I'm aiming for 59kg

May 13 continued.

3pm: Snack
very small sugar banana - I wasn't even hungry! But i saw them there and we have a lot to eat before they go off so grabbed one and ate it. I had just made the coffee. That's what i really wanted.
cup nescafe w 1/2 cup milk

5pm: glass white wine

7.00pm: Dinner
Angel’s hair pasta w 1/4 cup tomato sauce (see below)
1.5 cups leftover Heinz cream of chicken soup
1 cup fruit salad - pomegranate, mandarine, grapes

Pasta w tomato sauce
100g angel’s hair spaghetti - i should have used linguini but it too late when i realised i had the wrong pasta out.
4 cloves garlic
170g can tomato puree
pinch sugar
1 cup water - less would be better but i can reduce it down further next time.
3 tsp olive oil
2 big pinches dried oregano
heaped tbsp chopped parsley

Heat the oil, add the garlic to the pan and turn off heat. Saute one minute. Add to a small saucepan with all the tomato paste. Add water, sugar, oregano, and cook on high heat. I didn’t have time to reduce it to the right consistency but it should be thick enough to coat the pasta well. Add the parsley near the end of cooking.
 
Wow that would be such an awesome trip!! I am very envious of you! I really would love to travel more. I had so many things I wanted to do and I should focus start focusing on them since I'm almost done with my degree. Your fried rice recipe sounds super good! I should try to make before going to a bbq :) We always have big potlucks so I always try to bring something homemade. I get tired of the people who always bring a bag of chips when others brought something more substantial.

Your food is looking great and congrats on the loss! You are doing super fabulous and I look forward to the new pics you take of this trip :)
 
I agree Tally, a bag of chips is a pethetic contribution to a bbq. I thought the idea was not to bring something, but to bring a plate.

Ever since i've been using 43things.com i have got through a lot of my goals. Its not so great as an online community but it is great at developing your goals keeping your focussed on them. I think i've now got to three bike rides with that site to egg me on and believe me the first two were really difficult for me to achieve - because of money.

For weightloss, i prefer something like this forum because you need more support and more inputs in the way of info and ideas.
 
Off topic but i want to share.

The last two mornings, our rooster has really become the neighbourhood hoodlum. He just crows incessantly. One couple we are friendly with have complained so that means my pretty rooster is going to have to get the chop. I told dad he'll have to do it this time. I have another worse job to do. I had really thought this rooster was going to be different - quieter. But i guess he can't help it. There he goes again.

The last too mornings i have ended up getting up before 7am because of him. And that's after lying in bed for half an hour listening to him crow and crow and crow. He's at it now too. If only he knew what was in store for him, he might just tone it down a bit. But unfortunately we still haven't found a way to communicate the more subtle messages to the animal kingdom. *sigh*
 
Things i need to do today...and musings on my nescafe habit.

Because time is running out and tomorrow i can't do any work at home - i have to go out. I also have to go out two other days this coming week.

Yesterday i got a little bit more done on my irrigation but its still not finished. I've just done a bit now but i want to try to finish getting all the sprinklers in on the main pipe. This is difficult job so i may not get them ALL done. But at least half .... please!

I also have three ditches to put pipe underground but i am not aiming for that today. These will cross the roads where cars can come in. I know, we do have more access roads than necessary but at the moment we need them all. In the longterm, hopefully there will only be two.

Other things i want to do today are to sort out all my clothes into piles. Put them in boxes ready to store away.

And do a few louvres cleanings. I'd say i should aim for at least three sets. if i can get all this done, i will be pleased with today's efforts.

At 11.14am just now I was ready for a cuppa. That happens after i've been out doing something in the garden. I've decided to wait till lunch time. Its not a big deal for me to drink coffee when i want, not now that i can see i am losing weight, have got my exercise up and steady and have my calories and appetite sorted. Three cups of nescafe in my diet means a whole extra cup of milk. If i revert to my nescafe habit when i reach maintenance, then i guess I will not be able to increase anything else on my diet. So maybe i should try to keep going with where i am at if i want to be able to eat things like cheese and um... other things. But if i only go up to 1 cup nescafe a day, in addition to my expresso w milk, that would be ok too. Of course i did have a glass of water just now. I have no trouble drinking water. The atmosphere is very dry now too.
 
Only 8 minutes to lunchtime now. I can go and make some lunch. I have so many leftovers in the fridge. I'd quite like to try making a lentil burger but i'm not sure if htat will go with the avocardo. I don't think avocardo is the best choice in a lentil salad. hmmm worries! worries!

