Wow! I slept in until 8:15 this morning. I don’t do that very often. Mr. Scale must have appreciated the extra sack time, because when I stepped up on him, he said, “196.0.” :)

The reason that I slept in so late was that around 4:30AM I woke up for a call to nature, and found Dotti very upset at her laptop. It had locked up and wouldn’t boot, and she had been working on it for quite some time. She was about to just go to bed and wait until morning but I hate to see her like that, so I got things going for her again, and left her smiling when I went back to bed. I was sort of wide awake at the moment, so I read for a few minutes until my eyes started drooping again, and finally got back to sleep about 5:30. Since it is Sunday today, a little extra sleep is no problem.

Dotti and I had a fun day together yesterday. About lunch time we headed out, to Subway for our favorite fast food. I had my turkey breast sandwich, and she had her club. We then hit the Jantzen Beach center, where we visited CompUSA, and then the Barnes and Noble bookstore. When we finished shopping, we had some coffee at the Barnes and Nobel Coffee counter, and my White Chocolate Mocha was delightful.

It was about 3:30 PM when we headed south for Canby to the Hoffman Farms. This time of year they have a lot going on and we had a ball! It is the Harvest Festival Time at the Farm. Two of the DWLZ 1st Annual Conference attendees are owners of the Hoffman Farms and we had a great time getting reacquainted with Julie (Cedar282) and her mother Margaret. As busy as Julie was, she still took quite a bit of her precious time in making us feel at home, and made it seemed as if she had nothing else to do at all. But things were going on around her that needed her attention, and she just handled them all with a happy smile on her face. If for no other reason that seeing these two lovely ladies the trip was well worth it!

But there was much more to do, and for anyone who might be in the area between now and Halloween, I would highly recommend a visit to the Festivities! (If you would like to see some pictures just click here )

A local country radio station KUPL, which Dotti has playing in her car almost constantly anyway, just happens to be a sponsor for the event. So, they are putting out promotional ads on their broadcasts during the day, and they have even done some live shows right on site. Their call letters are even cut right into the giant corn maze.

Speaking of the corn maze, it is great! There are several miles of paths cut through a corn field that stands well over our heads in height. There are 4 separate entrances/exits for the maze, and 12 checkpoints inside the maze, each with a hand held paper punch, that punches a uniquely shaped hole, for you to mark your card, that is numbered 1 to 12, proving you hit the check stations. There were even two bridges within the maze where you could climb up and view the entire maze from above, and the climb back down, on the other side and continue on your way.

Most of the time, as we were walking, it seemed like we were in a jungle, completely enclosed by the corn surrounding us. We heard voices of other people, but most of the time we could see no one else at all. The corn reached out and brushed up against our shoulders, and the paths, which were laid out in the shapes of animals, and the call letters of KUPL, cut sharply this way and that with numerous forks in the path from which to choose from. They did not offer a map for you to carry with you, but each of the 12 check stations had a map mounted there along with the hand punch. It showed where you were in the maze at that moment.

We walked into the leftmost entrance of the maze and tracked left all the way through until we came back out on the rightmost exit. We had only hit 3 or 4 of the check points along the way, so we headed back into the entrance that was the second from the right, and continued on our quest. The pace was brisk and we felt like we were in another world as we went along. (Stephen King, and The Children of the Corn were mentioned as we were walking. :evil ) It was fun! When we came out the second time, we found that we had managed to return to the very same exit that we had most recently used as an entrance. By that time we had been walking close to an hour, and we were tired. We had only hit 6 or 7 of the check points but that was fine. This is something that I hope we can do every year!

The weather report had been for periodic showers yesterday, but the sky was clear and blue the whole time we were there. It was a great day for the corn maze.

By this time the sun was getting low. The country musician who was singing old Marty Robbins’ songs was finishing up, and putting his guitar away, and it was time to visit the Haunted House.

Whenever I go into a haunted house, I never know what to expect. I have seen some really bad ones that left me completely flat, and I have seen ones that make me laugh with high tech and impressive effects (e.g. Disney’s), and there are ones that are just plain fun. This one was super!

