I'm going to stop eating junk food and drinking diet pop as of today. Gave myself 2 weeks indulging in mostly chips and diet cola and I'm really feeling the results. They are not good.

I'm far enough along in the moving stuff that I'm no longer totally stressed by it. Time to get my body back into a healthier state.

Dagmar

Wishful thinking, though I have given up the big daily bottle of diet cola for a small bottle of cola made in Mexico. It has calories - 140 per bottle - and some sugar but is not nearly as lethal as the aspartame-laced diet stuff. I don't constantly crave sugar after drinking the Mexican stuff. I am eating cheese and crackers with the cola - better than the chips I keep telling myself.

Much healthier foods will come after the move and when I have a proper kitchen set up again. Aiming for mid-June as our stuff moves to North Bay on June 10.

Dagmar

Neat that you have a firm date for your stuff moving, Dagmar.

I'm aware that the Mexican bottled Coke contains sugar instead of aspartame and whatever. Seems odd that for the whole continent of North America we have to depend on Mexico to act sanely.

Last week as a Torontonian. I haven't even begun to come to grips with my life here ending - been too busy with the moving mechanics - but I find I don't automatically default to the binge eating any more. Also had my first meal since last Monday not from a restaurant, I will eat cleanly for this week and then am back to mostly convenience foods until I get my kitchen stuff and get the kitchen sorted out. Probably about 2 weeks of that.

The rest of the summer will be spent eating mostly proteins and salads, with fruit and yogurt as dessert.

Dagmar

Sympathy for your loss of a city you've lived in for so long, Dagmar.

I do admire that your focus is so clearly on your your next journey.

Dagmar, Glad to hear your move is organized and happening soon. Is Holly the only animal you are moving, or do you have cats also?

My weight has been stable at 5 pounds over where I'd like it. I'm not sure what I want to change. I know I eat too many chocolate covered almonds, but mainly I need to revisit my plan to eat later in the day but not too late. And maybe increase my resistance training, which has declined since my online trainer retired. Otherwise my year is going pretty well.

Glad your year is going well overall Alice. Holly will be accompanied on the move by our cat Natalie.

Dagmar

Starting to get a bit of a kitchen happening. I am buying fresh salads,whole wheat rolls, fruit, and BBQ chickens for us to eat. Monotonous but fairly healthy.

Dagmar

Happy new home, Dagmar - presuming that you're posting from your new place. Apparently with Internet all connected as well as a working kitchen.

A little monotony with foods is OK for a spell. At least it's better than the folks in camps waiting for wars to end.

The internet was the first thing DH had to get up and running since he is working remotely from North Bay. He also went to Walmart and bought some cheap very basic kitchen items. Good man!

Dagmar

Hello, all!
Dagmar, So glad to see you have accomplished so much! Give yourself plenty of recovery time--I was where you are now last year, and it took a long time to feel "normal." Recovery for us meant in part eating nutritious food (no junk), but we do have a dessert every day. It's optional, and sometimes I skip it.
Alice, I have found that I'm not hungry in the evening if I eat a good-sized meal at dinnertime. I think many people unconsciously get used to undereating, and that's not always the best idea. The food here where we live now is plentiful and they offer lots of vegetables.
Bill, is it already hot in Boston? I hope you're doing well.

Nice to hear from you Jayell.

Dagmar

I am assembling my desk today. I think I will be through most of the unpacking by the end of the week. Took me 4 months to pack stuff up and it will be 4 weeks to unpack. Hoping our couches will be delivered within the next 4 weeks.

I have developed quite the diet pop habit again. That's going to have to go soon. I also plan to start offering toast and jam for our afternoon tea, rather than store bought pastries. I will get "good" bread and I have some nice jam.

I attended my first public event yesterday. It was a lecture by an indigenous artist. He was a very straight-forward and humorous speaker. I quite liked some of his earlier stuff - pencil drawings that looked almost like water colours - and his collage work was interesting. I didn't like what he's doing now - huge aluminum abstracts that to me look like circuit boards gone crazy - but apparently they are popular. Different things for different people.

Dagmar

Congrats for moving in so quickly, Dagmar. Am duly impressed that, despite the unpacking before you, you took the time for an art exhibit. There are priorities in life. It does seem that all current art is HUGE. The current folks spending money don't have any discrete wall spaces for the addition of a work - only entire walls in need of a single 'statement.'

Yes, JayEll, it got high-90's degree F hot here in Boston. I was shedding any clothing that held any warmth. Then it turned, as it always does. I grabbed the quilt to put back on the bed. You'd think that I'd have previously observed how fickle the temperature can be before we lock into solid July, LOL.

I've got about another 3 days of unpacking to do and we're done! Have also hung about 2/3 of the art. Waiting for our couches to be delivered - next week hopefully - and then we can place all the furniture. Woohoo!

I am determined to cook at least 2 of the 3 dinners this long weekend. They will be simple but they will be tasty and feature fresh seasonal food. There will be a cake - it's our version of the Fourth of July after all - and probably ice cream too. But the rest of the fare will be healthy food.

Dagmar