Camy's diary

I love avocado. When I was smaller I used to eat it mushed up and then when bigger as a spread on bread, in salads, or just cut it open and spoon half of it out, with some lemon and salt, yummy!
I also give it to my little one, I started when she was 5 months old, I would mush up some steamed apple with avocado (yummy!), then now I make her mush of chicken, rice and avocado. It is the best! Although of course pretty full of fat, but a bit here and there is fine!

I think I may just have brunch instead of breakfast and lunch, it is late (11:30) and I haven't started eating yet and I will have to have early lunch because we have a meeting at 2. I need to shower and de-hair my whole body before the meeting, since I am wearing a dress without tights!
I really wanted a new dress, but in over 3 hours shopping I could not fine a single dress that I liked! How bizzarre is that? It wasn't even the expense of it, because it is sale-week, so everything is cheap, just everything is ugly! Then I changed my mind and decided to get an elegant top and a new pair of jeans... not possible either! again not a single top that looked right, and the kind of jeans I want seems to be unavailable at the moment. I just want it to be normal blue jean coloured, but they are all either really dark blue, or really washed out whitish blue, or white, or black, no proper normal blue.
The one pair I found that looked great but they were expensive, so I decided against them. So I bought nothing! 3 hours of my life lost trying to find anything that looked decent.
And this time it is not my body that is the problem, it is the fashion industry! I fit into everything I wanted to fit into, it just were ugly clothes!

So I am using my old black dress, it is nice and elegant, and kind of normal nothing amazing, very kosher... you can't go wrong with that, still! I really would have liked some new clothes.
the good thing is I spent no money, because I am completely broke anyhow, so I wouldn't want to have spent money.

However the long shopping trip didn't allow for me to go swimming because I missed the time frame I had planned for swimming. I will go tomorrow!

Food of the day:
Brunch: half a cup of ghanaian spicy rice
Dinner: some sushi and a bowl of potato wedges

No exercise

Camy
 
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Grrr, I hate that shopping frustration. I think the trick is just never to buy anything if you're not sure... so pat yourself on the back for saving some cash :)
 
Yesterday was a great day, I went to the man's conference and I found out a ton of things about Ghana, I feel more prepared and more excited, but also have lower expectations, so they are not crushed. The woman I spoke to said it would not be a problem to do my dancing project, that orphanages would be happy for me to do this, probably. So yey!
The only thing is we found out that normal local salaries are extremely low (I didn't expect them to be very high, but they are ridiculous!), so I can either work in an international thing, like an NGO, and make some money, or work in what I want (hospital) but do it for free. The man would obviously like me to bring some money home, although his salary is enough for the both of us, I think that if we can live comfortably from his salary, then why should I not do what I love... but I will check it out! See what kind of jobs are out there.

We also met really nice and really interesting people, which was great, we came home at 4 in the morning, because we had so much fun that we never went home. I ate very little all day because I didn't get around doing so, but made up with eating very greasy stuff, like potato wedges with some ali-oli mayo!

Today I am going to (finally) do stats, then swim and in the evening I will babysit.

Food of the day:
Breakfast: 1 small cheese (70 cals), melon and grapes
Lunch: cucumber slices with salmon (total 200 cals), small cucumber salad on the side (guess what veggie I had at home!)
Snack: juice drink (250 cals), sesame snaps (150 cals)
Dinner: beetroot and bean medley, with sea bass (350 cals), 200 cals of teddybears, some choc
Late night snack (bad bad bad me): crisps (200 cals), some cheese (100 cals)

Exercise:
30 lanes swimming
Camy
 
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I may have to hit you up and borrow that black dress for a wedding I am to sing at in two weeks. Just kidding! I need to do some shopping myself, I do not own a dress. I purchased one last year for a wedding in size small that now is a tent on me, so I gave it away. I'm not much of a dress person, anyway.