From the moment we walked in, and received instructions on the rules of the house, from a guy whose head was very much alive, but whose body was missing from the lower ribcage down, until we stepped out the exit door at the end, returning to the real world, we were thoroughly entertained. The hard working live creatures, were jumping out of nowhere, things were coming out of the walls, and perhaps the one that most impressed Dot, judging from her screams, was the giant spider that came down out of the rafters to attack us. I knew that one would bother her when I saw it dropping down in front of us, so I held her back until it went back up, but then as we tried to hurry past, it dropped back down and got her, even though no limbo stick dancer ever got as low as she did in trying to get by untouched.

The "house" was dark, with patches of colorful lighting, inventive, and enthusiastically presented by the “creatures” inside. I was very pleasantly surprised at the quality, and effectiveness of the presentation. Like the maze, it was fun!

Aside from the concession stands, where you can buy patriotic tee shirts (which we did) and kettle corn (which we did), and the aforementioned live music, there was a stage show with Mother Goose and other characters, that we unfortunately just missed when we arrived. (We did get to meet Mother Goose however. :) )

The gift shop was also nice, and it included preserves and even a selection of homemade pies. (Alas, I skipped those tempting, delicious looking, morsels calling to me. :) ) One of the guys that I used to bowl with, and who was the sponsor for our team, makes a product called Charlie’s Salsa. We were happy to see that his product had even made it to the shelves here at the Hoffman Farms gift shop.

One of the surprises we found when we arrived was the pumpkin, that this year set a new world’s record for being the heaviest pumpkin ever at 1262 pounds! It was huge. They also had several of the runners up. Number 2 was 1230 pounds. That is a lot of pumpkin pie! Somehow I don’t think these pumpkins are going to become jack-o’-lanterns. :lol

When we said good bye to Julie and Margaret, we were feeling pretty good. We had gotten to see two very nice zonies again, we had a really good time, had gotten some good exercise, and had our hearts ghost-tested, and we had survived.

It is things like this that make me love this time of year. The celebrations, the festivities and the wonderful people who take part in them make life a joy to live.

For eating yesterday, I had my Standard Breakfast (5.0 pt.), and then we dropped by Subway for lunch where I had a 6 inch turkey sandwich (6.0 pt.). For dinner I ate late for me, it was after 7:00 PM and so I had a bowl of cereal (1.5 cups - 4.0 pt.) and a cup of skim milk (2.0 pt.). That brought my meal points up to 17.0 for the day. For snacks, Dot and I stopped at Barnes and Noble where I had a White Chocolate Mocha (3.0 pt.). I also had 7 cough drops in the car (2.0 pt.) and in the evening I decided to have a Mr. Cookie Face (3.0 pt.), to move my points off the very bottom of my range. That made 8.0 snack points that I ate, and brought my total points for the day to 25.0.

For water yesterday, I drank 9 cups, or 72 ounces.

For exercise Dotti and I walked 1.5 miles through the Hoffman Farms Corn Maze (we had Dot's pedometer fortunately!), and then did some additional walking around the Farms, including walking through their Haunted House. (I think Dotti got a few activity points getting away from the giant spider that attacked her. :)

155 days OP, a lifetime to follow.

-Al-

239.5/197.0/200/BMI:24.7/WK-22/Maintenance Graph/Weight Loss Graph

I woke Mr. Scale up at 5:30 this morning. I think he wanted a bit more sleep, because he said, “197.0 pounds.” I think I spoiled him yesterday.

Yesterday was pretty much sedentary for me. I never left the house, and never did anything terribly exerting. I spent quite some time on my journal entry, and then answering some posts on the message board. And late in the evening I answered some email on my other accounts which I neglected for a few days.

Dotti and I ate lunch late, about 2:00 PM, when we decided to watch a movie that we purchased recently. The movie was E.T., and it had been years since we watched it. The story was very touching and the acting was good, but I was surprised how much I had forgotten of the senseless vulgarity, and the messages packed into the movie of deceit and kids living on the edge of chaos. It was as if the children in the movie were all raised without any serious parental supervision, not just the main characters but the whole neighborhood. From the school bus to the classroom, to the neighborhood activities, all was shown to be bordering right against a breakdown of civilization, not quite crossing the line in most cases, but just a push away. Was it for shock value? Considering the subject matter, shock should not have been that difficult to produce without using those tactics. Of course 95% or more of the movies today have similar, or worse faults, and that is why I just don’t watch most of them. But I was thinking that E.T. was a better movie than that, especially since it was aiming mainly at the kids in the audience. I can’t help but think of how Walt Disney would have done E.T., if he were still alive. It would have been quite different. Unfortunately, when he died, he took his great abilities, and wholesome attitude with him. I can’t imagine Stephen Spielberg (the director of E.T.), or Michael Eisner (the current owner/CEO of Disney) requesting Annette Funicello to not wear a two-piece swimsuit, as Walt Disney did, when she started making the non-Disney “beach” movies. Why do I watch old movies? The answer is in the messages that the movies carry. People so often bemoan what goes on today with the children, when they need not look all that far to find out why. Causes produce effects. It is a law of nature, which we have been ignoring for several decades.

