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i hate hurting my knees. You did the right thing though. RELAX. Let your body heal itself. another 30 minutes of walking with a bad knee and making it worse is not worth it. You can always make up for it when your knee feels better.
 
Do you take anything for your joints, Felici?
If you don't have a blood sugar problem, I HIGHLY recommend Glucosamine. It's a form of glucose, so it will affect diabetics, but I tell you what; I MISS that stuff. I'm currently trying to "make do" with MSM for my joints, and I am going to have to try fish oil, as well. I need something to make my knees strong and let them move smoothly.
Take good care of them, because replacement is expensive, painful, and annoying! (Not a joke :p )
 
Thanks everyone for your comments. I do eat a lot of good food and I put in a little more effort these days to keep it attractive and varied so that I don't feel deprived at all. I am pretty happy to eat the same stuff for breakfast over and over though. Depending what type of protein I have with my evening meal and how much I have, my calories are around 1400- 1600 I think. Tonight is Friday so I have to try to find something a little special to make.

Qjay - I have been taking fish oil and glucosamine for a couple of years. I am taking glucosamine hydrochloride. I recently had a few months off the glucosamine because when I switched to glucosamine sulphate for a while it seemed to trigger an itchy rash which constantly spread and eventually became nigh on unbearable. I took a long while to find out what started it. I do believe the glucosamine makes a lot of difference to my joints though - I did notice the difference while I was off it - so I started again last week. I don't think it's making my skin worse (fingers crossed). There is a vegetable derived one as well which I will try if necessary. I was wondering if it would affect my GTT the other day so looked it up but the websites I saw were reassuring about diabetics taking it. I remember you saying that wasn't your experience though.
 
Well, it is just my experience, but the stuff is called GLUCOSamine, and I have seen it mentioned on a couple of medical websites. It might be reacting badly with one of my medications, though. Hmm... time to go do research! :D
 
I hope it works out for you (and me), to take it Qjay. It's a rare thing - helping with symptoms and causes of joint problems!


Well. I have made myself a chart so I can go where I want at WLF without forgetting and doubling back as much as I have been. I’m hoping that will help me stay in touch as much as I want, but take less actual time.

Feeling a bit off and tired today and wasn’t sure why. My husband pointed out that a tired body is likely if you exercise it more than it’s been used to. I guess that’s fair enough. My knee’s not bad. There is something dodgy going on between my shoulder blades. My legs are a bit stiff too - that's probably a good thing. I wish I felt energized like I did after my walk yesterday though. Maybe I would feel better now if I had been able to do the same amount of exercise today. My day’s food looks a bit light on vegetables now I look at it.

I am on track, at this moment, to get to bed on time. Therefore I will aim to walk early tomorrow. I really need to, as high temperatures are predicted. I’ll work out the speed based on how appropriate it seems at the time.


Breakfast ~8:30 2 weetbix., 1 C soya milk, 1 boiled egg, 1/2 glass tomato juice, 1 slice wholemeal toast, margarine, strawberry jam. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk. .Lunch ~ 12:45 2 Salada cracker, 100gm tin of tuna with cracked pepper, tomato. Snack4:15 20 gm almonds, ½ Salada cracker. Dinner: 9:00 Seafood fetuccini: 150 gm seafood, 1/3 tin tomatoes, 75m. lite evaporated milk, shallots. ¾ C fetuccini. Caesar salad: Lettuce, tomato, a little lean bacon, > 1 anchovy, ~ 3 tspns low fat mayonnaise, a little parmesan,~ 1/3 slice bread. Exercise: 8:00pm 30 min.slow/mod. pace Water: 2500 +ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12.00
On plan:45 days Achieved food target: 39 days Exercised: 37 days All goals: 6 days.
 
Just wanted to thank you for the encouragement in my diary....hope your having a great day!!! Keep up the good work, we can do it!:)
 
The shoulder blades is probably because you are a female and "endowed", try getting to rest flat on the floor and relaxing, maybe with your calves resting up above the rest of your body, like on a chair or cushion. Give it a few minutes and stretch your sides and shoulders and see if it doesn't help you feel better, or make your back pop pleasantly.
A lot of ladies get that sort of shoulder blade dodginess and the only real "fix" is to have perfect posture, all the time, with lots of stretching. Yeah, nobody gets rid of it completely :p
 
Thanks Qjay. I'll certainly try that. I do have a stretch I learned from some time ago that helps a bit, and your comment about perfect posture has made me remember another one. :)
 
Breakfast ~8:30 2 weetbix., 1 C soya milk, 1 boiled egg, 1/2 glass tomato juice, 1 slice wholemeal toast, margarine, strawberry jam. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk. .Lunch ~ 2:00 Leftover fettucini marinara Probably about 1 C pasta, 50 gm seafood, ½ tomato, 2 tbspns fat reduced evaporated milk, 1 tbspn wine, a little onion. 1 carrot, 1 stalk celery, 1 large field mushroom. [/B]4:15 Guests here: 20 gm almonds, about 5 large rice crackers, 3 PepsiMaxs. Dinner: 7:30 120 gm grilled lean lamb steaks. 1 microwaved potato, ½ C baked beans, ½ capsicum, 5 sugar snap peas, 1 carrot. Exercise: 9:15 am 40 min.brisk pace Water: 2500 +ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:30
On plan:46 days Achieved food target: 40 days Exercised: 38 days
 
So far so good with the chart. I can tell I’ve done what I intended at this forum, after less time, instead of taking longer and feeling I probably wasn’t finished. If I was working I would usually have to make it read only - no posts till the evening, I think. I have been sitting here too much. I need to make the non-exercising part of my day more active.

