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felici
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Thank you. Nice to see your post here. I think it's good to have breaks in your day, and snacks can be useful too, but then there's the clear delaying tactic ... and that's what I had that day!!
I didn't start out swimming this summer. I just went to a pool and walked up and down, or did jumps, walked sideways, walked backwards, walked while doing different arm movements etc. I see a lot of people spend time at the pool doing these things. Then I would do a lap of walking and half a lap of breaststroke, or backstroke. I really didn't have enough breath do do much freestyle at first - I would feel like I was drowning after about 1/3 of a pool length. I just kept breaking up the swimming lengths with walking lengths, and then when I could swim I would alternate the strokes that took my breath or tired one part of my body, with another that let me get my breath back or tired a different part of my body. For a while I was swimming in the pool around 3 times a week and my swimming endurance really built up quite quickly then. I had to have time away from freestyle at one stage because I hurt my neck (doing something else), and my breathing ability dropped right back, so I'm just building it up again. I love to swim though - it really seems to be a great combination of stretching, and aerobic exercise. (Aerobic if you keep pushing yourself a bit.) Plus you can get to panting without being sweaty - though the chlorine still smells funny I suppose
. I love the smell of swimming pools though because for me they are so associated with feeling relaxed.Thanks for this Kim. I don't know how big my house is in squares, but despite all the previous hours, I think it pretty much needs a major dusting and vacuuming still!
Ha wishes. You mean the solution is never think about cleaning the house. I could hang around bingeing in pre-cleaning mode forever!! Unfortunately I can use the munchies to avoid other things I don't want to do either! And despite the housework the house really never does get the House and Garden look!! Actually I sometimes do get into the swing of things with the house and enjoy the progress I'm making. Same thing with studying!! I so never have the can't wait to get started feeling though ...ahh this is why i dont binge too often, i never clean my house! If i tried to clean my house more often id end up bingeing and then fat again!
See! solution is live in a messy house
felici
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Wednesday March 12, 2008.
Breakfast: 7:30 Slice wholemeal toast (75) with plum and cinnamon jam (15). Weetbix (107) with soy milk (122) and tinned peaches (50). A boiled egg (70) and tomato (20) Coffee (2x5) Breakfast – 469 calories.
Coffee (5)
Lunch 12:30: 2 slices wholemeal bread (150) with 80 gm low fat cottage cheese (72), cucumber(5), mushroom(2), tomato (?20). 1 fresh date (55) Coffee (5). Lunch - 309 calories
Snacks: (while I was driving to and from an appointment)
3:30 : 2 Vive light crackers (100).
5:30 : 25 gm beef jerky (~100)
Dinner: 7:15 70 gm (cooked weight) rump (200), 1/2 cob corn (65), 1 1/2 circles eggplant (7) grilled with EVO oil (40) and parmesan (30), 3 slices beetroot (20), 1/2 tin asparagus cuts (~40), ~ 10 gm tinned salmon skin (~20). 1/2 tomato (20), 1/2 lebanese cucumber (5), ~ 4 snow peas (4), 1/2 mushroom, 2 baby carrots (10). 200 gm diet yoghurt (84). 2 fresh dates (110). Dinner - 655
Total - 1638 calories.
Exercise: Walked dog - Warwick bush - normal route - outside edge - brisk 35 minutes. A bit too hot really, poor old dog was walking from patch of shade to patch of shade.
A good day in which I had 3 little buzzes.
1) I had an appointment with a specialist in the afternoon. This had been arranged last September. In the morning the specialist's receptionist rang me and tell me I needed to get a new referral from a GP first. This would have meant seeing the GP (with whom I did not have an appointment), somehow between 10:00 and 2:00. That is not the good bit! The good bit is that after making 5 phone calls, and writing an email I didn't send, I actually spoke to someone within the Medicare system, who was the right one to speak to and who totally fixed everything up!! And maybe has the receptionist sorted out sufficiently that she will stop stuffing people up in the way that she tried to do to me and maybe she will even be able to fix up the people she messed up with this before me ... you never know. She had me convinced it was Medicare's system causing the problem, but it was her ... At any rate, for once my inability to let go of the sense of wrongness without trying to fix it, fixed things for me. I had actually given up on getting that and was just trying to make something happen about the apparent system error.
