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Thank you for teaching me to eat a soup and/or salad and / or fruit before each meal.

Vivian, you're heroic, doing your weight training as you recupe from this lung ailment! Well done! And yes, eat clean. Nothing better for a healthy, fighting, robust immune system.

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VivianS, I've been thinking of you and sending you prayers of a speedy recovery! I am so impressed you keep lifting weights, even from bed that's quite the determination and it really inspires me. I agree with Buns of Aluminum-- a clean diet really helps your body recover so much faster. I hope you get to feeling better soon!!!

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VivianS October 16, 2020 Friday
This is my morning routine for maximum weight loss compliance, compliance to doctor's orders and a nod to FLYLADY.NET (Marla Cilley) who helps me manage my own life and help control chaos in housekeeping for two little children and their family.
When I awaken to go to the bathroom, I read the sign posted in front of my toilet, "WEIGH BEFORE YOU DRESS." On my notebook I write the night before, "Weigh before Rx." These two notes help me weigh naked and empty ( before I eat or drink anything). I weigh at night before bed and in the morning. Both weights are recorded in my notebook daily page and on the chart for the weigh-in on Friday. Jeff Novick and Dr. Lyle suggest weighing once a week. My doctor who is also my husband's heart doctor wants us to weigh twice a day. If there is more than two pounds of difference, the doctor must be called. My husband must write weight and blood pressure on his calendar twice a day. Fluid collecting and therefore a two pound change can indicate heart failure. His daily attention to detail has helped him and me, too.

A day begins the night before when I write in my notebook the medications I must take, the notes for recurring activities that must happen (order medicines, doctor's appointments,
exercise, anything else I must do, prayers, etc. ) I pack my food sack, plan my trips, a write my other to do items.
posted my weight loss, my success with the 10 point MWL checklist and the 2 areas that needed attention.

VivianS October 16, 2020 Friday
This is my morning routine for maximum weight loss compliance, compliance to doctor's orders and a nod to FLYLADY.NET (Marla Cilley) who helps me manage my own life and help control chaos in housekeeping for two little children and their family.
When I awaken to go to the bathroom, I read the sign posted in front of me as I sit on my toilet, "WEIGH BEFORE YOU DRESS." On my notebook I write the night before, "Weigh before Rx." These two notes help me weigh naked and empty ( before I eat or drink anything). I weigh at night before bed and in the morning. Both weights are recorded in my notebook daily page and on the chart for the weigh-in on Friday. Jeff Novick and Dr. Lyle suggest weighing once a week. My doctor who is also my husband's heart doctor wants us to weigh twice a day. If there is more than two pounds of difference, the doctor must be called. My husband must write weight and blood pressure on his calendar twice a day. Fluid collecting and therefore a two pound change can indicate heart failure. His daily attention to detail has helped him and me, too.

A day begins the night before when I write in my notebook the medications I must take ( they vary from day to day), the notes for recurring activities that must happen (order medicines, doctor's appointments, exercise, anything else I must do, prayers, etc. ) I pack my food sack, plan my trips, and write my other to do items.
When I woke up this morning, I went to the restroom, weighed, wrote my weight and waist measurement, dressed, and posted those things in notebook, chart and Cronometer. Per my doctor's orders, I took my medicines with water and waited an hour until I can eat. During the hour, I posted on the Maximum Weight Loss forum: my weight loss, my success with the 10 point MWL checklist and the 2 areas that needed attention.
Now I am going to enjoy my breakfast. I hope your night time and morning routines are giving you success!
VivianS

VivianS October 16, 2020 Friday
This is my morning routine for maximum weight loss compliance, compliance to doctor's orders and a nod to FLYLADY.NET (Marla Cilley) who helps me manage my own life and help control chaos in housekeeping for two little children and their family.
When I awaken to go to the bathroom, I read the sign posted in front of me as I sit on my toilet, "WEIGH BEFORE YOU DRESS." On my notebook I write the night before, "Weigh before Rx." These two notes help me weigh naked and empty ( before I eat or drink anything). I weigh at night before bed and in the morning. Both weights are recorded in my notebook daily page and on the chart for the weigh-in on Friday. Jeff Novick and Dr. Lyle suggest weighing once a week. My doctor who is also my husband's heart doctor wants us to weigh twice a day. If there is more than two pounds of difference, the doctor must be called. My husband must write weight and blood pressure on his calendar twice a day. Fluid collecting and therefore a two pound change can indicate heart failure. His daily attention to detail has helped him and me, too.

