Losing Weight in the Land of Chocolate and Cheese!

Oh, I forgot to say how much I love the pic of you with your mum :)

I am OVER THE MOON (which is even higher than the rainbow), that you are making so much progress with the physio! Its probably a little bit like losing weight, you have lots of small victories, that alll add up, and at the end you've reached your goal.

Bike blog? What bike blog?! x
 
There was a link around page 1 or 2 I think :)
Found it for you if you want
You have been warned though, it will make you jealous and you will not be able to stop reading :p
 
:D You guys make me giggle! yeah we have a bike blog... It's LOOOOONG! And my hubby wrote a lot of it, especially near the end as my excitement level seriously waned...

Thanks for being excited about my mini progress steps at physio, rainbow. Yeah, I s'pose it is a bit like losing weight in that way! I'm past being pissed off about my foot though - my other 'good' foot is now a major problem too, seeing as it has had to deal with a lot of crap from my bad foot... but I'll get there.

FOOD YESTERDAY
I went into Lucerne with my mama yesterday and we spend about 6 hours walking eVERYWHERE - up mountains, across mountains, around lakes, etc. And so, when my mum, the weight loss guru, said 'Oh, you can have one, you've done enough exercise today to warrant it!" I just did. I don't really want to post my food though, for fear of ridicule from you lot. But DAMN those yummies were splendidly yummy!

Also, I've been struggling with breakfast again. I really didn't want cereal, and then my cottage cheese had gone off (which it tends to do pre-used by date) so maybe that's one of the reasons I splurged.

Breakfast: 1 wholewheat cracker. Two slices of 'swiss' cheese (all cheese here is swiss, haha, but you know what I mean. It's Emmentaller cheese ;))
Snack: Small milk coffee and a little strawberry tart from this famous Lucerne bakery. Damn it was incredible!
Lunch: Asian chicken noodle salad with steamed greens - I know this had exactly 492Cal.
snack: plain muffin (here is where I'm bracing myself against ridicule. Me and muffins!)
Dinner: my version pad thai - made with mostly cabbage and just a tiny amount of noodles.

Feels like, at a VERY rough estimate, I had about 1800 cals today. Hoping I burnt off 600 of those though...
 
I found a new cafe. Oh my god, did I find a new cafe. It is heaven in a cafe. My novel will be finished there, I have no doubt. AND they have skinny decaf options for coffee - my god! I'll post some pics later when I bring my camera.

Better day today, so far anyway :) Mum and I went for a long walk down and around part of the lake, and jumped in for a 45 minute swim. Was sooo lovely! Ate a couple of sweet strawberries as a snack, and I'm just generally feeling the good life today.

I've been doing A LOT of walking since my parents have been here (tour de France with masses of walking every day, my walking tour of zurich, walking tours and hikes around lucerne, and just the fact that everywhere I usually go by bike I am now going by foot) and my foot has been really good! So my mama, being the angel that she is, bought me a new work-out shirt, now that I can comfortably walk again for fitness! And it makes me want to go out walking! Wish I could go out running and join katie-honey-bunches in the C25K challenge! One day...

p.s. Ignore my hair - I just got home from the lake :)
 
The cafe sounds wonderful...inspiration will be abundant I am sure :)

Your work out/walking out fit..looks great...so fit!! Your hair looks like you just kicked some ass!! LOL Wear it proud :)
 
Oh, Wow!!! You look great in your pic. So so slim. Cool work out outfit too, Give it a few months and you'll be doing your C25K too. Xxx
 
How dare you post such a skinny photo, of you looking skinny. This is a fat forum!!!! FAT!!!! Lol. I love the top, and I bet it really brings out your eyes.

YOU NEEDED THEM 1800 CALORIES after that girl :) You seem to be back to your active self, climbing up mountains for hours one day, and swimming in the lake the next :) And all without your feet being too bad! Yahhhooooo :D

I am on page 22 of your bike blog, and loving it :D At the beginning you were so up and down about basically ridding yourself of all your material possessions, but you haven't talked about not having much stuff so far. Oh, and I didn't know you were a teacher :) It sounds completely incredible. Looks like you have met so many lovely people along your travels :)

Heres some random things I liked
*You slept in a fitness room!
*You almost rode into a buffalo/bull, and there was hares.
*The incredible clouds.
*That you werent a very good tourist, you got to the museum too late AGAIN!!!!
*You sang and played gutar at a school. I loved everything you wrote about music
*And photography
*Dunc loved your cooking (thai red curry)
*You timed how long it took to put up your tent, and got down to 13 minutes
*Your lovely descriptions of the places, I felt like I was there.
*Oh, sod it, I liked everything!

