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felici
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You're right - I did have fun! I was sorry to wake up the next day recalling that I had stuffed up big time though! Also you're right about the inertia. I have always had more than my share of that I think. Sometimes it's a good thing that keeps me stuck into a big job until it's done. However there is a downside. Currently I'm trying (for the one millionth time?), to organize my home in a way that makes it easy to maintain smoothly, and to organize my habits so that they include a bit less inertia and a bit more getting on with the next everyday task!! I guess I'm trying to spread the balance I can now usually get with my food to the rest of my everyday life.Hi Felici! What fun it sounds like you're having, dancing and parties...that's great!I understand about inertia, we are creatures of habit, aren't we? I stopped tracking calories this summer and gained about 10 lbs
Thank you. I'm still on a promise from the New Zealand photos! I did take a picture of my girl and her friends at my front door last night. I don't know if that's what you meant? I'd quite like to get a better picture of myself for my avatar, but I know that will turn into a whole day project (because I have a lot of inertia, and because I get ridiculously unbalanced about how it has to look), so I'm leaving it for now. I don't know what it is about photos. I want the photo I use of myself to look like the way I look to myself. So therefore I want it to look as old as I really look - which none of my photos on here really do. However, I also don't actually like to see any lines in the photo! LOL I think I am more used to this year's thinner, more lined face now than I used to be. But then I get weird about how fat or thin the face is. I keep wondering what I really look like and going back and forth between photos and the bathroom mirror and bugging the kids...
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Here are some photos of the bush I have been walking in at Warwick.
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Thanks! It is going well at the moment.
felici
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Breakfast: 7:30 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Lunch: 1:30 2 packets (8 crackers) Vive Wholemeal Crispbread. Topped with 100 gm lowfat cottage cheese, a tomato and a mushroom . Sliced pear.
Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Snack 3:30 4 fresh dates. Handful snow peas. 1 baby carrot. 1 coffee with milk.
7:00 Celery
Dinner: 8:30. ~ 160 gm thin fillets of tropical snapper. I let these sit for about ½ hr in a mix of fresh coriander leaves, fresh chilli and fresh lime juice. Then I quickly dipped them in flour before shallow frying in EVO oil. A slice of fresh Vienna loaf. A biggish chopped salad with balsimic vinegar – spinach, snow peas, capsicum, cucumber, tomato, mushrooms, kalamata olives. 4 fresh dates. Tub of diet apricot yoghurt. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Exercise: 6:20 20 minutes. Walked the dog, in the bush at Warwick.
I worked today, which was unexpected because I didn't get the phone call till 9:30 am. Usually I just say no to these things and leave it at that, but I had only just rung this woman the day before to make sure that she kept ringing me! I said sorry, I'd really like to but I can't take work once I've dropped my children at school, because they will be looking for me to take them home. And she said “What time do they get out and could you do today if you leave here at 2:30 and can you try to be here by 10:15?” So great! I get a day's pay for much less than a day's work. It even turned out to be kindy – a class of real little sweethearts who totally made me remember why I was aiming to work with that age group in the first place. The funny thing is that after the gift of such an easy day, when I was hanging out to work anyway, I knew the folk at the school would be extravagantly thankful – and they were!!
I'm still getting a bit of the feeling that evening snack time is missing from my evening. However, I know that if I keep busy and keep ignoring it for enough evenings, it will go. Tonight I was remembering previous times when I've noticed that the old feeling of wondering what I could eat during the evening had gone, and how pleasant it was to have lost the nagging pest voice. It's good to realize there's no need to feel obliged to have one! I was remembering basically that I have no obligation to eat during the evening. It's a nice thought. I always related it to the thought I had when I was giving up smoking many years ago, that it was a kind of freedom – one less thing to feel obliged to take account of or feel tied to.
Lunch: 1:30 2 packets (8 crackers) Vive Wholemeal Crispbread. Topped with 100 gm lowfat cottage cheese, a tomato and a mushroom . Sliced pear.
Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Snack 3:30 4 fresh dates. Handful snow peas. 1 baby carrot. 1 coffee with milk.
7:00 Celery
Dinner: 8:30. ~ 160 gm thin fillets of tropical snapper. I let these sit for about ½ hr in a mix of fresh coriander leaves, fresh chilli and fresh lime juice. Then I quickly dipped them in flour before shallow frying in EVO oil. A slice of fresh Vienna loaf. A biggish chopped salad with balsimic vinegar – spinach, snow peas, capsicum, cucumber, tomato, mushrooms, kalamata olives. 4 fresh dates. Tub of diet apricot yoghurt. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Exercise: 6:20 20 minutes. Walked the dog, in the bush at Warwick.
I worked today, which was unexpected because I didn't get the phone call till 9:30 am. Usually I just say no to these things and leave it at that, but I had only just rung this woman the day before to make sure that she kept ringing me! I said sorry, I'd really like to but I can't take work once I've dropped my children at school, because they will be looking for me to take them home. And she said “What time do they get out and could you do today if you leave here at 2:30 and can you try to be here by 10:15?” So great! I get a day's pay for much less than a day's work. It even turned out to be kindy – a class of real little sweethearts who totally made me remember why I was aiming to work with that age group in the first place. The funny thing is that after the gift of such an easy day, when I was hanging out to work anyway, I knew the folk at the school would be extravagantly thankful – and they were!!
I'm still getting a bit of the feeling that evening snack time is missing from my evening. However, I know that if I keep busy and keep ignoring it for enough evenings, it will go. Tonight I was remembering previous times when I've noticed that the old feeling of wondering what I could eat during the evening had gone, and how pleasant it was to have lost the nagging pest voice. It's good to realize there's no need to feel obliged to have one! I was remembering basically that I have no obligation to eat during the evening. It's a nice thought. I always related it to the thought I had when I was giving up smoking many years ago, that it was a kind of freedom – one less thing to feel obliged to take account of or feel tied to.
Curvie Girlie
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No kidding, smoking is actually a big commitment! LOL! Glad you quit, cute pic of your girl and don't sweat the "lined face," it's beauty, a beauty our society doesn't appreciate. Great NZ pics! WOW! have a great night!
Curvie Girlie
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Oh rats, I just probably read that WRONG! What a beautiful place to walk. I run in some beautiful places, I need to take more pictures!!!
cinderelly
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Hey you...i never knew you smoked...had you mentioned that before ??? COngrats on quiting it is one hell of a hard thing to do...so Ive heard and witnessed!!! I just wanted to drop in and say hey...starting on Monday IUm gonna make an honest effort to dive right back in..my life has been a little crazzzy lately but ya...LOL...I miss you!!!
felici
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Hi Cerella! I reckon that new job of yours must be a challenge in lots of ways!! I'll look forward to seeing you around again.
As far as smoking goes, it was long ago. I did learn things from it, that have helped a bit with losing weight, but clearly for me adjusting my food was the much more difficult process. I know some people who've found the opposite though.
November 2 2007
Breakfast: 7:30 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Snack: 10:30 2 Vive crackers. 1 small nectarine. 2 x coffee with milk.
Lunch: 12:30 6 crackers Vive Wholemeal Crispbread. Topped with 100 gm lowfat cottage cheese, a tomato and a mushroom . Small nectarine. Coffee with milk.
Snack 3:30 8 fresh dates. Handful snow peas. 2 baby carrots. 1 slice wholemeal Vienna bread. 1 coffee with milk.
Dinner: 9:30. Thai green chicken. 2 large chicken thighs, bamboo shoots, zucchini, coconut milk. ½ C boiled basmati rice. Spices and so on. I think this meal tasted noticeably better than usual because I used fresh chilli and fresh basil. The chilli wasn't burny – more like a little teasing sting. Tub of diet apricot yoghurt. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
No exercise.
As far as smoking goes, it was long ago. I did learn things from it, that have helped a bit with losing weight, but clearly for me adjusting my food was the much more difficult process. I know some people who've found the opposite though.
