Thursday

Rough sleep last night - 2 leg cramps launched me out of bed, which was not fun. Other than that, I didn't really wake up for any length of time, and I fell asleep pretty quickly, but I don't feel much rested. Trying to keep an eye on that - see if I can spot any correlations with much of anything. FWIW, I read on my iPad until 9 last night - maybe that was part of it.

158.8 this morning, so the leg cramps weren't for naught, I guess. Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• scrambled eggs
  
• sausage patties
  
• walnuts (only a few)
  
• an apple
  
• cheese - 6 slices of cheddar (nasty flavor)
  
• 1/2 lb "hamburger steak" at Cracker Barrel
  
• green beans
  
• sweet potato with butter
  
• a handful of salted dark chocolate almonds
  

That was it. Pretty balanced for me - fruit, veg, meat, nuts, dairy.

Still no exercise. Lee's still coughing from his version of the cold. And I've been drained the past few days. Better than last week, but not terrific. If we can continue to get the food dialed in, I'm hoping it provides enough energy to get started on something.

Still driving without sunglasses. I think it's helping with the sleep; even last night, I stayed "asleep" rather than having extended awake periods of thrashing, and that seems like an improvement.

Wednesday

Another decent night's sleep - this one, despite a dog. Anneke refused to kennel at bedtime last night, and Charlie went with the "whine and drive them nuts" route well past 10 pm, so we gave in. He was good, though - didn't lean on me more than I could bear. So I feel pretty good this morning. Melatonin only last night - and honestly, I don't think it worked much, because I didn't fall asleep until after 10 myself, and that's been unusual lately.

159.8 this morning; we ate Mexican last night. Lee had wanted it the night before and we'd already prepped stuff; I don't know if the need (stuffiness) was as urgent as it was yesterday, but whatever. Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• eggs scrambled with ham and cheese
  
• walnuts
  
• carrots with ranch dip (sour cream)
  
• chips and salsa (not an overwhelming number)
  
• Enchiladas Suiza (chicken with a tomatillo salsa and cheese) - 3 of them
  
• a bit of beans and rice
  
• a sip of limoncello
  
• small handful of cashews
  

That was it. The limoncello was to taste what I'd been concocting since before Christmas as I bottled it up so Lee can take some on the road with him next week (as gifts) - I have no idea what it's supposed to taste like, but it tastes a good bit like lemon cough syrup at the moment. We're chilling it now, to see if that improves things. It's not bad, just kind of odd. And it is supposed to mellow for at least another week before drinking, so maybe that's part of it. Or it's just odd. I'll wait for the verdict of connoisseurs once Lee's handed it over.

Not much else, really. I'm feeling more rested every day, but not full of vim, yet. I would like to feel like that again. I'm sure it's coming - sure hope so, anyway.

Tuesday

I should feel rested. I don't. Bother. Sleep was solid last night, I thought. But I'm just a bit draggy right now. Feel like doing a header onto my desk, truly. It's rainy and dark out, and that might be why.

159.6 this morning. Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• scrambled eggs
  
• bacon
  
• carrots with ranch dip (sour cream)
  
• walnuts
  
• chef's salad (ham, chicken, cheese) with blue cheese dressing
  
• peanut-cranberry-chocolate chip trail mix
  

That was it. A short list. More veg than usual. Today will probably be similar, except I think we're going for Mexican for dinner, which means chips and PUFA. Maybe I'll feel like being good. We shall see.

No walk yesterday - grubby weather and a long drive and we weren't in the mood. I made liquid hand soap instead. Possibly scented, although when I was putting it in bottles, it was smelling more like soap base than anything. If nothing else, it kept me occupied for part of the evening.

Monday

I think I'm recovered from the cold. Finally. What was it - 2 weeks? That was one nasty disease. But I feel normal today, not exhausted, not wheezy, and I have a voice. So I think I've achieved health.

At 160 pounds. Bother. I gained about 0.2 pounds every stinking day last week. Not eating anything bad for me, either. So annoying. Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice (from our tree)
  
• the usual supplements
  
• scrambled eggs
  
• bacon
  
• cashews
  
• swiss cheese (about 5 thin slices, I think)
  
• 1/2 pound hamburger (grass-fed)
  
• a bunch of roasted asparagus with avocado oil, salt & pepper
  

I think that was it. I feel like there was more, but I can't think of anything. The orange juice was an experiment - and pretty darn tasty. Obviously, juice isn't as good for us as the whole fruit, but it tasted good as fruit, and I figured the juice was worth a shot.

