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Busy week already, have a lot to do before I leave for my friend's house next weekend. I'm doing good on food plan and exercise even though a couple times this past week I have found myself ravenously hungry around 3:30. So that means guess what... I forgot to eat my snack! Duh. Also a couple times I really, really wanted a cold beer right after cutting the grass, etc., but I resisted... I just don't want those empty calories right now. I am waiting for Memorial Day cookout, even though I might allow a couple next week when I'm relaxing by the pool. We'll see, gotta weigh that one carefully.
Not only was alcohol, usually beer, once an unhealthy coping mechanism for me, it was also a habit that was fully integrated into my every day existance. It was like putting on my shoes every morning, a normal part of my routine. I began cutting back a couple years ago but it still was something that I did almost every single day... anytime after 4 or 5 you could be sure they're be a cold one in my grasp. So about the time I started my LTP for eating right and upping the exercise, I made the decision to abstain completely except for very special occasions such as my birthday, etc. I am surpised by how much I don't miss it... well most of the time, anyway. There are moments.
Of course alcohol is probably the worst thing someone with clinical depression could partake of, it is a depressant and too much of it would make me moody and sad and wanting to just be left alone, already. God forbid anyone ever suggest that I might consider skipping the daily imbibement, nope not me. And most of the time it was really crappy stuff to boot.
So, my new modus operandi is "life is too short to drink shitty beer", and "better few and far between than my waistline never to be seen"... LOL! Ah, sometimes I crack my own self up.
Which is good. It is good to laugh, and laugh knowing it's not because I've had too many beers, when everything is funny and surely I am the world's greatest philosopher, right?
I like what Emerson had to say about it: "....to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded."
Boy howdy do I want to succeed!!!
Peace... out....
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1535 kcal
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Fat: 33.25g | Prot: 71.34g | Carbs: 250.49g.
Breakfast: Chobani Nonfat Vanilla Yogurt, green grapes, pineapple, Skim Milk, coffee, crunchy granola bar oat. Lunch: Publix Wheat Crackers, Publix Caramel Rice Snacks, Diced Peaches in Cups, cottage cheese 1%. Dinner: Smart Balance Spread, Yellow Sweet Corn, Grilled Shrimp, healthy colors , Uncle Ben's Brown Rice. Snacks/Other: Weight Watchers Ice Cream Bars - Giant Chocolate Fudge, peanut butter, Low Fat Honey Graham Crackers. more...
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4108 kcal
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Exercise:
Painting - 2 hours, Walking (exercise) - 5.5/kph - 25 minutes, Resting - 11 hours and 45 minutes, Stretching (yoga) - 15 minutes, Housework - 1 hour, Weight Training (moderate) - 30 minutes, Running (jogging) - 8/kph - 5 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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