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felici
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No exercise today. I didn’t plan not to, and there’s no drastic reason why. I just left it until late because I was tired after work, and now I am feeling really tired. I know that I could’ve managed to do something now, though it’s late, but that would have made me wake up and then maybe not be able to sleep. I think it's more sensible to just go to bed.
I probably should have done some aerobics after school whether my feet hurt or not! It would have been a more appropriate time to give myself a push. I just thought I would get some energy back after a bit of downtime and I didn't.
I think I haven't had enough sleep lately - I've let myself have a couple of late nights, forgetting that there was no space for a sleep in!!
Breakfast ~ 7:00 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.
Snack 10:30 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Lunch 1:30 2 slices wholemeal bread. 1 small grilled skinless chicken thigh. 1box V8 vege juice.
Snack 3:30 1/2 Salada cracker.
Dinner 7:30 ~ 40gm tinned red salmon mixed with 100 gm tinned corn. 1 carrot, 6 sugar snap peas, 1/3 capsicum, a mushroom, a little broccoli. 1 tspn low fat french onion dip. 1 tub apricot diet yoghurt. 3 fresh dates.
Water: 2750 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:30
On plan:101 days. Achieved food target: 84 days. Exercised: 85 days. All goals: 7 days.
I probably should have done some aerobics after school whether my feet hurt or not! It would have been a more appropriate time to give myself a push. I just thought I would get some energy back after a bit of downtime and I didn't.
I think I haven't had enough sleep lately - I've let myself have a couple of late nights, forgetting that there was no space for a sleep in!!
Breakfast ~ 7:00 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.
Snack 10:30 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Lunch 1:30 2 slices wholemeal bread. 1 small grilled skinless chicken thigh. 1box V8 vege juice.
Snack 3:30 1/2 Salada cracker.
Dinner 7:30 ~ 40gm tinned red salmon mixed with 100 gm tinned corn. 1 carrot, 6 sugar snap peas, 1/3 capsicum, a mushroom, a little broccoli. 1 tspn low fat french onion dip. 1 tub apricot diet yoghurt. 3 fresh dates.
Water: 2750 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:30
On plan:101 days. Achieved food target: 84 days. Exercised: 85 days. All goals: 7 days.
be_gone_soon
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Sometimes you just need a little rest. Your body seems to demand it. Just do some exercise today, it'll be alright!!
cinderelly
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I make myself exercise after dinner or before if I have the tiem usually wether I want to or not - I know even if I am tired I will feel better once I get it in that is way I have a 30 min rule for myself - just trying to get in 30 mins a day - however Ive been a bit lazy and slackin lately - I skipped exercise last night just got a better off and ditched it so unlike me but hey a girls gotta live from time to time...
Yes sleep is a funny thing - I stayed up till 11 sunday night because I wanted to watch the apprentice and appearantly that is too late for me - LOL
felici
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I'm sure that's true.Sometimes you just need a little rest. Your body seems to demand it. Just do some exercise today, it'll be alright!!
I keep thinking that I want a more routine way of having time for exercise so that it never slips down the priority list but I haven't worked it out yet. I do think it will be a lot easier when the weather finally gets cooler and daylight saving finishes because then I will be able to walk after school.
After that marathon exercise session your body probably thought you deserved an athlete's bed time.
felici
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So my 2 days at the most difficult of my local schools have come and gone without too much bother. They do make me more tired though. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that my exercise dropped off.
I watched a TV show called Amazing Medical Stories tonight. It went over a story I saw late last year on a program with a different name, and updated it a bit. It was about these 3 super morbidly obese people. One who died. One housebound man who had achieved a relatively normal weight at one stage then regained it all within two years. One woman who was bed bound with her stomach pretty much as big as the rest of her lying on the bed next to her. She couldn’t turn over on the bed. Other people moved her around and did everything for her. I think seeing them last year helped push me to change. They really stuck in my mind. Every time I thought about them I would think at the same time about a strange story I read long ago about a religious woman in medieval times who had herself bricked inside a wall with just a space for food and water to be passed in The woman who lived in the wall.
