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T2 Trucker
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I love reading your diary.
That is all.
That is all.
My husband lost 6 lbs and I can definitely tell. We work together and every time I spotted him, I was floored at how thin he looks. I can tell the difference at the top of his stomach. I'm sure he thinks I'm just trying to be encouraging, but I am sincerely not.
Either way, your husband sounds like great support.
I am with you on the slightly different fitting clothes. I haven't lost enough to drop a size, but there are certain parts of my jeans that fit different.
Why must eating out be so tricky? Restaurants should offer a complete separate light menu, free of the fatty bad temptations.
I hate talking about my weight loss too. I have many reasons. One, I don't like people doubting me, even in their own heads. Two, I don't want to seem like I'm bragging when I'm speaking to my heavy friends. Three, I hate getting advice from people who really don't know much.
My grandmother has spent the last 20 years trying to gain weight, even buying weight gainers from GNC. Now she can't fit into her jeans. She is full of weight loss advice. .she who fries everything. .and I mean everything.
Anyways, sounds as if you had a 'little food fun', but didn't have a 'big food bash'. Good job!
Either way, your husband sounds like great support.
I am with you on the slightly different fitting clothes. I haven't lost enough to drop a size, but there are certain parts of my jeans that fit different.
Why must eating out be so tricky? Restaurants should offer a complete separate light menu, free of the fatty bad temptations.
I hate talking about my weight loss too. I have many reasons. One, I don't like people doubting me, even in their own heads. Two, I don't want to seem like I'm bragging when I'm speaking to my heavy friends. Three, I hate getting advice from people who really don't know much.
My grandmother has spent the last 20 years trying to gain weight, even buying weight gainers from GNC. Now she can't fit into her jeans. She is full of weight loss advice. .she who fries everything. .and I mean everything.
Anyways, sounds as if you had a 'little food fun', but didn't have a 'big food bash'. Good job!
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felici
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felici
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I have the order of my replies muddled here. Sorry.
I haven't had the cold long and most of the day it's not a hassle. Though talking to my excitable friends in a noisy restaurant didn't do the throat much good!! I hope I won't lead anyone into abuse if I admit that I enjoyed my codeine before bed.
I wasn't expecting a visible difference at this percentage of weight loss - I think I ignored the visible difference on the way up. I think the walks have been a two way help because they have firmed my tummy muscles a bit.
Thank you, sir. I value your enjoyment.
That is a lovely thing. I'm glad for you.
I haven't had the cold long and most of the day it's not a hassle. Though talking to my excitable friends in a noisy restaurant didn't do the throat much good!! I hope I won't lead anyone into abuse if I admit that I enjoyed my codeine before bed.
It is exciting.
I wasn't expecting a visible difference at this percentage of weight loss - I think I ignored the visible difference on the way up. I think the walks have been a two way help because they have firmed my tummy muscles a bit.I love reading your diary.
That is all.
Thank you, sir. I value your enjoyment.
I can't stress enough how hard it can be to eat out; so I just find a favorite healthy dish and have a bunch of that. I like soups and salads, especially, and I make a deal with whomever I am out with to share a little of theirs, so I get to taste it and enjoy the "bad part" of the food without all of the bad part of the food
My hard task now is beating breakfasts, I just love hollandaise sauce and bacon and hash browns fried crisp. *sigh*
Oh well, it could be worse, at least breakfast is early in the day, right?
I also ALWAYS have a snack before leaving for the restaurant. I never miss out on that, anymore; it REALLY helps me order something good for me instead of aiming for a heavy meal because I am hungry.
I also am getting in the habit of asking for a "to go" box if I order an actual Entree for myself, and I put half of the food in right as it is served. It's iffy, but at least it turns the meals into normal portion sizes.
My hard task now is beating breakfasts, I just love hollandaise sauce and bacon and hash browns fried crisp. *sigh*
Oh well, it could be worse, at least breakfast is early in the day, right?
I also ALWAYS have a snack before leaving for the restaurant. I never miss out on that, anymore; it REALLY helps me order something good for me instead of aiming for a heavy meal because I am hungry.
