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Great self talk, Jo!!!

Could be one of MY bad food days, except all the crap would have been consumed as "SUPPER". LOL!

Baby steps. Persistance. we ARE worth the battle. 

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Caution: Sarcastic and Cynical!!!

Food: 

Breakfast: 3 x Weetbix with Skim milk and Honey

                 

Snack:       Cuppa Tomato Soup (99% fat free) with dollop of Extra light Philli

                  Weight Watchers Snack pack of Peaches & Pears (tinned) fruit

Lunch:       Lavash wrap with Tuna, carrot, tomato, cottage cheese and left over spinach gnocchi

 

Snack:       Nothing

Dinner:       Beef & Black Bean Sauce on a bed of Cabbage and Rice mix

 

Snack:       Yoghurt and tinned fruit

 

Drinks:     Water - 3 x 1.25ml, 1 x 500ml

   Diet Coke – 2 x 375ml

 

Caitlyn off to Childcare today, is it terrible of me to say yippee?? Naaahhhhh.  I was tossing up having some more sleep or going for a walk but couldn’t decide which of these two completely opposing things was what I NEEDED to do, so I’m not doing either but I’m getting a few things done round the house.  Washing – check, vacuuming – check, dishes – check.  Reality – check… I need to do both and if I had gotten on to it earlier I would probably have done both by now.  

 

At 8pm I managed to get out for a walk and just finished up my stretches now at 9.42pm after 90 mins out walking which included:

 

Exercise Summary

Exercise S1 Reps   S2 Reps   Total Reps   Wall Push-ups 20   20   40   Dips 20   15   35   High Steps 15   10   25 Totals : 3 55   45   100

 

And various other bits of prancing around along the way, particularly once it got dark hehehe

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Food: 

Breakfast: 3 x Weetbix with Skim milk and Honey

                 

Snack:       Cuppa Tomato Soup (99% fat free) with dollop of Extra light Philli

                  Tomato & Onion Tuna with left over rice

Lunch:       Sun-dried Tomato Chicken & Penne (Frozen Dinner)

 

Snack:       Nothing

Dinner:       Chinese Beef Stir Fry with Udon noodles

 

Snack:       Yoghurt and tinned fruit

 

Drinks:     Water - 1 x 1.25ml, 1 x 500ml

   Diet Coke – 2 x 375ml, 1 x 600ml

 

Woke up sore and tired this morning.  We had a little visitor come and jump into our bed at 4am this morning.  Never happened before so ???  I feel like all I ever have to say is I’m sore …wah, wah, wah… I’m tired … wah wah.

 

No exercise today other than walking around the supermarket and the usual with the kids.

 

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Hey Jo,

Been a while since you posted, how are you going..?

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"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it" MICHELANGELO

Yep I'm still here... just.  I have been unwell probably the same as what the kids had so....

Anyway, hopefully I'll be back out walking by tomorrow :-)

cya

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Food: 

Breakfast: 2 x serves of Porridge with dried fruit

                 

Snack:       Grapes

Lunch:       2 x Toast with Tomato and Cheese under the grill +

                  2 x Toast with Tomato, Tuna and Cheese under the grill

 

Snack:       Half a dozen plain chips

Dinner:       Pasta with Bolognaise sauce  1 ½ serves

                   Salad

                   2 x Piece of Garlic Bread

 

Snack:       Nothing

 

Drinks:     Water - 2 x 1.25ml

   Diet Coke – 5 x 375ml

 

No exercise today, but went to the in-laws this afternoon and for tea.  Had a big blue with Lochie on the way home (he’d been drinking) about me having a second serving of the Pasta Bolognaise.  He says that if I want to lose weight I have to reduce the amount that I am eating and that I haven’t.  I said to him that I’d lost 10kgs and doesn’t he think that I’ve improved my eating at all and he reckons that ‘No’ that’s because I’ve increased my exercise and not because of my eating.

 

He was having a go about me saying I need to change my bad habits and then I’ll still have seconds.  He said that the other night when I cooked the Chinese Stir Fry with Udon noodles that it was the biggest plateful he had ever seen.  He said that I am serving Caitlyn up too big helpings of food and that she is going to be as ‘BAD’ as I am.

