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bm. I don't know a lot about stopping cravings counting calories and usually choosing food from among things other people have bought, like you do. I am impressed by how well you have done despite that! :)

I barely had cravings with my current programme, but I know how nasty they are so I try to be very careful about having anything which has sugar added to it, and I try not get too hungry, and to eat balanced meals. I do feel like I have used up all my chances to muck up and try again some other time too - so that also probably makes it a bit easier for me.

So we went to the party, but a bit later than usual and no kids. It turned out we didn’t have to fit another in to the evening after all. I had time to make myself some green and yellow earrings before we went. I fitted nicely into trousers that i'd stopped wearing because they were uncomfortable. I have space on my thighs!! I guess that's part of what I'm aiming at but I am actually surprised as well as pleased! :)I did enjoy myself - not tempted to eat off my plan, by pies, kisches, roast lamb rolls, creamy cheeses or lollies/chips. Even fancy food is a lot less appealing in this heat. After 3 cans of Pepsimax my tummy was starting to feel like it was sloshing, but there were plenty of good options – including the ones I brought, of course!

It was HOT!! This party, as with most in this city was held outside. There is no pool at that house as the lovely man who owns it thinks it’s silly when the ocean is 2 blocks away. That's very reasonable – but we don’t have the party at the ocean! LOL It was 41 C at 5:30pm (106 F) and still 37.9 C (100F) at 8:10pm. I don’t know what it is now – 11:30pm and muggy and hot still. Blue skies today but overcast by evening. We came home and the power was off!! (What was worse – no air cond or no ….:eek: computer!?). At first we were told it would be for the whole night but actually it was only for about an hour. I didn’t think it was worth trying to walk fast and I won’t until it cools down. I will try to go further tomorrow though.

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. ½ C tomato juice. Snack[/] 10:30 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk Lunch 1:15 2 Salada crackers, a little cottage cheese, 1/3 sliced cucumber, 1 stalk celery. Snack ~ 5:30 3/4 Salada cracker, a little lettuce, capsicum, tomato, 4 grapes, small piece of roast lamb (~ 10-20gm) Dinner: 8:10 Savoury mince (made by husband, maybe 2 tspns olive oil?), ~ 110 gm lean minced beef, onions, a few peas. 1 med. microwaved potato. 10:00 ~ 2 C salad - baby spinach, carrot, cucumber, mushrooms, snow peas, a very little balsamic vinegar. Exercise: ~ 9:30 am Walked to petrol station to buy milk. 8:30 pm Walk to oval and around. Total walk a bit less than usual, and slower. Water: 4000ml +Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:30
On plan:58 days Achieved food target: 51 days Exercised: 50 days All goals: 6 days.
 
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It was 40 again. My husband's foot was swollen again and he has been acting like our house is under seige by the sun and keeping a close eye on the negligent use of doors and windows.

I went to the twenty first. It was quite fun. I did feel the OMG there’s so much food I could be pigging out feeling. I walked in past 2 spit roast sheep. I think I could have resisted dessert if there had been fruit, or if the 7 different kinds of plentiful dessert had not unexpectedly included my current all time favourite that I had only one bite of at Christmas time. Considering I was actually in the kitchen about half the time and how tempting it all seemed I think I did ok. I am a bit miffed that I didn’t find a way to exercise – I was worried about yesterday, but didn’t think today would be too hard. Maybe that’s why I did better yesterday! I was just careless about today. I brought home some food from my sister's, because there was so much left, but intend it for others. I stopped eating that chocolate cheesecake while I was still wanting more, but I don't still want it. Now I just want to make sure I get to a pool in the morning! :)

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. ½ C tomato juice. C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk Lunch 1:15 6 Jatz crackers (ran out of Salada), a little cottage cheese, 1/3 sliced cucumber, 1 mushroom. Snack ~ 4:30 100gm crabmeat Dinner: 7:30 ~ 5 King Prawns 9:00 ½ plate of good salad, 2 slices beetroot, 1 black olive, 2 spears asparagus, ~ 1 potato’s worth of potato salad, 2 slices turkey roll, 2 slices of spit roast lamb, 1 slice roast beef. ~11:00 1 little (2”) chocolate cheesecake, ½ slice cassata.. Exercise :eek: None. I did work out that another option for hot days is go to the pool. I don’t have to take any dogs or children.Water: 3000ml ?Yesterday’s Bedtime: 1:30
On plan:59 days Achieved food target: 51 days Exercised: 50 days All goals: 6 days.
 
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The bit where it says "also Italian icecream" is the kind I had. My sister makes it like an icecream cake with different flavours of icecream and chocolate peanuts and almonds in it. I did only have a little bit - maybe a tablespoon. I wouldn't have bothered with it by itself but it goes with the cheesecake. :eek: I was always planning to have some dessert. I guess it was unrealistic to hope for fruit as it is bulky to store. There were a hundred guests and my sister had made enough desserts for 500 I think!

