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Hi Felici,

I just wanted to say thanks for making me feel so welcome, and also that I have looked at your photos and you have done such an amazing job!!! You look beautiful, and you have a fantastic smile.

In many months to come I hope I am able to have such fantastic results.

Wow!!

Frankie
 
Curvie Girlie said:
Good deal!!! I like it!!! :hurray:
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:D The kids were really quite lamb like about it. I liked it too!!

frankie said:
Hi Felici,

I just wanted to say thanks for making me feel so welcome, and also that I have looked at your photos and you have done such an amazing job!!! You look beautiful, and you have a fantastic smile.

In many months to come I hope I am able to have such fantastic results.

Wow!!

Frankie
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Thanks, Frankie!! Well losing weight can be done! And it doesn't always take as long as you'd think to feel the benefits. I hope you are still here in many months time, because I know I will be, and I want more Aussies!! :D :D
 
Hey Felici,

I hope ( and plan to be) I am here in many months time - and a few kilos lighter!!!!

Your current weight is my goal weight for Valentines Day, so that's something for me to aim for!!

Frankie
 
Hi Frankie!!!

You are absolutely on track to have the Valentine's Day you want! How handy that there was a challenge with the right day on it for you! :D




Wednesday 21 November, 2007.

Breakfast: 7:45 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.

Snack ~ 11:00 coffee.

Lunch: 1:30 8 wholemeal Vive crackers 100 gm low fat cottage cheese with capsicum, mushrooms and cucumber. Snow Peas. 1 coffee with milk.

Snack: 3:00 A carrot and a pear.

Dinner 7:45 ½ C spaghetti with a sauce of 130 gm tinned red salmon, green olives, tinned tomato, spinach, chives and parsley.

tub of yoghurt
fresh peach

Midnight monster munch: about 20 almonds and 2-3 bowls of Sultana Bran with soy milk. :(

I did the horrible knee exercises in the morning. (Good thing about them, they make me pant, so I suppose they're good for something beyond the health of my knees). Other than that I didn't exercise. Why? Because I didn't give it a high enough priority early in the day, and didn't care to take on the stress of fitting it in to the later part of the day. Right. No good reason.
 
Saturday November 24, 2007.

Breakfast: 7:45 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.

Snack ~ 11:00 Gloria Jeans skinny cappuccino.

Lunch: 2:30 8 wholemeal Vive crackers 100 gm low fat cottage cheese .

Dinner 5:30 Roast lamb, roast potato, carrot, turnip and broccoli. Tub of diet apricot yoghurt.

More lamb.

Snack: 10:00 Snow peas.

Exercise: None.

Thursday and Friday I ate mostly well. Similar to Wednesday but without going overboard at midnight. However, I went to a jewellery party on Friday night and ate a few of the snacks despite thinking they would be too high in fat. I haven't been exercising. I haven't been posting, because I was feeling crappy, not because I was eating badly. I don't think I'm over feeling crappy, but tomorrow I am definitely spending a nice long time at a pool.


I'm relieved to be so close to the end of today. I have been struggling with cravings off and on a bit lately. I was fully into cravings earlier on tonight. I actually went to the back fridge, looked for chocolates and picked one up. The saving thought was “You don't do this, you don't do this. YOU DON'T DO THIS!!” and I put it back. I didn't get over it too soon though.

I know that it is really important for me personally to not have the first one. Even if I stopped at one on that occasion, it would badly break the pattern that has kept me going this past year. I'm pretty sure that if I hadn't had the holiday and let myself eat badly then, I wouldn't have these food issues now at all, but regardless, I need to be able to overcome them here and letting myself have time off here in my own home, with no change of location to signal when the time off would change back into time on, could be disastrous.

I think the place my desire to eat badly has come from is emotional. Yet I know that if I can't deal with emotional issues without going to those sorts of foods I will not get where I'm headed weight wise, I will not maintain at that level, and worse than that, I will go back where I was. It's critical for me. Other people add small amounts of that type of food and it's not a problem for them. I know that I can only eat it under different circumstances than these.

I actually saw some reports recently, to do with keeping weight off once it is lost and it said that people who have patches of bad eating due to circumstantial things (eg Christmas or holidays), do much better at getting back on track than people who get off track because they eat for emotional reasons. Well I have been an emotional eater in the past (I have used every reason there could be!! I didn't miss emotional reasons!). But I will not do that now and I will not do it in the future. I want a better future than that, and I know that emotional eating is a quick fix that will quickly make me miserable not happy.

