tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81712477646627914282024-03-05T02:58:19.115-08:00Middle-aged, fat and frumpyLiz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.comBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-24793999481163186472019-04-09T10:27:00.003-07:002019-04-09T10:27:54.445-07:00Ice cream for lunch is the answer - whatever the question<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Coming back from holiday I was dreading weigh-in yesterday so discovering I had only put on one pound was a relief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And as I'd only lost one pound since starting five weeks ago I'm back to the beginning again. But I had a very good holiday, eating lots of buffet breakfast and dinner, and having ice cream for lunch so mustn't grumble.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first few days I ate like a woman who'd been on a diet forever: loads of bread and butter for breakfast and bits of everything. Then Husband commented, 'You're eating a lot of cheese on this holiday,' to which I replied, 'That's because I'm not allowed to.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I think that was my wake-up call. From then on I tried to resist cheese and bread - not entirely successfully - and generally tried to be more sensible, while not depriving myself at any point. And the fact that I only put on a pound suggests this was a good move. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had virtually no exercise on holiday - apart from walking to the ice cream shop - so I'm trying to get back into that again now. Will be going to gentle fitness as usual tomorrow and yesterday I did my first zumba class. Definite disadvantage not being able to tell right from left quickly but I feel more at home than I did with the boxercise so I shall try to persevere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have even shopped sensibly this week and tried to plan meals in advance. (Polishes her halo.) But Elder Son and family will be here at the weekend for a few days so eating might be haywire then. </span><br />
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<br />Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-10287235005717267102019-03-26T11:14:00.001-07:002019-03-26T11:14:42.063-07:00When the calories don't count<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Just found this post that I thought I'd already posted but had, apparently, left in Draft. So I'm not sure whether this will be in the right chronological order.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Diet has gone to pot this week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Son-in-law's 40th birthday on Wednesday meant creamy pavlova followed by feta and spinach pie. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then yesterday,I had ice cream with a friend in Verdi's. A big hazelnut basket sundae. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On Sunday it's Granddaughter3's christening so there will be more food and cake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This afternoon Husband asked me if I wanted to go on holiday to Fuerteventure in the Canary Islands. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His main concern was that we'll be staying on a half board basis - eat as much as you like breakfast and dinner. 'Will you be okay with that on a diet?'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seriously? Like I'm going to diet on holiday? </span>Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-59766349548586405582019-03-26T11:13:00.001-07:002019-03-26T11:13:16.339-07:00Second weigh-in<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Stayed the same and that is fine by me as I had a really bad - or good depending how you look at it - week with a birthday celebration, ice cream with a friend, and a christening lunch party.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also I've not started zumba yet as I was poorly last week and decided not to bother going last night as I'm on holiday next week. So I will definitely start the Monday I return, which is about 8th April I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yesterday Husband said, 'Shall we pack our gym things?' </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The hotel has a gym. It also has a lovely relaxing spa and sunbeds. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'You can,' I said. 'I won't have room. I'm packing books.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also found out that, as I'm on the countdown programme, I can't have next week off i.e. I still have to pay for it.</span>Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-18585853672772262632019-03-19T02:42:00.001-07:002019-03-19T02:42:21.350-07:00Weigh in<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lost one pound. Not amazing but at least my weight went down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My plan to go to zumba last night was abandoned because the cold I was fighting off a couple of weeks ago - and which I thought had gone - came back and I felt pathetic. Overnight I've gone from sniffle to sore throat to tickly cough. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today I'm not ill as such, just not at my peak. (Which was about thirty years ago.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Onward and upwards - or hopefully downwards.</span>Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-3596290878999621402019-03-18T05:55:00.002-07:002019-03-18T05:55:42.703-07:00Just how special is Uncle Ben's rice?