For eating yesterday I had my Standard Breakfast (5.0 pt.). For lunch I had a bag of popcorn (2.0 pt.), and a Kashi bar (5.0 pt.), during the movie. For points it was the same as my Standard Lunch (7.0 pt.). For dinner I had 4 tomato sandwiches (3.0 pt.) and a chocolate WW Smoothie shake (3.0 pt.), to make a 6.0 point dinner. So, for meals I had 18.0 points. About 7:00 PM I realized that I needed to eat some additional points so I grabbed a Mr. Cookie Face (3.0 pt.) and a WW Just 2 Points bar (2.0 pt.) for 5.0 snack points. That brought my total points for the day to 23.0.

For water, I drank 9 cups, or 72 ounces.

Here it is another Monday, and October is nearly half over. Before long it will be Halloween. Off to work...

156 days OP, a lifetime to follow.

-Al-

239.5/197.0/200/BMI:24.7/WK-22/Maintenance Graph/Weight Loss Graph

I awoke in darkness, and the first thought I had this morning was, “It feels like it is time to get up.” I rolled over and looked at the red digits of the clock, appearing to be hanging in space on the other side of the room, and sure enough they said 5:30. So, I got up and stepped up on Mr. Scale, and he cheerily said, “195.5 pounds.” It has been quite some time since a scale said that to me. Needless to say, I was smiling as I took my shower.

At lunch yesterday I took a walk. I did not push it too hard, only walking at a 16 minutes/mile pace and going 1.3 miles. It was a refreshing walk, on a bright, though hazy day, through the park. The trees that were just beginning to have their leaves turn on my last walk, were now totally drenched in yellow, red or orange, and the leaves were dropping everywhere, landing on piles of other leaves that had beaten them to the ground. It was a beautiful day for a walk. The wind was low, but the coat was still needed for most of the walk.

After finishing dinner last night I had looked at my points and they were sitting at 22.0, and thought I would grab a snack. I picked up a Kashi bar and wrote it down in my journal. And then I noticed my water sitting at zero! Oh-oh. I grabbed my mug from my car and checked how much I had drunk out of it already. Not much, maybe a cup. So, I quickly downed the rest to bring me to 24 ounces. Then I filled up my regular 24 ounce cup and drank that down. After having the 40+ ounces of WW Smoothie Shake and then drinking that much water, I was feeling pretty filled up. I filled the 24 ounce glass one more time, and took the Kashi bar with me to my study to work on my computer. There was no way I was going to try and eat anything with my stomach feeling so bloated, and I decided to wait awhile before eating the bar, and finishing the water. As the evening wore on I was finally able to get the rest of the water down, but I never did get to the Kashi bar. So, I had to scratch that entry out of my journal, and just stay at 22.0 points for the day, which is within my points range.

For eating yesterday I had my Standard Breakfast (5.0 pt.) and Standard Lunch (7.0 pt.). For dinner I had 8 pieces of French toast with cinnamon (3.0 pt.) and a chocolate WW Smoothie shake (3.0 pt.). So, for meals I had a total of 18.0 points. For snacks I had 10 cough drops (3.0 pt.), and a cup of decaf (1.0 pt.). That made 4.0 snack points, and brought my total points for the day to 22.0, right at the bottom of my range.

For water I had 9 cups, or 72 ounces.

For exercise I walked 1.3 miles in 20 mins, 53 seconds. That gave me 2.55 aerobic points.

Well, I am off to face Tuesday.

157 days OP, a lifetime to follow.

-Al-

239.5/197.0/200/BMI:24.7/WK-22/Maintenance Graph/Weight Loss Graph

At 5:30 AM I stepped up on Mr. Scale, and he said, “196.5 pounds.”

This morning is one of those days when I would like to turn around and go right back to bed. Hopefully, as the day progresses, and I wake up a bit more, that will change.