I don’t know if it was a case of “There but for the grace of God go I…” There was certainly an element of wondering why I would presume that couldn’t happen to me, seeing as I was already vastly fatter than I could ever have imagined becoming years ago. The woman certainly said things I've said – like “I really want to lose this weight. Why didn’t I stop before?”
Breakfast ~ 7:00 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 1:30 2 slices wholemeal bread. 1 small grilled skinless chicken thigh. 1box V8 vege juice. 1 pear.
Snack 5:00 1/2 Salada cracker. 6 raw almonds.
Dinner 7: 00 1 carrot, 6 sugar snap peas, 1/3 capsicum, a mushroom, a little broccoli. 1 tspn low fat french onion dip.
Exercise: 8:00pm About 20 min easy local walk.
I had a frustrating time getting to this at all. Also my knees are not feeling great. Maybe the honky nut I jolted myself on yesterday did a bit of damage.
The exercise was a bit of a token effort. However I much prefer that to skipping it altogether. At least I got the nice sensation of being outside quietly in the cool evening.
I did do a whole bunch of book shelving while I didn't have a class for a while today. Lots of nice smooth squats.
Dinner 9:15pm Omlette (3 eggs, 1 spray EV olive oil) with mushrooms (3, with 1 tspn margarine), 1 fresh tomato. 1 slice wholemeal bread. 1 tub apricot diet yoghurt.
Having had the earlier salad and a walk I didn’t really feel hungry when it was time to eat the rest of my dinner. I could have stopped without bread or the yoghurt. I just added them because I feel obliged to have some carbohydrate, and because I had an little of that sensation of wondering what was in the fridge – not really hungry but not really satisfied. So I figured that I could do with eating something healthy whether I was interested in it or not.
Water: 2000 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:10 (?)
On plan:102 days. Achieved food target: 85 days. Exercised: 86 days. All goals: 7 days.
I watched a TV show called Amazing Medical Stories tonight. It went over a story I saw late last year on a program with a different name, and updated it a bit. It was about these 3 super morbidly obese people. One who died. One housebound man who had achieved a relatively normal weight at one stage then regained it all within two years. One woman who was bed bound with her stomach pretty much as big as the rest of her lying on the bed next to her. She couldn’t turn over on the bed. Other people moved her around and did everything for her. I think seeing them last year helped push me to change. They really stuck in my mind. Every time I thought about them I would think at the same time about a strange story I read long ago about a religious woman in medieval times who had herself bricked inside a wall with just a space for food and water to be passed in The woman who lived in the wall.
I don’t know if it was a case of “There but for the grace of God go I…” There was certainly an element of wondering why I would presume that couldn’t happen to me, seeing as I was already vastly fatter than I could ever have imagined becoming years ago. The woman certainly said things I've said – like “I really want to lose this weight. Why didn’t I stop before?”
Breakfast ~ 7:00 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 1:30 2 slices wholemeal bread. 1 small grilled skinless chicken thigh. 1box V8 vege juice. 1 pear.
Snack 5:00 1/2 Salada cracker. 6 raw almonds.
Dinner 7: 00 1 carrot, 6 sugar snap peas, 1/3 capsicum, a mushroom, a little broccoli. 1 tspn low fat french onion dip.
Exercise: 8:00pm About 20 min easy local walk.
I had a frustrating time getting to this at all. Also my knees are not feeling great. Maybe the honky nut I jolted myself on yesterday did a bit of damage.
The exercise was a bit of a token effort. However I much prefer that to skipping it altogether. At least I got the nice sensation of being outside quietly in the cool evening.
I did do a whole bunch of book shelving while I didn't have a class for a while today. Lots of nice smooth squats.
Dinner 9:15pm Omlette (3 eggs, 1 spray EV olive oil) with mushrooms (3, with 1 tspn margarine), 1 fresh tomato. 1 slice wholemeal bread. 1 tub apricot diet yoghurt.
