This is the time

Hey I'm finally back to checking in on your diary. You're doing great. Don't worry about one canneloni. It was an honest mistake. Besides, I read it as Canoli the first time around and thought you ate five of them--believe me that would have been much worse :)
 
saturdaysaint said:
*bows to your curtsie*

I just love your menu. Still not sure if I could do the Weetbix, but your menu is just spectacular! Just sounds very well thought out. I've never had a Date Scone..sounds yummy!
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Weetbix may well be a taste you need to acquire while there is a window - probably before you turn 6. :) Date scones ... yep. They do taste great I guess they might be a good enough snack if I just ate a half of one!!

be_gone_soon said:
It's all good. Once in a while a little something extra is definetly worth it!!:cool: Have a great rest of your day!!!:)
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Thank you. I get a bit paranoid about leaks in the plan!! But I'm pretty happy with the way things are going overall. Thanks for your continued support.

Cannon 2006 said:
Hey I'm finally back to checking in on your diary. You're doing great. Don't worry about one canneloni. It was an honest mistake. Besides, I read it as Canoli the first time around and thought you ate five of them--believe me that would have been much worse :)
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:eek: :eek: FIVE CANOLI!! :D Not these days thank goodness.

T2 Trucker said:
Mmmmm, you ate Italian. I just love you :)
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One of the great advances of the late twentieth century - the spread of the Italian cooking to Perth!!

lena410 said:
i simply love canelloni...well i love all italian and mediterranean food...i wonder why lol :D

how are your walks going?
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Mmmm. Yum. I wonder if something inspirational about Mediterranean breezes perhaps gave us the wonderful dishes. :)

My walks....

Thank you for bringing that up, Lena. I do value the attention implied in your question. I tend to just record my lapses without dwelling on them. I would like to say something different to - not quite there yet! and listing excuses. Unfortunately I can't.

Well, back at school this week and Monday managed the walk. Good, I thought, I can do this. Maybe it's actually easier with the routine of going to work first.

Then Tuesday and back to the more common routine of work first then dancing and shopping. Somehow the walk didn't happen. I told myself I was busy, and then I thought, but if I had shopped previously, maybe I wouldn't have been.

Wednesday, work, clean house (emergency due to potential guest), collect girl from netball, take girl to dancing, take husband to hotel, take son to video store, 15 free minutes - chat to special visitor on msn, collect girl from dancing...by which time it is dark. Maybe I should have said no to the video - but it was overdue, and maybe I should have by-passed that intriguing flashing orange light. I wouldn't have had the whole walk but could have managed 20 minutes maybe? I don't really know. I understand that making difficult things happen is about giving them the priority, but ...

Tonight. OMG. I will spare you the detailed breakdown of dancing, laundromat, shopping. Suffice to say I feel no guilt about lack of exercise, because from the school bell at 3:00 until 8:20 I was very active!! Jogging was included. I even got the tired leg muscles!! There were 6 x 5 minutes of sitting in the car amongst everything else. Yet, this is not what I want. Possibly I could have kept everything under better control by washing my son's work clothes some other time, between Sunday night and Thursday night. (Or maybe not... see above ^^^)

So this is the week so far... and tomorrow night we're going out to eat at a fairly early time...

Maybe this isn't the best time to try and get this habit thing happening. I'm not sure, but I'm going to keep aiming for this thing. I'm thinking that even if I don't manage it every day, sometimes will be better than never, and maintaining some focus on it might increase how often it happens. I want to make sure I'm someone who maintains their weight loss. This habit thing is about maintenance even more than it's about weight loss. At the moment I still I have the impression that I'm losing weight. Actually, perhaps if I didn't it would push me to exercise more.
 
Wednesday

Breakfast 7:00 2 weetbix, 1C lowfat soy milk, 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.

Snack: 10:30 1 pear. 1 coffee with milk.

Lunch 12:00 2 slices wholemeal bread, toasted with low fat cheese and 1 slice shaved double smoked leg ham, tomato. Handful of snow peas. 1 Pink Lady apple. 1 coffee with milk.

Snack: 4:30 Diet apricot yoghurt. 2 slices wholemeal toast, 1 with plum and cinnamon jam, 1 with vegemite.

Dinner 7:15 140 gm grilled lamb steak. 80 gm microwaved potato, microwaved carrots, broccoli, grilled tomato and mushrooms, gravy.

Snack: 10:10 Big mug green tea.

Exercise: No.



Thursday

Breakfast 7:00 2 weetbix, 1C lowfat soy milk, 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.

Snack: 10:00 1 orange. 1 coffee with milk.