I had to take off a bit early yesterday so I could make it to the dentist’s office. This time it was a nice visit. I got my upper teeth cleaned, with the lowers to follow on the next visit. I had a couple of x-rays to see how things are progressing on my problem tooth and I made an appointment for them to complete the root canal on it. I talked to him about getting a “partial” to replace the 4 upper molars that I lost, and that was it for dental work. While I was in the chair getting that done, Dotti was in a chair across the room getting her teeth worked on too. Neither one of us had to be “numbed” for what we had done, and it was one of the nicest visits I have had to the dentist in a long time. And if that was not enough my dentist was raving at how much weight I had lost and how good my appearance was as a result. He jokingly said he wasn’t sure if wanted to play racquetball with me now, because I might “smoke” him. All and all, I felt pretty darned good as we were leaving. It is not often that I go to the dentist and come away feeling so upbeat. :)

After the dentist visit we headed off to Subway. Then it was off to the mall where I got the only exercise of the day, where Dotti and I walked around for a while. We of course had one of our ice cream cones at All American while we were there. :)

For eating yesterday, I had my Standard Breakfast (5.0 pt.) and Standard Lunch (7.0 pt.). For dinner I had a 6 inch turkey sub at Subway (6.0 pt.). For snacks, I had 13 cough drops (4.0 pt.), a cup of decaf (1.0 pt.), a medium All American Ice Cream cone in a regular cone (2.0 pt.), and a Skinny Cow ice cream (2.5 pt.). That came to 9.5 snack points and brought my total for the day to 27.5, one and a half points below the upper limit of my range.

For water yesterday, I drank 9 cups, or 72 ounces.

158 days OP, a lifetime to follow.

-Al-

239.5/197.0/200/BMI:24.7/WK-22/Maintenance Graph/Weight Loss Graph

I stepped up on Mr. Scale this morning at 5:30, and he said, “196.5 pounds.” That sure does look better than 239.5 pounds! :)

One of my customers, the one where I happened to be for the day, had a layoff yesterday, and so the atmosphere in the building was not pleasant all day. People were loading up their stuff from their desks and heading out for the parking lot. I saw a couple of ladies standing and talking when I went out for lunch. They were crying and hugging each other. It was not a happy day at all. My industry was hit early on, with a big downturn. (Layoffs for us started last year.) Then the rest of the economy seemed to follow along recently. Every time we sink into a recession, I wonder if this is going to be The Recession. America has very unwisely allowed things to happen over the last 40 years or so; things that will carry an extremely high price when it is collected. The number of our industries that have moved to other countries is frighteningly large, and the last few years that number has exploded. If the average American went around his house and found how many products he is using, that were invented in America, but are no longer being produced in America he would get a pretty good idea of what we have done. Try to find a stereo, television, computer system, or any sort of electronics that wasn’t built somewhere else. The same goes for cars, motorcycles and kitchen utensils. The media has proclaimed for years that we have moved from a production society to a “service” society. What happens when a recession deepens? Services no longer are required. People do more and more for themselves. That spiral is not something which is pleasant to contemplate. The events of September 11 threw a drag shoot on an already slowing economy. On the other hand, if the war is sustained, that will actually boost our economy, a rather uncomfortable fact. If Americans responded to the recession by purchasing products, they could pull us right back up again. But what they usually do is to delay purchases because of the iffy future, and that drags the economy further down. So much of our economic ebb and flow comes directly from attitude. We can create a boom by buying or a recession by not buying. When the economy is booming, everybody feels good and buys, which makes things even better. When things are in a downturn, everyone pulls up and holds off on big purchases, until things get better, which insures that they will not get better for quite a while. -- Enough mental meandering.

Right now, I feel like I am walking in a field that is not my own, sneaking across to get back to my place. I am below the top of my weight range, under my main goal of 200, but I am still in a losing mode, because my personal goal is to remain in the range of 185 to 190. In a few weeks, hopefully I will be there and then I will have to end the losing mode and shift into the full time maintenance mode. I will have to find the correct balance of points and exercise that will hold my weight where I want it to be, not going up or down. I am confident that I can do that, and I am looking forward to that challenge.