 

I’m really hurt because he can’t see all the hard work I’ve been doing and that I have changed my eating style as well as increased exercise.  We’ve had a blue like this before but it was after a night when he’d invited friends over and told them to bring desert.  He’d then proceeded to cook a roast pork and presented the crackling on the table like it was a table centrepiece or a big Cob Loaf.  So then when I had 2nds and 3rds he decided that to come down hard and shitty on me was the way to help me.

 

I told him then that bullying me was not going to work because I’ll just get my back up or get upset.

He can help me by helping me

Be Prepared and fortifying myself beforehand on risk occasions

By choosing healthy food options and having guests bring healthy food options

By presenting food in a way to minimise temptation

With gentle reminders to help me stop eating or going for another helping.

 

But I don’t think what I did tonight was that bad.  When the Chips were brought out I went and sat in the dining room while he sat out with his dad and pigged out.  When I went for the seconds I put a lot of pasta in my plate and realised how big a 2^nd plate it was and put some back and only had half a spoon of the bolognaise.  Yeah, I probably could have gone without but liked it and went back.  His mother had said about 3 times ‘There’s lots more over there if you want it’ and I had not gone and had even chosen to have the salad instead the first few times.

 

Why make me feel like crap?  Why make me feel like a bad mother?  Why make me feel like I’m failing?  Does he really think that will help??? 

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I suppose question number one would be what is his BMI???

And what is the motivation for this episode?

Is he concerned about you falling of the wagon or concerned that you may be successful?

If you loose weight and become attractive to OTHER MEN!!!!!

What will happen to him?

What body type the kids have I have no idea and he is part of their upbringing so if he thinks they need more exercise he can do something to ensure they are more active.

Getting drunk and having a fight is unlikely to achieve very much.

Clearly you have fallen into these habits over time and you are likely to have lapses

As a guide with the banding it is suggested that you need about 500g of solids per day to maintain the final weight

While your food descriptions do sound generous how much is a serve? Well this depends on the restaurant.

Sadly it seems many men have control issues in their relationships logically I have no information or qualifications to say anything about your relationship with this man.

But getting drunk and grumpy doesn’t seem a good way to earn brownie points to me.

I wonder how if you really want me to lose weight you can give up the grog would go.

After all a few months of not drinking won’t kill him.

If he doesn’t have alcohol issues it will be easy.

If he has alcohol problems perhaps he should get himself in order before telling others what to do.

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1. Thin  2.who knows, I think he thinks it will help... at the time.  Tosser.  This morning I opened the subject again and told him he really hurt my feelings and that it was totally inappropriate and inaccurate and he apologised.  I've tried the you give up the grog thing with him and he didn't go very well at all.  I pointed out in the past that its heaps harder to change eating habits than to give up grog or smokes because we cant just say 'I'm never going to have that again' and stop cold turkey.  We have to eat but need to try to avoid temptation.  Much harder.  I told him he should pull his head in because he was the one who was telling everyone how one lunchtime she had eaten a whole can of Baked Beans (with him.  That he had given her)

Anyway, he apologised and knows he was dead wrong.  So that's it.  In the past and moving on.

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Good on you for moving on Jo, you have made huge steps forward, and YOU know that. The best thing you cna do is exactly what you ARE doing! Move on! Good on you!

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Food: 

Breakfast: 2 x weetbix with skim milk and honey

                 

Snack:       Pretzels

Lunch:       Cup of Fruit, Nuts & Seed mix

                   1 Banana

 

Snack:       Nothing

Dinner:       Mushroom Tortelini

 

Snack:       Mango

                  Vegemite Sandwich

 

Drinks:     Water - 2 x 1.25ml, No Diet Coke today

 

45 min walk this morning but I didn’t feel as energetic or as pacey as I have on past walks.  I didn’t have quality sleep last night and took ages to actually drop off.  Anyway… I still went which is much better than not going.

 

TOWN Club tonight and had a gain of 0.2 kgs which is not the right direction but still only a small gain and can be explained by many things.   I’ll keep at it and see how things pan out next week.

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Hi Jo well 0.2 is a small amount (about ½ a can of diet coke) clearly it seems you have had challenges other than the food lately.