November 2 2007
Breakfast: 7:30 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Snack: 10:30 2 Vive crackers. 1 small nectarine. 2 x coffee with milk.
Lunch: 12:30 6 crackers Vive Wholemeal Crispbread. Topped with 100 gm lowfat cottage cheese, a tomato and a mushroom . Small nectarine. Coffee with milk.
Snack 3:30 8 fresh dates. Handful snow peas. 2 baby carrots. 1 slice wholemeal Vienna bread. 1 coffee with milk.
Dinner: 9:30. Thai green chicken. 2 large chicken thighs, bamboo shoots, zucchini, coconut milk. ½ C boiled basmati rice. Spices and so on. I think this meal tasted noticeably better than usual because I used fresh chilli and fresh basil. The chilli wasn't burny – more like a little teasing sting. Tub of diet apricot yoghurt. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
No exercise.
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Curvie Girlie
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You almost about 55 pounds to date!!!!!!!! Congrats! 
Sophie335
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hey felici. youre rant about time to go back to the drawing board and enough is enough has really inspired me. thankyou i could relate to everything you were talking about there - the wanting to eat but now wanting to!
anyway good luck with your fresh start and way to go with all that weight gone.
x
i could relate to everything you were talking about there - the wanting to eat but now wanting to! anyway good luck with your fresh start and way to go with all that weight gone.
x
felici
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Hi! I'm glad you liked the pics. I value those places too, and would pick out a shot of countryside near here pretty fast even from photos of elsewhere in WA or in Australia I think. In movies I can see that an outdoor shot is of Australia straight away usually - just like hearing the accent.
You almost about 55 pounds to date!!!!!!!! Congrats!
Thank you.
I didn't update my siggie last time went it went up though! I think it's moved back a bit again, I think it's probably 54 right now. I am happy about what I've already done I must say, despite being conscious that it needs to move forward. The interaction here is really helping.hey felici. youre rant about time to go back to the drawing board and enough is enough has really inspired me. thankyou
anyway good luck with your fresh start and way to go with all that weight gone.
x
Thanks Sophie. It's so nice to see you around and doing well. It's my ambition to eat well enough that it cuts out that feeling! I guess just now is a bit of a readjustment time for me.
November 3 2007
Breakfast: 8:30 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Snack: 11:30 1 slice toast with vegemite. 2 baby carrots. A handful of snow peas. 2 x coffee with milk.
Lunch: 12:30 2 slices toast with melted cheese. Peach. Coffee with milk.
Snack 4:30 8 fresh dates. McDonald's cappuccino.
6:30 Diet apricot yoghurt.
Dinner: 7:30. Lamb curry with eggplant, spinach, potato, and rice.
8:30 Slice of fresh wholemeal bread. Watermelon. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
No exercise.
Clearly not the easiest eating day ever. I didn't get the munchies in the evening but I seemed to be hungry a lot during the day. I think I am going to make things a bit easier on myself by a) buying less appealing bread (ie a square loaf and getting it presliced instead of a Vienna batard sitting seductively on a bread board), and b) finding an opaque box to put the leftover halloween chocolates into and hiding it them at the back of the fridge again.
I still keep getting lots of compliments from people who haven't seen me for a while. For example today when I went shopping in a top that ought not be as tight as it still is!
I feel like a bit of a fraud because of course, I am not doing much right now, but they still see the big change. Whatever, it is nice. Latest nice result of having lost weight is pulling off a summer top and noticing what a small light thing it is. For me the clothes thing was not the compelling reason to start this, but it sure is a fun bonus.
felici
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November 4 2007
Breakfast: 9:30 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Snack: 11:30 Coffee with milk.
Lunch: 2:30 2 slices bread with low fat cottage cheese and tomato. Carrots, snow peas, capsicum. Coffee with milk.
Snack 5:30 8 fresh dates. Slice of bread. Coffee.
