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Cannon 2006
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I had a 5 minute lunch again too--no fun. Glad you're doing well though.
felici
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Yes. I guess this is the wrong time for people to start growing things up your end of the world. I used to grow a range of herbs all summer, but most need daily handwatering. I'm not sure if I'm up for that. I need to get back in the swing of daily exercise first, that's for sure! Thanks for all the encouragement.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
What a great thing to say.It is great and important tha tyou enjoy their company
Well I think I'm just lucky that they're special people. We had another nice night. Hello there! I'm glad you found what you wanted. *shakes head sadly* That's no good. I did it again today too! I am only feeling okay because the rest of my day has not been frantic - just busy and because I've been eating more in the snacks.
November 7 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. 2 Vive wholemeal crackers 1 small nectarine.
Lunch: 12:55 3 Vive wholemeal crackers. ~ 70 gm low fat cottage cheese. 1 mushroom. ½ tomato.
1 coffee with milk.
Snack 3:30 1 slice of wholemeal bread, ~ 30 gm low fat cottage cheese, with capsicum and tomato. A carrot. 1 small nectarine and a coffee with milk.
Dinner: 7:00 Vietnamese restaurant. 1 uncooked spring roll. ~ ½ c steamed rice. Stirfried squid and prawns with vegetables. 1 glass of chardonnay.
Snack: 9:30 8 dates.
Exercise: No proper exercise.
Another day where the empty spaces were few. Truly a 5 minute lunch! A pleasant day all the same. A bonus at the restaurant was that there were so many of us that we decided to order individual meals. Yay! Sharing makes it harder to get a satisfying meal at those places.
I was hoping to get to a few diaries tonight because I saw that there were new posts in a few of them, but this site is dead slow and I'm crossing my fingers this post gets accepted. I have it saved!! I'm not chancing my typing to the vagaries of cyberspace.
felici
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Thanks. I was kinda lucky I think, in that I could combine what I found appealing with my previous intentions to stay careful.
To me, I'd say squid can be a bit chewy (rubbery?) I guess, but not too much. At home we remove some of the outer skin and so do most restaurants, so it's not actually tough. The texture isn't unpleasant and the flavour's like another nice variation on shellfish.
November 9 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. Banana.
Lunch: 12:55 5 Vive wholemeal crackers with 1 mushroom and 1 tomato. 25 gm beef jerky (seeing as this emergency measure was in my handbag, and my cottage cheese was accidentally left at home!) .1 carrot 1 apple. 1 coffee with milk.
Well I still didn't have enough time to eat properly!! But I did have a set up whereby I could finish eating while I had yard duty on the oval. The weather was nice and the amount of hassle out there was low, so it was ok.
My week with that class is finished now – I can feel my priorities reshuffling and resettling once again. I am noticing that this is a bit of an odd way to work just now – I have no plans to change it though. I guess overall it suits me for now.
Snack 3:30 1 slice of wholemeal bread.
Dinner: 6:00 8 dates. 1 tub diet apricot yoghurt. 130 gm garlic prawns, 130 gm scallops. (I just microwaved these together for 90 secs). It was yummy, but dead easy. 1 slice wholemeal bread.
Snack: 9:30 Snow peas, carrot, cucumber, mushrooms. 2 strawberries. 1 ladyfinger banana.
Exercise: No. Still.
I know I have to change this - make it seem more straightforward and automatic than it has seemed...
felici
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Saturday November 10 2007
Breakfast: 9:00 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Lunch: 1:00 2 slices wholemeal bread. 100 gm cottage cheese with a tomato, 2 mushrooms, and some yellow capsicum. ~ 1 c watermelon. Diet lemon drink. Coffee with milk.
Snack 5:00 black tea. 6:00 4 fresh dates.
Dinner: 7:30 2/3 c spaghetti. Sauce of evo oil, onion, garlic, 140 gm turkey mince (I was looking forward to beef mince and ticked off when I realized I'd put the wrong one in, but it tasted great!), tinned tomatoes, carrot, capsicum, lots mushrooms, chicken stock. 4 dates. 1 tub diet apricot yoghurt. Bottle of diet ginger beer.
Exercise: No.
I weighed myself at the shopping centre today and the scales showed 73 kg. Since I last weighed myself 10 days ago, I've gained a kilo. And the last weight was a gain too. I've finally changed my siggie now. I hadn't bothered to put the last increase on (from 71.3 – 72 kg on 31 October), though I put it in my diary. At that time I wasn't sure how real the increase was and thought it would probably drop again in a couple of days!! I knew I needed to tighten up – and I did, but ... clearly not tight enough!! Again, maybe this amount has an element of the random in it – but however I look at it, there's no endorsement there of what I'm doing.
