This is the time

Morning Feli!! I always love reading about your ventures and walking, you have so much to look at while your out and about, that makes walking so much nicer. I was also happy to read your last several food items, as I always forget about making hard boiled eggs and bringing them to work with me, they are so good for you and I love them, so thanks for posting all your food and keeping me in tack! I hope your day is a great one! And I can't wait to hear about your next long walk. Love the pics, keep them coming!
~hugs~
Kim
 
TomO said:
Hi Felici. Sounds like a great walk you had. Those are some beautiful orchids! I guess your weekend is pretty much over, eh? Hope you had a great one.
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It was great, thanks. Very thoroughly over now...

cinderelly said:
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...
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After a certain point, planning for school, or studying, both become totally engrossing for me. I don't think putting that off is just laziness (though that sure comes into it!). It's like wanting to be prepared - making space. However I have to agree that chatting is more fun!! :)

be_gone_soon said:
Hey! How ya doing? Hope you had a great weekend!!Hope to be in here more for the next little bit at least!!:)
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Hi! I like the sound of that. I will have to check out your thread in the morning and find out where you are up to - where you are living, perhaps!! :)

Cannon 2006 said:
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.
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As sodium hasn't been an issue for me I have tended to ignore it, but the amount in the jerky sure does sound high!!

maleficent said:
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 :D
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Absolutely!! It's good to have a tired jaw I reckon!

Miss Ladybug said:
Morning Feli!! I always love reading about your ventures and walking, you have so much to look at while your out and about, that makes walking so much nicer. I was also happy to read your last several food items, as I always forget about making hard boiled eggs and bringing them to work with me, they are so good for you and I love them, so thanks for posting all your food and keeping me in tack! I hope your day is a great one! And I can't wait to hear about your next long walk. Love the pics, keep them coming!
~hugs~
Kim
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Thanks, Kim!! I really appreciate all the plusses and excitement you bring with your posts.

cinderelly said:
Just droppin in to say HEY :):):)!!!
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Hey yourself!! :) I hope things are going well with you. I am not looking around tonight. Hopefully in the morning I will be better informed! :)

Monday

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. 2 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.

Snack 10:30 Apple. Coffee with milk.

Lunch: 12:30 Toasted sandwich. 2 slices wholemeal bread, hard lite cheese, ham, tomato. Black tea.

Snack 3:30 12 almonds.

Snack 5:00 Diet apricot yoghurt.

Dinner: Spaghetti bolognese. 1 c spaghetti, 120 gm lean beef mince, onion, scrap of ham, tinned tomatoes, carrot, capsicum, mushrooms. Salad with dip.


Tuesday

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. 2 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.

Snack 10:30 Pear. ½ rice/corn thin. Black coffee.

Lunch: 12:30 Leftover spaghetti bol. 8 Almonds. Small apple. Black coffee.

Dinner: Sugar snap peas, snow peas, capsicum, carrot.
125 gm grilled lean lamb legsteaks. 11O gm microwaved potato. Microwaved carrots, broccoli, red cabbage. Instant gravy.

Snack: 1 tub diet apricot yoghurt.

No milk at work and I forgot to take it again today – but no way was I doing without the coffee today! Maybe this is the time I make the transition to no milk coffee!

I am pretty tired from the transition to working as a full-time teacher. Thank goodness it's just temporary. I would feel scared if I was expecting to keep this up indefinitely and with more complications. Actually, it's great to have the chance to be the one in ongoing control of the room without starting from scratch, and without all the massive accompaniments that go with the beginning of the year. I am really reaping the benefits of the usual teacher's work to be able to totally focus on the children's learning activities in the way that I feel personally comfortable with, and in a way that I've never felt I had the opportunity to do in previous classes. Tired is not an adequate word though. I am physically aching most of the time. I need to better manage the way I bend over in the classroom I think. I am totally engrossed in the work in a way I have not been while doing relief for the last 3 years and I like that despite the fact that I have no space for anything else just now.

It is busy here. My husband's car has developed major engine problems – which are almost certainly the result of a mechanic's error and this has had him stressed, plus get me up early 2 days in a row, my daughter is off school sick and going to work with him, my son started his first part time job on Sunday night and looks like coming down with the girl's bug and his laptop broke today, my dad is very sick in hospital. Well, when things were cruisy a few week's ago I think I said something like I wondered how I would manage if I was stressed. Surprisingly, I don't feel stressed right now! I am eating just as normal. I sure am short of time though. No exercise these past two days. My mindset, of looking for the space to fit in the exercise is still there though, so I don't feel too alarmed. Also, I just don't see where the space would be – so I don't feel guilty either. I think things will settle down. Even if they don't – the longest this can last will be another 1 ½ weeks, so as long as I don't blow the food this shouldn't affect my weight loss I reckon.
 
Thanks Tom. We are still keeping our fingers crossed about the car being covered by the mechanic's insurance right now. I'm not in a position to have any influence on the outcome, so I am trying to just keep focused on things I can impact on. My mind has been pretty busy thinking about work this week and maybe that was just as well.

Wednesday

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. 2 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.

Snack 10:30 Apple – yummy – new season's Pink Lady. Coffee with milk.

Lunch: 12:30 Toasted sandwich. 2 slices wholemeal bread, hard lite cheese, ham, tomato. Apple. Coffee with milk again!

Snack: 4:30 2 Nacho cheese flavoured corn thins. A teeny tiny, very sweet banana about as big as a finger, which makes me think it must be one of the original “Lady finger” variety.

Dinner: 7:45 60 gm grilled lean pork. ~ 20 gm baked beans.
EDIT: 10:50 1 slice wholemeal toast, margarine, vegemite. 70 gm cold lamb. Diet apricot yoghurt. 5 dates.



