Losing Weight in the Land of Chocolate and Cheese!

Ah, your time of the month. No bubba taking root in there yet. But I'll let you off as your parents were over :) Just looked online about how long it takes to conceive, it takes a lot longer than I thought. I obviously wasn't listening in sex education classes (maybe thats why charlie and lily came along unplanned lol), so half of trying couple get preggers in 6 months, and most of the rest are 6-12 months. Hurry up baby!!!!! I can't wait for you to get pregnant. Please don't keep it secret from us for 12 weeks! I will be monitoring your periods/lack of them closely madam :) I might even go back over your diary and mark your cycle on my calender :rofl:.

How have you found switching to decaf coffee?
 
Heya sweeite

I AM MAKING BANOFFEE PIE FOR TOMORROW!!! HOW EXCITING! I am gonna eat really well all day so i can have some and hopefully not go over my calories!!
 
Cate You are so so sweet. :) That's three S's too! I am feeling pretty proud... It's really nice!

Becky HI!!!! Hahaha I think it's so weird that someone would sit and read through my WHOLE diary! And I'm on page thirty now! I'm such a blabber. Thanks so much for reading though - it is so nice to have someone comment like that! You are completely right though, I have definitely had lots of ups and downs, good days and bad days, and yet I have still managed to lose weight. It's nice to think about that when I have a day when I feel like throwing the towel in... Congrats with such an incredible loss of your own! You are doing so well already!

Rainbow LOL! You totally would do that. No, no baby yet. and my period came about five days before I expected it to, so cest la vie. No stress! We're having fun in the meantime! And it's no surprise really, considering my parents kinda put a spanner in the works a bit... :) I certainly won't keep it a secret - you guys are somehow different to the rest of the world. ;) Oh, and I don't notice the difference with decaf - all the coffee here is pretty shite anyway, and this lovely new cafe makes better decaf than all the others make usual. So I'm a happy chicky. And I don't notice the difference with my reaction to it either...

Katie thanks for saying I look great in my glasses! I haven't been able to wear contacts for a year now, and I hate that I'm one of those people that look strange now without their glasses on... But at least you and Cate think they look good! And YAY for banoffee pie on your BIIIIIRTHDAYYYY!!!!!!!!!!! Live it up!

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Today

NETBALL!!!!!!!!!! WOOO!!! I went and it was GREAT! I did a lot of the coaching, I did the umpiring, and I did all of the drills at the start. I didn't play the game, but I did the other running! And it felt GREAT! SOOOO HAPPY! Everyone was so excited to see me back, too, and lots of people were coming to me for netball advice, so I felt really loved. Yipppeee!

I choose not to mention the fact that I dropped a chair on my foot this afternoon and caused insane amounts of bruising and pain across the top. Just before I went to netball. But I gritted my teeth, put on my sneakers and just ran through the pain. Hard core. Funny, right? :banghead:

FOOD was better today. Phew.
- Porridge with a spoonful of stewed apricots
- chicken salad with yoghurt dressing
- 2 small skim decaf coffees
- (before netball) small bowl left-over risotto
- (after netball) 2 slices bruschetta


THANKS to everyone for making me feel so great about myself!!!:grouphug:
 
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:( still hungry. hungry hungry hungry. hungry hungry hungry hungry hungry hungry hungry.

But it's 10.30pm. So I am not going to have some sorbet. Or some dark chocolate. Or some cheese. mmmmmmm....

I will drink water. So... satisfying. ?
 
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:( still hungry. hungry hungry hungry. hungry hungry hungry hungry hungry hungry hungry.

But it's 10.30pm. So I am not going to have some sorbet. Or some dark chocolate. Or some cheese. mmmmmmm....

I will drink water. So... satisfying. ?
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:piggy: Seems like a recurring theme around here this week....We all have the crazy munchies!!! Hope yours goes away soon!!

And PLEASE BECAREFUL!!!!! we have a NET BALL season to get ready for!! :willy_nilly:
 
:) Thanks Tetem!!! Yeah I was really careful... It was hard to say no to playing and that I'd just umpire. my running was all very slow and very springy - I tried to reduce the impact. So little by little...
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Put on 0.5kg today. Delayed Onset Weight Gain (DOWG). I've not put on any weight pre-period, which I usually do, and my eating has been a tad shite (okay, more than a tad)... though I still hadn't put on weight... Hence D.O.W.G.

