Introducing myself and filling in the gaps from my diary

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Hello all, I thought I would do a brief introduction and fill in a few gaps that I left off the diary I just started.

As I said in my diary, I am a 51 year old. I am a New Zealander, but have been living in Australia for 30 years with my Australian husband. We live in a very small country town,(pop 1200) about 30kms out of a major city. I live on a couple of acres, with my husband and our 3 dogs. I work with the elderly and just love it.

In my diary I talk about walking into town to get the mail. This is because we have no postal service. Everyone goes to our general store to collect the mail. A lot of the time we just collect the mail by car on our way home from work. When we first moved out here (4 years ago) I used to walk down to collect the mail. Great walk, very scenic, a couple of good hills, and about a 6km round trip. These day's I hardly ever walk that route.

I have a lot of trouble with my knees these days, and I don't know if they are playing up because of the extra weight I am carrying, or are they really packing up. I do know that I use them as an excuse not to walk. I actually find a lot of excuses not to exercise these days.

Here is a link to my diary for anyone that is interested http://weight-loss.fitness.com/weight-loss-diary/37486-my-diary-how-i-will-pay-myself-exercise.html

K

 

[Trusylver]

Welcome to the forum

 

[Omega]

Welcome to the forum.

I notice from your plan (as it is outlined in your three postings to date) is based almost solely on additional walking and not having food as certain treats while walking.

Firm control of nutrition tends to play a much bigger part in successful weight control which is maintained...

I suggest that you get a free account from and log your profile information, food eaten and exercise. You will thus be able to see how the calories that you burn balances out against those that you eat. The sad fact is that as we get older we burn less calories as we do the same amount of exercise. This is sad as I am 50 years old and 5ft3 myself...

Fitday is not just a calorie counter - but also gives a full breakdown of the nutritional content of your food. Many people firmly believe that they eat a well balanced diet until they check this out. If you study the nutrition content of this forum (and other forums where I am involved) you will be able to set targets for yourself regarding such nutrients as protein, calcium, fibre, healthy fats, sodium etc in order to benefit from both optimum health and optimum weight loss. Most people find that they have to work hard for a while to get the balance right.

 

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Welcome to the forum.

I notice from your plan (as it is outlined in your three postings to date) is based almost solely on additional walking and not having food as certain treats while walking.

Firm control of nutrition tends to play a much bigger part in successful weight control which is maintained...

I suggest that you get a free account from and log your profile information, food eaten and exercise. You will thus be able to see how the calories that you burn balances out against those that you eat. The sad fact is that as we get older we burn less calories as we do the same amount of exercise. This is sad as I am 50 years old and 5ft3 myself...

Fitday is not just a calorie counter - but also gives a full breakdown of the nutritional content of your food. Many people firmly believe that they eat a well balanced diet until they check this out. If you study the nutrition content of this forum (and other forums where I am involved) you will be able to set targets for yourself regarding such nutrients as protein, calcium, fibre, healthy fats, sodium etc in order to benefit from both optimum health and optimum weight loss. Most people find that they have to work hard for a while to get the balance right.

Omega thanks for the welcome. I am sorry you didn't stop at the welcome though. While I accept that your intentions are well meaning and that this is a public forum, so I am open to everyones opinion, (as you are in return open to mine). I have clearly outlined in my diary how I got to this point in my life, so yes my plan is based on walking and limiting treats. For me this will work because I recognise that they have become my biggest problem; and I need to motivate myself to do something about them. It is a pity that as I have been a member less than 24 hours you have not given me any opportunity to have any success or failure before you came in offering advice on trying methods I had stated I was not interested in at this point in time.

Sorry if this puts me off to a bad start as a newbie.