Yet the food I've posted doesn't look too bad. I think I've been careless about amounts. Even, or maybe especially, the ambiguously numbered one slice of bread. I had a slice more often – I'd decided to have more carbs in my snacks, thinking that this wouldn't help me lose weight in the short term, but would help me even out the cravings I was getting at one stage. It did still fit the original eating plan I had, which I'd been told would make me lose weight at the weight I am now. Yet, I know I was cutting those slices thick!! I stopped buying the Vienna batards, but maybe I made things worse, because I bought a loaf on which the normal surface area was higher, and didn't reduce the width of the slice enough. What if I recounted the last week and every time it says 1 slice I counted that as 2. I can't be bothered chasing the writing – sometimes I have bread, sometimes crackers, but I bet it would add up. On a day when I ate a lot of bread it could be as much as 6-7 extra slices. Then I haven't always weighed my protein either. And the amount of dates I was eating at a sitting was too high. 160 cals worth, when I want it to be 60-80 to fit as one serve of fruit. I haven't weighed myself on the official scales for 2 weeks either. So if for example it was 10 days x probably 350 extra calories for bread, 100 extra for dates, and 100 extra for protein.... 5500 extra calories and it only takes 3500 (or something like that), to make a pound. Good grief.
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I was a bit too full a couple of times, hungry a few times... I weighed myself every morning on those unreliable scales that I thought I was getting the measure of... I didn't expect to gain, but truthfully I guess I should have expected it, if I had been paying more attention to this, instead of thinking that going through the motions would be good enough just now. Sometimes I use my doublethink for good, but this time, not. OK.
So today I bought a sliced loaf!! I expect the others in my family will be sorry about that too, but for the time being they will have to suffer. Also I went back to only 4 dates at a time, but I know that I should replace them with a different fruit altogether. They're just too much of a trigger food for me.
I have that thought I can use now, about being glad I'm not eating the wrong food, because I want to lose weight. I need to use that more and eat less. That sounds like nothing much but I find it quite powerful when it comes to cravings. I don't really need to eat so much food in order to be able to eat with control. (I hope!!!!!!!!) So my dates are gone. I ate the second 4 then went to the fridge to get them to eat. I hadn't even noticed that I'd eaten them!! That says something all by itself I think. Mindless eating. I am too tired tonight I must say, too many short nights lately.
I know I also need to sort out my exercise, but there are many things that can affect that, I want a food plan that works regardless, and I reckon I need these changes to get that.
Breakfast: 9:00 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Lunch: 1:00 2 slices wholemeal bread. 100 gm cottage cheese with a tomato, 2 mushrooms, and some yellow capsicum. ~ 1 c watermelon. Diet lemon drink. Coffee with milk.
Snack 5:00 black tea. 6:00 4 fresh dates.
Dinner: 7:30 2/3 c spaghetti. Sauce of evo oil, onion, garlic, 140 gm turkey mince (I was looking forward to beef mince and ticked off when I realized I'd put the wrong one in, but it tasted great!), tinned tomatoes, carrot, capsicum, lots mushrooms, chicken stock. 4 dates. 1 tub diet apricot yoghurt. Bottle of diet ginger beer.
Exercise: No.
I weighed myself at the shopping centre today and the scales showed 73 kg. Since I last weighed myself 10 days ago, I've gained a kilo. And the last weight was a gain too. I've finally changed my siggie now. I hadn't bothered to put the last increase on (from 71.3 – 72 kg on 31 October), though I put it in my diary. At that time I wasn't sure how real the increase was and thought it would probably drop again in a couple of days!! I knew I needed to tighten up – and I did, but ... clearly not tight enough!! Again, maybe this amount has an element of the random in it – but however I look at it, there's no endorsement there of what I'm doing.
