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| Weigh-In Date: | 11/22/2008 |
| Weight: | 199.0 |
| Body Mass Index: | 24.87 |
| Average Weight for week: | 197.93 |
| Miles Walked for week: | 0.00 |
| Miles Walked in 2008: | 288.32 |
| Pounds +/- for this week: | +3.0 |
| Pounds lost total: | 40.5 |
| Pounds From Personal Goal(185 lbs) † | +14.0 |
Week's Data
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196.0
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196.5
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197.0
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198.0
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197.0
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198.0
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198.0
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Week 393 Update
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It was 6:00 AM when I stepped up on Mr. Scale and he said, "I love that river view out my window! Weight? Oh, yes, 199.0 Pounds!"
The solid squares on my Weight Commander Control Panel graph pretty much tell the story of where I am at on my journey. I was heading downward and then came to halt, and drifted right back up again. Fortunately, at least so far, the drifting has all taken place in my "NORMAL WEIGHT RANGE" and so no real harm has been done. As we go through our move, I am trying to keep a loose rein on my eating, while keeping my exercise up as much as possible.
I haven't eaten particularly well, but I have usually only had two meals on the days when I had meal that was outside of my normal bounds. It has kept me out of real trouble on the scale, but I don't know how long that will last.
My future graph shows a very bad trend, with my weight rising to 214 pounds by Valentine's Day. The cause of the grim view is the turn around in my average weight trend. If I keep going up like I just did, I will go up to 214, and maybe even sooner than Valentine's Day! On the other hand, it is a very small bit of data that the program is working with; my low point was 195, and my high is only 199. I can jump 4 pounds in a single day. So, it is not conclusive, not yet. But, it is a real trend that must be watched and if it doesn't stop, it will have to be dealt with.
It is interesting that I weighed the very same today as I did one year ago. I am not making any progress yet towards getting back down to 185, but I am not up over 210 and climbing, as I once was. I have it within my power to keep in the NORMAL WEIGHT RANGE if I choose to exercise it.
Why do I go through these stupid phases? Sometimes I am right on the money, and other times I am floating around like a loose helium filled balloon. Throw in a little chaos and I am off track. At this point, all I can do is to wait and see.
My week was pretty hectic. Moving our stuff down in a U-Haul truck, and then driving back up the Portland/Vancouver area again to get some dental work done, and a couple of shots, and back down to Mom's once more. There wasn't a lot of free time this week and I didn't spend any of what I had planning out my meals or my program.
Saturday started off with us going over to north Vancouver to rent a U-Haul truck, a towing trailer for our car, and a trailer for Jim, so he could take a couple of things back with him for our Jamie and Hunter.
Our intention was to tow the van behind the truck that I would be driving, and allow Dotti to drive the Honda, which is more cozy and a little more comfortable. The guy who rented us the truck said that the van wouldn't work on the tow trailer and we would have tow the Honda instead of the van. We weren't happy about that, but it wasn't too bad. The van is still fairly comfortable to drive.
Later on, when it came time to hook up the tow trailer, we checked the instructions on the trailer and measured all the important distances for the van, and it fit safely and comfortably. We had all the required clearances. We decided the van would work on that trailer and hooked up the van to be towed. It worked just fine. 
The truck was now in our possession and we pulled it up to the garage and got ready to start loading. Rip showed up just before we started and we were all set. The refridgerator and the bed were what I was most worried about, and they were a bit of a pain, but we got them into the truck and tied down. Then came bookcases and the couch, and other odds and ends. Finally the boxes were moving onto the truck. The truck turned out to be a bit too small, and so we didn't get to take everything that we wanted to take, and Dotti came out to help us decide what was most important and what wasn't.
Hunter had been really good during the loading of the truck. The ladies left for most of it and left the loading to us guys, but at the end, Dotti had to be called back to make few calls on which packed boxes had to go right now and which might wait a bit. During that final phase, Jamie, Tammy and Hunter kept us company, and provided some good ideas as to what object might be squeezed into a space that was still vacant.
The truck was finally filled, closed up and locked, and the van was mounted on the trailer, with the trailer attached to the truck, all with a lot of help from Jim, who does a lot more trailer work than I do, with his boat and his mug bogger. Jim got his trailer loaded up as well and things were about wrapped up.
Jim and Tammy, along with Jamie and Hunter, headed back home to Spokane. We hated to say goodbye to all of them.
Rip hung around and we ate the lunch that Dotti and Tammy had brought for us around noon, but which we never got to until the evening. We visited for a bit and Rip headed home. Dotti and are really lucky to have had this help from our family and friends. There is no way we could have managed this by ourselves.
Saturday night Dotti and I slept on an air mattress in our bedroom, and then Sunday morning we
got up early, before sunrise, and started loading up the van and the car with more things that we couldn't get into the truck. The van was being towed so it didn't really need to keep any of the seats clear, and could be filled to the top. The car was being driven so keeping the windows and a little space for Dotti have a few items available was important. It a little while to get everything into the vehicles, but before too long, Frostbyte was up in the truck cab with me and we were ready to roll. About 9:00 AM, we were on the road.
