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No worries, Britta. Thanks for your response.

I think I was being very long winded about saying something similar to you about eating sweet things. My impression is that this is an area in which there is a big difference between individuals. I feel very differently now about food from the way I felt 12 months ago. I don't want to forget what I was like because I think remembering might help me stay different. I remember that I behaved as though I was addicted to sugar and that was the main cause of years of battling with my weight, so I am very cautious about how I treat it now. I realize that a lot of other people who need to lose weight don't especially have issues with sugar. I suspect Intuitive Eating is like that too - possibly useful for some people and dangerous for others.

As far as me eating cake on my boy's birthday - I think it was basically the right thing for me to do - not ideal only because I had too much - but not a big problem because it didn't lead to any genuine bingeing, and won't :).
 
Good for you! You had cake! it's really not even something I would think twice about - I too had cake on friday night for my dad's bday. And I had salmon pasta with two cheeses----YUMMY

The fact is that if we give in for a treat, just dont over eat(which we are more likely to do when it's a treat because we tell ourselves we can't have it). You dont have to explain yourself for having cake, that's silly :p

Oh- and make sure the cake is GOOD, and worth it!
 
felici said:
and when I looked incredulous and said "No, it's not a drink, it's poison," she looked incredulous and said "Then why is it apple flavoured...?"

I wonder if fiddling with the child proof cap would have been enough to make her read the bit about apple perfumed triple strength disinfectant concentrate.

Does this mean that it is good enough to just bring your daughter up to be polite about what she chooses to drink? and that it doesn't matter that I have obviously skipped something fairly basic in the safety area? :eek:
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LOL! Hey isn't arsenic peach flavored?
 
Britta Bear said:
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Oh- and make sure the cake is GOOD, and worth it!
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Well it was, but there was a frozen patch in there, which I am blaming for the lapse re: quantity, but only in my own mind of course, because it would be silly to talk about this one second longer wouldn't it!!!? :rolleyes: :D

Cannon 2006 said:
LOL! Hey isn't arsenic peach flavored?
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Could be. :D Actually I think I may have heard something about it smelling of almonds :eek: - I'd better add this to the list of admonishments. I've just been checking through a few more - (don't run on the concrete... and don't take medicines unless I give them to her ... and swim between the flags ... don't poke things in electrical sockets... look before you cross ... and now I have told her about not jumping straight over logs in the bush in case there is a snake on the other side... and I am not going to tell her to drape toilet paper all over the seat in public toilets ... well not unless she feels like it... )



OMG :eek: My son has started taking his empty cups and glasses to the sink! And he hasn't even noticed. I noticed that they weren't around for me to refill and we discussed that probably they were disappearing because I was shifting them without noticing, and this morning I SAW him do it, and when I mentioned it, he said he hadn't realized.... Hallelujah! He is only 14! Only just 14!

And their temperatures are dropping...

This is only the third day ... I really need to get out of here, or do some exercise or eat really well or really badly, or at least get my fingers off this keyboard....!!:rolleyes:
 
Wednesday
Breakfast 10:00 2 weetbix, 1/3 C diced peaches , 1C low fat soy milk. 1 slice wholemeal toast with plum and cinnamon jam . Boiled egg . Coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.

Lunch: 2:30 1 toasted wholemeal muffin filled with:
50 gm tinned red salmon, 5- 10 gm grated parmesan (I weighed it for once instead of guessing but just to reassure myself), 2 slices grilled eggplant (which had been slighly brushed with oil – leftover from husband's dinner last night), mushroom, tomato, and black olives. All warmed or grilled – a bit like a hamburger.

Omg that was stacked so high I could barely stretch my mouth over it! (I did cut it in half.) By this time I had been to the supermarket while I was hungry which is not a desirable thing - and that muffin tasted soooo good. *Looks for indecently satisfied smile emoticon*. I love making healthy food that makes me feel like I have spoiled myself rotten!!

Ladyfinger banana. Oooeee. *decides to use giant grin in place of truly accurate unavailable emoticon* :D

2 x Coffee and milk – yummy coffee too – better than the instant I usually drink. I think I might keep on with this better coffee for a while - I like this indulged feeling.

For someone with the sniffles and a headache and STILL with a sore ankle I do feel VERY nice this afternoon!
 
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Hi Felici, hope your kids get well soon! Wait til they're two years older, in the middle of their teen years. You'll get 10 chances a day to second guess your parenting skills. In the end you just have to accept you did the best job you could, and sure -- you make mistakes like everyone does. But good parenting is a matter of consistency, and also LUCK. Yes, there are some bad, neglectful parents. But most of them are doing the best they can. And sometimes, shit happens, to the good parents as well as the bad ones.
 
