This is the time

Well I ended up staying up late having a bit of New Year online. That was good except I didn’t sleep in!! I promised my daughter yesterday that I'd take her to the beach today. It was a bit awkward for her to find a friend to come so we just went together, which was nice. I had thought of taking the kids to the beach a bit this summer, or the pool. I thought I could exercise while they played. Then I thought it might be a problem for the kids if I actually got out of my normal clothes. Anyway, that's probably less of an issue for my girl as she's younger. She thinks I am beautiful anyway - not even fat!! I have tried to calmly disabuse her of that idea. Perhaps she just says it because she thinks it's what you should say.

Anyway the beach was wonderful. It always is. We were lucky that the weather's not too warm and lots of people staying at home (after New Year's parties) so not too crowded. We went to Scarborough Beach. I haven't been there for a long time as my husband always wants to take the dog when he goes and we end up at a dog beach. The dog beach is interesting but this was a nice change. The water was a beautiful green like in my dolphin avvie and the sky blue. I love the sound of the beach. The sound of the waves and the way they muffle distant voices. It was easier to get exercised at this beach too. It took a lot of effort just to dodge the waves and stay between the flags. The waves weren't high but the water was pretty turbulent. We were in there for something between 1-2 hours. (We also made a couple of sandcastles.) I thought maybe I was just exercising my legs, but afterwards I felt more like I used to feel when I played a bit of squash - really extended. Not such a red face as with squash though!!

I am not feeling great tonight. T2 Trucker seems to have disappeared. His name’s on the member list, but his diary and all his posts have gone. Even from in my diary. I have been thinking a lot about this, but don’t have much info so I won’t talk about it just yet. I am tired from staying up late last night. I am tired from so much exercise this morning. My hip and shoulder hurt from the waves pushing it in a strange direction. All my muscles are stiff. I think all this has contributed to my strongest pull ever to those damn Cadbury Roses today. It hasn’t actually gone away either. While I was slowly walking with my sore hip tonight I was thinking about the “just one” idea. Also thinking how many times just one chocolate has been the ruination of weeks of careful eating. How it’s “just one”, and then it’s scoff the box (or whatever the container size was), and then it’s better buy another one so know one notices, and then it’s what about the one’s I have to take out of the new box so no one notices. The whole idea makes me sick. I’m not doing it.

Ha ha. That just reminded me of sleeplessinsc. She said she throws out the chocolates her husband gives her when he is not looking! Too cool.


Breakfast ~9:45 2 weetbix., Splenda, 1 C soya milk. 1 boiled egg, 1 C coffee with 50ml Hi-Lo milk.Lunch ~ 12:30 ~ 2 wholemeal Salada crackers (8 squares), with minimal lite hard cheese, 1 tomato. 1 stalk of celery. 1 nectarine. Snack: 5:00 1 C low fat soya milk Dinner: 7:15 ~1/3 C vege soup, main ingredient potato. 2 very small lamb steaks, 2 C salad with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, black olives, balsamic vinegar. 4 dates. Exercise: 8:05 pm 30 min slow paced walk. Water: 2500ml +Yesterday’s Bedtime: 1:30
On plan:34 days Achieved food target: 28 days Exercised: 26 days All goals: 5 days.
 
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i wish i could go to the beach right now. Buts its winter.. and WAY too cold. i need to find an indoor exercise. lol. i wonder what happened to T2... did you know him?
 
lol at throwing the chocolates out. I need to do that Currently i just give them to other people :D

T2 got put on universal invisible for reasons im not sure on. or something like that. Theres some big behind the scenes thing going on im sure.
 
Hey there! Glad your new year has started off well for you! It's great to hear that...I wish I could go to the beach. Surprisingly, it's quite warm for where I am (40s?) but definitely not beach whether! Hope things continue to go well for you, you're doing great!

Take care!
 
The beach with your kids? You are such a party animal :p

Thanks for mentioning about T2, I was looking for him and wondering if he had renamed himself and his thread for some reason. I was looking for him in particular because of some of the things he had mentioned, so I hope it's nothing serious.