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Breakfast and dinner times are fine on Slimming World but I struggle at lunchtimes, trying to think of things to have that isn't salad. Chilli beetroot and tomatoes are my go to and, while I very much enjoy them, there is a limit how much one can eat. Or how often.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So browsing in Sainsburys last time I picked up a packet of Uncle Ben's Special Savoury Chicken Flavoured Rice. It seemed like a quick option. Dug it out of the cupboard today and checked the number of syns. Three. So not too bad. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I heated it up and before I'd tasted it I was put off by the smell. Now I do have a nose problem so it might not have been entirely the fault of the rice so I took a taste. Oh yuck. Seriously? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So that's three syns I've saved. Although I still haven't solved the lunchtime problem. We're having baked potatoes for dinner so I don't really want one now as well. Baked beans? But what sort of speed food (basically most fruit and veg except potato) do you have with baked beans?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Uck, I can still smell it and I'm in a different room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Weigh-in tonight so perhaps I'll just eat fruit for lunch.</span>Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-15767209868571935052019-03-14T11:06:00.003-07:002019-03-14T13:56:24.798-07:00Starting again<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rejoined Slimming World.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can't decide if it's a victory or a defeat.Victory in that I'm hoping to take control of my eating again; defeat because I can't do it without some sort of outside help.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So starting weight (in clothes): 10 st.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Target weight (in clothes): 9 st. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On the plus side, after two weeks off, I'm back in gentle fitness. I would have been in boxercise tonight as well but my partner can't make it. Realistically I think boxercise is too much for me. My partner, though she's young, has all sorts of joint problems following a very serious accident a number of years ago, so we're both happy to potter along at no great speed, but when I thought about going on my own tonight I realised what a burden I would be to any other partner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have investigated (just now) and I'm going to try out a zumba class next Monday evening. I'm writing that on here to keep me to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I love music and dancing and I think the class will be a better range of ages and abilities than the high-powered boxing group. And not as professional looking as this group I hope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">P.S. For the first time ever today my hairdresser gave me biscuits with my cup of tea. I didn't eat them.</span></div>
<br />Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-90593087216266039552019-01-08T10:56:00.003-08:002019-01-08T10:56:23.226-08:00Boxing my way out of a fat situation<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Had made up my mind not to weigh again this morning then when I got up and went to the toilet I thought, 'I might as well face the horror. Get it over with. At least then I'll know where I'm starting from.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now normally on a Tuesday morning Husband gets up and weighs before I go into the bathroom and he leaves the scales out for me. This morning, he forgot to weigh so the bathroom floor was empty of scales. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'Hm,' I said to myself. 'I could get the scales out ... or not.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am back in gentle fitness class now and this Thursday I'm starting ... wait for it ... boxercise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'll report back afterwards.</span><br />
<br />Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-15345716236520263772019-01-02T03:32:00.001-08:002019-01-02T03:32:23.349-08:00A belated Christmas card?Happy New Year!<br />
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Haven't weighed. Refuse to start 2019 being depressed while I have enjoyed myself so much over the holiday.<br />
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A day or so ago I received what looked like a late card. Addressed to me - rather than Mr & Mrs - and in a pretty gold envelope. Ooh, I thought, this looks interesting.<br />
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It was an invite to rejoin Slimming World.<br />
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Good marketing ploy but it went straight in the bin.<br />
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How about you? How's your weight doing?<br />