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Hi Felici, hope your kids get well soon! Wait til they're two years older, in the middle of their teen years. You'll get 10 chances a day to second guess your parenting skills. In the end you just have to accept you did the best job you could, and sure -- you make mistakes like everyone does. But good parenting is a matter of consistency, and also LUCK. Yes, there are some bad, neglectful parents. But most of them are doing the best they can. And sometimes, shit happens, to the good parents as well as the bad ones.
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I'm sure you're right.

It's a funny thing that someone tut-tutting about other people's parenting seems to be an easy thing to find, yet it is the norm for parents to cherish their children ahead of all else, and do "the best they can", just as you say. :)


maleficent said:
What agreat feeling for a very deserving lady :)
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That's very kind! Thank you. :)
 
Dinner: 6:00 Turkey mince ( ~ 150 gm) - cooked in a little EVO oil with onion, garlic, celery, cauliflour, grated carrot and chicken stock, (very yummy!!), and ½ C basmati rice. Fresh veges: a carrot, ½ tomato, lots of broccoli sprouts, zucchini. ~ 2 tspns lite french onion dip Low fat yoghurt with chopped fresh pear. More yummy coffee and hilo milk.

Exercise: 5:15 30 minute walk in the bush with my husband and the strange dog we own. My ankle was hurting when I shopped today but not a bother on this great gentle walk. Redbeak orchids are in fat bud and a flock of fearless little speckled pardalotes came and twittered all over some low trees we walked through.

( ... and I have restrained myself from posting with total truth just how much I really enjoyed that lunch time banana. :D )
 
Well if there had been any fellas around me ... I suppose I would have smiled at them very sweetly. I am very much in the mood,
to celebrate how exciting food can be without being adulterated. :D
But there were no fellas. :)

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This says they're short and plump. They are certainly plumper than normal bananas and about 6 inches long, on average I guess.
 
Hey... I enjoy a good banana eating viewing now and again! lol! I like how you called your dog "strange"...not sure why that tickled my funny bone. See..I'm so glad cause, where we're moving too... we're going to have places to hike. Here? we have all flat land. Boooooo
 
Places to hike makes a big difference to me. :) I'm sure you guys will enjoy that too. I also think a few hills make things more interesting - and make for better exercise of course. :)

Our "strange" dog... well perhaps you have seen me rant about her before. She certainly sparks a lot of conversation around here. Frequently it's of the "why is she ...? " variety. I guess she sparks a lot of laughter and shared eye rolling as well. She's a very idiosyncratic, independent minded individual and rather less easy going and pet-like than I had imagined my pet might turn out to be!
 
LOL, LOL It's been a little while since I stopped by, but OMG did I pick a good time to post. LOL Lady finger bananas, I never heard of those before, and I was busting a gut the entire time I was reading this page. LOL I'm still rolling in my shoes right now. Good to see your doing well my friend!! Hope the rest of your day is fabulous!
Kim
 
Well those bananas are not available everywhere, all the time, Kim, but they are well worth a try. :)



I forgot to post this last night.

Thursday

Breakfast 9:30 2 weetbix, 1/3 C diced peaches , 1C low fat soy milk. 1 slice wholemeal toast ½ + ½ with plum and cinnamon jam and vegemite. Boiled egg . 2 x coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.

Snack 11:00 16 almonds (intended mainly to go to with ibuprofen as I keep forgetting to actually swallow them with my meals).

Lunch: 2:30 1 slice wholemeal toast with low fat cheese and a slice of ham. 1 slice wholemeal toast with vegemite. 1 cucumber.
1 ladyfinger banana. :D
2 x Coffee and milk.

Dinner: 8:00 1 slice fresh wholemeal bread. 150 gm fresh sea bream fried with a little flour and a little EVO oil, lime juice. Fresh veges: carrots, broccoli sprouts, zucchini, cauliflour, snow peas, sugar snap peas, mushroom, , celery, cucumber, red capsicum – very fresh and sweet. And a chopped salad with very similar ingredients, plus black olives and balsimic vinegar. Low fat yoghurt with chopped fresh pear.

Snack10:30 ½ McDonald's cappucinno.

Exercise: 5:50 40 minute local walk, with the dog. Who is as weird as ever. I walked at a reasonable pace – improved from Tuesday, but not up to normal. I am a bit impatient about it now but I guess as it's getting better I ought not be too antsy.



Last night I was thinking that perhaps I'd visit a physio and get a more informed opinion about when it's reasonable for me to start pushing it again. However, I slept in very late today, (the one upside to having kids home sick) so there is no way I will be able to get an appointment. I might just arrange one for Monday afternoon just in case, but hopefully I will be all right by then anyway.
 
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