pinkydolly
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How's yr day going gal? Hope yr dog is good today....
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felici
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If I was you I would want something more specific. For example "A dog that will possibly enhance my walking experience and definitely not destroy it!!" Other possibilities could include: A dog that does not shed white hair all over my carefully chosen dark clothes, and black hair all over my cream carpet. A dog that does not look me square in the eye after I tell her to stay then run across the road to chase cats or say hello to her mates. A dog that will not bury bones in my ferns. A dog that will never chew up my orthotics thus making me wait in great discomfort for 2 months while replacements are created.
On the other hand....
I might never have managed to get over the hump of getting started walking at all, without her - always ready to walk at my convenience and always reminding me of my obligation.
Thanks Britta. It's lovely to see you.Hey Felici! I just wanted to come by and say hi! I hope you are doing great
I'm just fine and I hope you're really enjoying your week away. A good day, thank you.How's yr day going gal? Hope yr dog is good today....
The dog...6/10. She was very well behaved at first, and very well behaved again after I put the lead on and kept it short. Minus 4 points for the cat ...
It would be lower than -4 but: a) she didn't look at me first this time, b) she at least stayed on the same side of the road, and c) she had the grace to look abashed afterwards.
Hi Tom. I am keeping my fingers crossed that the bug is gone!
I was happy to see the dog that's for sure. She wasn't actually lost in our neighbourhood. I had stopped at a big reserve a few miles away. The man who brought her home did us a great kindness.
Wednesday
Breakfast 9:30 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine (70% no fat Proactive) and plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Lunch: 12:30 2 slices wholemeal toast, tin of tuna with onion and sundried tomato. 1 small apple. Green tea.
Snack: 3:15 4 dates.
Dinner 7:45 100 gm tinned red salmon, snow pea sprouts, carrot, slice capsicum. Egg plant lasagne: 1/3 egg plant, 10-15 gm low fat hard cheese, mushrooms, tinned tomatoes, EVO oil, parsley. Microwaved red cabbage. Corn cob.
Diet apricot yoghurt.
Green tea.
Exercise: 50 minutes, local walk.
now that's a good puppy
felici
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now that's a good puppy
True. She gets 11/10 for that one. I guess if I had been more fearful of Nina disappearing I would have been more careful of her. As she is back I have stressed her wickedness, but at the time I had no doubt who was ultimately responsible! She has added a lot of head shaking to my walking that's for sure but often that's in amusement. She really doesn't get it if I walk somewhere she hasn't expected. Normally I walk rough circles and loops. She does get that, but round and round the same sports oval makes her lay down, and turning around and walking in the opposite direction leaves her totally nonplussed. She just stands and stares at me with her feet firmly planted. In the summer I thought it was because she was sick of walking (which has happened), and because it was too hot (which has happened), but today I took her early in the day, it was still chilly and we had only been walking 5 minutes when I tried the turn around (deliberately so as to avoid her previous issues), and still I got the feet planted and the amazed stare.
Thursday
Breakfast 7:30 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine (70% no fat Proactive) and plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Lunch: 12:30 Toasted sandwich: 2 slices wholemeal toast, 2 slices double smoked ham, ~ 15 gm low fat hard cheese, tomato, olives. 1 tub diet apricot yoghurt. 1 C coffee with milk.
Snack: 3:15 Small apple.
6:00 ~ 8 almonds and 4 cashews.
Dinner 7:25 120 gm saddlebacked snapper, lightly dusted with flour, fried in a little EVO oil, lime juice, 1 slice fresh wholemeal bread. Chopped salad with balsimic vinegar: baby spinach, snow pea sprouts, cucumber, mushroom, tomato, olives. With french onion dip: carrot, celery.
3 dates.
Exercise: 9:00 1 hour, Carine.
I was surprised at how tired the walk made me. I thought I must have been walking longer than that because I noticed my thighs tiring before I finished. I wasn't walking fast - there was no way I felt like speeding up, though I've often wanted to do in the past once I was warmed up. I'm not sure what was going on there – I walked 40 minutes without noticing it at all yesterday and it's it's not yet 3 weeks since I spent ½ a day hiking in the hills.
your dinner sounds heavenly -
I notice a difference in my thighs depending on the speed I walk - if I slow down some or speed up some from my normal slowish speed - then I feel it more.. especially if i I ave a lot of stops in my walk then I really notice it...
