallen out from the footrest
part. When the footrest was no longer working, and he
had to use a folding chair for an ottoman, he finally
decided it was time for a change.

So we went to Chair Outlet on Saturday, found a nice
Lane big man's recliner, and it's being delivered on
Tuesday.

In project news, I ate a whole Cadbury Dairy Milk
Chocolate bar on Saturday. I meant to just eat a
couple of squares and put it away and make it last,
but before I knew it I'd finished it off. You just
can't trust me with chocolate.

It'll be one week tomorrow. I feel pretty positive -
I am trying to cut down on food intake (except for
chocolate which is untrustworthy - see above) but I'm
not ready to ramp up the exercise because of arthritis
in my knees. I have to get some weight off before I
can possibly venture into exercise.

So, here's the question: Should I do a one-week
weigh-in tomorrow? Or wait another week?

I haven't decided. I'll check with Maime and see if
she's interested in doing a one-week check-up
tomorrow. If she is, then I will. If she's not, then
I probably won't. But I'm weighing on the 18th for
sure. I'm trying to be very calm and not focus on
this, because I know from my past history that dieting
can take over your life and become all you talk about
and all you think about. I don't want ANYONE to know
I'm doing this (except Maime, of course) so I'm trying
to keep a very low profile.

I am also not "depriving" myself of foods I want - I'm
just eating less of them. For instance, yesterday I
made a turkey/cheese sandwich for lunch, slowly ate
it, and discovered that I didn't want the last 1/3, so
I threw it away. I had Corn Pops for breakfast, but
instead of having it in a huge bowl, I had it in a
regular-size cereal bowl and it was plenty. I had 2
pieces of peanut-butter toast on Saturday, but instead
of BOTH butter and peanut butter which is the way I
usually have it, I just put on the peanut butter. I'm
hoping that little changes like these will make a
difference - I'm having what I want to eat but just
changing it up a little.

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This morning I bought a Starbucks changa bagel (which
is like an "everything" bagle), split it and put cream
cheese on the two halves as usual, ate one piece, then
discovered I didn't really want the second. I put it
in a plastic baggie thinking I'd eat it later, but
ended up throwing it out. I wouldn't have thought of
doing that before - if it's food it must be eaten,
right? Well, I'm thinking that's wrong. I actually
feel OK throwing out food.

Funny story: Pod mates usually get coffee/bagels in the mornings,

so I don't usually go over and get my own. The first time I did, I asked

for a "ganga" bagel. hee We didn't laugh about it until after we left.

I'm hoping they didn't hear it the way I said it. If they have ganga bagels

at Starbucks, they didn't give me one...........