breakfast

1 banana
1 mandarine
750ml water


Weigh-in sucked!
130.5

Start Weight - 135
Last Weigh-in (before mom and sis got here) - 129.8

And with Christmas around the corner and that means Christmas break for the kids... URGH!

Breakfast

3 slices dark brown bread with 2 slices of cheese and tbsp of hummus
500ml water
vitamins


Lunch

1 cup cherry tomato, mini mozzarella balls and arugula lettuce with pesto sauce
750ml water


Snack

3 mini reese's peanut butter cups
500ml water


Dinner

Pizza
750ml water


I did measurements on myself again, just to see if there is any progress.

I measured myself today.
My first measurements were done on Aug 21, 2006.
They were
Chest: 130cm, Waist: 120cm, Hips: 148cm
Then I measured my troublesome areas, thighs (87cm), calves(51cm) and upper arms(47cm).

Sept 25th measurements were:

Chest: 129cm (-1cm), Waist: 118cm (-2cm), Hips: 145cm (-3cm), Thighs: 82cm (-5cm), Calves: 52.5cm (+1.5cm WTF?), Upper Arms: 45cm (-2cm)

Today's measurements were:
Chest: 129cm
Waist: 116cm (-2cm)
Hips: 144cm (-1cm)
Thighs: 82cm
Calves: 50.5cm (-2cm)
Upper Arms: 45cm

Breakfast

1 banana
1 mandarine
4 slices of pizza grillworst
500ml water
vitamins



Lunch

1 cup left over pasta with feta cheese, mushrooms and onions
8 slices of cucumber and a tomato
750ml water


Snack

1 small handful of kruidnoten


Dinner

Kip Madras with Brocolli and Rice
1 liter water

Breakfast

1 banana
1 mandarine
500ml water
vitamins

Gym
30min power plate
20min elliptical
15min biking
10min rowing
10min sauna
750ml water

Lunch
2 slices dark brown multi-grain bread
3 slices chicken lunchmeat
4 slices grillworst
2 tsp butter
750ml water

Snack

2 small dove wave chocolates
500ml water

Dinner

1 small weiner schnitzel
1 cup cauliflower
2 tbsp cheese sauce
1/2 cup boiled potatoes
750ml water


Back onto the bandwagon until Christmas, then I will take a week of enjoying life.
Then with the new year back to the strict lines of diet and losing weight.

I went back to the gym this morning, and man it sure felt good!
I am gonna try the pilates my sister taught me while she was here on tuesdays and thursdays, and see if the combination will help get me more fit.

I wonder if I can find a dvd someplace cheap on pilates.

Thanks for the vote of confidence Juha, as a matter of fact, I've been feeling kinda blah and puffy. So I didn't even get on the scale, and I am going on a visit on saturday, so I'll weigh in next week on friday and hopefully have gotten rid of any weight gain from this past week.
This past week was totally awesome with my mom and sis here.
It was non-stop but it was good non-stop.
We went to Amsterdam and Delft, we saw Tilburg, and walked all over the place, didn't even bike but one time last week.
I go back to the gym on monday, and time to get my butt in gear.
My sis told me about Pilates and suggested that I do some of them on my days off from the gym, and in the evenings if I have time.
They hurt those pilates... but I'm willing to give them a try and maybe get myself back on the downward spiral. :-)
I know my feeling bloated and blah comes from this past week, not drinking enough, not eating at my normal times and getting way too much 'good' foods. But sis was nice and gentle in her manner of telling me to cut down even more on the amount of food I eat. I explained to her, that what she was seeing me eat, was already half the portion sizes I was eating before.
She cheered me on when I showed her the blue plates I had bought, the ones that are smaller than my cream and black ones. She even told me that I need to keep my meals to the inside white section on the plate and not let it overflow into the coloured areas.
I'm gonna try, but thats gonna take a LOT of effort, and a lot of starving I think.
She did explain to me that changing my routines at the gym is better for me than to keep doing the same thing each time. Start with something different and do different lengths of time on each thing each day.
She got me encouraged to keep sorting and tossing things. So I'm gonna be busy doing that kind of things. Maybe a good thing to start the new year without all the garbage and baggage in this house.

