T2 Trucker
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honestly, I've never eaten the stuff (right up there with weetbix) I may possibly like it and again, maybe not *shrugs*
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Most of Australia was scandalized not long ago at the news that the US had banned Vegemite imports. I'm guessing that makes you relatively safe, most of the time T2.
Of course you should feel free to wear protection in this thread.
I had a jar that was about 2 tablespoonss that i brought back from australia - i made sos many people taste it - but they used toothpicks for tasting to get small quanties - and the jar was still mostly full
i couldn' convince anyone to have a full serving.. though it wasn't awful on toast with a thin layer of butter and a thinner layer of the vegemite -i just found it salty
felici
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Is this as a sign of approval?honestly, I've never eaten the stuff (right up there with weetbix) I may possibly like it and again, maybe not *shrugs*
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Yep. A good day. It's always good to see your face first thing.
Some conversations are better left to their own...meanderings
Agreed.
I had a jar that was about 2 tablespoonss that i brought back from australia - i made sos many people taste it - but they used toothpicks for tasting to get small quanties - and the jar was still mostly full
I've mostly eaten Vegemite on toast too. I haven't actually tried it on toothpicks.
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felici
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Breakfast ~7:00 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 boiled egg. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. ½ glass tomato juice. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Snack 10:30 Coffee with whole milk. Apple.
Lunch 12:40 2 slices wholemeal bread, a grilled chicken thigh. .
Snack 4:00 1 Salada cracker. 6:00 1 carrot.
Exercise: 8:00 pm. 50 min. Walking. Long warm up and a few intervals on the oval.
Long warm up (10 min funny walks plus 5 min exercises and stretches) - took longer than I expected.
Intervals on footy oval, fast to one end (61 sec, 63 secs) – ie faster than last time, slow back (2 min 17).
Between the long warm up, chatty passers by and no-good dog, I only managed 5 sets. However they were good ones. They felt right. I finally managed to time a fast heart rate and it was 180. I did not feel like I was dying but one site I looked up said my maximum heart rate was 169? Never mind I am pretty sure I have seen things that suggest 180 would be ok, not too fast or too slow.
That dog is in danger of being deleted from my exercise program on the days (like today), when someone else has already taken her out. She really doesn’t get running back and forth. I saw her running along the boundary line on my way back down the middle of the oval, one time tonight, and started to think she might be getting a bit more of a workout than usual, then she totally disappeared. Turned out she was lying down waiting for me right out of the oval, across the car park by the church. All ready to go home and quite illegal. And she wouldn’t come back. I had to stop and go and get her!
Dinner 9:15 100 gm lean pork, ½ onion, ½ pear, balsamic vinegar. 1 roast jacket potato. Microwaved carrots. Fresh baby spinach.
Water: ~2000 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:30
On plan:117 days. Achieved food target: 99 days. Exercised: 100 days. All goals: 7 days.
Snack 10:30 Coffee with whole milk. Apple.
Lunch 12:40 2 slices wholemeal bread, a grilled chicken thigh. .
Snack 4:00 1 Salada cracker. 6:00 1 carrot.
Exercise: 8:00 pm. 50 min. Walking. Long warm up and a few intervals on the oval.
Long warm up (10 min funny walks plus 5 min exercises and stretches) - took longer than I expected.
Intervals on footy oval, fast to one end (61 sec, 63 secs) – ie faster than last time, slow back (2 min 17).
Between the long warm up, chatty passers by and no-good dog, I only managed 5 sets. However they were good ones. They felt right. I finally managed to time a fast heart rate and it was 180. I did not feel like I was dying but one site I looked up said my maximum heart rate was 169? Never mind I am pretty sure I have seen things that suggest 180 would be ok, not too fast or too slow.
That dog is in danger of being deleted from my exercise program on the days (like today), when someone else has already taken her out. She really doesn’t get running back and forth. I saw her running along the boundary line on my way back down the middle of the oval, one time tonight, and started to think she might be getting a bit more of a workout than usual, then she totally disappeared. Turned out she was lying down waiting for me right out of the oval, across the car park by the church. All ready to go home and quite illegal. And she wouldn’t come back. I had to stop and go and get her!
Dinner 9:15 100 gm lean pork, ½ onion, ½ pear, balsamic vinegar. 1 roast jacket potato. Microwaved carrots. Fresh baby spinach.