Having had the earlier salad and a walk I didn’t really feel hungry when it was time to eat the rest of my dinner. I could have stopped without bread or the yoghurt. I just added them because I feel obliged to have some carbohydrate, and because I had an little of that sensation of wondering what was in the fridge – not really hungry but not really satisfied. So I figured that I could do with eating something healthy whether I was interested in it or not.
Water: 2000 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:10 (?)
On plan:102 days. Achieved food target: 85 days. Exercised: 86 days. All goals: 7 days.
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T2 Trucker
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Yeesh girl, your diary was buried deep too
Jolted by a honky nut ?? There must be a translation for this. I'm seriously intrigued.
Nice to see you posting in your old style. I love a diary with dialogue. Mind food is a great thing during weight loss. If your fingers are on the keyboard your not shovelin' food see
Jolted by a honky nut ?? There must be a translation for this. I'm seriously intrigued.
Nice to see you posting in your old style. I love a diary with dialogue. Mind food is a great thing during weight loss. If your fingers are on the keyboard your not shovelin' food see
felici
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Honky nut = gum nut = eucalyptus nut.
As I'm fortunate enough to live where there are many trees and many are eucalypts, the nuts abound.
I guess I'm still less stable on my feet than I would like because it's not uncommon for me to roll my ankles on something that's made the ground uneven. This is the third thing this year. It was just a little nut though and I didn't do much - just enough to make all my leg joints feel a little more dodgy than normal. Not enough to make them hurt a lot when I'm doing nothing, like the other two times. I expect a younger stronger person wouldn't have noticed.
I would still have been right for an extra long exercise session today except for the rest of my life getting in the way - as it is inclined to do. I had to organize a new hot water system, plus my sister is at home sick so had time to ring and chat, which is very rare and desirable. Still at least I have space to do an ordinarily nice long workout. I have had my jogging shoes on all morning. Time to use them.
I totally agree about the fingers on the keyboard, T2. It's a nice safe place for them.
As I'm fortunate enough to live where there are many trees and many are eucalypts, the nuts abound.
I guess I'm still less stable on my feet than I would like because it's not uncommon for me to roll my ankles on something that's made the ground uneven. This is the third thing this year. It was just a little nut though and I didn't do much - just enough to make all my leg joints feel a little more dodgy than normal. Not enough to make them hurt a lot when I'm doing nothing, like the other two times. I expect a younger stronger person wouldn't have noticed.
I would still have been right for an extra long exercise session today except for the rest of my life getting in the way - as it is inclined to do. I had to organize a new hot water system, plus my sister is at home sick so had time to ring and chat, which is very rare and desirable. Still at least I have space to do an ordinarily nice long workout. I have had my jogging shoes on all morning. Time to use them.
I totally agree about the fingers on the keyboard, T2. It's a nice safe place for them.
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cinderelly
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Ha you gotta love life gettin in the way...that is my expression when I cant find time or energy to exercie - life is gettin in the way - hope all is going well and your leg feels better soon
be_gone_soon
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Hello There! Hope today is great for you!!
felici
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Thanks guys. My leg isn't too bad at all today, and I was at home and had a great time! My exercise was really energizing. I love it when it makes me feel high and excited like this.
Breakfast ~ 7:00 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 2 x 20 minutes low impact aerobics. 20 minutes stretching.
I haven’t been able to get to these for a while. I really enjoyed coming back to them after a break. I got better while I was away!!!!!!! I did the first one with no real stuff ups and keeping in time with them, and the second one much better than before. I felt more puffed and I think that was because I knew them well enough and felt fit enough to move more quickly and energetically.
I still feel daunted when I think about starting an hour’s workout – especially as I wait until afterwards to eat! However while I’m doing it the time goes really fast and afterwards it feels like it took 5 minutes – and I’m not that hungry any more.
Lunch 1:30 2 slices wholemeal bread. ~ 100 gm cottage cheese, 1 tomato. 1 pear.