Lunch 12:00 2 slices wholemeal bread, toasted with low fat cheese and 1 slice shaved double smoked leg ham, tomato. Handful of snow peas. 1 Pink Lady apple. 1 coffee with milk.

Snack 6:00 Pear. 10 almonds.

Dinner 8:20 140 gm fish fried with a little EVO oil. 1 slice wholemeal bread. 1 dessertspoon of low fat French onion dip and lots of veges. Also some chopped salad with balsimic vinegar.

Snack: 10:10 Big mug green tea. 4 dates.

Exercise: No.


Friday

Breakfast 7:00 2 weetbix, 1C lowfat soy milk, 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.

Snack: 10:00 1 fuji apple. 1 coffee with milk.

Lunch 12:00 2 slices wholemeal bread, toasted with low fat cheese and 1 slice shaved double smoked leg ham. Handful of snow peas. 1 orange. 1 coffee with milk.

Dinner 6:30 Indian buffet. (Husband's birthday.) A lot of extra calories. A long list of small amounts of different things. Probably a normal amount of protein, highish fat, about double carbs, 3-4 serves of veges, 1 dairy and way too much sugar. Mostly I did just have very small amounts of dangerous foods to taste them. However there was the fruit naan that I hadn't tasted elsewhere and thought I might not have again ... I did end up actually feeling overly full and I reckon that fruit naan is why. I'd say I am pretty much a sucker for any sort of sweet fruit and cinnamon mix.

Well this meal was definitely off plan and not in a marginal way. Despite that, I really don't feel guilty about it. I didn't intend to eat too carefully so it's not like I felt out of control – my limit was that once the meal was over I was done with the experimenting and back to normal. I'm quite confident that's the way it will be. I also still see a massive difference between the way I ate tonight and what I once would have done. In fact even though I told myself it was a meal where I didn't want to eat grossly, but wouldn't set any boundaries, when it came to actually eating something that looked overly fatty, or eating a big amount of anything unhealthy, my inclination was not to – that's not so much a matter of supressing a desire to eat badly – more just that the impulse wasn't there, and I think that's to do with having already estabished a different pattern. I do think a meal in which I ate like this would have put my weight loss at risk in the first couple of monthsor more of my loss, but not now. That's a nice change.

Exercise: No.

Well this afternoon's forecast was for high wind gusts, with a warning to stay indoors, so no walk. We went birthday shopping instead.

I don't know about the weather for the rest of the weekend either – but my intention is to get in some other kind of exercise and up the ante a bit. I have the gear here for trying skipping again, and I have that tae bo tape. That meal will have to be dealt with, and I doubt I have too much of a deficit running from earlier in the week to deal with it.
 
Feli, with all that carting people here and there, I know your body must be on active mode and burning calories, maybe not 350-400 an hour, but I'm sure 300-400 every couple hours. How could someone who is moving around constantly not be burning, your doing fine!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to your hubby, how nice you got to go out and eat, I love eating out with my hubby, we always try new places, we are so adventures. You know your body, and if you feel like your still losing, I'm sure you are!! I'm glad your not feeling guilty about it, as you have NO REASON to. You eat so good, and one day isn't going to trip that up at all. You always seem to amaze me with the assortment of different foods you choose, I'm so same old same, people like you inspire me to try harder and try up new menu items. Thanks for that!! You mentioned maybe using the TaeBo tape, I think that's a great idea!! If your stuck inside. Well, I hope your weekend weather turns out better! If not, enjoy that Taebo!
Kim
 
be_gone_soon said:
You always have my support!! You've been great support for me!!:hug2:
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*Hugs back* That's very kind. Thank you, Mechelle. 14 more days? Have a good weekend. :)

Miss Ladybug said:
Feli, with all that carting people here and there, I know your body must be on active mode and burning calories, maybe not 350-400 an hour, but I'm sure 300-400 every couple hours. How could someone who is moving around constantly not be burning, your doing fine!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to your hubby, how nice you got to go out and eat, I love eating out with my hubby, we always try new places, we are so adventures. You know your body, and if you feel like your still losing, I'm sure you are!! I'm glad your not feeling guilty about it, as you have NO REASON to. You eat so good, and one day isn't going to trip that up at all. You always seem to amaze me with the assortment of different foods you choose, I'm so same old same, people like you inspire me to try harder and try up new menu items. Thanks for that!! You mentioned maybe using the TaeBo tape, I think that's a great idea!! If your stuck inside. Well, I hope your weekend weather turns out better! If not, enjoy that Taebo!
Kim
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Thanks, Kim. I appreciate all those kind thoughts pushing my life in the direction I want!!