I spent yesterday doing stuff. Painted the upper half of the foyer, sewed shorts for Lee (altered them), washed sweaters, and went for a walk. Don't know if we'll get another one in tonight, because it's pouring outside, but it's a start. Saturday was draining - we ran errands from 7 am until around 2 and then collapsed. And I slept that night with Benadryl.

So now that we are feeling better (I think Lee's still a week behind me, honestly, but that's a huge improvement for him as well), back to working on our eating. Meat-and-leaves is the plan, and we have a list of things planned for dinner this week that are mostly paleo and/or low-carb.

Friday

Last night's sleep was successful. I feel rested this morning - miles better than yesterday. I have more voice than yesterday as well. Recovering, I think. Finally!

Here's what I did yesterday that was intended to influence sleep:

• Drove without sunglasses, to and from work. I know that one is supposed to get bright sunlight outdoors without glass in the way, for at least 30 minutes, preferably early in the morning. I can't really do that with my schedule and the solar options available right now, so I opted to get as bright sunlight as I could on my commutes. Including the sunroof - not open, but without the shade on.
  
• Took gelatin before bedtime, after dinner. It's supposed to help.
  
• Wore shorts in the evening, to get my body temp down.
  
• Took melatonin at bedtime.
  

The last thing works reliably for me. It might be too high of a dose (5 mg), and if I can find 3 mg or less quick-dissolve ones next time, I will. But if I take it around 9, by 9:30 I'm drooling, and by 9:45 I'm usually comatose. That hasn't been the problem much. It's the 3 am wakening that kills me. These days, it's almost always from a hot flash (body temp rise), and sometimes I can go right back to sleep after it, and other times I can't. Last night, if it happened, I didn't know it. I do remember a leg cramp, that also didn't wake me much.

159.2 this morning. Right now, I'm a bit more focused on getting health and energy back than I am on weight loss, and once I feel 100%, we'll get back on working at the whole ketosis and low PUFA thing. I need to design something that isn't quite so cheese-based, though, because honestly, I'm getting super tired of cheese. Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• scrambled eggs
  
• bacon
  
• 3 pieces of cheddar
  
• walnuts
  
• 3-tortilla cheese enchiladas with 505 mild sauce
  
• peanuts/dried cranberries/dark chocolate chips (a sort of trail mix) - about 1/2 cup
  
• lemon gelatin water
  

Light on the veg yesterday, but not terribly mucky otherwise. I'd give it a 7.

Still no exercise. Hopefully this weekend. If the upswing continues, anyway.

Thursday

I feel like such crap.

No, I'm not sick still - or again. I'm just so effing tired. And I can't get enough sleep, even being exhausted. Woke last night before midnight and again around 3. Dog-related in at least part - Charlie ended up on the bed with us, as he does periodically. So I also have a backache, which could be part of what I'm interpreting as exhaustion - for whatever reason, I always feel exhausted with a backache.

Anyway, plodding along. I'm sure much of the exhaustion is still hanging on after the cold. I'm really hoping that we can get ahead of things this weekend. Hoping, not counting on it. Sigh. Maybe reverting to every other night Benadryl would be a crutch that would help. I really don't know.

159.0 this morning. So much for weight loss from being sick. Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• scrambled eggs with ham and cheese
  
• walnuts
  
• 2 pieces of cheddar
  
• an apple
  
• bratwurst (2) with Dijon mustard
  
• sauerkraut (live)
  
• about 5 salted dark chocolate almonds
  
• a handful of cashews

That was it. That's pretty darn Paleo. It could be better, but really, not bad. PUFA from the nuts, obviously. Sugar in the apple and the almonds. 

I think I'll keep the sauerkraut coming for a while - see if maybe I'm gut flora deficient after all this fun.

Wednesday

I am over this cold. I have not yet recovered from it. I'm extremely tired right now. Getting decent sleep, but not enough - whether not enough quantity, or not enough quality, I'm not sure, and maybe it doesn't matter. I just know I'm tired.