I need to eat more protein. MORE PROTEIN, woman! I find it hard... I'm not a fan of eggs. And I don't want to be eating lots of meat... it's so expensive over here and I have my own reasons for not wanting to eat lots of it. Sure, I can happily eat cheese all day, but they don't really do the low-fat dairy here. And cottage cheese isn't really versatile as a protein. So... tofu?
 
Heya sweetie.
I always find the week after my period is when i don't lose and can gain. I tend to lose ok when i am about to come on. Maybe it's that but whatever it is don't stress it hun. Just stand infront of the mirror...........Bloody look at you!!!!!

Thank you sooooooo much for your post, i knew you would be pleased for me. I imagined you clapping your hands and screaching when you read that i did it while i was running. That's what kept me going for the last few minutes when i began to struggle.
You're awesome!!!!!!
 
Awww... Kate you make me all teary!!! You should have heard my little squeal when I read your diary! You did it! :) Thanks for the advice too... we'll see how I got for Friday's weigh-in. Hmm....

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Happy with my breaky today... but had big cravings again in the afternoon. Not THOSE kind of cravings. Just that bloody HUNGER! Managed not to eat anything since 7pm though...

Tracking my cals today though...

FOOD - 1599 Cal
- Porridge with milk and with dried cranberries (371Cal)
- Skim decaf coffee (70)
- Asian chicken noodle salad (241Cal) with edamame (55Cal)
- chinese mung bean pastry things, like dim sum (BAAAAAD for me. I went to the Asian supermarket and just bought them. Then had THREE. 420Cal)
- Leftover egglant and spinach curry with a little rice (320), 80g marinated chicken breast (93Cal - PROTEIN!) and a paratha (210)
- 1/2 dark choc bounty (139)
 
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Wooohooooooo, so glad netball went well and you went back and felt nice and loved by everyone :D

Oh my god, I missed your attack of the hungries. Where have I beeeeen? You coped with them okay today though, only 1600 cals and half a bounty. You are still in control, and soon the dreaded munchies will be gone. They come and go them munchies. Like things that come and go. Like the gnat that keeps landing on my computer screen. Thank you gnat, for that evasive similie/metaphor thingy. Ooops, I'm writing on a former english teachers page and I am confusing my thingamebobs. I know this one though- The boy bumped his bike on the boat. That one is alliteration. :D

I love the "Keep calm and carry on" slogan thingy. Its what I always tell myself when I feel like raiding the fridge/chocolate shop. It doesn't often work. But I still love it. In general.

I'm loving the new acronym, even if I don't love what it stands for. Boo hissssss. Them scales will be back down again in no time. x

You've done well with having breakfast for two days running :)
 
Gosh so much to catch up on.

YOu are indeed a beautiful woman. When all is said and done the face is much more important than the body. Pictures and styles i like are the ones in trousers and jeans. I am not so keen on the red top and skirt. I think it looks too loose and officey. But that's just me. Does it really matter what i think.

The bruschetta sounds delish. I"m going to try it asap. I thought it was supposed to be cooked but i see its only the toast that needs to be cooked. I wonder if i can do it for lunch today....

Its nice that there's another cycling blog mention. I tell you cycle touring is the next big thing and just wait till you all hear about my cycle touring business. I want everyone to spread the word and if possible get on the bandwagon.

About cycling bums (pardon the pun). Someone said to me your bum gets used to it after a bit. I later realised that perhaps what happens is that we lose weight and a skinnier arse is more comfortable on a bike seat than a fat one. But there are also other factors like a decent seat, is the seat level and so on. This comment is largely directed to tetm. Tetm, have you seen the link to my recent trip. Its in my diary.

Speaking of bums. I don't think you need to worry about yours at all. A lot of men like a curvy bum. And its much better to have a big fat one (which is not actually your lot anyway) than a non-existent one.

Don't worry about if we are judging your writing. We are not. I am not anyway. I am excited to know that you are writing a novel. Feel free to comment here about it. I Love any sort of personal journey, that's why i like diaries.

I hope you wont feel hurt that i didn't like the skirt and top outfit. Isn't it so nice to have a hubby who is excited about your emerging body. It must be doing great things for your sex life.
 

TODAY

Don't know what's up with me. I feel like my hunger and my afternoon munchies are like what they were back in april. Don't know what I'm going to do about it... tried all sorts of things to distract myself this arvo (played guitar for three hours, learnt a bunch of new songs, went out to write, did yoga... ) but still was hungry.

Meh.
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Rainbow * I know! You've missed my munchies attack! But you've been busy with those seven hours of housework and all ;) Crazy woman! Thanks for giving me props for my breaky. I'm trying, but it doesn't seem to be holding off my munchies!

