This is the time

Cannon and Venice girl - Thank you for your comments.

It was a bit hard contemplating putting the pics up because I am a lot less comfortable seeing the before pic now than I was at the time. It's certainly been well worth any effort it took, for me to get my change to this stage. I expected I would need to be much further along before I would feel as much better as I do now. I expect that's because I've been exercising a lot more than I was at the last time I weighed this much.

I constantly notice being able to do things I couldn't manage before. Some of them are things I have been able to do for a little while now, but I'm not used to them yet! I love being able to just sit in the car to drive it, and swing my legs around and stand up when I want to get out. (Instead of halling my legs into position and mentally rehearsing before jerking or dragging myself effortfully to a new position). I love being able to just stand up from a chair without thinking about it, being able to get up off the floor without clearing a 4 foot space in front of me. I love being able to just keep going on whatever physical task I've started without wishing for a rest break. I love the way that most of the time I'm not getting frequent twinges in most of my joints every time I try to use them. I really like being able to tie my shoelaces without feeling like I'm going to burst something in my chest. I like being able to step up on a stool to reach something without feeling like it's an effort. I like cleaning something in my house that I haven't got to for a while and realizing that it takes me about a third the time and a fifth the effort that it did last time.

Strangely enough I didn't think much about achieving any of these things when I first started trying to lose weight. I had vague thoughts about making things easier for my joints, but that was about it. I blamed some things on my age - other people I knew were complaining about the same things. I still have dodgy knees and ankles, but I am so pleased to be able to move around so much more easily than I could.
 
hey felici i love the pics and you look awesome :D thank you for your support in my diary, i really appreciate it :)

i completely understand what you're saying here. i feel like i wrote that post cause i'm experiencing the exact same things. i noticed i clean more quickly i walk faster, my posture is soooo much better and i just feel younger.
if we feel like this now..then just imagine how we will feel when we reach our goals...its going to be some fireworks i tell ya
 
Tis' so true how the mobility, effort and ease of normal task put a :) on our faces when we reach that point on our journey. I just add it to the long list of reasons to never get obese again.

Nice reflection Kerry ;)
 
Venice girl said:
Your words are great. You deserve the best.
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Thank you. I feel I was very fortunate to eventually get the information that would work for me and the understanding that it was a way I could manage.

lena410 said:
hey felici i love the pics and you look awesome :D thank you for your support in my diary, i really appreciate it :)

i completely understand what you're saying here. i feel like i wrote that post cause i'm experiencing the exact same things. i noticed i clean more quickly i walk faster, my posture is soooo much better and i just feel younger.
if we feel like this now..then just imagine how we will feel when we reach our goals...its going to be some fireworks i tell ya
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It's always great to know that someone else gets what I say! Feeling like you wrote it is exceptionally cool!

I have heard people talk about having more energy but I really hadn't any idea what that might mean when it came to details. I did just know that my stomach was in the way when I was trying to tie my laces! :)

I have a long way to go so it is an exciting thought to imagine this process continuing to give us further gifts! (Will that really happen? I feel very blessed already. Well I am up for it! :) )

T2 Trucker said:
Tis' so true how the mobility, effort and ease of normal task put a :) on our faces when we reach that point on our journey. I just add it to the long list of reasons to never get obese again.

Nice reflection Kerry ;)
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Yes. I just keep thinking about how it felt and how I couldn't stand to feel like that again. :) Thanks Randy.

be_gone_soon said:
Just popping in to say Hi. I nee to get to the before & after thread to see what you've got posted!!:D
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Hi Mechelle! I hope you're feeling more like happy Mechelle now! Or if not that you will be really soon. :)
 
Breakfast 9:00 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and marmalade. Boiled egg.1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo. (Oops - didn't get around to the weet-bix!)

Lunch: 1:00 2 slices wholemeal bread . 100 gm low fat cottage cheese.
V8 vege juice. 3:00 Another V8 vege juice as I forgot I'd drunk the first one!

Dinner: 8:30 Friday night meal.

Grilled marinated prawns (5 king prawns, marinated in EVO oil, fresh garlic, chilli, ginger, and coriander, garam marsala, paprika and turmeric).
Sticky chicken (2 skinless chicken thighs, marinated in EVO oil, soy sauce, sweet chilli sauce, honey, garlic, 5 spice. Seared and baked).
Lettuce, tomato, cucumber, pot set yoghurt (~ 1 tbspn). Roasted sweet potato, sliced, with cumin (~ 1/2 C). Diced watermelon with spring onion (~ 1/2 C). Diced Granny Smith apple with curry powder (~ 1/2 C).

