This is the time

LOL. My son's description of it, "They sort of act like they're doing exercises but they aren't really exercises and the girls aren't really wearing exercise clothes, they're wearing, wearing um ... "

But I reckon wishes has it - 80s exercise clothes plus it's just low impact aerobics isn't it (?), and a touch of Madonna (well the 80s was her proper time).

It actually reminded me a bit of BillyBlanks, except nice and short - none of that, "You can do this ... reach deep down inside ... just 20 million more ... " !!
 
:D Yes, that's true. Well, she had a great body and she's taken care of it. I wouldn't mind swapping. Those 'touch myself' movements always remind me of her though.
 
Okay, so I'm back at work and I'm flat out as usual, and I couldn't sleep too well last night, as usual ... (and yet I'm making progress). Last night made me too tired because it was too short and too disturbed. I think I just need to wait out the newness of what I'm doing ... I hope it doesn't take all year. Seriously.

I'm eating okay, that doesn't seem like too big a deal, but I'm not exercising. There is a lot going on inside the family tomorrow. I can't see it happening then, either. I can't commit to it properly seeing as I don't know how other things will pan out. Maybe if I don't promise myself to spend long on it, I can promise to do a bit at least?
 
The only promise I now make is not to make promises. I've been around too long in life to be fooled by that word :D I totally feel ya on compromising yourself. It just seems so unfair.

"A man works from sun to sun, a woman's work is never done." (or something like that)

Hey, big ups to your PM John Howard for telling the Muslims where the Bear shits in the buckwheat (American slang :p)

'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT.'

That's catchy. I like it. I like it a lot. I wish our country had this kind of testicular fortitude. Oooooh, the lawsuits that would cause here!

obtw, A couple of 'locals' will be in your town next week. I hope to get to watch them at 'The Plex' on a vid stream. I'm not all keen about getting up at 7am, however :mad:

Peace, love and happy educating :)
 
felici said:
It was a planned, deliberate, semi-bust out. :) Not a binge. Maybe I was lucky I fell asleep afterwards, before it had time to turn into one? I dunno. I felt ok. Plus I knew when I decided to eat extra, that I was in a fairly safe situation.

Worked out okay I reckon (see next post). Shouldn't affect my weight much either way - maybe a temporary blip for salty crabs. (No regrets there!! :D )
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Knowing this is great and it is the improvement adn growth you need and see.It is awesome and see the difference and know it and acknowledge it:hug2:That is a powerful statement my friend:hug2:

felici said:
Also, I am starting to get ANOTHER damn cold. Damn kids. I try to be so careful too. You would not believe how many times a day I disinfect my hands...
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Oh I hear ya here...Im always washing my hands and using hand sanitizer and it makes no damn difference...

felici said:
but I got a cord running between the router here and my son's room and I'm kinda tired and proud of myself. I don't know if it will work ... I hope I didn't munt up the connections too badly while I was poking them through the holes. And I put up a hook for my girl to have a net thing over her bed. It looks good.
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AWESOME GIRL POWER:D:D:DYopu should be proud of yourself Kerry!!!

felici said:
It actually reminded me a bit of BillyBlanks, except nice and short - none of that, "You can do this ... reach deep down inside ... just 20 million more ... " !!
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HEH HEH HEH...I love Tae BO:)Good Ole Billy Blanks...

felici said:
I'm eating okay, that doesn't seem like too big a deal, but I'm not exercising.
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Deal with your work, fam and so on first.You will find a time and place for the exercise...It will fall into place when you are ready to figure that part out.It is a hard balance and juggle for sure...
 
Thanks for the thoughts, Randy, and Cerella. I appreciate the support, even though I don't have time to comment tonight. I will later.
 
Just remember that you can always find a few minutes to exercise; it does not have to be done all at once.
I find time to stretch out several times a day, just for 30 seconds or a minute at a time; it helps with keeping everything limber and loose, and I am always trying to find ways to build some exercise into my work or play.

Lol, I actually watched TV for the first time in days last night, and still took time to do a little exercise while I was watching; it helped with the brutal case of the munchies I had.

Is there any chance you can build a minute to stretch into your classwork? "Okay kids, I see our attentions are starting to wander, why don't we all stand up for minute and loosen up. First stretch your hands WAY UP over our heads, and clasp our fingers together and turn them over..."

Stuff like that, without the condescension. ;)
 
LOL! We do lots of that. I say it's for them, but I don't need to act enthusiastic!

I'll write more tomorrow. I'm not staying. I think I have time to get enough sleep tonight and I surely need it.
 
/me gazes at you with Hypnotiq Eyes.

Sleep, little Felici, sleeeeep...