2) And then when I did go to the specialist, who I have been seeing for the last 7 years, she told me that I was all still perfectly healthy.
3) And she said "Have you lost a lot of weight, how much, have you finished, what weight are you aiming for?" And I said I wasn't sure but although I recognized the limitations of BMIs, it would be nice to at least get to the upper end of normal, and she said, aren't you normal already, and I said no, around the border of overweight to obese and the top of normal would be tbe 55 kg. And she laughed and said I couldn't possibly lose 13 more kgs or she would need to treat me for anorexia. And I said I had been that weight before and she said, yes, but we change as we get older.
Well that was funny! I reckon she must have been deceived by my skirt - as she was just looking at my top half. I was 55 kg when I was 28 or so, not 17. I was 49 kg when I was 17. I am not taking it seriously. Weight loss isn't her area of expertise. But somehow her opinion feels more weighty than other people's. I wonder if she thinks she needs to be treated for anorexia - she is a small ethnically Asian woman and very slim! Anyway, I'm not complaining, I will just take it as a compliment. Possibly a compliment to my choice of skirt!!
Finally had an early night - I had to skip posting the food and then I left it so long that it was hard to remember tonight, but it was nice to wake up from the extra sleep this morning feeling normal and rested, instead of still being a bit tired.
Thursday March 13, 2008.
Breakfast: 7:30 Slice wholemeal toast (75) with plum and cinnamon jam (15). Weetbix (107) with soy milk (122) and tinned peaches (50). A boiled egg (70) and tomato (20) Coffee (5) Breakfast – 464 calories.
More coffees (10?).
Lunch 1:30: 100 gm low fat cottage cheese (90) spread between 4 Vive light wholemeal crackers (100) with tomato (30), capsicum (10) and mushroom , and a toasted 30 gm wholemeal bread roll (65) with a fresh date (55), cinnamon and nutmeg and 7 gm chopped walnuts (37). Coffee (5). Lunch -392 calories
Snack: 3:45 1 small gala apple (40) and a green tea. (Finally I have had enough coffee!!)
Dinner: 8:15 - Spaghetti: ~ 70 gm lean beef mince (150), EVO oil (60), 2/3 small onion (16), 1/3 stick celery (1), 1 baby carrot (5), ~ 1/6 capsicum (5), 2 black olives (8), 1/3 tin tomatoes (49), 1 extra pear tomato (20). 1 1/2 circles eggplant with evo oil and parmesan (77). Scant 1/2 cup spaghetti (100). 1/4 cabbage (55?), ~ 7 snow peas (7), piece capsicum (5), stick celery (5). 1/2 lebanese cucumber (5). Dinner - 563 calories
Snack: 11:00 200 gm diet yoghurt (84), and 1 fresh date (55)
Exercise: 1 hour tap class.
Total - 1603 calories.
I realized today that apricot delight roll, actually could work in better for lunch than I'd been thinking before. I could slice it up and top it with cottage cheese - pretty yummy actually. Probably not a good regular option, but maybe ok occasionally.
Breakfast: 7:30 Slice wholemeal toast (75) with plum and cinnamon jam (15). Weetbix (107) with soy milk (122) and tinned peaches (50). A boiled egg (70) and tomato (20) Coffee (2x5) Breakfast – 469 calories.
Coffee (5)
Lunch 12:30: 2 slices wholemeal bread (150) with 80 gm low fat cottage cheese (72), cucumber(5), mushroom(2), tomato (?20). 1 fresh date (55) Coffee (5). Lunch - 309 calories
Snacks: (while I was driving to and from an appointment)
3:30 : 2 Vive light crackers (100).
5:30 : 25 gm beef jerky (~100)
Dinner: 7:15 70 gm (cooked weight) rump (200), 1/2 cob corn (65), 1 1/2 circles eggplant (7) grilled with EVO oil (40) and parmesan (30), 3 slices beetroot (20), 1/2 tin asparagus cuts (~40), ~ 10 gm tinned salmon skin (~20). 1/2 tomato (20), 1/2 lebanese cucumber (5), ~ 4 snow peas (4), 1/2 mushroom, 2 baby carrots (10). 200 gm diet yoghurt (84). 2 fresh dates (110). Dinner - 655
Total - 1638 calories.
