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felici said:
Also, we all sit upside down, and sleep upside down, and you know ... do everything from the opposite direction to you - at the same time, perhaps. :D
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So you're saying I'd need a snorkel to engage in a lagerfest ?? I hate when I nose-load beer. It kinda hurts.
 
Well sometimes people who need an urgent lager-fest within the first 24 hours use a snorkel. After that they get used to drinking upside down like the rest of us.




I just like the idea that if you were having a lager fest where you live, while I was sedately sipping a diet ginger beer, where I live (under my halo), the bottoms of our glasses could be pointing at each other, while our heads both pointed towards the opposite ends of the universe. :D


Soz about your horrible weather... :(
 
I love your new AVI, you look gorgeous!!! WOW look how thin your face is, so so nice!!! And I don't want to hear one word about it's a small photo or the lens made it look better or any other excuse, you look great and that's all there is to it!!

Hope your day is a good one, I don't have time to read through it all so I'll try later. Hugs and love
Kim
 
Cannon 2006 said:
Hey, I love to catch cricket when I can. I got addicted when studying at Oxford. By the way I love the new avatar :)
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Thank you.

You studied at Oxford! Far out! What an amazing way to experience the UK - and what an amazing place to study!

It sounds like your addiction to cricket has retreated, due to lack of cricket. How lucky!! It really is too time consuming to be addicted to - now you have time to go to the gym!! :biggrinjester: (and/or time to have a life! :D)



Miss Ladybug said:
I love your new AVI, you look gorgeous!!! WOW look how thin your face is, so so nice!!! And I don't want to hear one word about it's a small photo or the lens made it look better or any other excuse, you look great and that's all there is to it!!

Hope your day is a good one, I don't have time to read through it all so I'll try later. Hugs and love
Kim
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He he. No-one has time to read it all - it's like cricket!! Thanks for the good wishes, and the compliment.

OK, no excuses about the avvie. "I have a screening tool on the computer (ie the viewer - me), that automatically rejects all the fat face photos" ... this reply is out. "This is my new ready-for-action avvie!!" ... this reply is in!! :D

Now all I need is the action ...
 
After my senior year in high school I spent the summer taking two English literature classes over there. It was an amazing experience. I lived with a great host mom and her 22 year old son. She had been editor of the UK Better Homes and Gardens magazine in the 60s and could talk about any subject. I had some amazing teachers too. When I went to college all the Indian and Pakistani students would come call on me because they knew I had a full set of cricket equipment and we'd play out in the quad. Always got a lot of female spectators too which was fun :)
 
That sounds even more amazing than I imagined!

I'm going to post very fast, with no proper numbers and run (well, sleep literally). Brekkie as normal today, stayed home, crackers and cottage cheese with tomato and olives for lunch - felt a bit hungry still so had a yoghurt with my pear. Probably was still hungry because I'd waited too long too eat. The same thing happened with my snack in the pm - feeling especially hungry from waiting too long. I was proud that I actually went to the bakery with the special goodies and didn't buy any - I just asked them to look into the calories for me. :) Sadly the lady there thinks the brunchies are oily... so I guess they are relegated to the eventual occasional.

Then I made myself a new snack! I am really happy about it. That Pritikin muffin I had the other day tasted great partly from the spice I reckon. So when I got home I made myself a slice of bread (from a batard - a nice oval loaf), with just a smudge of cottage cheese spread over it, dusted it with cinnamon and nutmeg and chopped up 4 walnut halves and put them on top. Not sweet at all, but with a lot of the yumminess of cake type stuff. It would be even better with a more dense bread. I also had a ladyfinger banana and yet more coffee.

