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felici
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Thanks bm. I guess last night's dinner put me in the situation you face all the time - someone else was providing the food and my choices were very limited.
I do prefer to have lots of control on a regular basis - but this was nice for a change.
I weighed myself. 84.5 kg (185.9 lb), so down 0.7kg (1.5lb) for the week. I'm really glad that the weight loss site I found has people mostly posting in pounds - I love converting my loss of < 1 into > 1.
Also reading the diaries of people on a plateau has made me think I need to start keeping measurements too. I might not update them as often as I do my weight though.
So for now:
Left upper arm (9.5cm from inside elbow): 32.5 cm.
Bust: 102.5
Waist (narrowest): 96 cm
Waist (belly button): 105 cm
Hips (13 cm from b/b line down side): 111.5 cm
Hips (at leg band): 113.5 cm
Left thigh (largest point): 67 cm
I do prefer to have lots of control on a regular basis - but this was nice for a change.
I weighed myself. 84.5 kg (185.9 lb), so down 0.7kg (1.5lb) for the week. I'm really glad that the weight loss site I found has people mostly posting in pounds - I love converting my loss of < 1 into > 1.
Also reading the diaries of people on a plateau has made me think I need to start keeping measurements too. I might not update them as often as I do my weight though.
So for now:
Left upper arm (9.5cm from inside elbow): 32.5 cm.
Bust: 102.5
Waist (narrowest): 96 cm
Waist (belly button): 105 cm
Hips (13 cm from b/b line down side): 111.5 cm
Hips (at leg band): 113.5 cm
Left thigh (largest point): 67 cm
felici
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Breakfast ~9:00 2 weetbix, 1/3 C diced peaches. 1C lowfat soy milk. 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 5:00 2 Salada crackers 100 gm cottage cheese, 1 tomato.
I forgot about lunch until 5:00.
Dinner 7: 30 Marsala Veal (pan fried, with flour, olive oil, sherry) with mushrooms.1 boiled potato, micro-waved broccoli and carrots.
I wasn’t really ready for this – I was ready for a walk! However, my husband forgot and served me up a delicious looking plateful and I decided I could be flexible about it.
Exercise: 9:50 pm 20 minutes Low Impact Aerobics.
Not a lot, but better than nothing. I did consider skipping altogether but I do care about maintaining the habit and even that little bit has made me feel better than I did and moved me a bit further along the way I want to head. I guess it helped me think about what was good to do next, helped me find out some more about helpful options, helped me write a post for the day without feeling reluctant, or that I had an issue to deal with. I felt ok about exercising late in the day seeing as it’s Saturday and if it makes me stay awake that’s not too hard to deal with.
I remembered my routine pretty well without the DVD which was a bonus, Also I found out I could do it in near the TV where my son was watching Supersize me – so that was also a bonus. I finally found a way to get some exercise in while the TV is on!
The not so good bit was that the weights that felt heavy on Thursday don’t feel heavy today. Hang on that’s the good bit. Well anyway, I will up the weights for next time – up to the next size of water bottle! I can keep going with drink bottles up to 1.5kg I think and we have a set of 2 kg weights in the house. After that – I don’t know. I think I should start learning a new routine anyway.
Water: ~2500 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 1:00
On plan:104 days. Achieved food target: 86 days. Exercised: 88 days. All goals: 7 days.
I didn't count this as a 100% right food day because of the sherry, but I don't really think it mattered. LOL. It's a technical thing for me. I can fall short of my stated eating goal and not care, but I can't count it because I need to have something objective to tell me whether to change a number or not.
We had no commitments this weekend – only a little bit of running the girl back and forth. I had a really easy day today. Lots of computer time and few chores. Tomorrow I will need to start exercising during the morning to make sure it’s a solid amount. Plus I need to get things ready for the week.
Lunch 5:00 2 Salada crackers 100 gm cottage cheese, 1 tomato. I forgot about lunch until 5:00.
Dinner 7: 30 Marsala Veal (pan fried, with flour, olive oil, sherry) with mushrooms.1 boiled potato, micro-waved broccoli and carrots.
I wasn’t really ready for this – I was ready for a walk! However, my husband forgot and served me up a delicious looking plateful and I decided I could be flexible about it.
Exercise: 9:50 pm 20 minutes Low Impact Aerobics.
Not a lot, but better than nothing. I did consider skipping altogether but I do care about maintaining the habit and even that little bit has made me feel better than I did and moved me a bit further along the way I want to head. I guess it helped me think about what was good to do next, helped me find out some more about helpful options, helped me write a post for the day without feeling reluctant, or that I had an issue to deal with. I felt ok about exercising late in the day seeing as it’s Saturday and if it makes me stay awake that’s not too hard to deal with.