Next Friday - Nibbles at friend's house, girl's night out at bar. I guess that means eat first, take safe snacks, drink diet Coke! Maybe one half brandy and dry.

Next Saturday - Friend's fortieth. I doubt the food will be as tempting as Saturday's - but I didn't expect Saturday's would be as tempting as it was either. We might sleepover. I might miss making my own breakfast!!:eek: No happy perfect start to my food day! :eek: No weetbix! Though the woman concerned did always take her own weetbix and eat them even when we were canoeing. I guess I could eat an egg on toast and have more later. If the worst comes to the worst I think it would be better to eat small amounts of bad choices than try to put up with being hungry.

I went to a Leisure Centre today and used their gym and went for a swim. The gym was interesting. It’s too expensive to be a regular thing for me just now, but I had fun looking at the dials and so on. The bike. First I tried sitting on an ordinary stationary bike. I didn’t have it on the right degree of resistance at first but even when I did – wow. My hip bones just hurt too much. I don’t really know if that’s normal or just because I’m so short. I had the saddle as low as it would go and I think it was right. I rode a bike where you sit down instead and even that felt a bit bone squashing – but in a more every day way. Anyway I did 15 minutes on that bike doing the 8 seconds fast 12 seconds slow thing – the number displays helped. Then I did 18 on a treadmill. That was better than I remember from my last go – maybe because I didn’t do enough. Finally I went for a swim, but only 10 minutes as the centre closed early.

Things to remember for trying to exercise in the pool:
- baggy old shirts are ok for the beach but don’t work well with a freestyle arm movement. It is okay to wear a good bra in salt water but not in chlorine.
- take the children’s swim goggles.
- wear rubber thongs (flip flops), because the floor around the pool is grotty and the carpark is hot and will stab feet.
- walking in the pool might be helpful but requires foot protection.

Later I took the dog for a walk – my normal route but just slow. There was thunder and lightning. Spectacular lightning. The thunder was just growling a way off until we were close to home and a great crack nearby made the dog and I both nearly jump out of our skins! A few seconds later and we were being pelted with big drops of rain. They reckon the temperature will drop tomorrow though. 32-34C. My children are trying to line me up for shopping and such.


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. C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk Lunch 1:15 2 Salada crackers, a little cottage cheese, 1 tomato. Snack ~ 6:00 ½ Salada. 15 almonds. Dinner: 7:30 Thai chicken with sauce drained. About 100-120 gm chicken, 1/3 zucchini, ¼ can bamboo shoots. Some coconut milk. 1 C basmati rice. 10:00 Slice roast beef.. 1 plum, ½ rub low fat yoghurt. Exercise a/a 4:15pm 15min bike, 18 min treadmill, 10 min swim (mainly breaststroke. 7:30pm 2.7km walk easy pace .Water: 2250ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 3:00
On plan:60 days Achieved food target: 52 days Exercised: 51 days All goals: 6 days.
 
Still not getting to bed at a decent hour – but that will change very soon when I become exhausted from having to get up at a decent hour!

Tonight’s walk was a bit short because we had a visitor as I was leaving. I know that wouldn’t have happened if I had walked early in the day when I was asleep. I was a bit slow walking too – probably because I had only 6 hours sleep (my minimum for functioning), ate a substantial meal just before I walked, and exercised a bit more than usual yesterday. Now I am back I am noticing that I’m a bit stiff.

I had a call about work today. I’m very pleased – my favourite school wants me for 2 week’s time. That will mean they will keep chosing to call me as their first choice this year. That was not a forgone conclusion – because if I’d been offered other work first that clashed with their first request they might have chosen to keep going with whoever they got instead. Last year when I worked there I would go home feeling as if I had played all day. Plenty of energy left to exercise after a day like that! Not all schools are like that. One of them would send me home emotionally drained!! I guess challenges provide for learning, but I do prefer having some energy left over at 3:30.

Today, I took my son to try and buy a bike someone had advertised. They lived in a street called “Hellfire Drive”! :eek: My husband said it was a famous battle. I reckon that is not a good enough reason for such a bizarre name. I don’t think I could live there, no matter what. Nor would I ever try to talk a 13 year old into buying a bicycle my 9 year old had grown out of. Lucky we’re all different I suppose.

Breakfast ~9:00 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. C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk Lunch 1:15 Lamb sandwich. ~50 gm lamb,2 slice wholemeal bread, 1 carrot, 1 stalk celery, 1 nectarine. Snack ~ 6:00 ½ Salada. Dinner: 7:30 150 gm tinned red salmon, 1 mashed potato, 100 gm tinned corn, 6 spears asparagus, 2 slices beetroot. 1tub diet apricot yoghurt. Exercise 8:18pm ~2 km walk easy pace .Water: 2250ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 2:30
On plan:61 days Achieved food target: 53 days Exercised: 52 days All goals: 6 days.
 