It's funny that you see my menu as different, cos I love it and think the food's yummy but I often feel like it's incredibly predictable and must look very boring!! :D


T2 Trucker said:
You make weight loss elegant :)
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Thank you. :) You make weight loss fun!! :D

Saturday

Breakfast 7:00 2 weetbix, 1C lowfat soy milk, 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.

Snack: 11:20 1 coffee with milk.

Lunch 12:30 2 slices wholemeal bread, toasted with low fat cheese and 2 slices shaved double smoked leg ham, tomato. 4 dates. 1 coffee with milk.

Snack: 3:00 Macca's cappucino

Dinner 9:30 130 gm roast lamb. 100 gm roast potato, roast carrots and broccoli, gravy. 6 dates. Big mug green tea.

Exercise: 2.6 km local walk. To me this sounds like not much, as I wanted to do extra this weekend. However, I know that I had to fight to get it at all and I'm glad I did.
 
That sounds like something to look forward to. :)


Saturday

Breakfast 7:00 2 weetbix, 1C lowfat soy milk, 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.

Lunch 2:30 4 Jatz crackers. ~ 10 grams each of brie, crumbly vintage Mersey Island cheese, and low fat fetta. 6 cashews. ~10 grams shaved leg ham. Slice rockmelon, slice star fruit. Lots snow peas, carrot, mushrooms, zucchini. 4 kalamata olives. The fruity bit out of the middle of some apple streudal. 2 diet cokes. 2 coffees with milk.

We had a couple of people over in the afternoon because it's my husband's birthday tomorrow.

Dinner 7:30 ~140 gm rare grilled rump steak. ~80 gm microwaved potato. Grilled zucchini, capsicum, mushrooms. Salad veges and low fat french onion dip, broccoli, zucchini, carrot, celery. Tub diet apricot yoghurt. 2 diet cokes.

I actually went out for take-away food and had intended to buy myself Portuguese skin free chicken, and make a salad, but that store had run out of it. I think that was a good thing because this was a much nicer meal and didn't involve any temptation bolt down too much chicken instantly and skimp on the other food. I think that's a good thing when I've had an afternoon picking at snacks. It makes me feel more settled.

Exercise: 5:30 2.6 km local walk. Well I was aiming for that walk all day. I had hoped to fit it in to the morning and make it safely accomplished before our afternoon guests and I didn't (though the house looks nice). However, they left early enough for me to rush off instantly they left!

There was a time I was trying to make this walk happen without stress. I've decided for now though that maybe a bit of stress about it, is the requirement to get the mindset happening. The stress is not what I want forever, but I don't see how else to make it important enough that it will happen. How can it be important enough that it happens almost always, unless I care that it might not, and when it doesn't?
 
Mmm, I had Portuguese chicken once it was good stuff. I know what you mean. Stress is powerful and some is necessary, but its hard to find the right ammount.
 
i agree with cannon, some amount of stress is necessary for certain things to sink into our minds as being important. just feeling a bit of stress i guess is getting you in the right direction. i get anxious and nervopus when i miss my exercise not to mention that i feel guilty...hence one must do exercise to avoid stress, anxhiety and feeling guilty lol.
 
felici said:
There was a time I was trying to make this walk happen without stress. I've decided for now though that maybe a bit of stress about it, is the requirement to get the mindset happening. The stress is not what I want forever, but I don't see how else to make it important enough that it will happen. How can it be important enough that it happens almost always, unless I care that it might not, and when it doesn't?
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Man I hear ya there chicky!!! I stress over gettin my exercise in and when I am grumpy and snappy and dont feel well once I get ont eh elliptical it is much better...

Im sorry Ive been slacking and selfish you are one of the ones I really like!!! I need to make more of an effort to drop by
 
Cannon 2006 said:
Mmm, I had Portuguese chicken once it was good stuff. I know what you mean. Stress is powerful and some is necessary, but its hard to find the right ammount.
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The right amount. Yes. That's a good point, making it the right amount is what's needed.

lena410 said:
i agree with cannon, some amount of stress is necessary for certain things to sink into our minds as being important. just feeling a bit of stress i guess is getting you in the right direction. i get anxious and nervopus when i miss my exercise not to mention that i feel guilty...hence one must do exercise to avoid stress, anxhiety and feeling guilty lol.
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Yes! :) I want to be like that. I don't want to be able to just skip like it doesn't matter. And I am getting to be like that, which is a good thing I reckon.

TomO said:
Ditto on the stress. LOL, I'm the king of stress when it comes to taking time off, even when I need it.
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I remember!!! :D I think it's physically hard to avoid that when you're in a program like yours. Come to think of it, I guess you have had a bit of that to deal with again, and I am not up with your diary - or anyone elses!! I'm sure more time is coming for me again soonish though.

cinderelly said:
Man I hear ya there chicky!!! I stress over gettin my exercise in and when I am grumpy and snappy and dont feel well once I get ont eh elliptical it is much better...

