This is the time

Breakfast 7:00 2 weetbix (107 cal), 1/3 C diced peaches (~40 cals), 1C low fat soy milk (122cal). 1 slice wholemeal toast (70 cal) with minimal margarine (18 cal) and fig jam (12 cal) . Boiled egg (71 cal). 1/2 glass tomato juice (25 cal). 1C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk (20 cal).

Snack: 10.30 1 medium Pink Lady apple (72 cals). I C coffee with Hilo milk. (20 cal)

Lunch :
3:05 2 mushroooms (8 cals)
3:30 Toasted sandwich. 2 slices wholemeal bread (160 cal) 25 gm low fat hard cheese cal (87 cal), 1/2 tomato (15 cal), capsicum, mushrooms, olives (20 cal). 1 cup coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk ( 20 cal) 1 small mandarin (31 cal).

I was not real happy about waiting until 3:30. One of those things you get sometimes working in a school!

Dinner: 7:30 1 Fish finger (150 cal). Cauliflour, cabbage, capsicum, snow peas, mushrooms, carrot, zucchini, cucumber (60 cal), low fat french onion dip (30 cal).

8:00 140 gm shallow fried Trevally (260 cal). Lime juice. 1 slice wholemeal toast (80 cal).
Total: 1420 cal

Exercise
5:30 53 minute walk. (300 cal)

That walk was so nice. I went in my work clothes, so I didn't have that last little hurdle to slow me down, and it has been so long since I even walked at that time of evening that I had forgotten that the disappearing light could be an issue as I left. I just shut the front door behind me feeling I was released. That kind of walking really lacks intensity and I want other sorts of exercise as well, but I really love to just be outside, and have my mind to myself. I made sure I got up the top of my little hill while there was still some light and I was rewarded with the silhouettes of leaves and branches against the last orange glow of the sunset. I turned to head back expecting darkness, and instead the sky was full of purples, and a giant moon was backlighting the trees. I really love having my exercise and relaxation come together.
 
Hi Fel!!!! :jump:

*waves*

felici said:
That walk was so nice. I went in my work clothes, so I didn't have that last little hurdle to slow me down, and it has been so long since I even walked at that time of evening that I had forgotten that the disappearing light could be an issue as I left. I just shut the front door behind me feeling I was released. That kind of walking really lacks intensity and I want other sorts of exercise as well, but I really love to just be outside, and have my mind to myself. I made sure I got up the top of my little hill while there was still some light and I was rewarded with the silhouettes of leaves and branches against the last orange glow of the sunset. I turned to head back expecting darkness, and instead the sky was full of purples, and a giant moon was backlighting the trees. I really love having my exercise and relaxation come together.
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Oooo lovely!! I feel the same!! Sometimes if you are just powering along, thinking only about getting your heart rate up and burning calories, you can miss so much!! Sometimes you just got to meander along for a while :)
 
felici said:
That walk was so nice. I went in my work clothes, so I didn't have that last little hurdle to slow me down, and it has been so long since I even walked at that time of evening that I had forgotten that the disappearing light could be an issue as I left. I just shut the front door behind me feeling I was released. That kind of walking really lacks intensity and I want other sorts of exercise as well, but I really love to just be outside, and have my mind to myself. I made sure I got up the top of my little hill while there was still some light and I was rewarded with the silhouettes of leaves and branches against the last orange glow of the sunset. I turned to head back expecting darkness, and instead the sky was full of purples, and a giant moon was backlighting the trees. I really love having my exercise and relaxation come together.
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Great comment about walking as exercise! :)
Julie
 
kezzypear said:
Hi Fel!!!! :jump:

*waves*

Oooo lovely!! I feel the same!! Sometimes if you are just powering along, thinking only about getting your heart rate up and burning calories, you can miss so much!! Sometimes you just got to meander along for a while :)
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Yes. :) I do have to turn my mind back to the speed sometimes but I was needing to refresh myself mentally and a good walk seems to automatically ensure this. I woke up feeling heaps more cheerful this morning. :)

