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Eileen - Day #302 - Sunday
 Daily intake goals::  < 35g carbs / < 1700 calories / > 64+ oz. water
Exercise yesterday::  none!
Net carb grams yesterday:  29.4      Calories:  1380
Weight today:  234.8     Change:  +1.0    Total weight loss:  -50.4
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Yes *sigh* my weight is up again instead of down BUT I’m still beyond that 50-lb mark and plan to be there forever!  Thing is I can feel the swelling in my knees, not sure why it’s there.  They were swollen last week after I played tennis with Kevin and then on Friday morning I played again but yesterday I didn’t do any exercise at all and yet the knees are still swollen today.  I guess it’s all that running back and forth but they don’t hurt (TG!), they’re just retaining a bunch-a water.  Weird.

Okay, yeah I played tennis Friday morning!  I had told my co-workers about playing with Kevin and showed them the new rackets and balls and two of them wanted to play.  “Can we go on Friday? Can I borrow a racket?” one asked.  ”Yeah I have a racket of my own, I’ll bring it on Friday!” the other one said.  As the boss, I’m all about finding ways to keep the staff connected (and healthy) so of course I said yes!  We’ll go play tennis on Friday morning.

At 11:00 am I declared the office officially closed for the next hour - and we all (four of us) piled into my convertible and drove to the park where the tennis courts are.  Three of us were dressed ready to play - the other one, who wore sandals and a skirt that day, she fetched balls for us which was awesome!

Two on one side of the court and one on the other, the three of us hit balls across the net for exactly 60 minutes, breaking only to gulp water (at 11am to 12pm the sun here is brutal even in May!) and comment about what a great workout we were getting.  By the end of 60 minutes, my two tennis-playing co-workers were sweating and limp from the exertion.  As the heaviest person there, I was proud that I definitely was able to keep up with my skinnier friends.

On the way back to the office, they all said they wanted to do this three times a week.  “Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!” they said.  I just smiled.  I’d be fine with that, better than okay with that - but I know how it goes.  We’ll get busy or they’ll get distracted and we won’t be able to keep up that kind of commitment.  But it’s nice that they want to!

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The May challenge is well under way!  If there’s anyone else from earlier challenges who would like to join us for May and want me to transfer their login and password, please let me know!  We’d love to have you!

Congratulations to Delita (gold!), Brseay (silver!), and Kevic (bronze!) for winning the April challenge!!  Here are the final standings for April (the top 15 anyway):

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