Persistence counts for a lot.

Keep up the great work.

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Jo, try not to fret, Don is right it is a small gain. and the steps you have made forward are measured not just on the scales.

How did you feel yesterday? Your actual quantity of food was less yesterday than normal, but averaged out was great over the day! Were you hungry? You have me wanting Mushroom Tortellini! 

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Food: 

Breakfast: 2 tuna, cheese melts on wholemeal (no marg)

                 

Snack:       2 cocktail sausages, 2 pieces of white rocky road

Lunch:       small KFC popcorn chicken

                   OJ

 

Snack:       Nothing

Dinner:       Sweet n Sour Pork (home made) overloaded with veggies ¼ of the packet mix as one serve.

                   Rice Vermicelli 1 serve (per packet)

 

Snack:       Yoghurt with banana

 

Drinks:     Water - 1 x 1.25ml, 2 x 500ml

                 Diet Coke - 2 x 375ml, 1 x 600ml

 

3 Hours walking the shops after 30 mins Music Club plus Christmas Party with Caitlyn.

Hi Don and Jane,  Thanks for your support.  I tried yesterday to offset whatever Lochie might have been talking about.  I know it was drunk rambling but sometimes what they truely think can come out when drunk.  Perhaps the serve of Chinese Stir-Fry with Udon noodles was too big.  I've never used Udon noodles and have heard that as a choice they are better than pasta etc.  But in cooking them they kinda stuck together a bit so I added them to the Stir-Fry which loosened them up.  Great.  But then I had difficulty getting enough of the veggies and meat out from the noodles and probably over served.  Also, I had had that extra serve of Bolognaise blah, blah.  Anyway, I wanted to have a lower cal., higher water day Monday.  Perhaps I'm guilty of the dreaded 'Water Loading'.  We'll have to see next week hehehe.

The Mushroom Tortellini was a frozen dinner which I take to TOWN Club to eat after weigh-in during the meeting.  Its one of the ALDI low-fat ones nothing too flash.  Should really eat it together with veggies and probably try to get away with only eating half but...  I wasn't really feeling hungry until late in the day on Monday and then because of the weigh-in I dont eat until after 7pm, but then I was hungry after as well hence the Mango and Vegemite Sandwich after I got home. 

I was pretty naughty today at the Christmas party too.  Then I just used the old 'All or Nothing' sabotage technique at lunchtime saying 'I've already wrecked today so why not just have something else naughty'.  Tut tut Jo.  Tomorrow I'm going to:

• balance my meals and snacks throughout the day,
• drink more water
• balance the different types of food within my meals and snacks to ensure a balance of nutrients
• try to add the word 'balance' into more sentences.
• do some more exercise. (call the pool and see if they will take ethan in the creche without booking in advance)

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Coops:             the study I've done has made me realise that as much as the mind and heart might want something, there are a whole heap of biological processes that fight against it. As a fat person, those biological processes include feeling hungry and slowing metabolism when - we reduce calorie intake and/or increase energy expenditure - a process which is normal and healthy and an evolutionary advantage, except when you weigh >100kgs and live in the Western world.

 

Better Health – http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/BHCV2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Obesity_and_hormones?OpenDocument

Leptin and Dieting
Various studies have shown that blood leptin levels drop after low kilojoule diets. Reduced leptin levels may increase appetite and slow metabolism. This may help to explain why crash dieters usually regain their lost weight. It is possible that leptin therapy may one day help dieters to maintain their weight loss in the long term, but more research is required before this becomes a reality.

Behaviour Influences These Hormones
Obese people have hormone levels that encourage the accumulation of body fat.

It seems that, over time, behaviours such as ‘overeating’ and ‘lack of regular exercise’, ‘reset’ the processes that regulate appetite and body fat distribution to make the person physiologically more inclined to gain weight. As the body is always trying to maintain balance, it now resists any short term disruptions such as crash dieting.

However, there is evidence to suggest that long term behaviour changes, such as healthy eating and regular exercise, can retrain the body to shed excess body fat and keep it off.

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Hey, I am glad you posted about that conversation, very interesting! I would love to know what timeframe they are talking about when they talk about retraining the body!

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