Juliette cross-training for Romèo
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Juliette1
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Thanks for the comments! :: taking a bow, listening to applause :
Woke up feeling just wonderful after an excellent nights sleep. Yesterday wasn't such a success workwise, so today I'm trying to get a lot done. I'm in a good mood, and that'll help when trying to be efficient.
Some nordic walking to be done in the evening, my arms, shoulders and neck can use the movement.
Updated the ticker once more, since today woke up -0,6kg from yesterday. It must've been just too much sodium, since yesterday I drank my 3 litres of water and ate well. Feels better to move the ticker up and down than leave it down and hope for the weight to follow.. Now I'm only up 0,4kg from the lowest weight (just after my influenza) this year, and I hope I soon reach that again.
Now back to business.. See you guys later!
Juliette
Woke up feeling just wonderful after an excellent nights sleep. Yesterday wasn't such a success workwise, so today I'm trying to get a lot done. I'm in a good mood, and that'll help when trying to be efficient.
Some nordic walking to be done in the evening, my arms, shoulders and neck can use the movement.
Updated the ticker once more, since today woke up -0,6kg from yesterday.
It must've been just too much sodium, since yesterday I drank my 3 litres of water and ate well. Feels better to move the ticker up and down than leave it down and hope for the weight to follow.. Now I'm only up 0,4kg from the lowest weight (just after my influenza) this year, and I hope I soon reach that again.Now back to business.. See you guys later!
Juliette
Juliette1
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Evening, all!
Got some good exercise in the afternoon, some work done before and after it and some nice shopping with my best friend in the evening.
Second day in a row managed to eat all my protein, fat and fibre, followed by a good amount of calories, not too much, not too little.
Right now I'm really tired but happy and on my way to bed.
Have a good Thursday evening there, wherever you are.
Juliette
Got some good exercise in the afternoon, some work done before and after it and some nice shopping with my best friend in the evening.
Second day in a row managed to eat all my protein, fat and fibre, followed by a good amount of calories, not too much, not too little.
Right now I'm really tired but happy and on my way to bed.
Have a good Thursday evening there, wherever you are.
Juliette
Juliette1
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This morning I've had the great pleasure of adjusting my ticker once more, this time 0.1kg below the lowest weight so far this year. And I reached another even number.
67 kgs is actually a significant number for me. That's where this all started almost a year and a half ago now. My weight went first very quickly down to 64, stayed there for about two months and then started coming up in an non-stoppable way for 9 kgs... There's another positive thing reaching this familiar number. When I was at this weight earlier, my waist was about 36 inches. Now its 30.3!!! So I must've changed somehow besides losing the weight. That makes also most of my then fitting clothes too big. Oh, what a pity.
I think I must have really polite friends and family, because no one, NO ONE has commented on either last years weight gain or this years weight-loss. Or then I just miraculously look exactly the same no matter what I weigh and measure... My sister has noticed it I think, because she's been giving me heaps of her clothes which are just a bit too big for her and fit me well now.
Need to go now, things to do, protein to eat.
Wishing everybody a good Friday!
Juliette
67 kgs is actually a significant number for me. That's where this all started almost a year and a half ago now. My weight went first very quickly down to 64, stayed there for about two months and then started coming up in an non-stoppable way for 9 kgs... There's another positive thing reaching this familiar number. When I was at this weight earlier, my waist was about 36 inches. Now its 30.3!!! So I must've changed somehow besides losing the weight. That makes also most of my then fitting clothes too big. Oh, what a pity.
I think I must have really polite friends and family, because no one, NO ONE has commented on either last years weight gain or this years weight-loss. Or then I just miraculously look exactly the same no matter what I weigh and measure... My sister has noticed it I think, because she's been giving me heaps of her clothes which are just a bit too big for her and fit me well now.
Need to go now, things to do, protein to eat.
Wishing everybody a good Friday!
Juliette
yay for getting a new wardrobe handmedowns are a great thing and soon enough yo'll be passing those on
people who see yu regularly and love you - will rarely notice a difference in weight -mostly they have a picture of you in their head what you look like and they may not notice a differnce... you're ntoicing and that's what counts
handmedowns are a great thing and soon enough yo'll be passing those on people who see yu regularly and love you - will rarely notice a difference in weight -mostly they have a picture of you in their head what you look like and they may not notice a differnce...
you're ntoicing and that's what counts
Juliette1
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I missed you yesterday. Had a really long and very bad day. I'm gonna start from the beginning, so this'll be a long post. Just skip to the end, if you're going to take my word for the first two sentences of this post. Look for this sign in the last lines: -> <-
Friday was a good day. Went running, then spent the evening with friends, some wine, totally included in my calories, home early.