It will pass. Lee's much worse, because he had it 2 weeks longer and harder than I did. I guess I should be grateful that I made it through quickly and relatively lightly, and if I felt more energetic, maybe I would be. Not so much right now.

158.0 this morning; here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• scrambled eggs
  
• bacon
  
• an apple
  
• 2 pieces of cheddar
  
• a few walnuts
  
• 3 Taco Bell tacos supreme
  
• about 10 salted dark chocolate almonds
  
• lemon gelatin water
  

I think that was it. The tacos were so tasty - unimaginably good, last night. Not something I'd do frequently, but in our somewhat trashed state, they hit every spot we could think of. Nice, really, because we were neither of us interested in eating much else.

Sleep was okay last night - a goodish amount of deep sleep, which is what I think I need for healing. And without Benadryl, even better. No exercise, obviously.

I'm still taking Mucinex, but have stopped the Sudafed again. I am mostly done with coughing, but want to keep things flowing until it's all gone.

Tuesday

The coughing is subsiding, thank goodness. I am feeling like I'm recovering - not recovered, mind you, and I'm a little nauseated (probably from swallowing a lot of stuff) and limp this morning. But I don't feel like I have the active cold that I did last week, and that's definitely an improvement.

Sleep last night was mixed. I felt like I slept well until around 2, and then I had a hard time sleeping for any length - I used old radio shows to get back to sleep, and they worked fine (within probably 5 minutes each), but sleep would last at most a little over the hour that they were playing, and I'd be back awake again. I didn't cough much at all - and I'm eternally grateful that I didn't have to have a cough drop - but I did wake up with a very dry and itchy throat. So, blecch.

158.8 this morning. Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• scrambled eggs
  
• bacon
  
• 2 pieces of cheddar
  
• leftover chili from Saturday
  
• mongolian bbq at Genghis Grill
  
• a handful of cashews
  
• a smallish praline
  
• lemon gelatin water
  

I think I had the nausea last night as well - I really didn't want anything to eat that was paleo; I wanted sugar. So I had the praline. Whatever.

Sleep last night was with the aid of gelatin/collagen and melatonin only. I'm really trying to get away from the Benadryl.

I may try my shoulder exercises again tonight. We shall see. Not doing very well at making them a routine. And I'd really like to get feeling well enough to walk again. I suspect we will have to start with very short walks - unless I stop being so limp, that is. This has been one nasty cold.

Monday

Two days of rest. As complete as we could make them. We had breakfast out yesterday, but stayed home the rest of the day. Saturday, I went for a few groceries, but otherwise stayed home. And apart from chasing Charlie around to prevent him from tracking mud all over the house last night (complete fail, by the way), I spent most of the weekend in a recliner or on the couch. Lee took a few naps.

Do we feel better? Yes. Are we fully well? Not quite - but on the mend, definitely. And my cold didn't turn into an infection of any sort. So far, anyway. I'm still a bit congested; my ears are stuffed up and my sinuses nasty. But nothing is green at the moment.

158.2 - my weight has been all over the map the past 2 weeks. So I'm good with that. I ate enough carbs with a gluten-free pizza Friday night to stop the leg cramps, and I had a few corn tortillas in the course of breakfast yesterday, along with a lot of cashews and cough drops (nasty things, those!), which has kept them from coming back.

I got decent sleep for the first time in about 2 weeks last night - without Benadryl. I've had to take a full dose a couple of times just to get to sleep at all, and even that was starting to fail. 

No exercise, obviously. Saving that for when I'm over this mess completely.

Friday

Got sleep last night. Per my wearable, over 5 hours of it deep sleep. It took 2 Benadryl to get it, but I got it. I feel more rested, and at the same time, wobbly and weak. Drained. This is one NASTY cold.

I think I was running a mild fever on the drive home yesterday - my eyes started burning, I was clobbered with a headache, and started freezing in the car - actually, I couldn't get temperature stable. Also nausea. Seriously lovely time. I made it home, crawled into sweats and under a blanket on the couch, where I pretty much stayed put. By the way, that's the bulk of my weekend plans.

Lee says he lost 9 pounds in the past week or so with this thing. Well, I'm having the same thing - down to 155.8 this morning. More leg cramps last night, despite eating pizza for dinner, with a carby but gluten-free crust.

Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• sausage patties
  
• cheese (6 pieces of cheddar, I think)
  
• half a gluten-free pizza with pepperoni, bell peppers, mushrooms
  
• a Gatorade
  
• a handful of cashews
  

I think that was it. It's always hard to recall accurately, and worse when your mind is mushy from being sick.

I'm happy to report that I managed sauerkraut this morning for breakfast. It tasted pretty darn good, and I drank the juice as well. I don't imagine it will be a cure, but it did settle my stomach pretty well. 

Anyway, if I can get through today's workday, I have a fighting chance of getting over this thing. I will certainly be fighting my hardest over the weekend.

Thursday

I'm quite grateful that this week is going fast, because it's been relatively unpleasant. Sleep last night was horrid - well, the attempt to get some was horrid, and what I got was short. Maybe 3-4 hours if I was lucky.

The cold or whatever it is has taken my appetite much as it took Lee's. I'm hungry, but things don't taste good, and eating is an effort, so I don't much. 157.4 this morning, and leg cramps beyond belief last night, as a result. Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements, with added Vitamin D
  
• an egg custard thing (eggs, cheese, bacon, heavy cream/milk)
  
• 6 pieces of cheddar
  
• half a ham steak
  
• a baked sweet potato with butter and sour cream
  
• a Lindt truffle
  
• a handful of cashews
  

Spent quality time in a bath of Epsom salts last night before bed, and basically did nothing else. I got home from work late, cold, and very tired. The bath helped with the cold, but nothing helped with the tired. I've stopped taking Sudafed as of this morning, because it probably kept me awake, and because I don't have anything to dry out - my head is fairly clear. The cold is on my larynx, and a little bit below it. So I took Mucinex this morning to keep things fluid so I can cough it all out. I'm also watching for the need to take extra anti-inflammatories, to keep my bronchial tubes from excess irritation. Don't know what else I can do. This is at least half caused by the stress from moving and everything else, and we may just have to get through it.

I keep meaning to eat live sauerkraut, and I keep not getting around to it. I need to do that. And maybe get half a cabbage and start a small jar full, to get a better mix of bacillus.

Wednesday

Back to 158.8 this morning; super tired, and the Benadryl is, as usual, not working every night. I slept until around 3, I think - and not all that well. My cold isn't doing much, I have laryngitis, but nothing else. Mucinex is not budging it, though. Still, could be worse; Lee has bronchitis with bacterial things going on, and is on all sorts of meds. He didn't sleep last night until about 5:30 am, and then got up to feed the dogs at 6, which was kind of him, but unnecessary.

Anyway, we were to have gone to a do in San Antonio this weekend. That's off. 

Yesterday went like this:

• tea with cream
  
• 25000 IU of Vitamin D
  
• cheese
  
• carrots and cherry tomatoes and blue cheese dressing
  
• a cup of vegetable soup
  
• chef's salad with blue cheese dressing, including another piece of cheese
  
• a couple of dark chocolate salted almonds
  

I think that was it. We went to Cracker Barrel for dinner, and I couldn't finish the salad - too much work. Not a good sign.

No exercise yesterday. If I can get this stupid thing to vamoose, I will restart walking at night - even if by myself. But until then, I'm conserving energy.

I made egg custard things last night to have for breakfast. They were supposed to be quiche lorraine flavored - and they might be - but mine tasted rather nasty this morning. That's been Lee's complaint all week, that food didn't taste good. He's lost 9 pounds since we got back. And while I wouldn't mind losing 9 pounds myself, I don't think I really want to do it that way.

Tuesday

I think I forgot yesterday. 

So, 160.0 today, down from yesterday, which was up a goodish bit after a weekend full of eating chips (carbs AND polyunsaturates).

Lee caught a cold on the heels of Mardi Gras, failed to keep on top of it, and probably now has pneumonia. He's been threatening to go to a doctor for about 3 days, but didn't do it yesterday, and I'm mad about that. Not that it's in my control or anything, but he didn't have to get this sick.

I have the beginnings of the same damn thing, unfortunately. But I'm back on Sudafed and Mucinex, and anticipate keeping it from moving into my chest. I could be wrong - the virus will do what the virus wants to do - but it's worked before.

