I'm aiming for 59kg

I am a bit hungry and its not lunch time yet so i am just going to start this meal program for my cycling trip. I would quite like to see how many calories it would be and how many i should be eating.

Last time i lost a lot of weight. I probably did lose some muscle mass as i thought i looked a bit skinny around the chest. But my bum and legs were fine. I mean my bum was still big and fat and my legs were just starting to look ok. Less fat, a lot more muscle. Too much really but that's ok

Here's some pictures of my last aussie cycling trip. There's one pic of me with fine looking legs. lol. I always have to take many shots to get myself looking all right. I look bad in bike shorts so i don't wear them.

I've put them in order so you should start at the top and flick through. Its quite fast and easy.

I'm trying to remember what i ate on my last trip. I can't remember breakfast. hmmm. Cost is one of the factors on this trip. Food in the bush is very expensive. Also the weight of the food is a major consideration. So no canned foods except tuna and no fresh foods. When i get to a town or shop, i eat fruit and vegies

breakfast this trip
3/4 cup Oats
1 cup milk from full cream milk powder
Black coffee

Lunch foods. This i is the hardest meal cause i don't cook.
pitta bread/vita wheat biscuits
boiled egg
vegemite in a tube
piece of hard parmesan cheese in a block.

I can cook enough pasta the night before and eat this for lunch. That's pretty yummy too.

Dinner
125g spaghetti
100g tuna or canned salmon
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp parmesan cheese

or flour dumplings in packet cheese sauce. This is yummy. But the dumplings don't realy keep me fueled up for too long. They are made with white flour as shops often don't sell wholemeal.

to be finetuned.
 
April 14 Day 13

Weight: 63.2kg
no change
NT

8.30 Breakfast
1/2 cup oats
1 cup full cream milk
1 apple

12 noon: Lunch
Cannellini bean salad*
Tomato and pesto** sandwich
Expresso coffee w 1/2 cup milk

**2 tsp homemade pesto - this pesto is made only with basil, olive oil, parmesan, garlic. - no pine nuts. I made a big batch some time ago so I recall the proportions.

*Iceberg Lettuce shredded
1/2 cup of canned cannelini beans, rinsed
lemon juice
cucumber
ground black pepper

5pm: Glass of white wine

7pm: Dinner
100g Spaghetti w smoked salmon in tomato sauce.
1 small orange
4 prunes


This is the version i cooked if you don’t have something or don’t want to buy a condiment, its no big deal. Its just that we had capers and they go well with salmon apparently, and i had a lot of parsley. Whenever you make a tomato based sauce, you should add a pinch of sugar to take the acidic edge of the tomatoes. It tastes heaps better.

50g smoked Salmon, shredded
1/2 cup premade bottled tomato sauce for pasta/or make the sauce using either canned diced tomato, canned whole tomatoes, tomato paste diluted with water + a pinch of sugar and about 1/2 tsp dried herbs any sort will probably do.
1 clove garlic optional
1 tsp extra virgin olive oil/or vegetable oil
1 tbsp chopped parsley optional
1 tsp capers optional
ground black pepper

Heat oil on the lowest setting add garlic, saute 1 minute, add tomato sauce, heat through, add salmon, capers, parsley and serve after briefly heating through.

Exercise: just a bit of gardening. Otherwise a very sedentary day.


Here’s the lowdown on my bread which is Helga’s brand. I started buying it because i thought it was made with spelt flour which i think is a more whole type of flour.
Serving size 2 slices - 85grams
Energy - 915kilojoules - whatever that is in calories (approximately divide by 3)
Protein - 10.8g
Total fat - 4.9g
Saturated fat - less than 1 g
Total Carbs - 30.1g
including sugars 2g
Dietary fibre - 4.6g
sodium - 340mg

Ingredients in order of quantity.
Wheat flour, water, toasted kibbled soy, linseed, wheatgerm, yeast, gluten, iodised salt, vinegar, vegetable oil, rye flour, soy flour, vegetable emulsifiers, mineral salt, thiamin and folic acid.

Good article i found today about cortisol and stress.
 
Yeah i'm sure you are right. As i've said before, i can't remember anything. I just made a mistake converting back. Cheers. Amy i think you missed my last post on your thread. Its important you read that link.
 