Yet the food I've posted doesn't look too bad. I think I've been careless about amounts. Even, or maybe especially, the ambiguously numbered one slice of bread. I had a slice more often – I'd decided to have more carbs in my snacks, thinking that this wouldn't help me lose weight in the short term, but would help me even out the cravings I was getting at one stage. It did still fit the original eating plan I had, which I'd been told would make me lose weight at the weight I am now. Yet, I know I was cutting those slices thick!! I stopped buying the Vienna batards, but maybe I made things worse, because I bought a loaf on which the normal surface area was higher, and didn't reduce the width of the slice enough. What if I recounted the last week and every time it says 1 slice I counted that as 2. I can't be bothered chasing the writing – sometimes I have bread, sometimes crackers, but I bet it would add up. On a day when I ate a lot of bread it could be as much as 6-7 extra slices. Then I haven't always weighed my protein either. And the amount of dates I was eating at a sitting was too high. 160 cals worth, when I want it to be 60-80 to fit as one serve of fruit. I haven't weighed myself on the official scales for 2 weeks either. So if for example it was 10 days x probably 350 extra calories for bread, 100 extra for dates, and 100 extra for protein.... 5500 extra calories and it only takes 3500 (or something like that), to make a pound. Good grief.
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I was a bit too full a couple of times, hungry a few times... I weighed myself every morning on those unreliable scales that I thought I was getting the measure of... I didn't expect to gain, but truthfully I guess I should have expected it, if I had been paying more attention to this, instead of thinking that going through the motions would be good enough just now. Sometimes I use my doublethink for good, but this time, not. OK.
So today I bought a sliced loaf!! I expect the others in my family will be sorry about that too, but for the time being they will have to suffer. Also I went back to only 4 dates at a time, but I know that I should replace them with a different fruit altogether. They're just too much of a trigger food for me.
I have that thought I can use now, about being glad I'm not eating the wrong food, because I want to lose weight. I need to use that more and eat less. That sounds like nothing much but I find it quite powerful when it comes to cravings. I don't really need to eat so much food in order to be able to eat with control. (I hope!!!!!!!!) So my dates are gone. I ate the second 4 then went to the fridge to get them to eat. I hadn't even noticed that I'd eaten them!! That says something all by itself I think. Mindless eating. I am too tired tonight I must say, too many short nights lately.
I know I also need to sort out my exercise, but there are many things that can affect that, I want a food plan that works regardless, and I reckon I need these changes to get that.
felici
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Hi Lena. It's nice to see you here.
I don't know what to say about work just now. It's tended to be quiet, but then I worked every day last week, suddenly full-time and needing to prepare lessons for a Year 3 class. They were pretty good on the whole, and it was interesting once I'd gotten over the first half day of rocking up with nothing prepared for them, and nothing left for me to give them. In a way that was good too, as it allowed me to realize that although I don't teach that level much I'm quite well able to improvise for them now. I'm still looking to earn as much as I can before school shuts down for the year, but I'd just as soon not be working after school as well, though I needed to in that situation. I did end up very tired after just one week.
My family is doing fine pretty much. It's still my daughter keeping me busiest, as she has a dance concert coming up quite soon and there's a fair bit of discussion and shopping needed to make all the costumes happen. I do quite enjoy it. This year she finally gets to wear one of those giant frilly tutu's and a tiara!! Also other glittery, pretty, or cool things. My boy is into surfing and we are driving him back and forth to the beach once or twice on the weekend. I wish the timing would be right for me to stay for a while and walk there. I still get a buzz out of seeing the ocean appear as we crest the last sand dune. My husband is healthy and busy, and thank goodness for that, as we are playing a bit of catchup on our finances after our trip last month. My mum is doing quite well I think, still very busy and feeling she has plenty of obligations despite being retired and living alone. The girl and I visited her on Saturday after our shopping and showed her all our shoes and bits of costumes and things we'd been buying. The girl was not sure Grandma would be interested but I knew there was nothing she'd enjoy more!! She has always been into shopping!
Sunday November 11 2007
Breakfast: 9:00 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Lunch: 1:00 Open sandwiches. 2 slices wholemeal bread. 100 gm cottage cheese with a tomato, 2 mushrooms, some sliced olives and cucumber. Diet lemon drink.
Dinner: 7:00 Roast beef (2 thick slices) and roast veges, ~120 gm potato, 1 carrot, broccoli. Tub of diet apricot yoghurt. Diet lemon drink.
Snack: 10:30 Banana.
Exercise: Walked in a swimming pool. 1 hour.