Yesterday.. Travelling again, but only for the day. In the end managed to eat very well, 154 prot, 127 carb, 53 fat (low, but sooo much better than 90% of the time before all this), 32 fibre, 1685 kcal. Work was ok.
The bad things started happening in the evening. I've been doing a lot of volunteer work (but in the field of my specialty) for this non-profit organization. For the last four years I've been a member of the board there, allowing me to have a say in how the money generated by all of us working for free is 1) spent for the good cause or 2) to generate even more money. From eight of us alltogether there where four, who wanted to keep the costs as low as possible to have the maximum amount of money for the cause. That, of course, meant that all that we possibly could do ourselves we did. The four others where more inclined to hire people to do what they themselves didn't like to do, even if they could've.
Yesterday we had a general meeting for all the members which, among other things, chooses the board members. And for reasons partly unknown to me the other four board members introduced and spoke highly for four new candidates (two of which weren't even present) to replace us four, and we didn't even get to introduce ourselves in the same manner before the vote.
Three of us (the hardest working three, I'd say) were dropped by the voting and replaced by people who I know in advance won't even go to all of the board meetings, let alone work for this on their own free time.
The three of us were dumbfounded. Nothing to add. We've run the last two big projects. No "thanks for the work you've done", no nothing.
I can't even imagine how the next one is going to be run and by who. We had to learn all this from the beginning (8 years back), and now there are totally fresh, not willing to get their hands dirty people who think they can do it all easily or, more likely, pay to somebody to do it for them.
I have decided to give this organization a rest for a while. There's no way I'm going to work for free if the money from that is going to somebody who's running things instead of the cause. Fortunately there are other ways of doing the same for the society without going through this organization.
There's just no way of describing the feelings that went through my mind. I'm starting to cool down now, after a good nights sleep (anger is very tiring..). This has been like a hobby to me, although the same field that I work on, it has given me a different kind of social and ideological frame to do my job than the work->pay -related one. And some good fun, although right now I'm thinking, maybe I should re-evaluate that as well, knowing what some of these people think of me (a money-saving pain-in-the-ass???).
-> <- Here end's the whining session for this post..
Yesterday it was raining all things possible, today we're back to the beatiful sun shining from the clear skies. I'm working on my mood to change that way too. I'll try and get rid of the last aggression by some serious running. I thought I'd try to warm up by walking a while and then run the rest of 6 km, and see how that goes. Slowly, I think, but I'm hoping to run all the way back home anyway.
And for some time I've been thinking of this work-related project of my own, so maybe I'll take some time to plan that now. I've found that when I need to not think of something, I have to have a replacement for it. Have you ever tried of NOT THINKING THE PINK ELEPHANT???
In need of hugs here, if you can spare any...
Juliette
<-Friday was a good day. Went running, then spent the evening with friends, some wine, totally included in my calories, home early.
Yesterday.. Travelling again, but only for the day. In the end managed to eat very well, 154 prot, 127 carb, 53 fat (low, but sooo much better than 90% of the time before all this), 32 fibre, 1685 kcal. Work was ok.
The bad things started happening in the evening. I've been doing a lot of volunteer work (but in the field of my specialty) for this non-profit organization. For the last four years I've been a member of the board there, allowing me to have a say in how the money generated by all of us working for free is 1) spent for the good cause or 2) to generate even more money. From eight of us alltogether there where four, who wanted to keep the costs as low as possible to have the maximum amount of money for the cause. That, of course, meant that all that we possibly could do ourselves we did. The four others where more inclined to hire people to do what they themselves didn't like to do, even if they could've.
Yesterday we had a general meeting for all the members which, among other things, chooses the board members. And for reasons partly unknown to me the other four board members introduced and spoke highly for four new candidates (two of which weren't even present) to replace us four, and we didn't even get to introduce ourselves in the same manner before the vote.
Three of us (the hardest working three, I'd say) were dropped by the voting and replaced by people who I know in advance won't even go to all of the board meetings, let alone work for this on their own free time.