I wanted to keep tabs on the van and to make sure that the belts and chains were all snug and nothing was working loose. So, we stopped at every rest area on the way down and I checked things out. I was able to tighten the belts on the wheels a little bit at nearly every stop. As the trip went along, the amount I could tighten it was decreasing though, which was a good thing. The system was settling into a solid happy state.
As were driving down the highway, I couldn't see the van at all most of the time. I could see the edge of the trailer sticking out, but not the van itself. It gave me an eerie feeling not knowing if the van was still there or not. On the other hand, I could usually see Dotti right behind me, and I knew if she was happily riding along, the van had to be there still.
 We had a lot of fog on the front end of the trip but as we hit the halfway point, it started to break up. In this photo the clouds are moving up, and the sun is breaking through. Dotti did a great job on the trip and it was nice having that safety check behind me in case anything went wrong with the van.
When we pulled into Mom's place, I parked the truck out by our building site and started disconnecting the van, so we could get the trailer off the back of the truck for unloading it. As I was starting that, the one adult who had volunteered to help us and actually showed up, hopped in his car and said with a laugh that he had a previous appointment over at the school. And he drove away. I picked my chin up off my chest and continued with getting the van disconnected and the our contractor and two of his sons helped me roll the trailer over to a tree and we padlocked it there for safe keeping. You can see the van and the trailer in this photo. We also moved Mom's car and our Honda out of the way and I backed the truck up to the top of the driveway. (The driveway is so steep that it would have been dangerous to try and unload the truck with it sitting in the driveway itself.)
Fortunately, the contractor's sons were willing to help, and we hired them to lend a hand. The contractor came over and assisted with the bed and the refrigerator, or I don't know what we would have done. The refrigerator was such a problem that we left it for Monday morning and did it then.
On Monday, as soon as we got the truck unloaded, I pulled the truck over to the building site again, and set about trying to hook up the trailer. Unfortunately, the contractor and his sons took off for lunch about the time this happened. The trailer was too heavy to just grab and maneuver on the hill it was on. I was able to man handle it away from the tree, against the grade of the hill but I couldn't move it up the hill towards the truck, and in fact it started rolling down the hill towards the river a bit before one of its tires hit some rocks and stopped it. I had worried about it getting away from me, and I was counting on those rocks to save me in case it happened. Dotti came out to help about this time, but even the two us were not going to get that back up the hill by force. So, I got some rope and tied it to the truck trailer hitch and to the tongue of the trailer on the other end, and pulled the trailer up the hill enough to where I could back up to it and hook it up to the truck. Once the trailer was connected to the truck, the rest was cake.
Since I had to have the trailer there anyway, I decided that I could put the Honda on it and we could all ride in the cab together: Mom, Dotti, and I, as we drove in to return the truck to U-Haul. When we got to the U-Haul place, I took the car off the trailer and we all piled into it and were on our way.
Medford, Oregon is just over an hour away from Mom's house, and she needed a few things before the winter snows hit the road between here and there. So, on Tuesday we drove over there.
 On Wednesday, we were back on the road to Vancouver, because I had a dental appointment on Thursday, where I was supposed to finally get some permanent teeth installed on my dental implants. Yes! We stopped a rest area along the way and I took this picture of Mom and Dotti coming back to the car. They are so cute together!
We stopped at a convenience store at a Union 76 gas station and I saw this sign and had to take a picture of it! I love to see businesses that have the guts to stand up against the PC pressure to avoid using the word Christmas in their ads. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year was what was said everywhere you turned when I was young. It was on everyone's lips, and signs proclaimed the happy wish. Now you have to search long and hard to find someone brave enough to stand up and say that. While it is sad that this is something has to be noted today, I am glad that some people still have to courage to say, "Merry Christmas" in writing for all the world to see!
Thursday I went in to see my dentist and the teeth were not quite right. They were close, but needed a little adjustment by the lab that created them. However, he said that they would be ready on Friday, if I could delay the return to Mom's until after noon a bit. I said no problem, we'll do that.
On Friday I got my teeth installed finally. It was 9 crowns all told, and they filled up the right side and the front, but there is still a hole on the left, for the other 3 teeth, which are waiting for the implant to bake in—the implant that failed and had to be redone.
 In spite of the teeth that are still missing, I was very, very happy to have some real teeth that I could eat with, and not have to worry about them falling out, or breaking or anything. If I don't smile too big, you can hardly notice the missing teeth. Here I am smiling (not too big) with my excellent dentist (Dr. Gregg) and his exceptional assistant (Tina). These two have spent many, many hours hovering over my mouth, and taking very good care of me, while I went through all the stuff that was required. I can't say every hour was a happy one, in fact some of them were quite the opposite. But I can say that those hours were made better by the skill and concern these two showed me. I would recommend them to anyone!
On the way back home we stopped at McDonalds for an ice cream cone, and I took this picture of Dotti while we were there. She looks tired, from all that we have been through, but she is still absolutely beautiful!
 When we got back to Mom's, which we will be calling home from now on, we found that the the concrete slab had been poured for the foundation of the new building, and that was very good news for us.
What a busy crazy week! And now we have to unpack. Well, here we go...
7 years, 194 days on my journey; a lifetime to follow.
-Al-
6'3" 239.5/199.0/185.0±2.5/BMI:24.87/WK-393
Starting weight: 239.5
Target Weight Range: 185.0±2.5 pounds
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