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2017 OCT 24 -- Day 66

I am back on track. I'm pretty sure I am, anyhow. I really shouldn't count my chickens before they've hatched. Am I right? Yeah. That's never a good plan.

I'm at 378.2 lbs today. That's only a loss of .6 lbs from yesterday, but it's a loss and not a gain. This is still not the lowest number I've seen on the scale, but it's going down now, and I'm sure I'll revisit 377 lbs soon enough. I'm in the 370-lb range, and that's fantastic!

Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 378.2 lbs ⇩ 
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 359 lbs

Any down-blip is a good down-blip. I'll take it!

I think I'm back on track with the oil. Going forward, I will be sticking with the Bertoli brand. I don't like it as much as the HEB brand oil, but it's tolerable. Now that I don't have the fear of it being rancid, I'm finding the taste to be much more pleasant than when I first experienced it. It shows how perception can color things in unexpected ways.

I made some Japanese Ginger Salad Dressing last night. I had made it before using a different recipe, but I had to doctor it up a bit to make better suited to my husband's and my tastes. This one didn't turn out the same, and I didn't expect it would, but it's not terrible. The issue I have with all of the recipes I've found is that it's just to acidic. The brand I used to buy which is no longer available at the stores at which I shop is Terry Ho's Japanese Ginger Dressing. It's a milder, sweeter flavor, and it's not as acidic or spicy.

I may have to use more sugar and less lemon juice and vinegar when I make the next batch. I used it to make coleslaw with a mix of traditional cabbage slaw and some broccoli slaw. It was pretty tasty, I gotta say.

The hubs is at 234 lbs today. He's up a bit from yesterday's 233 lbs, but he'll probably drop again.

The graph has a peak, but I haven't peaked graph:


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