Only 6 minutes to lunchtime now. I'm off. :leaving:
 
May 14 Day 42 (on this site) + one month more

Weight: 61.2kg
up 200g

7.00am coffee w 1/2 cup milk

8.30 am Breakfast
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup full cream milk
1/2 cup low fat milk
3 banana - equiv 1 medium size.

12: Lunch
Matje salad (pickled herring polish style)
Lentil, rice and cabbage in indian spices
nescafe w 1/3 cup milk

Matje Salad - yummy and looks quite the gourmet dish
1 fillet, sliced up - these are small
1 tomato diced
2.5 tsp avocado
juice of half a lemon
ground black pepper

Layer up the salad into a pile with the avocdo on top. Squeeze over the lemon and sprinkle with pepper.

Lentil Dish - also very yummy
1/2 cup cooked brown lentils
1/2 cup cooked basmati rice
1 cup raw cabbage sliced
1/4 cup hot water
1 tsp mustard seed oil (other vegetable oil will be fine)
1 tsp *Sabji Masala indian spice mix. (means vegetable spice mix)
pinch salt

Heat the wok, add oil and spice, add the cabbage and toss about to heat the spices so they release their flavours. Then add the water. You don’t want a lot of water. It just makes the cabbage cook faster and without burning in the absence of a lot of oil. Steam with the lid on. There shouldn’t be any liquid left when all is done. Add the lentils and rice. Toss and heat through. Add salt if necessary.

This spice mix is growing on me. It has chilli in it. But the box is now far away from me and I can't tell you what's it in it. These boxes of indian spices are a great solution to mixing your own spices but you have to be careful with how much you use because they often have a lot of chilli in it and if you follow the quantities recommended on the packet, you could easily ruin your dish. I enjoyed the bit of chilli in my recipe today.
 
May 14 continued

4.30pm: glass white wine

7.00pm: Dinner
1 tiny banana
Mixed plate of leftovers:

1/4 cup of baked beans on one piece multigrain toast
1/2 cup Greek Potatoes and Beans (recipe as per previous posts & veg cooking club)
1 cup ratatouille (recipe as per previous posts & vegetable cooking club
1/4 cup yoghurt


Comment: Its not a great idea to eat baked beans with these other dishes. I think its got to do with the sugar in the baked beans. Perhaps i should have had a 4 course meal. :D

9.30: nescafe w 1/3 cup milk
 
May 15 Day 43 (on this site) + one month more

Got out of bed at about 6.30 or 7am to let the rooster out in the hope that it would shut up with the crowing that's bad enough to trigger a surburban civil war.

Weight: 61.8kg
up 600g I am not quite sure what this means. Did i eat too much yesterday? I sort of think i might have. I went to the loo and weighed myself again wondering if i would see a difference. But no difference. True i had by that time had a cup of water and a cup of coffee, so perhaps they cancelled each other out. I sort of hope so and that it translates to a less radical increase overnight. But although i've gone on at length about it, i am not particularly worried.

7am: coffee w 1/2 cup milk

8.30am: Breakfast
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup full cream milk
1/2 cup low fat milk
1 pear

Went to Coastguard meeting - missed the actual meeting. No one had mentioned that it started at 8am. How fricking hopeless is that? I Arrived in time for breakfast then Successfully passed up the offer of a free BBQ breakfast of bacon, sausages, eggs, tomato and onion stuff on white bread with margerine no doubt. The smells were traumatising. Even though i don't eat meat , i love these foods and the smells were very tempting.

I Was a bit traumatised by the whole morning really. I am not sure this place is for me. They all seem to have a different politics. It came up during my induction and i got so riled with the other two guys bantering about Australia for Australians, that i threatened to walk out if they didn't stop talking politics. And i had to say it twice. Now i am not even sure if i can cope with the whole organisation because i suspect the whole organisation is a bunch of right wingers blah blah blah. I get enough of it at home from my father. I don't need any more of their bullshit hate crap.

Also I am not happy to be amongst of lot smokers - so many of them do. I am quite unhappy about the whole thing since I would really like to be part of what the coastguard actually does but i don't think i am gonna fit with this crowd. I just don't feel we have much in common. It's half a day later as I write this and I still torn up about it. Anyhow i won't have to go back for two months and perhaps the issue will become clearer for me by the end of my holiday.

12pm: cup of nescafe with 1/3 cup of milk

My day gets better from now on...