You done good Juha. You'll be nothing but skin and bones if you keep losing weight. ;)

hugs to all!

Narf
Hopefully you're doing good out there. I had a oki week. Though it seems that the guidelines I set for myself in the start of the diet were a bit too harsh for my weight keeps dropping...still after reaching the mini goal I had. The thing is I have no desire to go back eating like I used to and I think im eating enough now anyway so I'll just keep living like I am now
and see where i end up with my weight :P Don't jump the scale this week Sarah if you had extraordinary week. Let it balance out and check what the scales say next week(?)

last week: 79,5
this week: 78,6

Today was one FULL day.
This morning at 10am I was at the gym.
Did 30mins on the Power Plate
40mins on the elliptical
Came home from the gym, and bike 45min against the wind to brother-in-law's bday
Biked 45min back to the big Interpolis building downtown for Sinterklaas.
Went to Juffrouw Tok a chicken place that has some awesome Kip Piri Piri - nice HOT spicy chicken.
Came home and realized didn't have anything in the house for tomorrow breakfast or lunch, so went back out to the albert heijn and bought food.

Now I'm home, and feeling actually pretty good aside my knees hurt a bit.

Juha that ground meat looks like typical stuff. Even pure beef has a lot of fat in it when cooked. Eating ground meat is not a problem, its just a matter as to how you prepare it, and how much of it you eat. You are doing good in draining the fat off, I do this as well, and don't cook my ground meat in butter anymore. But around here, the mixed stuff isn't much cheaper than the plain beef. I prefer the taste of plain beef ground meat than the mixed unless I'm going to make sausage gravy and biscuits. :-)

Also draining the fat will make the meat brown easier, its an added reason for doing so. :-) Good job.

Heather - I hope that Thanksgiving dinner of yours tasted as good as it looked! I'll take pics of mine next week. Cause now I'm really craving Turkey and pumpkin pie! ;-)

This week has been so full of stress and bad things...
I haven't even done very good on the diet this week.
Fitness test sucked, and all the rest of the last minute shit that needs to get done before mom and sis get here...
Been trying to smile through it all, it hasn't always been possible and I thank you both for listening to me whine when I did.

I got on the scale this week
Start Weight - 135
Last week - 128.8
This week - 129.8

Gained back a kilo, and I'm worried that next week will be horrible for the diet as well with mom and sis being here. I'm thinking of doing Thanksgiving next thursday, so I won't be getting on the scale on friday next week. Not to mention that I will be in amsterdam walking all day long. :-)

Plans for this weekend and the next 2 weeks
Today - Sinterklaas at Opa
Tomorrow - Possible gym visit, 40th birthday visit to brother-in-law, Sinterklaas at Kees' work, Dinner out with the co-workers
Sunday - Finish the Attic
Monday - gym, clean
Tuesday - last bits of cleaning
Wednesday - Get mom and Sis
Thursday - no plans as of yet aside for making pepernoten dough at school
Friday - Amsterdam
Saturday - nothing planned yet, but maybe a visit to the city center
Sunday - Sinterklaas at Oma
Monday - possible visit to delft and rotterdam
Tuesday - Sinterklaas at school, tea at friends house
Wednesday - Sinterklaas at home
Thursday - mom and sis leave....

So my life is gonna be filled completely for the next weeks...

So don't worry about me too much!

Juha says:
its friday tho
Heather says:
i don't care what day it is
Heather says:
i'm not getting on a scale day after thanksgiving

Another weight in day.

Last week: 79,7kg
This week: 79,5kg

Been holding that for a while so I started to wonder what I should do reach 79kg. Physical exercies would help but its november, what do you want to do out there when its dark and it rains? Bla. Anyway did some tests in kitchen yesterday. Minced meat is real student food it just literally swims in fat (being mix of pork and bovine) Pure bovine version would have less but its more expensive. So made an attempt to get rid of that extra fat last night heres footage of that little experiment:














...and jep, got 100ml of fat outof that cone.. perhaps at least reducing the amount of minced
meat from diet would help me, drying it like this every time is nitpicking though :P

HOly crap Sarah, what a great loss! You're getting closer and closer to -10kg too! That's awesome :)

Me.. well two big get togethers of eating out this week didn't help, and neither does mother nature's uberbloat. 59.5 said the scale for me this morning. I'll try to do better next week :)

Nice to hear of positive result Sarah, but that "whee" didnt sound peppy enough: you did lose a 'chunk' and you fought so smile :)

Its been a stressful week, but I've been strong.