Exercise: Walked dog - Warwick bush - normal route - outside edge - brisk 35 minutes. A bit too hot really, poor old dog was walking from patch of shade to patch of shade.
A good day in which I had 3 little buzzes.
1) I had an appointment with a specialist in the afternoon. This had been arranged last September. In the morning the specialist's receptionist rang me and tell me I needed to get a new referral from a GP first. This would have meant seeing the GP (with whom I did not have an appointment), somehow between 10:00 and 2:00. That is not the good bit! The good bit is that after making 5 phone calls, and writing an email I didn't send, I actually spoke to someone within the Medicare system, who was the right one to speak to and who totally fixed everything up!! And maybe has the receptionist sorted out sufficiently that she will stop stuffing people up in the way that she tried to do to me and maybe she will even be able to fix up the people she messed up with this before me ... you never know. She had me convinced it was Medicare's system causing the problem, but it was her ... At any rate, for once my inability to let go of the sense of wrongness without trying to fix it, fixed things for me. I had actually given up on getting that and was just trying to make something happen about the apparent system error.
2) And then when I did go to the specialist, who I have been seeing for the last 7 years, she told me that I was all still perfectly healthy.
3) And she said "Have you lost a lot of weight, how much, have you finished, what weight are you aiming for?" And I said I wasn't sure but although I recognized the limitations of BMIs, it would be nice to at least get to the upper end of normal, and she said, aren't you normal already, and I said no, around the border of overweight to obese and the top of normal would be tbe 55 kg. And she laughed and said I couldn't possibly lose 13 more kgs or she would need to treat me for anorexia. And I said I had been that weight before and she said, yes, but we change as we get older.
Well that was funny! I reckon she must have been deceived by my skirt - as she was just looking at my top half. I was 55 kg when I was 28 or so, not 17. I was 49 kg when I was 17. I am not taking it seriously. Weight loss isn't her area of expertise. But somehow her opinion feels more weighty than other people's. I wonder if she thinks she needs to be treated for anorexia - she is a small ethnically Asian woman and very slim!
Anyway, I'm not complaining, I will just take it as a compliment. Possibly a compliment to my choice of skirt!! Finally had an early night - I had to skip posting the food and then I left it so long that it was hard to remember tonight, but it was nice to wake up from the extra sleep this morning feeling normal and rested, instead of still being a bit tired.
Thursday March 13, 2008.
Breakfast: 7:30 Slice wholemeal toast (75) with plum and cinnamon jam (15). Weetbix (107) with soy milk (122) and tinned peaches (50). A boiled egg (70) and tomato (20) Coffee (5) Breakfast – 464 calories.
More coffees (10?).
Lunch 1:30: 100 gm low fat cottage cheese (90) spread between 4 Vive light wholemeal crackers (100) with tomato (30), capsicum (10) and mushroom , and a toasted 30 gm wholemeal bread roll (65) with a fresh date (55), cinnamon and nutmeg and 7 gm chopped walnuts (37). Coffee (5). Lunch -392 calories
Snack: 3:45 1 small gala apple (40) and a green tea. (Finally I have had enough coffee!!)
Dinner: 8:15 - Spaghetti: ~ 70 gm lean beef mince (150), EVO oil (60), 2/3 small onion (16), 1/3 stick celery (1), 1 baby carrot (5), ~ 1/6 capsicum (5), 2 black olives (8), 1/3 tin tomatoes (49), 1 extra pear tomato (20). 1 1/2 circles eggplant with evo oil and parmesan (77). Scant 1/2 cup spaghetti (100). 1/4 cabbage (55?), ~ 7 snow peas (7), piece capsicum (5), stick celery (5). 1/2 lebanese cucumber (5). Dinner - 563 calories
Snack: 11:00 200 gm diet yoghurt (84), and 1 fresh date (55)
Exercise: 1 hour tap class.
Total - 1603 calories.
I realized today that apricot delight roll, actually could work in better for lunch than I'd been thinking before. I could slice it up and top it with cottage cheese - pretty yummy actually. Probably not a good regular option, but maybe ok occasionally.
felici
Well-known member
It was a nice compliment!