1pm: Lunch in town
Fish burger with:

grilled fresh spanish mackeral fillets. - yuuuuuuuuuuuum!
bit of let us
bit of tomata
bit of queue cumba
bit of beet root
bit of butter, or more likely marg - even though i'd asked for it to be left off
bit of lemon squeezed on me fish
I ignored the little cupful of tartare sauce that i had actually asked for

4pm: pint glass of shandy - half beer and half lemonade

This is a little ritual for my friend at the markets and me. We do this from time to time when she finishes work. As i'm going away i said, do you wanna come for a shandy with me before i head off to the bush? So we did that.

Exercise: about 30 minutes walk on the beach with the dog.
Today was my day for exercise but although i had remembered to pack my shorts and a top for town before leaving home in the morning, so that i could go for a run/walk afterwards, i forgot to pack my runners. I could have gone along the beach barefoot but i decided it was late and i should get home to attend to the chooks and ducks who would want their dinner. They were almost on the roadside when i got home. Musta been somewhat hungry and wondering where i was. So i fixed them all up with more food and more water, got the dog, who i remembered wouldn't get a walk today if i didn't take her, as my father had gone to town to see his girlfriend. Aha, i thought, Good i will get some exercise afterall.

So me and cilla walked down the beach and did a short walk as far as the creek which is not as far as she would usually go except that usually dad drives her to the beach and then starts walking. But i don't want her in my car, leaving her doggy smells over the nice upholstery, so we walked.

Whilst there, I thought i might visit some friends who lived there, since i hadn't seen them for a while. As i passed their beachside place, i saw they were entertaining and gave them a wave. On the way back, i went up. I was offered wine and cheese and successfully declined both but asked for a glass of water. I was not tempted by the wine but there were three very yummy looking cheeses begging to be eaten BY ME! Finally J said, could she put them away and i could say, please do so i don't have to resist temptation any longer.

7pm: i think Dinner
100g linguine w leftover tomato sauce and 1 cup ratatouille.
(Finally there's only half a cup left to go)
1 peeled green apple.

I was actually stewing the apples when i decided I would have to eat one of them.
 
Oh wow, walking on the beach with your dog. That sounds like heaven.
I think it's amazing how you've quit smoking for so long.. it must be hard being around big groups of them.
All the good conversation happens in the smoking area, in my experience.

And urgh, who wants to be around a bunch of right wingers?
 
I know very few smokers. And i am sure all of them are much more interesting conversationalists than this lot. But to be fair, i don't know them very well. I find this group to be a throwback from the past. Well most of them are also quite a bit older than me too.
 
Looking at toolips photos reminded me that i should have commented about wearing my new dress today.

BEcause i was going out with my friend for a drink today, I decided to wear my new clingy black dress that i think i mentioned i got recently. I was a little bit concerned that she would feel bad as if i was shoving my weight loss success in her face - but she's not trying very hard, that's why she's not losing much weight - but i needn't have bothered. She commented that she really liked it and that it suited me very well. blahblah blah.

I am so not used to wearing such clingy bodily revealing things so i found myself covering up quite a bit today. I took a longish cardigan, and a scarf - something for every occasion - but in the end it was too hot to even wear the scarf.
 
I'm struggling with all my work today. I have so much to do this week but i am not feeling motivated. Its all a struggle. But eating is still not a problem.

I've decided to let go exercise this week unless i am doing well and feel i can take the time out.

This site is going extremely slowly as well.

Hmmm. Its jsut about time for lunch. I think i need something yummy and warm on toast. Perhaps the closest thing i've got to comfort food now.
 
May 16 Day 44 (on this site) + one month more

Weight: 61.6kg
down 200g (but still up 600g from recent low. I wonder now if that low was only water loss. I can’t believe it. Or i don’t want to believe it. Whatever.

7.00am coffee w 1/4 cup milk
-need to make more coffee

8.30 am Breakfast
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup full cream milk
1/2 cup low fat milk
1 pear

10am: 1 cup coffee w 1/2 cup expresso

12: Lunch of comfort food
2 beef chipolatas (little sausages), 2 tomatos, 2 small chicken eggs, 2 pieces toast!!!

Yes it was a big fat lunch. Which was yummy and even more calories than i thought it was going to be. The other day i calculated all the calories for this meal minus the sausages. I was only going to make the eggs, tomatos and toast today but then i remembered i had two sausages left in the freezer which would be good to eat before i go away. So that's how the damage was done.

I probably saved about 30 calories in using a squirt of spray oil instead of 1 tsp of olive oil. I started out trying to grill the tomatos and sausages but i cut the power off and had to cook everything in the frypan in the end. Oh well. I don’t suppose the difference could have been that great.

But using an Australia calorie site, i have figured that calories in my sausages were about 285 and added to the rest of the meal which i worked out the other day, 500. That is a whopping 785 calories!!