Starting weight - 135
Last week weight - 129.3
Today's weight - 128.8

Whee...

Hi pinkie buddies.
Took the last week abit easier. Ate things I figured would be tasty on several nights. (never slipping out of the usual eating schedule ofcourse: 3 meals in aday), and I didn't have porridge or pea soup on my menu. It was sort of more relaxed approach. Even broke my long kebab break. Despite of all the talks I haven't had kebab since august, and yesterday I skipped cooking, buying a huge kebab plate with salad and rice :D .....It wasn't the food of Gods I remembered it to be, but something special anyway. But goes nicely here. Hope you guys had a good week as well.

Last week: 79,6kg
This week: 79,7kg
(I got more chubby tho....)

Start weight - 135
Last week weight - 129.7
Today's weight - 129.3

Whee 400 grams off!

Breakfast
vitamins
water
1 banana

lunch
2 sausagebroodjes
800ml water

dinner
spaghetti
800ml water

Weigh in: 59kg

Hoho! Up .5! I blame that mostly on going out to eat yesterday tho... I haven't eaten to diet so much this week, and I know I should lose extremely slowly in general, but +.5 can only really really be due to stuffing my face at a fancypants resturaunt till late last night :D

In general the diet goes well on this end, and for the first time since I lived with my parents as a kid I now have a full mirror in the house so I can see what I look like... I'd not had one in so long I guess because I knew what I saw only depressed me, but now I know I can fix the 'wrong bits' flab-wise, and the rest of me I just accept as me... sounds silly, but for me it's a big step. I have a real mirror.

Good job to Juha and good luck to Sarah... coming in on the Holiday season, dieting will be extra hard, but even with added treats, we'll all lose this weight in the end :)

Last week: 80.3kg
This week: 79,6kg

Thats the lowest it has ever been after changing the eating habits. The past week was a bumby ride. Lectures got cancelled and I drifted into somesort wierd schedule where I got up at 2pm and went to bed around 4am, which ofcourse messed up eating as well. Despite of the fact that I didn't skip meals and ate rather well (..well porridge and pea soup... but ate anyway) I expect to see the reading go up abit. I anyway plan to start cooking again, 'the poor man's week' ends here. I have no real need to eat like a prisoner (as someone put it) :P Anyways, hope you guys had a good week, anxious to hear of you.

Breakfast

1 banana and 1 mandarine
500ml water
vitamins


Gym
40min elliptical - 194 cal
25min biking - 235 cal
20min walking - 140 cal
15min weightlifting
800ml water


Lunch
4 slices brown bread
3 slices chicken and 3 slices salami
2 tsp butter
800ml water

Snack
mandarine

Dinner
chicken, brocolli and baked potato

I've been busy already today.

Breakfast
1 banana
1 mandarine
1 pear
500ml water
vitamins


Made a trip to my friend Danielle's house and robbed her garden of things, gravel and border stones not to mention flagstones!



Lunch
3 slices of bread
3 slices of chicken (flinterdunne (like paper thin))
3 slices of salami (flinterdunne (like paper thin))
3 slices of ham (flinterdunne (like paper thin))
800ml water


Dinner will be pizzas

I slept a LOT this weekend.
Hopefully fighting this cold. Not to mention I cleaned things that needed them badly like the pantry cupboard and went through the toys in Kristel's room.

Today I went to the gym

Breakfast
1 banana
500ml water
vitamins

Gym
35min elliptical - 180 cal
35min biking - 270 cal
15min treadmill - 60 cal
20min weights
800ml water


Lunch
200 gr pineapple
160 gr coconut
800ml water

Took out my winter jacket, and today I put it on and damn it I didn't need it...
So its back to the fleece vest.

