Cate's Diary

Glad you backed out and decided to do your own thing . Life is too short .
Hope that you find accommodation to suit the nationals for next year .

Marsia thanks for the feedback on the arm exercises . Will give it a go .
 
Thanks, LaMa. I will.
Thanks, Petal. I booked a lovely house 700 metres from the golf club. We are going to share with another couple.
G & I played golf today & it was a good thing for many reasons. It was too hot to play really. I enjoyed the first 9 holes, but my body gave up after that. My game has really deteriorated & I feel really unfit.
On the way down we talked about the possibility of joining there next year. On the way home, we both agreed that we had changed our minds & I said I would like to go back to our local club. If I don't play regularly I will end up giving up & I miss the women. G agreed it would be best for me. He mentioned how almost all of them & ring me & they obviously miss me.
I really do not want to start all over again with a new bunch of women.
He will wait until the end of the year, but I don't think I will. I might wait until we get back from our trip.
 
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Good morning, WLF friends. I had such a sound night's sleep after playing golf in the heat yesterday. I feel anxious about the golfing nationals & wish I had never said yes to playing. I must learn to be stronger when under pressure. G may join the club where he has lots of friends. It's a lot further though & that worries me. He hasn't made up his mind.
The GK's are about to arrive for the day so I had better get off the computer.Whoops. Here they are............
 
We had a nice day with the kids, thanks LaMa. It was too hot to do much though. We had a brief outing in the morning only. We have them again next Saturday & will take them somewhere.
Re: Golf. If I don't rejoin then I may as well give up golf altogether as I'm losing the ability to play. I'm not making any quick decisions. I know that I don't want to start all over again with another group of women, that's for sure.
I am actually feeling good mentally today.
Two days of very clean eating & no alcohol at all(today is day 3 of "no alcohol March") It also would have been my little brother's birthday. He committed suicide at the age of 25, a long, long time ago. What a waste of what could have been a wonderful life.
That pesky kilo has gone again. 9 to go!
I have been having yoghurt, fruit & a little almond meal for breakfast (no bread or cereal) & mostly meat & veg. I have cut down on my starchy carbs mostly as I know that's what suits my body.
I plan to take our rubbish to the tip & then come home & do some physical outdoors work.
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We got back from the tip & had a very healthy, light lunch. Going to the tip these days is a breeze, even doing our GS's rubbish & our elderly neighbour's. It's not even a faintly grotty job any more & only needed once a month.
We have some lovely, gentle rain, so won't be doing the gardening that I had planned. I was going to harvest the last of our Mountain Pepper berries but will wait until they dry out. The rain is wonderful. I hope it just keeps on going! Today feels like a Sunday should.
 
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That all sounds really lovely Cate . Sorry you feel the golf is still a little stressful. Can you not just pay to play there when you fancy it ?
 
Hi Cate! I wondered the same thing as Petal - can you just go play golf where ever and not become a member? I do worry you will end up getting roped into responsibilities you don't want. But it's wonderful to see you change your plans to what you really wanted to do in the first place with your golf games at the new club.

You are going low carb like me!!! I don't know what time you stop eating for the day, but I was just reading an article on eating dinner before 2pm being optimal for weight loss and for not getting food cravings (after about 12 days of doing this):
"late-night eating is not optimal for weight loss. This is because excessive insulin is the main driver of obesity, and eating the same food early in the day or late at night have different insulin effects. Indeed, studies of time-restricted eating mostly show benefits from reducing late night eating (A diet guru explains why you should eat dinner at 2pm)."

Of course, you might not want to stop as early as 2pm because of IF maybe causing strange symptoms.

Great going on cutting out wine and eating so well!!!!
 
Here they say have breakfast like an emperor, lunch like a king, and dinner like a pauper. I do feel people tend to overdo stuff. If you´ve been trying everything and nothing´s working not eating after 2 pm might make sense but most people want to go all in right away - from grazing on junk all day to eating perfectly healthily (whatever that means) for as short a time as possible. Of course they´re going to see effects in that case. But they probably would have seen pretty much the same if they´d just stopped snacking so much! And it would have been a lot easier on their social life. Because that´s the thing, isn´t it? Most of us have the high-calorie meals and snacks in the evening. Cut those out and you have so many extra calories for your breakfast and lunch you won´t know what to do with them. Not talking about Cate here, of course, who is not your average Jane :grouphug:
 
Back in the good old days when people laboured more for a living a good breakfast of porridge then a dinner mid day . It would possibly have been a soup , dinner and if lucky a dessert . Then nothing until what was called tea or supper here which might be eggs and soda bread made in the home that day . There were no snacks or treats .
 