Dinner: 7:30. 150 gm grilled lean pork. Slice of bread. Mountain of salad veges with a dessert spoon of light french onion dip. Tomato, cucumber, zucchini, broccoli, mushroom, capsicum, celery.
9:30 Tub of diet apricot yoghurt.
Exercise: 30 minutes walk in bush at Warwick.
I thought I would try making a list like the one Mal put in her diary.
Reasons I want to lose weight
1.To stay alive as long as I can.
2.To not have to tell my kids I'm dying.
3.To not have to think that I am sick and I didn't try to stop it happening when I could.
4.To be able to keep on tying my shoelaces and breathing at the same time.
5.To be able to keep on standing up without waving my arms around in a circle.
6.To be able to buy and wear a proper swimsuit when I want to.
7.To be far away from my fat self where she can't get me.
Now I am not sure about this after all. It seems like a proper thing to do, and I have ended up putting my real reasons. After all the maybe stuff is out the way, these things are definite. However they don't look right for something to keep referring to, because they're too negative. I have a kind of picture in my mind though, of fat felici standing up there at 96 kg and how there is another place down around 55 or 57 kg where I want to go, away from her. I can't count on that place to have no illness in it though, even though that is the most important unshiftable motivation I have. I just think that as it is so far away from her and on the other side of the overweight dividing line that it is a place low in eating guilt. I want low amounts of fat in my body so that I get a kind of disease protection similar to that I would have got from taking some tablets that I didn't start taking back last November when I joined here.
1.So that I have a minimal amount of fat in my body, only enough to be healthy.
2.So that I can be there when my daughter has a baby.
3.So that I stay alive.
4.So that I can walk and dance and stand up straight when I am 70.
5.So that my slim fitting clothes sit flat over my tummy.
6.So that I am in a safe part of the kilos.
7.So that I feel I am responsible and in control of myself.
I found the idea that cravings are to do with fixating on food and that the alternative is to be focusing my attention on weight loss very helpful (edit: This is from mal, I should say- and from the book she is reading I think). Switch clicking helpful. My food for today isn't much different to yesterday but my comfort level was a lot higher. When the idea came to me , that some food I saw was forbidden but in some way desirable, I tried thinking that it was great that I was not having it because not having it was what was going to get me where I'm headed. I liked that.
Breakfast: 9:30 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Snack: 11:30 Coffee with milk.
Lunch: 2:30 2 slices bread with low fat cottage cheese and tomato. Carrots, snow peas, capsicum. Coffee with milk.
Snack 5:30 8 fresh dates. Slice of bread. Coffee.
Dinner: 7:30. 150 gm grilled lean pork. Slice of bread. Mountain of salad veges with a dessert spoon of light french onion dip. Tomato, cucumber, zucchini, broccoli, mushroom, capsicum, celery.
9:30 Tub of diet apricot yoghurt.
Exercise: 30 minutes walk in bush at Warwick.
I thought I would try making a list like the one Mal put in her diary.
Reasons I want to lose weight
1.To stay alive as long as I can.
2.To not have to tell my kids I'm dying.
3.To not have to think that I am sick and I didn't try to stop it happening when I could.
4.To be able to keep on tying my shoelaces and breathing at the same time.
5.To be able to keep on standing up without waving my arms around in a circle.
6.To be able to buy and wear a proper swimsuit when I want to.
7.To be far away from my fat self where she can't get me.
Now I am not sure about this after all. It seems like a proper thing to do, and I have ended up putting my real reasons. After all the maybe stuff is out the way, these things are definite. However they don't look right for something to keep referring to, because they're too negative. I have a kind of picture in my mind though, of fat felici standing up there at 96 kg and how there is another place down around 55 or 57 kg where I want to go, away from her. I can't count on that place to have no illness in it though, even though that is the most important unshiftable motivation I have. I just think that as it is so far away from her and on the other side of the overweight dividing line that it is a place low in eating guilt. I want low amounts of fat in my body so that I get a kind of disease protection similar to that I would have got from taking some tablets that I didn't start taking back last November when I joined here.