Dinner will be
Endive stamppot and speklapjes with gravy
500ml water

Dinner

1 piece of marinaded spicy pork
1 tomato
5 slices cucumber
500ml water

Last week: 80.6kg
This week: 80.3kg

Scales actually tried to play tricks with me showing 79,7 at first, but on third jump on, it gave me something I could believe hence I use that reading. You guys are doing good. Sarah fought through several parties not gaining (One party was enough to give me +1kg) and Heather who already must look like a little bird is getting closer to her goal. We had a good week.

Weigh-in 129.7
last week 129.7
start 135

I'm VERY surprised cause of the 3 birthday parties this week.
I was SURE I would have gained about 2 kilos... so I musta done really good.

Breakfast
2 bananas and a mandarine
500ml water
vitamins and paracetomal

Gym
800ml water

35min elliptical - 180 calories
10min rowing - 105 calories
35min treadmill - 250 calories
30min weightlifting

Lunch
3 broodjes with butter and pickles
800ml water



Today's horoscope...

Pisces (Feb 19 - Mar 20)
The practical world of commitment and responsibility is less interesting to you now. Your future seems clearer, yet the day is still full of unexpected twists and turns. Don't set yourself up for disappointment by making your expectations too high. This is an emotionally unstable period and your feelings are seeking external events to match your inner intensity. Be as gentle with yourself as possible.

*big hugs* to sarah... you know we wuv you, and the dark clouds will pass soon enough. Hope you are feeling a little better already, hun.

Weigh in: 58.5kg

This is the lowest the scale has ever said for me in this past decade and a half of my wee life. I've talked with Mark a lot on weights and such, and we both agree that 60kg is the max weight i should ever have again. If I rise above that point, it will always be diet time to lose it again. I know I can hold a weight tho, without so much effort anymore. Losing is hard stuff, but hey... 3.5kg to go... I can do this.

After feeling like I was run over by a truck wednesday...
I've gotten myself a cold...
Am having problems at work and I feel like I could curl up and die without much protest.
Had a fight with the husband about his stupid ass phone... he blamed me cause his beltegoed was all gone and I haven't touched his damn phone. somehow he got signed up for jamba shit... and he blamed me... like well duh if I was gonna do that shit, I'd waste the 70 euros I have on my own phone...

but now I'm sick and feeling awful all day...
its cold and wet and I hate being cold and wet...

breakfast was a banana and a mandarine
lunch was 2 sandwiches with pickles and butter
dinner will be couscous, gyros and salad

I feel like shit and will prolly go to bed after I get home from work.
I've been taking paracetomal all day long and my head is still pounding, and my throat is sore...
I'm kinda hoping it turns into strep so I can get my damn tonsils out...

Laf you guys :)
It isn't really a finnish thing to "celebrate" this day, but im aware of the concept. Some shops also try to sell special items. Saw some painted pumpkins in one of them yesterday. (did you get that pumpkin of yours carved heather?) But speaking of BLOOD, perhaps i'll have some pancakes of certain type today then. Be careful with those worms and maggots there Sarah I heard those are real diet destroyers :P

MMmmm... Fresh bloooooodddddd....

Happy Halloweeen!

Beware the Treats, they cause Tricks on the Hips!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!



Breakfast
Mashed Monkey Brains
500ml fresh blood




Lunch will be
Crunchy Spider Legs
Fileted Froglegs
Toe jelly
Ghost slime
500ml fresh blood


Snack will be
Spider Cake
500ml Monster Juice



Dinner will be
Bloody worms and maggots
500ml fresh blood

Laurie is a friend from the bead group who wanted to join us but hasn't had time to post yet.

Breakfast
1 banana
vitamins
500ml water

Gym
800ml water
35 min elliptical
5 min rowing
15 min biking
20 min treadmill
30min weights


Lunch
2 broodjes
6 slices chicken lunchmeat
2 tsp butter
500ml water


Snack
2 worstebroodjes

Dinner will be
1 gypsy schnitzel
1/2 cup carrots
1/2 cup potatoes
800ml water

Hmm... Who's Laurie!?

