I am checking in here..... been working my butt off -- literally-- in the garden. And the two days it rained --- almost our first this year, but a good one, got 2 1/2 inchs. And the average here for December is 1/10 inch. Anyway, I did some weights during that time and made a batch of naturally fermented saurkraut, which has been a great help in keeping calories down. And cooked a big pot of beans and another big pot of brown rice, placing that in the ref and freezer. Kept me busy.
And the other days I either worked up-town doing electrical jobs or in the garden preparing it.
Dug up/out one raised bed, 4 tons, dug it larger (doubled the size and 9 inches deeper, put in a new frame and lined it with poultry netting to keep out gophers and layered in layers of horse manure compost, clay dirt, sandy soil,more manure, some of the previous bed mix, layer of manure, layer of sandy soil, mixed it, more of the same, now have it almost full. Hauled in two tons more of sandy soil and mixed it in. Some 14 tons of soil plus half a ton of manure/compost mix. Should finish that tomorrow. Then start the next one.
Yesterday I calculated I worked off over 2500 calories an only ate 950. That added to my daily maintenance would have been 4700 calories - the 950 = 3650 deficit.. a one lb loss in a day. Not that the scales will give it up though
Today I did not do as good, I was too worn out to work much more than 1500 off and ate 945 for a deficit of 3359, a little less than a lb of fat.
Weird, I think it was because of working so much and not eating until way after working so the body would have to use the fat... I got weak from not eating but not hungry. Had to take it a lot easier today. Working uptown again tomorrow.
B F R
just kidding, but seriously dude, your description made me want to plant something 
take care of yourself.