I remembered my routine pretty well without the DVD which was a bonus, Also I found out I could do it in near the TV where my son was watching Supersize me – so that was also a bonus. I finally found a way to get some exercise in while the TV is on!
The not so good bit was that the weights that felt heavy on Thursday don’t feel heavy today. Hang on that’s the good bit.
Well anyway, I will up the weights for next time – up to the next size of water bottle! I can keep going with drink bottles up to 1.5kg I think and we have a set of 2 kg weights in the house. After that – I don’t know. I think I should start learning a new routine anyway. Water: ~2500 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 1:00
On plan:104 days. Achieved food target: 86 days. Exercised: 88 days. All goals: 7 days.
I didn't count this as a 100% right food day because of the sherry, but I don't really think it mattered. LOL. It's a technical thing for me. I can fall short of my stated eating goal and not care, but I can't count it because I need to have something objective to tell me whether to change a number or not.
We had no commitments this weekend – only a little bit of running the girl back and forth. I had a really easy day today. Lots of computer time and few chores. Tomorrow I will need to start exercising during the morning to make sure it’s a solid amount. Plus I need to get things ready for the week.
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cinderelly
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Whoooa - I really havent been by for a bit - Its been one crazzzy week - So congrats on that walk - I love it when we think somethign willt ake us forever and only takes liek half the amount of time reserved or for me it is cleaning - It is a great accomplishment to finish under the time I have alotted myself or whatever ya know - Im gettin pretty damn fast - heehehee
Anyway sidetracked here - Excellent job on the walk!!!
And woohoo on another 1.5 lbs - your jsut totally rockin it girl !!!
Anyway sidetracked here - Excellent job on the walk!!!
And woohoo on another 1.5 lbs - your jsut totally rockin it girl !!!
felici
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Thanks Cerella.
I didn't walk that fast - I just miscalculated what a big deal it was - so now I'm thinking maybe I can do so much more than I had imagined!!
LOL. I can still remember a few years back thinking it was a big deal to walk from one side of my children's school to the other side and back. Admittedly I was sick at the time. I was fitter than that even before I started here, but I have made so much progress. I really love it.
I didn't walk that fast - I just miscalculated what a big deal it was - so now I'm thinking maybe I can do so much more than I had imagined!!
LOL. I can still remember a few years back thinking it was a big deal to walk from one side of my children's school to the other side and back. Admittedly I was sick at the time. I was fitter than that even before I started here, but I have made so much progress. I really love it.
cinderelly
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Yes I am so proud of you - Ive seen you grow so much even in these last few weeks !!! Ive really enjoyed gettin to knwo you so to speaka nd being a part of your life here And I like your support and your thougthfulness in my diary...
And I like your support and your thougthfulness in my diary...
felici
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Thank you Cerella. I do feel like I am gaining a lot (not pounds) right now. I'm glad if you find my posts supportive. I've gained a lot from our contacts too - support and inspiration!!
I really am wrapt about the way this process has been strengthening my body. I keep finding things I can do that I hadn’t even considered I might be able to do!! I can reach things, I can maintain static positions. Some of the things I can do now I haven't done in the last 6 years. I thought they had just become difficult because of the operations I had but now I think it must have been more an issue of flexibility and strength.
Breakfast ~9:00 2 weetbix, 1/3 C diced peaches. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1 boiled egg. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. ½ glass tomato juice. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Exercise 12:30 1 hour. Used different video. Aussiefit Xtrain.
It was a good change. The main section alternates aerobics with resistance/weights movements and there are stretches interspersed in it and at the end. The aerobic bits are faster than I’m used to, the weights/resistance section took a lot more effort (and a bit of teeth gritting). They slow down in 2 spots for you to check your heart rate. The first time mine was lower than they said it should be, but maybe I didn’t time it properly. Or maybe it was because the first time it got a little bouncy I backed off a bit. The second time my heart rate was120 which was in the range they gave. (I thought I saw something else that said it could be a lot higher though). I expect I can get a bit more out of it once I’ve learned some of the movements better. I upped my weights again. Mine are a heavier than the ones on the tapes now. I guess that’s ok as long as the moves are properly controlled.
I was pretty happy about how easy it was for me to join in most of it – a big improvement on my first time with the Jane Fonda tape – which really wasn’t long ago.
Lunch 1:30 Toasted sandwich. (2 slices wholemeal bread, 50 gm grilled herbed chicken, 15 gm low fat hard cheese, 1\2 tomato, 1 mushroom, 1 olive.)