Another contributing factor to the food getting difficult, are me being slack about exercising, and being a bit bored. The boredom comes from being slack though. I have no good reason for that either. The other thing I could have done to stop this happening, would have been to include more vegetables during the day. It's not that I don't know these things, just that I was careless – too much “Can't be bothered” feeling. Sometimes you just have go through the motions until you can be bothered again.

I even thought about whether I really need to/ want to lose the rest of the weight I have. As far as my appearance goes, I guess I never cared that much, and I look slim enough (for my age), for people not to think about my weight as an issue. I was glad I had already made my “Reasons”, list though because the reasons that really matter haven't changed at all. I feel a bit blagh right now. Big deal. How does that compare to how I'd feel struggling with a diagnosis of a new lifestyle related disease and some crappola life dominating treatment. It just doesn't cut it.

I need to think about this more at the earlier stages of slacking off though (and not slack!). It's too hard to keep fighting at the cravings stage. Eating snow peas helps! But it is impossible to divert a craving for high sugar food into a desire for a healthy snack. At that time there is no such desire. All there can be is an intention. I can chose to eat a healthy (and for preference, low cal), snack regardless of not being interested in it at all, and then if I still have cravings I can choose to eat another one. The good thing is that having just started to get out the more appropriate food seems to work like a switch, and shift the craving. I think I probably need to actually eat the food as well to send it on it's way though.
 
:bigear:Girl - I hear ya:bigear:Im so dissappointed in myself lately and I really need to work on it and change it...

Lately it has been hard for me to have the energy or the focus to exercise to have the self control to eat well - Im letting myself down and emotionally eating and getting super full and feeling like crap...

But girl you got this far and you look great and you will figure it out and we are all here for you when you do...

I know I need to keep on loosing but I gotta find that groove agian and that energy...(which I loose from not eating well or exercising) HA ha HA
 
Sunday November 25, 2007.

Breakfast: 10:00 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.

Lunch: 1:15 6 wholemeal Vive crackers 100 gm low fat cottage cheese , with 1 mushroom, about 1/3 capsicum, and 2” cucumber.

Snack: 4:00 Broad ladyfinger banana.

6:00 25 gm beef jerky.

Dinner 7:30 2 Skinfree portugese chicken drumsticks. Leftover roast lamb (unmeasured – the sin in the day). 2 slices wholemeal toast with a little jam. Lots of salad (prepared quickly and without interest - eaten with relish - the saving grace once more.) Capsicum, celery, carrots, mushrooms, snow peas, ~ ½ small peach and 4-5 strawberries. Coffee with a little milk.

The problems with this meal came from a lack of planning on my part. I was just overly hungry. I would have been better off, eating something that was properly considered before I became hungry.

Exercise: 4:45 Pool (Craigie). ~ 20 minutes walking – mainly for warm up and cool down. 20 minutes alternating freestyle one way and either breaststroke or backstroke on the way back. That was a good 20 minutes – it felt the most like HIIT of anything I've done for a long while – I'm glad I was in a 50 metre pool and not 100 metres. 20 minutes slower mix - mainly swimming. I really loved that I was mainly swimming today and getting a feeling of improving how I swam with each lap – I love the way it works arms and legs at once, and the way some stretching is naturally part of it. It wasn't an especially hot day today and it wasn't free – so not crowded!! :D I am soooo slow – but at least I can do it! I remember the first time I tried to swim freestyle some years back, I could only do it for a couple of minutes. I can't plan to swim daily but I am going to try and manage a couple of times a week from now on.
 
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Way to get yourself to the pool today!! ALRIGHT that's a good start! I think this week was a week that many found trying and difficult. I don't normally crave sweets like pie and cakes and brownies, but for some strange reason I was craving pecan pie really bad. LOL LOL my H bought those individual small little ones the size of a cupcake and I had two, so I don't feel to bad, but still I normally would have just turned my nose up at it. Look at you, saying NO to chocolate, now that I'm sure I would have eaten, as chocolate is my downfall and that's why I try to keep it out of my house. LOL LOL

I like your menu the past few days,seems your still eating really well. Are you down on the scales this week??? even if you didn't get in much exercise your eating is amazing to me. Keep up the pool workouts, those are so good for the body, your working all your muscles in the water, so good for you!!

