Keto's Working.....

     ​I'm doing very well this week. I don't know if it's because I've started focusing on calories and religiously counting them or simply because I've broken through a plateau. However, I'm not going to question it. I'm delighted that I've dropped several pounds and hope to drop more. I explained last time that I need to drop about five pounds each week to get to my ideal goal weight, so I will keep working at that and hope to meet my end-of-September goal. In the meantime, Steve and I are having great days. We went and played golf on Thursday and had a great time doing so. I've gotten much better. Even though I can't hit the ball as far down the fairway as Steve can, I have an easier time keeping up with him so that he doesn't have to languish while he waits for me to get down the fairway. We're also really enjoying our days in Birch Bay. We're both continuing to write and having some success. I've been contemplating writing about several things, but I'm currently working on books for middle schoolers or anyone who might enjoy working on kindness. I've been thinking a lot about kindness now that I'm aging, and I wish I had paid greater attention to it earlier in life. Also, Steve and I continue to have our statin smoothie every day, and I'm hoping it's helping with our cholesterol levels so that when we go back for blood tests, we show a significant improvement. Steve went fishing for sockeye on Friday at the Skagit River but didn't catch anything.  He still has hope, seeing a young man with a 30-inch fish that morning.  The season will be open for a while, and he has a lot of fun even when he catches nothing.  Being out and engaged in fishing is most of the fun for him.  It's the same in Hawaii.  He gives it to his fishing friends at the marina if he catches anything.  For Father's Day, I got him some rain gear so that when he's on his boat, he's protected and doesn't get so cold.  He liked everything I bought.  I also treated him to a slice of his favorite cake, which is German chocolate.  He really enjoyed that!  On Sunday, we went to have dim sum, which he always loves.  In the meantime, I'm pressing ahead, doing what seems to be working. By the time I'm through, I will hopefully have a comprehensive overview of everything that worked and didn't work and what to do and what not to do in the future.  My next phase is researching what might help me look less witchlike. I don't know if anything will help at this point, but I will do some exploring anyway and report back next week.