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Post by kally on Mar 14, 2005 19:03:48 GMT -5
40 minute walk around the park on the way home from my workshop. Beautiful flowers, sun, ducks, geese and turtles sunning themselves.
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Post by kally on Mar 15, 2005 0:46:56 GMT -5
well I didn't get the baked potato last night. My downstairs neighbyour made a special health meal for me and I ate it. It is a steamed daikon cake. It is very cool, mostly grated root vegetable with some flour mixed in. I will just take the points for the flour. I am going to take 5, even though I don't think it is that high.
So I earned 3 on my walk so I am down 2 points already for WPA. That is a bit lower than I care to be on the monday, but well, we will see.
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Post by kally on Mar 15, 2005 12:02:54 GMT -5
I look at other people's journals and wonder if I am eating too much. This comparison idea in life is damaging.
I compare my size to that little person, I compare my money, my husband, my hair, everything. Today I am going to work on just living MY life the way I want. When I don't compare I realize that I have a wonderful life.
Even comparing my before and after pictures is sort of strange. It implies that something was very wrong in the before picture. All that was is that I was bigger, not evil, not bad, not gluttonous or weak, just bigger.
Today B - oatmeal and banana and s. milk S - yogurt L - soup and salad S - pudding D - baked potato with avocado topping
No snacks tonight No cool whip today No popcorn
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Post by kally on Mar 15, 2005 20:04:25 GMT -5
all through this journey I have had this mantra "Let's see what this body can do!" as if it were a highly powered vehicle.
I want to see just how far I can take this body in terms of flexibilitiy, endurance, stamina etc.
Before I walked a bit, but avoided hills and anything strenuous. I have a dream to run or bike or skate or something with ease and grace.
I have already begun moving with grace and poise and my posture is lovely.
Let's see what your body can do too!
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Post by kally on Mar 16, 2005 20:37:47 GMT -5
A very busy day today giving a couple of seminars. Not much time to prepare.
B - a lovely bowl of that cream of wheat pudding. It is a few extra points, but it lasts a long time.
L - barley and veg mix with 2 fruits
S - choc. pudding with cottage cheese and popcorn
D - pasta with vegetables and maybe pine nuts
No exercise today, so popping into the gym tomorrow.
For some bizarre reason I got up at 4 am. and read for an hour. Sometimes my hours are all over the place.
Then I come home really tired and it is so easy to junk eat. But having a planned snack for 4 or 5 oclock makes it possible to hvae dinner later, something that is working well for me.
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Post by kally on Mar 17, 2005 11:32:05 GMT -5
please feel free to add comments or thoughts.
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Post by kally on Mar 17, 2005 11:35:06 GMT -5
how nervous do you get when it is time to weigh in. No matter how my week went foodwise, I am always nervous about getting on the scale. I really can't tell if I have gained or lost weight, but that is hardly surprising as 1 or 2 lbs is very small in relationship to an adult weight.
While the scale does help me keep track, it can be a burden too. Too many days are influenced by the numbers.
I will also concentrate on NSV, like the spring in my step, like the fact that I can get up out of a chair with just my leg muscles. Onward and upwards to Canadian skies.
B - couscous and fruit S - fruit L - beans and rice with avocado S - popcorn D - something made with chicken broth and chicken that I haven't made yet
I seem to really WANT that late night snack of cereal. I will try this week to have it, but make it a small portion. It seems to settle me for the night. Good, Bad? Who knows.
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Post by aruna on Mar 17, 2005 13:46:23 GMT -5
Kally, thanks for visiting my journal! It's nice to see a fellow Canadian on the boards, too. I have posted quite a few of the Indian recipes in the archive -- chicken curry, bengali fish curry, lamb curry -- as well as some side dishes (veggies and dal). I'm getting a few requests for more, so I'll post them as soon as I get a chance. Glad to hear you're a fan -- one of my favorite things about Core is that Indian is pretty easy to convert, without any real loss of flavor.
TTYL.
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Post by kally on Mar 17, 2005 15:54:18 GMT -5
Thanks aruna
You know I don't even have to eat much somedays, but i enjoy cooking. Let's face it, I enjoy food, I like recipes, I like shopping all of it. I don't think that is bad. It is interesting, and we need food to live.
I strive to make the best and tastiest food I can to give my body what it needs. I am learning learning learning all the time.
