Real Gorgeous

"I still can't believe how much better my mood is. Sorry for going on about it. "


Great to hear!!!


Gawd...don't be sorry! It keeps the rest of our spirits up!
 
Thursday 14 June


weight on rising but dressed in light clothes and shoes. 76kg


Last night i succeeded in going to sleep without eating anymore but i also woke up at 11.50am. Oh well. Bed is good.


Breakfast 12 noon

coffee w milk

water


I wasn't hungry so i chat in my armchair and attended to some important email work before eating.


Brunch 1.15 noon

water

2 wholegrain toast (no butter) 2 small eggs fried in olive oil, heated through the fried onions from last night. sprinkled over chopped parsley and a few small lettuce leaves.

water i think again.

coffee w milk again.



Dinner 6.45:

Soup concoction. Its Heinz vegetable and barley, 1/2 a can and i've added in some left over rice and the sausage adn veg thing from the other day.


These canned meals aren't totally delicious but i'm finding them edible and more importantly they are easy and i am not eating junk food. They got some vegies in them and I am gradually coming back to more healthy foods.


Today i wasn't peckish at all during the afternoon. I've been so engrossed in my work. late arvo i took the dog for a short walk up the street, did a little bit of gardening ooh that reminds me i need to turn off the sprinkers... and had a chat to a neighbour.


I"ve been drinking numerous cups of coffee. As i don't put sugar in it, i figure its not too bad and i need the milk. I like to drink about 2 cups a day for calcium. I am probably consuming something less than that at the moment though. Dinner is nearly ready.


I've got this project on the go about meditation so i'm sitting around now working on that. I know it keeps me out of the garden and involvement in more active things but i hope i can do a little of that later. Usually i get tired of sitting down after a period and then there's nothing better than to go and do something physical to make you feel normal again.
 
Friday 15 June


Weight: 76.2 at midday with clothes.


I couldn't get to sleep last night. I over excited myself with work on my meditaiton project. I tried several times to go to bed and finally got up for


breakfast at 4.30am

4 weetbix 1 cup milk, bit of brown sugar


I would have been fine waiting til i got up but alas...


10.15am

Coffee w milk


I was determined to wait until lunch time before eating. Not that i was hungry though so that helped.


Lunch 12.30pm

1 mandarine

2 pieces of wholegrain toast with melted cheese.

some lettuce leaves


I've finished up all my tomatos and mushrooms. I;ll need to do a little shopping soon.


I've feeling a little stressy in my head due to all the things i've got to re my meditation project. I am trying to be mindful and take brakes away from the computer so i don't end up burning myself out and feeling bad. If its not stress its as though my blood pressure might be up. (I don't have an issue with blood pressure yet). Before lunch i made some phone calls and wrote some emails. this is what i will be doing this afternoon too until i can summon the energy at around 4pm to go out and dig a hole.


Dinner about 7pm:

A trout burger. this was a piece of battered coral trout with salad in a bread roll. Originally it came with bacon and cheese but even if i wasn't trying to lose weight, i wouldn't eat that on a fish burgher. The idea is completely disgusting. In fact i'd say its blasphemy.


Well i didn't intend having a takeaway but i ended up having to to town late in the day, decided to take the dog for a walk on the town beach and took a long in the supermarket as i had to debate some matters with the manager. Funnily enough i came away from the supermarket having got a half price caulifower, a free packet of spaghetti, a 5% discount and some vouchers that would get me more 5% discounts. So by he time all that was over, i was starving and didn't think i could bear to take the time to cook dinner. I figured a piece of fish on my way past the fish shop was a good idea. Ok the battered part of hte fish is bound to have a ton of calories in it but i can live with that.


Other htan that my shopping was good. I avoided the chocolates aisle, did not get sidetracked by the magnums in the icecream fridge and focused on my shopping list. I wasn't even tempted. And that's how i like it. Because nearly always i can not resist temptation.


I hope i can go to bed earlier tonight.


Midnight snack:

1 punnet of delicious strawberries eaten in 2 sittings.
 
