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weigh-in after visiting Terreeeblay: 265.3,down 0.5 week&5.0 tot.Day 35 walk-1.02 miles in 23 minutes;Series2 tot 21.35miles in 9hr 4min.

breakfast - large bowl of oatmeal with yogurt, banana, vitamins, and water

lunch - scoop of mashed potatoes and a scoop of turkey with a homemade dinner roll and butter, water

snack - peanut butter and jelly sandwich and water

dinner - a can of low fat Progresso Italian meatball and vegetable soup with small serving of fritos and another roll and butter and water

snack - one fun size almond joy

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Day 34 walked 0.92 miles with my friend Terreeeblay the treadmill in 21 minutes; Series 2 total 20.33 miles in 8 hours 41 minutes.

No breakfast today just water when I finished hangin with Terreeeblay

Lunch Garden tuna pasta salad and water.

Snack one oatmeal raisin cookie with a 15 ounce Odwalla chocolate protein monster drink. I liked it.

Dinner A grilled chicken breast and wing with a half scoop of mac and cheese

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Day 33 walked 0.87 miles with my friend Terreeeblay the treadmill in 20 minutes; Series 2 total 19.41 miles in 8 hours 20 minutes.

Breakfast:  Black bean wrap and water
Snack:  Ciabotta club breakfast sandwich and water
Lunch:  Jr double cheeseburger, small chili, small frosty and water
Snack:  Jr crispy chicken sandwich and water
Dinner:  One medium plate with 2 oz beef, chicken leg and thigh, one scoop each brocolli and brussels sprouts, also one scoop mashed potato and gravy.  Small dessert plate, with a few bites each of carrot cake and peach cobbler with a half scoop of soft serve

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12:10 (No, I haven't eaten up until now today ...)  Drema surprised us and brought pizza in.  I had one piece each of the Greek and the barbeque pizzas.  Very good.  Kept drinking my water.

16:30 Finished the last of the pot roast, probably 3 or 4 ounces with a medium baked potato and a little of the gravy.  Water.

25:40 Day 32 walked 0.86 miles with my friend Terreeeblay the treadmill in 20 minutes; Series 2 total 18.54 miles in 8 hours 0 minutes.

26:10 Black bean wrap on a medium mixed grain tortilla with cheese, half a tomato slice, a few leaves of spinach, and some Pace picante sauce.  Water.  This one always hits the spot!

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9:00 Snack remaining 1/4 of a kefir shake, water, and vitamins

12:30 Medium bowl of oatmeal with yogurt and a banana and water

16:30 1 ounce of Blue Diamond smokehouse almonds and water

18:20 Day 31 walked 0.85 miles with my friend Terreeeblay the treadmill in 20 minutes; Series 2 total 17.68 miles in 7 hours 40 minutes.  Changed into my BYU shirt (thanks girls) and levis for the big game at 20:00.

19:30 Met Doug, he wanted to show me an awes new sandwich shop.  It's inside Fabulous Freddy's on Bluff.  It closed at 19:00.  Sadness befalls us.  We miss out on the latest, greatest place to get a pastrami sandwich in St. George.  (Something tells me the Hat and Jerry's (formerly Famous) Deli have still got these guys beat by a country mile, but we will see at a future time ...)  So we head to Tom's Deli ... also closed.  It's only 19:40 people, come on!