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<br />Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-78897201676902125702018-12-18T00:56:00.001-08:002018-12-18T00:56:05.803-08:00Better not go out in this!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Two weeks' combined losses add up to .6 kg. That equals - hang on while I find out ... 1.3 lbs. Hm, not brilliant but better than an increase and it takes me to 9.5 stone. But my Christmas dress is looking extra-mini, indecent in fact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Perhaps I'd better stick to cover-all jumpers and jeans over the festive season!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today I'm off out for Christmas lunch with a group of women. Then there's just Christmas itself to get through. (Get through in a slimming sense that is; I LOVE Christmas!) So New Year new resolutions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hope you have a very jolly and wonderful time however you celebrate. See you next year.</span>Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-63543855509029179912018-12-04T01:33:00.000-08:002018-12-04T01:33:11.913-08:00uh uh, not today, thank you<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not weighing today. Husband's birthday weekend celebrations have taken their toll. He has gained 3 lbs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No way am I getting on those scales. But I still live in hope of having a (mini) dress for Christmas even if I have to go bare-footed.</span>Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-12478398044965925662018-11-27T01:35:00.001-08:002018-11-27T01:35:10.561-08:00Any weight loss is better than gain<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I plucked up my courage to get back on the scales this week and it wasn't too bad: 60.9 kg. That equates to roughly 9st 8lbs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last time I weighed I was 61.3 kg. (I really must find out how to change the settings on my scales to imperial.) That's 9st 9lbs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If I'm being accurate it's slightly less than 1 lb (.9) I've lost but I'll colour in 2 blobs in expectation of doing better next week. (Although it is Husband's birthday.)</span><br />
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<br />Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-27149105147011763792018-11-20T04:20:00.002-08:002018-11-20T04:20:36.117-08:00Feeling fat, fat, fat<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So that's two Tuesdays that I've not weighed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was my birthday the Monday before last and the after-choc-shocks are still happening - or were until yesterday when I finished it all. (Except two boxes of Maltesers that I am trying very hard to keep hidden and not eat yet.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Feeling fat and podgy and didn't want to experience the horror of a reality check so stayed away from the scales today again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next week it WILL be different. It had better be otherwise my Christmas dress will be indecent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-87532437323589904852018-11-06T06:18:00.001-08:002018-11-06T06:18:35.963-08:00Not getting away with things<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The trouble with me - can you tell that I haven't done very well? - is that I think I can get away with things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like crisps. I'm not eating a whole packet. No, just handfuls of a family size packet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fruit doesn't count. It's allowed. It's good for me. I can eat a whole tub of grapes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I only eat sweeties in the car so they don't count.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And so on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Which is why I've only lost barely half a pound this week. I decided to be generous with my decimal placings allowing me to colour in one blob on my Christmas dress. At this rate it will be a very mini dress. (I'm starting with the boobs to ensure some bits of me are covered at least.)</span><br />
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<br />Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-38551106822701974032018-10-31T09:34:00.002-07:002018-10-31T09:34:26.789-07:00Countdown to Christmas<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Okay, time to take this eating back under my control. (Says she having just finished off a packet of crisps leftover by the grandchildren - not their choice - I stopped them from having more.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My weight is steadily rising so I'm going to do roughly what Slimming World members had the chance to do last year: colour in a dress. Or in my case, dress and shoes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For every half pound I lose I can colour in one blob in the hope that by Christmas I will have lost 7 lbs or half a stone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As of weigh day yesterday I weighed in at 61.5 kg. That converts to 135.6 lbs - let's call it 136 lbs, or 9 st 10 oz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's not a huge challenge except for the fact that it's nearly my birthday and then GrandDaughter1's and then Husband's ... Oh and the fact that I'm a little piggy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'm going to the theatre tonight so will have to have ice cream.</span>Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-17843946131809679452018-10-09T05:55:00.000-07:002018-10-09T05:55:06.239-07:00When is a stick not a stick?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've succeeded in two weeks in putting back on the tiny amount of weight I lost during the 30 day challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not happy. But I knew it would be bad. So I'm stopping the special K for lunch and trying again under the Slimming World rules.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To cheer me up here's a grape stalk pretending to be a stick insect.</span><br />
