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Day 24: Walked 0.72 miles with my friend on a flat surface in 18 minutes. Series 2 total 12.28 miles in 5 hours 28 minutes.

No breakfast, didn't get around to it.  Not a good idea, I know.  Drank two large glasses of water.

Lunch:  A turkey, avocado, cheese deli sandwich, 1/2 ounce of potato chips, and water.

Snack:  A handful of red grapes and a handful of peanuts (before I shelled them) and water

Dinner:  One scoop of lasagna, half a scoop of shrimp pasta, two bites of lemon cake, half a piece of garlic bread, and water.

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Day 23: Walked 0.72 miles with my friend on a flat surface in 18 minutes. Series 2 total 11.56 miles in 5 hours 10 minutes.  Weigh-in:  266.8 pounds, down 1.2 pounds this week and 3.5 total so far in 2011.  My goal for the year is 20 pounds.  I am pleased to be the passionately smiling tortoise!

Breakfast:  Kefir shake and vitamins
Lunch:  Small portion of chicken and vegetables with water.
Snack:  Couple handfuls of peanuts (before taking the shells off), a small twix bar, and more water.
Dinner:  Chinese buffet, my date for the week with Willyne.  Green beans, broccoli, a half dozen coconut shrimp (in a sauce, not fried), a couple pot stickers, a small scoop of fried rice, a small scoop of honey chicken, a couple ounces of vanilla soft serve, and two almond cookies with water. 
Done eating for the day at 5:30 pm.

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10:00 Breakfast with Willyne at Cracker Barrel.  Conversation was great.  Breakfast disappointing, highly unusual for them.  Had to wait a looooooong time for service, then it wasn't cooked well.  Two eggs, over easy, cheese potatoes, grits, no butter, ate with the meat they brought, a sausage patty, slice of bacon, and a couple ounces of ham. Didn't eat the biscuits or the gravy.  Had water to drink.  Had a couple bites of Willyne's pecan pancake and a bite of the fried apples. 

13:30  Lunch at the office:  2 chicken legs and a sandwich of two thin slices of smoked ham and two thin slices of cheese with lettuce, with water.

16:30 Snack:  One small Twix bar from my Christmas stash.

18:00 Dinner at the office:  A slice of lasagna and 1 1/2 hot dog buns prepared as cheese bread with water.

21:30  Day 22: Walked 0.64 miles with my friend on a flat surface in 16 minutes. Series 2 total 10.84 miles in 4 hours 52 minutes.  Now very thirsty.  Drank 20 ounces water.

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6:45   I passed a milestone today:  Terreeeblay & I have walked over 10 (10.20) miles together in 4 hours 36 minutes spread over 21 days - today: 0.62 miles on a flat surface in 16 minutes.

10:00 Breakfast was a large bowl of oatmeal with a cup of yogurt and a banana.

13:00 Lunch was a single scoop of lasagna featuring Willyne's homemade sauce, sooooooooo good!  Had one piece of cheese bread and 4 bites of divine Italian lemon cake (again homemade).  I am so spoiled.

18:00 Dinner was three reheated fried chicken legs and my second large cup of water of the day.

And that's a wrap.  Though I do have a confession to make.  I really wanted some vanilla ice cream for about four hours of the late afternoon and early evening.  Somehow I got past the craving without giving in.  Can't promise I always will, this is a day by day tortoise putting one foot in front of the other journey.

If you fine readers have any tips on how you have successfully passed those tempting moments, please comment on them here!

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4:30 Made it to bed after finishing last night's work
9:00 Get up.  Terreeeblay will wait for this evening.
9:15 Drink kefir shake, take vitamins
13:00 Eat remaining apple grape chicken salad (a scoop) with some lettuce.
17:30 Eat a large bowl of tomato barley sausage soup.  Soooooooooooo good!
19:00 Drink water
22:20 Completed Day 20 walkin' with Terreeeblay 0.61 miles on a flat surface in 16 minutes. Series 2 total: 9.58 miles in 4 hours 20 minutes.

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6:54  And on the19th day the tortoise walked with Terreeeblay 0.62miles on a flat surface in 16minutes.Series2 total:8.97miles in 4hours4minutes.

8:00 Drink Equate ultra weigh loss shake with vitamins and large glass of water

8:45 Ate 3 pancakes with 2 sausage patties and syrup. 

9:45 Drink second large glass of water.

11:22 Start third large glass of water.

13:00 Lunch - a scoop of the chicken, apple, red grape salad with the remaining half croissant from yesterday with water

15:00 Snack - a single Reese's peanut butter cup and a half ounce of almonds with water.  I am up to 48 ounces of water for the day.

17:00 Dinner - plate of vegetables and chicken.  one scoop vanilla ice cream, no toppings.  water.

18:00 Went to the temple with the bishopric.

21:00 Watch second half of Jazz game with Doug and Coolio (Shaun Del Toro).  Shaun made a fantastic guacamole that included diced fresh tomatoes.  I had two servings.  It was a great hour together, thanks Doug and Shaun!

22:00 Head back to office from Doug's.

27:30 Finished work.  Didn't eat anything more.  Headed home.

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Breakfast, oatmeal with yogurt, water, and vitamins

Lunch, chicken, red grape, apple salad with lettuce and 1/2 croissant and water

Snack, cup of italian tomato and barley soup with a wheat roll and butter

Dinner, one medium whole wheat tortilla with lightly melted cheese

21:55 Day18 - walked 0.61 miles on a flat surface with Terreeeblay in 16 minutes. Series 2 total: 8.35 miles in 3 hours 48 minutes.