Whoop! Whoop! 75 lbs lost! I'm 60% of the way to my goal. Next 'micro-goal' is 77.25 lbs, when I will have lost 25% of my body weight, followed by 84 lbs, when I'll be at 2/3 of goal. I think this is do-able before 09 October, when I take a week off for my study tour. I would also like to be completely off one of my blood pressure meds before the study tour starts.
I was talking to one of the docents at Woolsthorpe yesterday and he was telling me about the bed in one of the bedrooms, a lovely 4-poster complete with curtains. They always look so short compared to modern beds; I have a queen-sized bed, not because I'm very tall (I'm just 5'5" when I stand up real straight!) but because that's what I like. Anyway, people were shorter back then but another reason the beds are so much shorter is because they slept more propped up than we do. I didn't know that! One reason they slept propped up was because they suffered more from colds, chest infections and tuberculous than we do (and it is easier to breathe like that when you're conjested) but they were also very paranoid about swallowing bugs :-) When you sleep propped up, as soon as you go to sleep, your chin drops onto your chest and your mouth snaps shut--so you don't swallow any bugs that might be about. I thought this was very funny!
I had to dash off to Waitrose this evening after work to pick up some salmon for my lunches this week. They do a lovely salmon sashimi pack with soy and wasabi at Waitrose. One of the great things on my diet is all the salmon and prawns I'm getting--very healthy but very expensive! Of course, Waitrose does NOT stock fat-free creme fraiche (another diet staple), so I also had to run over to Sainsburys for that. Lots of running around--but the results are so-o-o-o worth it.
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