Snack 5:00 ½ Salada cracker.
Exercise: 7:00 30 minutes. 5 min warm up, 20 mins of 15-20 sec walk sprints alternating with 1 min walks. I did that 7-8 times so maybe my counting was out – or I got the start time wrong! 5 minute cool down.
I do really push myself in the sprints. I finished every one breathing (moaning?) a little more loudly than the last time. I really don’t look forward to doing them the way I do with my other exercise. However, even if they’re not at the level needed for true HIIT I feel that they provide me with something that’s extra and of value – and if I keep on with them the extra they add could lead into something else even more valuable!
Dinner 7: 30 100 gm tin light tuna with oven dried tomatoes mixed with 100 gm tin 4 bean mix. Box of V8 Vege juice.
I had planned a bunch of proper salad veges but an internet issue took my attention and my appetite at once.
I probably should check the calories in today’s food. I think I was eating more last time I checked a typical day against actual calories. Today would be on the low side of typical.
Water: ~2500 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:30
On plan:105 days. Achieved food target: 87 days. Exercised: 89 days. All goals: 7 days.
1/2 glass of tomato juice. (25 cals)
2 Weetbix with (107 cals)
1C So Good light soy milk (122 cals)
1/3 C tinned diced tinned peaches (~40 cals)
A boiled egg (71 cals)
5gm lite margarine and (18 cals)
5 gm strawberry jam. (13 cals)
Coffee with about 40 ml Hi-Lo milk. (20 cals)
2 slices wholemeal bread (140 cals)
1 (tot 50 gm) skinless chicken thighs, roasted with herbs and w/o added fat (~40 cals)
½ tomato (8 cal)
1 mushroom (4 cal)
1 olive (4 cals)
½ Salada cracker (27 cals)
100 gm lite tuna (83 cals)
100gm 4 Bean mix (89 cals)
250 ml box V8 vege juice (43 cals)
818 cals. Ooops.
Late night snack?
200 gm diet yoghurt 84 cals
Glass soy milk, 100
2 handfuls almonds 200 cals
1202 cals. But only because I suddenly wondered and decided to check.
Tomorrow I will be more careful.
OK. So I'm going to have to have another look at my plan, and make a few of the serves that I was considering optional, not optional. Probably I need to be more careful about the evening protein. It just felt too much so I started cutting it back ... and back. Not always. But sometimes. It's too late now, an energy sapping evening. I will look at it in the morning.
I really am wrapt about the way this process has been strengthening my body. I keep finding things I can do that I hadn’t even considered I might be able to do!! I can reach things, I can maintain static positions. Some of the things I can do now I haven't done in the last 6 years. I thought they had just become difficult because of the operations I had but now I think it must have been more an issue of flexibility and strength.
Breakfast ~9:00 2 weetbix, 1/3 C diced peaches. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1 boiled egg. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. ½ glass tomato juice. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Exercise 12:30 1 hour. Used different video. Aussiefit Xtrain.
It was a good change. The main section alternates aerobics with resistance/weights movements and there are stretches interspersed in it and at the end. The aerobic bits are faster than I’m used to, the weights/resistance section took a lot more effort (and a bit of teeth gritting). They slow down in 2 spots for you to check your heart rate. The first time mine was lower than they said it should be, but maybe I didn’t time it properly. Or maybe it was because the first time it got a little bouncy I backed off a bit. The second time my heart rate was120 which was in the range they gave. (I thought I saw something else that said it could be a lot higher though). I expect I can get a bit more out of it once I’ve learned some of the movements better. I upped my weights again. Mine are a heavier than the ones on the tapes now. I guess that’s ok as long as the moves are properly controlled.
I was pretty happy about how easy it was for me to join in most of it – a big improvement on my first time with the Jane Fonda tape – which really wasn’t long ago.
Lunch 1:30 Toasted sandwich. (2 slices wholemeal bread, 50 gm grilled herbed chicken, 15 gm low fat hard cheese, 1\2 tomato, 1 mushroom, 1 olive.)
Snack 5:00 ½ Salada cracker.
Exercise: 7:00 30 minutes. 5 min warm up, 20 mins of 15-20 sec walk sprints alternating with 1 min walks. I did that 7-8 times so maybe my counting was out – or I got the start time wrong! 5 minute cool down.
I do really push myself in the sprints. I finished every one breathing (moaning?) a little more loudly than the last time. I really don’t look forward to doing them the way I do with my other exercise. However, even if they’re not at the level needed for true HIIT I feel that they provide me with something that’s extra and of value – and if I keep on with them the extra they add could lead into something else even more valuable!