TomO said:
Hi, Felici. Sounds like a beautiful night to walk in. Have a wonderful weekend!
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It was wonderful - especially as I haven't been walking much lately. I'm looking forward to the weekend - no early rush to netball on Saturday, a big walking trek in the hills, (according to my husband who's organizing it) on Sunday and a public holiday on Monday. :)

Juliette said:
Great comment about walking as exercise! :)
Julie
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Walking outside is just so valuable. I feel that it looks after me in all sorts of ways at once. My husband has been coming home early and walking the dog lately so I've taken the opportunity to try and exercise in other ways. I didn't realize how I had missed walking until I got back out there.


Breakfast 7:00 2 weetbix (107 cal), 1/3 C diced peaches (~40 cals), 1C low fat soy milk (122cal). 1 slice wholemeal toast (70 cal) with minimal margarine (18 cal) and fig jam (12 cal) . Boiled egg (71 cal). 1/2 glass tomato juice (25 cal). 1C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk (20 cal).

Snack: 10.30 1 small pear (80 cals). I C coffee with Hilo milk. (20 cal)

Lunch : 12:30 Leftover hi-ti-min - probably 220 cal. Coffee with milk. (20 cal)

Snack: 6 almonds (42 cal), 4 dates (80 cals), coffee with milk (20 cals)

Dinner: 8:30 Thai green chicken curry. 140 gm chicken lean chicken thighs (168 cal), bamboo shoots (6 cal), zucchini (10 cal), oil (40 cal) , currypaste/fish sauce (?20 cal), lite coconut milk (120 cal?). 1/2 C basmati rice (85 cal). Diet apricot yoghurt, (82 cal).

Total: 1499 cal

Exercise
5:40 Local walk, 2 miles. (200 cal)

7:50 40 minutes. Body weight exercises. (200 cal)

As I left later, I hurried the walk tonight. Well actually I just walked fairly fast and then added in stretches of jogging. I sometimes really want to do that, and think to myself that if I don't do it too often it will be worth the temporary sore knees afterwards. Now the walk is over and I just have the sore knee I'm not so sure about that, but unless I find out that it causes permanent damage (as well it might), I expect I will relapse again some time in the future. I guess it's a little silly as far as the physical goes, because if there is any physical gain it's certainly not worth the downside. It was another night of looking at the sky most of the way though and lovely for that.

Today, I agreed to go out to an expensive dinner in a week and a half, to support the hospitality training my niece is doing. I expect it will be fun, but I was thinking the food would probably be wasted. Then I realized I have been hanging out to excuse myself a break in my usual foods and that this will probably fit the bill, so I am now actually looking forward to that aspect of it. This is quite a change from the uncertainty I felt a few months ago about eating changes away from home. I really don't enjoy some higher fat foods as much now as I did, but I think I will just eat what appeals to me.
 
felici said:
As I left later, I hurried the walk tonight. Well actually I just walked fairly fast and then added in stretches of jogging. I sometimes really want to do that, and think to myself that if I don't do it too often it will be worth the temporary sore knees afterwards. Now the walk is over and I just have the sore knee I'm not so sure about that, but unless I find out that it causes permanent damage (as well it might), I expect I will relapse again some time in the future. I guess it's a little silly as far as the physical goes, because if there is any physical gain it's certainly not worth the downside.
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Sore knees after jogging = bad shoes. The same shoes aren't always good for both walking and jogging. When the shoe doesn't give the soles of your feet the correct support (what you need varies from one person to another), your knees may twist a bit on a bad direction with every step, causing soreness. Walking has your feet and legs in a different position, so this doesn't occur. Also, strengthening the muscles around your knees may help this problem.
I used to get my knees sore from jogging. Now I don't, got good shoes and the muscles are in better condition as well. So maybe you don't have to give the jogging up? I hope so.. :)
Julie
 