It's good that sweets are getting too sweet to eat now, right? I have experienced a litle of that myself, lately, but have always been able to fight my way through it and force the candy down my throat ;)

Actually, I have spent several days eating healthy(ish) food with friends who love to make appetizers, so it's always tasty, delicious, and easy to put on because I can come back to it if I want more.

I'm REALLY impressed with your recordkeeping for your meals; I just can't do that yet. It's not that I am embarrassed about what I eat (anymore), it's just so hard to keep track of! How do you track it? Scratch paper? A note after each meal? A good memory?
 
My body felt a lot better when I woke today. My hip was still a bit sore. I took a couple of nurofen (ibuprofen) with breakfast and felt fine the rest of the day.

Ran out of groceries. I had to modify my standard breakfast and lunch to cope. I don’t think it was enough food. Yesterday was a bit light too, and when it was time for me to cook dinner tonight I felt light headed and just wanted to lie down. This is the third or fourth time this has happened to me since I started this plan. I am getting more sure that the primary cause is lack of food, not lack of sleep or anything else. I slept for 9 hours last night. My snacks don’t seem to fix it properly, but dinner does. At least it doesn't worry me so much now. It is unpleasant though and I can see how it would make the old me grab some quick sugary calories. If it happens again I am going to eat nuts and maybe have a glass of soy milk, instead of my normal snacks, even if it seems like dinner time is too close.

I still haven’t heard anything more about T2. The mods are still quiet about whatever's going on. I'm hoping that's a good sign, because surely if he wasn't going to be here any more they would let us know. Otherwise it's a bit like having a missing person. It was good to have other people start looking for him. I didn’t realize something had happened until it was afternoon here and night in America, a quiet time on the forum, and it felt very strange. Like something out of 1984. I hope you are ok Trucker. I wish you were here.

Breakfast ~9:45 2 weetbix., 1/3 C tinned peaches, 1 C soya milk. A very little low fat cheese on 1 slice of wholemeal toasted. ½ glass tomato juice 1 C coffee with 50ml Hi-Lo milk.Lunch ~ 12:30 ~ 2 wholemeal Salada crackers (8 squares), with 100gm tuna with lemon. 1 stalk of celery, 1 small carrot, about 1/3 capsicum Snack: 4:00 2/3 C Dlish vegetable soup (potato, carrot etc) Dinner: 7:00 ~ 215 gm tinned red salmon, 1 microwaved jacked potato, 100gm tinned corn, 4 slices tinned beetroot, ½ can tinned asparagus. A little light French onion dip, celery, carrot, capsicum, mushroom. Exercise: 7.55 pm 37 min brisk paced walk. Water: 3000ml +Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:00
On plan:35 days Achieved food target: 29 days Exercised: 27 days All goals: 5 days.
 
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Hope you threw those chocolates away! Dont keep temptation around!
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:D I don't think of them as "my" chocolates, so I didn't throw them away. I did get the last few and stick them in the chocolate container in the fridge. It's opaque and in my brain I've got it on "ignore". so it hasn't been stressing me.
 
Scales
Weighed in today. My weight was 91.8, down 0.7 kg which is 1.5 lb. I don’t plan to eat differently to lose weight faster at this stage - but I prefer the weeks losing 1 kg or above!! So I went and weighed myself again, on the other scales at the shopping centre, despite the fact that it was quite a hassle, just to make sure the scales are ok. Well they are. The difference between the two is a lot (1.3 kg), but no more or less than the last time I compared them. So then started wondering if I am weighing at the right time of day and so on. LOL This is how I act for only weighing once a week, with no scales in my house. You can imagine how many maybes I can invent and how I obsessed I can get when I have them in the house. Even so the main reason I don’t like weighing more than once a week is that I have made up rubbish stories about what it might mean for my eating. Like “I had half a chocolate bar and my weight didn’t go up so that’s ok unless I do it too often,” or “My weight didn’t go down yesterday so it’s good that I was too busy to have lunch” etc.

