This is the time

youre right. Like usual.lol. you didnt push anything. But still... thats what the forum is for. Pushing people to do what is good for them.
 
Hi felici,
Just dropping in to say a big HI and see how your going.
You really are a great read!
Your doing so well too! Good on you girl.
And plaagghhh how hot is it today!

Have a great one!


Here's a little quote for you from my favourite Doctor:

“” Dr Seuss
 
Thanks Melly! Nice to "see" you - still getting skinny too! Funny day - my daughter wore a jumper to school, but by late afternoon it was warm again.

I agree wishes - that is a great quote. Definitely going in my "quotes" file.

Today started out cool so I tried again to do the 1 ½ hrs at Carine – and made it this time. Mind you the dog still looked at me as if I was nuts when I took her to the water fountain then headed away from the car afterwards instead of towards it. We were a long way from the car at the time so I was a bit surprised. The way she just stands stiffly and stares, instead of following is kind of unmistakable though. I think she is waiting for me to realize that I’ve made a mistake. Anyway it was my usual speed – not fast but I walked about 6.5 km I think (4 miles).

I saw 2 spoonbills! I only remember seeing one previously and that wasn't even in Perth. I do notice the birds and love noticing them. It is a weird thing but there were plenty of birds around when I was very young, then a patch of not seeing them so much that lasted until I was a young adult and then there was a repopulation. I thought it was just my perception for a while, or due to moving from a rural to city area, but then I found out that the numbers were down for a while due to chemical use. I think it has made me appreciate them more. I see even more birds now than 20 years ago - some of that might be that they've shifted around, some maybe because I pay more attention. Our suburb is lucky to have heaps, but the swamps/lakes I walk around at Carine have even more diversity. For some (lucky) reason, my dog doesn't try to chase them. She walks quite close but stays with me, good as gold. Then she gets home, apparently exhausted, rushes out the back door and barks insanely at the doves that have dared invade her backyard!

I was hungry today. I’m not sure why. Maybe the longer walk did it, or still being a bit tired from the weekend. I was definitely tired. I ended up having a nap when I should have been starting dinner – I felt better afterwards, but confused about what to cook. Anyway I had three proper snacks and ate a healthy dessert tonight which I often skip. I was still “noticing” people eating things I don’t want to eat, and treats we have here that I don’t want to eat - most of the time it’s like I don’t see them. Anyway it’s nearly bedtime now and I am not hungry or snacky or overfull. Hopefully this was an issue just for today.

Breakfast ~ 7:00 2 weetbix, 1C lowfat soy milk, 1/3 C peaches. 1 slice of wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. 1 boiled egg. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milkSnack 11:30 ½ Salada cracker, 1 box V8 vege juice. Lunch 12:45 1 wholemeal roll with grilled chicken and 1 tomato. Snack 3:15. 1/2 Salada biscuit, 1 nectarine. 5:15 ½ Salada biscuit 1 C lowfat soy milk. Dinner: 7:10 ~ 150 gm lean rump steak, in 2 slices wholemeal bread. 1 carrot, 1 stalk celery, 1 mushroom, 6 snowpeas, ½ capsicum, 1 tspn low fat French onion dip. ½ tub low fat yoghurt, 1 plum. Exercise 9:45 1 ½ hr walk (~ 6.5 km), Carine .Water: 3000ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:00
On plan:69 days Achieved food target: 60 days Exercised: 58 days All goals: 6 days.
 
I love your descriptions of your poor doggy, I can SO identify with her. Keep taking her out there, she'll get the idea sooner or later, the problem is she hasn't gotten in the habit of going out and doing healthy things with you yet. :D
You'll get her there. ;)
 
great job on the walking! and i love birds too. In my kitchen (my bf's kitchen) there is a birdfeeder, and there is plenty of birds all over it all the time. Pretty pretty! Hope you have a good day tomorrow!
 
Just wanted to stop in and say HI! I am the paste and copy person today as I don't feel good. Just so you know if you this floating around in more than one diary!:D [/COLOR][/SIZE]
 
Hi. This is just a quick message to say that the internet is not working at my place. This is a quick post from a public internet thing to let you know why I am not posting. I am writing lots in my at home diary but if you are lucky I will edit and make it much briefer when I finally have the connection fixed. I have already had a technician out twice. My children are both home sick so I am not posting anything else.
 
And I felt bad for your DOGGY!
Sick kids? How do parents not abandon us when we're young and helpless?

This is me sending you positive thoughts; I hope you can siphon some of that energy out of the ether and stay on your food and exercise plan :D

Oh! I almost forgot: Sick kids love it when you sit next to them and poke a finger into any sore spots and ask "Does this hurt? No? What about this?" and then jab harder ;)
Trust me, it'll make you feel better :p

Glad to know all is well! Summer colds are the worst!
 