Cannon 2006 said:
Hey, just stopping by. I think you're definitely growing and I mean that in a good way :). Enjoy your fancy dinner.
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:D I like that "good way". Thanks Cannon. I have a way to go - but I think you're right. :)

Juliette said:
Sore knees after jogging = bad shoes. The same shoes aren't always good for both walking and jogging. When the shoe doesn't give the soles of your feet the correct support (what you need varies from one person to another), your knees may twist a bit on a bad direction with every step, causing soreness. Walking has your feet and legs in a different position, so this doesn't occur. Also, strengthening the muscles around your knees may help this problem.
I used to get my knees sore from jogging. Now I don't, got good shoes and the muscles are in better condition as well. So maybe you don't have to give the jogging up? I hope so.. :)
Julie
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That's quite an idea Juliette. I do wear really crappy old trainers. I did have one knee X-rayed and I know it was showing signs of degeneration at that time. I've been thinking it was time to get new shoes soon regardless (might be hard to fit in this weekend...) but I hadn't considered they might enable me to do more. I'll keep my fingers crossed. :D

I weighed myself and I am down to 76.9 kg. Down 1.2 kg since last week which is nice. Probably I will have little or none next week after that, but I will celebrate anyway. I am now half way to the goal I wrote in my signature. :)
 
Congratulations on the all the kilos lost and REACHING THE HALFWAY!!!
Celebrate well and have a great weekend! :D
Julie
 
Thank you Juliette!!

I am looking forward to enjoying some bright weather outside tomorrow and having a change of pace during a public holiday on Monday - hopefully I may take some time to do something unnecessary.

Breakfast 8:30 2 weetbix 107, 1/3 C diced peaches 40 , 1C low fat soy milk 122. 1 slice wholemeal toast 70 with minimal margarine 18 and fig jam 12. Boiled egg 71 . 1/2 glass tomato juice 25. 1C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk 20.

Lunch : 1:00 Toasted sandwich. 2 slices wholemeal bread 160 , 25 gm low fat hard cheese 87, 1/2 tomato 15 , capsicum, mushrooms, olives 20 . 1 cup coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk 20. 1 large navel orange 80.

Dinner: 7:00 Husband's cooking - estimated amounts. 180 gm grilled rump steak 249 , 6 prawns 90 , 1/2 C mashed potato 100 , microwaved carrots 15 , lettuce.

Total: 1313 cal.

Exercise
5:40pm Local walk, 30 min. 150 cal.
 
felici said:
There are 2-3 brands and I can buy single serves that are easy to carry and reheat. I've been getting Campbell's from Coles, but I don't know that it will help you much to know that. :) For sure home made would be better in most ways. It's very much a convenience thing for me, just a way to have warm food and add to my veges, though the soup's have a little carbs in them too. As they're prepackaged I expect there are some less healthy things included too.
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I dont even think Ive ever even seen Pumpkin soup let alone Campbell's LOL...I like the convience of tim soup myself....especially the ready to eat stuff - it cant get easier than that

felici said:
[BThat walk was so nice. I went in my work clothes, so I didn't have that last little hurdle to slow me down, and it has been so long since I even walked at that time of evening that I had forgotten that the disappearing light could be an issue as I left. I just shut the front door behind me feeling I was released. That kind of walking really lacks intensity and I want other sorts of exercise as well, but I really love to just be outside, and have my mind to myself. I made sure I got up the top of my little hill while there was still some light and I was rewarded with the silhouettes of leaves and branches against the last orange glow of the sunset. I turned to head back expecting darkness, and instead the sky was full of purples, and a giant moon was backlighting the trees. I really love having my exercise and relaxation come together.
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I love being outside too and walking - i usually crave them and cant wait to get out there and do it - it has been retty hot lately so Ive totally relaxed on teh walking breifly

felici said:
I am looking forward to enjoying some bright weather outside tomorrow and having a change of pace during a public holiday on Monday - hopefully I may take some time to do something unnecessary.
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I toatally love this - hee hee hee!!! Ive missed you sorry I havent dropped by in awhile - it just seems Ive been so on the go lately and by evenign Im usually too tired to use the comp and dotn really ahve alot of time and Ive been choosing to sleep more int he am's so iam nto gettin up as early and dont have as much time then either but sleep is more important :):):)
 
Cerella

I love the convenience of the single serve tins of soup too. :)

Actually I haven't walked as much recently (until today), as I was a little while ago, but I appreciate that it is a lot easier to manage now that the weather is cooler.

