It was a good day, I ate well and feel good. A busy day, first closet organizing and then plumbing/roof repairs. In the last heavy snow we had a vent pipe sheared off by a snow slide, fortunately the roof wasn't leaking, but it had to get fixed. I had a handyman out today, a guy I know pretty well. He did most of the heavy lifting, climbing around on the steep snowy roof and crawling in the attic to reattach the pipes, but I assisted, holding the ladders passing him tools, getting parts ready etc. It got done, we had to add a couple of snow bars above the new pipe to hopefully take the force out of future snow slides. When it warms up in the spring I will have to get back up and do some good sealing, but no leaks now I think we are good for the rest of the winter.
Thanks for the nice words. Cate and Amy, it did feel good. I have to say I do still have a nagging worry about regaining weight, but my confidence is growing. I don't think that worry will ever go away completely, and maybe its for the best it doesn't. I think I can keep doing this, it feels like I can. Not so much a race to some end as a real change.
Monday
breakfast yogurt 80
cereal - grapenuts 110
lunch
turkey 200
steamed broccoli 60
dinner
tamale 265
lettuce salad 50
snack
apple 94
crackers 130
orange 64 total
calories 1,053
Toba Sōjō aka Kakuyū was born in 1053, Toba was a famous Japanese artist-monk proficient in both Buddhist art and satirical cartoon. This is one, the first scroll of Chōjū-giga, I like, although the attribution to Toba is in question.
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