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<br />Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-71584661640447235232018-10-02T06:52:00.001-07:002018-10-02T06:52:52.282-07:00Suck it, Ms Scales<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Should have weighed this morning but ...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've had a bad week eating wise;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm feeling good at the moment;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't want a number to make me miserable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also Husband has lost weight for the umpteenth week and is his lowest for ages and I will be jealous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So there, Ms Scales!</span><br />
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<br />Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-58711576606612127942018-09-27T09:58:00.003-07:002018-09-27T09:58:50.957-07:00How do you change these stupid scales?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lost this week. Can't remember exactly but about a pound or a bit more I think. If I could work out how to change the scale settings from kg to stones it would be much easier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had an enormous great manual with the scales but I seem to recollect throwing it away saying, 'I don't need this any more.' I'm not even sure how or why it got changed from pounds to kgs in the beginning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So anyway, technical difficulties aside, a loss is good. I have done really well sticking to the 30 day challenge. Thirty days must be nearly up soon ... Let's see I actually started on 4th September so I suppose that makes it 4th October to finish. Whoopee! Not long now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although I can't believe it's nearly October!</span>Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-52674787302300268622018-09-18T01:49:00.001-07:002018-09-18T01:49:08.202-07:00So much for self restraint<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, my self-restraint/righteousness was a waste of time: I put on .1 kg. Okay, that's not much but it's a GAIN!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I suspect the problem is that I'm mixing and matching diet plans - to ensure I get the most to eat obviously - and it isn't working.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Breakfast - weetabix - all diet plans</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lunch - Crunchy nut corn flakes - Special K diet plan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dinner - meat and veg in some shape and form - slimming world/rosemary conley plans</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I see a number of flaws in this but using Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes isn't one of them. The calories/fat/sugar contents aren't very different surprisingly. There is quite a lot of sugar in Special K. However the Special K diet plan is based on having a 30g bowlful. Hmm, mine is probably more 60.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dinner time I'm not necessarily eating lots of speed feed as recommended by SW and I'm probably having quite large dinners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What I haven't mentioned is the amount of fruit I eat during the day. Victoria plums are in season at the moment and I love them. They're okay: they are speed food. But as part of a meal not as snacks. Also pigging out on grapes - loaded with sugar as Husband frequently tells me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But I haven't been well. Okay, only slightly unwell, a bit snuffly, dry-throated, you know, but in need of some form of comfort food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I'll let myself off this week with a reminder to do better next week. I'm still on the pledge - remember, no chocs, cakes, bread etc - and I'll go back to proper SW lunches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hello, misery, my old friend.</span>Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-31830607679365499822018-09-14T06:47:00.001-07:002018-09-14T06:47:11.668-07:00Self-righteous? Moi?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On Wednesday evening I walked and drank tea with a young friend. YF had a great big custard slice; I refrained.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yesterday, after walking in the park, GrandDaughter2 had a packet of Jelly Tots and Husband had a Wispa bar; I had nothing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today Husband and I went to Sainsburys and, as in our wont, we called in to the cafe afterwards. Husband had carrot cake; I had baked potato and chilli veg. (Rather strangely it contained more calories than the potato with prawn mayonnaise filling but my calories were probably healthier.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Can you see my halo gleaming?</span>Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-32147862425537267642018-09-11T09:28:00.002-07:002018-09-11T09:28:46.699-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Weigh day today. After the last few weeks I would have settled for no change - not been happy but resigned - so it was pleasing to find I'd lost .4 kg. I work that out as about one pound. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIIHjMfHI-nxTVVkDbdtedl4EgAXGjyx-2_ZLBw6AapsKQ2xSIqboPSzHFTOIOzDId4Sgs6uNiKe8EEcfqpL5ajmGfviq6Uejvr9w6YkrnNyFHpfxXxQwYo0qs-zYH1Z5tilYD5EwvpJc/s1600/lost+one+pound+of+fat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="293" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIIHjMfHI-nxTVVkDbdtedl4EgAXGjyx-2_ZLBw6AapsKQ2xSIqboPSzHFTOIOzDId4Sgs6uNiKe8EEcfqpL5ajmGfviq6Uejvr9w6YkrnNyFHpfxXxQwYo0qs-zYH1Z5tilYD5EwvpJc/s200/lost+one+pound+of+fat.jpg" width="185" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not a lot until you think of it as a pound of blubber. Then it seems more acceptable. And anyway it's a pound in the right direction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Onward and downward! I hope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also had the result of my cholesterol test today. At 5.2 it's a bit higher than the 4.6 it was last time I was tested in 2010. The doctor says it's fine but I think I should aim to improve it.