Yum. This was the first time I’ve been able to eat my favourite lunch at home for 9 days!
Exercise: 7:30 ~ 30 minutes walk. Longer intervals including 4 sprints.
I felt up for something fairly vigorous still, but not at the level I managed the other day. I do have a love/hate relationship with training like this. I like the longer intervals (longer than the 10 second ones I used to do and might still do sometimes), because they let me build up more speed, but if I keep going until they seem unbearable, the immediate sensation afterwards is unpleasant (raw throat, no breath and so on). Probably it is a little better when I keep going a bit longer than that, because then it feels physically unpleasant for a little while but I at least know I have done what I most wanted. I can imagine getting used to it and not feeling so put off. There’s probably something valuable in consistently doing more than you feel you can anyway.
I’m surprised how quickly the duration I can manage is increasing and how fast I can walk like that. (Fast for me). I do it flat footed but I don’t know if it would really be counted as walking in a race. I feel like I might have both feet off the ground at once.
Dinner 9: 00 1 boiled potato, 50 gm tinned red salmon, micro-waved broccoli and carrots.
Water: ~2000 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:30
On plan:103 days. Achieved food target: 86 days. Exercised: 87 days. All goals: 7 days.
Breakfast ~ 7:00 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 2 x 20 minutes low impact aerobics. 20 minutes stretching.
I haven’t been able to get to these for a while. I really enjoyed coming back to them after a break. I got better while I was away!!!!!!! I did the first one with no real stuff ups and keeping in time with them, and the second one much better than before. I felt more puffed and I think that was because I knew them well enough and felt fit enough to move more quickly and energetically.
I still feel daunted when I think about starting an hour’s workout – especially as I wait until afterwards to eat! However while I’m doing it the time goes really fast and afterwards it feels like it took 5 minutes – and I’m not that hungry any more.
Lunch 1:30 2 slices wholemeal bread. ~ 100 gm cottage cheese, 1 tomato. 1 pear.
Yum. This was the first time I’ve been able to eat my favourite lunch at home for 9 days!
Exercise: 7:30 ~ 30 minutes walk. Longer intervals including 4 sprints.
I felt up for something fairly vigorous still, but not at the level I managed the other day. I do have a love/hate relationship with training like this. I like the longer intervals (longer than the 10 second ones I used to do and might still do sometimes), because they let me build up more speed, but if I keep going until they seem unbearable, the immediate sensation afterwards is unpleasant (raw throat, no breath and so on). Probably it is a little better when I keep going a bit longer than that, because then it feels physically unpleasant for a little while but I at least know I have done what I most wanted. I can imagine getting used to it and not feeling so put off. There’s probably something valuable in consistently doing more than you feel you can anyway.
I’m surprised how quickly the duration I can manage is increasing and how fast I can walk like that. (Fast for me
). I do it flat footed but I don’t know if it would really be counted as walking in a race. I feel like I might have both feet off the ground at once. Dinner 9: 00 1 boiled potato, 50 gm tinned red salmon, micro-waved broccoli and carrots.
Water: ~2000 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:30
On plan:103 days. Achieved food target: 86 days. Exercised: 87 days. All goals: 7 days.
felici
Well-known member
I saw an ideal weight calculator in another thread (http://weight-loss.fitness.com/club/4016-ideal-weight-calculator-including-body-frame.html). This takes body shape into account and originally, I worked out my weight loss goal without that, so I have now amended it from 55kg to 58 kg. In a way I don’t think that matters much, especially now, but I thought I might as well change it while I remember how. It does fit a bit better with my intuitive thoughts about what would be reasonable. I guess anyone who needs a big loss like me, needs to be closer to their goal to be really sure where it should be.
I was looking at the link in Steve’s Must Read thread today. http://weight-loss.fitness.com/topic/10279-must-read.html It was very interesting. I went and upped the “weights” I use in one of my low impact aerobics workouts (already moved on to water bottles from soup packets). I got very brave and went all the way from 400gm in each hand to 600 gm. LOL.
