From 68 to 58kg

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fortyfour

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Hi all. I'm back but as i couldn't find my old thread i've had to start a new one.


So i've recently been back up to where i was when i started this whole diet thing on this site last year in about march. Things got particularly out of hand with my sisters visit but she's not due back for a year so i've got all year to keep things under control.


I don't really need to be as low as 58 but it would be nice if it happened. I know that at 68kg my bum looks big in everything but worse are my legs.


Anyway I'm going to follow a slightly modified plan from my last one. I just been on a vipassana meditation retreat and I'm taking my cues from there. On the retreat we had a big breakfast, a very big lunch and only 3 pieces of fruit for dinner. So this is what i am going to try to do now. On the retreat of course one didn't move very much so I am not sure yet if my fruit only meal will work or not. If i find i'm getting hungry i will probably eat something light. On the retreat i was never hungry.


Typically i would eat porridge with stewed prunes and full cream milk for breakfast. If there was yoghurt, i would have some of that too with a piece of fruit. Here at home today, i had porridge with prunes and milk and after a crumpet with butter and honey. A cup of expresso coffee with lots of milk.


For lunch on the retreat we had a lot to choose from. There was always brown rice, salad, lots of vegies and usually some sort of lentils or pasta or some other carb food. There was also always seeds which we could sprinkle over things. I didn't have the desserts but now that i'm home i might add a piece of toast with butter and jam or someting like that at the end. Today I had 1 cup of brown rice and brown lentils. For flavour i added garlic and balsamic vinegar. steamed pumpkin and beans with a bit of olive oil on it. My salad was grated carrot and beetroot with a dressing of lemon juice, olive oil and a spot of honey. I had tea afterwards.


I going to see if i can go without my usual daily glass of white wine. On the retreat of course we didn't drink anything and i haven't been drinking anything lately.



The danger times are wehn i go to town. Then i usually get more hungry. The other day when i got hungry not so long after lunch i had a banana smoothie made only with milk and iwhtout all the usual honey and icecream or yoghurt. That was a good hunger quencher.


On the retreat I laernt a technique which i can use to help me deal with hunger. the idea is that you learn to be equanimous when you have either irritations or cravings. If you are interested in this, i strongly suggest you do a 10 day retreat yourself. They are run globally. and payment is by donation at the end of the course. If you want to kick start your diet with a change of food habits, its a good way to start and everything else is an excellent bonus. You will learn a whole new way of understanding and being in the world. A much happier way.


One of the thigns i've decided to do is to make my life even more simple than it was before because i have figured out that i am happiest when my life is very simple. this means less tv and less internet. I already don't work and don't have a hectic social life but i am also aiming to not be too busy so as to avoid stress. I have my garden to work in. But i am thinking of taking up some volunteering work and painting. Today i started a painting for myself.
 
Sunday

big breakfast from 7-8am

porridge made with 1/2 cup of oats, water and a pinch of salt and a small handful of sultanas

poured over 1 cup of milk

after i had a crumpet with butter and honey

coffee w milk'


tea at about 11am


big lunch at 12noon

1 cup cooked brown rice and brown lentils flavoured w garlic and balsamic vinegar

1 chopped tomato mixed through

cooked vegies - steamed 1 large potato, piece of pumpkin, broccoli, Then finished off sauteed in olive oil and some pomegranate spice thing which didn't really do much. a sprinkle of sunflower seeds

Salad of 1/2 carrot and piece of beetroot grated dressed with lemon juice and little bit of honey. This is very nice.

that was a big feed but i still had a little room left for a piece of wholegrain toast with butter and strawberry jam.


I am working very hard in the gardening shovelling dirt and wheelbarrowing it away so i need to eat a lot. its also very sweaty here in the summer heat.


Coffee w milk at about 3.pm


5pm bowl of chopped fruit

banana, nectarine, pear, and most of an orange (becuase it was starting to go off and had to be eaten. )


Last night at about 7.30 i got hungry so i had a small bowl of pasta with some tomato sauce and a bit of parmesan cheese on top.


The scales this mornign were lower than yesterday so i guess it was all good what i did yesterday. I've decided i will only eat something at night if i get hungry as per last night. Otherwise i will just make do with fruit. Its good not having to cook at night actually. I'm rather enjoying this routine.