I walked fairly slowly most of the time and tried to move my arms quickly. I was able to walk where it was deep enough for the water to cover my arms as well. I woke up today with my right knee not moving properly, and the weather was hot (Max.36 C/96.7F), a bit more than we expect for November. However, I had time to exercise and didn't want to miss the chance to get going again. Hence the pool. When I got there it turned out it was a special day and everything was free, which made me think to use the spa first, though I wouldn't normally. I found the massage I got in the spa while I was on holidays really helpful for the knee trouble I was having back then, and today's spa was really strong so I let it give both legs a good pummeling, plus put some careful time in with my stretches. While I was walking in the pool, the knee mostly felt good. Certainly not worse than when I got there, but once I was out again, it was back to not quite working properly. So tonight it aches and I'm not really sure if this is the “okay as long as it doesn't linger” post physio stage, or the start of the “OMG what did you do that for – now you've made it worse” scenario!! I must say I'm regretting not giving this more priority while my body was in better shape but I guess there's no sense dwelling on that now.
I don't know what to say about work just now. It's tended to be quiet, but then I worked every day last week, suddenly full-time and needing to prepare lessons for a Year 3 class. They were pretty good on the whole, and it was interesting once I'd gotten over the first half day of rocking up with nothing prepared for them, and nothing left for me to give them. In a way that was good too, as it allowed me to realize that although I don't teach that level much I'm quite well able to improvise for them now. I'm still looking to earn as much as I can before school shuts down for the year, but I'd just as soon not be working after school as well, though I needed to in that situation. I did end up very tired after just one week.
My family is doing fine pretty much. It's still my daughter keeping me busiest, as she has a dance concert coming up quite soon and there's a fair bit of discussion and shopping needed to make all the costumes happen. I do quite enjoy it. This year she finally gets to wear one of those giant frilly tutu's and a tiara!! Also other glittery, pretty, or cool things. My boy is into surfing and we are driving him back and forth to the beach once or twice on the weekend. I wish the timing would be right for me to stay for a while and walk there. I still get a buzz out of seeing the ocean appear as we crest the last sand dune. My husband is healthy and busy, and thank goodness for that, as we are playing a bit of catchup on our finances after our trip last month. My mum is doing quite well I think, still very busy and feeling she has plenty of obligations despite being retired and living alone. The girl and I visited her on Saturday after our shopping and showed her all our shoes and bits of costumes and things we'd been buying. The girl was not sure Grandma would be interested but I knew there was nothing she'd enjoy more!! She has always been into shopping!
Sunday November 11 2007
Breakfast: 9:00 Toast with plum and cinnamon jam. A boiled egg. Weetbix with soy milk and tinned peaches. Coffee with a little hilo milk.
Lunch: 1:00 Open sandwiches. 2 slices wholemeal bread. 100 gm cottage cheese with a tomato, 2 mushrooms, some sliced olives and cucumber. Diet lemon drink.
Dinner: 7:00 Roast beef (2 thick slices) and roast veges, ~120 gm potato, 1 carrot, broccoli. Tub of diet apricot yoghurt. Diet lemon drink.
Snack: 10:30 Banana.
Exercise: Walked in a swimming pool. 1 hour.
I walked fairly slowly most of the time and tried to move my arms quickly. I was able to walk where it was deep enough for the water to cover my arms as well. I woke up today with my right knee not moving properly, and the weather was hot (Max.36 C/96.7F), a bit more than we expect for November. However, I had time to exercise and didn't want to miss the chance to get going again. Hence the pool. When I got there it turned out it was a special day and everything was free, which made me think to use the spa first, though I wouldn't normally. I found the massage I got in the spa while I was on holidays really helpful for the knee trouble I was having back then, and today's spa was really strong so I let it give both legs a good pummeling, plus put some careful time in with my stretches. While I was walking in the pool, the knee mostly felt good. Certainly not worse than when I got there, but once I was out again, it was back to not quite working properly. So tonight it aches and I'm not really sure if this is the “okay as long as it doesn't linger” post physio stage, or the start of the “OMG what did you do that for – now you've made it worse” scenario!! I must say I'm regretting not giving this more priority while my body was in better shape but I guess there's no sense dwelling on that now.