I have been loving my food lately - because it's so yummy!! As a weight loss combo, I expect I would do better with the exercise booted up a little. Possibly I could drop the calories a bit too. However, I feel very comfortable with what I'm doing for now, and I think it's giving me a loss, even though slow.
I have been loving my food lately - because it's so yummy!! As a weight loss combo, I expect I would do better with the exercise booted up a little. Possibly I could drop the calories a bit too. However, I feel very comfortable with what I'm doing for now, and I think it's giving me a loss, even though slow.
Miss Ladybug
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I say if you feel comfortable with the calories your at right now stick with it, it's working and keeping you energized for any exercise you might be putting in for the day. If I eat over 2,000 calories my body feels horrible, it's like "Kim, you overate today" and I get this bad sensation under my stomach it's awful, our bodies know what's good and what is not, and it's good that you are listening to what yours is telling you. Good job on your food this week, hopefully the scale will soon reward you again!
Hugs
Kim
Hugs
Kim
T2 Trucker
New member
A nice take on things, for sure. A happy belly is pretty darn important - not always easy to do in this business.
Congrats on moving things around to your liking and satisfaction.
Eldaweesda
New member
Hi Felici,
It's great that you are comfortable with your diet. I hate the word diet, food choices sounds better. When I think of diet, I think of how life used to be for me, Diet meant starvation "YUK" You are doing it right, as many years have taught me, you should never ever deprive your body good nutrition, even if does have some sugar in it! It looks like you exercise lots too, so the weight should be coming off any day now! Have a good weekend.
GO BLUE!!!!
It's great that you are comfortable with your diet. I hate the word diet, food choices sounds better. When I think of diet, I think of how life used to be for me, Diet meant starvation "YUK" You are doing it right, as many years have taught me, you should never ever deprive your body good nutrition, even if does have some sugar in it! It looks like you exercise lots too, so the weight should be coming off any day now! Have a good weekend.
GO BLUE!!!!
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T2 Trucker
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Binge cleaning. It's all the new rage.
ok, I made it up but it could become a new trend and a WLF-exclusive. You could become a common household icon with your new buzzword.
ok, I made it up but it could become a new trend and a WLF-exclusive. You could become a common household icon with your new buzzword.
felici
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I reckon you're right about that. If someone is losing for a while and then stops, even though they're still eating and exercising the same way then they are usually told to put their calories up not down, so I guess, as long as the amount I'm losing isn't making me unhappy, then I'm safer to stick with this rather than decrease it. Of course, at the moment I'm using the dodgy scales to guess the decrease, but they are tending the right way, so this will do me.
At the moment, I'm seeing that regardless of what it is that I ate, I'm feeling full on about the same number of calories. This is happening even at times when I'm surprised what the calories are after I calculate them. I really appreciate that. It lets me guess that my body is, as you say, still prepared to give me the feedback I need. At times I have felt as though I've wiped it out, but just now, it's good.
As far as exercise goes, I would be more comfortable with myself if I was doing a bit more. I don't want to go massively all out, even presuming I had the oomph, because I do still injure so easily. Still, I believe I could do more, and I reckon I'm moving towards that.
Thank you! I'm afraid the times I'm struggling are full of actual set backs - I don't have a history of winning every round - I'd rather set things up for myself so that I take fewer punches I guess - and if the happy way to lose is the comfy way, then I'm grateful for the times when I can see where the comfy way is cos it's the path I'm looking for!!
edit: I did use the word wimpy instead of comfy at first. Comfortable is much more to the point!! I guess when it comes to tough, I reckon tough should be in the exercise part of what we do. If it gets into the food then it has to be dealt with, but for me personally it needs pushing till it gets out of there!! I don't like the black eyes it gives me!!
Proper weigh in shortly. I'm actually looking forward to that this week, for the first time in quite a while.
I've been surprised how helpful it has felt to know that I'm part of the challenge. I think for a long time, just having this diary was equally as helpful, but reporting a string of disasters seemed to take some of the edge off that!! Also I was strict about recording everything for a long time, and taking time out from that - leaving some days unrecorded - also had an impact. The challenge has been good for me as a way of just keeping me more interested in making each individual day count.
I will have to find that switch which turns my actual process from binge eating to avoid housework, into doing housework to avoid binge eating!!
Then I'm sure the buzz word will make me a million!! Thanks for the word!!