I can't weigh myself midday! Too depressing lol! I try to weigh in just after waking up and before my coffee. If I forget....I leave it till the next day. In the past, I never had good results checking my weight mid day....which would leave me second guessing if my eating habits were ok etc.


I don't have a clue about meditation. I keep thinking of Ghandi sitting there with his legs folded. I should at least look into it....least I'll know what all the excitement in your neck of the woods is all about :) Sounds like your having fun but alot of work in the same breath. Good luck with your endeavor.
 
Originally Posted by Flumes


I can't weigh myself midday! Too depressing lol! I try to weigh in just after waking up and before my coffee. If I forget....I leave it till the next day. In the past, I never had good results checking my weight mid day....which would leave me second guessing if my eating habits were ok etc.



I don't have a clue about meditation. I keep thinking of Ghandi sitting there with his legs folded. I should at least look into it....least I'll know what all the excitement in your neck of the woods is all about :) Sounds like your having fun but alot of work in the same breath. Good luck with your endeavor.



I know what you mean about weighing yourself midday. Normally when i am serious i try to do it first thing in the morning when i get up with no gear on. However, today i got up at 10.15 and didn't think about weighing myself til 12 and at that stage i'd only had coffee and water so i figured it wouldn't be too bad. I am also a lot more relaxed about weighing myself than i might have been once. I know our weight fluctuates heaps over the course of a day and its all due to water holding. I am used to these great fluctuations. Also so long as i am eating well, i feel good about myself and so long as i am eating well it means i will probably lose weight or have a chance of losing weight. I am trying to do this moderately slowly this time too as it will have a longer lasting effect. And i remember last time that i usually start off quite slowly and fine tune things as i go along. Starting is the main thing but then you still need to start when you are ready.


About meditation, if you want to look into it, look up joh kabat zinn on youtube and wiki etc. He's doing the sort of meditation i do and promote. I still haven't read one of his books but i have seen some vids and know what he's on about. He's quite famous for bringing meditation out of the temples and into psychologists and doctors rooms.


BAsically my style of meditation is called mindfulness. Its a buddhist meditation. So if you want to learn with a teacher - which is a good idea - then you can look for a buddhist centre. Even so amongst buddhist centres, there are variations. Vipassana is another good word. As is anapanasati. These are both technical terms for different parts of mindfulness meditation types. Insight is the english word for vipassana. It doesn't involve chanting or visualisations. It involves observing yourself with concentrated focus. The aim is not think, but to observe. It is thinking that causes all our problems. But that is not to say that we think all thinking is harmful. But we do think too much. Anyhow there's tons of info on the web and if you want any more tips from me, please ask.
 
Saturday 16 June


Weigh in at 1.20pm on rising, 75.8kg


Alas i woke up really late today and missed the mosiac workshop i should have been at. What a twit. It wasn't that i went to bed so terribly late but i think i was catching up on sleep from the shortage of the previous day. And i didn't use an alarm clock. I thought i would wake up before midday. Gawd. Oh well roll on life.


breakfast coffee:

1.40pm


I dread to think what time i will get to bed tonight. I can't miss tomorrow nights meditation becuase of sleeping in. I can't miss it for anything. Its the last one before my teacher goes away for a few months. Sigh!


Breakfast at 6pm: Probably a bit late to call it breakfast. How about dinner:

1 grapefruit

2 wholegrain toast w 1/2 tomato and cheese slices melted.

coffee w milk


Fruit 8pm:

piece rockmelon, kiwi fruit

coffee w milk


I reckon i will probably not go to sleep until dawn today and that is likely to mean i don't get up until tomorrow afternoon around 2 or 3pm. sheesh. i'm in a bit of trouble getting out of this cycle. I probably should use an alarm clock. I've got an electric one. I am not sure it works properly. I don't have a lot of success with clocks. Perhaps i should buy a travel clock as they work properly.


Dinner i think it was around 1am:

1/2 a can of pea and ham with vegies soup. and 1 cup of steamed rice.

bowl of fresh greens


3am:

cocoa w milk and sugar.