Hope things are getting better for you. I have my son home sick today. It is a a bummer, but what is worse is I had to skip the gym today!!:(
 
Yay! My internet is finally fixed. What a long involved hassle that turned out to be.

I have just been on here for an hour or so reading up a bit here and there and I feel really strengthened by that. I don't think I have done really badly without the forum, but I reckon I would have achieved more if I'd still had it this past week and a half.

I have not eaten anything that's right off my plan but have eaten extra, and felt it was a struggle to stay on. Also, I haven't exercised as much as I expected. The exercise thing is due to other complications as well, but I do think it was partly from being less focussed.

I don't know my weight because I was working on Wednesday and couldn't get to the scales at the right time. I'll weigh tomorrow and make Saturday my weigh day from now on.

My children are both well again at present. My son had a stomach bug that he ought not have been able to get here, but he's finally got rid of it. My daughter had some random virus that shot her temperature right up and had her hysterical because she felt so ill she thought she was going to die. When I tried to reassure her that she was not, she got angry because she thought I wasn't taking her illness seriously enough. I was though. We saw a doctor and we went to Emergency, mercifully for only a brief time, and then the next day she was suddenly better again.
 
I don’t know what to post about the last 10 days. At first I thought I would just keep the diary off line and post when I got back on – but 10 days' worth is too long.

I am just fully noticing what it was that was missing, now that I am back on line and feeling that things are okay again. While I was off I just got an increasing sense of being deprived and didn’t cope as well as I had been. Reading other people’s diaries and knowing that I am connected again makes me feel happier and in control. Oh ok - light bulb. This food thing is a control thing for me – and the internet being pulled on me and not being able to fix it myself is a lack of control thing. So that was a bit more pressure. I was worried that having been off-line and feeling that this had become a battle after all might be something that would stay with me once I was reconnected – like it was just the end of a honeymoon period. It’s good to know that wasn’t the case.

I think my food was not too bad at all – but not as good as usual. My feelings about food deteriorated quite a lot. In the last few days I started thinking often about the kind of food that I don’t want to eat at all – fat and sugary. Last night I wrote a long muddled whinge about how bad I was feeling. I didn’t have cravings as such but I was starting to think about food constantly, in an unhealthy way, and to feel bored with the food on my plan. Tonight it’s suddenly good food again! LOL.

My exercise was way off. Of 10 days I only exercised 5. I did actually find the phone calls and waiting around for people to help fix this internet problem constantly interfered with my plans – mainly because they didn’t contact me when they said they would. Having the internet isn’t necessary for me to get more healthy but it sure helps a heap, so it was worth giving it some priority too. Then there was the mechanic who turned up 2 ½ hours early. Also there was the night I drove my daughter to hospital because her fever was making her so hysterical and achy. Also I started working again for the first time in quite a while – and oh boy was it ever exhausting!! So there was plenty of interference and 3 days where I don’t really see how I could have managed to walk no matter how determined I was being. Yet I’m still aware that I wasn’t really well set up to meet the challenge of a stressful period. My food was pretty much automatic – and still was knocked a bit off target. My first day at school I didn’t even manage my water, though I had thought it was a total given by now. My exercise was not automatic and it really suffered because of that I think. It is still not properly sorted out even now. However, I haven’t ever thought that I wouldn’t do it because I couldn’t be bothered. – it’s been more of a time management issue.

Some good things I did were choosing to go with my daughter and husband to the Maritime Museum in Fremantle instead of staying home getting organized - I still think that was a better choice than going for a walk by myself, even though it used up all my spare time last Sunday. I had to climb a mountain of stairs and was amazed at the cramped conditions the Australian submariners lived in. Seriously it would be torture to me, yet our guide had done it for 17 years! (Hmm. As long as my current obesity. Over a certain size our bodies turn into prisons.) Also good was finding the best choice for lunch while out at a market I hadn’t been to before. Also going in to hospital well prepared with lots of crackers, almonds, V8 juice and a new bottle of water just in case. I still remember a good eating patch foundering on a 2-3 (nightmare) days in at the children’s hospital 2 years ago. Also, I stopped on the way home from the hospital and bought everyone else KFC but still went home and ate some chicken from the fridge with a microwaved potato and quick fix V8 vege juice once more. Tonight I bought the children KFC and the smell seemed good again for the first time in a while. I reminded myself of how unpleasant I now find it to get a mouthful of fat or oil and how noticeable it is. That helped. One thing I have started to get better at - from necessity and from less internet - earlier nights.

I can't fit in all the food for so long. I have just included this week's.


