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Most excellent workout girl!! I'm proud of you doing all those stairs, WOW those suckers are HARD WORK! I'm still trying to figure out however what that dinner item is in your menu???Ratatouille: capsicum??? Your food always sounds yummy and I wish you could send some my way. mmmmmmm
 
Ratatouille is what we call it at my house when we fry onions, garlic, tomato and capsicum (red and green peppers) together in a little EVO oil until they are soft, and add some herbs. Other things we might put it in would be zucchini (courgettes) and eggplant. That would be in keeping with the traditional Provencale dish. I try to keep down the amount of oil of course and also left out the tomato, and put celery in it this week because my vege crisper was so empty. Also I garnished my own serve with sliced black olives - but that really is not too authentic! (Yummy though).

Usually it is my husband who makes it, and we have it on the weekend, on top of veal, and with a little cheese on top of that, which we melt under the griller. However, he wasn't feeling good last night so he decided he wanted meat during the week and I made that. More often than not I cook two different meals during the week, a meat based one for the children and a fish/vegetarian one for him. I join in whichever appeals to me most that night - adapted to my low fat, controlled carbs taste! Now and again the three of them have the same thing - eg nachos, and I have something else. When it's fish we often all have the same thing as each other. Last night was the same meal for everyone, served at the same time. Bonus!!
 
awesome job with the stairs felici :) i really hate stairs. of anykind. i will rather do numerous repetitions of squats and lunges with weights but please don't make me climb stairs, although there are stairs all around me hehe, my hometown has lots of hills. i do take them rather then the elevator but i really don't like them.

it does feel good o exercises intensely after a while doesn't it?
hope you're having a great day
Lena
 
Cerella - Yes. It was a bonus. Then today my girl was asking for the cannelloni she tasted last week, and I got to make just one meal for everyone again today! A two day bonus!!

Lena - I do somehow enjoy that stair climbing, and don't regret it despite the hash I made of today's exercise (ie by not doing it), and the price I'm paying in sore muscles.

It is a bit weird that I do like it though, and I don't exactly know why I started. I was just looking for add ons to my walking at one stage and this is where I ended up. Maybe I like them because climbing them so strongly reminds me of the progress I've made. They used to puffed me so much, that I would make sure I had both feet on one step before I took the next one. I clearly remember attending a party this last January and noticing that I had climbed a flight of about 6 steps with just one foot per stair and being pleased at the progress.

It's very strange to have made such a big change. I know I was different but it's hard now to grasp how different. I think it's worth continuing to remind myself about the other me so that I don't morph back into her again. I'm quite conscious of all the little things that creep in to my day which are part of my old behaviours and could start to lead me backwards. There is a part of me that feels that I have always just been the same person, but how could I be the same and look so different and behave so differently? Another part feels I always was the way I am now but that my body was different, and that my current one is more like the real me I always thought I was. I thought I was like this, but I was not. Perhaps if I had more thoroughly taken in just how fat I really was I would have made this change sooner. Maybe not. I still get a bit surprised when I walk down the passage and look up to see myself in the mirror.



Nice things from today.

Walked past a shop that has started to show some new season's clothes, and didn't try them on because I don't want to spend the money. NOT because I knew they would look totally different in my size, and probably didn't even come in it.

I got back a fasting blood sugar reading that was significantly lower than any I've had for quite a few years. It wasn't wonderfully low, but was a lot better.
5.4. My last few were around 6.0- 6.1. 6.1 is the old line where they would send you for a glucose tolerance test. Now it's 5.5. So yes, I'd like it to be better, but still it's progress.

Wednesday

Breakfast 11:00 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 2 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.

Lunch: 4:15 Toasted sandwich: 2 slices wholemeal bread. Lowfat hard cheese. Coffee with milk.

Dinner: 7:15 Cannelloni : 4 tubes, ~ 65 gm ricotta cheese, spinach, egg white, tinned tomato, EVO oil, ~ 15 gm parmesan. (+ 15 gm extra cheese, cos I forgot to adapt my bit of the recipe). Microwaved carrots and broccoli . 1 slice watermelon. 8 fresh dates. A bowl of sugar snap peas in front of the TV because I felt like snacking. 1 sip green tea before I fell asleep.

Snack: 11:00 Caffeine free diet coke.

Exercise: Well I stayed in bed forever, finally got all the paperwork and signatures completed for the passports, shopped for tonight's dinner, and cooked it, and ate it, and fell asleep. That was my entire day. No exercise. And did I ever need tonight's walk!!! My legs are about 99% seized.
 
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Thanks, Mechelle! Tomorrow should be fine. I just had to make the passports the priority today. I'm so glad they're finally done. Well I hope they are. It is amazing how drawn out and fiddly the process is. I have to try to keep my focus spread, because otherwise my life easily falls into this sort of pattern where I just do one thing at a time.
 
Thursday

Breakfast 7:30 2 weetbix, 1C lowfat soy milk, 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 2 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.