I go away two weeks and we REPRODUCE!

PS: Diet goes okidoki, chilly damp weather sucks tho. It makes me want warm things to drink and eat.

Breakfast

1 banana


Lunch

2 brown broodjes
3 slices chicken
3 slices ham
2 tsp butter
4 slices cheese


Party stuff

sugar peanuts
a few chips (they weren't as good as I remember)
4 slices cervalaat (salami type meat)
3 glasses fanta lemon light
pistachios



Dinner

1/2 multigrain brown stokbrood
100gram chives cream cheese
4 small slices brie
2 glasses fanta lemon light

Muah, excellent turn of events and a jeans story, which got me to smile as well :) And yeah, after pondering your view, thats indeed what it is (diet), rearranging your life. I guess my problem is being too strict, and in that sense the reminder that you can eat less on the next to day was something I needed to hear. I've done this for some time now and my 'lines' are still abit shaky, but in time it will hopefully become easier, because as wierd as this may sound like coming from a man, I too want to get my ass in smaller pants. Yes im aware of its existence :P

ps: Do you have stories where you've been forced to draw a line in a similar manner?

Every day for the rest of your life.

Every day.

Sometimes you eat, sometimes you just say no. Diets never end, and in that way it's not really a diet, but a rearranging of how you live. You can't always say no though. Sometimes just say less, and sometimes go all out and just eat less the next day to balance it out.

But you will face this story every day if you wish to maintain a healthy weight :)

what with all the walking and biking you will have to do now that you are back in the Netherlands without a car again. ;)

Not that we had a car in DC or NYC, mind you!

But in reality, after "plane bloat" went away... i swear you puff up on those things... The scale read 59kg this morning. So in the end I didn't lose or gain. We walked a LOT, I'm sure it helped.

In the end, one great diety thing I did experience while there was shopping for a pair of jeans. Tried on lots and while I could squeeze my ass into a pair of size 5 juniors, i couldn't breathe. Getting them on was a happy moment tho! I did walk away with a perfect fit size 7's (not stretch) though! I haven't worn size 7 at all since I was a Freshman-Sophomore in Highschool. *woot* Super happy moment. :)

PS: I won't be listing my meals anymore. The experiment of me listing them before for a month just showed me again that it doesn't work for me, rather it makes me fixate on food. I AM still dieting though, don't you worry :)

I've woken with a headache this morning that I went to bed with last night.
I have a ton of things to do today yet and its raining.
Need to get the foods and drinks for tomorrow's family/friend bday party for Judy.

So gotta get busy.

Breakfast
Total calories - 243

1 banana - 105
1 apple - 69
1 mandarine - 69
500ml water
vitamins and paracetamol


Juha congrats on the loss. 200 grams is almost a pound!
Heather you will be back down to your 55 in no time at all, what with all the walking and biking you will have to do now that you are back in the Netherlands without a car again. ;)

Last week: 80,9
This week: 80,6

They call Oulu the promised land of pizzerias. There's a pizza place nearly in every corner of the street. The immigrants are not interested of trying to run little bakeries like there. They sell their pizzas so cheap that the price wont even cover up the making cost and due to this fact it is widely suspected that they practise 'money laundering'. I have friends who eat alot of these pizzas, due to these reasons I mentioned. It is hard to say 'No' to invitations to dine with them. I have tried to get them to understand that there is nothing wrong in their company and the random pizzas are the problem Like I said it is hard, but in times like that I think about you guys and I imagine you wouldnt give up either to random temptations. Group support means alot and now when you're both here again, writing of your days, it easier to carry on.

ps: Do you have stories where you've been forced to draw a line in a similar manner?


Winter greetings from oulu and ..it is still october. (click me to see the snow fly)

Weigh in after vacation: 60.5 kg

Not as terrible as I thought in the end. My goal is again 55kg, so I'll work to getting to it I'd like to see near it by January orso, but I think March/Feb is more realistic.

Gratz on holding stable, Sarah. Time to work HARD now and start losing again!

Hello hello!

Where is the weigh-in crew?

Me.. I just got back from the gym!