Sunday 11 February
Breakfast ~ 9:30 2 weetbix, 1C lowfat soy milk, 1/3 C peaches. 1 slice of wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. 1 boiled egg. ½ glass tomato juice. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk .Lunch 12.00 Box of melon. Lowfat cappuccino. 1 Salada cracker. Big handful of almonds. Snack 4:15. 400 ml Pepsimax. Dinner: 2 lean grilled chicken thighs, microwaved potato, corn cob, ~ 2 C salad inc.1/2 tomato, ~ 3 blackolives. Balsimic vinegar. low fat yoghurt with 1 nectarine.. Exercise None.Water: (?) 2250ml +Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:30

Monday 12 February
Breakfast ~ 7:30 2 weetbix, 1C lowfat soy milk, 1/3 C peaches. 1 slice of wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. 1 boiled egg. ½ glass tomato juice. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk .Lunch 1:30 2 Salada crackers, 100gm low fat cottagae cheese, 1 tomato, 1 nectarine. Snack 7:00 ½ Salada. Dinner: 2 lean grilled chicken thighs (with herbs), microwaved potato, 3 slices beetroot. 1 V8 vege juice box. low fat yoghurt with 1 nectarine. 400 ml Pepsimax. Exercise None.Water: (?) 1500ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:00

Tuesday 13 February
Breakfast ~ 7:30 2 weetbix, 1C lowfat soy milk, 1/3 C peaches. 1 slice of wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. 1 boiled egg. ½ glass tomato juice. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk .Lunch 1:30 2 Salada crackers, low fat cheese, 1 tomato, 1 pear. Snack 4:30 1 Salada. 1 V8 vege juice. Dinner: 5:30 Lean lamb casserole, with potato, carrot, parsnip celery, peas . Later, 1 apricot diet yoghurt, 2 weetbix, ½ C diced peaches, 1 C low fat soy milk, 1 blueberry/banana muffin. Exercise 1hr Carine ~ 4km. Water : (?) 1500ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:30

Wednesday 14 February.
Breakfast ~ 7:30 2 weetbix, 1C lowfat soy milk, 1/3 C peaches. 1 slice of wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. 1 boiled egg. ½ glass tomato juice. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk .Lunch 12:15 Handful of raw almonds, V8 vege juice box, 1 fortune cookie. Snack 5:00 2 weetbix, 1/3 C diced peaches, 1 C low fat soy milk. Dinner: 150gm tinned red salmon, 100 gm tinned corn, 1 med. Microwaved potato, 2-3 slices beetroot, tinned asparagus . 2-3 C salad, Blueberry/banana muffin. Exercise 37 minutes local walk.Water: 2500ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 9:30

Thursday 15 February
B]Breakfast[/B] ~ 7:30 2 weetbix, 1C lowfat soy milk, 1/3 C peaches. 1 slice of wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. 1 boiled egg. ½ glass tomato juice. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk .Lunch 12:30 2 Salada crackers, hard low-fat cheese, V8 vege juice box. Snack 5:00 Leftover lamb stew that I forgot to take for lunch. Dinner: 7:00 Lots of fried fish, some with sugary marinade (because I ate the bits my daughter didn’t eat, not after I had eaten my dinner – before), 2 slices wholemeal bread, 3 C salad, with lots of broccoli and celery, about 3 olives, cucumber, tomato, capsicum, carrot. 1 nectarine, ½ C low fat yoghurt. Exercise None.Water: 1500ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 10:30


Friday 15 February
Breakfast ~ 7:30 2 weetbix, 1C lowfat soy milk, 1/3 C peaches. 1 slice of wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. 1 boiled egg. ½ glass tomato juice. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk .Lunch 12:30 2 slices wholemeal bread, grilled chicken, V8 vege juice box. Snack 5:00 Sugar snap peas and 1 Salada cracker. Dinner: 9:00 Thai chicken (with liquid drained) – chicken, bamboo shoots, zucchini, 1 C rice. 2 weetbix, 1/3 C diced peaches, 1 C soya milk. Exercise ½ hour local walk.Water: 2000ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:00
 
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Hey you - ive been out sick and you werent around either - Im glad your net is back and ok ??? LOL I am assuming it is ok - good to see you around agian!!! And wooie to your great big post and menus - :D:D:D
 
I am just getting amazingly into fish lately, I think a lot of that is seeing it so regularly in your food descriptions. I get a lot of inspiration from your thread, so I am really glad to have you back :D

I hope you're having a good time!
 
Cinderelly - I just had a quick look in your diary yesterday. I noticed the bit about only managing work, housework, kids - but I remember you had so much work on! What horrible timing these bugs have. I will go and have a proper read in your thread today.

Qjay - Thank you. I am really glad to have you back. Also I am going to have a look for bean curd thread! :D
 
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