Well it was time to do that anyway now that I’m confident with the movements. Though I’m still below the weight of the despised too light, pink dumbbells, I really noticed the difference. When I first started this workout 2-3 weeks ago, it felt very much like a leg work out and whenever the instructor said something about starting to feel the weight, I didn’t! However today I found that she had picked the exact moments where I did start to feel it! It is an upper body workout after all!!
Breakfast ~ 7:00 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 1:30 20 minutes low impact aerobics. (Burn)
It was great to feel like I’m really doing it properly and getting what I can out of it. From the little bits I’ve been reading it strikes me as being a very appropriate part of my exercise mix right now.
I have a new 1 hour tape that I’m hoping to get to in the next few days too. Aussiefit Cross Train. I had a quick look at it today but the bit of time I had left myself was too short for it.
Lunch 3:30 2 Salada crackers. ~ 100 gm cottage cheese, 1 tomato. 1 coffee with Hilo milk.
Dinner 8:15 160gm crimson snapper pan fried. 2 slices wholemeal bread. Lots of salad veges (not chopped up much) and about 2 tspns light French onion dip. Broccoli, cos lettuce, carrot, 1 baby squash, sugar snap peas, capsicum, celery, cucumber, ½ tomato, 2 black olives, 1 baby squash.
I don’t know that I’ve had squash like that before. It was interesting for a change. It tastes best in very thin slivers.
I didn’t actually feel hungry at dinner time. I was wondering why but now I’ve written this I see it’s because I had lunch so late. It wasn't a big meal though. I am really noticing that I don't usually want to eat as much as I used to - not even as much as I wanted a few weeks ago.
Water: ~2250 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:30 (?)
On plan:104 days. Achieved food target: 87 days. Exercised: 88 days. All goals: 7 days.
My son
who is 13 said to me tonight that he’d noticed things tasting different now he has changed his eating for a while. He’d noticed that some things he used to love now taste overly sweet. I was pretty happy about that. I can’t remember if I said in here that he asked me to stop buying lollies and chocolates for the house and his sister and my husband agreed. We still have icecream and potato chips here but I’m happy about the change.
I didn’t push for it at all. I try to make the children aware of whatever I know about what’s healthy but I haven’t restricted them much – at least only in the sense of how much of things they could have – not what. My limits were too loose to be healthy though and I did let them know that. Anyway, despite having loose limits and an obese mum they are still very average weights. Thank goodness.
My daughter
the irresistible force, is 11. Tomorrow she is getting dinner for my husband and me. She put a letter in our box, with a stamp drawn on it.
To my parents who do everything all
the time and are always there helping.
It’s your time to enjoy a meal.
Time: 7:30-8:00
Date: 16th March
Where: Backroom our house
RSVP: By the 13th March.
Aaargh. How can you say noooooooooooooooooooo?
At first she didn’t even tell me what might be on the menu. She can’t cook. However, I have risked much wrath and a potentially permanent breakdown in our relationship and I think we might get microwaved Lean Cuisine and a salad …. and stuff. She showed me a very nicely typed, vague, menu. She is good at that. She said to me, “See I put this salad on here for you mum and meat, so that you can have some healthy choices.” She has never cooked meat ... and she wants us to be served in a room far from the kitchen….
I was looking at the link in Steve’s Must Read thread today. http://weight-loss.fitness.com/topic/10279-must-read.html It was very interesting. I went and upped the “weights” I use in one of my low impact aerobics workouts (already moved on to water bottles from soup packets). I got very brave and went all the way from 400gm in each hand to 600 gm. LOL.
Well it was time to do that anyway now that I’m confident with the movements. Though I’m still below the weight of the despised too light, pink dumbbells, I really noticed the difference. When I first started this workout 2-3 weeks ago, it felt very much like a leg work out and whenever the instructor said something about starting to feel the weight, I didn’t! However today I found that she had picked the exact moments where I did start to feel it! It is an upper body workout after all!!
