This is the time

I live in Perth, Western Australia. It does get pretty hot here sometimes in the summer. Luckily yesterday turned out not to be too bad because we had an early sea breeze, and it wasn't the start of a heat wave. One day of dry heat is not bad. Three or more can be hard to take because that means the evenings aren't cool either and it's usually humid. The summer has been mild so far, but often February-March are worse. The weather is fickle right now with bits of rain and today very windy. People say it's weirder now than it used to be, but as far as I can remember they have always said that.


I managed 2 substantial walks today. I have done 2 before, but they were not as vigorous as what I did today. I am getting faster times for the same thing without pushing myself as much as I had to previously for the same thing. That felt like an achievement. I really would like to lose weight faster than I have been and I don’t think I have much room to move with the food at the moment, so increasing the exercise needs to be the way to go.

I felt quite a pull towards snacking this evening, though I wasn’t hungry. I wonder if it was because the meal was a bit light on for carbs – perhaps also because I ate earlier than I have been and had more evening to think about food in? It wasn’t difficult to control as I had good access to the computer – the easiest pleasure I can substitute for food. I read a great deal of T2's diary today and it would be hard to go off plan tonight after that!! I can’t believe I read so much and still have not got up to Part 3 of the trek to Utah. I got up to page 75. I wonder if it’s actually in there yet! :D

Breakfast ~8:30 2 weetbix., 1/3 C tinned peaches, 1 C soya milk, 1 boiled egg. 1 slice wholemeal toast, with margarine and jam. 1 C tomato juice. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk Lunch 1:30. 2 wholemeal Salada crackers, 100gm tin lemon pepper tuna, 1 tomato, 6 sugar snap peas, 1 carrot, 1 diet apricot yoghurt Snack 3:00 3/4 Salada cracker. Dinner: 7:30 50gm cheese, 100 gm tin 4 bean mix, ½ broccoli, 1 celery stalk, 1 carrot, 1/3 capsicum, a little courgette, 6 sugar snap peas, 1/3 large mushroom, 1 tomato, a little diet salad dressing. 1 orange. Exercise: 1140am, 36 min brisk+ walk 6:50pm 39 min.brisk + walk Water: 2000ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:30
On plan:48 days Achieved food target: 42 days Exercised: 40 days All goals: 6 days.
 
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Hey there...if you are increasing your exercisie, it cna be increasing your appetite as well...the more I exercise the hungrier I get...it is a lil crazzzy but I just make sure i eat fruit or something...or popcorn...Im kinda in the same place of you, I cant do much food wise so I up my exercise...have a good day!!!
 
Thanks for the thoughts Cinderelly. I don't think I was actually hungry tonight, more just that junk food seemed like it might be nice instead of poison. Maybe it was because I had one of the kid's corn chips while I was cooking dinner! :D I have never thought of them as being that appealing, but a little taste can set you up sometimes, especially if you're hungry at the time!
 
Ya I make that mistake as well...sometimes I really fight wiht myself weither or not i should taste something because that one taste and one chip or one whatever is usually the beginning of a binge or a regret lol...but as you increase your exercise I wouldnt be surprized that your appetite increases as well, I assume it is the metabolism...I dunn, lol...Maybe I am just different, LOL...
 
Well I hope extra walking will make a difference! I don't want to feel the weakness I seem to easily get if I wait too long to eat, but if it's just what happened tonight that will be fine with me. If need be I will just duck into T2's diary again. That should keep me going for a long time yet. Reading on the internet is so slow...I guess it gives you plenty of time to digest the ideas. :)
 
felici said:
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.
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I am jelous!! My Mum has dogs at home, and I miss them and walking them, though not washing them when we get back from walks!! However much I try to keep them out of muddy puddles-I can't!!! They LURVE those muddy puddles grrr :)

felici said:
I don't think I was actually hungry tonight, more just that junk food seemed like it might be nice instead of poison.
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I had the same at work yesterday. Stacking shelves, all sorts of naughty things: pastys, pies, pastries etc. I wasn't hungry but I REALLY wanted to eat them!!! Resisted though :D

felici said:
Well I hope extra walking will make a difference! I don't want to feel the weakness I seem to easily get if I wait too long to eat, but if it's just what happened tonight that will be fine with me. If need be I will just duck into T2's diary again. That should keep me going for a long time yet. Reading on the internet is so slow...I guess it gives you plenty of time to digest the ideas. :)
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This forum is SUCH great mortivation isn't it!!
 