Water: ~2000 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:30
On plan:117 days. Achieved food target: 99 days. Exercised: 100 days. All goals: 7 days.
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felici
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Actually, if I tried it on the weekend it might be ok. Maybe I could take her, do what I wanted and if she started looking worn out maybe I could phone my husband to come and get her. I don't think he'd mind. Despite having too many ideas of her own, she's still the apple of his eye!
felici
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Thanks Tom. It is nice to think I can manage more than the dog. Sometimes like tonight, she just thinks my games are boring, but other times it's because I have more stamina now.
I don't know how to work out a maximum heart rate properly. I just saw that different sites are saying different things to each other. And that my quite reasonable feeling heart rate was supposedly more than I could manage. Actually, now I think about it, maybe my resting heart rate has changed down from what it always used to be and that makes the calculations wrong. I'll try to take it in the morning.
I don't know how to work out a maximum heart rate properly. I just saw that different sites are saying different things to each other. And that my quite reasonable feeling heart rate was supposedly more than I could manage. Actually, now I think about it, maybe my resting heart rate has changed down from what it always used to be and that makes the calculations wrong. I'll try to take it in the morning.
Happychubette
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Just visiting. You're doing some challenging running! I've begun to run. Used to think I was too fat to run, but I'm not. I've got some serious midsesction jiggle going on but I"m persisting with it.
When did you take it up?
When did you take it up?
TomO
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When I do my heavy interval cardio, my heart rate sometimes goes up to 162. According to the 220-age formula, I should be dead at that point.
That's why you have to look for a formula that incorporates resting pulse. Since mine is in the low 50's, that changes things around a bit.
And even then, you have to experiment. If you're able to exercise OK at your "maximum", then it's not really your maximum. Once you get to about 95% or 96% of your real maximum, you'll be able to last about 20 seconds or so before you have to give up (assuming your ticker is OK!).
felici
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I'm not exactly running I think. Maybe something hybrid? I'm just trying to go as fast as I can without feeling like I'm landing too much weight on to my knees and ankles. I would love to really just run flat out and not worry about it, but I think it's too much of a risk in my case. Although I can do a ton of things I used to think I was too fat for even when I was the same weight I am now, and the jiggle wouldn't worry me either, I don't want to damage some joints I have that I know are already worn, and make myself start getting older again instead of younger!
I used to hate to run so much when I was a kid. Even when I was a teenager I couldn't go much father or faster than I can right now!
I have running pencilled in my mind as a maybe someday. Maybe if my muscles were strong enough and my knees had recovered a bit - and I had them x-rayed, and asked the doctor first...but I really think I'm past running as a regular thing now.
That ought not sound like I'm complaining. I am thrilled about all the things I can do now that I couldn't manage 4 months ago and never even imagined doing! I did expect to be able to breathe better with less weight and be able to eventually tie my shoelaces more easily. In fact the shoelaces thing happened really fast, and I can do squats and get up from the floor without clearing a 4 foot space around me first ... It's very nice! I love feeling stronger.
More strength and a lot more flexibility... there are some nice spin offs in this get healthy business.
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sleeplessinsc
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Just wanted to say Hi! Boy I wish I could even come close to running! I want to bad, and flexibility is a real issue for me right now...It seems like the more I excersize the stiffer I get...do you stretch alot? I used to be really flexible in karate...now I can still kick as high as my head just in slow motion, and when its over I may be wallowing in the floor in pain
Boy I wish I could even come close to running! I want to bad, and flexibility is a real issue for me right now...It seems like the more I excersize the stiffer I get...do you stretch alot? I used to be really flexible in karate...now I can still kick as high as my head just in slow motion, and when its over I may be wallowing in the floor in pain
felici
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When I first started this I was just walking. After about a month I started trying to walk more and walk faster. When I started looking for indoor alternatives I got some tapes and DVDs from the library, looking for low-impact workouts. One was an old Jane Fonda tape. The workout was a bit hard for me to coordinate and hard to keep up with at the time, but it had a 20 minute stretch program at the end. It was when I started the low impact aerobics, hers and another one, plus her stretches, that I really started to notice a heap more flexibiltiy. I have never done them all that often though - maybe 2-3 times a week for a while, maybe only once this week. (My TV access is limiited. ) However, because I had such massive gains from them, I now put a bit of effort into my warm ups and cool downs and include a lot of stretches and low impact moves in them.