Breakfast ~ 7:00 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 1:30 20 minutes low impact aerobics. (Burn)
It was great to feel like I’m really doing it properly and getting what I can out of it. From the little bits I’ve been reading it strikes me as being a very appropriate part of my exercise mix right now.
I have a new 1 hour tape that I’m hoping to get to in the next few days too. Aussiefit Cross Train. I had a quick look at it today but the bit of time I had left myself was too short for it.
Lunch 3:30 2 Salada crackers. ~ 100 gm cottage cheese, 1 tomato. 1 coffee with Hilo milk.
Dinner 8:15 160gm crimson snapper pan fried. 2 slices wholemeal bread. Lots of salad veges (not chopped up much) and about 2 tspns light French onion dip. Broccoli, cos lettuce, carrot, 1 baby squash, sugar snap peas, capsicum, celery, cucumber, ½ tomato, 2 black olives, 1 baby squash.
I don’t know that I’ve had squash like that before. It was interesting for a change. It tastes best in very thin slivers.
I didn’t actually feel hungry at dinner time. I was wondering why but now I’ve written this I see it’s because I had lunch so late. It wasn't a big meal though. I am really noticing that I don't usually want to eat as much as I used to - not even as much as I wanted a few weeks ago.
Water: ~2250 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:30 (?)
On plan:104 days. Achieved food target: 87 days. Exercised: 88 days. All goals: 7 days.
My son
who is 13 said to me tonight that he’d noticed things tasting different now he has changed his eating for a while. He’d noticed that some things he used to love now taste overly sweet. I was pretty happy about that. I can’t remember if I said in here that he asked me to stop buying lollies and chocolates for the house and his sister and my husband agreed. We still have icecream and potato chips here but I’m happy about the change.
I didn’t push for it at all. I try to make the children aware of whatever I know about what’s healthy but I haven’t restricted them much – at least only in the sense of how much of things they could have – not what. My limits were too loose to be healthy though and I did let them know that. Anyway, despite having loose limits and an obese mum they are still very average weights. Thank goodness.
My daughter
the irresistible force, is 11. Tomorrow she is getting dinner for my husband and me. She put a letter in our box, with a stamp drawn on it.
To my parents who do everything all
the time and are always there helping.
It’s your time to enjoy a meal.
Time: 7:30-8:00
Date: 16th March
Where: Backroom our house
RSVP: By the 13th March.
Aaargh. How can you say noooooooooooooooooooo?
At first she didn’t even tell me what might be on the menu. She can’t cook. However, I have risked much wrath and a potentially permanent breakdown in our relationship and I think we might get microwaved Lean Cuisine and a salad …. and stuff. She showed me a very nicely typed, vague, menu. She is good at that. She said to me, “See I put this salad on here for you mum and meat, so that you can have some healthy choices.”
She has never cooked meat ... and she wants us to be served in a room far from the kitchen….
that is so cute... what a great kids..
i'm sure whatver she serves will be delicious
i'm sure whatver she serves will be delicious
felici
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maleficent
They are great kids.
I think I am strong enough now to cope with a "different" night. As long as she doesn't hurt herself, it should be pleasant memory...not sure about "delicious".
TomO
They are not easy - but easier than they have ever been.
We are lucky in that they are both active, sociable, very loving and very expressive of that.
I do enjoy them. Though when I see what I've written about how lovely they are I think perhaps I should enjoy them in a more relaxed way. It's hard for me to ever feel totally relaxed about them - I guess I have my "mum" button on all the time.
When I started here I didn't plan to exercise every day, and didn't. All my early efforts were very mild. Some are, even now, but I have gained so much from exercising that I'm usually keen to find the time.
They are great kids.
I think I am strong enough now to cope with a "different" night. As long as she doesn't hurt herself, it should be pleasant memory...not sure about "delicious".
TomO
They are not easy - but easier than they have ever been.
We are lucky in that they are both active, sociable, very loving and very expressive of that.