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Enjoying the good life :)
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$5.00 for 3 lbs. surely makes these a one-a-day treat.
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For sure it's good here just now. For some reason we have been given a long summer holiday this year. My kids are that bit more independent too. I don't remember feeling as though I have had such a long time off since I was a kid myself.

There's always plenty of wonderful fruit in the house (including pink ladies:) which are the apple of choice in this family). I don't always get as much fruit in to me as I should :eek: , and I do overlook the apples a bit because they are here all year, and if anything, crisper later in the year, when summer fruit is unavailable/unaffordable/unpleasant. My dad's family used to own an apple orchard - I loved it when we would occasionally get a box of apples - usually Jonathon's - straight from the trees. Jonathons tend to make my teeth sting these days though, and the old orchards are mostly vineyards.

I went out with my daughter today on a picnic to King's Park. This was her arrangement, but her friend let her down, so it was just us. She had particularly wanted to go there to climb on a strange rope arrangement they have. There is a metal pole about 30-40 ft high with 4 ropes from the top out to the ground,and a honeycomb of ropes between them. Nimble children climb to the top in a few minutes. My daughter has only ever gone about a third of the way up, which is probably why it still attracts her. But, "I can't because they're all boys on there", so yes, on I climbed. Slowly. I decided that if I didn't injure myself it could be regarded as a combination of upper body work and tai chi. Of course if I had hurt myself that would have just been more evidence that I have a screw loose. So far I still feel ok. Just a bit stiff from yesterday I think. Afterwards we went for a walk in the park, on a raised platform that I hadn't had the chance to try before. It was all very pleasant but I wasn't moving too fast. I see that I have a way to go before I will be energetic enough to properly participate in what I hope will be an active holiday in October. I am still pleased with myself for making more of an effort than I was.
 
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It sounds like fun to me. I used to work in a warehouse and was always climbing up the racks to get stuff from the top (It was stupid, but I really enjoyed it, at 330 lbs, better yet). There's something fun about climbing up high under your own power, so do it, just be careful and have fun. Did your daughter make it any higher this time?
 
My daughter went just as high as last time, but a little higher than me. Perhaps she would have gone higher if I had - however I didn't want to have a long queue of little kids waiting for me to get out of their way - so I kept my slow self out of the narrower upper area. :)

Wow! My thighs and backside are so sore. I did my 47 minute walk tonight, in 47 minutes. Even that was a slog! I have a slight cold, but basically I’m ok. I reckon this is just stiff muscles, a different level of stiff muscles than I have had for many years!! I don’t recollect doing anything as extreme as this feels, but maybe it’s just from a combination of things. I am more physically tired than usual – maybe I’ll make that bedtime for once – if I can just get the kids to quiet down a bit first! Two boys sleeping over at once. Four kids playing Spotlight. Good exercise. Last time a boy ran right into a rose bush – the meanest thorniest bush in the garden. It took me 15 minutes to dress his arm.

Breakfast ~8:30 2 weetbix., 1/3 C tinned peaches, 1 C soya milk, 1 boiled egg. 1 slice wholemeal toast, with margarine and jam. ¼ C tomato juice. 1/2 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk Lunch 1:00. 1 wholemeal bread roll, 11/2 small chicken thighs, grilled. Grated carrot, cucumber. 1 stalk celery. 1 nectarine. Snack 4:30 1/2 Salada cracker. Dinner: 7:30 ½ C pasta, ~ 2 tbspns salmon/tomato/onion sauce, ~ 1 tbspn lite cheese, 100gm tin 4 bean mix. 1 stalk celery, 5 sugar snap peas, 1 carrot. 1 nectarine, 1/2 tub natural low fat yoghurt.Exercise: 6:00pm 47 min tired walk Water: 2000ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:45
On plan:49 days Achieved food target: 43 days Exercised: 41 days All goals: 6 days.
 
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felici said:
My daughter went just as high as last time, but a little higher than me. Perhaps she would have gone higher if I had - however I didn't want to have a long queue of little kids waiting for me to get out of their way - so I kept my slow self out of the narrower upper area. :)

Wow! My thighs and backside are so sore.
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Are you SURE you can't think of ANYTHING that might have caused this? :p

felici said:
I did my 47 minute walk tonight, in 47 minutes. Even that was a slog!
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As compared to doing your 47 minutes walk in 42 minutes? :D You really are showing the effects of your cold, I just thought you might get a kick out of my cruel and inhumane mistreatment of your post ;)


felici said:
I have a slight cold, but basically I’m ok. I reckon this is just stiff muscles, a different level of stiff muscles than I have had for many years!! I don’t recollect doing anything as extreme as this feels, but maybe it’s just from a combination of things. I am more physically tired than usual – maybe I’ll make that bedtime for once – if I can just get the kids to quiet down a bit first! Two boys sleeping over at once. Four kids playing Spotlight. Good exercise. Last time a boy ran right into a rose bush – the meanest thorniest bush in the garden. It took me 15 minutes to dress his arm.