Next was tap class. This was a bit sad. I wore rubber thongs on my feet to class, so that I could easily change into my shoes inside. I was in a hurry and quickly went to sit on the floor to put the shoes on and something pinged inside my right knee - it was a new pain that I haven't had before. I wasn't sure what had happened, but I knew it was bad and although it didn't affect the tap moves at all, it's settled into an ache now. I realized later when I put the thongs on again that they had kinda contributed. Whereas tap shoes let me swivel as smoothly as I want and stop the second I want new rubber thongs are the opposite - clumsy and going their own way, and I reckon I twisted a little without realizing as I went to sit. Bugger bugger. I've taken some ibuprofen. I'll keep that up and I dare say it will settle quickly if I'm careful about that twisting motion. *crosses all fingers and some toes*. I'm still learning more with the dance! I'm starting to know which bit is coming by the sound of the music and the memory of the sound of all the tap shoes. It really puts a smile on my face. I don't know why really.

And then dinner. Lots of last minute changes - I made sure I had salad veges ready before I left. When I came home I had a little tin of the yummy flavoured tuna on a slice of bread and another cottage cheese and walnut topping on the another slice (with a fair thickness of the cheese this time - about 40-50 gm). Plus I ate the veges. And I was busy on-line - watched just a little tv while I massaged my husband's sore knee! So I didn't really feel like eating extra.

Tomorrow is a working day and a busy day. I'm thinking fingers crossed that I don't get attacked by the weekend munchies, and then thinking I should be more positive than that. I have learned quite a bit these last couple of weeks surely. I am definitely finding myself naturally unthinkingly heading for healthier choices, I am feeling pretty determined, so I will try to make sure I eat enough, eat often enough, rest enough, get myself enough non-food buzzes....

Oooh. A nice little buzz today - I worked hard for it I reckon (5 phone calls and over and hour, mostly on hold, persisting despite the poorly trained naysaying support staff telco's shunt you to once they think you're already a customer. I should just start in the sales department regardless!) But it was a nice buzz in the end - I have ordered a new mobile phone, with an mp3 capacity and radio and headphones, so I should be able to take my own music to the health club! :D

I'm going to wait till it comes to go back. And then when I go, I'm looking for the elliptical and the pool. I'm going to leave the weight machines alone for now. I didn't learn enough to use them properly. Actually I've started to look forward to having another go at the body weight exercises I did for a little while last year. (Might have to get that knee calmed down first I guess ... dammit) Yeah, so knee better first, then a combination of what does the physio reckon about my body "balance" I think it's called, and the body weight exercises.
 
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Danica McKellar. I googled. She looks good! I have no problem being compared with her - I suppose it might bother her if she knew though!! Actually, just looking at photos of her and photos of my face I can kind of see what you mean, even though my mirror's a bit different and I was never in the running for something like this
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- let alone now :D

As for the math ... ummmmm. I studied science and English and education with just enough math to back them up ... and I'm afraid my life is littered with moments like this:
felici said:
Saturday 29 February 2008...

I found out why I was getting weirdly differently results about how many calories I should have. It's because I did one lot of calculations adding 244 calories instead of subtracting it.:ack2:
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Friday March 7, 2008.

Breakfast: 7:30 Toast (75) with plum and cinnamon jam.(15) A boiled egg.(70) 2 cherry tomatoes (20) Weetbix (107) with soy milk (122) and tinned peaches (50). Coffee with a little hilo milk. (5) Breakfast – 464 calories.

Snack: Apple (50) Coffee (5)

Lunch: 12:00 6 cream crackers (60 cal) with low fat cottage cheese (60), 2 cherry tomatoes (20), a brown mushroom (2) and some capsicum (5). A handful of snow peas (8). A small carrot (40). Coffee with milk. (5) Lunch – 200 calories.

Snack: 4:00 1 slice wholemeal bread (80) with cottage cheese (30) and 4 walnut halves (~ 40). Some capsicum (10). 1 gala apple (50). Coffee with milk (5). Snack – 215 calories.

Dinner: 7:45 Stirfried king prawns. 250 gm prawns (275), 1 tbspn sesame oil (140), 1/2 onion (35), ½ red capsicum and 1/2 green capsicum (30), 1 ½ bunches baby pak choy (10?), snow peas (10), ½ tbspn sherry (8), 2 tbspn soy sauce (20), 1 tbspn chicken stock (3). ¾ C basmati rice (160). 200 gm diet apricot yoghurt (84). Apple (40). Coffee with milk (5). Dinner – 820 calories.

