Day 21 of 100 Days to Thanksgiving

Day 21 of 100 Days to Thanksgiving
253/240/195
September 4, 2005

Got on my scales just now and the indicator said that I still weighed
240. Oh, well. If I'm not below 240 today, I will be soon.

Struck me about 10 minutes ago (before I started in on my cup of
antioxidants - oh, I mean coffee) that I'd like a scale that would
measure regularly in finer units, perhaps ounces, to make more clear
the changes that are occurring on the cellular level, because there are
changes that are occurring at levels I cannot see. (At the same time I
would not want to change my way of measuring morning weight - that
is, not having to see my weight numbers if they are higher than the day
before. For me getting on the scale is much more of a win-tie situation
than a win-lose.)

Went up my little hill yesterday with a 25 pound weight in my backpack.
No problems and finished the walk up (from a stop sign at the bottom to
a gate at the top) just shy of 32 minutes. Along the way I had a
conversation with someone. Nose breathing all the way - except for
the conversation. No problems with the walk at all and maybe I'm
ready for this coming weekend to Middle Sister. (I have an image of the
three mountains on my desktop and look at the middle mountain from time
to time.) In thinking about my walk up the hill and my acclimation to
nose breathing, I came to the conclusion that it's not that my body
acclimated to the walk up the hill as much as I probably started
breathing more deeply and continuously than before. That's good
though, because at George Lake a month ago, walking uphill even a few
steps from a dead stop would make me breathe heavily, and that's
because at altitude (George Lake is about 7000 feet), I simply was not
in the habit of breathing heavily before I started moving uphill. In
the middle of a walk it's not bad, because one is already breathing
heavily. And next week at the 10,000 foot level of Middle Sister...

Had about a 1000 calories yesterday and I'm happy with that, even
though 220 of them were at lunch. I'm trying to eat all my calories
at dinner.

It's a beautiful day here in Oregon - too nice to stay inside all
day. Our daughter is coming over later as well as my wife's mother so
we'll have a pleasant dinner here. (I keep encouraging them to laugh
at my jokes.)

I hope everyone has a great Sunday and a great rest of the month!

Yours,

Caleb