Oh, except the stalker thing, god I was so scared for you even though I know its all over now. You must have felt so vulnerable alone in the tent with a pshyco running about. And that you were freeeezing your tits off. But you found a nice warm fleecy coat. And that you were ill and couldn't go and see the Roman ruins.

Can't wait to see how you eventually decided to settle in Zurich :D

Off to read the rest now.......
 
Ah, you know I love you guys but I have only ONE MINUTE! SERIOUSLY! What has become of my life?

Will reply to you all later, and to YOU, Rainbow, and your INSANITY of reading so much of my crazy cycling blog! :D

FOOD TODAY (will really try to get on here tomorrow morn and figure out the cals.)
- large milk coffee
- oven baked potato (no fat) with steamed veg
- small white bread roll with tuna and pickles
- 5 strawberries
- roast chicken (small piece skinless breast, steamed corn and brocolli, dry-roasted carrot, sweet potato and onion. No gravy, no proper roast potatoes)
 
I am rrrrrrrrreally hoping your in florence right now! I thought it was next monday your going! But maybe its today....... I hope you haven't just gone awol madam.
 
Wonderful diet it is but if you would add cabbage soup in your daily diet
i am sure it would give you more benefit in losing your weight.
Thanks
 
Oh i'm gonna try reading your cycle blog. I like them but i am sooo lazy with blog reading but i also like looking at the pictures. I hope you've got some pictures up.

Joh, i've started posting on photoblog but as i lost pics i had to start it on the 10th day. Soon on here i will link to it.

Since rainbow liked your blog, i'm sure i will like it too.

I hope you are enjoying florence.
 
So I'm in Florence!!! I've brought my computer, but I don't have any internet at this spectacular little find of a hotel my mum and I are at! Even so I'm writing down my food every night before bed (though perhaps it's insanely boring for you all). I think it'll be interesting for me to see what 'relaxing my diet' means when I'm in Italy... I've decided that I'm still going to try everything, just not have a lot of it. That's my plan.
Meanwhile... WOW Florence is spectacular. I think the fact that I really had not done my research made the whole thing blow me away with its grandeur. Every turn we made (mostly when we were lost), we ran into another enormous basilica or cathedral. And my mum and I travel in exactly the same languid way - a lot of people watching in cafes, a lot of spontenaiety, a lot of wandering and getting lost. Oh, and looking in shop windows :)

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Monday - Florence Day one!
Breakfast- special K with skim milk (5.45am),
Snack - croissant (9am)
Lunch - 1/2 entree-sized bowl of pasta with meat/tomato sauce, 1/2 large mixed salad with olive oil and balsamic
Snack - 1 slice bruschetta, 1/2 scoop rockmelon sorbet
Dinner - 1/2 thin veg pizza, 1/2 mixed salad

Drinks - small milk coffee, 150ml lemonade, strong black iced coffee, 200ml peach iced tea
Exercise - HOURS of wandering around :)
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Tuesday - Cooking class!
Breakfast: 1 slice multigrain bread, 2 slices brie cheese, 2 slices salami
Snack: 1 sundried cherry tomato
Lunch: 1 slice bruschetta, mixed salad, home-made pasta with meat and red wine sauce, 1/3 serving tiramisu
Snack: -
Dinner: 1/2 thin ham and mushroom pizza, 1/2 mixed salad

Drinks: 1/2 cappucino, grapefruit juice, home-made lemonade
Exercise: MORE wandering! Just hours and hours of wandering...

Thoughts: I spoke to my mum about my struggles with breakfast, and how I can never really get itno a proper routine that sticks. I even admitted to my old routine, the only ever one tha tI have stuck with, which was to go out every morning before work and sit at my local cafe, get a raspberry and white chocolate muffin and a soy latte and spend an hour and a half getting myself ready for my lessons. Which is hard for me to admit to my mum.
She talked about her usual breakfast (a combination of oats, quinoa, cranberries, linseed, sunflower seeds, chia, pepitas and flaked almonds), and how she takes it into the garden and spends twenty minutes eating it and not doing anything else. Not checking email, not reading a paper or a book, bothing. She sits and thinks about how she is nourishing her body, how this is setting her up for a healthy day, thinks about all the people that were involved in bringing this food to her - the farmers, the pickers, the transport people, everyone.
I think this is really beautiful. It's like her daily meditation, she says. I really wish I could do this, and I'm going to try.
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decisionmaker said:
And my mum and I travel in exactly the same languid way - a lot of people watching in cafes, a lot of spontenaiety, a lot of wandering and getting lost. Oh, and looking in shop windows :)