I also am getting in the habit of asking for a "to go" box if I order an actual Entree for myself, and I put half of the food in right as it is served. It's iffy, but at least it turns the meals into normal portion sizes.
felici
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It is pretty rare for me to eat out these days but we regularly did it before the kids. I think my plan then was just maximum immediate gratification! Anyone who's doing it consistently certainly needs some strategies to keep it healthy. It sounds like you have a few good ideas. You could probably have some of that breakfast food you like if you cooked it at home and modified the recipes a bit. I still eat bacon sometimes but I buy short cut bacon and trim all the obvious fat. Hash browns? I don't know... Spray the mix with oil and oven bake? There are probably plenty of ideas on the net - (eg. . One thing about cutting back on fat is that after a while you do notice it more and find it less pleasant.
felici
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Breakfast ~11:00 2 weetbix., 1/3 C tinned peaches, 1 C soya milk, 1 boiled egg. 1 slice wholemeal toast, with margarine and jam. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk Lunch/Snack 4:30. 1 Salada cracker. 12 almonds. 1 PINK LADY ? Dinner: 8:30 1:30gm crimson snapper, with egg white, a little flour and sprayed on oil, limejuice. 2 slices wholemeal bread. ~ 2 C salad – broccoli, mushroom, carrot, capsicum, cucumber, sugar snap peas, ½ tomato. Exercise: 5.37 pm Walked around Carine Reserve for 1 hour and 28 mins. Pretty much walked all paths. ?5 km. Legs tired again. Water: 2000ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:30
On plan:51 days Achieved food target: 44 days Exercised: 43 days All goals: 6 days.
On plan:51 days Achieved food target: 44 days Exercised: 43 days All goals: 6 days.
cinderelly
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Just dropped in to say hi, congrats on how well you did eat and on getting your walks in...hahaha abt cancling tea due to wanting to walk that is the spirit isnt it, we would prefer to exercise or dont want our exerccise interupted, I didnt eat out for the longest time or got o friends for dinner as I wanted to stay focused, I am learnign i can stay focused and still go out...Have a good day!!!
be_gone_soon
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Dropping in to say Hi and have a great day!!
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hyperose
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Hey! Just stopping by to say hi! Have a great day!
MellyP
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Well Hi There Felici!!
So great to read your dairy and see that you are still going strong! You doing so well good on you girl!!!
I know what you mean by how hard it can be eating out!! I only do it rarely now because it is way too tempting to 'just have a taste' of my partners meal choices (usually very extensive I must say!). When we do go out I play it pretty safe - usually get grilled fish no oil and a salad - no dressing. It fills me up and I don't feel like I'm missing out too much. I just have lots of water with it then when I get home I have a big mango for desert. How good and massive have the mangos been this summer!!! mmmmmmmm yummo!
Have a great day and a skrinking weekend!
Oh do you take measurements of yourself at all? I do it weekly - sometimes when the weight loss doesn't show on the scales I actually lose cm's in different areas around my body. weird I know but it spurs me on when the scale is slow.
Take care
Mel
So great to read your dairy and see that you are still going strong! You doing so well good on you girl!!!
I know what you mean by how hard it can be eating out!! I only do it rarely now because it is way too tempting to 'just have a taste' of my partners meal choices (usually very extensive I must say!). When we do go out I play it pretty safe - usually get grilled fish no oil and a salad - no dressing. It fills me up and I don't feel like I'm missing out too much. I just have lots of water with it then when I get home I have a big mango for desert. How good and massive have the mangos been this summer!!! mmmmmmmm yummo!
Have a great day and a skrinking weekend!
Oh do you take measurements of yourself at all? I do it weekly - sometimes when the weight loss doesn't show on the scales I actually lose cm's in different areas around my body. weird I know but it spurs me on when the scale is slow.
Take care
Mel
felici
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Hi!
Thanks for all the helloes. I used to feel a bit sorry that I couldn't eat out as often as I wanted, but at the moment it probably does make it easier! We have 2 social things on next weekend and 2 the weekend after. That's a lot for us. I can see some of them being a bit of a challenge. Not for providing once a year food like Christmas, but more for the time they will take, and the need to for me to develop a better way of coping with them than I have before.
I could not get in here at all last night! This is my post for yesterday Friday 19th January.
Odd 24 hours for me. Last night the other forum I’ve posted in a lot suddenly deleted the section I use most, sending a bunch of us to find a new spot to play and taking a lot of my attention. It has left me on tenterhooks to some extent. Now tonight I can’t get in here!! Stuff like that just gets me keep checking and checking. I am not good at switching off about any computer issues. Anyway, I will just make a diary entry ready for the morning.