Talking of scales. I have been using what they call “Dieter’s scales” for the kitchen. They cost about $5 here – smaller and cheaper than kitchen scales. Anyway, yesterday I felt they were sus and when I checked they read a 200 gm yoghurt as about 150 gm. Hmm. I wonder when they broke. That might explain why my full serve of fish was so hard to eat! Well I need to get some more and start weighing all over again to get a better idea of how much things are. I checked 3 likely places and one unlikely place today and could not find any.

Also I got the lightheadedness/lethargy again today. I wrote my usual detailed account here but decided to just store it in Word instead because the truth is I don't especially know what's going on and think I might just see my doctor.

My daughter saw T2’s msn here and put it on her account, so I had a brief chat with him. I always figured he would keep achieving his goals now and so does he, so that’s good.

Breakfast ~9:30 2 weetbix., 1/3 C tinned peaches, 1 C soya milk1 boiled egg, 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam, 1/2 glass tomato juice 1 C coffee with 50ml Hi-Lo milk.Lunch ~ 2:00 ~ Sandwich (2 slices wholemeal bread, 1 egg, 1 tomato, tinned asparagus), Snack: 4:15 handful of raw almonds, 5:20 handful of raw almonds 5: 45 ½ Salada cracker (2 squares) Dinner: 7:00 ~ 80-90 gm crimson snapper, 2 pieces wholemeal bread. 1 stalk of celery dipped in light French onion dip, 8:30 1 C salad (lettuce, tomato, snow peas cucumber). 1 handful almonds, 1/2 C tinned peaches, 1 tub low fat apricot yoghurt, Exercise: 10.30am 20 min mod paced walk. 4:30pm 20 min moderate pace bush walk. Water: 3000ml +Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:30
On plan:36 days Achieved food target: 30 days Exercised: 28 days All goals: 5 days.
 
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you're doing so great!!!

felici - you are doing so great!!! I am so happy for you! I need to come over here more often and read your diary to keep me motivated!!!

Julie
 
So what happened to T2? Why isn't he here anymore? I really miss him. I am so sorry you haven't been feeling well. I hope it's nothing serious!!:( Hope you have a great day and congrats on your loss!!:)
 
juju - I'm glad you find my diary motivational! Maybe I should read it too! :D

be gone soon - I have pm'ed you. :) Thank you for your support. :) I don't think there is too much wrong with me (aside from being a worry wart that is!)
 
Do you take any vitamins? Often, that helps me when I get that stupid/dizzy thing going on, I take them earlier in the day. I was going to recommend more protein, but you seem to have a few servings of nuts in your daily regime. Are you diabetic by any chance? (I am NOT going to read your entire 11 page diary to find out :p ) When is the last time you were checked for that sort of thing?
I hate to mention it, but that is EXACTLY what I suffered for quite awhile, and sugar seemed to make it go away (it just falsified the feeling, in truth). Please do check with your doctor and get some blood work done.
 
Thanks Qjay. I started taking a multivitamin tab after the first time this happened. Diabetes was one of the things I wondered about yesterday. Today I decided it was probably a bit of a bug/sinus thing. My sinuses often play up in a subtley unpleasant way. I did have gestational diabetes, and part of the many health reasons I have for wanting to lose weight is to lessen my fairly good chance of getting diabetes. I will have a glucose tolerance test soon. It's not long since I had a fasting blood sugar that was just ok. I don't usually have such a lot of nuts. I was trying to use them to fix how I felt, and I thought it might be lack of protein. It has seemed to tie in with that before.
 
Hey Felici! Thanks for your support in my diary! You're doing a wonderful job btw! I'm still weighing everyday... it helps me stay focused.... I would obsess and weigh 3-4 times a day... now I'm weighing once in the morning, once in the evening (I like to see how my body has changed up or down during the day!) Hope you're having a WONDERFUL day today!
 