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keepitoff83
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That's so nice that you got such a nice compliment from the specialist. I always find that little compliments here and there from people that you don't see on a daily basis (i.e. not your best friends) are the best for me because I know they're genuine. Nothing makes me happier than someone I haven't seen in a couple months saying "Wow you got skinny!" It's fantastic that she already thought you were in the normal range! It's that much more motivation to keep going with all the good eating and exercise. It sounds like you like what you're eating too, which makes everything that much better! I'm still working on finding a balance with foods that are healthy, that taste good, and that I don't get sick of! Hopefully I'll get there soon! Anyway I'm about to pop over to the challenges section to see how everyone's weigh-in went! Hope yours went well .
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felici
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Hello Priti!! Nice to see you here. Well I was a bit late posting in the challenge. My routine for Saturday usually allows me enough time to weigh and post here, but I see now that it's a bit tight, especially if there's a little change in routine the way there was today. When I can, I might put a provisional figure in on Friday in future.
However, the actual result was good. I was 68.8 kg (151.5 lb) last week and 67.4 kg (148.5 lb) today so that's 1.4 kg down (3 lb). I hardly ever lose that much in a week, so I hope I can still post a decent loss next week. I know I used to have kinda zigzag losses with at one stage.
Anyway I still can't get back to the computer with my food on it for yesterday, but I'll post the exercise.
Friday
Exercise:
~ 40 minutes elliptical: I don't know the exact amount because I lost the flashing lights on the machine, twice yesterday. Also I didn't have a mobile on me to check the times. The new phone I want to put some music onto hasn't arrived yetcuss: telephone co's!) And my son took my mobile with him to school!! cuss: sons!) Anyway, the headphones and radio thingy at the club started working properly but stuffed up (as ever), however, I was in luck in that they had the club music up loud and some decent tracks. One was very slow, so I put the intensity level up high and ended up playing around with that for a while. I had fun.
15 minutes walking the dog in the bush. Sorry dog I was on the phone to the phone company in your walk time. And I wasn't talking to them either, just on hold for half an hour!!
Well I was a bit late posting in the challenge. My routine for Saturday usually allows me enough time to weigh and post here, but I see now that it's a bit tight, especially if there's a little change in routine the way there was today. When I can, I might put a provisional figure in on Friday in future.However, the actual result was good. I was 68.8 kg (151.5 lb) last week and 67.4 kg (148.5 lb) today so that's 1.4 kg down (3 lb). I hardly ever lose that much in a week, so I hope I can still post a decent loss next week. I know I used to have kinda zigzag losses with at one stage.
Anyway I still can't get back to the computer with my food on it for yesterday, but I'll post the exercise.
Friday
Exercise:
~ 40 minutes elliptical: I don't know the exact amount because I lost the flashing lights on the machine, twice yesterday. Also I didn't have a mobile on me to check the times. The new phone I want to put some music onto hasn't arrived yet
cuss: telephone co's!) And my son took my mobile with him to school!! cuss: sons!) Anyway, the headphones and radio thingy at the club started working properly but stuffed up (as ever), however, I was in luck in that they had the club music up loud and some decent tracks. One was very slow, so I put the intensity level up high and ended up playing around with that for a while. I had fun. 15 minutes walking the dog in the bush. Sorry dog
I was on the phone to the phone company in your walk time. And I wasn't talking to them either, just on hold for half an hour!!
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felici
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I just checked back and my lowest weight this summer was 66.5 kg. So I have less than 1 kg to go to get back to it now.
In other news, the girl (who I am currently NOT owning as my daughter), clicked off my food entry before I posted it! I do have the numbers recorded elsewhere, but not my rave about how wonderful the new cheesecake flavoured no-fat, no sugar yoghurt tastes!!
In other news, the girl (who I am currently NOT owning as my daughter), clicked off my food entry before I posted it! I do have the numbers recorded elsewhere, but not my rave about how wonderful the new cheesecake flavoured no-fat, no sugar yoghurt tastes!!
felici
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Friday March 14, 2008.
Breakfast: 7:30 Slice wholemeal toast (75) with plum and cinnamon jam (15). Weetbix (107) with soy milk (122) and tinned peaches (50). A boiled egg (70) and tomato (20) Coffee (5) Breakfast – 464 calories.
