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2017 OCT 20 -- Day 62

I again find myself at 378 lbs today. I saw 377 lbs once. I know what's possible. My weekend was hectic, and my whole schedule has been thrown off. I don't expect to see good numbers today or tomorrow. I've also been a bit remiss in my daily blogging duties. I need to get back on track. I have decided to go back to the oil doses just before and just after work. I get really confused otherwise. My husband can do his when he wants, but he's just going to have to understand how I need to have my routine. I'm sure he'll be fine.

Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 378 lbs  
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 359 lbs

Thursday morning was a terrible morning for me, and I think it contributed to my wonky weekend. On Wednesday nights/Thursday mornings, I carpool with a co-worker. He picks me up in his truck. At the end of my shift on Thursday morning, I stayed about an hour past my shift wrapping up. This is a bit unusual, and my co-worker sat out in the parking lot listening to music while he waited for me to be done.

When I was finished, we got into the truck, and the engine wouldn't turn over. The truck battery was dead. We tried pushing it to get it going, and that did nothing. I had to call my husband to come rescue us with jumper cables. The truck-pushing certainly took its toll on me, but all that extra wrapping-up I had to do was a stressor, too. A situation that arises at work causing an extra hour of wrap-up time is very stressful by its very nature.

That fiasco ruined me for the rest of my weekend. Aside from feeling like I pushed a truck (which I did),  I never could feel quite caught-up with sleep all weekend long.  I had also made the decision to treat myself with the Domino's plain wings. As expected -- and as all Domino's food does -- it made me sick, and I spent a great deal of time meeting with the porcelain fairy to discuss the weather and other such mundanities of life.

As a result, my graph is very out-of-sorts.

Out-of-sorts graph:


And I haven't been keeping up with my husband's weight as well as I should. I will start that up again once I'm back on track and feeling better. I know that he's somewhere in the 234-lb range today.

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