Yesterday I coped with sleeping late by putting both my walks into one long one. I drove to the next suburb where there is a big reserve. Some of it is wetland or bushland but there are also a lot of sports grounds, a skate park, playground, stables for disabled riders and paths. Some of the paths have numbers on them but I’m still not sure how far I walked because I didn’t start at zero, and because I reckon I covered more than 2 routes! Anyway it was pretty good. It’s a very busy place, with games, and training, and people walking and jogging. It seems to be ok to have the dog off the leash as long as she stays close to the paths, so that’s better exercise for me. I found my legs and feet starting to really ache for the last 20 or so minutes before I finished. I think it might be like getting a stitch when you’re sprinting? Anyway, it just seems to be tiredness, it’s gone by the next day, and the sore feet seems to be the same sort of thing – my heel spur wasn’t hurting or anything.
Today I was hoping to do the same walk, but had lots of little obligations with the children and dinner and cooking. I ended up just going for a quick half hour near home. I was quite torn about how to manage it. I really didn’t want to skip. I would if I really had to but I get the feeling that if I let being busy or upset be a reason to totally skip walking it might go the way of other exercise programs I’ve ended up stopping. There haven’t really been that many – not like my countless diets. It does help to feel obliged to give the dog a walk. Really, walking is so flexible, I should be able to make some sort of attempt every day. It’s not like we’re ever surrounded by snow up to our necks!! I did try to take the dog in the bush one day last winter when it was pelting down rain. That was kinda funny. Our old dog was a real toughie, but this one is very conscious of things she dislikes. She didn’t like being drenched. She went slower and slower and then kept stopping and lagged behind instead of running up ahead. In the end I gave up and turned around and she ran so fast back to the car that for most of the way I couldn’t even see her.
Breakfast ~10:30 2 weetbix., 1/3 C tinned peaches, 1 C soya milk, 1 boiled egg. 1 slice wholemeal toast, with margarine and jam. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk Lunch 1:30. ¾ C pumpkin soup, 2 wholemeal Salada crackers, some low fat cottage cheese, 1 tomato. 1 banana. Snack 5:30 ½ Salada cracker. Dinner: 9:00 Veal marsala. 150gm veal, 1/4C sherry, 2-3 mushrooms, 2-3 tspns olive oil, 1 ½ roast potatoes, 1 carrot, a little broccoli. ½ tub low fat yoghurt, 1 nectarine Snack 2 weetbix, 1 C milk. Splenda. Exercise: 8:17 pm Walked. 30 min mod. pace. Water: 3000ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 2:30
On plan:52 days Achieved food target: 45 days Exercised: 44 days All goals: 6 days.
Thanks for all the helloes. I used to feel a bit sorry that I couldn't eat out as often as I wanted, but at the moment it probably does make it easier! We have 2 social things on next weekend and 2 the weekend after. That's a lot for us. I can see some of them being a bit of a challenge. Not for providing once a year food like Christmas, but more for the time they will take, and the need to for me to develop a better way of coping with them than I have before.
I could not get in here at all last night! This is my post for yesterday Friday 19th January.
Odd 24 hours for me. Last night the other forum I’ve posted in a lot suddenly deleted the section I use most, sending a bunch of us to find a new spot to play and taking a lot of my attention. It has left me on tenterhooks to some extent. Now tonight I can’t get in here!! Stuff like that just gets me keep checking and checking. I am not good at switching off about any computer issues. Anyway, I will just make a diary entry ready for the morning.
Yesterday I coped with sleeping late by putting both my walks into one long one. I drove to the next suburb where there is a big reserve. Some of it is wetland or bushland but there are also a lot of sports grounds, a skate park, playground, stables for disabled riders and paths. Some of the paths have numbers on them but I’m still not sure how far I walked because I didn’t start at zero, and because I reckon I covered more than 2 routes! Anyway it was pretty good. It’s a very busy place, with games, and training, and people walking and jogging. It seems to be ok to have the dog off the leash as long as she stays close to the paths, so that’s better exercise for me. I found my legs and feet starting to really ache for the last 20 or so minutes before I finished. I think it might be like getting a stitch when you’re sprinting? Anyway, it just seems to be tiredness, it’s gone by the next day, and the sore feet seems to be the same sort of thing – my heel spur wasn’t hurting or anything.
Today I was hoping to do the same walk, but had lots of little obligations with the children and dinner and cooking. I ended up just going for a quick half hour near home. I was quite torn about how to manage it. I really didn’t want to skip. I would if I really had to but I get the feeling that if I let being busy or upset be a reason to totally skip walking it might go the way of other exercise programs I’ve ended up stopping. There haven’t really been that many – not like my countless diets. It does help to feel obliged to give the dog a walk. Really, walking is so flexible, I should be able to make some sort of attempt every day. It’s not like we’re ever surrounded by snow up to our necks!! I did try to take the dog in the bush one day last winter when it was pelting down rain. That was kinda funny. Our old dog was a real toughie, but this one is very conscious of things she dislikes. She didn’t like being drenched. She went slower and slower and then kept stopping and lagged behind instead of running up ahead. In the end I gave up and turned around and she ran so fast back to the car that for most of the way I couldn’t even see her.