Lunch: ~12:45 2 slices wholemeal bread (150), with 40 gm red salmon (68), and capsicum (5), tomato (10) and dill. Watermelon (70). (303)
Snack: 5:45 1 banana (70). 175 gm Yoplait Forme cheesecake flavoured, no fat, no sugar yoghurt (71).
I was pretty hungry when I ate this and had just shopped for birthday cake and lolly bags. I don't suppose that yoghurt would taste so great to someone who'd eaten actual cheesecake that day but I loved it!! The combination really kept me going too.
Dinner: 8:30 150 gm veal strips (135) wrapped around 70 gm garlic prawns (100) and grilled. 100 gm m/w potato (70), 75 gm finely sliced mushrooms cooked gently in 1 tspn EVO oil (45), 1 tomato (30), 1/4 capsicum (8), 1/2 lebanese cucumber (5), chopped with coriander. Dinner - 407
Snack: 10:30 175 gm Yoplait Forme cheesecake flavoured, no fat, no sugar yoghurt (71), 1 fresh date (53), 3 roast almonds (21).
Total - 1465
Exercise: in post above
Saturday March 15, 2008.
Breakfast: 9:00 Slice wholemeal toast (75) with plum and cinnamon jam (15). Weetbix (107) with soy milk (122) and tinned peaches (50). A boiled egg (70) and tomato (20) Coffee (5) Breakfast – 464 calories.
Lunch 2:00 2x45 gm wholemeal bread rolls (200). One with 50 gm red salmon (95), 1/2 tomato (12) and some capsicum (5) and the other with (30?) gm cottage cheese (27), 1 fresh date (53) and cinnamon and nutmeg. Lunch -392
Dinner: ~ 8:00 - 10:30 A very little leftover spaghetti (25). 65 gm grilled sandwich steak (78) in 45gm wholemeal breadroll (100). A small carrot (40), 1/2 celery stick (2) , 1/2 capsicum (15), a broccoli floret (10), 1/2 lebanese cucumber (5), 3 snow peas (3) and some lettuce. Dinner - 278
Snack: 11:00 Diet cheesecake yoghurt (71), 2 fresh dates (104).
Total calories - 1309
No exercise: Exercise time got squeezed until it disappeared, so I guess it's just as well the calories are lowish.
I have just made up lolly bags and snack bags, and that sorta kept my fingers too busy to eat much dinner. I did actually use things I like to eat myself, unlike the stuff I routinely buy for my children. For that, I have reverted to buying lollies I don't care too much for! At any rate, my attention was on other things. I didn't feel much interest that I couldn't easily divert. I'm very glad to feel so much less interest than I was doing a short time ago.
Tomorrow we are taking a group of girls up to a place called The Maze to celebrate my daughter's birthday. I'm taking stuff to make hamburgers and sausage sizzles, vege and fruit snacks and chips - lots of drinks - and the bags I made up. Also birthday cake (white mudcake). As ever I will have a little of that cake. I'm not taking extra cream and extra chocolate for it, so it won't be as delicious as the one we had on Tuesday. I think for myself I will probably be ok if I take a decent small wholemeal breadroll for my hamburger and eat all the veges the girls pass on, and make sure I have some other food before and after the cake! Hopefully all that will keep the cake neutralized!!
Breakfast: 7:30 Slice wholemeal toast (75) with plum and cinnamon jam (15). Weetbix (107) with soy milk (122) and tinned peaches (50). A boiled egg (70) and tomato (20) Coffee (5) Breakfast – 464 calories.
Lunch: ~12:45 2 slices wholemeal bread (150), with 40 gm red salmon (68), and capsicum (5), tomato (10) and dill. Watermelon (70). (303)
Snack: 5:45 1 banana (70). 175 gm Yoplait Forme cheesecake flavoured, no fat, no sugar yoghurt (71).
I was pretty hungry when I ate this and had just shopped for birthday cake and lolly bags. I don't suppose that yoghurt would taste so great to someone who'd eaten actual cheesecake that day but I loved it!!
