Losing Weight in the Land of Chocolate and Cheese!

Hi sunflower! Long time! Yeah... I chickened out and didn't go (see my edit above), but I think it's for the best. I've had enough of 'facing my fears' and quite like comfort instead, actually. I did my ankle in March - severed a bunch of ligaments, but the worst part is that I crushed some bones and they were/are (who knows) all leaking marrow. It's finally on the mend now though.
 
Last edited:
Omg, I just shouted "WOAH" when I looked at that photo- your right, there is an obscene amount of people. You got locked in an attic in Vietnam? Shiiiiiiit. Fuck. Gasp. How long were you inside it for? What happened? xxx

Bloody coffee. How dare it make you clean lol? :D

And ohmygod, your hubster "volunteered" to go to san francisco!!!! That is crazy. Its tough, but someone has to do it! Look at you swanning off on holidays all the time you lucky cow!!!! I can't wait to see what you get up to there!

Well done on deciding to take the stairs :)
 
decisionmaker said:
Hi sunflower! Long time! Yeah... I chickened out and didn't go (see my edit above), but I think it's for the best. I've had enough of 'facing my fears' and quite like comfort instead, actually. I did my ankle in March - severed a bunch of ligaments, but the worst part is that I crushed some bones and they were/are (who knows) all leaking marrow. It's finally on the mend now though.
Click to expand...

My ankle injury is similar (not as bad). I went out, got drunk, fell over and tore one side of my ankles ligaments. I crawled upstairs and rang an ambulance and then 10 mins later they rang the door, I went to answer it and fell down the stairs and ripped right through the ligaments on the other side. Worst luck ever. Was on crutches for a long time and every time I "twist" my ankle or bang it I'm in agony for days and days. It swells up and goes purple even when I twist it slightly. Don't think it will ever heal properly. Know how scary it is going out and doing stuff when you're worried--I haven't worn heels since I damaged mine (a few years ago now!) and I avoid walking up/down stairs when I can as I slip a lot.
Sorry to hear about your injury--We wont be held back! Sad to hear you didn't go out today, you would have had fun but I understand why you didn't go.
 
Heya sweetie.
I defintely think you made the right choice with the staying in booking a holiday!!! How awesome, i'm totally jealous!! I was reading your posts this morning while having breakfast and clicked on the picture of all those people and said 'wow' out loud which made Mark look and i told him that you were gonna go but crowds etc and he said ' jesus shit, that's a lot of people, i don't blame her' And i totally agree with him. He said 'what are they gonna see? the back of peoples heads' lol

San Fransisco!!! How amazing, you are so lucky, you will have such an amazing time!!
 
OH MY GOD you won't believe my day.

I am completely and utterly exhausted so I'm about to go to bed.

BUUUUT I have to tell you. I am nearly crying just thinking about it! In a good way! Crying in a good way!

So you all know about netball and how I'm playing for the Swiss team, but I've been injured and unable to play and TOTALLY bummed about it... well the team got together a few weeks ago and organised this huge surprise for me to lift my spirits and know that, even though I'm injured, I'm still a part of the team. NAWWW!!! :grouphug:

All I knew was that I was meeting one girl for coffee while Dunc was going for a ride, and that was it. She wanted to take me to a new place. LIAR! She took me instead to this increeeedible thermal-bath-spa place which are these old roman ruins turned into an old brewery made into a spa... it was incredible. Even more incredible was that my WHOLE netball team was there too!!! They had all put in money to spend the whole day with me at this place getting exfoliations, swimming through thermal underwater springs, swimming in the infinite pool on the roof overlooking zurich and the mountains, having a massage, chilling in the sauna together... it was just incredible and I felt like I wanted to cry all day because they were so lovely! I just can't believe that they did that for me! I don't think I have ever had a bunch of girls around me like that, looking after me and making me feel loved. It felt like a grown-up sleepover and I kept having visions of the fouteen-year-old me in my sleeping bag, lying with my friends in a circle with our heads all in the centre, gossiping about boys... and imagining out futures... and here I was, in a thermal spa, with a bunch of girls floating in a circle with our heads in the centre gossiping about boys and imagining our futures...

And THEN they all took me out for dinner and all drank only soft drinks because I'm not drinking. How incredible. I am just feeling so loved.



And just last night I said: 'How effing awesome is my life' or something like that... I wonder what I must have done in a past life to be living this life now.

Oh. Ate really well and never took the lift today :) By the way.
 
:D Ohmygod Joh, that is totally amazing. You have got such brilliant friends, and I am so happy reading that, so I can only imagine how you felt all day. I thought it couldn't get any better, then at the end I read the bit where they only drank soft drinks too and my heart completely turned to mush :D I am nearly crying thinking about it as well. Is loveliness to the power of a million!

Awwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!
 
Wow what a bunch of friends and its not even your birthday!