Sleep.... an underrated pleasure. I'm so inclined to skimp and yet I swear I feel a good 15 kilos lighter when I'm not missing any. :)


Breakfast 7:30 2 weetbix 107, 1/3 C diced peaches 40 , 1C low fat soy milk 122. 1 slice wholemeal toast 70 with minimal margarine 18 and fig jam 12. Boiled egg 71 . 1/2 glass tomato juice 25. 1C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk 20.

Snack 8:20 1/2 large McDonalds cappuccino 50

Lunch : 11:45 1 wholemeal bread roll 192 , 1 grilled chicken thigh 70, 1 V8 vege juice 43 , 1 large Pink Lady Apple 100.

Snack{/B] 2:00 1 v. small apple 40 12 almonds 84, can Pepsimax, small mandarin 31.
3:30: 1/2 Salada cracker 27

(To get the salt I wanted while my daughter ate a tube of Pringles potato chips on the drive home. I did think about having one which I suppose would have been less calories, but I could imagine having one and then wanting heaps. The cracker was fine.)

Dinner: 6:00 Take away Asian food. Squid 80, 6 prawns 90, tofu 70 1/2 C basmati rice rice (from home) 85, stir fried veges ? 100. Oil ? 120
Lots diet Solo

Total: 1668 cal.

Exercise
3 hour walk up, along, down hills, through scrub, etc. Probably 800 calories.

That was a great walk. I went with my husband, daughter, my husband's sister, her partner and her daughter. Our walk started with a half hour straight up a hill, with no path through the scrub, then a climb up some rocks, partly on hands on knees, another patch of barely penetrable prickle bushes and we came out onto the Bibbulman track, on a ridge. That was truly lovely with massive views all around us. We even saw a pair of massive wedge tailed eagles soaring on the thermals at our level and diving down to the bush at the base of the ridge. After a while, walking along the ridge, we lunched, then stayed on the track a while longer before coming gradually down and walking back to the car along a gravel road. It was a bit of a stretch for most of us, but also very enjoyable. I didn't keep up with my husband. He was always in front - it was his walk, that he used to do years ago - the patches of barely penetrable prickle bush are one of his specialities. I was always at the end of the line, but that was as much due to not wanting anyone else to be there, as anything else. Still the first climb was a challenge and made me aware that I have a way to go before I'm in the kind of trim I'd really like.

At half way to my goal, I'm happy that I can actually fit into ordinary jeans. I hadn't bought any for quite a few years, until yesterday. No one else wore jeans today, but to me they were mandatory for the weather and the scrub. I'm less happy that I could actually fit into Levi's with no baggy section at the waist, whereas I always used to need to cinch that in. I also was glad that the jeans acted like a girdle up to my waist, and that I have a nice flat section of ribs in front, but less happy about the soft, round, jiggly, little section in between. It is a commonplace now for people to greet me with comments about how well I have done losing weight and talk about what I've done to lose it and how great I look. I love that. However the fact that I am only half way to the upper edge of a normal BMI, is telling me that the "great" is a special kind of "compared-to-before great"! Realistically the difference in appearance between a normal BMI and now must be a lot more than the difference between now and where I started.

I have the slower section still to come. I don't know if it's true to say it's the more difficult section - I think getting started and learning how to make things work at all is a very challenging time in weight loss. However I see that getting through to a goal weight often seems to be very tricky too. I hope I can keep going without it becoming too stressful, but I can already do a lot now that I wanted when I started this process. I don't know if there is a lot of that sort of reward still to come. I want to be much thinner than I am because I do want the health benefits of that loss, though they might not be things I feel day to day. I did get a bit breathless on that hill climb today though - so there is certainly room for improvement with that sort of thing. Regardless of how long the rest of the loss takes, I do feel very confident about not regaining the weight or limitations I have lost.

