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Happy Birthday, Willyne!!!

7:00  Walked 0.52 miles with my friend on a flat surface on Day 13! Series 2 total 5.56 miles in 2 hours 34 minutes. :)

8:30 Eat one black bean taco for breakfast.  Here's the ingredients.  Gently warm a small wheat tortilla with grated two cheese mixture, add a scoop of heated black beans, dice two avocado slices and a tomato slice, put on a generous amount of lettuce, roll up so the ingredients don't fall out ... and enjoy!

10:00 Start drinking a 16 oz cup of water and take vitamins while working.

12:00 Halfway through the water and vitamins.  Eat a second black bean taco.

12:30 Finished the water and vitamins.

14:00 Started a second 16 oz cup of water.  Ate a bowl of old fashioned oatmeal with a cup of Mountain High strawberry 1% milkfat yogurt.

16:55 Finished a client appointment.  Grabbed 1/2 ounce of Blue Diamond smokehouse almonds on my way to city meetings. Finished the second cup of water.  Hopefully dinner won't be too late, but probably will be.

18:30  We were provided a surprise bag of treats at city council tonight.  I had a half dozen peanuts and 3 white chocolate peppermint kisses

20:15  Got home, after taking the trash to the street and starting the dishwasher (first things first!) I had a bowl of homemade vegetable soup and a piece of cornbread.  No butter, no honey, no condiments period.  And I enjoyed the cornbread and the soup very much!

I think I'm doing reasonable, which is my goal.  Tortoise like progress on walking.  Tortoise like progress on eating.  It all adds up.  Even if I only lose 20 pounds in an entire year, picture what a 20 pound bag of potatoes looks like, and figure I won't have to carry it anymore.  And I hope to have better stamina and cardiovascular health too.  Nothing spectacular, just solid, sustainable improvement.  One day at a time!