I like he sound of those unsweetened pancakes iwth stewed fruit. Maybe i could try that - FOR LUNCH! i don't think i can wait until tomorrow. Or maybe i can have my dal on the pancake instead of rice. mmmmmm maybe i'll do that.

I don't know what all this talk about crowds and stuff is. I can't see any picture.

But i do think that the stairs instead of hte lift is an EXCELLENT strategy adn you must do it. And don't lose heart if you notice a slow down on the scale its probably just the new muscles you are growing. Don't forget that at the same time the fat is falling away. I know you know this but i am just reminding you. :D
 
I've had a great morning with my writing today. Though I feel a bit bad for the insane positivity of my posts of late... everything is going my way and I'm feeling so freaking great about my life. So let me try to think of something bad...

um.

OH! I put on 0.2kg today. BUT because of fortyfour's message, which I read before I weighed myself, I wasn't even remotely bummed about it. Instead, I actually thought 'Yay! Growing muscles!' which is very unlike me.

Oh, I'm back to positive again. LOL :) Seems that Kate's enthusiasm is rubbing off on me.

YESTERDAY'S FOOD
- porridge with dried cranberries (yeah I know) and a skim coffee
- 2 slices bruschetta and a small green salad
- Lebanese mezze - dips with veggies, a mini samosa thing, fresh artichoke, pieces of stuffed eggplant, falafel.
- diet coke

________________________________________

:D Rainbow Totally. Isn't it just loveliness. :) I kept telling them the whole day that I was just turning into a big lump of moosh by how lovely they all are :)

44 Thank you SO MUCH for your message today.
I know! Not even my birthday! Just so that I didn't feel excluded and knew that they all still loved me. hehe. You can't see any picture?
Weird... the same pic is here:
 
OMG sweetie your day sounded so amazing. I have never done the 'health spa thing' I bet you felt so loved and so you should, you're lovely!!!
Oh and well done on the stairs, that made me giggle, you posted a whole story of lovelyness and finished it off with a 'i didn't take the lift' You Rock!!

I know what you mean about feeling bad that all you feel like doing is gushing about your life. I feel the same, i do feel like you guys should wanna hate me for being so enthuastic all the time but the day before my first post on here was a completely different story! It did make me giggle that you thought my enthusiasm was rubbing off i thought 'oh god, i must be bad' lol.

Anyway, really chuffed that everything is really good for you. :)
 
Yeah i do'nt think anyone needs to apologise for gushing or being happy about their lives. (though i do know when people are in a bad place, its not easy to read be around other people's happiness but if that's the case, they can stay away for a bit. This is your life Joh, you are allowed to be happy and gushy in it. And some of us love it and find it helpful anyway.

I found the picture and the post. Yeah a shitload of people or should that be a bridgeful. I tend to stay away from such big crowds though i don't get panicky, i just think they are dangerous places to hang out. well potentially. In india they often really are dangerous.

Anyhow, I am so glad you were able to take something positive from my note about muscle growth. I noticed early on in my blog that after a days' run, the scales would go up slightly too. Its really best to avoid getting emotional about one reading of the scale.

I made the pancakes joh. It was sooo yummy with my dal. I could happily have one for breakfast now and this time i would put on stewed fruit but alas, there's no yoghurt left and that would be necessary wouldn't it. hmm i will have to think on this some more. But my pancake was scrumptious.
 
Hi matey. I'm ba-ack! :waving:

San Francisco! Wow, goodonya mate! And never apologize for enjoying life. Take it from an old girl who has had lots of good times, and a few too many bad times in her life. Enjoy every second of the good times!

And what a great bunch of friends! Of course, their "niceness" reflects on you too, because if you weren't such a sweetie, who knows if they'd bother. ;)
 
YAY! Glad everyone seems to feel okay about the happy vibes :)

44 aren't pancakes YUM? There was this great restaurant in perth that served dosa - do you know it? Like the recipe here:
. Love them so much!
and yeah... the crowds scare me, especially since all the deaths last year at Duisburg's Love Parade, a festival very similar to this one...

SHADOW!!! You are BACK! So happy to see you here! :blush: you're a sweetheart.

_______
So I've been a bit slack with everyone else's diaries - sorry about that. Also slack in posting my food... I'll do yesterday's in a sec.

Just went to my first Gynaecologist check-up in Switzerland, and boy was it a different experience! She was so nice, so that's great, and I think I'll stick with her if we get preggers. Which is a relief... But there were blood tests, urine tests, pap smears, even an ultrasound of my uterus and my ovaries! Good to see proof that I actually have them! haha. I'm reallllly chuffed that my iron is great, though - that's a big deal for me. I am really healthy and she says I'm in the perfect state at the moment to have babies! Yay!