Breakfast ~10:30 2 weetbix., 1/3 C tinned peaches, 1 C soya milk, 1 boiled egg. 1 slice wholemeal toast, with margarine and jam. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk Lunch 1:30. ¾ C pumpkin soup, 2 wholemeal Salada crackers, some low fat cottage cheese, 1 tomato. 1 banana. Snack 5:30 ½ Salada cracker. Dinner: 9:00 Veal marsala. 150gm veal, 1/4C sherry, 2-3 mushrooms, 2-3 tspns olive oil, 1 ½ roast potatoes, 1 carrot, a little broccoli. ½ tub low fat yoghurt, 1 nectarine Snack 2 weetbix, 1 C milk. Splenda. Exercise: 8:17 pm Walked. 30 min mod. pace. Water: 3000ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 2:30
On plan:52 days Achieved food target: 45 days Exercised: 44 days All goals: 6 days.
I had the same problem, some kind of database error. I'm sure they have posted a thread about it, but I only come here for the diaries (mostly). I still keep my hopes up that I'll meet someone who lives in here in Beaverton that wants to work out with me, but you know how that goes.
I had some change I was going to make to my diary, and now I can't remember what it was, makes me nuts when that happens.
I do have a question for you:
On plan:52 days Achieved food target: 45 days Exercised: 44 days All goals: 6 days.
What does "all goals" mean?
I had some change I was going to make to my diary, and now I can't remember what it was, makes me nuts when that happens.
I do have a question for you:
On plan:52 days Achieved food target: 45 days Exercised: 44 days All goals: 6 days.
What does "all goals" mean?
felici
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From my first post here:
My current plan is to eat 3 well balanced meals a day and avoid simple sugars.
I will try to walk the dog most days.
Edit: I will take a water bottle with me when I'm away from home and try stop myself getting thirsty.
I will aim to get to bed by 11 pm.
I have improved quite a bit on what I achieve in those first three areas.
But number 4...
My current plan is to eat 3 well balanced meals a day and avoid simple sugars.
I will try to walk the dog most days.
Edit: I will take a water bottle with me when I'm away from home and try stop myself getting thirsty.
I will aim to get to bed by 11 pm.
I have improved quite a bit on what I achieve in those first three areas.
But number 4...
lolol, okay, I get it now. You're as much of an insomniac as I am. I'm dropping a couple of sleeping tablets with a shot of tequila or Jagermeister in order to try to sleep earlier, and having limited success. It's too icy for me to walk down to the gym and exercise right now, so I am pretty much stuck being a fat man, on the second floor apartment, over light sleeper, in the middle of the night, wired awake, and trying simple aerobic stretching exercises in the quietest method possible.
I hate disturbing my neighbors *sigh* I just wish I could get to sleep...
When I was in my 20's I COULD go a couple of days without sleep and be okay, but now that I'm on the far side of my 30's, I have settled into the habit of getting the rest I need.
Ugh... family events this weekend...
I hate disturbing my neighbors *sigh* I just wish I could get to sleep...
When I was in my 20's I COULD go a couple of days without sleep and be okay, but now that I'm on the far side of my 30's, I have settled into the habit of getting the rest I need.
Ugh... family events this weekend...
felici
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I sympathize about the insomnia Qjay. I hate it when I can't get to sleep. It must be very hard coping with it in that environment. My husband has trouble getting enough sleep too. I suppose you have already tried all the techniques they write up on the net. (I just say that because you're an internet user - my husband doesn't do them - he just shifts beds and leaves the TVs on and does without as much sleep as wants.)
But actually, since I had my children I have become a sleep anywhere, anytime kind of woman. My oldest child fed badly and slowly when he was small and I often fell asleep while I was still sitting upright and holding him. I do have trouble falling asleep if I haven't finished what I think I should do - or if I have too much on my mind. If I manage to get to bed at 11:00 and then think that I have posted something misleading or misspelled, or remember that the shirt my son will need in the morning is still in the washing machine then I will get back up again. If I remember slightly before 11:00 then I will be late.