Fortyfour :) Thanks SO much for saying I'm a beautiful woman! You made my tummy do a flip! I think it's funny that you don't like the skirt and top picture so much... it's the first time I've tried the whole loose-shirt business, because my skinniest bit is under my boobs, so I always try to emphasise that. But that usually goes with showing my love handles too... so thought I'd try something different. As for the cycling bum, I have to voice a different opinion to yours! I did my big 6 months cycle tour and didn't really lose any weight at all, my butt didn't shrink... the skin just got really tough. Like REALLY tough. Plus there are muscles that you develop too. Definitely agree with getting a good saddle - I have one of those really really realllllly hard brooks saddles, made with very tight, thick and hard leather. It's very painful to begin on, but now it has completely moulded to my butt and is the most comfortable thing ever. :) Kind of wish I had gone with a really really squishy one, but... well, what's done is done. And now I have a mould of my arse ;) haha.


Gotta run but will be back with the food list this evening.
 
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Tomorrow there is a huge festival in Zurich called Street Parade. My man wants to go to see the 'spectacle' but I'm scared. The population of Zurich increases by at least five times (really. The WHOLE population) and it is so incredibly packed on all the streets that it is difficult to move. This is petrifying for me... I worry about my ankle in that kind of environment too...

A little swim at the lake'd be much nicer, I say! I'm such an old lady. ;)

FOOOOOOOOOD SO MUCH FOOOOOD

Breakfast
- porridge with 7 dried cranberries
- skim decaf coffee

Lunch
- chicken and veg stir-fry (LOTS of veg)with a little rice-noodles and a spoon of pad thai sauce

Dinner
- spaghetti with edamame, sundried tomatoes, olive oil, garlic and parmesan.
- (also had some extra extra parmesan...)

Snacks
- 1/2 dark choc bounty
- 2 tablespoons cottage cheese
- 8 strawberries with a mini natural yoghurt
- 1 small scoop lemon sorbet
 
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Mmm - I love reading about your food!!
Just wanted to share something that I found worked for me - may not work for you, but could be worth a try.
I used to eat porridge for breaky and I was always hungry/starved before snack/lunch - what I found worked for me was I tried a 12 grain cereal (hot, made like porridge) and it really fills me up! Not sure what the calorie difference is but it might be worth looking into. (?)
 
D'you know what, I actually feel really hungry during the day if I eat breakfast as soon as I wake up. I know it boosts your metabolism and eating its a good thing. But, yep, I'm definitely more hungry.

Maybe you could just make a humongous salad and have three lunches of it if your really hungry.

You should go to the parade! You could get there really early so there's no chance of being trodden upon. Maybe you could do a deal with him and go there for a couple of hours (maybe there's a slightly less busy part?), then for a swim together after. I love that sort of stuff! But if you really hate it, then just don't go!
 
I agree with oats or porridge not necessarily lasting the distance. In that case, try to eat more of it and see how you go. I found that it helped me to have my meals about equal size. Also don't leave too long after breakfast before lunch. I find half a cup of oats and an apple and cup of milk, plus a cup of coffee, does me about 3 hours only. If you need it to last you longer, try having more to eat or scheduling in a snack with complex carbs eg a ryvita and ricotta cheese or something like that.

We don't have 12 grain cereal here unless you mean meusli. I just wanna.

About seats on bikes. Yeah i have heard a lot about the brooks but you are the first person who has said they wish they'd had a softy. Had you not said that i'd probably have added a brooks to my wish list. I am still not clear why you think this way if you its the most comfy thing ever.

I hope you get over the hungries soon but maybe you do need to eat more. Are you very active these days?
 
MUCHIES here too!! Omg I want french onion dip and chips so bad...lol...but was good and had 100 grams of carrots instead!! lol.

That parade sounds wonderful and scary too...could be quite fun to people watch!! :p
 
Heya sweetie
I am not suffering with the munchies but i am really struggling with adverts on the TV. They have never bothered me before but i want everything that comes up and some of it i don't hugely like!! And Mark is banned from watching any cookery programs....That is just torture lol.

Maybe it's the time of the month, now that you are off the pill your 'hungry all the time' bit might have moved. I know we apparantly need more calories when we are on and that we feel hungry all the time. Blame that, at least you can tell yourself that you will get over it! Anyway, a bit of the munchies is not gonna do any damage to that hot bod of your!!
 
