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I've done pretty well eating this week. I've eaten pretty little and haven't had sweets since Sunday. I don't feel like I've lost any weight though.
Ali is coming in this weekend and I expect there will be EATING. So I am going to not sweat it too much, and get back on track next week.
I really really really do not want to keep gaining weight. I would like to get back down to 150. I figure it will take me the rest of the year, probably :(
Honestly I am craving a burger, maybe we will get burgers tomorrow. I would really like to go to an actual restaurant.
I had a kind of genius idea last night while I was lying in bed. I had been putting off watering the orchids, especially the phals, and they were suffering for it. I pinpointed that the number one reason I was putting it off is because I am exhausted and several of the phals are in cachepots with space under them, so to water them, I have to move them to the kitchen counter, into saucers, and put them back the next day. And I am tired. So tired.
It suddenly occurred to me that I can tuck a wick into the bottom of the inner pot; the wick can hang down to the bottom of the cachepot and soak up water sitting there. So I can water them without moving them, and without needing saucers. Eureka! The cachepot won't have a wet reservoir all the time like a self-watering pot, so the moss won't rot and this should work fine.
So tonight while B was in his meeting, I cut short pieces of wick and used tweezers to insert them into the bottom of the cachepots.It was pretty quick and easy, so hooray! The phals were super-dry so I gave them all plain RO water. What a relief! This should make me more likely to water them. That's a load off my mind.
Ali is coming in this weekend and I expect there will be EATING. So I am going to not sweat it too much, and get back on track next week.
I really really really do not want to keep gaining weight. I would like to get back down to 150. I figure it will take me the rest of the year, probably :(
Honestly I am craving a burger, maybe we will get burgers tomorrow. I would really like to go to an actual restaurant.
I had a kind of genius idea last night while I was lying in bed. I had been putting off watering the orchids, especially the phals, and they were suffering for it. I pinpointed that the number one reason I was putting it off is because I am exhausted and several of the phals are in cachepots with space under them, so to water them, I have to move them to the kitchen counter, into saucers, and put them back the next day. And I am tired. So tired.
It suddenly occurred to me that I can tuck a wick into the bottom of the inner pot; the wick can hang down to the bottom of the cachepot and soak up water sitting there. So I can water them without moving them, and without needing saucers. Eureka! The cachepot won't have a wet reservoir all the time like a self-watering pot, so the moss won't rot and this should work fine.
So tonight while B was in his meeting, I cut short pieces of wick and used tweezers to insert them into the bottom of the cachepots.It was pretty quick and easy, so hooray! The phals were super-dry so I gave them all plain RO water. What a relief! This should make me more likely to water them. That's a load off my mind.