Although i got up late, i've been working on my meditaiton project most of the time with a break around news time to watch a new favourite show on tv. I'm making good progress with my work. I love working in this way. I think i am born to run something (eg my own business) rather than be an employee which i am hopeless at and hate.
 
Sunday 17th and Monday 18th


I've been so busy i haven't had time to write up my food log. But now i have to catch up.


Sunday 17th

I can hardly remember what i did for breakfast but i think it was toast with tomoto and cheese and salad leaves. I think this was about 10.30am


I went to town for meditation and left home fairly early in the afternoon.

At the supermarket i had a sweet bun thing with apple and walnuts. My plan was to try to wait for a meal until after the meditation.

cafe latte at 5pm as I sat chatting a guy at the next time. That was nice i don't meet strangers very often.


Meditation from 6-8ish.


Then i went out in the town for dinner. I went to night markets and filled up a small plate with chinese stuff. It would have been fairly high fat but included vegies, tofu, seafood and rice.


Monday 18th

Got up at 11am

Weighed 75.4kg


Coffee at 11am


Lunch 3pm

2 wholgrain toast with tomato and melted cheese but i also experimented with spreading a little tomato past on the toast and i have to say that it was a good idea.

Also had some salad greens


Short walk on the beach with the dog, a few light gardening chores. I've been on the phone all afternoon gathering support for my meditation centre.


Now its 6.30 and as i want to do some things before dinner on my laptop i am stalling by eating a punnet of yummy fresh strawberries.


I've had several cups of coffee today


Dinner 7.30pm

1/2 can of vegetable soup wiht barley a la Heinz. It was a bit salty for my tastes. I've noticed this with all the canned meals. But at least its a meal and better than icecream until i get properly in cooking phase again.

1 cup of rice cooked up with 1 egg, some vegie oil and parsley and soy sauce as a basic fried rice Yummy.


2 cups of cocoa with milk and bit of sugar. I'm having the second one now at 1am.


Given how busy i've become all of a sudden i might not be able to keep diarising so well but i shall try to pop in and make quick progress repors at the very least.
 
Tuesday 19th June


weight 74.6kg. Now i know my diet is working. I am eating the right amount of food for the amount of activity i'm doing. That feels very good.
 
Wednesday 20 June


Yesterday I was too busy working on my project to do he food log. I'm not going to bother writing it up now as i need to get on with other stuff too. However, i did pretty well yesterday too for the most part. I did get hungry late in the evening and cooked up a bowl of porridge which i had with milk and honey.


Weight with clothes on 75.6kg


Morning coffee 10am.


Lunch: 12

2 wholegrain toast w tomato, cheese and tomato pastec

coffee x 2 ish


I woke up early this morning and suffered for it all day and had to go to bed this afternoon and not do some things i had wanted to do.


Dinner 6.30

1/2 can of pea and ham and veg soup

1. 5 cups of cooked rice

coffee



9pm 1 pear

cocoa w milk sugar
 
Thursday 21 June


Weight 74.8kg


Coffee at 9.45am. Notice i am up early today. and i think i have had plenty of sleep so i won't need an afternoon nap. I better not because i've got quite a big day ahead.


I had to rush breakfast so i ate 4 weetbix and 1 cup of milk and 1 dessertspoon honey


Lunch in town about 2.30:

1 seafood pie which was made with thicke white sauce. It wasn't bad but not as good as the scallop pies from tasmania.

cappucino


5pm

1 beer


Dinner at about 7pm: We had a guest

2 lamb sausages

big spoonful of mashed potatoes made with butter and milk

salad with dressing of mustard, balsamic vinegar and olive oil

2 piece bagette



coffee and later cocoa
 
Hey 44,


Didnt post all week as was a bit busy, (understatement) but did get on to follow your thread.


Lamb sausages...never had them but they sound delish. How were they cooked? I bet they would be great in a stew.


I havent lurked into the meditation thingy yet. Been busy cursing myself while redoing the garage. (I probably could have used some meditation lol)

I hope to look into it when things settle here. Dont want to start off on the wrong foot, and get turned off by it.