Hi, LaMa, Petal, Marsia & anyone else who may pop in to read my diary :)
We usually have our main meal in the middle of the day & eat lighter at night. I'm steering G into doing that more often anyway. I don't snack much anymore as I really don't even have tempting snacks in the house now.
I was advised years ago, after losing lots of weight (36 kg) not to eat carbs for breakfast (specifically bread & cereal) so I struggle to come up with anything other than yoghurt, fruit & almond meal. G often cooks an omelette & I love omelettes.
I feel that I am consuming too much sugar in our fruit. I think that would be harder to give up than wine.
Last night I had a 200ml bottle of non-alcoholic sparkling wine at "wine o'clock"& poured G a white wine. It was less than half the calories of my favourite 200ml Henkell Trocken Brut & I only had one. Win.
I will probably drink more diet soda this month to help me not miss my wine.
I have been drinking iced tea that I make myself. We drink a lot of herbal tea & I make up a brew of loose lemon/ginger tea, peppermint & "luscious liquorice" & then I have been doing the same brew, but chilling it & adding a squeeze of lemon juice to a 1-litre drink bottle. It's delicious. That is going to be my new "sports drink".
Time to get moving I think. I'm gardening today.
 
That's interesting about the no carbs for breakfast. I think cereal is pretty much a disaster for me because it sends me on the sugar train straight away, but I do love porridge. It really keeps me going.

Your sports drink sounds fab.
 
I do about a half cup of berries a day (usually in yogurt) and that works well for not triggering the insulin/sugar thing. Berries are lower in sugar and carbs generally. I thought I would miss fruit, but I now view it as a wonderful treat, like how when my mom was growing up, if they got in orange in their stockings for Christmas, it was a big treat! I love omelettes, too! The iced tea sounds wonderful!!
 
Em~ When I finished the program I followed back in 2007 the maintenance guidelines they gave me included this-"No Carbs for breakfast. Eating carbs for breakfast, such as cereal, toast or muffins, just makes you hungry again at around mid-morning. The best breakfast is a protein breakfast such as yoghurt, egg, cheese or fish" I haven't eaten any bread at all since last Friday. I thought it was worth a try cutting it out for a month in the mornings at least, as well as the no alcohol & I have lost 1.5 kg already (since Friday). The "sports drink" isn't really a sports drink as it doesn't have any electrolytes. I haven't been getting any cramps though.
LaMa~ G usually has the day's meals planned out & I don't like to mess that with as he usually only cooks enough for one day. This morning, however, I had some cold corned beef, a hard-boiled egg, a third of a corn cob, some steamed, cold potato, bok choy, asparagus & carrot & some raw celery, with a cup of my cold tea concoction to wash it down. I don't recommend eating cold steamed bok choy, but the rest was delicious. I'll mix up some yoghurt with spices today & put some in a jar for dipping raw veg in.
Marsia~The yoghurt I was eating was high in fat & calories, filling & delicious, but the one I currently have is very low in fat & calories & nice, but quite sour. I think I will start having it as a savoury thing more often. I'll experiment a bit more with my breakfasts. This morning's breakfast was very satisfying. I know that we eat too much fruit & I am going to cut down on it. It's hard though when we both enjoy it so much. I bought mangoes the other day as they featured high in my 2007 diet & I do love them. I'm trying to eat only low GI fruit.

Day 5~ No wine & now bread & down 1.5 kg. I have also kept to under 1400 calories every day & got outside & either gardened or gone for a walk every day. Yesterday I harvested the rest of the mountain pepper berries & then mattocked out some horrible Belladonnas & red hot pokers that are taking over our garden & also are good hiding places for snakes. I made lots of noise. I thought of Marsia as I was talking to any snakes that may have been lurking. It was hard work & very satisfying.
Feeling pretty good, mentally & physically.
I haven't made a firm decision about going back to the golf club. My brain says no.
I said to G that I may leave it to chance. "If G lets me know when their lunch is as she said she was going to, I'll join. If she doesn't I won't."She hasn't yet..... I don't feel worried about it either way. I won't do anything until after we get back from Greece anyway & that won't be until towards the end of May when it will be our Winter.
 
Sounds like you´ve been stringing together some excellent days! I like the sound of your breakfast, too :) Mine was pea soup with smoked salmon today :p
 
Thanks, LaMa. I must, must, must remember how good I feel when I really cut down my starchy carbs & sweet stuff & move more & also that I can manage perfectly well without my evening glass of wine (usually 2). Tonight I had a glass of non-alcoholic wine & enjoyed it. It's a little bit sweet for me, so I'll have an occasion one. (<1/2 the calories.) Stayed under 1400 cals again.
I mattocked out red hot pokers for an hour this morning & then G & I went for a walk around our land in the afternoon.
Another very good day!
 
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