Im sorry Ive been slacking and selfish you are one of the ones I really like!!! I need to make more of an effort to drop by
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Your exercise habit is well established and that's a good thing. It's a pity that getting to the start time can be so fraught with hurdles while our kids are young, but then again, I know that we're also both gaining heaps from our children's company.

I am not comfortable about not visiting either, and just to get to my diary I see a bunch of others looking very appealing, but I am resisting just now.

be_gone_soon said:
No stress aloud!! i have enough to go around!! Hope it gets better!!:)
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LOL. You certainly do not need any more stress!!! Only load lightening allowed for you! :D
 
Monday

Breakfast 7:00 2 weetbix, 1C lowfat soy milk, 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.

Snack: 10:00 1 fuji apple. 1 coffee with milk.

Lunch 12:30 2 slices wholemeal bread, toasted with low fat cheese and 1 shaved slice leg ham. Handful of snow peas. 1 carrot. 1 orange. 1 coffee with milk.

Snack 5:00 1 slice wholemeal toast with jam.

Dinner 7:30 Grilled lamb leg steaks. 80 gm microwaved potato, broad beans, carrots. Grilled tomato, mushrooms, capsicum. Tub diet apricot yoghurt.

Snack: 9:30 8 cashews. 2 weetbix, soy milk, peaches.

I fell asleep after dinner and that snack is the result of being sleepy without being ready for bed. It's the kind of food I think is ok, but I would prefer not to be wanting it at that time.

Exercise: 5:20 2.6 km local walk. This was not hard to get in that I did have time. I was feeling frustrated though, and resentful that it seemed I had no other time for myself.


Tuesday

Breakfast 7:00 2 weetbix, 1C lowfat soy milk, 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.

Snack: 10:00 1 Josephine pear. 1 coffee with milk.

Lunch 12:30 2 slices wholemeal bread, toasted with low fat cheese and 1 slice shaved leg ham. Handful of snow peas. 1 carrot. 1 orange. 1 coffee with milk.

Snack 5:15 Coffee with milk.

Dinner 7:30 3/4C spaghetti, 140 gm tinned red salmon, tinned tomato, green olives, spinach, basil. Low fat french onion dip, capsicum, carrot, celery, sugar snap peas, mushroom. Tub diet apricot yoghurt. Green tea.

Snack: 9:30 More green tea. ~ 1/3 C peaches.

I fell asleep after dinner again but at least managed a better snack. I slept enough last night. I just think these sleeps are because the days feel busy and kind of stressed. Aside from work and my normal duties, I have been working on choosing a new computer for my son and little things that keep cropping up for my daughter, as she is performing in two public concerts next week. I'm just finding lately that crossing things off my to-do lists isn't making them shrink at all!!

Exercise: 5:55 35 min jogging on mini-trampoline. The weather wasn't really suitable for going out. Though I prefer walking, this was a good alternative – probably more strenuous than the walk.

It did actually improve my mood a little. The last 3 days I have been for a walk while feeling emotional. Angry Saturday, sad Sunday and frustrated Monday! I usually find that walking moves me along with these things and it did, but not as much it has done before. It more like my mood souring my walk than my walk improving my mood! Today was another day in which my duties seemed to be unreasonably crowding in on me at the end of the day. I guess it was another day in which I was telling myself that getting the walk in might not make me feel better today, that today it might be just another duty stopping me from just doing whatever I felt like, but that it was worth persisting so that there would come a time when fitting it in would feel normal and comfortable the way my food does now. (Even though once it didn't.). I was chanting some sort of positive mantra to my indicator clicking on the way home. I forget the words! But I guess it worked because I'm at the end of another day with it fitted in.

I suppose all that sounds like a big moan and I guess it is, though I'm not recording it for the sake of venting. I just want to not neglect my diary, and record what is happening.
 
You know Feli, I sure am happy to hear that your walking is helping out your stress level. That means it's not only burning calories for you, but it's probably helping out your blood pressure at the same time. That's excellent news! You have so much going on in your life right now, I seriously don't know how your able to do anything for yourself. So I give you a BIG THUMBS up for walking or doing the trampoline each day. Stick with that, and you will go far! Oh and the kid stuff does eventually get better, I promise! I have two boys that will be 18 in October, and let me tell you what not to long ago, I had baseball practice, games, bowling, they were both in the band, scouts and school functions, it was never ending, and I wished I walked more than. But in the past few years, it's all settled down and things are not so crazy, enjoy it!! But, don't forget YOU COME FIRST! Have a lovely day!
Kim
 
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