Total - 1334 calories.

Accidentally, this was uncomfortably low. I left my normal crackers at home and used something I didn't know the numbers on for lunch, so I ate a little less. I thought I picked this up with my snack later but by the time I needed to make dinner, I had run out of steam and it was an effort to bother with it. I would have done something very fast except I was committed to making this other meal. Luckily I had been in a bit of a dream while I was shopping and bought lots – more than I would have normally and so even though I was ready to go crazy eating it, there was so much on my plate that it was filling. I have been keeping my evening carbs higher than I was doing, and that seems to be helpful too.

Exercise: No. I've decided that if I work on a Friday the stress of trying to fit one more thing into the current evening isn't worth the pay off, so I'm (almost) guiltlessly not doing that.

Daily buzz: Well while I was running on empty I was a little concerned that there might not be one, and thinking maybe it's a problem not exercising, just because it's harder to get one without any exercise. I was a bit tired too, and despite all the coffees and some Pepsimax during the evening I fell asleep in front of the tv after dinner.

Even so I decided that the day had a bit of non-food buzz in there. I enjoyed my class today. Year 1's. I had forgotten that there are a couple of shows on tv that I like on Friday nights (yeah I slept through most of it, but at least it was there! :D).
Especially I liked:
- that I was at a school where they'd put on a monster morning tea – but I had not forgotten to take my apple and my own coffee and I was happy with them, and glad that this was enough for me.
- that I went shopping and didn't feel attracted to the food I don't want;
- that although I felt a little anxious before dinner about maybe wanting to overeat, because I have on Friday's recently, I was able to remember feeling calm afterward dinner with the sense that I'd eaten and it was done with - an issue that didn't need any more attention – and just recalling how that felt, I was a lot more confident – and it did turn out that way. Being conscious of that again is certainly a buzz all it's own.
 
Most of those calorie calculators are a bit different. You notice it at my weight where it can be off by 2,000 pounds a day between the lightest and heaviest. I was happy that I went to a trainer on my cruise because they used an electrical impulse to determine my maintenance is around 3,130 calories per day.
 
:D Yeah, a lot of calculators are like that. There's certainly a lot of difference once they start trying to factor in "light activity" and "medium activity" and so on, but I stuffed the basic Harris-Benedict equation calculation up because of the math blindness I sometimes have to deal with.
 
Good morning, Steve. :)

I am up so late that our mornings have coincided. :)

I better get to bed before I screw up my current happy week by being massively overtired!
 
I'm just popping by to say hello. I feel very weak today, and don't have a lot of energy to even sit up at the computer. But I wanted to say thank you so much for joining my challenge, and I hope it gives you some motivation. I will be by your diary to catch up as soon as I'm better.
 
Hey pretty lady!

I have been horrible about stopping in here! Don't be nice and tell me it's ok, because it's not! I'm a bad supporter! :)

I really do go back and read everything you have to say, and I love reading it! You are so well written and so well organized! I love it! And I don't know if I ever said it, but I love your avatar! Stunning!
 
Summer Solstice Challenge

Good Evening Felici,

I am so excited about the Challenge. We are team mates on the Blue Team and I know we are going to do great! I wish I could keep my diary as organized as yours. Talk to you soon . Go Blue!!!!!! :party:
 
Tyly - you have been talking to me in your diary! It's not like I didn't know that you have been too busy!! :D


Eldaweesda - Hello!! I am excited about our challenge! I have yet to pop around to the other people on our team. I love that we are a team though!! As an individual, I don't have any competitive urges - BUT - I do get them once I'm on a team!! (Don't tell Brandy and Tyly though cos they're on red and black and they think they're still my friends!! :D)



I weighed myself this morning - 68.8 kg/151.3 lb. I can't find a careful record from last Saturday but I think it was 69.2 or 69.3kg, which means I've lost about a pound this week. Without calculating things for the days I haven't recorded properly, this seems about right to me. Hopefully I am done with 69kg now and not coming back again!!