The three of us were dumbfounded. Nothing to add. We've run the last two big projects. No "thanks for the work you've done", no nothing.
I can't even imagine how the next one is going to be run and by who. We had to learn all this from the beginning (8 years back), and now there are totally fresh, not willing to get their hands dirty people who think they can do it all easily or, more likely, pay to somebody to do it for them.
I have decided to give this organization a rest for a while. There's no way I'm going to work for free if the money from that is going to somebody who's running things instead of the cause. Fortunately there are other ways of doing the same for the society without going through this organization.
There's just no way of describing the feelings that went through my mind. I'm starting to cool down now, after a good nights sleep (anger is very tiring..). This has been like a hobby to me, although the same field that I work on, it has given me a different kind of social and ideological frame to do my job than the work->pay -related one. And some good fun, although right now I'm thinking, maybe I should re-evaluate that as well, knowing what some of these people think of me (a money-saving pain-in-the-ass???).
->
<- Here end's the whining session for this post..Yesterday it was raining all things possible, today we're back to the beatiful sun shining from the clear skies. I'm working on my mood to change that way too. I'll try and get rid of the last aggression by some serious running. I thought I'd try to warm up by walking a while and then run the rest of 6 km, and see how that goes. Slowly, I think, but I'm hoping to run all the way back home anyway.
And for some time I've been thinking of this work-related project of my own, so maybe I'll take some time to plan that now. I've found that when I need to not think of something, I have to have a replacement for it. Have you ever tried of NOT THINKING THE PINK ELEPHANT???
In need of hugs here, if you can spare any...
Juliette
Juliette1
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The above was very short lived dream. A snow storm hit the city a little after I wrote that, so yesterday I didn't do anything. Very appropriate for a Sunday, of course. Today back to work again. From Wednesday a short holiday, at the moment I don't have any work until Monday next week.
These are the numbers of this Monday.
I am not panicking.
I am not panicking. I am not panicking. Weight 67.4 kg (67.2 kg)
Body fat 28.0% (27.8%)
Muscle mass 33.7% (33.7%)
Body water 52.5% (52.6%)
See you on Tuesday night...
Juliette
Juliette1
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Calculate the calories&nutrients of different dishes
Hello!
I suggested this spreadsheet to Photocrazed who was asking for ideas for calculating calories for home made foods. Thought I'd post it here as well.
It's a very simple model where you need to enter the amount and nutritional info for everything you put in the dish and it gives you the nutrients in the whole amount you prepared as well as a reasonably accurate number for the portion you ate (if you enter the amount you ate). This is a zip, so unzip it first and then it opens with Excel or OpenOffice.org Calc.
If you don't use nutrients per 100g and amounts in grams, just be sure you use the same unit for everything. If it gives you really weird numbers, there might be some unit discrepancy.
Feel free to ask questions, and I'll help as well as I can.. Modifying allowed, I'd love to have the latest versions though.
Wishing you interesting calculations!
Juliette
Nutritional info on foods in English, Swedish and Finnish at
Hello!
I suggested this spreadsheet to Photocrazed who was asking for ideas for calculating calories for home made foods. Thought I'd post it here as well.
It's a very simple model where you need to enter the amount and nutritional info for everything you put in the dish and it gives you the nutrients in the whole amount you prepared as well as a reasonably accurate number for the portion you ate (if you enter the amount you ate). This is a zip, so unzip it first and then it opens with Excel or OpenOffice.org Calc.
If you don't use nutrients per 100g and amounts in grams, just be sure you use the same unit for everything. If it gives you really weird numbers, there might be some unit discrepancy.
Feel free to ask questions, and I'll help as well as I can.. Modifying allowed, I'd love to have the latest versions though.
Wishing you interesting calculations!
Juliette
Nutritional info on foods in English, Swedish and Finnish at
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hugs i can spare and a lot of them so i'll start by a big one *hugs*
i actually know completely how you feel. i used to volunteer for an NGO where i was similarly treated after doing practically all the work. later i was more of a freelancer among several NGO's where i didn't participate in any financial schemes, i did practical work...i didn't want anything to do with budget ever again...i found it more rewarding. i'm sure you'll find a way to work for the cause.
btw good for not panicking lol
have a great day
Lena
i actually know completely how you feel. i used to volunteer for an NGO where i was similarly treated after doing practically all the work. later i was more of a freelancer among several NGO's where i didn't participate in any financial schemes, i did practical work...i didn't want anything to do with budget ever again...i found it more rewarding. i'm sure you'll find a way to work for the cause.
btw good for not panicking lol
have a great day
Lena
Juliette1
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Thanks, Lena! I hope your day is going well!