I'll check by later to see on the weight. HUGS TO YOU!!
Kim
 
Miss Ladybug said:
Way to get yourself to the pool today!! ALRIGHT that's a good start! I think this week was a week that many found trying and difficult. I don't normally crave sweets like pie and cakes and brownies, but for some strange reason I was craving pecan pie really bad. LOL LOL my H bought those individual small little ones the size of a cupcake and I had two, so I don't feel to bad, but still I normally would have just turned my nose up at it. Look at you, saying NO to chocolate, now that I'm sure I would have eaten, as chocolate is my downfall and that's why I try to keep it out of my house. LOL LOL

I like your menu the past few days,seems your still eating really well. Are you down on the scales this week??? even if you didn't get in much exercise your eating is amazing to me. Keep up the pool workouts, those are so good for the body, your working all your muscles in the water, so good for you!!

I'll check by later to see on the weight. HUGS TO YOU!!
Kim
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Chocolate and icecream are my twin Nemeses. I almost always have some in the house though. This is not a tip for how to not eat them!!! I know it would be better not to have them here, but I have them here for other people to eat, and I think it's okay that they do that. Usually, I don't have too hard a time with them being in the house - as long as I don't eat any at all!! When I've managed to eat them one night without pigging out, then that has just meant that the pig out thing is coming soon. It's kinda weird how I can choose them, put them in my shopping trolley, pay for them, store them, and go for months acting like they're not here!! I wish one of those months would start again soon! I'm pretty sure that as long as I don't actually eat it, then I will be okay again in a little while.

Scales. Well they are not down this week. At least the shopping centre ones I use for my siggie are not down. Actually they were up today! (71.2 kg instead of 70.5 kg) That is a bit poobah, but really my loss last week was so massive (for me), that I don't think it's so much a matter of having actually gained this week, as that my recorded weight was too low last week, and too high this week - time of day, different levels of hydration and so on. I say that not just because I predicted something like this at the time, but also, because the scales I use at home don't jump around as much now as they did when I was a bit heavier, and they have shown a consistent downward trend the past two weeks. The first week they showed some loss but a less dramatic one, and this week they showed a bit more of a loss, not a gain. Right now, I'm glad I'm not in a challenge!! This would drive me nutso :confused: :rolleyes: :ack2:if I was!! LOL. I think my weight is kind of ok - doing the right thing, and as it's confusing I'm just going to concentrate on trying to the right thing with my food and exercise!!

Cannon 2006 said:
Hey I like your resolve. I need to find that inner fire for myself again. I'm hoping that I can do that this week.
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Cool. You find inner fire, and I'll work on finding the ability to get up early and work out before work!!! :D

Have a fantabulous holiday!!
 
Monday November 26, 2007.

Breakfast: Exact same breakfast as always!! Except eaten at lightning speed, and actually, only 2 sips of the coffee.


Lunch: 1:15 6 wholemeal Vive crackers 100 gm low fat cottage cheese . Which I ate like a dip.
Snow peas and a carrot, and 1/3 of a capsicum which I ate standing up, because I reckon fed is better than not fed. And a pear, which I ate standing up.

Snack: 3:30 1 navel orange, two pieces of leftover lamb, 1 coffee (which I drank half of).

Dinner 6:45ish The skin from the salmon, ½ can vegetable and butter bean soup. 2 slices of eggplant grilled with a little EVO oil and lowfat cheese. ~ 2 Tbspns butter beans.

8:15 1 diet apricot yoghurt. A tin of asparagus (~ 400 gm), ~ 120 gm tinned red salmon, ~ 3 slices tinned beetroot.

Exercise: 7: 30 25 mins walk in the bush, with the dog. This time sped by, but I kept it short as I had to collect my son from his casual job.


At the last minute this morning I had a phone call and went to work at a more difficult school, and with more difficult group of children than I do normally. I was mostly not stressed though. They took a lot of watching however and I was tired out already by the time I got home, before I started the great grocery shop... It was funny though, a teacher nearby commented on how quiet they were, especially compared with the week before when they'd had a relief teacher in there (which I was pleased to hear – quiet is not always best, but it was today). At the end of the day, 2 of the kids came up and asked me if I was “Mrs W's sister”. Do I seem like her? Do I sound like her? Yes!!! You sound exactly the same!! You say the same things!! That really cracked me up. I'm starting to feel like a chameleon teacher, blending in so many different situations. I do sometimes hanker for more routine though.
 
hehe chocolate ... mmmmm

ive found yogurt with flavours tends to satisfy most cravings. you can get stuff like cheesecake lowfat yogurt and it has a crapload less calories than the real thing :D
 
I love yogurt too Wishes, and I agree it comes in so many flavors now you can real curb a sweet tooth by choosing certain flavors these days.