19:50 Can't read the drive through menu board at Jimmy John's so we go inside.  Doug points out that number 13 looks a lot like the sandwich I used to love to get at Togo's -- turkey and swiss with fresh avocado and all the veggies with mustard, hold the mayo, on whole wheat.  Only one difference, this one didn't have the turkey, it's their vegetarian special.  I love my scrubbers, but I do like a little lean meat to go along with it, especially when it's cold and I'm hungry.  (I was going to eat a black bean taco after terreeeblay, but Doug was persuasive :) and now I'm really hungry.  So ... I look up and down the board, can't find what I'm looking for and finally just ask if they will add turkey to the number 13 for me.  The girl at the counter doesn't miss a beat, just asks if that means I'd like the number 12.  I look again, sure enough, it's the identical sandwich with turkey.  I'm feeling like a real genius at this point, what can I say.  Got it on 7 grain bread, overall I'd give the sandwich an 8 on a scale of 10.  I'd rather have my thick, fresh, whole wheat demi-bun -- this bread was good but was a little dry and they emphasized the alfalfa sprouts a bit much, otherwise you're looking at a 9.5, and that only because I don't believe in giving 10s unless you've just done the five dollar lawn.  (you've probably heard me quote the five dollar lawn story a zillion times already, I like it so much, but just in case, here's one of several places you can find it now (it was originally published in Reader's Digest in 1958) http://emp.byui.edu/SmithS/GradingTheCountessandtheImpossible.htm)

20:00 Actually I was getting ahead of myself.  We bought the sandwiches and went back to Doug's house to eat them with a few baked potato chips and water while watching BYU play San Diego State in basketball.  The game totally lived up to its hype.  I loved everything about it.  OK, I didn't know who Jimmer was until a few hours before game time, but he's the real deal.  Both teams played great.  They play each other again in 4 weeks in San Diego, and even though BYU looked good tonight, they are going to have to play the best game they have to beat San Diego a second time on their home court.  And they just might, so that will be a great one to look forward to ... although it's tax season and I've told Doug one game for the month of February, so we'll see which one he'll choose ... :)  It was also exciting  ...

• watching it with Doug
• feeling the excitement of the full house in the Marriott Center (reminded me of a game I went to with Sarah and Rachel when they were students there, there is just an amazing energy level there)
• seeing BYU actually playing good D (you know what I say about how important that is, and how often I get disappointed)
• watching the team work for Jimmer and be excited when he made all those amazing shots (he scored 43 of BYU's 71 points in the 71-58 win)
• watching Jimmer be humble in the interviews afterwards and give credit to the team for their hard work and good screens

Thanks, Doug for a fun evening together!

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Day 30 walked 0.83 miles with my friend Terreeeblay the treadmill in 20 minutes; Series 2 total 16.83 miles in 7 hours 20 minutes.

10:00:  Kefir shake and vitamins

12:30:  Small bowl of lentils

14:30: Medium bowl of oatmeal and yogurt

19:30:  Dinner with the bishopric and Sherm Howard's:  Small pieces of elk and venison steak cooked two ways.  He watches Outdoor Life cooking shows and has it down - you couldn't tell it from beef, great!  Had one scoop of scalloped potatoes, two scoops of salad, and a half scoop of dessert.

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7:30 The weigh-in after visiting Terreeeblay:  265.8, down 1.0 for the week and 4.5 total since beginning this blog 3 weeks ago.  My day 29 walk today was 0.81 miles in 20 minutes, making the Series 2 total 16.00 miles in 7 hours and 0 minutes.

8:30 Start on breakfast of a kefir shake and vitamins.

11:30 Finish breakfast.  That gives you an indicator of the kind of morning it was -- since it took three hours to drink a 14 ounce glass of liquid yogurt blended with fruit and other wonderful ingredients!

12:15  Visit Jacob, Hilary, and Maude.  Got to hold and love on Maude for a half hour.  She is terrific!  Extremely small, but her eyes, smile, and warmth definitely pull on your heart strings.

14:30 Eat lunch.  A large bowl of Willyne's special mixture of lentils, barley, polish sausage, and tomato sauce.  Definitely high quality!

18:00 Dinner.  Had a medium glass plate of three small pieces of pot roast, one scoop of potatoes, some gravy, and a scoop of peas with a large glass of 1% milk.  Had three Biscoff biscuits (cookies) for dessert.  That will be it for the day with one exception.  I'm planning on a "Castle" party for an hour with Willyne and Danielle at 21:00.  Danielle has offered to make me some of her popcorn the old fashioned way cooked in a pan on the stove, which I plan to really enjoy!