Dinner 7: 30 100 gm tin light tuna with oven dried tomatoes mixed with 100 gm tin 4 bean mix. Box of V8 Vege juice.
I had planned a bunch of proper salad veges but an internet issue took my attention and my appetite at once.
I probably should check the calories in today’s food. I think I was eating more last time I checked a typical day against actual calories. Today would be on the low side of typical.
Water: ~2500 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:30
On plan:105 days. Achieved food target: 87 days. Exercised: 89 days. All goals: 7 days.
1/2 glass of tomato juice. (25 cals)
2 Weetbix with (107 cals)
1C So Good light soy milk (122 cals)
1/3 C tinned diced tinned peaches (~40 cals)
A boiled egg (71 cals)
5gm lite margarine and (18 cals)
5 gm strawberry jam. (13 cals)
Coffee with about 40 ml Hi-Lo milk. (20 cals)
2 slices wholemeal bread (140 cals)
1 (tot 50 gm) skinless chicken thighs, roasted with herbs and w/o added fat (~40 cals)
½ tomato (8 cal)
1 mushroom (4 cal)
1 olive (4 cals)
½ Salada cracker (27 cals)
100 gm lite tuna (83 cals)
100gm 4 Bean mix (89 cals)
250 ml box V8 vege juice (43 cals)
818 cals. Ooops.
Late night snack?
200 gm diet yoghurt 84 cals
Glass soy milk, 100
2 handfuls almonds 200 cals
1202 cals. But only because I suddenly wondered and decided to check.
Tomorrow I will be more careful.
OK. So I'm going to have to have another look at my plan, and make a few of the serves that I was considering optional, not optional. Probably I need to be more careful about the evening protein. It just felt too much so I started cutting it back ... and back. Not always. But sometimes. It's too late now, an energy sapping evening. I will look at it in the morning.
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M2M
New member
Ohh, I can so hear you on this one...I have been amazed at how much more I am able to do - who knew I could sit criss cross applesauce style on the floor without needing a special machine to extract me from the position and pull me to standing again!
It sounds like you had a nice relaxing weekend!
We NEED weekends like those
cinderelly
New member
Heh - thanx well dont go into my diary anytime soon - Im going through some bad funk and it is all negative - LOL - we will comunicate through yours - Im glad to read how well you've been doing exercise wise and how you feel you can and consider doing more than you have before - you are so growing girl - it is fun and amazing to watch - Im glad im on teh side lines cheering you along...
I'm really impressed at the changes you have made in the past few weeks, and I think your attitude toward "not caring" and "not counting" is great. You'll be happy to know that there is almost no alcohol remaining after sherry is cooked, so the only thing you would have to worry about is the small amount of sugar it would leave. I'm pretty sure you were still on target, but if you don't want to count it and can still feel good about it, then I'm all for that, and proud of you!
BTW, the "Walking to where you take your walk" idea? Brilliant!
I've been doing that a bit when I am out looking for places to go hike, too!
Keep making your poor doggie miserable; it's good for you and good for her, too!
BTW, the "Walking to where you take your walk" idea? Brilliant!
I've been doing that a bit when I am out looking for places to go hike, too!
Keep making your poor doggie miserable; it's good for you and good for her, too!
felici
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Qjay
It's so nice to see your post in here again!
It's funny I haven't thought of myself as making great changes - just trying to keep in the spot where I'm doing the best I can with what I know at the time and what I can manage at the time!
I just love to celebrate any improvements I notice. One day I'm going to go back through my thread and put them in a list. Well I might not have to do that because I'm mostly still quite aware of them at the moment.
I have a no sugar policy (except for that jam I have at breakfast), so anything that adds sugar isn't on the plan. Only I don't actually think every little bit matters any more. That could go on my list - I like knowing that I can, occasionally, have a little of something I really want to have - usually for traditional reasons, without it knocking me back into out of control eating.
Hehe. Your light's on. I like that.
It's so nice to see your post in here again!
It's funny I haven't thought of myself as making great changes - just trying to keep in the spot where I'm doing the best I can with what I know at the time and what I can manage at the time!
I just love to celebrate any improvements I notice. One day I'm going to go back through my thread and put them in a list. Well I might not have to do that because I'm mostly still quite aware of them at the moment.
I have a no sugar policy (except for that jam I have at breakfast), so anything that adds sugar isn't on the plan. Only I don't actually think every little bit matters any more. That could go on my list - I like knowing that I can, occasionally, have a little of something I really want to have - usually for traditional reasons, without it knocking me back into out of control eating.
Hehe. Your light's on. I like that.