</span>Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-9199600230460558752018-09-09T07:44:00.003-07:002018-09-09T07:44:21.212-07:00Feeling proud of myself<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Husband wanted fish and chips (proper chip shop ones) for dinner last night. I went and fetched them for him - he had cunningly had a drink and showered thereby ensuring that I had to go out - but had beans on granary toast myself!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Confession: I did eat maybe ten - or perhaps a few more - chips from his plate. And they were especially yummy. Whether that is because they were forbidden fruit or because the chip shop has</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">new owners - Fernando's - who knows. But I know I ended up singing <i>Abba </i>all evening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But I tell myself it's been the school holidays, lots of excuses for eating badly. Chips out for lunch when child-minding followed by ice cream. Of course. But telling myself I'm keeping active so it won't matter. but it does. It's most unfair. So hard to lose weight and so easy to gain it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I saw this on facebook recently:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm going to try it. It's like Lent. If I have a clearly defined time and purpose I find it easier to comply. Not easy but easier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This challenge isn't too bad. I don't eat burgers or fast food and only eat chips in the summer holidays. I make chips at home but they're SW ones so fine. We don't have white bread unless we have children for lunch and then, especially if it's a French loaf it's difficult to resist but I shall try. If I drink soda it's always the sugar-free sort so that leaves me with NO chocolate, cakes, cookies and sweets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can do this.</span>Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-86851392535673224942018-08-07T01:17:00.002-07:002018-08-07T01:17:48.365-07:00Weigh-hey day<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tuesday is traditionally our weigh day. Husband is a consistent weigher; I am less so depending on how fat I feel. This morning I decided to 'feel the fear and do it anyway' - Nike has a lot to answer for - so plucked up my courage and got on the scales.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It wasn't as bad as I expected. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I put on a lot of weight over our holiday and it's been rising gradually since but I felt I'd eaten so much recently that it would have leapt up. So just a little, as in .2 kg, was a plus from my point of view. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So today's weight is 60.8 kg or - hang on while I convert it - 134 lbs, which is 9 st 8 lbs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's 5 lbs above the weight I'd like to be. Not horrendous but unless I take care my weight will continue to creep up so must stop now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The dilemma I have is the same as that described by Briony in her comment on my previous post. Chopping and changing between feeling 'healthy so what's a little extra weight?' and 'but I feel more confident and happier when I'm thinner.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I think I could write pages about the influence of the media and my own insecurities but perhaps that's for another day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For today, I'll try to be sensible.</span>Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171247764662791428.post-10542942928406135982018-08-06T06:27:00.003-07:002018-08-06T06:27:54.625-07:00Back on the diet today<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It started well with two weetabix for breakfast. Collapsed at lunchtime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My new waste-reduction campaign entails me eating up left-overs, which in this case meant white bread. Toasted with butter (lots of it obviously) and marmalade. On the plus side I did have some chilli beetroot before it. And some left-over barbecued corn on the cob - which although a Free Food is not a Speed Food so not entirely good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So while saving the planet I am putting my diet at risk. Hey ho. Sacrifices have to be made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I want to lose some of the weight I've put on over the last few months of holidays and enjoying myself, which is all very well and good but I am torn because every now and then I think, 'So what if I have a bit of extra weight? I am enjoying myself.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I reply, 'But you feel much better in yourself - more confident and happy - when your shorts don't feel so tight.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We shall see which one of me wins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But I shall have to go back to Slimming World because however strong I think my resolve is it doesn't work without some other motivation.</span><br />
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<br />Liz Hindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com3