All that said, this whole getting sick repeatedly is pure shit. And needs to stop. We have been sliding away from eating for nutrition a lot lately, and the added stress of moving should have made it more imperative that we stay on track. Noted. It may take a while to dig back out of it, but I do mean that we shall.

Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• 25000 IU of Vitamin D
  
• an apple
  
• 6 pieces of cheddar
  
• walnuts
  
• meatballs and spaghetti sauce
  
• salad with blue cheese dressing
  
• a handful of cashews
  

I think that was it. The walnuts and cashews would have had PUFA in them, albeit in a more natural form than corn chips do, so I'd imagine that the impact on insulin sensitivity would be less. Today I have veggies and more blue cheese dressing, and more cheese, for breakfast and lunch. No idea what for dinner, but I may only be feeding myself. There's a ham steak in the freezer; may have Lee get that out to thaw.

I did manage my shoulder exercises last night (on the right side only). I'd love to do some walking, but I feel a little under the weather and think I won't risk making it worse right now. One of us has to stay upright - and I have no PTO, so I can't stay home sick.

Sleep was okay - drugged, but I feel rested this morning. Better than yesterday.

Friday

I read a super interesting blog post from Dr. Michael Eades yesterday (no link; got it in email), about the effect polyunsaturated oils may have on insulin sensitivity and weight gain. If his information is correct, all polyunsaturated fatty acid chains make tissues more insulin sensitive, so that they store fat from glucose as well as the fat itself. Which makes less energy available in the blood, which makes us eat more, besides making us fat from the storage. Not much different from straight sugar, and maybe worse.

What that tells me is that our eating more from restaurants and less from home is very much contributing to my problems maintaining the weight loss I did. Not that we didn't eat at restaurants during the year I lost the weight, but Lee and Elizabeth were gone much of that year, and my reaction was to eat burgers on the grill at home. And I stopped eating lunch at restaurants, by and large. So in addition to going VLC/ZC for months on end, I drastically reduced eating seed oils.  I still ate nuts, which are a natural source of PUFA - and I still do. And I notice that a) they're bloody addictive, and b) anytime I eat them, I tend to stall out on weight loss. That fits nicely with the information he provided. And, from a natural sense, completely convincing - nuts ripen in the fall, and are used by various animals to store energy for winter - either as body fat, or to be eaten to replenish body fat.

Now that I have this information, while I don't imagine that we will stop eating out completely, I can at least watch carefully what I do eat. Steak is okay. Hamburger is okay. Fries are not okay. Salad dressing is not okay. Green beans are okay. Baked sweet potato is okay if the butter is real. And so on. And if I ever find somewhere that still fries in tallow, I can have fried stuff there.

As for nuts, I can look out for macadamias again, since they're fully saturated. And with knowledge, I can make sure I'm fairly restrained in eating the PUFA nuts that are already in my house. Maybe even make them a seasonal thing, once we've finished off what we have.

All that said, I am at 157.8 this morning. Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• walnuts
  
• cheese (3 pieces)
  
• an apple
  
• steak
  
• salad with blue cheese dressing
  
• a handful of salted dark chocolate almonds
  
• a handful of cashews
  

That was it. Today will be similar, because Lee is feeling fairly awful, and I told him to stay in bed.

I did manage my shoulder exercises yesterday. I'm at 5 lb for 2 of them, and need to go to 10 lb on the third. I don't necessarily think that I gained strength prior to Mardi Gras by using the 3 lb weights, more that they were too light. And my shoulder is already feeling better. But with the new weights, I probably need to start back doing both arms again - I was just doing the messed up one to start with.

No walking yesterday. Probably not tonight, either. Maybe tomorrow morning.

Thursday

Starting to think the no-Benadryl plan was not so great. Lee has a cold with a cough, and when he's not feeling well, thrashes around at night a good bit. I would really like some good sleep - I got sleep last night, but it was choppy, since every thrash tossed the bed around and nearly woke me up. If I'm still struggling tonight, I may succumb.