I do enjoy them. Though when I see what I've written about how lovely they are I think perhaps I should enjoy them in a more relaxed way. It's hard for me to ever feel totally relaxed about them - I guess I have my "mum" button on all the time.
When I started here I didn't plan to exercise every day, and didn't. All my early efforts were very mild. Some are, even now, but I have gained so much from exercising that I'm usually keen to find the time.
felici
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My little organizer. I keep thinking I have finished all the tasks she's set me, but she is a very busy little person and seems never to run out of them.
I had a great walk today. I finally thought I had time to walk to Carine and back.
I used to have trouble getting my 5.3km (or whatever it was I was going for), or my 1 ½ hours (that was also something I used to try for), by walking at Carine Reserve because it was only 4 km around the edge. I used to try and add bits on (eg double back) but my dog was not keen.
Anyway a little while ago I had a brainwave that instead of driving there, I could walk from here, then walk around and walk home. No back tracking so the dog should be ok. I had the idea that it would take 2-3 hours, so I reckoned it as a BIG DEAL.
And here I am – I finally tried it and I'm home again after 1hour 20 minutes. The up side is that I am wondering how far I could walk in 2-3 hours. Could I get to the beach?
Less than an hour and a half. Ha ha. It was the best walk ever. I had so much fun. Truly this was the best feeling you could get alone. (Yes, best – it lasts soooo long!) By half way the only bit of me that was tired was my face, from the great big grin that had been there the whole way. Perfect weather. The beautiful shapes of the trees outlined everywhere against a perfect blue sky.
It was good that I did get tiredish by the time I got home – so I felt like it was still some good exercise. Then I did some weight training – kind of – because a house I went past on the way home, had a 100% good desk and little filing cabinet out the front that were being given away – just what I needed. So by the time I had manhandled them into my car and then dusted them when I got home, I was quite ready for my shower.
I don’t think my dog would make it to the beach. Poor dog. Today was a bit too long for her. She was huffing all the way home and I had to keep stopping and squirting water in her mouth. I need to start taking two water bottles.
I worked out it was 8.6km (5.3 miles).
Now if I add on going to the beach, I see I can still stay on parks and schools a lot, plus walk through Star Swamp - I only have to add on 4 little quiet blocks next to some houses, and cross one or two busy roads. It's only another 6.9 km - a total of 15.5 km (9.6 miles).
Well actually that's quite a lot! Something to work up to maybe. Though as my son said, "Mum you can't take Nina - she would die...." Dammit. They just don't make dogs like they used to. If it only takes 1hr20 min to do today's walk though, I could possibly fit in a few of those and she might get fitter, and we could add bits on.....
Another good bit about today. Because I thought it would be a big deal, I planned to take some ibuprofen with my breakfast today, but I forgot. So I was already about 3 minutes from home and way past breakfast when I remembered, noticing that one of my knees was aching a bit. After 5 minutes both were aching, yet I thought maybe it would be better to have aching knees than a pain in my tummy anyway and kept going. Yet, after another 15 minutes all I had was a couple of muscles in my thighs hurting a bit - I couldn't feel my knees at all. It all seems good to me.
I had a great walk today. I finally thought I had time to walk to Carine and back.
I used to have trouble getting my 5.3km (or whatever it was I was going for), or my 1 ½ hours (that was also something I used to try for), by walking at Carine Reserve because it was only 4 km around the edge. I used to try and add bits on (eg double back) but my dog was not keen.
Anyway a little while ago I had a brainwave that instead of driving there, I could walk from here, then walk around and walk home. No back tracking so the dog should be ok. I had the idea that it would take 2-3 hours, so I reckoned it as a BIG DEAL.
And here I am – I finally tried it and I'm home again after 1hour 20 minutes. The up side is that I am wondering how far I could walk in 2-3 hours. Could I get to the beach?
Less than an hour and a half. Ha ha. It was the best walk ever. I had so much fun. Truly this was the best feeling you could get alone. (Yes, best – it lasts soooo long!) By half way the only bit of me that was tired was my face, from the great big grin that had been there the whole way. Perfect weather. The beautiful shapes of the trees outlined everywhere against a perfect blue sky.