I did get a chance to peruse more of your cycling blog and pics. Amazing. REALLY AMAZING! And you make it sound like its just another field trip! lol


Ohh....my fathers name was Andrea. (Italian, common male name). Thought that was cool.


Great to hear your down over 2 kg. Your doin something right!!!


Take care
 
Thanks Flumes


Weight this morning: 74.8kg


Coffee at about 8am


Breakfast at midday:

2 toast w cheese and tomato grilled.

coffee


5pm: Packet of twisties - junk food. I was in town and i got hungry.


7.30 Dinner i'm about to eat


quorn tikka masala and rice frozen dinner.

First time i've had this so i have no idea what to expect.

1 banana

1 coffee milk


comment on the quorn dinner. It was pretty ordinary i thought. Not even properly salted which surprised me since most packaged food is over salted. What else was surprising was that it was only a bit over 1000 kilojoules and yet i felt it was enough. That is to say it wasn't a big meal which even on a diet a minimum meal would be 1500 kilojoules. Perhaps it was the twisties i had earlier helped there, as well as the banana.
 
SUnday 24 June


weight: 75.2kg


I wonder if it was the twisties i ate yesterday? :reddevil:


Morning coffee at 11am.


Not sure what time lunch was

2 whole grain toast, cherry tomatoes, tomato paste and 3 slices cheese melted.


I had to drive to town this afternoon so i had a strawberry milkshake on the way at about 5pm


I went to meditation. I finished that at about 8.15pm and so was then hungry.

I had battered fish with chips. I didn't think the chips were very good. The fish was yummy.

After i could have eaten more stuff and when i drove past macdonalds i decided to go in an get a coffee. I did well not to buy one of their icecreams which i like a lot when its covered in caramel sauce.


So all up not a great day for my diet but its a lot better than i would do when i am not on a diet. I don't think this would have upset things too much. Especially since i didn't actually have breakfast today.


Meditation group was nice tonight. Although I am not getting so much out of the group meditation anymore. I like the group we've got but out dear leader has to go away for a few months and when he gets back, i will be going away for a few months unless i decide not to.
 
I have no idea what twisties are.


(Are they anything like the crunchy cheese bites I brought in to work with me tonite?? lol)


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Why is it that something that has almost no mass able to add kilos to our weight??? Not fair!
 
Yes i'd say cheetos are similar to twisties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisties haha which makes me wonder are cheetos on wikpedia?


You ask why something that weighs nothing can so easily make us so much heavier. Its because fat has four times as many calories as protein adn carbs and there are lots of fats in these things and fats are yummy. There was another explanation too. Oh i remember, these foods don't satisfy us very well so we want to keep eating a lot of them or a lot more over all.
 
Monday 25 June


weight: 75.2kg


coffee at 11am


brunch - not sure when

toast, tomato and cheese.


3pm

cappucino


dinner 6pm:

1/2 can of lentil and vegetable soup.

left over mashed potates and some savoury mince left over form the other day

coffee


9pm

time for a banana now i think.
 
tuesday 26 June


74kg at about 11am


coffee w milk


4 weetbix w 1 cup milk honey

coffee w milk


3pm

2 wholegrain toast with tomato and cheese melted



3 glasses red wine with a friend from about 5.30-8.30-pm


Dinner after that sometime

100g spaghetti w 1/2 can of chilli beef wth beans in it.

coffee w milk


Now i think its time for bed.
 
Thursday 28 June


I couldn't be bothered getting my clothes off to get on teh scale this morning. I think it should have been all right. I am just not in the mood and not feeling obsessive.


I am doing quite well iwth my diet though. Still eating good foods and not too much of it.


Today i was in town and resisted eating when it would have been easy to buy something. I didn't go hungry though. I had had just had a banana sandwich which i took along.


for dinner tonight i made a yummy cauliflower cheese iwth added broccoli. I had to have two platefuls though as it didn't have much carbs in and vegies don't fill you up. I even feel like some more now, at just past midnight.


Ii've got a big day tomorrow. NOt a long day but an important day.
 
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