After the initial shock I'm starting to feel better about the whole thing. I'll find better ways to use all that energy which is now available.
And to keep the panic in bay I looked at some of my stats two months ago. If I'm not visibly moving forward in my goals right now, I'm at least nowhere near the numbers I was in January 21st... And overall I'm feeling so much better, that the numbers don't really matter.
And NO WORK today (and for the rest of the week!!!), so I'm free as a bird and am planning to go running a bit later today.
Juliette
After the initial shock I'm starting to feel better about the whole thing. I'll find better ways to use all that energy which is now available.
And to keep the panic in bay I looked at some of my stats two months ago. If I'm not visibly moving forward in my goals right now, I'm at least nowhere near the numbers I was in January 21st...
And overall I'm feeling so much better, that the numbers don't really matter.And NO WORK today (and for the rest of the week!!!), so I'm free as a bird and am planning to go running a bit later today.
Juliette
enjoy the days off - what a nice treat to be off midweek
Juliette1
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I've had really bad luck lately with my exercise plans and weather. It seems I look outside, it's shining, I make plans to go running, I look outside again, and there's a 1) snowstorm (Sunday) or 2) rainstorm (yesterday).
SO, as right now the sun's not shining, if I go there really fast, will it rain before I get home?
More news about the weather in Northern Europe later in our next bulletin.
Juliette
SO, as right now the sun's not shining, if I go there really fast, will it rain before I get home?
More news about the weather in Northern Europe later in our next bulletin.
Juliette
Juliette1
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No rain today! Got my running done, so here I am again, with enough endorphins in my blood for peace of nations and happiness for everyone.
I ran for 5 kms after having warmed up by walking 10 minutes/1 km. No great speed today, since my aim was to be able to do other things today as well.
As living nowadays seems to be endless calculating this and that, here goes:
I ran 5 kms in 31 minutes today. That makes my average speed 9,68 km/h. Since for my goal I need to be able to run a steady 12 km/h, I need to pump up the speed. I have a little more than five weeks, so I'm optimistic. I'm not running on a track, so there are hills etc. and it makes this interesting. After about 3 kms I usually start getting a little bored. Would anybody know any inspirational reading on running technique? I'd love to have something fresh to think about...
I decided to put a little something to my sig, so I can see where I am on my goal. And also, I try to reach my goal and really run 6 km in under 30 minutes on April 30th, since May 1st is usually a no good day to exercise AT ALL.
Now I'm off to run some chores, see you all later!
Juliette
I ran for 5 kms after having warmed up by walking 10 minutes/1 km. No great speed today, since my aim was to be able to do other things today as well.
As living nowadays seems to be endless calculating this and that, here goes:
I ran 5 kms in 31 minutes today. That makes my average speed 9,68 km/h. Since for my goal I need to be able to run a steady 12 km/h, I need to pump up the speed. I have a little more than five weeks, so I'm optimistic. I'm not running on a track, so there are hills etc. and it makes this interesting. After about 3 kms I usually start getting a little bored. Would anybody know any inspirational reading on running technique? I'd love to have something fresh to think about...
I decided to put a little something to my sig, so I can see where I am on my goal. And also, I try to reach my goal and really run 6 km in under 30 minutes on April 30th, since May 1st is usually a no good day to exercise AT ALL.
Now I'm off to run some chores, see you all later!
Juliette
great times with your running - mucho impressed... well done..
well done..
Juliette1
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Thanks Mal and Lena!
It's amazing how I feel after a good run. I try to run every second or third day, so that I keep it fresh and my body has time to recover in between.
Today I have a general cleaning and cooking day. I have friends coming to visit for the weekend and they arrive tonight. Tomorrow some light shopping, hiking and then there's a party we all to go to in the evening.
Weather forecast says 10-15 degrees Celsius for the weekend so maybe the spring really is here. The first songbirds have returned, I trust they know what they're doing.
A little update on nutrition and weight
For 28 days now I've been eating at least 130 g of protein and 60 g fat daily. That much I can do on any given day. I aim for 147 and 73 grams and have been able to reach those numbers maybe every third day. Kcalories vary between 1600-1900. If I compare my eating habits to the ones pre-Steve (50-60 g protein and 20-40 g fat, 1200-1500 kcal), I'm quite amazed. I've been able to change.