The combination really kept me going too.Dinner: 8:30 150 gm veal strips (135) wrapped around 70 gm garlic prawns (100) and grilled. 100 gm m/w potato (70), 75 gm finely sliced mushrooms cooked gently in 1 tspn EVO oil (45), 1 tomato (30), 1/4 capsicum (8), 1/2 lebanese cucumber (5), chopped with coriander. Dinner - 407
Snack: 10:30 175 gm Yoplait Forme cheesecake flavoured, no fat, no sugar yoghurt (71), 1 fresh date (53), 3 roast almonds (21).
Total - 1465
Exercise: in post above
Saturday March 15, 2008.
Breakfast: 9:00 Slice wholemeal toast (75) with plum and cinnamon jam (15). Weetbix (107) with soy milk (122) and tinned peaches (50). A boiled egg (70) and tomato (20) Coffee (5) Breakfast – 464 calories.
Lunch 2:00 2x45 gm wholemeal bread rolls (200). One with 50 gm red salmon (95), 1/2 tomato (12) and some capsicum (5) and the other with (30?) gm cottage cheese (27), 1 fresh date (53) and cinnamon and nutmeg. Lunch -392
Dinner: ~ 8:00 - 10:30 A very little leftover spaghetti (25). 65 gm grilled sandwich steak (78) in 45gm wholemeal breadroll (100). A small carrot (40), 1/2 celery stick (2) , 1/2 capsicum (15), a broccoli floret (10), 1/2 lebanese cucumber (5), 3 snow peas (3) and some lettuce. Dinner - 278
Snack: 11:00 Diet cheesecake yoghurt (71), 2 fresh dates (104).
Total calories - 1309
No exercise: Exercise time got squeezed until it disappeared, so I guess it's just as well the calories are lowish.
I have just made up lolly bags and snack bags, and that sorta kept my fingers too busy to eat much dinner. I did actually use things I like to eat myself, unlike the stuff I routinely buy for my children. For that, I have reverted to buying lollies I don't care too much for! At any rate, my attention was on other things. I didn't feel much interest that I couldn't easily divert. I'm very glad to feel so much less interest than I was doing a short time ago.
Tomorrow we are taking a group of girls up to a place called The Maze to celebrate my daughter's birthday. I'm taking stuff to make hamburgers and sausage sizzles, vege and fruit snacks and chips - lots of drinks - and the bags I made up. Also birthday cake (white mudcake). As ever I will have a little of that cake. I'm not taking extra cream and extra chocolate for it, so it won't be as delicious as the one we had on Tuesday. I think for myself I will probably be ok if I take a decent small wholemeal breadroll for my hamburger and eat all the veges the girls pass on, and make sure I have some other food before and after the cake! Hopefully all that will keep the cake neutralized!!
Hi Felici,
I'm jealous about the cake you get to have. I love cake, especially mudcake. It's definitely one of my weaknesses. Your eating plans are so balanced, that's one of my goals. I might have to steal some of your meal plans (especially those including the cheesecake yoghurt which I have tried and think is delicious) so that I can eat more balanced too. Anyway, have a good weekend.
I'm jealous about the cake you get to have. I love cake, especially mudcake. It's definitely one of my weaknesses. Your eating plans are so balanced, that's one of my goals. I might have to steal some of your meal plans (especially those including the cheesecake yoghurt which I have tried and think is delicious) so that I can eat more balanced too. Anyway, have a good weekend.
wishes
Coffee Addict
Yes! that stuff is a savior when ive been craving things!
Also the lemon meringue flavoured and apple crumble and all the puddingy ones. <3
Good on you for being almost own to your lowest though - thats awesome!
felici
Well-known member
Thanks Jaicelle. It has been important to me to make my food balanced (at least most of the time - I don't think today's a great example!), because that makes it a lot easier for me to manage my appetite.
Oh that mudcake. You know the first few times I decided I didn't want to opt out of family birthday cakes, I was actually having a small piece of carrot cake about 1 inch high or something else very tokenistic. Today I just sliced a couple of pieces of cake about half the width of the others, and about a third shorter than some of the long ones. And then I took the smaller of those two and oh my gosh it did taste wonderful. My desire wasn't exactly neutralized by food before and after the way I planned because the cake was at a different time, and because I was so busy that eating was rather rushed anyway. Still on the other hand, I did take time for a hamburger earlier, I did eat some grapes and drink some diet coke after - plus there wasn't much cake left by then anyway! So I didn't feel tempted to eat more at the time. And later in the day I figured I needed to work out the damage, and the first numbers I saw were for a mudcake (from the shop where I bought it), divided into 12 slices - 685
calories per slice!!! Far out!! Well I divided our cake into 16, plus mine was smaller etc. I've written it down as 260. But equally I kept my dinner fairly small, because I actually don't know how many calories that mud cake really cost ... And here the other end of the spectrum. Something that tastes like cheesecake, takes just as long to eat and it's 71 calories!!