I notice a difference in my thighs depending on the speed I walk - if I slow down some or speed up some from my normal slowish speed - then I feel it more.. especially if i I ave a lot of stops in my walk then I really notice it...
felici
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Mmm. It was a nice dinner.
Thanks for the info about walking at a different speed mal. It's quite possible that I was slower than I have been and I was stopping a lot more often, because I had Nina back at the spot where I lost her last week and I was being a lot more careful to make sure didn't get separated from me.
Thanks for the info about walking at a different speed mal. It's quite possible that I was slower than I have been and I was stopping a lot more often, because I had Nina back at the spot where I lost her last week and I was being a lot more careful to make sure didn't get separated from me.
Cannon 2006
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That dinner does sound great. I got a kick out of you describing walking with Nina I'm glad you got her back.
I'm glad you got her back.
JeremyRice
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yum!
sounds like a good plan!
sounds like a good plan!
cinderelly
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Thanx for droppin my diary so regularly and beign there whenI needed you the most I need to start repaying the favour - hopefully now with a clean house I can start having a bit more comp time...like you my time has been strapped - just trying to get to a few a day...
I need to start repaying the favour - hopefully now with a clean house I can start having a bit more comp time...like you my time has been strapped - just trying to get to a few a day...
felici
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Friday
Breakfast 7:30 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine (70% no fat Proactive) and plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Midmorning: 1 C coffee with milk.
Lunch: 12:30 Toasted sandwich: 2 slices wholemeal toast, 2 slices double smoked ham, ~ 15 gm low fat hard cheese, tomato. 1 medium pear. 1 C coffee with milk.
Snack: 3:15 2 Nacho cheese flavour “Thin Corn Cakes” (29 cals each) Small apple. 1 C coffee with milk.
Dinner 8:00pm 300 gm grilled fillet steak with mushroom sauce (rather lacking in mushrooms and tasting like a Diane sauce). ½ C chapped potatoes. (I think that was the word for an alterntive to chips/fries that was not sufficiently dissimilar for my liking). Garden salad: lettuce and such, cucumber, tomato, beetroot threads, capsicum. Creamy looking sauce, that I couldn't dodge 100%. 1 glass red wine.
Midevening: ~ 100 ml red wine.
I went out to a restaurant with 4 girlfriends – highly unusual for me and very enjoyable. I didn't intend to stay on my usual plan – but found my preferences now are such that it took a little bit of chatting to work out how to get what I wanted – and I still mucked that up a bit, anyway. I was amazed that the steak would be 300 gms and without seeing it, said that I wouldn't be able to eat it because it would make me feel overfull. Nup. I could. It didn't. Also, as I'm lacking practice, I didn't even think to ask them about dressing on the salad.
I weighed myself today and my weight hasn't changed since I weighed in on Monday. I'm fine with that though because Monday's was such a drop that I figured it was a low moment, and I'm glad just to have maintained it.
Breakfast 7:30 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine (70% no fat Proactive) and plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Midmorning: 1 C coffee with milk.
Lunch: 12:30 Toasted sandwich: 2 slices wholemeal toast, 2 slices double smoked ham, ~ 15 gm low fat hard cheese, tomato. 1 medium pear. 1 C coffee with milk.
Snack: 3:15 2 Nacho cheese flavour “Thin Corn Cakes” (29 cals each) Small apple. 1 C coffee with milk.
Dinner 8:00pm 300 gm grilled fillet steak with mushroom sauce (rather lacking in mushrooms and tasting like a Diane sauce). ½ C chapped potatoes. (I think that was the word for an alterntive to chips/fries that was not sufficiently dissimilar for my liking). Garden salad: lettuce and such, cucumber, tomato, beetroot threads, capsicum. Creamy looking sauce, that I couldn't dodge 100%. 1 glass red wine.
Midevening: ~ 100 ml red wine.
I went out to a restaurant with 4 girlfriends – highly unusual for me and very enjoyable. I didn't intend to stay on my usual plan – but found my preferences now are such that it took a little bit of chatting to work out how to get what I wanted – and I still mucked that up a bit, anyway. I was amazed that the steak would be 300 gms and without seeing it, said that I wouldn't be able to eat it because it would make me feel overfull. Nup. I could. It didn't. Also, as I'm lacking practice, I didn't even think to ask them about dressing on the salad.