Lunch: 12:15 2 slices toasted wholemeal bread. 100 gm tin light tuna with sundried tomatoes and basil. 1 coffee with milk.

Dinner: 7:30 90gm Lightly fried Tasmanian salmon with lime juice. 100 gm microwaved potato. Salad veges and 1 dsstspn light French onion dip: carrots, zucchini, celery, cucumber, capsicum, celery, mushrooms, snow peas. 1 diet apricot yoghurt. 8 almonds. Pink Lady apple. Green tea.

I always like the idea of eating fresh salmon more than the reality. Nice apple! :)

Exercise: 5:00 50 minutes (at least), on the 4.3 km (2.6 miles)walk. I was glad to get out there after a day of heavy rain, and it did make my legs feel a bit better by the end of it, though they are still complaiaiaiaining.
 
how dare your legs complain? don't you know that you're making them work for them... so you can stroll around in short shorts and mini skirts... :D
 
Oh mal. They are not those kind of legs. Even underneath the fat!!! :D

The legs are saying. "Make it regular, make it regular. Don't exercise us near death one day then sit around filling in forms all day the next! Make it regular!!"

But I doubt I will.

I wouldn't mind some earplugs though.
 
Felici - I'm curious about the salmon there. Do you have to watch out for mercury contamination, too? We're cautioned against eating salmon more than 3 times a week here because of that.
 
I wish I loved Salmon as much as everyone else on this website, I just can't stand the smell, fishy smells make my stomach flip. But it always looks good grilled up nicely. I have to say I laughed a bit when I read that you put a diet soda as your snack the other day. LOL Are those really a snack? I'm just messing with you of course, hope you got a giggle out of it! That tower picture by the way was fantastic, what a need place to check out. I love when people post their pictures and outdoors. Thanks so much for sharing those with us. Hope you enjoy the rest of your day, and I hope your salmon is delicious!
Kim
 
Kim, any fish that smells fishy at all isn't fresh. When I buy fish in the market, I always ask to smell it. If there's any odor whatsoever, I don't buy it.
 
TomO said:
Kim, any fish that smells fishy at all isn't fresh. When I buy fish in the market, I always ask to smell it. If there's any odor whatsoever, I don't buy it.
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See, I never knew that!! That's why I come to this website, everyone is so knowledgable. I will always give it a try, I'll let you know if I find a good piece of fish, without the smell. I need to try a good fish market, wonder if we have one here?? Hmmmmm
 
Tom. Hmmm. Salmon. No. I don't recall being told that salmon ought to be limited. Though from memory it's quite likely that some of the tinned salmon I eat is Canadian. So whether we have local health warnings or not, warnings that are valid in North America should have some applicability here.

I don't think I'm in any danger of eating it more than three times a week. I rarely eat fresh salmon and after tonight it will be a long time until I forget how unappealing I found it. I do eat tinned salmon happily, but the most I would eat it would be twice a week, and that would be rare. I aim for one evening meal of tinned fish for my husband a week and use tinned red salmon for that. Usually if I have fish at lunch time it's flavoured tuna.

I'm curious now. I will see if I can find out anything more about the salmon.


Kim: Diet soda snacks. :D I did think about that being no-cal weird. Sometimes I find diet drinks helpful to stop me snacking on things I'd prefer to avoid, so they have a sort of relevance that I thought I might as well keep track of.

Tonight I'm having one. In fact, I had a hard time eating properly just now. I think that's because I've had a snoozy time earlier in the evening and then got up again. I want to be able to do that, but then it makes eating properly difficult. Also, by the time I'd come back to the computer it had been usurped by a sleep-over child!! It's much easier for me not to eat if my fingers are busy on a keyboard.

So here is the add on for tonight's food.

Snack: 1 Rice/corn thin, Nacho cheese flavour (calories 29, sodium 1 million grams). 5 Fresh dates. 1 diet coke!
 
Miss Ladybug said:
See, I never knew that!! That's why I come to this website, everyone is so knowledgable. I will always give it a try, I'll let you know if I find a good piece of fish, without the smell. I need to try a good fish market, wonder if we have one here?? Hmmmmm
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Ask the butcher exactly when they get their fresh fish in. And be sure to cook it that day! But always smell it, even if they say it's "fresh."
 
Kim: well being from the fishing country lol i agree with Tom :) and you know its fresh by the smell (more like sea than fishy) and if the eyes of the fish are clear not foggy and if the gills are kinda reddish.

and felici don't doubt yourself :D you can do it regularly :D
 
Thank you Lena. :)

I see that I was being unclear there. I have every intention of making the walk every day happen as a regular thing. You're right, that will happen.

However, I also intend to add in irregular exercise, despite the complaining! I do think though, that there are better and worse ways do add exercise that your body's not used to and skipping the next day's walk walk was certainly a worse way.
 
Yes. I reckon some irregular exercise is a good thing.

Thank you for the kind words. I do appreciate them. :)
 
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