One problem is just that I don't really want to go to bed that much right now. If I stay up late I sleep in. I'm not skipping sleep. I'm just mucking up the next day. I have in mind a life in which I get up early and walk early. Once school starts again I will need to get up early and do at least some of my walking then, or it will become too difficult to manage. Even today I would have walked more if I had got up earlier - but then last night I was still toey about the new forum I'm involved in and so on...I forgive myself the night before that, because that was the night that I logged on at 9:00 and found everything pear shaped. I probably wouldn't have slept if I'd tried to go to bed on time anyway.
Other times I think I can do everything that matters before bed, but there's a hiccup. Partly this is because it's school holidays, and daylight saving, and so much is happening late, and the kids are up late.
From the point of view of taking control of my life and achieving what I want, I have to keep thinking that this is a time management issue that I need to deal with - but I have not yet dealt with it in a tough enough way to achieve what I say I want. I just constantly rationalize and try to improvise other ways of keeping going without dealing with the bed time thing. I have also seriously considered that I made a mistake in the way I phrased that goal and that I should change the plan to fit my behaviour. Actually though to get what I want it will have to be the other way around. So there you have it. Achieved all goals - still 6. Only one and a half week's to go now though. And then I will really need a 10:00 bedtime. OMG.
Breakfast ~10:30 2 weetbix., 1/3 C tinned peaches, 1 C soya milk, 1 boiled egg. 1 slice wholemeal toast, with margarine and jam. ½ C tomato juice. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk Lunch 1:302 wholemeal Salada crackers, some low fat cottage cheese, 1 tomato. 1 carrot, handful sugar snap peas. 1 orange. Snack 5:30 ½ Salada cracker. Dinner: 7:00 Appropriate looking amount of beef stew. Shin beef (not heaps) , potato (about 1 medium), onion, capsicum, carrot, celery, tomato. Broccoli. ½ tub low fat yoghurt, 1 nectarine Exercise: 7:55pm Walked. 45 min mod. pace. (At Carine) Water: 3000ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 2:30
On plan:53 days Achieved food target: 46 days Exercised: 45 days All goals: 6 days.
But actually, since I had my children I have become a sleep anywhere, anytime kind of woman. My oldest child fed badly and slowly when he was small and I often fell asleep while I was still sitting upright and holding him. I do have trouble falling asleep if I haven't finished what I think I should do - or if I have too much on my mind. If I manage to get to bed at 11:00 and then think that I have posted something misleading or misspelled, or remember that the shirt my son will need in the morning is still in the washing machine then I will get back up again. If I remember slightly before 11:00 then I will be late.
One problem is just that I don't really want to go to bed that much right now. If I stay up late I sleep in. I'm not skipping sleep. I'm just mucking up the next day. I have in mind a life in which I get up early and walk early. Once school starts again I will need to get up early and do at least some of my walking then, or it will become too difficult to manage. Even today I would have walked more if I had got up earlier - but then last night I was still toey about the new forum I'm involved in and so on...I forgive myself the night before that, because that was the night that I logged on at 9:00 and found everything pear shaped. I probably wouldn't have slept if I'd tried to go to bed on time anyway.
Other times I think I can do everything that matters before bed, but there's a hiccup. Partly this is because it's school holidays, and daylight saving, and so much is happening late, and the kids are up late.
From the point of view of taking control of my life and achieving what I want, I have to keep thinking that this is a time management issue that I need to deal with - but I have not yet dealt with it in a tough enough way to achieve what I say I want. I just constantly rationalize and try to improvise other ways of keeping going without dealing with the bed time thing. I have also seriously considered that I made a mistake in the way I phrased that goal and that I should change the plan to fit my behaviour. Actually though to get what I want it will have to be the other way around. So there you have it. Achieved all goals - still 6. Only one and a half week's to go now though. And then I will really need a 10:00 bedtime. OMG.
Breakfast ~10:30 2 weetbix., 1/3 C tinned peaches, 1 C soya milk, 1 boiled egg. 1 slice wholemeal toast, with margarine and jam. ½ C tomato juice. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk Lunch 1:302 wholemeal Salada crackers, some low fat cottage cheese, 1 tomato. 1 carrot, handful sugar snap peas. 1 orange. Snack 5:30 ½ Salada cracker. Dinner: 7:00 Appropriate looking amount of beef stew. Shin beef (not heaps) , potato (about 1 medium), onion, capsicum, carrot, celery, tomato. Broccoli. ½ tub low fat yoghurt, 1 nectarine Exercise: 7:55pm Walked. 45 min mod. pace. (At Carine) Water: 3000ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 2:30
On plan:53 days Achieved food target: 46 days Exercised: 45 days All goals: 6 days.