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Without whipping out the temperature converter, 40 automatically sounds extremely uncomfortable - Yeesh !!

ok, I have to convert: 104 !! Ouchers !!

I'm glad I'm not the only insomniac on here especially in our summer. There's something about those cool nights that make me wanna stay up all night long.
 
I do enjoy staying up late. If I wasn't playing games or chatting on forums, there are other things I like to do that get me absorbed and carried away, very happy and relaxed, and not conscious of the time at all. However...logically I need to try and give them a miss, starting now, and at least for school days. I'll see how I go. I might rephrase my sleep goal in those terms because I don't altogether want to give up my happy nights.
 
Hi Felici,
I've been reading this forum for a while, but haven't engaged in conversation much yet. I wanted to say I enjoyed reading your journal. Sounds like you have a good nutrition plan that's giving you results. I too am trying to eat healthier instead of dieting because this in the past hasn't worked for me.

Anyway, keep up the good work. I'll look forward to reading about how this next weekend's parties went. :D
 
its ok to be a night person. i'd say to take a nap... but i know that most people dont have time to take even a 15 minute nap during the day. if you can.. i recommend. if not... try to plan on 6 hours of sleep. maybe an extra few minutes for as long as it takes you to fall asleep at night. And plan everything around that. i do. good luck with your happy nights.
 
Yup lol...ya know what they say about great minds...*winks*
*winks*

Just dropping in to say GOOD MORNING!!:)
Thank you and a good morning to you.

Hi Felici,
I've been reading this forum for a while, but haven't engaged in conversation much yet. I wanted to say I enjoyed reading your journal. Sounds like you have a good nutrition plan that's giving you results. I too am trying to eat healthier instead of dieting because this in the past hasn't worked for me.

Anyway, keep up the good work. I'll look forward to reading about how this next weekend's parties went. :D
Hi! Thank you. I credit my diet with helping me feel that I can keep on doing this indefinitely, though I guess the amounts will need a bit of a change later on.

its ok to be a night person. i'd say to take a nap... but i know that most people dont have time to take even a 15 minute nap during the day. if you can.. i recommend. if not... try to plan on 6 hours of sleep. maybe an extra few minutes for as long as it takes you to fall asleep at night. And plan everything around that. i do. good luck with your happy nights.

I'm sure I'll get my sleeping sorted a bit better, now I need to fit in with timetables again. I need more than 6 hours sleep though. 6 hours is what I can handle for a little while without necessarily noticing how bad I feel all day - under that and I do notice. However, to keep feeling good I do need a regular 8 hours. I have done substantial periods of less than 6 hours a night (not for fun, for duty), but frankly when I do that I can't control my emotions as well as I'd like, and I think it probably contributed to me getting cancer, so I like to make short nights the exception.

I managed to get back to Carine tonight and walked twice as far as I usually do in my own neighbourhood. I didn’t feel too tired while I did it. Maybe it’s easier to keep going than to do it in two separate lots in the one day. I found that the distance they have marked out is 4 km and my rough times were 13 mins, 13 mins, 11 mins, and 15 mins for each 1 km – which is about the same as I had estimated for around here. I did a bit more then to make it 5.4 total. I was pleased with it. I have also made muffins and chicken for the kids to start school tomorrow and finished preparing my girl’s stuff and helped my boy get his bag ready. I really prefer us all at home sleeping in!! I guess it will all work out.

My girl talked me into lunch at a coffee shop today. (Because it’s the last day of the holidays.) I used to like the food there but the “chicken and salad sandwich” I had made me feel overful the whole time till I walked this evening. It didn’t seem to be normal chicken – it was more salty and the fat was more obvious to me. I remembered to ask for no mayo but forgot to ask for no butter. So I switched and put cottage cheese in my evening meal – salad, cottage cheese, beans. It was lovely and fresh and just right!

Breakfast ~9:00 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 2:00 Chicken and salad sandwich with butter on wholemeal bread. Skinny cappuccino. Snack ~ 6:00 ½ Salada, 1 stalk celery. Dinner: 9:40 ~ 100 gm low fat cottage cheese, 100 gm tinned 4 bean mix, 2 C salad – lettuce, carrot, cucumber, sugar snap peas, mushroom, capsicum. 1 tomato. Exercise 7:26pm ~ 5.4 km walk moderate pace .Water: 2250ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:30
On plan:62 days Achieved food target: 54 days Exercised: 53 days All goals: 6
 
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It always makes me happy to see that I can still eat out at my favorites restaurants. We had McDonalds yesterday for lunch and by making minor adjustments in our evening meal, we didn't go over our goals for anything. Well probably sodium.

Keep up the good work!!
 
once it warms up where i am... i think i am going to go for walks. i think its awesome that you walk every-day!
 
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