For eating yesterday, I had my Standard Breakfast (5.0 pt.) and Standard Lunch (6.0 pt. – minus the fruit). For dinner I had a bowl of Cream of Wheat (2.0 pt.), and two fried egg sandwiches (2.0 pt.). That made 4.0 points for dinner, and gave me 15 points for meals altogether. For snacks, I had 10 cough drops (3 pt.), a Kashi bar (5.0 pt.) and a cup of decaf (1.0 pt). That was 9.0 snack points, and brought my total points for the day to 24.0.

For water yesterday I drank 10 cups, or 80 ounces.

Well, its off to face another Thursday. The weekend is fast approaching. :)

159 days OP, a lifetime to follow.

-Al-

239.5/197.0/200/BMI:24.7/WK-22/Maintenance Graph/Weight Loss Graph

When I stepped up on Mr. Scale this morning at 6:00, and he said, “195.5 pounds.”

It is a pleasure these days to step on the scale. The day before yesterday, I had my computer bag over my shoulder (loaded down with my computer, and its hardware, my overstuffed file folder with my paperwork, a CD case, a book and various other desk items), my lunchbox in my left hand, my 24 ounce coffee mug in my right hand, while being fully dressed, including my steel toed shoes, and my coat, and Mr. Scale said, 240.5. The reason I weighed myself with all that stuff, is because each night when I come home that is what I am lugging up the stairs. So, I wanted to see what the weight of what I was carrying was. It is amazing to me that with all that stuff on my body, I only weighed what I did before I started my journey. Six months ago, less actually, I would have been carrying about 240 of my own and then carrying the additional 45 pounds or so of other things. I would have weighed 280 or 285 as I climbed the stairs.

One hundred sixty days of my journey have been completed. Where did they all go? I spent over two thirds of spring, all of summer and have started working on autumn, and it seems like only yesterday when the whole thing began. In May I had my third anniversary of being smoke-free, and I also began my weight loss journey. Now, I have reached my WW goal and am only a few pounds (5.5 this morning) short of my personal goal, and haven’t had a cigarette in three years, 4 months and change. Back in April 1998, I could not see the day when I would be here. I was smoking 3 packs a day. Change seemed so hard at the time. Now it seems a bit like a dream.

I can see some areas where I still need work. I am holding my eating to a small subset of what I could be having. I have some “treats” every day but I very seldom eat out at commercial eating establishments, other than Subway. Many days I eat the same thing as on many other days. Now, don’t get me wrong, I happen to like what I am eating or I wouldn’t eat it. But there is much more out there that I could be eating, and over the upcoming years, I plan to walk slowly through an assortment of gastronomical offerings, varied and tasty. It is a little reward I will give myself for reaching my goal of being smoke free and at my goal weight. The door stands open before me, all I have to do is the work of calculation for each new item that I add to my eating list of delights. I will find room for restaurants on occasion. I have intentionally kept things very simple on my journey to this point, because simple is easily managed; and management was critical to my success. Now I have learned to managed the simple, I will work towards managing a slightly more complex array of eating choices, expanding my horizons of food opportunities as I do so. The one thing I cannot do is to give up the management. That would be disastrous, and I am working daily to bulwark my mind against making that mistake!

For eating yesterday, I had my Standard Breakfast (5.0 pt.) and Standard Lunch (7.0 pt.). For dinner I had one and a half cups of Life cereal (4.0 pt), and one cup of skim milk (2.0 pt). That gave me 6.0 points for dinner, and brought my meal points to18.0. For snacks, I had 20 cough drops (6 pt.), a bag of popcorn (5.0 pt.) and a Skinny Cow (2.5 pt). That was 10.5 snack points, and brought my total points for the day to 28.5.

For water yesterday I drank 13 cups, or 104 ounces.

It’s FRIDAY!!!!!

160 days OP, a lifetime to follow.

-Al-

239.5/197.0/200/BMI:24.7/WK-22/Maintenance Graph/Weight Loss Graph

*** Weigh-in for WEEK 23 ***

Week Completed:	___23___
Weigh-In Weight:	195.5
Body Mass Index:	24.5
Week’s Average Points/Day:	24.5
Pounds +/- for this week:	-1.5
Pounds lost total:	44.0
Pounds to go to 10%:	0.0*
Pounds to go to goal:	0.0**
* Made 10% at 215.5 pounds on 7/14/01 ** Made Goal at 200.0 pounds on 9/22/01

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I didn’t get in any exercise yesterday. During lunch I went to the grocery store to get something to eat on the way home. I bought a large stock of celery and a head of romaine lettuce. I was set. Eating the celery kept me busy while driving, and held my cough drop consumption down to a reasonable amount. I have been running out of zero point food lately on my drive home and so I wanted to see if I could correct that. The celery was cold and crisp and tasted good. I didn’t even get to the lettuce before I made it home.

