Cate's Diary

Trusylver said:
Hope you have a great family dinner tonight :)
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It was lovely, thanks Tru.
LaMaria said:
Yay family time! Also: adding spices to porridge is lovely, especially in winter. A gingerbread mix, pumpkin spice or just simple cinnamon, it's all delicious.
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I must mix up a blend of spices to add to it, LaMa. I have never thought to.
Petal001 said:
I’m not a fan of porridge but you guys are converting me . Perhaps I try for winter .
Lovely you have the family for dinner . Enjoy . I’m meeting mine tomorrow and looking forward to it .
Hope you burned some calories vacuuming!
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I did enjoy it thanks, Petal. I'm not a cereal lover, but I do like porridge in Winter. I buy the organic oats from a wholefood shop as I loathe all the packaging & additives in supermarket "porridge". Enjoy your family time xo
luzdafuzz said:
Porridge is actually one of my favourite things haha. Breakfast food :beating:
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I love it too these days Lucy. Breakfast food is the best!
Marsia said:
I love having a big, filling breakfast, too. I experimented and started having a little brown rice with breakfast, as I had been avoiding carbs, and I promptly dropped 2 pounds. I guess my body was going into calorie saving mode without the starches or something.
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Sometimes just switching things around shakes things up. Excellent news Marsia.

Dinner last night was lovely. The kids were attentive & affectionate & it was a really nice evening. We had salmon & veggies & a delicious cake that G just whipped up. It had bananas, dark cacao nibs in it & was gluten-free. I am going to get his "recipe" typed out as our GD keeps asking what he puts in it. I'll pin him down tomorrow & write it down. I really should do a cookbook for the grandkids.

I think I'll go to the market today. It's only once a month & I enjoy it.
 
Back from the market. It was very quiet & not many stalls. Also went to the library.
I'm having a light-eating day as I felt over-full from last night's dinner. It appears that I have succeeded in shrinking my appetite. Yay!
I'm in a strange old mood today & must admit I feel a bit bored. That doesn't happen often. I have to go pick up our GD soon & take her to catch a bus so might head a little early & say hi to the GK's.
 
I love making gluten free cakes and muffins - would love the recipe if you do type it up! I know what you mean about being bored - it's rare with me and always kind of surprises me if it happens. I guess it makes us appreciate the other days even more!!

Congrats on the shrinking appetite!!!
 
I will share the recipe when I do type it up, Marsia.
My day improved with the distraction of chatting with my GD & getting into an interesting book- "This is Life" by Dan Rhodes.
 
Ah. Just realised that I didn't mention that yesterday was the 13 th anniversary of my older sister's death. It was a lovely night/day & my older brother's younger daughter had a baby girl ( her 3rd) on the day. How good is that? I'll ring my brother on Monday when it's his birthday.
 
The book looks really fun. I put it on the Christmas list for my hubby, who loves the movie Amelie!

Really wonderful that a baby is born on that day to transform the day and make it a celebration of life as well as a passing. I love depth psychology (Carl Jung) and have been reading up on how opposites do not repel each other as people think (think of hunger and satiation, for example); they are actually meant to attract and become something transformative. So, I am learning to like the feeling of hunger sometimes and don't rush to fill the void, and that is getting me closer to not having hunger and satiation in opposition. I am therefore also being more mindful and sensitive to see if I am really full or if it is just cravings taking over. So eventually I may be comfortable and much more in touch with both feelings and some new form of being healthy could come of that. I think it may be different for all of us what happens when the two attract. I hope that made sense!
 
Oh, Marsia! I just scrolled back up my page to see if I had put my new GN's name & I hadn't. It's Amelie! I love that movie too. My sister loves it & I would say my niece must love it too. She's gorgeous.
It is wonderful to have that day transformed by this little baby's birth. I don't get overwhelmed with sadness on the day any more, but it was still nice to have the day altered.
My older sister shaped me. She took me in hand when I was a teenager & let me stay with her & her 1st husband in Melbourne when I left home. If it wasn't for her I may still be back where I was brought up, which may not have been so bad, but I'm glad I am not there. A lot of my hangups are because I felt like I was the less intelligent, less attractive sister & I lived in her shadow.
In her last 5 years, she managed to turn all of that around. I visited her in the US 3 times all up- the 1st time (a month) when she was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, the 2nd (3 months) when her husband was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer & she was very ill & then the 3rd (a month) after her husband died. Over that time we talked about everything & she managed to really build my self-confidence up. She had always envied me apparently. She thought I was a much better & kinder person than her. I have much to be thankful to my sister for. I do feel that she shaped me & I do feel that she is a part of me.
I polished off that book yesterday, while G was watching AFL football.
I woke feeling better this morning, even though I did have some nightmares.
We're not doing much today. Even though we are both retired from paid work, I still love Sundays.
 