Starting weight - 135 kilos
Last week weigh-in - 129.7
Today's weigh-in - 129.7

So I didn't gain anymore weight. WHEE! Next will show more off cause I get to go more to the gym and I'm gonna try and make up for the missed days while the kids were on vacation. My goal is in the next month to get down hopefully to 125 before my mom and sis arrive in the netherlands.


Breakfast
Total calories - 174

1 banana - 105
1 apple - 69
500ml water
vitamins


Gym

750ml water
35min elliptical - 185 calories burnt
35min biking - 280 calories burnt
10min treadmill - 80 calories burnt
3 sets of 15 of two different tummy weights
3 sets of 15 of back strengther weights


Snack
Total calories - 185

1/3 of a Focaccio with olives and paprika - 185
750ml water


Lunch
Total calories - 370

2/3 of a facaccio with olives and paprika - 370
500ml water


Snack (will be)
Total calories - 69

1 apple
500ml water


Dinner (will be)
Total Calories - 361

1 grieks baklapje - 272
1/2 cup mini potatoes - 67
1/2 cup snijbonen - 22
500ml water

Breakfast

1 banana
1 kampoentje broodje
3 slices chicken
2 leaves lettuce
1 tsp mayo
1 tsp mustard
500ml water
vitamins


Snack

1 small slices of chocolate cake (bad bad bad, but was craving chocolate big time and had nothing in the house but the chocolate mouse cake from Judy's bday)
500ml water

Lunch


2 kampoentje broodjes
2 tsp mayo
2 tsp mustard
4 leaves lettuce
3 slices ham
3 slices turkey
500ml water


Dinner

Left over chinese
1/2 c beef mijhoen
1/2 c nasi
1/2 c chickeb tjap tjoy
6 chicken/turkey sate stokjes
500ml water
1 small cup cola

Snack

2 small cups of mushroom cup a soup
500ml water


I'm glad your home Heather! Like Juha said, we missed you!
I'm worried about the weigh in tomorrow. I feel bloated... maybe its just the chinese...

Hi traveller. That's good news and I think I can take the liberty to speak for both of us and say that we've been missing you. Good that you and Mark got home safely. Although at the same time it's sad to hear that you've been re-united with your tummy :P
..but I haven't done so well either, gained alot of by eating the leftovers of bday party and still sort of recovering from that... anyways, looking forward to see positive results on friday.

Hey sweethearts...

I'm BACK, but jetlagged to hell and really out of it atm. I'll be re-joining the great quest now, as obviously 2 weeks of vacation and bad eating have destroyed my waistline on a grande scale... seriously... boy I feel bloated with donuts!

I'll weigh in tomorrow morning as a new re-start weight, and I fear what it's gonna say, but that's vacation for ya :P

Till then *hugs* and stay on track!

breakfast

1 banana
500ml water
vitamins

Walking for 3 hours in the wandelbos (the woods close to here)
1 speculaas cookie


lunch
2 broodjes with mayo, mustard, lettuce , tomato and cheese
1liter water

Sorry... things have been kinda busy here the last few days.

Saturday

Breakfast was 3 beschuit and muisjes
Lunch was 2 slices of brown bread with chicken lunchmeat
Dinner we went out and had Japanese at the Chinese restuarant


Sunday
Breakfast was a banana
Lunch was 3 beschuit and muisjes
Dinner was green beans, ground meat and cauliflower


Monday
Breakfast was 2 bananas
Lunch was 2 rolls with chicken lunchmeat
Dinner was 2 homemade hamburgers with cheese, tomato, cucumber, lettuce, pickles, mayo and mustard on whole wheat rolls.


Tuesday
Breakfast was an apple and a banana
Lunch is gonna be two rolls with lunchmeat
Dinner will be fish from the oven, baked potato with sour cream and butter, mixed steamed veggies and a salad.


Today is Judy's birthday so the weekend has been filled with getting things ready for her and making ends meet so that she can have her gift this morning and her special dinner this evening.

