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13 July 2024

I cooked chicken breast in the oven this morning while it is still cool enough. Will add to salad at lunch. I am cooking onions and mushrooms in the air fryer for breakfast this morning. May also have 1/2 of an English muffin. I realized that the weight for the mushrooms was way too high yesterday. It said over 8 ounces and I should have figured it was wrong. Today a similar amount weighed about 4 ounces. It's a relatively new, small digital scale. I set a small plate on the scale and set it to zero before putting food on it. I think the chicken weight may be off too. I miss my old scale with a basket on top and a dial to show the weight. So far, I am sticking to plan although not so good with IF. I stopped eating around 1pm yesterday but gave in and had 1/2 English muffin around 6pm. So carb grams and protein grams were nearly identical. The little snack size packs of nuts I got from Costco are working out great. They may cost a little more than buying a big jar of nuts but I won't over eat the little packs.

The house was still hot last night but I stayed in the guest room until after dark. On the floor with lots of pillows, etc. The thermometer in that room always shows around 72 to 74 degrees while the family room and master bedroom get to 81 at the hottest part of the day, 6-7pm. The living room is comfortable too. All this with thermostat set at 78. I know it's the skylights

Update: I called the junk removal company that has been here 3 or 4 times before. That's how I got rid of most of my furniture. They will come by tomorrow sometime and move the bed from the master bedroom to the much cooler guest room for no charge. I'll tip them though. And least I'll be comfortable even during the hottest days. That room is about 72 right now while the master bedroom is 78

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12 July 2024

I'm still trying to figure my air fryer out. It is really small. I cooked chicken breast in it yesterday. The directions said to cook at 360 degrees for 15-20 minutes. I cooked it for 15 minutes and it looked perfect. I put it in the Asian chicken salad I prepared and the chicken was really chewy. I googled what chewy chicken meant and it said it was over cooked. I've never cooked chicken that got chewy. I'll try again today at 12 minutes and be careful of the temperature. There is a dial that has 350 and 400 and maybe I set it hotter than 360. This morning I cooked some mushrooms and onions in the air fryer to add to scrambled eggs. The directions said 15-20 minutes and I cooked for 12 minutes and they were fine. I'm trying to keep my protein grams higher than carbs as often as I can. I should be able to do it today. With what I plan to eat I am around 1000 calories. It's difficult to go much higher doing IF. I stop eating anywhere from noon until 2pm. I get up really early. I am enjoying the little snack packs of nuts I got from Costco. I don't have them in my eating plan today but if I get hungry later on I may add them although that would put my calories around 1300. I do best losing weight between 1000-1200 calories. I can maintain around 1500 and would definitely be gaining at 2000. I hope no one tells me I need more calories. I know myself exactly what works for me. I love doing IF and not eating after 2 or 3pm. I like going to bed on an empty stomach but am usually starving in the morning.

It is supposed to set a heat record where I live today at 108 or 109. So tired of this heat wave. I had my air conditioned serviced about a week before the heat wave and was told everything was okay. Then I noticed on the hot, hot days the termostat would show 79, 80, 81 even when set for 76 or 78. I was going to call the a/c service company but decided to order 3 little indoor thermometers first to verify that the temperature is correct. My bedroom seems to be the hottest room in the house. The little thermometers verified the thermostat was correct and that the temperature in the family room and my bedroom was 81 or 82. The guest bedroom which always seems so comfortable was showing around 74. Unfortunately I don't have any furniture in there after getting rid of the bed in there anticipating moving soon. Late yesterday afternoon I put a mattress pad, comforter and several blankets on the floor in the guest room. I used the wedge pillow I got for my knee to prop my shoulders up and had many, many bed pillows to lay on and I stayed in there until after dark when the a/c was able to cool down the master bedroom enough. The guest room is still more comfortable. I am probably going to get some help and move the bed from the master bedroom to the guest room. I planned on buying a new bed for the new house but I may get it now. I have 2 skylights in the kitchen/family room area and the thermostat is in the family room. I also have a skylight between the master bedroom and bath. I think the skylights are part of the problem for the hot, hot house. And a huge oak tree that I had cut down provided so much shade for the master bedroom. I had blinds in the skylights except for the one in the bedroom. I had them removed before putting the house up for sale because the remote controll wasn't working and real estate agents like light and bright houses. But I have to live here for awhile longer. I have a window covering company coming out next week to help me figure out what I can do on the sliding glass door in the master bedroom to bring the temperature down. I may also consider getting black out blinds for all the skylights. No remote control this time!