I had a breakthrough realisation. Well, okay, so you guys had a breakthrough realisation for me... since I've tried to do a good breakfast of porridge with some fruit (yes really, FRUIT! I am never much of a fruit girl... besides berries. They don't count. YUM!), and had a decaf coffee, I am STARVING during the day.

And guess what else?

My house is a freaking disaster area since I've switched to decaf. Usually I have a coffee, sometimes on a bad day two, then I get this MUST CLEAN RIGHT NOW attitude and will just furiously tidy and vaccuum and scrub and wash and dust (though never iron) until it's done. BLOODY DECAF! Just now, I had a coffee, a real one, and then miraculously managed to clean the kitchen and bathroom, vacuum, sweep and mop the verandah, and fold up and put away the huge pile of washing that has sat in the corner of the bedroom for an embarrassingly long amount of time. I'm even bloody WRITING like I've just had some caffeine.

Meanwhile, I have a new plan. I live in the fourth floor, and because I'm a lazy bum I tend to take the tiny little two-person lift up. It started when my injury was bad, and now it's just a habbit. So I'm going to admit to you guys every time I use the lift instead of take the stairs. Today I've climbed them three times already and there is really no reason for me not to.

Weight unchanged today. 82.2. My man said to me that when I hit 80.9, I'll be at the same weight he was a few months ago when he started losing weight. This is INCREDIBLE for me, because my man is this athletic machine who just kind of got a little tubby tummy, that's all. So the fact that I am anywhere near that blows my mind!

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Ijustwannabefit I also am not sure what you mean by 12 grain cereal... like special K, or muesli, or... I don't know! I might try going back to my special K and doing it in the microwave like you said. There's something about me and mushy food... Thanks for the tip!

Rainbow Awesome tip about the salad. I'm more likely to make a soup of something... but good idea. I was doing that kind of thing a while ago, so I should get back into it. I forgot! Thanks. :) ALSO the parade... I know it will be good... I should just go. But I am a total claustrophobe... (since I got locked in an attic in Vietnam... but that's another story) and find it hard now to even go to a concert I really love if there will be heaps and heaps of people there. GR. Stupid.

44 thanks for the ideas! I was going through a phase of eating cottage cheese and tomato on whole-wheat crackers and that worked really well for me. I'll get back into that, actually. Thanks for the cue. As for the seat, well I went from not cycling at all to cycling many many hours every day. So my butt started off very very very very sore. I truly had pressure sores and ended up having to take time off for them to heal. If I'd gone into it gradulaly, I'm sure the brooks would have been great. NOW I am so happy that I have it, because it's broken in. The breaking it in part was awful though... but for you, an avid cyclist already, it'd be awesome! I reckon, anyhow... And no... I'm still not so active these days... getting there though! So that's no excuse for my munchies...

Tetem HOORAH for the carrot stickS! You go girl! Yeah... I think I'll go to the parade... just have to remember my panic-attack mental tricks (like... making lists in my head about what I'd do with a million bucks if I just stumbled across it...)

Kate :) Well... my 'time' has now already passed, so I can't use that as an excuse either! You are totally right though about all my hormones changing now that I am pill-free... maybe my body is still sorting itself out. And hahaha - I can TOTALLY relate to having to ban the cooking shows! I am so glad that I learn't how to cook bruschetta at my cooking course, otherwise I'd just be making tiramisu all day long! :)

Thanks for all the advice, lovelies. xxx
 
Heading down there now. Scared. But doing it.

EDIT: Okay, I lied. Didn't go. But had a lovely lovely night with my man sitting on the balcony with the candles, drinking horrid alcohol-free champers, listening to Ray Charles and booking tickets to San Francisco for TWO WEEKS TIME! Yay! Crazy... my man got a call to say he'd been volunteered for a work trip and I get to come too! If I want, LOL. How effing good is my life.
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FOOOOOOOOD: 1539Cal
Breakfast
- Plain unsweetened pancake with stewed apple and cinnamon (320)
- milk coffee (130Cal)
snack
- 3 wholewheat crackers (78) with 3tbsp cottage cheese (80)
Lunch
- small Asian noodle salad with edamame beans (242Cal)
- plain yoghurt (81)
snack
- 1 packet freeze-dried fruit chips (76)
- 10 dried broad beans (from the asian food store - 100Cal)
Dinner
- steamed cabbage and zucchini (12)
- bolognese sauce (260)
- 1 glass alcohol-free champers (65)
- 1 dark choc lindt ball (95)
 
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I know what you mean about crowds..I'm the same way :/ and I have an ankle injury that I'm always terrified of damaging. What did you do to yours?
 
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