1.So that I have a minimal amount of fat in my body, only enough to be healthy.
2.So that I can be there when my daughter has a baby.
3.So that I stay alive.
4.So that I can walk and dance and stand up straight when I am 70.
5.So that my slim fitting clothes sit flat over my tummy.
6.So that I am in a safe part of the kilos.
7.So that I feel I am responsible and in control of myself.
I found the idea that cravings are to do with fixating on food and that the alternative is to be focusing my attention on weight loss very helpful (edit: This is from mal, I should say- and from the book she is reading I think). Switch clicking helpful. My food for today isn't much different to yesterday but my comfort level was a lot higher. When the idea came to me , that some food I saw was forbidden but in some way desirable, I tried thinking that it was great that I was not having it because not having it was what was going to get me where I'm headed. I liked that.
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bmohearn
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Felici- I'm so happy for you. You have lost OODLES of weight. And all because of that great mindset. The analogy you depicted of you getting away from "fat" felici is exactly how I feel. I want to get away the body I'm in now. You have done a great job. And obviously whatever has gotten you to where you are now- is working spectacularly. Keep up the great work. Keep up the motivation. Keep going and going until you get there.
cinderelly
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I love that line
I think writing stuff down liek that is good!!! To remind us and refocus us and so on...sorry I dont have much in the line of words this morning - LOL...Just wanted to drop in and say heyI have a new diary and it is Cerella's Restarting, Refocusing and Remotivated - something liek that
felici
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Thanks Brandy. I don't know that I have an invariably good mindset - but I'm working on it. I know it's essential to get it right enough or I just won't be able to do this in the long term.
Thanks for that. I was getting a bit dozy about why you weren't posting in your own diary!!I love that line
I have a new diary and it is Cerella's Restarting, Refocusing and Remotivated - something liek that
November 5 2007
Breakfast: 9:30 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Snack: 10:30 Coffee with milk.
Lunch: 12:30 6 Vive crackers with low fat cottage cheese, tomato and capsicum. A carrot and an apple. Coffee with milk.
Snack 5:30 8 fresh dates. Slice of bread. Coffee.
Dinner: 8:00. ~2/3 C spaghetti with a sauce of evoo, kalamata olives, stuffed green olives, fresh tomato, baby spinach, fresh parsley and tinned red salmon. Cucumber, zucchini, broccoli, mushroom, capsicum, celery.
11:20 Tub of diet apricot yoghurt.
Exercise: No official exercise. Though I was standing/walking from 8:25 to 5:30 almost continuously, and walked for 15 minutes as part of a whole school fitness thing.
Reflections on food:
1.I have got to speed up the lunch thing! It took me thirty minutes to assemble and eat that lunch! I think the slow lunches are good for my food control but that will be counter productive if I end up somewhere that I get only a 10-15 min break. I probably just need to put a tad more effort in at home.
2.I love that we have self seeded parsley growing. It takes almost no effort to produce, doesn't die when it's neglected, makes lots and lots of leaves so there's almost always some there, and it tastes so yummy to have fresh herbs even when it's just parsley!!
3.Time to get seriously careful about the water bottles.
4.That I am happy that I am not going to eat that (high calorie, high sugar, high fat) object, because not eating it is what is making me slimmer, idea, is still working! It truly helps me turn around the sense of being a bit deprived that I managed to start up by overindulging in the holidays. Thank goodness!!
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Cannon 2006
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My school lunch lasts between 8-10 minutes. It sure is hard to relax and eat in that ammount of time. You're doing great Felici and I see no reason why the holidays will change that.
felici
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Thanks Cannon.
I would go crazy if I got such a short amount of time for lunch every day, no matter even if I had little angels!! Today I had about 5 minutes!! That wasn't because they were mean though, I just had some awkward time issues because I misunderstood what class I was taking today. I had some prep time at 2:00 though so I didn't stay hungry.