At least I don't want to eat too much when it is so hot outside.

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10 July 2024

Yesterday at Costco I was looking in the area where they have all kinds of nuts. I bought sliced almonds to put in yogurt and in salads. Then I bought a box of snack size packets of roasted, salted nuts - peanuts, almonds, and cashews. They 250 to 270 calories and 8 to 11 protein grams. Usually I snack on raw almonds or walnuts but these will be a treat and I think I can stick to one packet a day.

Today I have to go to the grocery store for brussels sprouts to try cooking in the new air fryer. Also want a bag of salad mix and maybe a couple tomatoes and avocados. My real estate agent's assistant is coming by to get some peaches from my tree. They are small 1/3 the size of a regular peach. But they are delicious. The deer have been eating dozens of them but there are still plenty. I've decided against making a peach cobbler this year.

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09 July 2024

I finally decided to step on the scale. Too many weeks of eating whatever I wanted while my house was for sale. No cooking, just picking up food for the most part. I guess it's bad when the place I get chicken strips greets me by name when I walk in. I had never had chicken strips until this past April.

Yesterday I took my house off the market. Selling in a buyer's market is not for me. There are about 4 times as many homes for sale now than a couple weeks before I put the house for sale. We have been in a miserable heat wave for about 10 days with temperatures over 100 without the typical cool off at night. I have little energy if I spend more than 2 or 3 minutes outside. I swear I saw a poor buck panting yesterday. I keep a bucket of water out for the wildlife and often see the wild turkeys drinking from it. I also keep filling up the bird bath and built in pond on the bank as the water evaporates quickly. I've seen a blue jay several times splashing in the bird bath.

I bought a compact Dash air fryer when I first listed my house. I put it in a room with my packed boxes, assuming I would soon use it in a new house. So I will find it and figure out how to use it since it won't matter if the house smells like brussels sprouts

Weigh-in: 185.6 lb

lost so far: 0 lb

still to go: 23.6 lb

Diet followed poorly

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27 June 2024

A couple of things going on. First, my eating is really bad. I haven't stepped on the scale for over a month and guess my weight is 5 to 7 pounds higher. I want to try to stop whatever gaining I'm doing. Until I sell my house or take it off the market, the eating likely won't get much better. I currently pick up most lunches. But I can work on the snacking which has been out of control. Having a new Costco that is so easy to get to, close by and not crowded is fun for me, but dangerous. I am so focused on prices that it is hard to resist bargains. Yesterday I decided to go around 11am and get gas and a hot dog for lunch. That hot dog ended up costing me over $50! Bought cat litter and hair conditioner but also snacks. When I got home, I ate some of all the snacks. I now have in my house 4 huge packages of sweet and salty snacks. I will admit to buy a bag of Ruffles cheddar and sour cream potato chips, my latest obsession. The price was so good, but like everything at Costco, the package is HUGE! Probably 3 to 4 times the size of the party or family size bag. So this morning I woke up determined that each day I will have no more than one of the snacks, and hopefully, just one serving. So today I am trying to achieve that. One of my goals has always been to be able to have snacks in the house, but to leave them alone unless really craving something or to just have a small portion. Before I retired I took a lunch to work and usually brought one pecan sandie for a snack and it satisfied me. That all changed after retirement! So hopefully I'll get through the day as planned. But it's just after 9am! And that goal of having treats in the house is really for once I reach a maintenance weight

I am also trying to figure out what to do about my house. I'm getting more showings, 2-4 a week, but it's so hot that it is miserable for me and Bobby to get in the car and usually just drive around for an hour. Last month it wasn't hot yet, so I would take him to the park or trail to walk. My many, many years as a mortgage underwriter, loan officer and even a real estate agent taught me that homes will sell if they are priced right. And home prices seem to be diving where I live, but not where I want to move. A house about 5 doors away from me was for sale for over 6 months. They had it appraised at $650k and listed at $599k with no offers at all. They took it off the market for a month or so and now have it listed with the top agent in my neighborhood at $525k. I'm watching to see what happens there and am trying how much lower I could go with the price on my house and still be able to buy the house I want in Oregon. I've also thought about just taking the house off the market until things pick up here

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