A day begins the night before when I write in my notebook the medications I must take ( they vary from day to day), the notes for recurring activities that must happen (order medicines, doctor's appointments, exercise, anything else I must do, prayers, etc. ) I pack my food sack, plan my trips, and write my other to do items.
When I woke up this morning, I went to the restroom, weighed, wrote my weight and waist measurement, dressed, and posted those things in notebook, chart and Cronometer. Per my doctor's orders, I took my medicines with water and waited an hour until I can eat. During the hour, I posted on the Maximum Weight Loss forum: my weight loss, my success with the 10 point MWL checklist and the 2 areas that needed attention.
Now I am going to enjoy my breakfast. I hope your night time and morning routines are giving you success!
VivianS

VivianS October 16, 2020 Friday
Breakfast:
1/2 peach,, raw. My husband ate the other half during the night and saved this part for me.
Steel cut oats 1/3 cup dry
Oat bran 1/2 cup dry...not MWL compliant, but recommended by my gastroenterologist.
It may be that like my substitution of fresh plums for dried fruit (prunes), I may find a working substitute for the oat bran. I have given up ground flaxseed. I don't know if I can keep my guts happy without oat bran.
1 cup of blueberries.
1 teaspoon of vanilla.
I drank 20 ounces of heated pot liquor containing Miralax and more morning medicines including B12.
Lunch
Mix these two in a bowl and heat in microwave for 3 minutes:
6x4 soup
Green peas 1/2 cup
Main dish:
Mustard greens 1.25 cups
1 medium sweet potato with the skin on and chopped into bites ( precooked in microwave.: wrap with a wet towel , cook 6 minutes on high, turn over, cook 6 more minutes ).
1/2 can of pinto beans, drained and washed ( about 3/4 cup of beans
2 veggie soup
Mix together and heat for 6 minutes in microwave
Top with 2 cups of Romaine lettuce and 1 cup of diced tomato.

Dessert:
2 plums
Water 10 ounces heated in microwave for 2 minutes

I have had lots of fruit: 2.5 servings or 4.5 depending on how much you count as a serving. That may not be MWL compliant, but I am keeping my guts happy. The journal has done its job again. I have slowed down enough to think about these things. I know that I will require less food as I lose weight. Fruit is a good place to start. ONE PLUM tomorrow night.
I walked for 60 minutes and I swam for an hour. I will lift weights before I go to bed.
I think the MWL CHECKLIST is like sculpting. Trim away anything that doesn't look like a slim person.
Good night.

VivianS October 16, 2020 Friday
Breakfast:
1/2 peach,, raw. My husband ate the other half during the night and saved this part for me.
Steel cut oats 1/3 cup dry
Oat bran 1/2 cup dry...not MWL compliant, but recommended by my gastroenterologist.
It may be that like my substitution of fresh plums for dried fruit (prunes), I may find a working substitute for the oat bran. I have given up ground flaxseed. I don't know if I can keep my guts happy without oat bran.
1 cup of blueberries.
1 teaspoon of vanilla.
I drank 20 ounces of heated pot liquor containing Miralax and more morning medicines including B12.
Lunch
Mix these two in a bowl and heat in microwave for 3 minutes:
6x4 soup
Green peas 1/2 cup
Main dish:
Mustard greens 1.25 cups
1 medium sweet potato with the skin on and chopped into bites ( precooked in microwave.: wrap with a wet towel , cook 6 minutes on high, turn over, cook 6 more minutes ).
1/2 can of pinto beans, drained and washed ( about 3/4 cup of beans
2 veggie soup
Mix together and heat for 6 weeks in microwave
Top with 2 cups of Romaine lettuce and 1 cup of diced tomato.

Dessert:
2 plums
Water 10 ounces heated in microwave for 2 minutes

I have had lots of fruit: 2.5 servings or 4.5 depending on how much you count as a serving. That may not be MWL compliant, but I am keeping my guts happy. The journal has done its job again. I have slowed down enough to think about these things. I know that I will require less food as I lose weight. Fruit is a good place to start. ONE PLUM tomorrow night.
I walked for 60 minutes and I swam for an hour. I will lift weights before I go to bed.
I think the MWL CHECKLIST is like sculpting. Trim away anything that doesn't look like a slim person.
Good night.

VivianS October 16, 2020
Please tell me how to delete my posts and the entire journal and anything else on this forum I have written. Thank you for all you have done for me. I will continue with whole food plant based eating. I will let you devote your time to some new people.