158.8 again today (sigh). Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• lemon gelatin water
  
• scrambled eggs
  
• sausage patties
  
• 3 pieces of cheese
  
• carrots and cherry tomatoes with blue cheese dressing as a dip
  
• a stuffed pepper - no rice, just beef and tomatoes
  
• a handful of salted dark chocolate almonds
  
• about a cup of cashews (I was hungry at bedtime)
  

All in all, a good eating day, really. If I'd stopped after the first half-cup of cashews, it would have been darn near perfect. Even so, everything was real food. No breakfast today - not formally, anyway, because Lee was so done in this morning that I told him not to worry about it. I had an apple and cheese planned for "lunch", and added a bag of walnuts to flesh it out a bit - I've had some of the cheese and walnuts already.

We did not walk much last night - made it to the end of the block and came back. The wind was blowing something fierce, and Lee already didn't feel well, so we went home. So no goal-making yesterday, and doubtful today. I took a long bath after dinner, and pretty much went to bed (if not to sleep - we watched a movie) after that.

Back at it today. If nothing else, I'll aim to do my shoulder exercises tonight, since I didn't get them done either.

Wednesday

Water. Like I said. Some of it's gone today - 158.8. Always nice to lose a couple of pounds overnight, right?

We managed meat-and-leaves yesterday, and I think stuffed peppers are on today's menu. Hopefully not much rice. But still clean eating, and that's all good. And I have veg and dip and cheese with me for eating during the day.

Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• scrambled eggs
  
• sausage patties
  
• an apple
  
• walnuts
  
• steak
  
• salad with blue cheese dressing
  
• several handfuls of salted dark chocolate almonds
  

I think that was it. I can tell I've been off the wagon for a while now, with bodyaches (joints, especially) and the return of keratosis pilaris on my legs, so it's time to get things straight in those areas.

Sleep was okay - I was watching a video on my iPad until around 10 pm, which is not sleep-inducing at all, so I suspect I got less than usual (for being at home, anyway). 

We got another walk in last night - turns out that the route we're taking is 1.33 miles, not 1.75. In any event, I got my stride length calibrated so my Vivofit now agrees with the GPS on the Nike Running app. And I hit goal again last night.

Shoulder exercises tonight. I moved to 5-lb weights on Monday and will stick there; I think that the 3-lb ones were a bit light for that.

Tuesday

The plan for yesterday was to eat meat and salad. We ended up, due to a propane deficiency, with Chinese. 161.0 this morning. I still think a lot of it is water.

Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• scrambled eggs
  
• bacon
  
• cashews and trail mix
  
• hot and sour soup
  
• 2 fried noodles
  
• mushu chicken, no pancakes
  
• a fortune cookie
  

That was it. Not great, but not awful. I have an apple and walnuts with me to eat today if I get hungry.

We managed a walk last night. Per Nike Running App, it was a mile and 3/4. Per Vivofit (which doesn't use GPS), it was 1.18 miles. I think I need to adjust my stride length or something. That's okay, though. We got a walk in after work! And I did my shoulder exercises. I put a stake in the ground for normal life again, one that I hope is legit.

Sleep last night was maybe better than it could have been, given that Charlie was on the bed. Not a lot of deep sleep, and I was more or less awake from 4:30 on. I'm hoping - but not holding my breath - that he'll be kenneled tonight, and stay there. Now that we're through Mardi Gras, I'm stepping away from the Benadryl except in a dire emergency, and working on getting my sleep naturally.

Monday (a week later)

Back from our Mardi Gras week, and slightly exhausted. Not terribly fat, though - I think I ate pretty well all week. Until yesterday, that is, when I had a donut to be polite. Also some chips and a York peppermint patty. One day. Not a huge deal.

Still working on the best way to get through that week without hitting a lot of pot-holes. Bad sleep, meals completely out of my control, alcohol, all mark the way we do the celebration. I avoided bread thoroughly until yesterday, drank very lightly, and did the best I could with sleep (mostly it worked). So I think I'm in better shape than I could be - but I really would like to do better than we normally do, even so.  Oh, well, I have a year to think about it.

I did get in a LOT of walking. 12K steps yesterday - on a day when we spent 6 hours in a car driving home (and the Vivofit doesn't count driving as steps like the Nike did). I think the sunlight is sufficient in the evenings now to get back outside after work, so we are going to start walking after I get home again. I hope that helps.

Anyway. 160.4 this morning, with puffy fingers and ankles, and sore joints. So I know what at least some of it is. Lee says he lost 2 pounds over the week. Noted without comment...