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649848 tn?1534633700

Sunday Weigh In - May 22, 2022

Good morning.  I hope everyone's day is off to a good start.  We were lucky enough to get a little more than 3" of rain during the night Friday and yesterday.  Now the sun is out bright and everything is looking crisp and clean.  Quite a change from the dry dusty look we've had for a while now.

It's been a pretty quiet, but busy week for me.  Monday was our last calligraphy meeting for the summer, so we had a very pretty pot luck luncheon, with some raffles and other prizes.  I donated one of of my handmade pens for a raffle prize and ended up selling 3 more before i went home.  Is that cool or what?  We also had our installation of new officers and I was installed as the VP for the coming year.  

This week, I also had to get the newsletter done for our woodworking club so that was on this week's agenda, as well and is now complete and has been sent out.  

We have a contest coming up in June for the woodworking club - each person has to make "something" out of a 2x6 board.  Husband has already finished his project, but I haven't even started on mine.  That will be the project for this coming week, along with making pens and practicing calligraphy.  

Of course, all this desk work means I haven't been getting a lot of exercise, but I'm holding my own in the weight department.  My weight is fluctuating on a daily basis, depending on fluid retention, etc, but I'm holding my own, over all.   I simply have to decide to add in the exercise I keep talking about and start building muscle back.   I'm sort of okay with holding steady for right now, but I'd really like to be losing, after all, we do have that anniversary cruise coming up in August and I need to get going!!  

So - that's my story.  It's all quiet and I know what I need to do in order to start making the scale move again!!  I can't just keep increasing thyroid hormone levels or I'm likely to tip the other way and over-medicate myself, which is just as dangerous as not enough.

How was your week?  I hope you were able to reach whatever goals you set for yourself and look forward to hearing about it.

~~Have a wonderful, successful week~~

**Stay safe and wash your hands**
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134578 tn?1693250592
Real estate is booming here, too (except for this weekend. lol) And I did work hard physically -- I ached every night, and also the following mornings. It was as distressing as it was physically taxing, because I feel like we should not have all this junk. :-P  Glad to have gotten this far, at least.
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I thought, according to what my friend in Portland say, that real estate might be booming there, as well.

Yes, I can imagine that you ached every night and the next morning - you used a lot of muscles you don’t use every day, but look how much stronger you are now.  :-)

I totally get the “we should not have al this junk” thing.   We shouldn’t have it either and even though we aren’t moving, I’m working on getting rid of junk.   I’m looking to have a yard sale - just trying to figure out what to do with all the “stuff” after I’ve cleared it out of rooms, closets, etc until I’m organized enough for a sale.  I’ve even considered buying a POD to store it in, but husband isn’t keen on that.  Of course, I understand why.  

It sounds like you’re doing great.  :-)
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Wow - you must really have worked hard at the packing/unpacking, cleaning, etc to lose 3 lbs.  A lot of times, we don’t stop to think that the cleaning, even running the vacuum, mopping and other things are actually forms of exercise.   When you’re lifting/carrying heavy boxes, it’s like lifting weights.   They say that diet is the majority of losing weight, but I’ve found that I have to starve in order to cut enough calories to lose significant weight; however, if I add 30 minutes of exercise to my daily regimen, I tend to lose some, except when my thyroid levels are completely out of whack.  

Scrimping on what you eat can actually have adverse effects (aka slowing down metabolism), so I’m glad you didn't do that.

It seems like you’ve been packing and unpacking for a long time.  Maybe your son will love his new high school and you won’t have to move again.  

It’s always hard to know what to do with real estate sales.  Of course, you don’t to take a low price, yet, if the price is decent, holding out for a higher one could end up losing the sale.    Also, if you take the bid, the house will be sold and you’ll be done with it.    The real estate market seems to be booming here.  From the way it sounds, interest rates haven’t become much of a factor, yet, but of course, we’re at opposite sides of the country, so who knows??   Good luck with it and I hope the weight loss continues as long as you want/need it to.  

Have a good week.
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134578 tn?1693250592
Well, exercise seems to have done things for me this week. We were on our last days before our house listed for sale, and I was cleaning out its garage, packing things neatly that were going to stay on the shelves while the house was being shown and taking the more raggedy or unpresentable boxes to our new house. There wasn't anyone to do it but me, and I kept getting notices from my phone that I had fulfilled my targeted number of steps for the day (something I had never told it to track, but apparently it has done so, and has also assigned me a targeted number). Anyway, after days of schlepping heavy boxes and bending and stretching and running up and down the garage, and eating only about two meals a day (though not scrimping on what I ate in those meals), my weight is down more than 3 pounds. Couldn't believe it when I got on the scale. I'm used to these things going in the tenth of a pound. I should do this every day (and will, in the foreseeable future. The stuff in the house for sale is going to need unpacking when we get it to the new house.) It hasn't been pleasant work, but it's worthwhile, long overdue, and as a bonus seems to have had a good effect on my waistline.

We "went live" with the house on Friday (it went up for sale and showed on all the online sites that day) and the house looked great in all the ads and onscreen. We had an open house Saturday. It was the first beautiful day we have seen here for a while, and as a result there weren't a lot of people coming through, maybe six families altogether. But the first family that saw it made an offer, a pretty good one, so we might not wait for any (possibly mythical) bidding wars. The real-estate agent thinks interest rates have gotten people nervous. I think we should give it more time (our last house took two weeks to get good offers), but I'd hate to be stupid and lose the best chance.

In the meantime we're more or less living out of boxes in the new house, so now that the old house is clean and tidy, I'm on that task. I think I'll be packing and unpacking boxes until the end of time. Here's hoping I can keep the mental lucidity required to sort things out, and find places for the things I want to keep.

Have a great week!
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