Cate's Diary

So glad things are going well with K and R. Good things come to those who wait! You sound good.
 
Hi, LaMa. It was a rental & they camped where they were & waited for another to be delivered. K had to head back to work today anyway.
Hi, liza. He is great support & I'm very lucky.
Hi, Em. I really, really hope it works for them. She is such a lovely person. I do feel good about myself & life at the moment. I want to hold onto this feeling into the NY!
Yesterday(29/12/2019)
BF- 1/2 avocado, 1 boiled egg, balsamic vinaigrette 195 cals
L-Bowl of turkey & veg soup, 6 crackers with cheese 373
Mid-arvo/pre-dinner- 11 cherries, 1/2 orange, 1/2 peach, 1 can sugar-free lemonade (instead of wine)112
D- Turkey curry with veggies (no rice) a little Greek yoghurt & 1 microwaved pappadom 307
AD- 1/2 Weis mango bar, slice watermelon, 1/2 apple, 142
After 8 pm- 2 Hot lemon drinks, 4g jerky 53
Total 1182
Steps- only 3628.
 
Cate said:
Total 1182
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Is this the same woman as was worried when I got that low? I know women need few calories, and you are a lot smaller than me, but is that enough for you? It looks well balanced, so if you are not left hungry or tired it may be fine.

Sugar free lemonade sounds a healthier than wine. What is you plan for alcohol? Are you eliminating it for now or just not every day?
 
Haha, Rob. Well spotted. Mine is only one day though. It was possibly more as the cheese was a very rich, delicious English soft cheese. Mine will be WAGs for sure. I want to try not to get sick of tracking so am trying not to spend too much time on logging my food. I wasn't at all hungry or tired. I'm going to cut down my wine drinking. G & I would share a bottle of wine at about 5 pm most days usually. I have some of my favourite bubbles in 200 ml piccolos so I'm aiming to have one of those maybe every second day. Diet soft drink isn't good for anyone, but I figure it satisfies the urge to have something at that time. I have diet tonic, dry ginger & lemonade, so will alternate them. I love mineral water too. I'll add a squeeze of lime or lemon juice sometimes. Actually I have some frozen....
 
Cate said:
a very rich, delicious English soft cheese.
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Oh my! I got that far, reading, and just stopped! sigh. Sounds gorgeous. We have some delicious black bread at the moment, and that sounds like it would go perfectly. Ah well... not for me, today.

I see a turkey&veg soup, and a turkey curry - I deduce a household still working through Christmas leftovers! We are, too - there'll have to be another cabbage salad soon. :)
 
The cheese is gorgeous Amy. Not for me either today. G won a frozen turkey as a golf prize & we are not big fans so thought we would just deal with it. Turkey & veg soup & turkey curry (some in the freezer) & we also had a turkey stir fry. We really don't like to eat anything that was not free-range & ethically treated.
 
Eating is definitely better than throwing it away and buying another dead bird :) Although I really don't get the fuss about turkey, especially when cooked whole.
Love the sound of that cheese!
 
I agree LaMa. I would hate to waste an animal that has given it's life for humans to eat. I don't really like turkey. That cheese is Will Studd, Brillat Savarin. It is "deliciously decadent" :svengo: Too nice!
 
I think I am one of the few people I know that actually likes turkey. But I pair it with ham . We only get a small piece of turkey breast though.
Cate your attitude sounds great and I'm happy to read how happy you are .
 
Your food sounds very tasty as always. My mum doesn’t eat chicken so we often have turkey curry/stir fry for dinner, it’s yum.
 
Cate said:
G won a frozen turkey
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We had a lot of turkey left over from Thanksgiving, and now have a lot of turducken from Christmas. I packaged it all into ~200 calorie bags and froze them. Now I have lots of pre-measured things to add to my food, with my wife being a vegetarian it works out.
Cate said:
We really don't like to eat anything that was not free-range & ethically treated.
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I understand, but unless you know the farmer how can you be sure?
 
Thanks, Petal. I'll hang on to this feeling & try to carry it on through 2020.
Hi, Em. I love almost everything curried. Yum.
Hi, Rob. Good thinking re freezing your Turducken into 200 cal portions. In Tasmania, it is much easier to know which places ethically treat their animals. It's a small place. A friend used to work at the chicken farm we buy I chicken from. They used to have to shoo their chooks outside all the time.
It was really hot here yesterday, but not as hot as Hobart which had it's highest recorded temp 40.8(?) I went for a walk, but it was not nice. I was dripping with sweat as you really have to cover up & wear boots & socks (snakes).
Food etc yesterday
BF- 2 boiled eggs in some leftover curry sauce 194
Lunch- Bowl of chorizo stir fry with lots of veg 371 (saved this recipe on MFP as G often makes it).
Watermelon, cherries, 1/2 orange 124
1/2 gin & diet tonic, 200 ml bubbles 208
Dinner- 1/2 avocado with 1/2 boiled egg & vinaigrette, 6 crackers with cheese 312
Mango sorbet with some prunes 178
Hot lemon drink 21
Total 1410
Steps 5,447 (3.78k)
 
Close enough to 41 in Hobart! :( And there was Monster's pic of a recorded (unofficial) temp of 51 in Pirie - or Port Augusta?
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Starting again, because all that's too depressing. Your nearly-last day of 2019 menu sounds great - and my Sherlocky deduction was wrong - that was a golf turkey, not a Christmas turkey, after all! Is it all gone now?
 
Good for you getting motivated to walk despite the heat. I find it very hard to walk when its hot. It's winter where I am so it's nice for a brisk walk.
Your food sounds really nice :)
 
Thanks, Liza. I may not go for a walk today as I feel really unwell. I went into our local supermarket today to get a few things & had a bad reaction. I wore a mask but it obviously didn't work. I have felt very itchy & woozy since.
 
Cate said:
Thanks, Liza. I may not go for a walk today as I feel really unwell. I went into our local supermarket today to get a few things & had a bad reaction. I wore a mask but it obviously didn't work. I have felt very itchy & woozy since.
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oh no! sorry to hear that. Does that sort of reaction happen often? Is it environmental sensitivities?
 
Thanks, Liza. I got better as the afternoon went on. I have a lot of environmental sensitivities but manage quite well as we have a fragrance-free home in the bush, well away from anyone else. I make sure that I limit my exposure. I'm not going back into this supermarket again, even though it's our local one.
 
I find that high heat makes my sensitivities worse. Probably because it increases inflammation.
 
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