I think a list of your celebrations would be great, and I bet there are a lot of them that have been left to the sidelines without you even noticing; now you'll have to either admit I'm right, or prove I'm not
I still have to be very careful about eating right, and I feel like I really dodged a bullet with the food yesterday; cravings are such a danger for me, even now.
The really rough part is that I still like eating large amounts of food, and I still have a hard time not clearing my plate; it just feels like a waste of money if I don't eat everything. The good news is that I am still ordering carefully if I eat out, and I am still preparing my food carefully if I am home, and I am eating intuitively and just counting it all up at the end of the day. I have a notebook to help me with that, too.
I just love going out hiking so much! I can REALLY feel the difference in my knees, too! Tell me about your knees, I like hearing about "healthy knees"! lol
I still have to be very careful about eating right, and I feel like I really dodged a bullet with the food yesterday; cravings are such a danger for me, even now.
The really rough part is that I still like eating large amounts of food, and I still have a hard time not clearing my plate; it just feels like a waste of money if I don't eat everything. The good news is that I am still ordering carefully if I eat out, and I am still preparing my food carefully if I am home, and I am eating intuitively and just counting it all up at the end of the day. I have a notebook to help me with that, too.
I just love going out hiking so much! I can REALLY feel the difference in my knees, too! Tell me about your knees, I like hearing about "healthy knees"! lol
sleeplessinsc
New member
hey felici...I havent been on here in monthes! I just wanted to say hi! glad to see you are still here and doing well. Have a great day!!!
cinderelly
New member
Cerella
How could you be inspiring if you had no times of struggle?
HEH - I need to keep that in mind ... LOL ...and me and that word inspiring get me everytime - I dont see it
I think it would be good to go througha nd list I think of that at times when I am stalled in my progress or negative and dont feel like continuing to move forward...Ive given up alot and changed alot - I think you have a great idea Felici
felici
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I don't want to exaggerate. My experience has shown me that I can feel just fine, like now, and this doesn't mean cravings won't come back and do some damage. I still think I need to be very careful. I’m very alert to a heap of things that could be issues for me. I just don't feel nervous about birthdays and Christmas and variations to my routine in the way I was when I first started here. I think I still need to have plans for them but they take less thought because of the other times I’ve already dealt with similar issues.I think a list of your celebrations would be great, and I bet there are a lot of them that have been left to the sidelines without you even noticing; now you'll have to either admit I'm right, or prove I'm not
I still have to be very careful about eating right, and I feel like I really dodged a bullet with the food yesterday; cravings are such a danger for me, even now.
The really rough part is that I still like eating large amounts of food, and I still have a hard time not clearing my plate; it just feels like a waste of money if I don't eat everything. The good news is that I am still ordering carefully if I eat out, and I am still preparing my food carefully if I am home, and I am eating intuitively and just counting it all up at the end of the day. I have a notebook to help me with that, too.
I just love going out hiking so much! I can REALLY feel the difference in my knees, too! Tell me about your knees, I like hearing about "healthy knees"! lol
My own latest plan for incipient cravings now is that I don't dismiss any little bit of nagging as "not really a craving yet". I just go "Yuck you might turn into a craving. You are enemy food. NO WAY are you controlling me! How could you? I am much more powerful than you. Gross. I hate you. You're disgusting. You make me feel sick. Ugh. My stomach is turning over. You're the kind of food that ends up making me feel like vomiting afterwards I can't even bear to think about you. Oops. Can't look at that stuff, it's gross. Slide away eyes...." LOL. Well I did it to icecream a couple of week's ago and the little annoying niggle of interest just disappeared. I don’t reckon this will stop me enjoying a little next Christmas though!
I don't actually have healthy knees either.
God I love the difference between these "not healthy knees" and the old "not healthy knees" though. These ones have some mates to help them out - muscles!!
Thanks. Great to see you back - and it's terrific that you haven't gained either. I hope we'll get to see you here till your loss is done this time.hey felici...I havent been on here in monthes! I just wanted to say hi! glad to see you are still here and doing well. Have a great day!!!
Me too! Ummm... I mean, "Thank you, I hope you do as well!" Actually I mean both those things!Good Morning Felici,
I hope you have a great day
Tomorrow should be good. I have work at a school where I worked today and I used to go a lot. I'm glad their registrar has noticed that I'm available to them again. It's a bright friendly place with a good bunch of supportive teachers. Most of the time, I really enjoy being in the classroom in the role I have. I just wish I could come home and the hours would still be there for me to do everything else I like doing too.
I have thought about the list quite a few times. I also saw that TomO wrote one something like that the other day when he was feeling frustrated about a plateau he's on and thought then that it was a great idea for something to do when things don't seem the best.
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