I notice that so many people here don't have any evening snack. Does anyone have one. I am finding it hard to get away from a cereal snack before bed. Why do I need it. I don't know, it is settlling and puts the day to bed.
Anyone else have an evening ritual snack not REALLY based on hunger.
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Post by kally on Mar 17, 2005 22:27:47 GMT -5
I had a lovely little snack planned for 5 oclock and then life intervened and I ended up at the pub. So I bought my dh a beer, got a glass of water and ordered endamame and split it with dh.
I am pretty sure this is core, and it is so delcious. Now this is the time of day I usually have my popcorn and it reminded me of that.
Anyhow, it is amazing that in a pub today you can get such a healthy and delicious treat.
So now to dinner.
My chicken dish has turned into tomato soup and a lovely chicken and avocado sandwich with onions and cucumber. I have the extra AP from today and I am getting hungry.
AP - 40 minute walk maybe 2 pts. 1 hour at the gym - 4 pts.
Up, up and away.
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Post by kally on Mar 18, 2005 2:08:41 GMT -5
so tonight was one of teh first nights when i didn't want a little something before bed.
I ate later than usual and had a nice pudding afterwards and am still comfortably full.
I sense that a lot of people for whom food is not a problem live their llives like this, very very free from food obsession.
So, what does it take to get this? Satisfaction. True satisfaction in the kind and amount of food I eat.
Let's try again tomorrow to get this satisfaction level and see how it feels. If this could become habit I would love it.
Going to bed now, saying goodnight to the food.
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Post by kally on Mar 18, 2005 10:19:51 GMT -5
I am getting a lot of attention about my weight loss now that I have reached 50 lbs. While it is wonderful that people are happy for me, I kinda wonder about how I looked before.
Oh well, no point in dwelling on that now. You see, I think we weigh what we need to weight at certain points in our lives. I imagine most of us are worried about regaining the weight that we lost, but hopefully losing it slowly, enjoyng the process and learninga bout food and satisfaction, adding in exercise will make the difference.
I have a day out planned for today.
B - oatmeal and apple and coffee L - oat at a riverside restaurant, most likely a sandwich and take the points and enjoy every bite. S - fruit and yogurt D - chicken barley soup homemade
let's see what this body can do. I have already had a 45 minute walk before 7 a.m. I just woke up and said, Go! Before you know it, I will be adding some jogging.
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Post by kally on Mar 18, 2005 19:32:25 GMT -5
just want to make a note of this moment in history. I am full and don't want any food for quite a while!!!!
Now lunch got to be very late and we had sushi. I had planned a lunch out and have the points for it. Now that I have eaten all 12 points I sit and see how I feel. You know what - I feel full.
Usually I would go for a DQ ice cream afterwards to finish off my treat, but today I went for a short walk and then made some green tea.
Now I don't really need dinner, maybe just soup or something. This is kinda new for me. It sure takes practice and confidence that all the food in the world isn't going to disappear before I can eat it.
Thanks for listening.
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Post by kally on Mar 19, 2005 10:36:09 GMT -5
I get the feeling that today is a dark chocolate day. I hardly ever eat candy and I dont want it much, but today i will pick up a bit of dark chocolate. Not sure which type to get, but I think I will savour a few bites this evening.
That seems reasonable to me.
Tapioca pudding for breakfast just because it is saturday.
Then I have a meeting to go to at 12:15 that will go until probably 3. Hmmm. What to do. I think I will take fruit and order a skinny coffee or soemthing for the milk.
Got soup for lunch, but don't feel like it. We will see.
Dinner I am thinking will be polenta with a bit of cottage cheese and eggplant and tomato sauce on top with a salad or something.
Went for a 45 minute walk at 6:30 this am. I always listen to a story on the headphones. This story is reserved for walking time. if I want ot hear more I have to walk to hear it.
Time for coffee. MMMMMM first cup of the day./
Up, up and beyond to Canadian skies.
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Post by kally on Mar 19, 2005 23:45:15 GMT -5
What a lovely dinner. I sauteed onion, garlic, eggplant and zucchini in a bit of oil and then added some tomato sauce and cooked say 16 minutes until soft.
Then I got some of that tube polenta and fried that up in slices with a bit of soy cheese on the top.
Topped the polenta with ff cottage cheese and then the veggies. Delicious, cheap and easy to make.
Try it.
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