As for exercise, I am rethinking what my approach will be. Walking at lunch is not the most convenient. I have no shower facilities, and so any serious exercise will leave me all sweaty for the rest of the day. I can slip away some days for a game of racquetball during lunch, and there are showers at the center where I play. And then there is the weekend when I can get two days of racquetball in with no trouble. I can also walk on the track near our house on the weekend, although most of the year I cannot walk there during the week because it is closed from dusk to 7:00 AM, which would conflict with my working hours. I hate treadmills, because they go nowhere, and most of the time the gyms stick a television in front of the machine which I find totally unacceptable. The same holds true for most of the machines in the gym. So, I am working my options out in my head and I have come up with, as a tentative solution, using the gym every Saturday and Sunday for racquetball, and then, during the workweek, forcing in some racquetball at least one day at lunch, or in the evening. That will get my 30 aerobic points in each week, and start me on my way to reaching my exercise goal.

I sure wish I could find an indoor track around here somewhere! That would help a lot. There is just nowhere close by that I feel comfortable walking after dark, and this time of year it gets dark earlier and earlier. Also, I can’t rely on anyone else to help me out in this, because as soon as I do, I end up having them cancel out and leaving me high and dry on getting my exercise in. It is better to just set up my own exercise routine and if others want to join in, fine, or if not, that is fine too.

I can get a thorough workout in a racquetball court all by myself. I have done it many times. It also helps my game out to be able to practice certain shots on my own. Running around keeping the ball alive, playing both sides in a game is quite exerting too. So, for now, my goal is going to be to get to the racquetball court 3 times a week, each week. I will keep you posted on how it goes.

All and all I am feeling pretty happy about where I am at right now. I am under 200 pounds, and feeling confident of staying there. I am moving down towards 190, and if things continue as they are, I hopefully will be there before thanksgiving. If I continue on down into my personal goal range, as I hope to, I will then be able to move my points up a bit to maintain there. If I am getting my exercise in I will probably have to eat 30 or more points a day to hold my weight in that range. That of course is just a guess right now, but it is what I am expecting. For most of my journey my upper limit of my range was 31 points. I almost always felt very comfortable eating in that range. If I end up maintaining with my upper limit being 31 or more points, I will be very comfortable! We will see how it goes, and what I need to eat to actually maintain.

I averaged 24.5 points per day this week and dropped a pound and a half. If I ate a zero fat and zero fiber diet, in order to maintain a weight of 190 pounds I would have to eat at least 38 points. However, when you throw in fat and fiber into the mix, it will modify that number. Where will it end up? We will see. I am pretty sure that it will be at a point where I can eat at a comfortable level every day, and that is what makes the WW system so workable. What would be the point of losing the weight, if I could never be comfortable once I was thin? If you are not comfortable, you will not stay with it. That is fact of life. It has been the comfort that I have felt all during my journey that has strengthened my confidence that I am going to remain successful for the rest of my life. It is not arrogance, or over-confidence, but a warm assurance, based upon observable facts. I have been comfortable doing more than I will have to do to maintain! For maintenance I will be able to back off a little and have a higher point range to work with. It will be like moving from a nice stuffed chair where I feel quite comfortable, into a full recliner, stuffed, heated and complete with vibration for all my tired muscles. You have to love it!

For eating yesterday, I had my Standard Breakfast (5.0 pt.) and Standard Lunch (7.0 pt.). For dinner I had 4 tomato sandwiches (2.5 pt.) and a yogurt (2.0 pt.) That was 4.5 points for dinner, and brought my meal points to 16.5. For snacks, I had 7 cough drops (2 pt.), a cup of decaf (1.0 pt), and a Kashi bar (5.0 pt.). That gave me 8.0 snack points for the day, and brought my total points to 24.5.

For water yesterday I drank 12 cups, or 96 ounces.

Well, I have the wonderful privilege of spending another enjoyable day with my lovely wife. We will be off and about the Portland area, and I am looking forward to a fun day. I wish everyday could be Saturday!

161 days OP, a lifetime to follow.

-Al-

239.5/195.5/200/BMI:24.5/WK-23/Maintenance Graph/Weight Loss Graph