We don't have that many flavours of that brand here yet. The flavours are around in other brands I think and still quite reasonable calories, though not as low. I haven't tried those because I was always content with the diet one Nestle make. I can totally see how these things can be cravings breakers.
I was excited to see the lower number on the scale this week. I reckoned I'd lost, but I thought more likely a third of that. I was very prepared to be waiting more than a month to get to the number I'm hanging out for. Of course it maybe that I still do have to wait that long!! And I sort of think it's a worry getting pleased by the scales because they can be so fickle, and equally give me a bad day or two when the weigh in result is unexpected - but in the opposite direction.
Sunday 16th March 2008
Breakfast
Normal 8:00 Bread a bit lighter. 454 calories.
Lunch 1:30 30 gm wholemeal breadroll. (65). ~ 110 gm heartsmart beefmince (165). Lunch - 230 calories.
Birthday cake: Marbelled mudcake (260). Handful grapes and blueberries (95)
Dinner 6:45 40 gm wholemeal breadroll (90) toasted open faced, with 100 gm tin John West light tuna tempters - oven-dried tomato & basil, (79). 35 gm snapper (from fish and chips - with batter removed) (? 61). Capsicum (20), baby carrots (20). Lowfat no sugar cheesecake yoghurt - 71. Dinner - 341.
Total - 1380 calories.
That tuna is so yummy. Flavourwise, mouthstretching wise, that combo is so satisfying.
On another point I am totally guessing the calories for the carrots tonight. I will try and hunt them down. However my usual source is strange. I have always wondered about the 40 calories for a small carrot which is what it says. But I weighed the carrots - a small one is about 100 gm. Oh well. Only now tonight I'm having baby carrots. They are very small some of them so I thought maybe 5 calories each as the book says was ok even though so much less. But today I looked more closely and yeah, Danica McKellar I am not, but I there is a piece of ordinary math I do repeatedly these days. This is something like, 100 gm gives 40 calories, therefore 10 gm gives 4 calories. And then again if a baby carrot is 30 gm and yields 5 calories - 20gms more for 1 calorie, this must mean there is something intrinsically different about the composition of baby carrots and small carrots. Like they are made of a different kind of food... Maybe they are ...
Exercise: I guess none. Then again I might say that I have fetched and carried walked and lifted and dragged and squatted and lifted and walked and walked for many hours and have a somewhat aching body and quite noticeable weariness and therefore maybe have burned enough calories for today to be acceptable as far as that goes. I really could have done with a nice swim, or stretching routine though.
felici
Well-known member
Well I guess the 40 calories for 100 gm carrot is the right one, thecaloriecounter.com has the same figure. Mind you who knows about baby carrots. calorie-count.com says they're 33 cal/100gm, thedaily plate.com says 41cal/100gm and of course there's my book, 16 cal/100gm. Enough math for me. They taste the same and ordinary carrots are heaps cheaper!!
Enough math for me. They taste the same and ordinary carrots are heaps cheaper!! 
jw372
New member
Glad your big day went well! One may not get any formal exercise on those days, but there's sure a lot of running around.
Also, I'm with you on the carrots. I actually like the big ones better, though I do still buy the babies sometimes for convenience when I want something to shove in my bag and eat at school. I so wish the vending machines would ever have anything really healthy in them. A Nature Valley Oat and Honey bar is about as close as they get--the only plain nuts they have are oversalted peanuts. So I really have to bring in all my snacks.
Sophie
Also, I'm with you on the carrots. I actually like the big ones better, though I do still buy the babies sometimes for convenience when I want something to shove in my bag and eat at school. I so wish the vending machines would ever have anything really healthy in them. A Nature Valley Oat and Honey bar is about as close as they get--the only plain nuts they have are oversalted peanuts. So I really have to bring in all my snacks.
Sophie