I meditated for 30 minutes after lunch


I finished my wall painting in my van. I think it looks good. Its very simple though.
 
AGain last night i had a small bowl of pasta with tomato sauce with some anchovies in it and parmesan cheese.


slept in.


breakfast at 8-9am

porridge with prunes and milk

crumpet w butter and honey

coffee w milk


Lunch at 12.30-1.30

rice and lentils with extra lemon juice

steamed vegies - broccoli, carrot, beans - tossed in salad dressing with a tomato

home made banana icecream ie frozen banana with a splash of milk blended in food processor


Fruit at 5pm

banana, plum, nectarine


Suppper at 7.30

Mango icecream as before with bit of milk and bit of honey. Quite a bit of frozen mango.


Tea and coffee throughout the day.


Lots of sweaty work today and a short trip to town.


Weight this morning was, i think, 67.8kg but i am not sure.
 
Breakfast at 8am


porridge w sultanas and milk

coffee w milk

crumpet with honey and butter


Lunch at 12.30

1 loose cup of basmati rice

1/2 cup of chickpea curry stuff with pumpkin and carrots

salad of half a carrot, some beetroot grated wiht dressing of sesame oil, lemon juice and honey

1 piece wholegrain toast w butter and jam


Mid afternoon

a mango


Fruit at 5pm

1 banana

1 plum

1 pear


Coffee several times today. No tea i think.
 
I'm still only 67.8kg this morning. Must be eating too much so today i've tried to cut back a little on portioin size. Its good though that i eam eating well.


Breakfast today

oats prunes, milk

crumpet butter honey

coffee milk


Lunch

rice and chickpea and veg curry

salad of tomato and avocardo wtih dressing of mustard, balsamic and olive oil - yummy

wholegrain toast wtih butter and jam


i'll have fruit again and i've made a broad bean soup with vegies so i might have some of that later.


I think my laptop is about to die and i can't afford to buy a new one so i might go without for a while.
 
Thanks for replying cry. No i don't calorie count as i have a pretty good idea of what is high in calories and what is low and i haven't got the time and don't want to. I find it easy enough to adjust the amount i eat cause i eat very similarly from day to day.


I don't do any formal excercise but i am doing a lot of phsycial work at home and in my garden. I haven't got time for exercise at the moment. I have done in the past though and am reasonably fit.


TOnight at abotu 7.30 i had 1 cup of broad bean soup i made today. Its good.


I cooked the dried broad beans in the pressure cook after soaking overnight. I forgot to take the shells off and had to do that one at a time today before making the soup. Timeconsuming. So i will have to find an easier way. I could probably deshell easily after about 5 minutes of pressure cooking.

2 onions,

2 carrots,

garlic

all put through the food processor

Cook in pot with liquid from teh broad beans

add dried herbs, all spice and 2 tbsps of tomato paste.

note i soaked 2 cups of broad beans so this is a big recipe.

It would have been nice to have something like parsely to throw in. And turnips or parsnips.

One diced potate left unmashed up.

I cooked with the lid on so as not to reduce liquid too much. My beans are very mushy so the soup has a nice thick consistency.

Then you need to add quite a bit of salt to make it tasty. I did this at the end when i was sure that cooking itself wouldn't fix the problem but once the soup is properly salted it is good.
 
Since weightloss is all about calories in vs calories out, calorie counting is not essential but an extremely helpful tool to help you manage. If you eat mostly the same stuff day to day and you're losing weight steadily then there is probably no need, but if you start to struggle then you might want to consider doing a diary, it's really easy, I use an online one and usually enter cals as I'm actually cooking/eating my food, there's a bunch of websites that help you track calories and search for approx amount of calories in certain foods. I personally use www.livestrong.com they have a feature called myplate which tracks everything for you.
 
Don't worry guys. I've been at this for a while and i have success with it before. What i am doing differently this time is eating some sweet foods. Last time i abnadonned sugar completely.


I consider my gardneing very much exercise. I am buuilding more muscle than i would in an hour at the gym. Its very physical what i am doing.


Also i don't eat a lot of salt. Usulaly people who eat highly processed foods eat too much salt but mostly the only salt i eat is what i add myself. We need about a tsp a day and when you sweat as much as i do at the moment, i need to replace it. But i don't actually measuer out one tsp. I've learnt from experience that when i am low on salt, i get cramp like pain in my calves or night cramps.


