Cate's Diary

Awesome Progress Cate! :hurray:

I admire you so much for sticking to a plan so sincerely!

I just can't find the right one bc after a month or 2 I feel so deprived or just get bored.

At this time I'm just trying to have 100% portion control and increase fitness.
 
Thanks Stacy. You know on 5:2 there's no reason to get bored or feel deprived as I really can eat what I want to on the 5 days I am not "fasting". If I wanted to eat fried food or dark chocolate I could. The only "rule" is to stick to maintenance calories (TDEE) 5 days a week & restrict yourself to 500 cals(for women, 600 for men) 2 days a week. Cheers, Cate
 
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What a crackup LaMa. I just roared with laughter. The bloody golf club is driving us stark raving mad & I SOOO needed that laugh. Where would I be without this forum?
I need to cool down re the GC before saying anything more about it. A 3 hour meeting last night was a nightmare. Nightmare! OM....
Will go have a quick look around & then have to scoot, to ......guess where? Yes, the golf club.
Love to all & thank you LaMa & hi to abdofx! xoxo Cate
 
KP- Golf is a lovely game. *sigh* If only we were not so entangled in the running of the club. It's the old case of the more you do, the more that is expected of you & people who criticise are usually people who do sweet FA. That's life. I have had a wonderful massage, floated about town for an hour or so. On the drive in this morning I suggested to G that we drive into Launceston to do what we were going to do on Friday & then run a comp on Thursday that no-one would put their hands up to do. Everyone was being very quiet. We care too much to have the club disintegrate, so we will do this one, but I will saying my piece & we will not be doing another one. We do WAY more than our fair share.
Golf should be fun. The game is. The golf club is not at the moment. Short of leaving this club I'm not sure what we can do. G has played there since he was 9.

I decided that we would eat dinner in town & we had the most scrumptious meal. There is a lovely Thai restaurant, run by a family & we love to support them. We went there the 1st week they opened. They are really sweet. We had Fresh Tasmanian Scallops & Prawn stir-fry with a pepper & garlic sauce with coconut rice. Oh.....heaven!!! Cooked perfectly!
 
Mmm that meal sounds really great! I´m afraid nothing will change at the golf club as long as you and G keep picking up the slack. Sometimes you´ve got to let things run into the ground before people believe you´re not jumping in last-minute... I can understand that´d be hard though!
 
Hi LaMa. I know you're right. It's a tough one, but something has to give & I don't want it to be our health.
KP- I don't love scallops as much as I love Tiger prawns, but this meal was so delicious! We ate at 5.00 because we had both only had a snack during the day & had a fruit platter about 7.30pm when we got home. We both woke up ravenous this morning. That's the joy about eating stir-fries with rice. They fill you up, but digest really well.
Anyhow, it's very cool, very overcast & very windy & I have to go to golf, because it's the 2nd week of the Women's Club Championships & I played very poorly last week. I would hate anyone to think I didn't turn up because of that. If I had played well last week I would still have to play because then I might be a chance to win my division. So.......I am going soon. Tonight is 8-ball night & I will drive G, but not play.
Brrr, it's chilly. Where did Spring go? xoxo Cate
PS I got a call while we were in town yesterday from a young guy who had found our YS's phone in the middle of the road. He asked if he lived in Nth H & said he could drop it off somewhere. I chatted to him for a while & just gave him R's address & also told him that if he wasn't home to knock on the neighbour's doors, gave him their names & said I would let R know via one of his friends. An hour later I got a call back from this guy to say he found R at home & gave him the phone. I had told him that R was 32, not 16 & was always losing stuff & said he's a ratbag, but a lovable ratbag. This guy, who had given me his name said "You sound just like my Mum & this reminds me that it's time I gave her a call." I told him he was a sweetie. R later on on FB said something along the lines of believing in Karma. I do honestly believe there is so much good in this world. I bet you this guy becomes friends with R.
 
Hi Cate! Thank you so much for the positive comments on my diary. You sound like you're doing a great job on your journey, keep it up :) Emma xx


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Most people are nice and kind (if no money is involved) but still wouldn´t go out of their way to bring back something someone else had lost! A sweetie indeed :)
 
Hi Stacy. Wea re a lot busier than we would like to be that's for sure! My Wednesday was good thanks xo Cate
Hi Emma, You are welcome & thank you, xo
Hi LaMa- I know. The extra effort this guy made was quite extraordinary, but does not surprise me at all. I do think most people are good, xo Pollyanna

Golf- Played much better than last week & had a good day. I ended up having to play 8-ball as 2 of our players couldn't play . It ended up being tipsy 8-ball as I consumed a little bit too much(?) red wine. The opposition team had only 3 players turn up & were 2 players short. The lovely young woman who is in their team was so stressed about it so I went up to a group of 4 young men(total strangers) about 35'ish who were having a meal in the bar & explained the situation & asked if they would play for our opposition, rather than have them forfeit games, which 2 of them did. They were from interstate & were cycling around Tasmania & staying the night at the pub, before heading back on the ship next night. They were good fun & good players & won 4 of the 5 games our opposition team won. We beat them 10-5. They love Tassie & had been discussing what a great place it would be to live. It was a very sociable evening. I drink a massive glass of water with every glass of red wine consumed so no hangover this morning :)

Today- I'm not going to fast today as I woke up STARVING, so will fast tomorrow instead. G is going to go do the "chicken run" at the golf club on his own as D wants me to pick the GK's up off the bus. :D Someone rang in sick so he can't get off work early. I'll have the littlies for a couple of hours :)
It's a very cool, very windy & showery day & with any luck it will bucket down with rain & no-one will turn up for golf & he can come straight back home!

