No, of course my mind was not on you know whats as I walked right on by the bakery. But just in case my brain does activity on some other levels that are not available to my consciousness, I fully occupied myself taking photos of local street art instead. I have posted some of them in the archives section.
Now for the weight report. Yesterday, dressed in similar clothes to last month and at roughly the same time of day, (before the evening meal) the scales read 73.5 kg. That was a loss of 1.5 kg which was acceptable.
I am not jumping for joy because the goal was to maintain my weight, not to lose it. I misjudged the amount of calories for the month, and that is despite eating all those pies. Perhaps the meat portion of the evening meal could have been a bit more generous? Perhaps I needed to walk only each second day, not every day? You can see what guess work is needed to learn how to stabilise weight after you lose some.
Never mind. Onwards, into Augrapes. Perhaps we could schedule one more ham and pineapple pizza meal…
After the towel task of last month which was very demanding, this Augrapes task is almost trivial. It is easy and enjoyable. The task is to visit a florist shop once each week and to buy some appealing flowers to colour up the last month of the winter.
Firstly, I dump all the catalogues that have cluttered up the table for ages into a box and hide it somewhere, in another room. I still need the catalogues but can get them out and put them away again as required.
Next I place a blue tablecloth on the table and a mat which could potentially soak up any stray water from a vase. After that I choose a vase. There is no need to buy expensive table cloths or vases if I am on a budget. I have used some of the sheets of the paper I use for collendar pages to cover a tall bottle that originally held dried pasta. A blue sheet is able to function perfectly well as a table cloth. Over time I have found some nice vases at opportunity shops and I like to get them out and display them this month.
Then follows the arranging of the flowers. I do it patiently, trying out various ways of placing one sort of flower next to another sort and eventually I get them all standing up, tall. I do it as well as I am able to. After that comes the admiring of them.
Augrapes soldiers : Wattle’s Weight Warriors. Now on duty!