I am feeling good about where I'm at. This morning I ate breakfast late and after a while took the girl to dancing and went to get a few groceries. It was harder to shop than it has been for a few days. When I first got there it wasn't long since I'd eaten, so I didn't expect problems, however I had other stuff to buy and was wondering what to get for lunch and took too long shopping and by the time I got home I had been feeling famished and wanting a lot of poor alternatives for quite a long time! I had enough sleep - 7 hours - so I was wondering why I felt so off - I still wonder if it's partly cos I didn't exercise at all yesterday. Also, I think part of the problem was that I forgot to take my pills when I had breakfast, and then ended up having them with half a glass of soy milk just before I left home. I don't think that was enough food for my tummy to manage the anti-inflammatory - also it gave the knee a bit of time to start getting a bit more sore again. :nopity:

I did feel like buying a date scone, or an apricot delight roll, and I started queuing for a Gloria Jean's low fat cappuccino. However, even though they could all potentially fit into my day, in the past they have all been part of the thin edge of the wedge that's started a binge - they're just eaten and over with really quickly while I'm shopping and the satisfaction element is too low!!

However! I did spend some of that shopping time choosing something wonderful for my lunch. I'd bought a little piece of low fat fetta yesterday, and today I bought some little wholemeal bread rolls that you finish baking at home, and some dates - which I bought intentionally for a new yummy little combo. I worry about eating dates now I have a new number for how many calories they are, but I love them.

So anyway, for lunch I baked the little rolls, let them cool off a bit, then I sliced one (82) open and topped both halves with some slivers of low fat fetta (15 gm) (40), 1/2 a vine ripened tomato (18), 1/4 lebanese cucumber very finely sliced (3), a mushroom (2) and a few slices of black olives (10). This was very yummy, though not heaps different to usual. I had forgotten that I intended to slice it into little rounds to top with the fetta alone so that I could taste the cheese properly! But still, it was ace anyway.

The other one I left open (82), topped with slices of a fresh date (53), 50 gm low fat cottage cheese (46), cinnamon and nutmeg, and 10 gm chopped walnuts (52). It was absolute heaven. I am so doing that again. Now I can feel like I'm eating dates for plenty of time, without having to have so many calories with it. :D I guess if I wanted that combo to have fewer calories still I would just have less bread, and/or less cottage cheese, or less nuts!! :D but that seemed like the right amount for today. :D

So the first roll was 155 calories and the second was 233. I had to leave then and afterwards ate an apple and had coffee when I got back again so that's 443 calories altogether, and I reckon I could eat it even if I was on my old diabetic diet. Umm. Maybe the carbs would be a bit high, I might have needed 1 1/2 rolls.

Tonight I have to go to a party. I would just as soon not be going. I would sooner have another night where I can easily control what food I get, and how I spend my time. Not that I don't want to go to the party at all, just that the timing is bad - another couple of weeks' quiet would suit me better. I don't honestly have a clear plan of how to make this work for me either, and that is a bad sign. So I just checked, wine, soft drink and nibbles are provided. Yet I recall some people don't get enough diet soft drinks. Probably my best bet is have some light tinned tuna, and carbs before I go, and take my waterbottle and my own tins of soft drink and have a wine when I arrive. If I'd been doing better lately, I would say have a sliver of cake later, but for all I know that would start a slide. OK. I will have a full meal with veges and yoghurt but no fruit before I leave home. The wine will be coming soon on top of the meal and be a high cal substitute for the fruit, plus I can try to make it last. I will just let myself know that I've already eaten nicely and comfortably and am done with it, and hopefully that will be enough.

That feels like a tighter idea to carry with me. I definitely want to wake up feeling happy tomorrow, without any oh no guilt hanging around from the night before.
 
its times like this that you wish you smoked eh ... *G* :)

So much easier to not pick at foods! just have a smoke! :O
But seriously - dont smoke - its bad mmkay!
 
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