cinderelly
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Hey you I read your last two posts but not to sure waht to say...I think the hardest part abt this on going life style chance is the fact that it all boils down to finding what works for us...individually...and that can be frustrating in itself...and we always get to that point where we need to re-evaluate and change...Hey at least you didnt gain 13lbs and are maintaining or only gaining a slight bitHAHAHAIn 3 months I put on 13lbs and I am trying hard to eat less and better adn change my bad habits back to good
I read your last two posts but not to sure waht to say...I think the hardest part abt this on going life style chance is the fact that it all boils down to finding what works for us...individually...and that can be frustrating in itself...and we always get to that point where we need to re-evaluate and change...Hey at least you didnt gain 13lbs and are maintaining or only gaining a slight bitHAHAHAIn 3 months I put on 13lbs and I am trying hard to eat less and better adn change my bad habits back to good
felici
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Hey you
Yes, you're right sometimes we do need to re-evaluate. Unfortunately I am just finding out that I need to go back to doing what I was doing previously and had "rested" from! I thought I could get by with a bit less effort for a while and I was wrong! Well at least, as you say, the gain wasn't so great at this stage. I wish you well with your process. I'm pretty hopeful that I have my mental bugs hopping in step again now, so it just remains to see if what I'm doing pays off. I do think the changes I made this last couple of days should put me in the right calorie range. I have to go do the math though and be sure I have it rightish. It is so hot right now that the weather is helping me not be as interested in eating. And seeing myself in tight summer clothes is quite motivating, even if not as pleasant as I'd like!!
Monday November 12 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.
Lunch: 1:00 4 wholemeal Vive crackers 100 gm cottage cheese with a tomato. An apple. A coffee with milk.
Dinner: 7:00 2 baby carrots.
½ C smashed potato (ie, just potato), topped with ~ 6 asparagus which I'd wound 125 gm of thin sliced left over roast beef around. A sprinkle of capers (4 cal). A dollop of wholegrain mustard (8 cals). I made a different meal for my husband and another, different one for the kids. I can't believe I still bothered to make my dinner look fancy. LOL. It tasted good too. I was thinking horseradish would have been the ideal thing, but dunno. This turned out well. I almost forgot I bought those asparagus. They were on special on Saturday.
Tub of diet apricot yoghurt. Diet orange drink.
Exercise: Swimming pool. 1 hour. About 50:50 walking and breaststroke. The maximum here today was 39.8C (ie 103 F), so the pool was the place to be despite having too many kids in it!
I went to the physio today. It happened that I got a different girl to the one I had before the holiday. The good news is she said I can still walk (when it's not 39 degrees!), and should get better quite quickly. The bad news is that I will need to put up with a fair bit of pain for that gain!! She “massaged” (= ground to bits), the tendon on the outside of my thighs today. My left leg has a bruise 4 inches long! I have a lot of faith in her though. She helped my son heaps earlier this year with a very similar process. So now I am to repeat this grinding twice a day. I am not capable of such mercilessness on my own flesh, but it's still not too comfy either!! And then each time, having done that and hopefully stopped the muscle on that side from jamming on and preventing me from working the muscle on the inside, I will do a kind of step ups using only that inner muscle to raise my weight until my knees “feel like jelly” and I can't do any more. Supposedly about 30, though my very first go was 5! View attachment 5028
Holy ****!
Anyhow, I have to say that I blame myself for letting this happen and feel somewhat as though I have been given a penance.
Lesson learned. Not only will my weight go back up if I don't keep eating properly, my fitness will go back down if I don't keep exercising. I took too long off and I'm paying the price. C'est la vie! Time for a change.
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Miss Ladybug
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I think you got it all worked out! And at least you were able to do 5, next time it will be 10 then 15 and soon enough you will be up to 30.
I love your food choices as always. MMMMMM I'm needing to make some boiled eggs tonight OH YEAH!! Thanks for the reminder!!
Good luck this week, I'm sure you will do fine!
HUGS
Kim
I love your food choices as always. MMMMMM I'm needing to make some boiled eggs tonight OH YEAH!! Thanks for the reminder!!
Good luck this week, I'm sure you will do fine!
HUGS
Kim
daiseeangel
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Thank you for stopping by! I'm so glad to see you are still here!!
Sophie335
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im with you on the mindless eating... it seems that if i take 10 "whatevers" then i wont taste the middle 8 but still be wanting more after or if i take two even the first thing gets wolfed down and then i regret it and linger on the second. it shows us that maybe the anwer is just take one of everything... a little of whatever takes your fancy?
im not sure. its something i need to work on!!
hope work gets less busy for you soon chickadeepea! xx
it seems that if i take 10 "whatevers" then i wont taste the middle 8 but still be wanting more after or if i take two even the first thing gets wolfed down and then i regret it and linger on the second. it shows us that maybe the anwer is just take one of everything... a little of whatever takes your fancy? im not sure. its something i need to work on!!
hope work gets less busy for you soon chickadeepea! xx
felici
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Thanks Kim. I found out I could do 30. It was just a surprise at first to find out how fast it started hurting!!I think you got it all worked out! And at least you were able to do 5, next time it will be 10 then 15 and soon enough you will be up to 30.