I'm still in my PJ's, sitting on my recliner. I feel very relaxed. Cheers, Cate
 
:) Yay for feeling relaxed! Also: no wonder those travelling guys love Tasmania (and its people) if random folks will come up to them in a pub to invite them to their social life. You are now part of their folklore about how easygoing Tazzies are ;)
 
It is an easy-going & friendly place to live. I just love it!
We have a day at home planned today.
I'm having a FD today & have my 2 meals half plated up. G cooked a Ratatouille(R) yesterday & I am going to have half a packet of Konjac noodles, 1 hard-boiled egg & R for lunch & then same but with a small can of tuna for dinner & then will have enough cals left for a small bowl of yoghurt & stewed rhubarb. Coffee for breakfast. :) I'll weigh tomorrow.

I have decided to keep "fasting" 2 days a week until I get right down to my LW of 2007(6.5kg less than I am now) & then only once a week & see what happens. I don't want to get too skinny. A friend who I play golf with has got too skinny I think & is looking really gaunt. She has become fitness obsessed. It is such a fine line!

One thing I have started doing lately- while I am not doing Tru's squat challenge I have been doing squats a couple of times a day. I looked at the video to make sure I was doing them right & have started doing them when I have 5 minutes here & there & no-one is watching. My knees ached like crazy last night when I was trying to get to sleep, but I rubbed some Magnesium oil into them & they are OK this morning. I have also started massaging my feet just before I go to bed as the massage therapist suggested I do that every night. She is Buddhist I found out the other day. I was embarrassed I guess to say anything to anyone but I will tell you. As I was about to leave the other day she said she loved me & gave me a big hug. I am absolutely certain she didn't mean it in a sexual way. She had talked about how people don't include her in things, don't invite her to their homes etc & never have & I just talked to her about that saying I didn't think it was a personal thing & explained why I thought that. The last massage she had talked about her marriage & how bad it had been & I said that it sounds like she was much better out of it & she had told me that her adult chidren had condemned her for leaving him.
I think one of the best things about my life now is that I feel more confident of the person that I am. I used to be so insecure & full of self doubt. It does not take much to be supportive & it is better to be open & honest. I can be noisy & have strong opinions, but I think I'm a good person. I like me.

Let's see if I can leave that last sentence there........

Anyhow :blush5: love to you all, xoxo Cate
PS I have that web-site to update. Hope I can do it!

 
Glad you got a planned day off, and I hope you are enjoying it!! I've pretty much dropped out of the squat challenge as I missed a few days but I have been doing a few here and there because I hear they are really good for building a bodacious booty.

I feel sorry for your massage therapist, being turned away by your own children has to sear the heart and leave it festering with pain. I hope she finds peace somehow, or reconciliation eventually.
 
"I think I'm a good person. I like me.

Let's see if I can leave that last sentence there........"

Yes you did, and I think it´s awesome!

People who get treated badly by "everyone" tend to make me sceptical as they come in several flavors. The ones I´ve met so far are:
1) people who have rotten luck with the people they meet and would genuinely deserve better.
2) people who would benefit from working on their social skills.
3) people who are manipulative and nasty and worm their way into new social groups every time their old contacts have finally plucked up the courage to close them out due to the damage they´ve been causing. They´re never to blame for anything and can be hard to distinguish from the first group in the beginning.

Trust but verify and all that...
 
I work with a #3. She becomes BFFs with a new employee every year or two until that one realizes what the rest of us know and decides to move on. But we're (apparently) all awful people who are out to get her.
 
Thanks LaMa. You're sweet! The woman at golf(B) who has created a lot of my insecurities with the women is basically a good person, but someone who doesn't think anyone else knows what they are doing & that she does & never makes mistakes. All along she has been telling me how she constantly has to defend me, so, naturally, I thought I was always being criticised. She has always told me that I am inclined to "take over" other people's jobs, when all along I was just trying to help. I maybe tried too hard. I have commented lately that I don't want to do anything that would interfere with other people's jobs & the women look surprised. One of them said "Can you just do it as a favour to me?". I do the bar, fax or email results, print up new running sheets, etc, but don't have any official position.
Another, who I used to think really disliked me, but who seems to be much nicer to me these days, said that if I reversed what I had been led to believe by this woman that I would be much closer to the truth. *sigh* Most women are so hard to work out. From now on I am who I am, I do what I do & I will stop listening to any bitching & try to not listen to B, who is our club secretary :( I will stop being so sensitive to criticism that may not even exist.

Oaks- B is totally paranoid & stressed out most of the time. Unfortunately I have fed off her stress, but now I feel sure that she has been more critical, instead of me becoming paranoid, I'll just stear clear as much as I can. I think a lot of it is a power thing & not wanting others to do something right.

Off to the golf club today as the barmaid is on holidays. I'll put an esky out & go visit Mum, do some shopping etc & then go back again in the afternoon. Tomorrow I am doing the same.

Better go. Lots of love, xoxo Cate
 
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