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Day 62

 I was much less emotional today.  It was just a day I dreaded somewhat, but as I expected, it was no big deal.

I had a salad with lettuce, grilled chicken, sour cream, guacamole, small amount of grated cheese, and salsa for lunch, with a small tortilla with honey for dessert.  During the late afternoon I had a peanut butter sandwich.  I had two scrambled eggs with a bit of grated cheese and two slices of wheat toast with Brummel & Brown for dinner.  I'll have some type of snack right before I climb in bed.

I only walked about 3900 steps; it was good I had 10,000 yesterday.  I did do a little bit of toning:  a spine exercise which is done by squeezing your shoulder blades as though you are trying to squeeze a ball between them.  I also did 20 leaning pushups.  The spine exercise was prescribed by my chiropractor to help strengthen the tiny muscles that support the spine as a preventative to back problems.  I've been better as doing those some as I am walking.

Weight Watchers (now WW) is tomorrow.  I am really, really hoping to get firmly back in the groove tomorrow with tracking and staying on plan (or at least in a good calorie range).  I suspect I will be up on the scales, but I am trying to get use to that and not let it freak me out and make me not want to go!  I did do that the last two weeks.  I've got to quit that!

I made a decision today to get off of Diet Cokes, artificial sweeteners, AND my Unisom.  I want to see how I sleep without it.  It's been many, many years since I haven't taken Unisom.  We'll see how it goes!

Hoping for a good day tomorrow!

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