Tuesday

Got sleep last night, thanks to Advil PM.  Not sure I care how, at this point, it was too desperately needed.  151.4 this morning.

We have a working (albeit not finished) kitchen.  There is much rejoicing.  The first meal we cooked in it was pizza from Papa Murphy's.  Something more than that tonight, though I don't know what, exactly.  Ground-beef based.  Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• double quarter pounder with cheese, no bun
  
• fries
  
• Pizza - including about 2/3 of the crust on one slice (too much gluten-free crust lately, and I just sailed in without thinking - oops!)
  
• a small square of dark chocolate (the really good stuff)
  

I think that was it.  I spent much of the evening painting baseboards in 90+ degree heat - paint dries very quickly in that setting.  In any event, I didn't eat.

Monday

Weird weekend.  Ate crap, lost weight.  151.0 this morning.  Achy as hell, though - lots of inflammation.  I need to spend some quality time researching and implementing an anti-inflammatory diet, I think.  Here's yesterday as I can recall it:

• tea, maybe not with cream - can't remember
  
• cheese
  
• walnuts
  
• Godiva dark chocolate pearls
  
• pork kebabs with peppers
  
• ice cream (Cold Stone with french vanilla, cherry pie filling, pecans)
  
• potato chips - Zapps voodoo chips, specifically
  

Was that it?  It might have been.  I'm hyper sleepy this morning after a night of leg cramps and general discomfort.  It was too hot and too cold all at once.  I slept enough to dream, some time between 2:00 and 5:30 am, but not sure when or for how long.  I have a headache, and my thumb arthritis is acting up, and my hips hurt, and I generally feel like crap.  

With any luck, we should have a working kitchen by the end of the day today.  I sure hope so, because not having one has made me quite ill.

Friday

152.4 again today.  Sleep was dicey, including the fact that it started after 11 pm due to work (another of those nights set for tonight).  I am not having hot flashes or night sweats, but I am getting overheated at night and it's interfering.  And last night I threw in incipient leg cramps, so that each time I moved to find a new cool spot, one of my legs had to be treated with extreme care.  Ugh.

Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• broccoli cheese soup (probably had roux)
  
• two peppermints
  
• hamburger patty with blue cheese
  
• potato salad
  
• sliced tomatoes
  
• potato chips
  
• dark chocolate
  
• walnuts
  

That was it.  Better than it has been in a while.  We now have a working oven and microwave/convection oven, which is a start - but not the cooktop or the sink or the dishwasher - the three things I really want right now.  Soon, though.  Maybe today, maybe early next week.  We shall see.

Thursday

152.4 this morning.  Cool by me, although I have no idea why it occurred.  Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• a couple of pieces of cheese (I was hungry at breakfast time)
  
• two vending bags of peanuts (no time for lunch, and still hungry)
  
• half a handful of M&Ms
  
• chips and salsa
  
• 2/3 of an order of enchiladas montadas, smothered in green chile
  
• the bottom of a bag of potato chips - less than half a deli bag
  

That wasn't much, as it turns out.  We were busy as usual in the evening - sanding drawer sides - and I had a hideous commute home.  Very stressful day for this introvert, with 6-1/2 hours of meetings, including a 4-hour stretch with no interruptions.

Sleep was not good - and I dreamed about making and eating cinnamon rolls, of all things.  Knowing as I did so that I was not eating anything good for me.  Weird.

Wednesday

153.4 today.  Here's yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• misc veggies with ranch dip (broccoli, carrots, cauliflower)
  
• about 7 chunks of strawberry
  
• a half-handful of M&Ms
  
• hot and sour soup
  
• chicken with cashews, no rice
  
• a fortune cookie
  
• a sip of beer
  

It is sounding like the kitchen will drag on another week, but at least we got back to our bedroom last night.  Unfortunately, that wasn't any help; I slept at least as badly as the night before - bad temperature, or something.  I got lots of sunlight yesterday afternoon, and stayed off electronics in the evening, since we were busy doing kitchen-related stuff, so it wasn't bad circadian rhythms.  I'll go with stress.

Tuesday

The floor is dry, so I went to our end of the house to shower this morning, meaning I had access to the scale.  153.8 this morning, and that's with swollen fingers and ankles, a bit.  Could definitely be worse - up slightly less than a pound from last week, with all the junk I've been consuming.

Here's yesterday (as a prime example):

• tea with cream
  
• the usual supplements
  
• roast beef sandwich innards
  
• turkey sandwich innards
  
• fruit - strawberries and pineapple
  
• a pickle spear
  
• gyro meat
  
• saffron rice
  
• a little bit of hummus
  
• the last chocolate almond cherry cluster
  
• two handsful of M&Ms
  

I did manage to resist the potato chips - actually, they didn't even look appealing.  I think maybe I'm at my limit.  

We get to sleep in our own bed tonight - yeah!  Last night it was hot and the bed seemed to have shrunk (it's smaller than our own bed, but we've been dealing pretty well with it).  I slept, but kept waking up.  So I'm a bit groggy and stiff this morning.  It will be good to start moving back toward our proper routine - and I'm keeping my fingers crossed about getting a working kitchen by the end of the week.

Monday

Sleep improved over the weekend - for all of us, I think.  We got Elizabeth completely moved out of her apartment, and are just trying to match paint in order to do some touch ups where we had mounted curtain rods, and she'll be done.  The house is still a disaster, but we were able to get into our bedroom over the weekend and do laundry - which helped me mentally.

Anyway, action-packed weekend.  And junk-food-packed.  No idea what I weigh right now, but my jeans fit, so I'm okay with whatever it is.  And we did a lot of lifting heavy things and climbing stairs repeatedly, especially on Saturday.

I think this is what I ate yesterday:

• tea with cream
  
• Cracker Barrel low-carb double-meat breakfast (eggs and bacon, basically)
  
• M&Ms - I bought a regular sized bag of them at the store Saturday, and had several handsful
  
• potato chips
  
• cashews
  
• meat loaf
  
• green beans
  
• salad
  
• a glass of wine
  

That was it - but the quantities of M&Ms, chips, and cashews were probably excessive.  If all goes well, by week end, we should have a functional kitchen.  It may not be complete, but we should have a working stove, sink, and oven, and maybe the refrigerator will be installed.  The floor looks great - one more coat of finish today, a bit of un-rigging tomorrow, and we are done with it and able to use the entire house again.  A flurry of laundry, and mental health should tick up several notches at our house, even without the working kitchen part.