Cate lots to catch up on there . Congratulations first off on the birth of your grand niece and on such a special day . I think sometimes as I find in my life that nice things happen on days we may have sad memories. I love her name .
Good going thus far on your commitment to 5:2 . And your appetite is shrinking that's a great bonus .
Nothing as nice as getting lost in a good book. Has to be my favourite pastime .
Marsia I love your point on cravings or hunger . Still I am finding a little at the moment that my eating is being driven by emotions. But I'm more accepting g now as I have worked on it and I know it's a little blip and am working again to get my focus well back
 
Thank you, Petal. I think I am inclined at the moment towards a little navel gazing, which I'm inclined to do from time to time, but especially in Winter.
I'm going to have a good week this week. I'm going to be more active, I'm going to play golf on Wednesday & I'm going to do another two 500 calorie "fasts". I won't weigh again until after my 2nd FD. I don't feel at all obsessed about food. It feels good.
 
Wow, such a funny coincidence her name is Amelie! Beautiful name and film!! Your sister and your bond with her sound amazing and so transformative. My husband is the older brother in the family who got his siblings to be more worldly, less shy, and more sure of themselves. It's always wonderful going to visit them and seeing how they feel so grateful for each other! I am an only child, so that type of relationship was new to me, but it's wonderful to be around and to be part of a family with that type of respectful dynamic where everyone lifts each other up!

Hope you had a wonderful, lazy Sunday!!!
 
It is an amazing coincidence. I had put her name in originally, but then thought I had edited it out, but did do a double check just to make sure. Life with brothers & sisters is very mixed. They can also drive you bananas, especially growing up. There were always squabbles. I was a middle child(older & younger brother, older & younger sister) & still am, but with only one brother & one sister left. As adults, our relationships changed so much. I feel a lot closer to my older brother than I ever did as a child & my relationship with my younger sister has always been good but strengthened with the death of our sister. I communicate with her each day, either on FB or I call her. Your husband sounds like he is a lovely man.
I did have a lovely, lazy Sunday (with 7.5 km on my stationary bike & 10 squats )
Today is a FD & I am sipping on green tea. I plan another on Thursday & will weigh on Friday.
Edit: I rang my brother to wish him HB & also spoke to G's brother's wife as his brother is waiting on a Cancer op. Not much exercise today, except for vacuuming etc. We're having G's team up tomorrow night for some Snooker, so I have got the room very neat & tidy for it.
 
Good job on the workouts yesterday and getting your room ready for the visitors. I'm looking around my own room now - it definitely needs a cleanup too! Keep putting it off, need to get going on it!
 
Thanks Cate. Yes, I think my husband and I are opposites in all the right ways. He is ultra-extroverted and I am shy, he is very into success in his job, and jobs for me have mostly been just something to put food on the table, he is great at the politics of people and how to inspire people to be in your camp and I like to disappear into nature and take a break from people. But we both really find each other interesting and we both highly value kindness, so we have a good relationship. But we don't understand each other and what makes us tick at all, so it keeps things a fun puzzle to try to solve.

Your family sounds lovely, and it's so great you are so close to your sister that you are in touch each day. I had an imaginary older brother Peter and younger sister Lisa as a small child. When we moved to a new town, people asked my mother why she had left my brother and sister behind!
 
Cate just saying hi . I was looking at those cacao nibs in health store yesterday they are so expensive. But I will get some when you post recipe.
 
Hi, Emily. You feel much better when you have done some tidying up. Our snooker room is big & I moved most of the furniture & vacuumed behind everything. It took me ages! It's good to have it done though.
Hi, Marsia. Your marriage sounds like a good balance. G & I are quite different too, but we go well together.
Hi, Petal. G said he had to make the cake again to tell me what goes into it as he makes it up as he goes along. You wouldn't have to add the cacao nibs- you could replace them with a good quality dark cooking chocolate. I'll get him to make another in the next week. I have left 2 bananas to go brown, so that he has to use them up.
I'm running out of time this morning & have to scoot. Did a FD yesterday, but didn't weigh myself this morning. My stomach is feeling lighter. Had a vegetable omelette for breakfast on oat sourdough toast & struggled to eat it all!
 
Thanks cate I love to cook with good quality dark chocolate . I hope us ladies not forcing G into baking a cake . Lol
I have never really had sourdough bread . I do see it for sale I might try some . Not only do I want the baguette LaMa had for breakfast but fancy sourdough bread now too . Good job i have teeth brushed and gone to bed !
 
He won't take much forcing Petal. It's really our grand-daughter asking him sweetly for the recipe that will be the turning point, but you lovelies asking for the recipe will encourage him to make another & tell me what's in it, step by step that will get the recipe recorded. I must do it with other things too. I really would love to make up a recipe book for the GK's.
G had his Snooker night last night & he had a good time. We picked up our OGS & he had dinner with us & joined in & then one of our young friends drove him home. I cooked them supper- just toasties, dip etc, but didn't have any myself. I'm feeling less & less like snacking.
I did wake up very hungry though & had quite a substantial breakfast. No golf for me again today as it's bucketing down again.
2nd FD for the week will be tomorrow.
 
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