Anwyay to todays food dairy. I went to town which is always a bit of a test.

Bfast.
oats milk and sultanas. I actually had less oats but in fact i know its the crumpet with butter and honey i should be giving up. Perhaps when htey run out i won't buy more.

coffee and milk


Cappucino at my friends cafe. I had that one to suport her business more than because i needed one. Business is not easy these days in our town.


Lunch

A vegetarian lasagne with lots of tomato sauce

a salad with dressing



afternooon tea

cafe latte and success cake.

I really felt like a cake so i gave in. The main thing for me is to eat enough so that i don't need to eat more than one cake and so that it doesn't all turn into a binge



dinner

I was still in town at 6pm and i was hungry so i went to this little japanese retaurant i heard was good.

tempura vegetables on rice

tofu

tiny piece of orange and 3 grapes

bowl of miso soup

japanese tea

barley water - i really like this.


Since i've been home, ive only had nescafe with milk
 
your diet sounds good. I love fruit.. what was the retreat like that you went to? was it somewhere that you do meditation yoga etc?


i like your idea of doing things simple..i think i would find that so hard tho. I like arty things but have some sort of block to do some!

what volenteer work do you want to do?


On the salt thing, do you know if sea salt is good for you? thats the kind that i have. Maybe you could ask a nutritionist about the salt thing.


The bean soup sounds good i need to learn to make some soups!


good luck with your aims sounds like ur doing well :)
 
Hi Tink thanls for stopping by.


The retreat was a vipassana meditation retreat. Its not for yoga. I wrote it up at length on the website called depressiontribe where i am a member under the same name as here. However, all you need to know is that its at dharma.org or you can search by goenka vipassana retreats and then find the one that's in your area. What's expecially good about it is that its free for first timers and if you want to give a donation at the end you can. I highly recommend it. It doesn't matter if you know nothing about buddhism or meditation. you will learn. It doesn't matter what religion you are. You don't have to convert. You are only there to learn this technique and hopefully start a practice of daily meditation. It can change your life. I have found it very good. Vipassana means insight. So its a technique to train to develop insight into yourself. On the retreat you observe yourself and develop your concentration. Its very good.


You say you like doing art. Is that because you think you are not good enough. Perhaps you should do a course to gain some skills and then confidence will come. If it helps i am not good at art but i am going to do it anyway. I also did a degree in art and a painting course. You can learn, that's the point. and then you can be surprised at what you can achieve. Teh thing is with everyone, dno't expect grreat results right off. You have to work at anything to get to be good at it. Painting is no different.


Sea salt is still sodium chloride. It may have some other things in it but its essentially teh same thing. A lot of people get taken in by marketing and think that himalayan salt or rock salt or sea salt is more healthy. salt is salt. except when its iodised salt and then that's better than any other salt because iodine is essential and its often missing in our vegies these days.



Originally Posted by Tink


your diet sounds good. I love fruit.. what was the retreat like that you went to? was it somewhere that you do meditation yoga etc?



i like your idea of doing things simple..i think i would find that so hard tho. I like arty things but have some sort of block to do some!

what volenteer work do you want to do?



On the salt thing, do you know if sea salt is good for you? thats the kind that i have. Maybe you could ask a nutritionist about the salt thing.



The bean soup sounds good i need to learn to make some soups!



good luck with your aims sounds like ur doing well :)
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Hi Ima, thanks for dropping by.
 
This morning i weighted in at 69kg. That's a whole kilogram and more than normal. I can only account for it from the food i ate in townyesterday and probably most especially the japanese which is known to be highly salted. Tomorrow should be a bit better since i only ate my food today.


Bfast

1/3 cup oats, milk and sultanas

crumpet butter and honey

coffee w milk


Lunch at 12.30

2 cups broad bean and vegetable soup w 1 slice wholegrain bread

Salad of lettuce, avocardo, cucumber and 2 tsp olive dressing w balsamic vinegar.


Fruit at 6.30

1 nectarine

1 apple

1/2 cup yoghurt.


I'm very pleased with the yoghurt which i made using a packet mix. I am pleased because its so good value for 1 litre compared to if you bought that much. There were a few different ones on the shelf. I chose the one made with whole milk but no extra cream and not lite.