I had great end of the day today. I ate dinner, sat down (if you can call a recliner chair a seat :)), ready to watch 2 hours of my favourite TV with no bodyweight exercises or jogging for once, and fell asleep for an hour and a half. My daughter thought I would be sorry I'd missed it, but I was just glad to be able to sleep when I felt like it. :)
 
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Hi Felici, sounds like a great hike. I wish I could hike with my wife, but she has a bad knee, and can't go down hills worth beans. That scrub brush sounds like real fun! NOT.

I know what you mean about sleep. I'm a very light sleeper, and often wake up in the middle of the night for a couple of hours.

I think we're both approaching the 2nd half of our journey with a bit of trepidation. You're right of course - learning how to do it in the first place is often the toughest part, but I know there will be some difficult times ahead for both of us.

But we'll get through them, I'm confident of that.
 
Thanks , Tom. It is a pity you can't share that kind of outdoor walk with your wife - well a pity about the fun parts. However, as I have noticed that you regularly, frequently burn more calories in an hour than I did on the walk, I won't fear that the lack of hill walks is a problem for your weight loss!

This second half will be interesting. I do feel confident that we will both get where we're headed. I imagine I might need to make some adjustments along that way but that's ok too.



Breakfast 10:30 2 weetbix 107, 1/3 C diced peaches 40 , 1C low fat soy milk 122. 1 slice wholemeal toast 70 with minimal margarine 18 and fig jam 12. Boiled egg 71 . 1/2 glass tomato juice 25. 2 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk 40.

Snacks 12:00 2 pieces of sushi 30.

Diet apricot yoghurt. 72

Lunch: 2:00 9 pieces of sushi. ~ 1/2 C rice 100, 1/3 chicken thigh 25, cucumber, carrot, seaweed, mayonnaise 15. Coffee and milk 20

Snack: 4:00 8 almonds 56
1 small apple 40 1 small mandarin 40. 1/2 coffee and milk 10

Dinner: 7:30 125 gm lean grilled lamb 236, small (100 gm) microwaved potato 77. Celery 6, carrot 10 , broccoli 10 , mushroom 4 , capsicum 10, snow peas 15, baby squash 3, bean sprouts 20, 3 tspns low fat french onion dip 30. 1 large navel orange 80.

Total: 1415 cal.

Exercise
3:00 1/2 hour bushwalk. Warwick. 100 calories.

Another really nice mental health break type walk, sun dews in flower, the sun on my back and breeze on my face - what more could you ask for?

Well a bit of effort maybe? :) That will have to come tomorrow. Once I was home I finished a couple of chores and fell asleep again!! A great catch up weekend for me.
 
Sounds like you're doing very well with the walking, hon! I thought about going outside for a walk, but it was 111F yesterday here and it's just too hot to be out for long. I do think I'll head to the gym this morning, though.

Keep up the fantastic work!
 
Thanks, tx.

Oooer. 111F is NOT walk time!! Gym time, swim time, if you're lucky, evening walks maybe... not at 111F though. Good on you for still feeling ready to be active with that outside! :)
 
felici said:
Another really nice mental health break type walk, sun dews in flower, the sun on my back and breeze on my face - what more could you ask for?

Well a bit of effort maybe? :) That will have to come tomorrow. Once I was home I finished a couple of chores and fell asleep again!! A great catch up weekend for me.
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Hey at least you are movign and mental health and fresh air is just as important!!!
 
OK after reading your walk descriptions I am just gonna have to take a hike! It just sounds too nice! Im gonna hit the trail myself! Thanxs for the beautiful descriptive writing, I jusy hope I feel as blissfull as you once I get out there!
 
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