Today did not go as planned. I think I got most of my 2 mile walk in today, but I can’t be certain since I didn’t record it. Even though I don’t feel successful today, I at least did not screw up my eating (which I actually did very little of). Tomorrow is the weigh-in with Brook. Neither of us feel confident, but she’s looking a little thinner to me, so I think she secretly knows she’s won the contest....
I’ve often thought about how easy it is for us to get food. I mean, I’m not that old, but I remember my grandmother telling me stories of growing and raising their own food. In 1920’s eastern Kentucky, that was the way. You had to burn a lot of calories just get calories to burn. Not so these days. I’m grateful for the access, but it’s not the best for my physique....
Cover photo taken while walking back from dinner with Ray. Riverfront Park, Spokane, WA Greetings from Spokane! I decided to do a video update for today’s post, but I do have a quick preamble… Many exciting things happened today as far as the work conference goes, but the highlight was a quick dinner with my brother, Ray. He suffers from Parkinson’s 1 disease and recently underwent a procedure called Deep Brain Stimulation, soe now he suffers less…much less....
I snapped a potential cover photo through the window of the conference room, but opted not to use it due to the reflection in the glass. Instead I used Dall-e-2’s stable diffusion to generate some digital art of downtown Spokane. I’ll put my inferior photo below. That’s as close as I got to being outside today. I don’t have a vehicle and didn’t bring anything warm, so I didn’t set foot outside....
I’m currently in Salt Lake City waiting to board my flight for Spokane. My wonderful, new water bottle that Eliana bought me is back in Billings where I stupidly left it. 😠 I am able to use the app that came with it though, just manually adding whatever I consume. Obviously I couldn’t travel with my protein shakes, and didn’t want to try to bring 5 nights worth of keto stuff with me, so I’m dealing with airport food today....
Ah, travel…enemy of the diet. At least, it can be - if you let it. It’s pretty easy to rationalize taking a pause when you’re out of your normal environment. You’re forced to eat out You’re probably socializing with people who don’t have your eating restrictions You assume that you’ll just get back on track as soon as you get home. Don’t do it! 😩 Like I said, I’ve done this diet before, and it works....