I think this is really beautiful. It's like her daily meditation, she says. I really wish I could do this, and I'm going to try.
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Your mum sounds wonderful and I would like to adopt her...lol...while I love my own crazy mom..she is older and unhealthy and her idea of travel is to the slot machines at the casinos twice a year!! I wouldn't trade her for anything she and my dad are unbelievably giving and loving...but I sure wouldn't mind having memories like that with her either...what a treasure! :)
 
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH... I'm HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME. Back to normal life. Just dropped my gorgeous mama at the airport and this is the first alone time I've had in a loooong time. Missed you guys! Thanks for looking out for me, and sorry for giving you all a bit of a scare!

So food continued pretty much along that vein for the next two days, with hours of walking every day. I was worried I'd have put on weight while I was there, what with pasta and gelato and pizza... but nup! I did good! I did have all those things, but not very much of it. Today I weigh 82.7kg. Eighty two point something. This is insanity. :)

SOOOOOO happy about being able to reclaim my life again! LOVED spending time with my mama - that was so fantastic - but I haven't spoken to any friends, haven't been able to get on here, haven't been able to even really READ my email, not even THINK about doing any writing...

Tetem she absolutely IS a treasure. I think we both know how lucky we are that our relationship is so great, and that we both really value the same things. She is really good for my spirit.

44 good luck with my crazy blog! I can't believe everyone here is reading it :) I did try to make it reasonably entertaining, but I think you can pretty much see my health and patience deteriorating as time went on... which is interesting in itself!

Rainbow you are an angel for reading everything! You made my day when I read what you wrote about my blog, and my man's day too. You're an angel. xxx
 
:) Missed you too!!!!!

Omg, you posted when you were away, and I didn't even realise! Sorry! I just assumed you wouldn't be because of the ridiculous internet access price. Eeeek.

It sounds like you had such a lovely time. I love just wandering aimlessly for 80% of the time, I find that if you plan for every second its somehow takes some of the joy and spontaneity out of it. You have to plan a certain amount with kids though.

Your food sounds gorgeous, and you ate all that yumminess, and the scales have still gone down :D Wooohoooo!

Your mum sounds like such a nice person. I love that eating breakfast is almost a form of meditation for her. Its so good to be really mindful of every bite, thinking about the actions that brought it to the table rather than just taking it for granted. People could learn a lot from that. She seems to be very perceptive and calm. Bet your going to miss her.

A couple of years ago I bought a multipack of jam dougnuts to share with my bf every morning whist reading the paper. So bad!

Now, you've got all this time to yourself again! I'm glad you can get started on your writing again :D
 
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Yeah, I'm going to miss her...

Feeling fat today. Looking at my reflection in shop windows and feeling reallllly grumpy that I'm not skinny yet. I know you guys all thing I'm looking good, but I figured that I'd be looking better by now. My legs are still all lumpy and swollen-looking and just generally yuk.It makes me sad that even at this weight I still hate them.

Having a bit of a shite day today actually. I'm vowing to pick myself up out of my funk by the time my man gets home... I'm really looking forward to having him ALL TO MYSELF ALL NIGHT LONG! hehehe. I'm planning a really nice dinner too.

Sorry for my dismal mood. I hate how one little thing can upset me and set me in a bad mood for such a long time. I really envy people who can get mad and then get over it five min later. I just had a stupid driver get mad at me for absolutely no bloody reason, and then a really rude guy shut a door in my face really hard so that it actually really hurt my shoulder... I dunno. It just set me in a bad mood.

And of course, as a result, my eating has turned to shite.
 
Heya
Great to see you back and your holiday sounded wonderful.

I totally understand what you mean. I always find one little thing can put me on a downer or piss me off and i can wallow in it all day.
My dad gets angry and explodes then 10 seconds later it is all forgotten but my i sulk for hours, sometimes days. I would love to be like dad but i'm not. I wonder if other people realise what their actions have. I bet they would be different if they realised how it affects people like us.

Anyway, glad to see you're back and you will feel in a better mood soon. Big hug!! Xx
 
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