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Over the holiday season, some of us who are still religious, refer to as Christmas, I ate your typical meals including sweets, always making sure that I ate no more than 2,000 calories, but tried to remain under 1,800 more like around 1,500 and did a pretty good job with with goal but never felt like I was actually starving myself or that I was walking away hungry.

I always get on the scales in the morning after I pee and before I get dressed and while our scales might be off a bit, they are at least consistent with that difference and my weight continues to drop about 1 pound each day although sometimes it will go up a pound or two but always drop back down to where it was before...   I am now at 221.6...   Christmas changed my eating habits a little but before I was averaging between 1,200 and 1,500 but hardly ever over although sometimes under was happening when I really did not feel hungry.

When one thinks about weight loss since March of 2020 until our current time, 9 months later, I have lost a little over 25 pounds, about 30 to be more exact since I started out with a weight of 252...  so, there has been a loss of 30 pound over 9 months or roughly 36 weeks which can be easily calculated to less than a pound a week which is an acceptable plan of action in anyone's book

However, about 10 of those pounds were lost in a period of a week +/- due to a staph infection that had me hospitalized for 6 days which undecidedly gave me the advantage when it came to losing weight even though the experience was one I would not want to repeat anytime soon.

While that seems like an interesting feat to accomplish, I had a little help from my own body because for some reason and without a good explanation (on my end) I have lost my sense of taste along with my appetite and along those two, I seem to be a lot more lethargic than normal which has nothing to do with feeling fatigued...  as instead of feeling tired, I feel like I don't want to do anything at all...  I find myself taking afternoon naps that sometimes last well into the evening when it is time to go to bed again...

My night sweats are back as well but with a very low intensity and there are aches and pains all along my lower back and across my stomach...  but, these do not ache like aches and pains from the flu and seem to be centralized to those two areas as if they are coming from sitting too much or lying too much...  but again, I am no doctor so I cannot say for sure.

I don't feel like I have a temperature although sometimes, I am cold to the point of shivering while at other times, I can lay on the bed without the benefit of sheet or comforter and feel neither heat nor cold as I maintain a comfortable body temperature...  all in the same room with the same temperatures...  seems kind of odd to me but I don't know what it means.

There are no muscle or joint pains in my shoulders, hips, and knees or up and down my backbone which according to all my scans are areas of extreme arthritis; however, sometimes when I reach around my right arm to the left side of my neck and try to wash my back as much as I can, there is discomfort from that joint but that is the only one and that is the only time it hurts.

I can also walk up and down the basement steps without having to breath heavily the second time which is what I just did this afternoon when we were putting up the inside Christmas decorations...  the front yard has yet to be cleared since there is still snow all around all the objects we have out there, even though all our roads except for isolated patches where the sun don't shine are completely clear.