Funnily enough I accidentally made lunch easier on myself today because the school I'm at this week, was having a special lunch because the Melbourne Cup was on today. There was lots of different food but not really the kind I was after. However, I had my mind stuck on the idea of making the food I brought faster to eat, instead of thinking what I could contribute to a special lunch, so luckily I accidentally took my own food anyway. I say luckily, because there really was nothing there that I could count on to fit a low fat, low sugar, high fibre food plan!!
Tomorrow night we are joining some of my husband's family for a meal at a Vietnamese restaurant. It should be good. I enjoy their company. I don't think I'll worry too much about the food. I'll just not eat the fried entrees, control the amount of steamed rice, and make sure I eat enough protein. The only other issue at that restaurant should be the coconut milk.
November 6 2007
Breakfast: 7:30 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Snack: 10:30 Coffee with milk. 1 ½ Vive wholemeal crackers.
Lunch: 1:00 ½ chicken thigh, not lean.
2:15 – 3:00 6 ½ Vive crackers.
3:00 a carrot and a little capsicum
Snack 5:30 8 dates, a slice of wholemeal bread, a tub of diet apricot yoghurt and a coffee with milk.
Dinner: 7:45 Some grilled lamb, about the right weight but not as lean as usual. Cucumber, tomato, broccoli, mushroom, capsicum, celery, carrot. 100 gm tinned 4 bean mix.
Exercise: No proper exercise.
I would go crazy if I got such a short amount of time for lunch every day, no matter even if I had little angels!! Today I had about 5 minutes!! That wasn't because they were mean though, I just had some awkward time issues because I misunderstood what class I was taking today. I had some prep time at 2:00 though so I didn't stay hungry.
Funnily enough I accidentally made lunch easier on myself today because the school I'm at this week, was having a special lunch because the Melbourne Cup was on today. There was lots of different food but not really the kind I was after. However, I had my mind stuck on the idea of making the food I brought faster to eat, instead of thinking what I could contribute to a special lunch, so luckily I accidentally took my own food anyway. I say luckily, because there really was nothing there that I could count on to fit a low fat, low sugar, high fibre food plan!!
Tomorrow night we are joining some of my husband's family for a meal at a Vietnamese restaurant. It should be good. I enjoy their company. I don't think I'll worry too much about the food. I'll just not eat the fried entrees, control the amount of steamed rice, and make sure I eat enough protein. The only other issue at that restaurant should be the coconut milk.
November 6 2007
Breakfast: 7:30 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Snack: 10:30 Coffee with milk. 1 ½ Vive wholemeal crackers.
Lunch: 1:00 ½ chicken thigh, not lean.
2:15 – 3:00 6 ½ Vive crackers.
3:00 a carrot and a little capsicum
Snack 5:30 8 dates, a slice of wholemeal bread, a tub of diet apricot yoghurt and a coffee with milk.
Dinner: 7:45 Some grilled lamb, about the right weight but not as lean as usual. Cucumber, tomato, broccoli, mushroom, capsicum, celery, carrot. 100 gm tinned 4 bean mix.
Exercise: No proper exercise.
Miss Ladybug
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Howdy Feli!! WOW, lots of action in this diary, it took me forever to catch up. LOL LOL That's all good!! 
So you have an herb garden?? We do the outdoor garden in the spring,summer, fall but I haven't tried anything indoors. Not sure if I could find the room for starters, LOL LOL
Well, your meals sounds lovely! and I love the posting you put about why your doing this, that so grounded me, thanks for posting that!! Your are doing such a great job on your weight loss venture, you have got to be proud of that! Keep up your great work, that goal is just around corner for you! Have a great day!
Kim
So you have an herb garden?? We do the outdoor garden in the spring,summer, fall but I haven't tried anything indoors. Not sure if I could find the room for starters, LOL LOL Well, your meals sounds lovely! and I love the posting you put about why your doing this, that so grounded me, thanks for posting that!! Your are doing such a great job on your weight loss venture, you have got to be proud of that! Keep up your great work, that goal is just around corner for you! Have a great day!
Kim