Yes, so I did. Sorry, that wasn't deliberate. I'll keep that in mind (although I have tried to change such patterns in the past with little success- just working less, being more miserable, not getting to sleep at night anyway. I now try to not keep it stupidly late, but I just can't think clearly in the morning, when I try to do other stuff like housework)
 
15 April, Day 14

Weight: 62.8kg
400g improvement. I’ll probably sit here for a few days now. I think i've lost about 4kg in two weeks. Some people think this means muscle loss. I don't know about that. I don't feel like i've lost any muscle. I've got quite muscly shoulders and arms and my thighs are still huge. It would be better if it were fat though. I think since i have not been starving myself, it can't be muscle loss.

8.30 Breakfast - I thought i’d try more fruit to compensate for the prunes.
1/2 cup oats
1 cup full cream milk
1 apple
1 pear

I got hungry around 11am this morning. I was supposed to go walking but i got up a bit later than usual and i didn’t feel like it. And i don’t like walking with the sun on my face so i am going to go later. Also i had to work out some other stuff with my father to try to avoid a trip to town. Anyhow i’ve been distracting myself with tv news and the net. I know totally unproductive distractions but there’s only 15 minutes to go now. Then i am going to have a big healthy lunch. I couldn’t justify having lunch 2.5 hours after breakfast and I am trying to avoid any snacks, especially not after such a short period of time.

12.30 Lunch A really good mixed lunch
2 multigrain toast
1 fried duck egg
1/2 tsp olive oil for frying
1 fried tomato with oregano
1/2 cup cannelini beans, rinsed
1/2 cup steamed cabbage - leftovers heated in the same pan though there was no oil left by this stage.
cup of tea w 1/3 cup milk

Its nearly 4pm. I guess i can head out for a walk now. I wonder if i will be starving when i get home?
 
Hi 44!

Congratsssss--- 4KG in two weeks is massive!!!!!!!! Thats an extreme amount in such a short amount of time. Just go by how you feel- if you feel great, then I wouldnt worry about if it was muscle mass or not that you had lost :)

Keep on truckin on!
 
Thanks cheeky.

6pm glass of white wine

7pm dinner
large bowl of Heinz cream of chicken soup made with almost 1 cup of full cream milk.
I used the whole can. Makes dinner a simple matter.

Exercise:
I had been going to do my usual 8k walk but i had a flat battery in my car and so couldn't drive to the location. I think i didn't turn the key off properly. I was disappointed but it worked out well really i guess as dad had gone away for overnight and the dog would need a walk. So i walked down to the beach with the dog. There and back and to the end of the beach and back i think is about 5km. I ran a couple of km on the beach. I've decided to do a run once a week. I am keen to see how far i can run after all this walking. I'll have a proper go on Sunday I guess. There was a regular guy down the beach walking his dog. He yelled out to me "what are you trying to prove?" A little joke. I should have said, "that it's possible to jog in a gardening hat" cause that's what i was wearing and i haven't tried that before, because i thought it wasn't possible. Anyway I am a bit disappointed not to have done my usual walk because it feels a lot more strenuous than todays effort. But perhaps that's only on my feet.
 
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Guys like that really irritate me. What business is it of theirs that you're trying to do something to improve your health? (My response- if I'd have thought quickly enough, that kind of thing often throws me- would've been more along the lines of the one fingered salute, but you're probably far too polite to do that)
 
Nah Amy he was joking. We see him all the time and usually have a short chat. It's just his humour. And i don't usually run on the beach. He's an old guy.
 
Ah, ok. Sounds like you're in a much more tight knit area than I am then- I'm in a large city, and that's the kind of environment I've always lived in. Such comments where I am would almost always be anonymous heckling which deserve as much disdain as I can muster.
 
Free Hatha Yoga Video Class - My Yoga Online TV DVD
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A nice yoga video. You can do this class too on the second play through. It's not a full length session but this is a good taster or a good program to do in your own at home. I'm want to do it now too but it means getting off my backside and going out to find my yoga mat.

I really do have to sign up to a class in town. There is a lady who does a cheap class for oldies. I can probably afford that once or twice a week and if its early in the morning, it might activate me to get up and get going earlier too.