Breakfast ~8:30 2 weetbix., 1/3 C tinned peaches, 1 C soya milk, 1 boiled egg. 1 slice wholemeal toast, with margarine and jam. ¼ C tomato juice. 1/2 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk Lunch 1:00. 1 wholemeal bread roll, 11/2 small chicken thighs, grilled. Grated carrot, cucumber. 1 stalk celery. 1 nectarine. Snack 4:30 1/2 Salada cracker. Dinner: 7:30 ½ C pasta, ~ 2 tbspns salmon/tomato/onion sauce, ~ 1 tbspn lite cheese, 100gm tin 4 bean mix. 1 stalk celery, 5 sugar snap peas, 1 carrot. 1 nectarine, 1/2 tub natural low fat yoghurt.Exercise: 6:00pm 47 min tired walk Water: 2000ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:45
On plan:49 days Achieved food target: 43 days Exercised: 41 days All goals: 6 days.
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It looks like you really have a ton going on in your home, you should get a wife :p Your meals look like you are maintaining healthy food, so that's a good thing. I wish I could eat more celery, but I could never stop at just 5 sugar snap peas. My problem with celery is that it always seems to wind up covered in peanut butter or salad dressing.
Did you at least have fun with all the kids around?
 
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Are you SURE you can't think of ANYTHING that might have caused this? :p
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I did consider that. I didn't really think moving as slowly as a sloth, while staying upright, would have had too much impact.

As compared to doing your 47 minutes walk in 42 minutes? :D You really are showing the effects of your cold, I just thought you might get a kick out of my cruel and inhumane mistreatment of your post ;)
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:eek: I can do that 47min walk in 35 minutes!! .... Sometimes. :D

I finally tried to measure this in my street directory. I reckon it is 2.7 kilometres (1.7 miles). I see this means that the fastest time I can manage so far is what other people call "moderate". Now that I've found that out I think I'm glad I didn't know it earlier, while I was going even more slowly. I also see a recommendation to get the distance first before trying to speed up. Unfortunately if I did that I would have to walk for 2-3 hours a day, every day. That's not sustainable. I will have to try to extend and speed up a bit at the same time - and continue to be patient about my weight loss.

At least it was a bit more this week. 0.8 kg (1.75lb). If I could do that every week I would be happy. A couple of weeks in a row at 0.5-0.6 was making me think this thing would take double what I hoped for. I would like to be able to think of myself as being healthy before that if I can.

My cold is worse today, but I'm not aching.


It looks like you really have a ton going on in your home, you should get a wife :p Your meals look like you are maintaining healthy food, so that's a good thing. I wish I could eat more celery, but I could never stop at just 5 sugar snap peas. My problem with celery is that it always seems to wind up covered in peanut butter or salad dressing.
Did you at least have fun with all the kids around?
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Well... actually I think my husband thinks it would be nice to have a housewife too. Actually he gets an errand running mum + part-time cook / part-time laundry worker - and I get to play on the computer a bit more than I should.

The kids are fun inside when they use "inside voices", but the more kids here, the less likely this is to happen. Other than that I prefer them one at a time, or outside. Our visitors are all well mannered. My children are always well mannered too, at other people's homes.

I am a picky shopper. I only buy celery if it looks plump. If the cords look like they are sticking out much, I won't buy it. In the winter I drive a bit further to buy it because the supermarket celery isn't nice enough. Having done that I think it tastes yummy. I don't eat it if it's dry or at all bitter. I do tend to eat veges that don't need more preparation than a wash. I often make chopped salads for the evening but in the day those rinse and munch veges are good value. I don't really count the number of pea pods I eat - I just grab a handful. It will be a bit strange to start work again soon and have to eat so much faster. I might shift some of the lunch veges to my afternoon snack.
 
Thanks wishes! :) My exercise program is a work in progress with a long way to go - but for someone who was doing very little, and thinking she should walk for 20 minutes, 3 times a week, I have come a fair way.