Interesting to see a news snippet last night about a study that showed people put more on their plate, if they were given a slightly bigger plate to put it on (same people, same food, same occasion). This guy was saying, “We make food decisions with our eyes.” “We eat with our eyes” – “people think they are can control what they eat entirely by their thought processes but it’s more complicated than that.” I tried to find a net article on it today, but it seems to be old news. I know the smaller plate thing has been advocated for ever – interesting to see some science backing it up. As I said a few days ago I’m really just learning a lot of this sort of stuff on a personal level. (I know a lot of people already knew!!) I had the yummiest looking lunch today. 8 little squares of crackers – with cheese, then mushroom, then tomato, then asparagus on top. It doesn’t take any more time to make than a sandwich and looks a lot more special. I had an orange afterwards and cut it into about 16 little pieces. I am a big fan of sliced up fruit. I think it might be partly because I find it stings my teeth a bit to bite into otherwise. Also more little pieces does seem like more food to me.

Feeling a bit better today – I’m thinking now that I just have a bit of a bug – my daughter had one earlier in the week. Strangely, thinking it’s just a germ to put up with bothers me less than wondering if I’m not eating properly! I decided to just take a couple of pills and get more active around the house. I had a good walk before dinner and felt even better. I’m going to look back and see if my other blurry afternoons included a walk or not.

Tonight I made eggplant lasagne for my husband and red pork for my son – I had a bit of both and some rice and some salad. The pork tasted nice but that BBQ sauce has sugar as the main ingredient, not that you would get much as it’s used as a marinade. I used Trucker’s eggplant recipe. I don’t know if I did it right but it wasn’t hard to prepare and tasted wonderful. All my other eggplant recipes have ended up being heavy on the oil – but this has almost none and yet tastes better. My husband had gone off eggplant and didn’t really want it, but I had already bought it by the time I found that out. Once he ate it though he was going “Oooh you can make that again!”

Walking. Well I tried being more focussed on speed and did my 47 min walk in 45 min. I was moving quite a lot more quickly - that time includes stopping for at least 5 minutes to chat and sign someone’s petition. I felt hot and nicely puffed afterwards. I don’t know how wise it is trying to go faster though because when I first started, and also after I finished, my arches were aching. (I was still wearing arch supports as usual). Still, it’s not like they hurt the whole time. Also, on the last bit I noticed my heel spur aching. Yes. I do have many issues that would be improved by losing weight don’t I!! So we’ll see. I thought of some ways to amend the walk to include less paths, and more grass, so I’ll try that and try to restrict my speedy bits to the grass perhaps – so it’s less jarring. That’s also better in that around here we are allowed to have dogs unleashed in the parks, and then I can move my arms more and make the whole thing more aerobic.


Breakfast ~9:00 2 weetbix., 1/3 C tinned peaches, 1 C soya milk1 boiled egg, 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam, 1/2 glass tomato juice 1 C coffee with 50ml Hi-Lo milk.Lunch ~ 1:30 ~ 2 serves crackers, hard cheese, mushroom, tomato, asparagus. 1 carrot. 1 small orange. Snack: 4:15 ½ Salada cracker (2 squares) 1 C SoGoodDinner: 7:00 ~ 100 gm lean BBQ pork 8:00 Eggplant lasagne: 1/3 eggplant, ¼ can tomatoes with onion, garlic and basil, probably ~ 50 gm lite hard cheese, 2 mushrooms, 1 C basmati rice, 2 C salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, celery, capsicum, black olives). 1 tub low fat apricot yoghurt, Exercise: 5:07 45 min brisk walk. Water: 2500ml +Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:15
On plan:37 days Achieved food target: 31 days Exercised: 29 days All goals: 5 days.
 
Good to see you sticking with everything! I ope it's just the need for a little bit more fat/protein in your diet. I was thinking back, and I used to get horrible headaches and heartburn when I would go on my no-fatty-foods kicks, and it really removed most of the protein from my diet, as well.
I'll be watching to see what you come up with!
 
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