Exercise: No. 100% heavy rain all afternoon so no walk. Also, no energy.

I actually am feeling stressed now. My dad is not too good at all. He has been affected by prostrate cancer for some years and in the past few months has developed secondaries. He had go into hospital last week. It was supposed to be temporary but he has been deteriorating and I had more bad news about him tonight.
 
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Tom & Kelly. Thanks to you both. It is quite possible that they will be able to help my dad and send him home again, for the time being. At the moment though, mum does not really expect that will happen.
 
Thanks Cannon, and Tomble, for the good wishes for my dad. It turns out he'd had a a heart attack and that was what made him worse this week. (Not his first.) Obviously he's still not in good nick, but is getting lots of care and is more comfortable. Mum sounds better.

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 milk.

9:30 Coffee with milk

Lunch: 12:30 1 C tinned pumpkin soup, ~ 20 almonds, 1 C ½ caff. coffee.

I was severely distracted this morning and went off to work without my lunch. Lucky I had the soup sitting at school “just in case” and the almonds as ever, in my handbag. It could have been worse. Then again it could have been better. I couldn't handle the time waste involved in heating the soup (in another room, in a queue, in a tiny, slow microwave, with the sense of obligation to stay and eat there), so I ate it cold. It tasted ok, but I was aware of breaking one of my own rules about making my food seem less than it is. Also, I dropped an almond and that suddenly made me realize that I shouldn't have even had it in the room because it's a NUT! And there are signs up everywhere about “life threatening allergies”, and to please not bring them! :( Lucky I just found out about jerky, I guess I will leave that in my handbag for emergencies instead of nuts from now on. The almonds can stay in my glove box though.

Snack: 4:00 1 Pink Lady apple. 2 slices of toast with vegemite, no margarine. 5 dates.

Though I've been using highly modified margarine with very little fat, I didn't feel as though leaving the margarine off made the toast worse at all so I might just stop that altogether now.

Dinner: 120 gm trevally, lightly fried in EVO oil. Lots of salad with a little dip – carrots, celery, broccoli, snow peas, sugar snap peas, mushroom, cucumber, zucchini. A little salad with balsimic vinegar, spinach, tomato, black olives, mushrooms, broccoli.

Water: I need to start counting my water again. Now that it's winter it's easier to forget. Also, work today was engrossing. I wasn't actually teaching, just arranging the room, and displays, so I slipped into an old, old habit that I haven't had the energy to do for quite some time, and kept going with barely any attention to breaks, water, etc. It was nice in a way to feel that comfortable (yes, my back's heaps better), but I did end up exceptionaly thirsty later on and it was a reminder that I actually need to be more careful.

Exercise: 5:15 30 minutes walk.

For the first time (lately) I felt there was a slip in my attitude to exercise here. I had just got busy after school, without even thinking about walking. The “without even thinking” about it is what I now think is not a good sign. Though maybe it has more in common with me leaving my lunch (and diary and notebook, pens etc), at home, than with attitude. So call it the impact of stress – but still, this is information about where I could get away from doing what I intend with all this. Anyway, when I remembered, I thought oh, damn, too late now, and then my husband asked me if I was taking the dog out and I looked at the clock and realized it wasn't too late for a quick walk anyway... Huh? Well, saved by the dog again. :)
 
I am still being careful of my food just now, but have had other issues in front of exercise and though I have extra reason to be careful about my food, I don't want to write about that just now.

My dad died last night. It was a peaceful death, after years of extended illness and much recent pain had massively whittled away his quality of life. Though we can regret his illness, at this stage we can't really regret his death. Still it leaves a space, and grief. I feel my mother's pain too, though I do also feel my family is gaining much support from each other.

It's made a busy time even busier, while at the same time making it harder to bring a proper focus on the things that need it. I'm still wanting my time on-line but may have a bit less of it, for now.
 
Hey Felici, my father passed away in much the same way. It was sudden, but in the midst of a whole lot of health problems that had required hospitalization. It never is easy to lose a father, but it is wonderful that your family is pulling together like this. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.
 
It did feel sudden in the end, despite him being in hospital and despite our longer term anticipation. I do value your support too, Cannon. Thank you.
 
You've got it Felici. When your parents pass on its very difficult, but the only other alternative is you passing on first and no parent wants that.
 
Hi Felici. So sorry for your loss. I know what you mean about his death. My mom, who's 96, prays that she'll go every night.
 
Thank you for that Tom.

That makes sense about your mum. My grandmother died at 93 and did become impatient waiting in the end. I like to think that while they feel they are no longer contributing, they at least are gifting us with some experience of age at that stage, and of course with their presence in our lives. Is your grandmother ill?
Cannon 2006 said:
You've got it Felici. When your parents pass on its very difficult, but the only other alternative is you passing on first and no parent wants that.
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I hadn't thought of it that way Cannon but of course you are quite right. I passed on your thoughts to my mum, who was touched.
 
felici said:
Thank you for that Tom.

That makes sense about your mum. My grandmother died at 93 and did become impatient waiting in the end. I like to think that while they feel they are no longer contributing, they at least are gifting us with some experience of age at that stage, and of course with their presence in our lives. Is your grandmother ill?
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She has dementia. She knows who I am, but her short term memory is totally gone.
 
Oh that is hard. It must be so very difficult for her and for you, for her to have some understanding of her circumstances, yet still be suffering from dementia. In many ways that must be the hardest possible aspect of age to deal with I think. I guess it is a saving grace that she still at least does recognize you.
 
Hey Felici, just popping by to see how you're doing. You seem to be hanging in there and I can tell what a source of support you are for your mom.
 
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