Isn't it such a shame when you have to decide between endeavors that are monetarily fruitful versus self-fulfilling? Oh well, perhaps you can work for the NGO and volunteer at the hospital a few set hours?
 
The more I hear about this Ghana adventure the more I want to do it! After I graduate medical school I want to do a tenure with doctor's without borders or a similar agency. Any choice that you make is an amazing decision and applauds for you! Is there any way you could have a grant or a corporate sponsor to work in a hospital?

Good luck!! Your life sounds amazing and you are exactly where I want to be in 6-8 years!! JEALOUS!!!!!!!!!
 
Not a duplicate

I took a pic of me and "my" baby girl today, and I had the exact same one today a year ago, I put them next to each other and man, she has grown a ton and I have shrunk! Wonderful! And I didn't even look too fat on the initial pic! Oh yeah we are sleeping in it because we are sooo tired!
Here it is for everyone to admire!

On saturday finally we are going to go play family. We are going to take little Ella to Cambridge I think for a day trip, just the 3 of us. I am so much looking forward to this... I know it is just pretend, but it gives me a glimpse of the future.

Ok, it is 3:30 so I think it should be bedtime! Camy
 
Anke: the baby is the little girl I nanny for. The first time I saw her she was 12 hours old and I fell in love with her. Honestly she is my second favourite person in the world (first being the man, although depending on the day they exchange roles). She is the sweetest, happiest, loveliest baby you will ever meet and I already know none of my own children will live up to her. I have taken her to clas with me and she will just sit there and listen, I have spent whole days just hanging out with her, and she always makes me smile.
I know it is kinda sad, but last year, I got quite depressed, I broke up with my man, nothing was going right, I didn't know what to do with myself, where I was going, what to do in the future and then she was born and placed in my arms and she was the reason I got up every morning. I really truly adore her, and I am heartbroken to leave her behind when we leave to Ghana (but I don't think her mom will let me take her!).
So saturday the man and I are taking her for a whole day out, 10 or so hours, of playing family, being just the 3 of us, my 2 favourite people and I, for 1 whole day, and I am so so looking forward to this.

Anyhow, this morning I felt very skinny (my midweek weigh in disagreed and I have put on half a poun... oh well, I still have 3 days to lose it plus some more before my actual weigh in on sunday). It is a good feeling! And I am still amazed at the pic posted above, the definition along my jawline... I had never had such definition!

Anyhow, even though today was a rest day I am going to go to the gym, just do some elliptical for 25 minutes. And some abdominal exercise, train that tummy to be flat ;)!

Food of the day:
Breakfast: sugar free jelly with raspberries, 2 cheese sticks (140 cals)
Lunch: some sushi, half a frozen latte
Dinner: grilled sea bass, 1 cup of rice, green beans and broccoli, then half an ice-cream (huge one)

Exercise:
Nothing, was too late for the gym!

Camy
 
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I went through a REALLY bad patch (self-harm and psychiatric clinic for 2 weeks) when I was 17 and drinking too much and had just been broken up with etc etc...

Then I got a puppy... A miniature pinscher...

... and then everything was okay because I had a little thing to looooove :) So I know what you mean!
 
Anke, it is fascinating what loving someone else can do for you! And that love is then returned at some point. I am sure your baby loves you, the way my baby girl adores me. She gets the biggest smile when she sees me and runs to give me a hug... I am smiling just posting that.

Today i went to the Dr to get my bloodwork done, although it is a bit early for that, but I hope that the meds are showing a trend and they can adjust my medication.
On monday i am getting the first round of immunisations, 11 shots that is... I am ok with it, i mean anything to not get yellow fever, rabies, hep, etc... but still quite scary. I am not sure they will give me all 11 in one go but at least 5, because the live vaccines have to be administered at the same time. This is starting to be so real... OMG!