Rest well... When you awake you shall feel refreshed and energetic...

Sleeeeeeeep..... :sleeping:
 
T2 Trucker said:
The only promise I now make is not to make promises. I've been around too long in life to be fooled by that word :D I totally feel ya on compromising yourself. It just seems so unfair.

"A man works from sun to sun, a woman's work is never done." (or something like that)

Hey, big ups to your PM John Howard for telling the Muslims where the Bear shits in the buckwheat (American slang :p)

'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT.'

That's catchy. I like it. I like it a lot. I wish our country had this kind of testicular fortitude. Oooooh, the lawsuits that would cause here!

obtw, A couple of 'locals' will be in your town next week. I hope to get to watch them at 'The Plex' on a vid stream. I'm not all keen about getting up at 7am, however :mad:

Peace, love and happy educating :)
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Thanks for the thumbs up. I did educate fairly happily this week :). Getting done in time to relax into a decent sleep last night was really good, and my voice is not too bad today - whereas it had almost slipped away by last night.

Yeah, I can't remember when our old PM said that. But from memory it was around the time we had an Aussie muslim leader coming out with some stuff he really oughdanodda about women's clothing. I think the muslim community managed to shunt him eventually. I guess I see a legitimate divide between an individual's and family's right to choose how they will live, to the extent that it doesn't impact on other people, and an attempt to impose radically different moralities on the rest of the community. Despite all the intolerant moments and intolerant individuals, there is a genuine spirit here of tolerance for difference - and we don't need that changed by smaller less tolerant groups.

Not much chance of me catching your locals at 'The Plex' even if it was at 8pm. :D I guess my b-i-law might - :D or my husband ... he will watch pretty much any sport going. He told me the other week that when he retires he'd like to go watch Bathurst, and maybe go to Phillip Island - and I got it about Bathurst but replied quite seriously that I'd always wanted to go to Phillip Island to see the penguins ...
 
Cinders - thanks for your careful reading of my longwindedness!! I hope you're right about me getting my act together on the exercise. Not getting it done has always been my weight/health weakness. (I mean even when I'm eating right - cos of course eating disgustingly was the biggest issue for most of my life).

*Thinks about tomorrow - Saturday - gets Saturday shivers*

What was that about promises, Randy? I totally need to remember that on Saturdays.

oMG They have Saturday morning confusion on youtube now...



It's not exactly about my own Saturday issues, but the feeling in that song is so right. I often think about it on Saturdays ...
 
I've been happy with my week of calorie counting. It was a quite a chore when I did it last summer, but much less so now.

I used to try and look up the calories of things I didn't know on-line, record them on paper so I had a relevant summary sheet of the foods I was likely to need for another time, and record the details on Word. It was a slow technique. I didn't find sparkpeople and such easy either. Getting to the right place there was slow and when I got there, I still pretty much had all the same things to work out for myself.

Anyway, after a while I swapped to using a calorie counter book and that helped.

I'm sure the work I did last year helped - cos I have a better rough idea.

Putting everything into a single post this time has helped too. I'm not hunting around for details I put online and not on Word, and vice versa. There's just one document, and the links are all easy for me to follow. (I don't know if the links on this site work better than they used to, or if I've just stopped making some mistake that I didn't realize.)

Also, I used to put a heap of effort into working out the actual calories of foods I prepared myself. Now I often don't do my own cooking so I just make an educated guess and leave it at that.

I'm quite prepared not to write it if I don't have time, or to just leave off the numbers if I don't have time.

For all that, I have found it helpful to come here and just write down the food even when I don't have time to do much else. I think it's made it easier for me to eat a bit more thoughtfully. Plus it's something else to do if I feel like eating badly, and by the time I've written it, that's been enough to change the frame of mind I was in.

We had a change of menu for our take away tonight.

Friday dinner ?750
7:00 Take-away
Glass white wine 75
1/4 (small!!) Portuguese barbecued chicken. Small serve Greek salad. 5/4 roast potatoes.
I really can't find proper estimates for calories for these things. I'm not going to worry about it. The chicken tasted like it was marinated in oil or cooked with it's skin on- definitely more calories than my usual chicken - and also, less of it than I usually eat. The Greek salad didn't have an oily dressing, and the potatoes tasted way yummier than what we eat here - so I guess they were on the high side. However all my serves looked the right size to me.
* 5 licorice allsorts 90. 5 marshmallows 80.