Gawd and i’ve jsut said i’m probably not going to do any exercise this week. Oh well, tough. I’ve got to get through this week somehow and i’ll just do whatever i have to. I do know that the best thing i can do is get off my backside though and get my work done.

I am going to go and clean some lourvres right now because so far today i have cleaned three lourvres and barely started sorting my clothes and its already 1.40pm!

2pm: I’ve cleaned 23 lourvres and folded some more clothes and now i’m taking another break. At this rate, i'll be here til christmas. A glass of water would be good. ITs annoying the site is frozen today. But that could be a good thing. ...
 
I'm glad it went well with your friend! I find it awkward when people get annoyed that you lost weight.. I mean you did the work it's not like you shouldn't have some reward and you certainly don't want to stay at an unhappy weight so it makes other people feel better.

That coastguard meeting sounded not very fun. I can't believe they start at 8am. Perhaps if you make it to the meeting it won't be as bad and then you can go home right afterwards and skip all the political talk.

I love peoples wine and cheese parties! I would just snack on cheese all day long. I love cheese!

Your lunch sounds so delicious! It is a lot of calories but you are taking a big trip so I'm sure all that stored up energy will be used if you don't burn it today. I hope the rest of your days go well :)
 
Thanks Tally. Thanks for dropping by and leaving me supportive comments. Yesterday i was beginning to feel a bit sad that hardly anyone drops by given how much i support everyone. I figure i must be doing something wrong. OH well. When all is said and done, its about doing my own thing which is to keep the diary going and sticking to my plan.

But i did get through yesterday quite ok in the end. I need to go and have breakfast now and then i will update my diary.

Then i have to rush off to town.

Yesterday the forum was in lock down. It was very frustrating.
 
What do you mean by lock-down? I think I saw a while back that the forum takes ages to load for you :/ I never have that problem--Could it be your internet connection?

I'm glad you wore that dress out--Your friend should be proud of your achievements and look to you as a role model, not be jealous and bitter. And your huge lunch sounds delicious. Sorry you feel people don't stop by here too often--often I make several posts in one persons diary or just back-track through the forum to find out how people who haven't posted in a while are doing. You always seem so on track :)
 
I'm sorry I don't visibly stop by as often as I used to, Andrea. I do read your thread every time it's updated- I'm just not sure what to write sometimes as you're going so well and I don't have any suggestions for you (and while I think everyone needs a good dose of "yay you're going really well" if it's all I ever wrote on your or anyone else's thread it'd get boring- for you, me, and everyone else who sees- really quickly).
 
Thanks both Amy and Sunflower for posting and your support. I know that people do stop by and read and not comment. And it helps just knowing i am not talking to myself all the time. I realise that i make it look easy and may look as though i don't need any support. Mostly i am pretty good but i am also like anyone else and enjoy a bit of attention and value the support especially at low points. Yeah, i also have my bad moments. Yesterday was one of those.

By lockdown. i mean the forum seemed jammed. It just wouldn't load and it went on all day. It was very annoying as i really wanted to waste time here between lourvres and because of my struggling mood, i couldn't take the opportunity to just go and attack all the jobs i need to do. Sometimes when i am struggling, i tire very quickly of whatever i am doing. I seem to be only able to go for 20 minutes. Sometimes even less. Its a sort of depressive thing and again i think its probably hormonal.

But i am glad to see the forum is loading fine today.

Yes there are times when it seems a bit slow but yesterday was very slow. I don't have problems on any other forum or website, not even yesterdays so its particular to his forum. Occasionally forums have such problems.

Diary update coming in new post...
 
May 16 continued

I'm writing this on May 17 now. We had a blackout just on dark last night. Just as turned up at the house to cook dinner! What a bugger. I had to cook by candelight and its just as well we have gas.

6.30pm: Dinner
100g angel hair spaghetti w 1/2 cup precooked tomato sauce

I'd already had my shower. I thought the lights wouldn't be off for a long time but i couldn't think of anything else to do so i went to bed. The lights came on again before i was asleep but i was enjoying my lie down so much that i decided to stay there. I slept right through til this morning.

I hoped my smallish dinner made up for my breakout lunch but this morning, the scales have gone up a bit so i guess it was still too much. Oh well. I think my diet can cope with no weight loss this week. So long as i don't go and eat my banished foods.

I've come along so far now, that i am feeling even less inclined to give in to a craving than before. The craving will have to be really bad for me to give in to it. I feel i am getting stronger in my resolve with regard to sugar and even cheese, though i am sometimes tempted, i feel so certain that my strategy is right for me that i think i can hold off on that till goal weight and i might as well.
 
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