Day 74: Weather Roulette

 

Here we go ! It's a new year. Time to get back on track with diet and exercise. The goal is 100 pounds by 12-31-25. Can I do it ? At this point, probably not but I'm going to keep trying. My original Day 74 was a quiet Monday, cold but sunny.

I was awake just after 7 today and felt rested after a good nights sleep. I was so tired at 9 pm last night and wondered why, until it dawned on me I'd been awake since 5 am ! I felt much more energetic today !

I spent the morning watching YouTube and playing the online slots, but I also managed to get the trash and big box of recyclables out to the curb ! Of course, I did it early and as of 4 pm the trash men are nowhere to be found ! That's ok, I'm just happy I've started clearing the winter accumulation of trash !

Breakfast was 160 calorie waffles with sugar free syrup and an 80 calorie yogurt. Lunch was a 220 calorie pepperoni pizza melt.

I thought about getting chinese today, but I'm planning on going to bingo tomorrow so I won't be home for dinner. I'm going to wait and get it on Thursday even though I'm likely going out on Saturday. I can eat the 2 soups and some of the chicken with garlic sauce and then freeze the leftovers. I did that last time and the frozen was just as good as the fresh !

Today started off in the 30's but as of 2 pm was 50 degrees. The high for tomorrow is 70 ! We haven't seen a temp like that since last Fall. I called today's blog "Weather Roulette" because the temps are rising and falling like your fortunes at a roulette table ! We still have 20's, 30's, 40's and the possibility of snow in the forecast over the next 10 days. Winter is just not ready to let us go !

As the end of March approaches I know that I will not be able to lose 100 pounds by 12-31-25. As such, I'm scaling my goal back to 50 pounds by 12-31-25. That's a completely reachable goal if I buckle down and get back to exercising once my respiratory system is clear. As of today I'm still coughing some and blowing my nose. It's the worst in the morning as I cough up and blow out what accumulated during the night. It's better each day so it's just a matter of time before it's completely gone. I'm still not drinking enough, so the lack of hydration likely isn't helping. It's nearly 3 pm and all I've had is about 1.5 cups of coffee and half a bottle of soda. Right now my goal is to try a full restart on Monday 3-24. There is still the matter of cookies and ice cream that I have in the house. One package of cookies is open, the other will remain closed for the near future.

Today I finally gathered the courage to delete a bunch of photos and videos from my Google photos account. I've been getting storage warnings for months. Everything I have in Google is also stored in Onedrive, so there really isn't any reason to have them in both places. Regardless, it's SO scary to delete stuff ! I think my next "busywork" project will be sorting through the photos and videos and putting them into folders. It's too late in the day to start something like that now. One day soon I'll park myself at my desk and work on it. 

Yesterday I added a new sheet to my "bills" spreadsheet, one for subscriptions ! If something happens to me it'll make it easier for whoever has to manage my estate. I want to put together a "when I'm gone" folder that has passwords for my devices and tells them where my important files are. Imagine being confronted with a password protected phone, tablet and computer ? What do you do ? Since we live in the electronic age, this is something you need to think about.