I hate scales and I swear if I got on 5 different scales from the store scale, to the doctors scale to my home scale, they would probably not be the same, I would put money on that one!

Keep up the great work, you inspire me you know that right??
HUGS
Kim:party:
 
wishes said:
hehe chocolate ... mmmmm

ive found yogurt with flavours tends to satisfy most cravings. you can get stuff like cheesecake lowfat yogurt and it has a crapload less calories than the real thing :D
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Yes. I find yoghurt a great substitute for desserts. I think it suits me that it's a bit creamy/milky - even though not fatty. I will have to remember that tip if I get stuck on something specific. :D

Miss Ladybug said:
I love yogurt too Wishes, and I agree it comes in so many flavors now you can real curb a sweet tooth by choosing certain flavors these days.

I hate scales and I swear if I got on 5 different scales from the store scale, to the doctors scale to my home scale, they would probably not be the same, I would put money on that one!

Keep up the great work, you inspire me you know that right??
HUGS
Kim:party:
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Thanks Kim! I have not been feeling too inspiring lately! I am looking forward to getting back past the pre-holiday weight! I haven't actually plateaued at all, yet I feel like I have been stuck now for 2 months, because I haven't gone past where I was at yet.

I find my weight's different according to the machine too. The shopping centre one is the highest of any I've tried!! LOL!! It was the one I used when I started this thing, so it's my comparison for how much I've lost. Now and again I think that's a nuisance. Silly because I am what I am regardless of numbers, but I can imagine wanting a normal BMI and thinking those scales are cheating me of it! :D I used them today soon after breakfast which I think of as the standard best comparison time for those weights. (I can't exactly do the nude just out of bed thing there.) I was 70.7 kg. So that's good. I think that's probably a genuine weight this time.
 
Tuesday November 27, 2007.

Breakfast: Exact same breakfast as always!! Including 2 cups of coffee!!

Snack Coffee

Lunch: ~1:00 6 wholemeal Vive crackers 100 gm low fat cottage cheese with mushrooms and capsicum.

Snack: Diet apricot yoghurt, pink lady apple.

Dinner 8:30 ~ 130 gm grilled lean lamb. Salad veges: snow peas, carrot, mushroom, tomato, cucumber, celery, capsicum. About 2 bites of zucchini. My zucchini was dry and yucky! I don't know if it had been left cut for too long or if I picked a dud!!

2 weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches.

Exercise: 2:15 55 minutes swim! It was great! I found out that a pool closer to home has public laps available 12-3:00 M-F. It is a tad cheaper than where I was going, and has been refurbished since I used to go there. Everything is especially clean and I had a lane all to myself the entire time! Very nice. I did a similar routine to Sundays. This time I definitely counted the freestyle/other strokes laps. It was 6 sets and near enough 20 minutes. It's interesting the way my breath gets less and less in those sorts of sets. When I used to climb the DNA tower I would start feeling the pain start lower and lower down the ladder as the sets went on. With the freestyle I can measure how far I can get doing 4 strokes to the breath and when it cuts back to 2. The first lap I just about made it to the end. By the sixth the lap I didn't even make it to the middle! I did manage an entire lap later on in the session, but I thought my lungs might burst before I reached the wall!! :D I think I got a cramp!? Weird – that's never happened to me before. I just did a few stretches and walked for a bit and I was ok. I don't know if I swam too soon after eating, or maybe having a banana before I left was helpful the other day – I guess I don't have too many experiences that are close to what I was doing today anyway.

4:30 25 mins walk in the bush, with the dog. This was just a bonus. I am only aiming at an hour these days.




I just went to check my join up date, cos I knew it's around now. And it turns out it's exactly now!! So this is my one year anniversary here.

It was a great day too.

I'm glad I looked it up before it went past!! It's 11:38 pm here!! That's so silly!! :D
 
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