Just now i had a vitawheat cracker and a bit of cheese on it. Dad was eating it and i begged a turn.


I will probably have something else later.
 
Last night was a terrible night. Cyclonic winds blew up and i had to vacate my caravan in case some trees fell on it. And anyway it was really loud. so i ended up sleeping in the armchair but didn't sleep well. Before i went to sleep, i ate 2 pieces of wholegrain toast with butter and jam. I couldn't sleep. when you stay up late like that you end up wanting to eat something.


This morning when i got up i had 2 crumpets with honey and butter and coffee and milk


Some mango mid morning.


Lunch was 2 cups of broad bean soup with some yoghurt.


I did some work this mornign but probalby only about an hours labour. its about time i went back out. There's quite a mess to clean up. I have so much to do. At least its not very hot today.
 
More on SAturday's food


i sat in front of the computer throughout most of the afternoon so of course i got nibbly. I had two pieces of wholegrain toast with butter and strawberry jam.


I think later i had some crumpets too. I also ate quite a few sultanas.


For dinner i start to redeem myself with 3 pices fruit and a cup of yoghurt

apple, pear and nectarine.


various cups of nescafe.


Sunday

weight back down to 67.6kg - so i've recovered from teh high salt intake the other day and yesterday doesn't seem to have made a negative difference either.


b'fast so far

cup of coffee w milk. its 9am. I'm not particularly hungry just yet.


I've finished the crumpets off so i will just have porrdge and prunes and milk for breakfast a bit later.
 
Sunday continued


I had to have an early lunch cause i was going to town.


Iate rice and chickpea curry with a bit of yoghurt.


In town, i was there for about 3 hours, i got hungry and on my way home, i succumbed and went to the supermarket and bought a family block of chocolate and ate it.


At home, i got stuck into my gardening work and then for dinner i had 3 fruit and some yoghurt. I hoped i worked off most of the chocolate but probably didn't.


Now i'm having nescafe. Its 9.22pm
 
Groan, my internet addiction is in full swing again. I wish my computer would collapse. I think its the only cure for my time wasting. Of course there are serious downsides to that eventuality. Specifically i would not have a computer to process my photographs. It makes me wonder if i should give up photography too? Its a very time consuming and unprofitable activty, though sometimes i do enjoy it a lot and i do enjoy sharing hte results on the net too.


So last night i ate more toast and jam before bed. I went to bed late again.


This morning i woke up late. After 9am i think.

Breakfast

coffee w milk

1/3 cup oats, sulatnas and milk


Midday

Mangos

nescafe


I am cheesed off with myself because my internet is interfering with a) my weight loss program, b) my work program c) my meditation program. I'm playing some games at the momen and i'im loving it.


I did do a little bit of work this mornign but given how much needs to be done. And the thing is i like my work in the garden even though its hot and sweaty and if i had to take a break i'd do a painting or meditate or read which is more productive than mucking abou with games.
 
So i've had a ruinous afternoon foodwise. I've eaten a lot of icecream and that'a all i'm saying.


I went to town and the idea arose. I managed to let it go for a while but then i gave in. I'm just not committed enough at the moment and trips to town are a great risk opportunity for me. don't know what i am going to do to get over that.


But i am going to hide my computer tonihgt before i go to bed. I'm going to try to only access it once a week, say on Sundays. That way at least i will be more active and burn more calories. and other good benefits.
 
Hey 44-

I just typed you a post then lost it, drat!


Good to see you in your new diary, I also have a new diary. Why not, new year, fresh start right?


Sorry to hear about the problems you've been having but very happy to hear about all the positive stuff you've been doing like meditating and painting. I think that takes a lot of discipline to stick at it. With regard to your cravings, I am having the same problems. Do you think the honey and crumpets could be triggering your carb cravings? I have found that with me in the past. Anyway, I guess you are sticking to your resolve to give the comp a rest; I hope things are going well and I look forward to hearing all your news when you're back on.


Cheers hon :)
 
Hey 44-


I hope you've been well! I take it since you haven't visited your diary you've been doing what I have been...? i.e. eating junk? Whatever it is, I hope you won't give up on your goal. In fact, I'm thinking now that Easter's over, I'll probably see you back here. I hope so; I've missed you!


Take care and have a great week! :coolgleama: (A cool smiley for a cool person).
 
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