I"ve noticed lately that as the sun is hitting me later in the morning with the approach of winter, i am not getting up quite so early, even when i go to sleep early.

This would be a nice program to run through daily, especially if you are stressed, life is too busy or depressed. I think i might try it from tomorrow morning. ... I hope i can...
 
Hey FourtyFour Congrats on your weight loss. I gotta say I love Yoga!! I just wish I did it more often ;P. I took a yoga class at my gym a couple of months ago (classes are included in the monthly payment) and it was a work out!! My knees felt like spaghetti afterward and my shirt was damp. I have some DVDs but I dont feel its the same with an instructor--you know, fixing you up when you're doing something wrong.

Anywhoo, congrats on your progress and good luck at the progress to come! :party:
 
Thanks penguinita. I must admit, the scales bounced hugely back up this morning when i hopped on to 63.4kg. I am not very worried or upset though. I think it's from the running i did yesterday and i am used to the fickleness of the scales. It will go down again soon. Its just seems a shame that I couldn't enjoy the 4kg scale reading loss a bit longer on consecutive days. Anyway, all in all its going well so i am happy.

I think you must have done an ashtanga class if your legs felt like that. That is quite fast and very cardio. Very strenuous. I've only done one like that once. I like strenuous but i don't like getting hot and sweaty too much. I like a bit of aircon too if its needed. Standing on your head is strenuous. Did she make you do that? I love it but of course i can only do it against a wall.

Anyway its all good.
 
Your pictures are amazing!! Do you go there by yourself or is it some sort of event? How long is it? I am so fascinated now! It looks wonderful!

You haven't eaten anything sugary in more then a month!? That is amazing self control! I also quit smoking after years but it was because I had to choose between smoking and eating and I lived with my fiance and would have felt terrible for choosing cigarettes.
 
Iyengar yoga demo


This video emphasises the stretching exercises and a floor routine. There are other routines. This guy is really good. But even if you are not as flexible as him, you can still do all these exercises.

Iyengar is my favourite yoga.


This second video is part two of the above routine. Its really impressive. These are very advanced poses. The only one i can do is the back bend. I've not even tried most of the others.

Iyengar yoga demo in india. I think this is Iyengar himself as a young man, and two little boys also. A nice film.
 
16 April, 15 Day

Weight: 63.4kg
Up 600g

8am Breakfast
1/2 cup oats
1 cup full cream milk
1 apple
1 pear

10am coffee w 1/2 cup milk


12.30 Lunch
Salad sandwich w poppy seed, white roll; 2 tsp homemade pesto, 1 tomato, lettuce
Lentil salad - 1/2 cup canned lentils, 1 slice canned beetroot, 1tbsp grated carrot, 1 slice red onion, juice of half a lemon*, black pepper

*Use red wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar if you haven’t got lemons falling off a tree by the bucket like i do if you want to try this.

5.30pm Glass of wine.

7.30pm Dinner
3/4 cup of dal w 1/2 cup cooked basmati rice
2 small oranges

I made the dal using this recipe. I made it a little differently partly because i had to remember it in my head while i ran down to the kitchen to cook it.



Here’s the way i did it.
1 cup yellow split peas. I soaked them for a few hours in the afternoon but it's not really necessary with these peas.
pinch salt
1 tbsp mustard oil (any vegetable oil is fine to use)
1 onion, finely chopped
1 large clove garlic, finely chopped
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp turmeric
6 cloves
If I were going to put chilli powder in this, i’d put not more than 1/4 tsp.

Put the peas in a saucepan with 2 cups clean water and a pinch of salt and the cloves. Bring to boil, turn down heat to low and cook 20 minutes with lid on or half off if it starts to boil over. Meanwhile, saute the garlic without burning it in the oil for about 1 minute. Add onions and cook till transparent on low heat. Add the ground spices, mix in and heat 1 minute. Add the onions to the peas as soon as they are done. Rinse the small frypan out with a bit of water and add it to the peas. When the peas are soft, mash a little bit. It should be soupy but thick with some whole pieces still but not watery.

Serve the dal in a bowl and add the rice on top. Don’t mix it in. You can squeeze some lemon on top if you have it.

You can serve this with cucumber and tomato slices on the side. I didn’t do that today though.

Exercise
Only a bit of gardening
 
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