melissatwa's Journal, 31 Jul 22

I am enjoying a final, massive bouquet provided by my hydrangea bushes. One photo could not show just how much I am enjoying it! I will have a few little ones going forward, but the heat has touched my beautiful blooms.

Sunday means game night for the youths of my house, so the temptations to go over my calories today will be significant yet again. I have done little more than maintain this week, so I can not afford to blow it tonight.

My daughter is sick with pain, so she has spent the last couple days in bed (which happens to be a mat behind a couch in the living room since she gave her room to the two new girls staying with us). It hurts my heart so much to see her in such misery. She will barely eat and the pressures of life mount and overwhelm while she waits for her body to calm down and the blinding headache, joint pain, and dizziness to become manageable. She has been offered other places and beds, but she says she is as comfortable there as anywhere and doesn't want to move. She will today, for it will be too loud in the kitchen with a gang of noisy people. She has been doing so well the last couple weeks, but this is a rough bout. I can stay home with her today. The rest of the family tries to help out when I am gone, but they aren’t mom.

I am so thankful for the sun! Many don’t love the heat we are having, but I have told a few people that the sweat is just all of us thawing from an endless winter. I have been so cold and tired of the gloom, so I can not complain about it being a touch warm. Have a blessed Sunday!

70.0 kg Lost so far: 16.6 kg.    Still to go: 2.0 kg.    Diet followed: Reasonably Well.

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375 kcal

Fat: 14.79g | Prot: 13.08g | Carbs: 48.49g.   Breakfast: Coffee-Mate Original Powder Creamer, Bananas , Milk (Whole Milk). more...