My weight today (after the set-back from travelling and fluctuating after that) has come down to the level it was at lowest before (which was during the influenza, ate practically nothing for a week, veeeeery healthy indeed).
Weight 67.0 kg
Body fat 27.8%
Muscle mass 33.7%
Body water 52.7%
Given the fact that my kcals are about 400 a day higher than before, I'd call this a successful experiment so far. Counting from the last weigh-in before I started this (19.2.), I've gone down -1.0 kgs and -0.8 fat% even when for about two weeks of the time I travelled and ate what I could when I could and got almost no exercise.
Since I got my BMI under 25 (now 24,6) my goal has been to
1) eat healthily, be good to my body
2) get the muscle % moving and
3) let the weight go further down, but put emphasis on 1) and 2).
1) is going well. Now that I'm back to exercising regularly, I have a chance to do something about 2). And I'm seriously considering closeting my scales for a while, if it helps in not obsessing about 3).
I secretly wish (don't tell anyone..) I could drop a further 4 kilos by June 22nd. That's 13 weeks from now, so achieving that would require my weight going down 0.31 kgs a week. That does sound doable, but since I'm at the moment not willing to drop my calories lower than this, it all comes down to the amount of exercise I get done. We'll see.
I think it's good to have more strings than one pulling you to the same direction. This and the running goal will hopefully keep me going.
Was going to write sorry for a long post, but this is my diary. I guess I should visit here more often..
Juliette
It's amazing how I feel after a good run. I try to run every second or third day, so that I keep it fresh and my body has time to recover in between.
Today I have a general cleaning and cooking day. I have friends coming to visit for the weekend and they arrive tonight. Tomorrow some light shopping, hiking and then there's a party we all to go to in the evening.
Weather forecast says 10-15 degrees Celsius for the weekend so maybe the spring really is here. The first songbirds have returned, I trust they know what they're doing.
A little update on nutrition and weight
For 28 days now I've been eating at least 130 g of protein and 60 g fat daily. That much I can do on any given day. I aim for 147 and 73 grams and have been able to reach those numbers maybe every third day. Kcalories vary between 1600-1900. If I compare my eating habits to the ones pre-Steve (50-60 g protein and 20-40 g fat, 1200-1500 kcal), I'm quite amazed. I've been able to change.
My weight today (after the set-back from travelling and fluctuating after that) has come down to the level it was at lowest before (which was during the influenza, ate practically nothing for a week, veeeeery healthy indeed).
Weight 67.0 kg
Body fat 27.8%
Muscle mass 33.7%
Body water 52.7%
Given the fact that my kcals are about 400 a day higher than before, I'd call this a successful experiment so far. Counting from the last weigh-in before I started this (19.2.), I've gone down -1.0 kgs and -0.8 fat% even when for about two weeks of the time I travelled and ate what I could when I could and got almost no exercise.
Since I got my BMI under 25 (now 24,6) my goal has been to
1) eat healthily, be good to my body
2) get the muscle % moving and
3) let the weight go further down, but put emphasis on 1) and 2).
1) is going well. Now that I'm back to exercising regularly, I have a chance to do something about 2). And I'm seriously considering closeting my scales for a while, if it helps in not obsessing about 3).
I secretly wish (don't tell anyone..) I could drop a further 4 kilos by June 22nd. That's 13 weeks from now, so achieving that would require my weight going down 0.31 kgs a week. That does sound doable, but since I'm at the moment not willing to drop my calories lower than this, it all comes down to the amount of exercise I get done. We'll see.
I think it's good to have more strings than one pulling you to the same direction. This and the running goal will hopefully keep me going.
Was going to write sorry for a long post, but this is my diary. I guess I should visit here more often..
Juliette
daiseeangel
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my scale is closeted too!
the darn thing just refuses to tell me what i want to hear!
anways, hope you have a great morning!
the darn thing just refuses to tell me what i want to hear!
anways, hope you have a great morning!
Juliette1
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anways, hope you have a great morning!
Thanks, I did.
Now I'm off to cook (and do the cleaning I should've done when the drama hear swallowed me) before my friends arrive. Some seriously good eating and a bit of wine-drinking expected.
Have a fun Friday night, all of you out there!!!
Juliette