It was good that I did get tiredish by the time I got home – so I felt like it was still some good exercise. Then I did some weight training – kind of – because a house I went past on the way home, had a 100% good desk and little filing cabinet out the front that were being given away – just what I needed. So by the time I had manhandled them into my car and then dusted them when I got home, I was quite ready for my shower.
I don’t think my dog would make it to the beach. Poor dog. Today was a bit too long for her. She was huffing all the way home and I had to keep stopping and squirting water in her mouth. I need to start taking two water bottles.
I worked out it was 8.6km (5.3 miles).
Now if I add on going to the beach, I see I can still stay on parks and schools a lot, plus walk through Star Swamp - I only have to add on 4 little quiet blocks next to some houses, and cross one or two busy roads. It's only another 6.9 km - a total of 15.5 km (9.6 miles).
Well actually that's quite a lot! Something to work up to maybe. Though as my son said, "Mum you can't take Nina - she would die...." Dammit. They just don't make dogs like they used to. If it only takes 1hr20 min to do today's walk though, I could possibly fit in a few of those and she might get fitter, and we could add bits on.....
Another good bit about today. Because I thought it would be a big deal, I planned to take some ibuprofen with my breakfast today, but I forgot. So I was already about 3 minutes from home and way past breakfast when I remembered, noticing that one of my knees was aching a bit. After 5 minutes both were aching, yet I thought maybe it would be better to have aching knees than a pain in my tummy anyway and kept going. Yet, after another 15 minutes all I had was a couple of muscles in my thighs hurting a bit - I couldn't feel my knees at all.
It all seems good to me.
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Breakfast ~ 7:00 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 10:30 1 hr 20 minute walk. Home to Carine and back.
Lunch 3:30 2 Salada crackers. ~ 100 gm cottage cheese, 1 tomato. 1 coffee with Hilo milk.
Dinner 7:30 1 McDonalds Cheeseburger. (Like you get in a happy meal). Half of one nice undressed salad. (From one of the fast food places – but it was ok – spinach, lettuce, red cabbage, cherry tomatoes, a little grated carrot.) One WeightWatchers Fruit Slice biscuit. Coffee with milk.
The girl did a great job on dinner.
She made a nice looking little table on the back patio so we were still near the children. John and I had both dressed up a bit and enjoyed the chance to relax and be waited on and talk across the table in the evening light. (He had some take away roast chicken). Anyway, except for the buns not being wholemeal and feeling obliged to eat the (reasonably healthy, and small) biscuit, the food fitted quite well with what I normally eat.
(And I had relaxed first, and stayed relaxed.)
Water: ~2250 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:30 (?)
On plan:105 days. Achieved food target: 87 days. Exercised: 89 days. All goals: 7 days.
Exercise 10:30 1 hr 20 minute walk. Home to Carine and back.
Lunch 3:30 2 Salada crackers. ~ 100 gm cottage cheese, 1 tomato. 1 coffee with Hilo milk.
Dinner 7:30 1 McDonalds Cheeseburger. (Like you get in a happy meal). Half of one nice undressed salad. (From one of the fast food places – but it was ok – spinach, lettuce, red cabbage, cherry tomatoes, a little grated carrot.) One WeightWatchers Fruit Slice biscuit. Coffee with milk.
The girl did a great job on dinner.
She made a nice looking little table on the back patio so we were still near the children. John and I had both dressed up a bit and enjoyed the chance to relax and be waited on and talk across the table in the evening light. (He had some take away roast chicken). Anyway, except for the buns not being wholemeal and feeling obliged to eat the (reasonably healthy, and small) biscuit, the food fitted quite well with what I normally eat.
(And I had relaxed first, and stayed relaxed.
)Water: ~2250 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:30 (?)
On plan:105 days. Achieved food target: 87 days. Exercised: 89 days. All goals: 7 days.