I am pretty sure I will have put on weight this week, i am going to try to be good today and tomorrow, but who am I kidding really! I coughed really badly last night and the man did not let me go swimming this morning. I may go this evening, if i can fit it in, but probably not, maybe I will walk like the 45 minutes to the theatre (we are seeing "Giselle" tonight) and that would make up for some lost exercise... yeah I am going to do that!

Food of the day:
Breakfast: 1 banana (i know not enough... oh well)
Lunch: 250 cal of sushi, 1 piece of spanish omelette
Snack: small apple juice, 250 of chocolate
Dinner: spicy salad with shrimp

Exercise:
Nothing, I suck!
Camy
 
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Yikes, 11 immunizations may be a lot for one visit. Your poor arms, or thighs. It depends on where you decide to have them done. The immunizations are not what hurts-- it is after, when the medicine needs to disperse throughout your system. Make sure you massage the areas and use a hot compress to assist the process. I remember trying to exercise the day after I had two immunizations, one in each arm earlier this summer. One was my tetanus and the other my final HPV. The injection sites burned so much that simple tasks were dreadful-- even turning the steering wheel!
 
I will answer everyone later, my family day was awesome. It was so great, the weather was fantastic, the baby was great, the man was just excessively awesome (and it ended with him saying he would like to try for a baby after Ghana) and to make a most marvelous day the best day EVER a woman on the train that kept looking at us (we were singing to the baby and eventually both her and the man fell asleep and we just cuddled all three of us) came over and said:
"You are the most amazing and beautiful family I have ever seen!"
I know we were just a fake family, but it meant a lot to me!

Food of the day:
Breakfast: 3/4 coffee frap light, 1 gf orange cakey thing (yuck!)
Lunch: 1 medium sized jacket potato, with some goats cheese and aubergine inside
Snack: 99 cal ice cream (Solero)
Dinner: fish, tons of it at a restaurant, salad

Exercise:
walked like 6 hours, about 4 of them with a 25 pound baby in my arms!

Camy
 
AWWW! What a great story and how exciting for you!!!!!!!!!!!! You had me aww'ing out loud as I read that!!! It seemed like you had a GREAT workout and good for you eating wise!
 
Food of the day:
Breakfast: sugar free jelly with raspberries (about 40 cals), 200 ml of OJ, 2 cheese sticks (140 cals)
Lunch: 50g of gf pasta with freshly made tomato sauce made of some cherry tomatoes, onion and 3/4 of a packet of king prawns
Snack: caramel lite frap
Dinner: 1 grilled spicy chicken breast with home made guacamole, 25 cals of asparagus, some green salad

Exercise: nothing other than some walking

I have decided to lose weight this week (haha), so I am planning my meals in advance. Tomorrow I have blackberries for breakie, carrot soup and cucumber for lunch and possibly salad for dinner, maybe salmon or tuna...
I am also going to exercise. Every day! I have a goal and I will reach it, be at 59.9 kg in 2 weeks. I can be good for 2 weeks, I can I can I can!

Camy
 
Thanks for the great post in my journal, it really meant a lot to me! I tried to give you a rep but apparently the forum won't let me :rolleyes:

But I just wanted to come on here and personally thank you!!!!

Also (BIG ALSO!) how did you make your guacamole dip? I have been trying to find a healthy version for awhile, and so far everything is sour cream this and sour cream that. Yeck. Sounds like you are rolling through, keep up the great work and thanks again!!!!!
 
wow reading back and so much is going on!
I always wanted to learn how to dance, but other than shaking my bootay around a nightclub i never got there. You should also think about teaching adults who always wanted to dance but are to old to be joining in with little kids.

Any beginner class i find are under 10ish and id look like an oaf if i was the only adult there :D:D
 
Hehehe, I agree with Wishes for that concept for any hobby.... there are some things I'd be unlikely to try for the mere fact that I'd be 10 years older than all the rest!

Ummm... as far as I know you can make guacamole out of avocado that has been pureed... some garlic paste and spices of your choice... maybe some lemon juice... and that's it... pretty healthy I think, and no sour cream :)
 
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