This evening I was planning to eat with some other women, at a new local café. It took me a bit of bother to get there because I cooked two meals before I left, and went for my evening walk, and my daughter invited people for afternoon tea without asking me. At one stage I considered cancelling, but the get together was a fairly old tradition, and I wanted to go. I think it’s a good sign that I was more prepared to cancel the meal than ditch my second walk of the day. I think it’s ok for me to do that sometimes but I hadn’t planned on it today. The second walk was tiring again - maybe because I'm just not used to that amount in a day yet.

I had seen the café’s menu and thought it was like noodle soups and things. I figured I could order one of them, buy a bottle of water if need be, and as they were expecting to get a liquor license I might lash out and have one drink.

Actually I arrived a little late (emergency retainer delivery to my son’s sleepover), and the people already there were half way through ordering a bunch of dishes to share. The food was “Asian” – it struck me as Vietnamese. The liquor licence was still coming. Someone offered me a glass of wine and I accepted and they filled one of those gigantic, 2 glass, glasses people have now. I also asked for water. We have a labour shortage here at present. Water took a long time to come. Eventually I asked again and it came and after I had about 150ml, all the water they brought was used. Then I asked for more water, twice. This cold has reached the croaky throat, slight cough stage. This long explanation is to excuse my drinking of the whole gigantic wine glass despite not planning to have anything that large. Other than that I did what I could. I declined the spring rolls…about four times. Eventually they were cutting the last ones into halves to share and actually said “why not?” No one was trying to be mean – they just wanted me to get the share I was entitled to. I ended up saying, ”Because they look to me like they’re deep fried.” “Aaah.” Problem solvered.

I have a thing about talking about my weight loss efforts. I was so sure I was on track that I did tell people early on about a couple of goes I had around 2 years ago. Now, even though I feel sure I will keep going, I don’t want to say much because I don’t want other people to think “again”. The women I know these days are kind, I don’t think of them as ready to be bitchy about me. It’s my problem, not theirs.

I ate a satay stick though and then just had small amounts of most of the dishes, letting the coconut sauce drain off. The company was pleasant and fun. Afterwards I had a skinny cappuccino, and was complimented on my strength as I ignored a mountain of chocolates someone tipped into the middle of the table. Eating only what I did, didn’t take much effort. I really don’t know what I ate, about the right amount of carbs and protein, not enough veges, and too much oil. I think I will just count this as off plan – but in an ok way.

Something nice. I took before pictures at 96kg. I am not prepared to share them until much later on, but when I was getting ready to go out tonight I tried on the same clothes, and – I can see the difference. It’s not an amount that I would expect someone else to see. My husband says he can tell, and that might be true, or might just be a way of saying how pleased he is to see me doing what he has wanted for such a long time. When I get cross with him I need to remember that for an impatient man he has dealt with this issue with a lot of love and patience. I have been obese for most of the time we were together and he has always worried about it, though he did eventually learn that it was a topic he needed to raise infrequently and with great care.

Breakfast ~8:30 2 weetbix., 1/3 C tinned peaches, 1 C soya milk, 1 boiled egg. 1 slice wholemeal toast, with margarine and jam. 1/2 C tomato juice. 1/2 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk Lunch 1:30. 2 Salada crackers -8 squares, about a heaped tspn of cottage cheese on each. 1 tomato. (I forget if I ate other free veges, I think so).. . 1 nectarine, ½ tub low fat yoghurt. Dinner: 7:30 As above. Exercise: 1100am 2.7 km walk – moderate. 6:00pm 2.7 km walk – slow/mod – legs tired again. Water: 2000ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:30
On plan:50 days Achieved food target: 43 days Exercised: 42 days All goals: 6 days.
 
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youre husband sounds nice. i've gotten really overweight, and my boyfriend still loves me. And it makes me really happy because i know that he loves me for who i am, and thinks i'm beautiful no matter what.
 
colds.. YUCK!!

Felici -

Sorry to hear about your cold. Here I was complaining of being sick on my diary and not once did you tell me about you being sick, you just wished me well!!! What a great friend you are!! I really hope you get to feeling better!! I know how yucky colds are in the summer (it is summer where you are, right?) I hope it all comes to an end for you soon! They can seem to drag on for weeks sometimes! Great job on your program! Sounds like the walking is going good! I admire your determination!!!! Keep coming over to say "hi"!!! I enjoy hearing from you!

Julie
 
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