Weight: 282.2 lbs

Exercise: .97 mile walk (6:25am–6:50am, ☁️62ºF/17ºC); .03 mile walk (4:19pm–4:24pm, ⛅️75ºF/24ºC) (1.00 mile total)

Mood: Good, but tired

I’ve felt chaotic lately.  That happens sometimes and it’s something I’ve learned to hate about myself, but maybe I’m approaching that all wrong.  There is an expectation to stay focused and to ease into things, but I’ve never been like that.  I go all in, to the point of excess sometimes, and I almost don’t know how to stop myself from doing so.  If I take up a new hobby, I buy everything I might ever want to use.  When I’m interested in trying some new ways of cooking a certain vegetable, I have to try all the ways I can think of, and all in one day.  I never let things settle.  And I know that it’s wrong because nobody else does that, but when I was walking this morning, I was thinking about how I kinda love that about me.  It can be problematic; it often results in money being wasted on items I’ll never use because they never come up or because I lost interest in the hobby quickly.  And I really do want to stop having so much stuff and this is not helpful.  But I love the way I go all in on new things.  Dad was like that.  I just need to figure out how to embrace that part of myself, while keeping in check the amassing of stuff.  I don’t know.

It was a beautiful morning for walking.  We had storms last night, but still the road wasn’t too muddy and I was able to walk up and down and got a good sweat going. Because of the storms, I slept very little and so I’m pretty beat already.  I’m sure I’ll get some sleep at some point today.

Food: 960 calories

• bean & veggie wraps: “hot” chili beans (umm… I think they mean ‘less spicy than normal chili beans’), steamed broccoli, steamed Brussels sprouts, low carb tortillas (2)
• apricot oatmeal
• German chocolate oatmeal
• Happy Belly SF Pink Lemonade

Music:

Weight: 278.0 lbs

Exercise: .81 mile walk (2:04pm–2:26pm, ☁️80ºF/27ºC)

Mood: Good

Food: 1040 calories

• coffee, oat milk, JSS Coconut Syrup
• steamed green beans, steamed cauliflower
• Kale & Oat Wraps: Spicy Queso Oats, steamed kale, roma tomatoes, Taco Bell Diablo Hot Sauce, jalapeños, low carb tortillas 💚
• Happy Belly SF Pink Lemonade
• Lettuce & Tomato Wraps: shredded iceberg lettuce, roma tomatoes, mustard, jalapeños, low carb tortillas

I’m officially sold on the low carb tortillas.  While I refuse to be scared of carbs, and as my primary calories come from starches I’m clearly not, it is so nice to have tortillas that are a quarter of the calories of a regular flour tortilla.  They are a bit expensive, but even Walmart has them in Great Value brand now, so that seems to be changing.  I don’t know if I want to have them around all the time, but as an option they are nice.

The Spicy Queso Oats worked really well with kale.  I made such a huge batch of it that I’ll be having some tomorrow as well.  I’ve gone on such a journey with kale.  Nine months ago, I hated it, but now it solves all of my problems.

Weight: 278.4 lbs

Exercise: .39 mile walk (9:37am–9:48am, ☀️55ºF/13ºC); .84 mile walk (2:47pm–3:09pm, 🌬️71ºF/22ºC); 1.18 mile walk (3:29pm–4:00pm, 🌬️71ºF/22ºC, Apple Fitness Earth Day Challenge) (2.41 mile total)

Mood: Excellent

Food: 1190 calories

• chocolate caramel oatmeal
• German chocolate oatmeal 🤎
• Mountain Dew Kickstart, Grape
• carrot & tomato soup
• Spicy Queso Oats, steamed Brussels sprouts, steamed cauliflower
• steamed green beans, Spicy Queso Oats

The Spicy Queso Oats were great; I’m so glad I made those.  Next time, I need to make a smaller quantity; by the time I ate today’s, the oats had become too creamy for me, so tomorrow’s will need to be mixed with something… I’m thinking kale.

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