I love your food choices as always. MMMMMM I'm needing to make some boiled eggs tonight OH YEAH!! Thanks for the reminder!!
Good luck this week, I'm sure you will do fine!
HUGS
Kim
I love eggs. I'm glad I don't have anyone making me feel guilty for eating them!! They were out of fashion for a while, but I think those that say so are a lot more positive about them these days.
Thanks daisee and it's great to see your lovely smile again too!
im with you on the mindless eating...
im not sure. its something i need to work on!!
hope work gets less busy for you soon chickadeepea! xx
Thanks Sophie. I have foods I need to be careful with, and for me, some I'm best off staying away from altogether, or maybe with eat rarely and only with massive planning. It's not a black and white issue that's for sure. There seems to be so much variation in individual triggers, that I'd say it's something we each have to work on - possibly even after we've been into the process for quite a long time.
felici
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Tuesday November 12 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.
Lunch: 12:00 4 wholemeal Vive crackers 100 gm cottage cheese with capsicum. Orange. Diet orange drink.
Snack: 4:15 Apple
6:15 Snow peas, baby carrots.
Dinner: 7:00 130gm grilled lean lamb. 100 gm tin four bean mix. Lots of salad veges – baby carrots, capsicum, broccoli, mushroom, celery, zucchini, tomato.
Snack 9:30 Tub of diet apricot yoghurt.
Exercise: 11:30 20 min. walk in the bush at Warwick with the dog. My knee was good to start off with, deteriorated a bit by the end, but it was a nice day out and still pleasant to walk there. The birds were busy calling, even though most of the flowers are finished.
2:25 Swimming pool. 20 mins. About 50:50 walking and breaststroke. I was a bit disorganized – I wanted this to be another long walk but ran out of time.
The knee exercises are just a pain. No fun in them, but my knee is a heap better.
I will be glad when the upgrade is finished here!!
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: 12:00 4 wholemeal Vive crackers 100 gm cottage cheese with capsicum. Orange. Diet orange drink.
Snack: 4:15 Apple
6:15 Snow peas, baby carrots.
Dinner: 7:00 130gm grilled lean lamb. 100 gm tin four bean mix. Lots of salad veges – baby carrots, capsicum, broccoli, mushroom, celery, zucchini, tomato.
Snack 9:30 Tub of diet apricot yoghurt.
Exercise: 11:30 20 min. walk in the bush at Warwick with the dog. My knee was good to start off with, deteriorated a bit by the end, but it was a nice day out and still pleasant to walk there. The birds were busy calling, even though most of the flowers are finished.
2:25 Swimming pool. 20 mins. About 50:50 walking and breaststroke. I was a bit disorganized – I wanted this to be another long walk but ran out of time.
The knee exercises are just a pain. No fun in them, but my knee is a heap better.
I will be glad when the upgrade is finished here!!
Cannon 2006
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I get a lot of pressure to eat more eggs and if I was better at cooking them I would. I think if you're cholestoral is in check they're a great food for you.
felici
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I've always thought that too. I also always thought they were really fast and easy to cook! Maybe because they were the very first thing I actually learned to cook when I was a kid. (Something I learned before I had cooking classes to feel inadequate in during high school.) But I guess there are plenty of ways to mess up with them.
I've decided that I just simply like having my boiled egg at breakfast regardless if I've left it a little long and hard boiled it, or if it's getting cold, or whatever!! I still burn my toast quite often too (but if that happens I do chuck it!!) It seems a bit odd to me that I can handle my breakfast this way - I used to get frantic if someone stopped me from eating it the moment it was ready, because it would be losing its crispness and heat and so on and I'd feel miffed if it wasn't 100% solid white and 100% liquid yolk. I guess I just got more mummified over the years. Just as well.
Maybe because they were the very first thing I actually learned to cook when I was a kid. (Something I learned before I had cooking classes to feel inadequate in during high school.) But I guess there are plenty of ways to mess up with them. I've decided that I just simply like having my boiled egg at breakfast regardless if I've left it a little long and hard boiled it, or if it's getting cold, or whatever!! I still burn my toast quite often too (but if that happens I do chuck it!!) It seems a bit odd to me that I can handle my breakfast this way - I used to get frantic if someone stopped me from eating it the moment it was ready, because it would be losing its crispness and heat and so on and I'd feel miffed if it wasn't 100% solid white and 100% liquid yolk.
I guess I just got more mummified over the years. Just as well.