I weighed myself today and my weight hasn't changed since I weighed in on Monday. I'm fine with that though because Monday's was such a drop that I figured it was a low moment, and I'm glad just to have maintained it.
felici
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Thanks Cannon. Yes, on balance, I'm glad to have her around.That dinner does sound great. I got a kick out of you describing walking with Nina
Hi Jeremy!
I enjoy eating on my plan and generally don't feel like it's hard to manage. It sort of has the calculations built in before I start so I usually just follow the guidelines and it seems to work out fairly well overall. I've mucked around with it a bit but not much and as it only excludes foods that I want to make rare in my diet, I feel that I have masses of options that easily fit in there.Thanx for droppin my diary so regularly and beign there whenI needed you the most
If you got your house clean while the computer was calling you I admire your discipline!!
I am going to need to develop some to keep me working on my prep for school while I'd rather be chatting!!Thanks Tom. I'm glad too - but actually didn't manage it either today or yesterday because the rain was bucketing down in the bits of day time I had available. I didn't replace it with anything else because I'm nursing my ankles a little bit at the moment. Tomorrow should be better because there are always fewer things sitting there demanding their specific time slot on a Sunday!!
Saturday
Breakfast 7:30 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine (70% no fat Proactive) and plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Lunch: 12:30 Toasted sandwich: 2 slices wholemeal toast, 2 slices double smoked ham, ~ 15 gm low fat hard cheese, mushroom, olives, tomato. 1 C coffee with milk.
Snack: 4:30 25 gm Nobby's beef jerky (73 cal). 1 tub diet apricot yoghurt. I haven't had jerky before. I bought 3 kinds. This was my favourite so far. Yummy. It struck me as a potentially handy quick fix to keep around.
Dinner: 6:15 (Husband cooked). Stirfry: Prawns, squid, fish (~ 150 gm?), bamboo shoots, zucchini, peas. EVO oil, coconut milk. 1 serve brown rice vermicelli. 6 dates. Green tea.
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felici
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Sunday
Breakfast 7:30 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine (70% no fat Proactive) and plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Lunch: 12:30 Toasted sandwich: 2 slices wholemeal toast, 2 slices double smoked ham, ~ looow fat cheese spread (97% free), mushroom, olives, tomato. 1 tub diet apricot yoghurt. 1 C coffee with milk.
I'm going back to the other cheese! 32 cal for 20.5 gm instead of 85 cal for 25 gm but that stuff I had today was just not right. I would rather just have a space in my sandwich!!
Snack: 4:30 3 tiny mandarins, 1 C coffee with milk.
Dinner: 1 ½ slices wholemeal toast with 100 gm tin of light tuna with onion and oven dried tomato. (Yum I love that!) Sugar snap peas, carrot, broccoli, cucumber, zucchini, light French onion dip. 5 fresh dates. Green tea.
I've only just finished those dates. For healthy food at 20 calories each they just taste soooo decadent.
Exercise: 1/2 hour walk in the bush at Warwick with my husband and dog. Though short it was a great mental/spiritual boost. It is so nice to step into the scrub after the rain. It feels like instant relaxation to me. I saw my first pretty orchid for the year - a tiny bluebeard (there have been others - greenhoods - but they are prolific and just an interesting shape not pretty). We saw a bobtail goanna which John and I thought was nice, Nina waved her tail at it, then it hissed at her and she jumped on its head while it had its tongue poked out! Poor lizard, I bet it's tongue hurt! We were pretty lucky, arriving while the sun was still out and though rained on enough to get wet, the sun was still shining at that stage. Back to a deluge 5 minutes after we got in!!
I was thinking about the beef jerky that I had yesterday that it has the potential to be a better instant, take-anywhere fill in for protein than almonds if I can't get a proper meal. I still plan to eat some nuts because I've heard so much good about them, but I used to think they would be as good a protein as anything else and now I know that's not so.
I didn't try to make a 100% comparison but looking quickly I see some rough stats are:
Beef jerky: 25 gm – little pack – 71 cal, 13.4 gm protein, total fat < 1 gm, saturated fat < 1 gm, sodium, 527 mg, apparently no fibre.
