Oh Brandy, yes, that seems scary to me!!! I am still in Perth for another 10 days, but I will be in New Zealand on holidays soon. I really have no idea how cold the spots we get to will be. It will be spring there, as it is here, so I doubt it will be as cold as your weather gets - I sure hope not!!
My idea of a bitter wind would probably just seem like a bit of a breeze to you!
Monday
Breakfast 7:00 1 slice wholemeal toast with plum and cinnamon jam. 1 boiled egg. 2 weetbix, 1/3 C diced peaches , 1C low fat soy milk. Coffee with 15 ml Hilo milk.
Lunch 12:30 6 Vive crackers. (About equal to 2 average slices of bread I think.) ~ 60 gm lowfat cottage cheese. Tomato, capsicum, zucchini, mushroom, black olives. Snow peas. Coffee with milk.
Snack 5:00 Ladyfinger banana and coffee with milk.
Dinner 8:00 80 gm tinned red salmon, ~ ½ c tinned butter beans, 1 tbspn mashed potato, grilled capsicum, zucchini, eggplant ( with a little EVO oil). ½ tub low fat yoghurt and chopped fresh pear. Coffee with milk.
I deliberately dropped back the carbs/protein/calories a bit more yesterday and today, though trying to stick with the same types of food, and still making sure that I'm not actually feeling hungry or uncomfortable. I'm not eating less than is recommended - just eating at the low end of the range I think is acceptable rather than at the high end as I was recently. I'll see how this goes. In some ways I think it might be good to keep the calories lowish for the next couple of weeks - maybe not every day though.
I found my thought for how to eat while I'm away, I think. It's the same one I use for restaurants. I'll try to eat in a way I won't regret. That is I don't want to regret missing something I really wanted, or that is somehow special. Also I don't want to regret eating too much and getting a stomach ache or feeling sluggish and gaining extra fat while not even especially enjoying what I'm eating.
Exercise: No. I feel ambivalent about exercising just now with the knee/ankle thing and today the idea that I shouldn't was on top.
I lost another half a kilo. No that's not just a line left here from yesterday's post. My weight has dropped again. Fun for me!
Today I wanted a number I could compare to my doctor's scales. I saw a specialist I don't often see but who has been weighing me on the same scales for some years, so I was able to get a comparison with the ideas I had of how much I weighed before to now. I don't quite know what difference it makes. Over the last 6 years the weight I had when I first met her was about 84 kg, which dropped at the lowest to 79, and at it's highest was about 93. I never was at my actual highest weights any time I saw her, because knowing I was going to see her was always a bit of an inspiration for me to eat better.
Anyway, she says I'm still healthy which is always nice to hear.
Also, it was most interesting to me to see that her scales weigh me at least 2 kilos (ie 4.4 lb) lighter than the shopping centre scales. I do remember noticing that when I thought I was 79 a few months back, I looked slimmer than when I touched that weight a few years back. Now in one way I get it that what I weigh in numbers is not really all that significant one way or the other, but then again ... they do often feel quite significant!! And I don't know about those shopping centre scales. They always show me around a kilo higher than my home scales. Also there used to be another set of scales at the shopping centre that showed me weighing 3 kilos less. But maybe the reason they took that set away is that they were buggered! Anyway I like the scales I use there because they show me how much I've lost in an accurate way. Yet if I think about my BMI, which I do now and again, then I wonder how much I really weigh, especially now, because if the doctor's scales are right, I am not obese any more. I thought that unlike my goal weight which is a rubbery number, my obese/overweight marker was something firm but it turns out not to be.
I will stick with the scales I've been using and the figures I have in my signature, because I like seeing how far I've come, and because that's a simple way to do it. However, when it comes to thinking about goals, I guess maybe I have a little less to go than I expected before I might get the healthy weight tick. That's another nice thought.