It seems that I still need to take care to get enough carbohydrate. I was thinking I could cut out my toast at breakfast, but tried this morning and was really starting to fade by 12:30. I don’t think that is helpful at all. I am also planning to make an effort to remember to have some carbs at around 3:30 each day instead of waiting until I am getting a fade later in the afternoon. I don’t mind feeling hungry before I eat, but I don’t want to be slowed down and thinking fuzzy.

I’ve noticed lately that it is a lot easier to tie my shoes than it was. Bending is a lot less strain now. A good effect of my loss so far.

I feel some conflict about my bedtime. I think it’s unreasonably strict considering I’m on holidays. Also I rarely manage it. That’s frustrating because sometimes I feel I have made quite an effort but it still doesn’t work. It always seems as though the things I do after 11:00 instead of going to bed deserve the priority. Then again, I know this is an area in which I need to acquire more discipline. If I do improve there it will pay off for me as far as being active goes. So for now I will leave my plan as it stands, and keep working at that. I feel the rebellious part of me not even agreeing as I type that – it’s hardly even subconscious. Ah well, a bit of “do-don’t plan” might help here.

I will also record something here that’s not relevant for quite a while. I want to get an exercise DVD and play it on this computer when the light and weather become more awkward. I am writing this down because details like “play it on the computer” have been known to slip out of my brain before they are required.
 
If you want to add some activity to your computer time, consider getting a hand exerciser and using it at the computer (like when catching up on the forums or watching a video). I also try to make sure I am getting up and going to the kitchen for another glass of water every hour or so, and I stretch when I do it.Keep your posture good, and fold your shoulder blades "flat" while at the desk, it will help you prevent some cramping and soreness.

I stretch at my desk a LOT, it really helps and it does feel good :D

It's not a replacement for exercise, but it does help keep your mind and body more active, and you are more likely to walk off and take a trip around the block, for example.
 
Thanks Qjay. My posture hasn't been too good. I will make a "sit up straight" sticker for the top of my computer. :)

My hands are pretty busy while I sit here. :)
felici = computer chatterbox :)

I do appreciate your posts here. Thank you. :)
 
Not a bad day. Started out a bit groggy from less sleep than usual. Fade around lunchtime as I mentioned earlier. A very hot morning, 38 degrees C (100 F) by 11:00am. Got all the regular stuff done around the house in good order - nothing extra - this room still needs a spring clean. I did visit my sister-in-law’s new house, and go briefly to the shop, and go to the beach with my husband, daughter, and dog. That was nice. My husband thinks our dog is a person and won’t leave her home like his hard hearted wife. So we went to a dog beach. It’s not smelly or dirty there, but they don’t exactly hand over the best water to the dogs. There’s lots of seaweed, and a few rocks! It’s a more interesting place to explore if you’re walking or snorkelling but gentler exercise. Still we were probably in the water for 40 minutes. Our dog swims out to us once or twice while we’re in the water, climbs onto my husband’s battered old boogie board and stands up - quite cute. She doesn’t like the waves that much though so she bails pretty soon.


Breakfast ~8:30 2 weetbix., 1 C soya milk, 1 boiled egg. . 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk. Snack 10:00 White coffee Lunch 12:30. A little lean bacon (trimmed short-cut), cooked with 2 large field mushrooms, 2 slices wholemeal toast, one with 5 gm lite margarine. 1 glass tomato juice. Snack 3:00 1 diet apricot yoghurt, 1 Salada cracker. Dinner: 7:30 3/4 C basmati rice, 1 lean chicken thigh, 1/3 zucchini, bamboo shoots, a little coconut milk, 50gm nuts, mainly raw almonds, 1 C watermelon. Exercise: 8:16pm 39 min.brisk + walk Water: 2500 +ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:30
On plan:47 days Achieved food target: 41 days Exercised: 39 days All goals: 6 days.
 
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Your boogie boarding pooch sounds VERY cute! I couldn't IMAGINE my dogs in the water! They weren't too sure what to think of sand the first time they were at the beach and kept barking at and chasing the waves as they receeded (and these were those little, tiny, washed up to shore kind of waves - NOT the kind that turn over ONTO the shore kind of waves) ;) My dogs are wimps!

Your days sound like they're going really well felici :)
 
Thanks M2M. Yes, our dog barks constantly at the beach, I don't know why. She has quite a personality. I have come to value her a lot more since she is walking with me every day. She is a great walking companion.
 
Wow, where do you live if it's 100 degrees by 11am?!!? And I thought I lived in a warm area!!
 
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