It did taste nice. A bit more oil than I normally have in one meal - probably about 2 tbspns all up. My family was rapt.

Exercise:

5:15 Local walk. 3.1 miles.
 
Wow, lots of action in this here diary...I had to go back a few pages to catch up. Your eating looks great oh, Dominatrix of the Weetbix.

I hear you on noticing the changes. One night, soaking in the tub, I leaned forward to turn off the tap, and noticed my gut wasn't in the way. Another nice thing is when I'm laying in bed, my gut no longer lays beside me. Ah. all these little milestones. tee hee
 
I love being able to just sit in the car to drive it, and swing my legs around and stand up when I want to get out. (Instead of halling my legs into position and mentally rehearsing before jerking or dragging myself effortfully to a new position). I love being able to just stand up from a chair without thinking about it, being able to get up off the floor without clearing a 4 foot space in front of me. I love being able to just keep going on whatever physical task I've started without wishing for a rest break. I love the way that most of the time I'm not getting frequent twinges in most of my joints every time I try to use them. I really like being able to tie my shoelaces without feeling like I'm going to burst something in my chest. I like being able to step up on a stool to reach something without feeling like it's an effort. I like cleaning something in my house that I haven't got to for a while and realizing that it takes me about a third the time and a fifth the effort that it did last time.
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I LOVE this!

It is amazing how the acts of so many little things can have such a huge impact on our lives.

Yay for you for recognizing how far you've come and how much you've achieved!
 
WOW!! the weet- bix temptess had none today?? the gods will be very disappointed. lol. j/k

Your dinner sounds delicious. when are you inviting me over??
 
Cannon 2006 said:
Hey Felici, I know what you mean. Its the little things that I can do now easier than before that excite me the most.
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That is exactly how I feel right now. (I am also quietly pleased to be moving away from the scary diseases instead of towards them! )

2Skinny said:
Wow, lots of action in this here diary...I had to go back a few pages to catch up. Your eating looks great oh, Dominatrix of the Weetbix.

I hear you on noticing the changes. One night, soaking in the tub, I leaned forward to turn off the tap, and noticed my gut wasn't in the way. Another nice thing is when I'm laying in bed, my gut no longer lays beside me. Ah. all these little milestones. tee hee
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Yes! And my gut is out of the way of my steering wheel! :D

M2M said:
I LOVE this!

It is amazing how the acts of so many little things can have such a huge impact on our lives.

Yay for you for recognizing how far you've come and how much you've achieved!
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Yay for you - for helping me get this far!! :)

bmohearn said:
WOW!! the weet- bix temptess had none today?? the gods will be very disappointed. lol. j/k

Your dinner sounds delicious. when are you inviting me over??
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Do you think I should pour a libation of soya milk? Maybe burn a Weet bix collector's card and scatter the ashes over my next serve of diced peaches as a penance? :confused:

You are welcome - any time you're in the area, bm! :)
 
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Breakfast 8:30 2 weetbix, 1/3 C diced peaches, 1 C low fat soy milk. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and marmalade. Boiled egg.1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.

Lunch: 2:00 2 slices wholemeal bread . 100 gm low fat cottage cheese.
V8 vege juice.

Dinner: 6:30 My husband cooked. :)

Osso bucco and rissoto. (rice, parmesan, wine. Veal shin, vegetable sauce (? tomato, celery, onion, parsley?).

Snack: 11:00 3 fresh dates. Big handful of sugar snap peas and 2 mushrooms. 3/4 glass low fat soya milk.

Exercise:

3:00 Gardening. 2 hours. Repotting and hauling potting mix and hanging baskets around. I wanted this to count towards some upper body work out. It really didn't. Not enough to do and too nicely sociable rather than intense. Hence:

7:45 Jogging on trampoline with weights (1 kg?) + another couple of things, for an hour!! That worked! :D I bet I will pay for that tomorrow! :) I want to get used to having tight slightly sore arms though. I want them firmer and slimmer and stronger.