Almonds : 14 gm - 11.5 nuts – 84 cal, 6 gm protein, total fat 14.4 gm, saturated fat 1.1 gm. Sodium .3 mg, fibre 3.3 gm.
It would be harder for me to od on jerky cause it's so hard to chew, and comes in those mini portion packs. It does cost more than almonds and has a lot more salt and no fibre. My days don't usually have much processed food or added salt though and there's always lots of fibre. The jerky's an interesting alternative.
I suppose there are little boxes of drinks with protein in them too, though I like chewing things!!
Chat, chat, chat.... Can you tell I am putting off doing my lesson prep? Which always feels pretty much the same as study to me. I like it once I'm started but I do everything else first. My study is the tidiest it has been for 12 months...
Breakfast 7:30 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine (70% no fat Proactive) and plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Lunch: 12:30 Toasted sandwich: 2 slices wholemeal toast, 2 slices double smoked ham, ~ looow fat cheese spread (97% free), mushroom, olives, tomato. 1 tub diet apricot yoghurt. 1 C coffee with milk.
I'm going back to the other cheese! 32 cal for 20.5 gm instead of 85 cal for 25 gm but that stuff I had today was just not right. I would rather just have a space in my sandwich!!
Snack: 4:30 3 tiny mandarins, 1 C coffee with milk.
Dinner: 1 ½ slices wholemeal toast with 100 gm tin of light tuna with onion and oven dried tomato. (Yum I love that!) Sugar snap peas, carrot, broccoli, cucumber, zucchini, light French onion dip. 5 fresh dates. Green tea.
I've only just finished those dates. For healthy food at 20 calories each they just taste soooo decadent.
Exercise: 1/2 hour walk in the bush at Warwick with my husband and dog. Though short it was a great mental/spiritual boost. It is so nice to step into the scrub after the rain. It feels like instant relaxation to me. I saw my first pretty orchid for the year - a tiny bluebeard (there have been others - greenhoods - but they are prolific and just an interesting shape not pretty). We saw a bobtail goanna which John and I thought was nice, Nina waved her tail at it, then it hissed at her and she jumped on its head while it had its tongue poked out! Poor lizard, I bet it's tongue hurt! We were pretty lucky, arriving while the sun was still out and though rained on enough to get wet, the sun was still shining at that stage. Back to a deluge 5 minutes after we got in!!
I was thinking about the beef jerky that I had yesterday that it has the potential to be a better instant, take-anywhere fill in for protein than almonds if I can't get a proper meal. I still plan to eat some nuts because I've heard so much good about them, but I used to think they would be as good a protein as anything else and now I know that's not so.
I didn't try to make a 100% comparison but looking quickly I see some rough stats are:
Beef jerky: 25 gm – little pack – 71 cal, 13.4 gm protein, total fat < 1 gm, saturated fat < 1 gm, sodium, 527 mg, apparently no fibre.
Almonds : 14 gm - 11.5 nuts – 84 cal, 6 gm protein, total fat 14.4 gm, saturated fat 1.1 gm. Sodium .3 mg, fibre 3.3 gm.
It would be harder for me to od on jerky cause it's so hard to chew, and comes in those mini portion packs. It does cost more than almonds and has a lot more salt and no fibre. My days don't usually have much processed food or added salt though and there's always lots of fibre. The jerky's an interesting alternative.
I suppose there are little boxes of drinks with protein in them too, though I like chewing things!!
Chat, chat, chat.... Can you tell I am putting off doing my lesson prep? Which always feels pretty much the same as study to me. I like it once I'm started but I do everything else first. My study is the tidiest it has been for 12 months...
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cinderelly
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Oh I lost my beef jerky quote - I love jerky - it is a fast easy prtien but it has a fair amount of sodium as well - however I love it!!!
As far as your chat chat chat - doing this is more fun - ha ha ha...
be_gone_soon
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Hey! How ya doing? Hope you had a great weekend!!Hope to be in here more for the next little bit at least!!
Cannon 2006
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Yeah the thing with jerky is the sodium. I'm actually about a mile from a jerky store. I've always wanted to go in,b ut never think of it when I'm nearby.
I think that's the plus side to it - plus your mouth gets a good workout from the chewing - makes my jaw tired just thinking about it