... also, it was nice to have a view of the lake while having a pap smear... gotta do everything possible to make the experience better, eh? ;)

FOOD YESTERDAY
- 60g wholegrain oats cooked with 30g special K in 110ml skim milk and 8 dried cranberries
- skim decaf coffee x 2
- leftover bolognese sauce with steamed cabbage and zucchini (no pasta)
- slice of lemon cake (met my friend... she chose the place... 'cake friends' bloody disaster. It was only little and I had a very good day otherwise)
- my awesome chinese ginger/star anise/cinnamon/soy tofu stir fry (with broccoli, capsicum and beans) with 2/3 serving of buckwheat noodles.
 
Hi Joh, What a wonderful bunch of friends you have made over there & what a wonderful-sounding day you had with them. Your happiness is infectious! Don't ever apologise for feeling great. We love it!! xoxoxo Cate
 
No, i haven't been to perth for quite a number of years now and i didn't go to any pancake or indian restaurant. I am not even a great big fan of dosa. I liked my first one but i went off them. I have never had one in Australia. I don't think anyone even sells them here.


Speaking of not visiting other diaries, there is one regular whom i am wondering about. Where is she? I haven't seen her since i've been back and she was doing really well before. Can i say who it is so i can ask if something particular happened or should i just assume she fell off the wagon. Or maybe she reached her goal and left it there.
 
It's BACK! Wow, how lost I felt without all you guys..


Andrea WHO IS IT?! I wonder if it's someone I know.


Strange eating day yesterday... Had my gyn check-up (details above) and ate really well... but then I had to bake a cake for my man's birthday. And it went a bit awry, what with me 'testing' the batter and 'testing' the icing... I also made his favourite dinner, which isn't the best diet food, but I didn't have very much of it.


FOOD

Breaky- mini muesli bar (only 37 cals - so little!)

Snack - tub of natural low-fat yoghurt

Lunch - Salad with lots of greens, tomato, olives, red onion, buffalo mozarella and balsamic dressing

- milk coffee

Snack - chunk of gruyere cheese (about a matchbox size)

- um.., lots of licking the bowl. Where I really could have scraped out a lot more.

Dinner - Rotkraut (like sauerkraut but a bit sweeter with red cabbage and apples and spices)

- 1/2 small pan-fried chicken schnitzel

- 1/2 potato rosti

Snack - well... it was time to ice the cake, so cream cheese icing. yum. Too much of it.
 
WEIGH DAY -yep, it used to be wednesday (I know you're all paying attention) but I changed it for August after holidays with my parents... Thurs is it.

= -0.5kg. Happy enough with that. Slowly slowly...


Yesterday was my man's birthday, so that was lovely and he had a fantastic day :) Which makes me so happy! I woke up to a note this morning, sitting on the couch with a birthday candle punctured through the middle of it, saying: "My deliciously beautifu golden wife, Thank you so so so much for making my birthday so special! I love you forever and ever and ever. You are my everything. xxx"

Be still, my beating heart! :beating: Melt.


Yesterday was a strange food day... In fact I did pretty well. We all went for drinks at a pub after netball (my man came too and I brought ANOTHER cake! - of which I had none) and most of the netball people hadn't eaten, so there was stacks of food around. And... I had just had a tiny bowl of food at 4.30pm, so could have done with dinner... but I didn't. Yippee! And alcohol-free beer all the way. Actually, it wasn't too bad! Nice to not get stuck with juice or diet soft drink.


:) There was a bit of an incident at netball where our coach returned after eight weeks away. No one knew she was coming... and the lady that was going to take the session missed her train, so she asked me to start the session. I did. It was good! Half way through the warm-up the coach arrived in her business suit, so we all said Hi, asked her about her holiday, etc. I then asked her if she had anything she wanted to do with everyone, she shrugged, so I got everyone doing another drill and then began a game. I was umpiring from the sideline when the coach comes up to me and starts getting really angry at me... :) She asked me what I see her role here as, and I said she's obviously our coach. She said that she's got better things to do with her time than just stand around here, so I apologised and said I didn't even know I'd be running to session, so I've just been trying to wing it and if there is a drill or something she has planned then that'd be great. Then she just kind of looked really flustered and walked away saying she's got better things to do with her time. Got in her car and drove off :(


I hate that something I have done, however inadvertently, has made someone feel really angry and unloved. Or something.


FOOD YESTERDAY

Breakfast -

Snack - decaf skim coffee

Lunch - tomato soup with 1 small piece of herb bread, a green side-salad with yoghurt dressing

Dinner - leftover spaghetti bolognese

Birthday drinks - 3 alcohol free beers
 
All I can say is :) :) :) you are such a lucky woman!! Also nice food choices, I haven't been following this thread at all but don't you need more food than that? I thought I barely ate much but seeing your meals I feel as though I eat TOO MUCH! :) I guess whatever works for you, good luck!!!
 
Hi MRSPMS! :) I usually eat more than that, definitely! But I've been baking too many cakes for my man and the day before involved way too much cake batter and icing mixture... so I tried to make up for it. :) Usually my list of 'Today's food' is enormous! haha.


AND I'm a very very very bad girl for having no breakfast...


Thanks so much for stopping by!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top