The people behind our house were having a party so provided the music. Techno? Not what I would choose but it helped. :) The hour was 5 minutes no weights warm up. Jogging plus movements I remember from my aerobic DVD - biceps curls, triceps extensions, punching etc. plus things I made up but tried to take some care with. I did one patch with squats instead of jogging. I tried to also give myself a patch of trying for maximum speed for a while, but it really didn't feel like it was changing anything much. Also 3 times I got off and did sets of 20 knee push ups,10 triceps knee pushups, 10 taking alternate arms away. 2 sets of two full pushups - just kidding, moved my elbows 1 1/2 inches each time. 5 minutes cool down without weights.

Skipping: 100 double jumps. I won't do single jumps again until I figure out a way to skip that doesn't involve bouncing on bricks. That seems to be a bit more than my body is ready for. My son can skip on the trampoline. :D I did try, but I think the frustration factor would outweight the benefit there! :D I have other thoughts though.


I almost forgot: I am down to 79.6 kgs (175 lb). That is down 1.2 kg (2.6 lb) since last week. Over the last 6 years this was the lowest weight I managed. It was about 4 years ago I think, and last time I was at this weight I was starting to get frustrated at a slowing weight loss, not losing weight and trying odd things that landed me back on the route to gaining! Needless to say I was NOT exercising. I feel very differently this time.
 
Good Morning Felici :)

Congratulations on hitting 175!!! That's fantastic :)

Now, I have to ask - what is a double jumps vs single jumps?
 
Breakfast 8:30 1 weetbix, 1/6 C diced peaches, 1/2 C low fat soy milk. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and marmalade. Boiled egg.1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Rush rush - didn't finish.

Lunch: 2:00 2 slices wholemeal bread . 80 gm low fat cottage cheese. A little chicken and smear of low fat mayonnaise. Tomato.
Carrot, capsicum, sugar snap peas, mushroom. A little low fat french onion dip. ~ 1/2 C black grapes, rockmelon.

Snack 4:00 10 almonds. 1/2 Salada cracker.

Dinner: 6:15 My husband cooked. :)

~ Chicken parmigiana. 1 chicken thigh, cheese, bacon. 1 roast potato, roast carrot, roast broccoli.

Snack:
9:00 capsicum, sugar snap peas, mushroom
10:30 Black grapes

Exercise:

Today I went with a group of girls and mums to an amusement park. I was over organizing it before I had even started, but the day turned out to be great fun. No stress.

I kept remembering the first time I went there 5 years ago when I was just recovering from being sick most of the previous year, though not consciously feeling heaps worse than usual. Today couldn't have been more different.

I went on four different water slides. One of them 3 times. (A bit of a climb to each). I got thunderstormed off in the end. After it started raining it was not cold and the thunder died off. The girl and I had been waiting for a pedal on the skyrail, so we went anyway, in the rain. I was soooo chuffed. I remember previously thinking that I couldn't bear to finish on that ride. It was so tiring, it just hurt. Afterwards I felt like it had made the whole of the rest of the day too effortful. Today I raced around as fast as I could, trying to catch the 50 metre head start the girls had - and I caught them. It was fun, not hard. I went on the chair lift, and instead of waiting it to finish so that I didn't have to feel the discomfort of feeling a little nervous the whole time, I just felt happy and peaceful and enjoyed the view. :) (edit: It helped that the girls were all up for all the rides so I did NOT have to go on any creepy, stomach churning, joint jangling stuff! :D)

So I got a bit of exercise in - plus the mum's and I talked food and exercise! ("Shapes" crackers - a box that 2 kids will polish off after school, has as many carbs as 12 slices of bread and though "baked not fried" has 46% fat!) I got some extra ideas for my arm stretches and exercise too.

Also, 5:20: 3 mile walk. I had to cut it a bit short to be back for the meal, though I wasn't really ready to eat at that time.
 
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M2M

When I was little I learned to skip so that you jump over the rope, then do another little bounce before it comes around again. That I am calling a double jump.

When I see people training hard with a rope I see them just jump it, whizz the rope around and jump again. I'm calling that a single jump.

I quite liked the feel of doing the single jumps, but near the end I got a ping in one foot, and the next night when I tried to start with them it instantly just hurt in the same place. It just feels like there's a little more impact in the single jumps to me. I need to sort out a surface with a little more give I think. I still think it's amazing exercise - almost zero equipment and plenty of room for variety and intensity.
 
OK - that makes sense - I do the single jump then simply because it's faster and I want to get them over with as quickly as possible ;)
 
LOL! It could be it!
Granted, it stands to reason that the double jump skips would be harder because you're doing twice as many jumps!
 
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