Well I shopped while I was hungry didn't I? and while I had my Friday night feeling on ... so I bought that sugary stuff. However, on the good side, I was able to shunt myself away from hunting down the substantial chocolate I first thought of - because I realized it wouldn't satisfy my yen without being too much and way high in calories. Also, I actually planned to eat more than this - it would have been planned/controlled, but substantially more - and wow 10 lollies right after dinner - sugar overload - I just didn't feel like having more. I was happy that I could recognize this and stop. Plus it was a couple of hours ago and I have no impulse to keep eating or binge - so I guess choosing things I thought would make me feel satisfied might have helped, and eating it right after my meal kept my sugar levels more controlled than they felt at the time.
 
Qjay said:
/me gazes at you with Hypnotiq Eyes.

Sleep, little Felici, sleeeeep...

Rest well... When you awake you shall feel refreshed and energetic...

Sleeeeeeeep..... :sleeping:
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such a nice idea - sleep - hypnotic gaze - yeah - I reckon it's wor..... :sleeping:
 
Oh lucky mistake, I hit x. Very crappy times since I was last here and I am not typing them out twice. Short story. One sleepy impulse fed binge and one emotional overload binge. I'm over the bingeing, the fight is fixed, but I'm not happy about how to squash the rest of my work into the rest of my weekend. I should be going to bed now but actually I'm waiting to go collect my son. I don't want to wake myself up too much and I don't want to waste my time. I feel like it's a no win situation, and the latest in a whole day full of them. Whatever. I came on line for something else - ... where to put the headings on a Y chart ... and when I hit hit Firefox I realized I had left my post here open and unsubmitted last time I clicked out ... as you were.
 
Nah. I'm not over it. The fight yes, the crash that followed, no. I felt like something cracked that I have to get bound up again. I'm really struggling this week - not with food. Mainly I'm just eating crappy at times and not fighting it. I'm just very tired and not seeing the place where I will regroup. Shit, I just noticed I'm talking about "this week" and it's only Monday night.

Umm. I guess I need to sort out my sleep first, then my food, then probably other things will start to normalize. School still seems too busy and like it will never be calm enough. I've been having tuna for lunch and I keep bolting it so fast that it hurts, and then I kinda realize and slow down. I guess it feels like it's constantly changing on me and that has a impact too. Today I got two new girls in my class. One was so sweet - but still now I have so many unexpected changes to make. That is just one example. It all seems like that. Like my whole day is a rush, and then I have to rush to sleep and rush to wake. I have always been good at adapting to what comes up, but I feel like I'm spending too much time in that mode - plus I was trying to develop the other more balanced way of living. I'm just tired out.

LOL. I need to get rid of that rose and get back my cow/dolphin I think.
 
felici said:
Nah. I'm not over it. The fight yes, the crash that followed, no. I felt like something cracked that I have to get bound up again. I'm really struggling this week - not with food. Mainly I'm just eating crappy at times and not fighting it. I'm just very tired and not seeing the place where I will regroup. Shit, I just noticed I'm talking about "this week" and it's only Monday night.
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I live where you are visiting right now, Felici. Just do your best to walk where there are no csandy machines, and try to avoid that half of the market when you go to the store. Find the shortest line, if they have candy along the checkout lanes.

Best of luck with the crash, I will think happy thoughts at you. :biggrinjester:
 
Thanks, Qjay.

I have been on a bit of a rollercoaster lately. Yesterday was my daughter's birthday. I remember this time last year I was hanging in there with my food and her birthday helped give me a push the wrong way - it was a big deal party so megamumstress and then there was the mud cake which didn't all get eaten on the day ...

And this year, well there was mudcake, but less of it. And we had people over after school, things were a bit chaotic, but for the first time in ages, I did no school work at home. I figured I had prepped just enough for today, so I just ate (crappy food for) dinner and fell asleep early. I feel so much better today after that great sleep. I can't say I ate well, but I feel like maybe I'm in control again, and just being naughty. Anyway, time to gird up again. I can do so much damage so fast on those bad days. I can't afford to let them keep dragging out the way they have this week. I can't record all the rubbish I ate now, because one of the first things I do is stop counting, and even start counting wrongly. I know because when I first start eating badly I try to remember in the morning and I remember one number, then if I count up empty containers it's another number. :ack2:

Anyway, time to get back on the bike - metaphorically for now - but maybe actually, as well.
 
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Hmm. Well, I was reading this, just because it was at one of the websites I go to to read - but I thought the last couple of paragraphs might interest people here. I don't offer this as serious food for weight loss thoughts, but ... who knows?
 
felici said:
Hmm. Well, I was reading this, just because it was at one of the websites I go to to read - but I thought the last couple of paragraphs might interest people here. I don't offer this as serious food for weight loss thoughts, but ... who knows?
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WOW, that blew me away. I'm not the genome I use to be.
 
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