Being able to move my body in ways I couldn't before is absolutely the coolest reward I have had from this so far. I'm still amazed.
) However, because I had such massive gains from them, I now put a bit of effort into my warm ups and cool downs and include a lot of stretches and low impact moves in them.Being able to move my body in ways I couldn't before is absolutely the coolest reward I have had from this so far. I'm still amazed.
sleeplessinsc
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well congrats on feeling better...that is certainly the most important thing! A lesson I have learned the hard way...
felici
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New weight 83.1 kg (182.8 lb). Down 0.8 kg (1.7 lb), since last week. While I love to get the occasional weekly loss over a kilo, and feel a little less happy with the occasional losses under 0.5, I am none the less pleased that my loss has been pretty consistent overall. I just weigh once a week and my weight loss graph is almost straight. I guess that's because after 4 months, I am still just at the beginning of this process with plenty of body fat keeping my metabolism relaxed. A sharper angle would be nice but while it keeps dropping consistently I have to feel that I am doing the right thing for myself. Long may it last!! *crosses fingers*
Long may it last!! *crosses fingers*
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felici
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Breakfast ~9:30 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 boiled egg. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. ½ glass tomato juice. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Lunch 12:40 1wholemeal roll, 100 gms low fat cheese, 1 tomato.
Snack 3:30 Cappuccino made with Hi-Lo milk (Very, very foamy and nice.)
Exercise: 3:45 pm. At least 20-30 minutes walking up and down steps plus a long warm up and long cool down.
Today I was reminded of the quote in Saturday Saint’s signature, “Chance favours the prepared mind.” After trying the little set of steps the other night and wishing for a longer set, I took my girl and her friend back to Jungle Mountain today, thinking there was no real way for me to combine enough supervision with some exercise for myself and was immediately confronted by a nice long set of 18 steps.
My first response was a lot less enthusiastic than it might have been! It seems like a short while since a set of steps like that would have been slow and uncomfortable and involved placing both feet on one step before attempting the next one. I remember being impressed in January when I walked up a flight with one foot per tread and without stopping. Today I walked up and down that set 45 times. So that’s 800 steps up and 800 down. Not quite Biggest Loser class, but it made me happy. It was a few more than the other night, but as each set was longer, today was more intense. I didn’t try to run up like I did before because I wasn’t wearing good enough footwear, but I did end up with jelly knees, a nice deep breathing sweat and a great high afterwards. At first I was exhausted but after another 15 minutes I was wishing I was going dancing.
Dinner 8:00 100 gm lean grilled lamb, 1 potato (mashed), carrots, broccoli, grilled mushrooms, gravy.
Water: ~2000 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: ?
On plan:118 days. Achieved food target: 100 days. Exercised: 101 days. All goals: 7 days.
Lunch 12:40 1wholemeal roll, 100 gms low fat cheese, 1 tomato.
Snack 3:30 Cappuccino made with Hi-Lo milk (Very, very foamy and nice.)
Exercise: 3:45 pm. At least 20-30 minutes walking up and down steps plus a long warm up and long cool down.
Today I was reminded of the quote in Saturday Saint’s signature, “Chance favours the prepared mind.” After trying the little set of steps the other night and wishing for a longer set, I took my girl and her friend back to Jungle Mountain today, thinking there was no real way for me to combine enough supervision with some exercise for myself and was immediately confronted by a nice long set of 18 steps.
My first response was a lot less enthusiastic than it might have been! It seems like a short while since a set of steps like that would have been slow and uncomfortable and involved placing both feet on one step before attempting the next one. I remember being impressed in January when I walked up a flight with one foot per tread and without stopping. Today I walked up and down that set 45 times.
So that’s 800 steps up and 800 down. Not quite Biggest Loser class, but it made me happy. It was a few more than the other night, but as each set was longer, today was more intense. I didn’t try to run up like I did before because I wasn’t wearing good enough footwear, but I did end up with jelly knees, a nice deep breathing sweat and a great high afterwards. At first I was exhausted but after another 15 minutes I was wishing I was going dancing. Dinner 8:00 100 gm lean grilled lamb, 1 potato (mashed), carrots, broccoli, grilled mushrooms, gravy.
Water: ~2000 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: ?
On plan:118 days. Achieved food target: 100 days. Exercised: 101 days. All goals: 7 days.