Made fishsoup and potato&ham casserole on weekend and ate according to regular timetable no slips there. Winter has arrived to finland, theres few cms of snow on the ground already. First snow came on saturday 21.10 and then it snowed for the better part of sunday. This ofcourse means moving back uncomfortable selection of underwear, and I do seem to have a problem on that section for all the pants have mysteriously gotten bigger :P Suppose I'll visit the shop again soon. Anyway new week ahead. After your confession of having a big meal on saturday I haven't heard reports, trooper. How goes it?

Breakfast 12eet
porridge
coffee
2 cookies

Snack 16eet
apple

Dinner 18eet
tortila wrap with salad, tomato and some kebab meat
and couple salt cookies

That wrap made me feel so sick that depsite of being meager dinner meal Ill go through the rest of the day without food as penance.

She will return, but meanwhile, get your ass back on the right track woman or there will be 'hell to pay' when she finds you in that kind of slobby state!

I forgot to post yesterday

Breakfast
Total calories - 174

1 banana- 105
1 apple - 69
500ml water
vitamins

Lunch
Total calories - 707

6 knakworstjes - 150
1 tsp mustard sauce - 20
4 beschuits - 148
2 tsp butter - 74
2 tbsp muisjes - 171
500ml water
1 small glass cranberry juice - 144


Dinner
Total Calories - 421

1 bowl homemade chicken soup - 123
2 rolls - 195
6 slices chicken lunchmeat - 66
1 tsp butter - 37
500ml water

Total Daily Calories for Thursday - 1302





Friday

Breakfast
Total Calories - 359

apple - 69
1/2 cup strawberries - 23
1 beschuit with muisjes - 123
1 cup cranberry juice - 144
500ml water


This morning and this week obviously wasn't a good one. I need my kiss ass coach back, you've been wonderful Juha, but damn it I miss Heather. Next will have to be an extra strict and extra workouts. I really missed the gym this week and I could feel it even before getting on the scale.

Start weigh-in: 135 kilos
Last week weigh-in:128.3
Today's weigh-in: 129.7

I actually think that the scale was being nice to me... but its time to be strict strict strict and get my ass back on this diet... I have a little over a month before my mommy and sister get here and I really would like to have my first 10 kilos gone before they get here.

Next week I will be going to the gym monday, tuesday and friday, on wednesday I will being on a fall walk with the kids from Kristel's class, so that will be extra exercise too. Monday afternoon I have to help with the lice check at the school, tuesday afternoon will prolly be a trip to the library, along with Judy's 8th birthday.

Juha - glad your week was better than mine was, we can be extra strict together this week.

Well the good news are that I've recovered from the disastrous bday week, but the bad news are that the overall results of the diet havent improved.

Last week: 81,7 kg
This week: 80,9 kg

-800g by quitting the cake eating.

On the coming week my goal is to keep the amount of food i devour per meal in control.
We'll see where that gets us.

Dinner
Total Calories - 750

2 chicken burritos (consisting each of: 1 tbsp chicken pieces, 1 tsp salsa, 1 tsp sour cream, 1 tsp grated cheese, 1/2 cup shredded lettuce, 1 tbsp chopped tomato, 1 tsp chopped paprika, 1 tortilla - 325 calories a piece approximately) - 750
500ml water


Snack at work
Total calories - 90

1 small cup of mushroom soup - 90
500ml water

Daily Total Calories - 1768

EEK! Too many calories today... Luckily tomorrow is good ole homemade chicken soup for dinner.

Today in my kitchen: experimental dinner which consist of tune filled tortillas (cucumber/tomato as well) will prolly taste like arse :P

Breakfast 9am
yoghurt
toast and coffee

Lunch 12.00pm
Potato and ham casserole
salad and 2 slices of rye bread

Snack 14.00pm
toast
apple
yoghurt

Dinner 18:30pm
the ridiculous tuna tortila combination i mentioned, 2 oughta be enough
since i dont want to eat too much.

Lunch
Total Calories - 588

6 beschuits - 222
3 tbsp muisjes - 255
3 tsp butter - 111
800ml water



Snack
Total Calories - 85

1 bag slimfast pretzels - 85
500ml water

Snack
Total Calories - 85

1 package of slimfast pretzels - 85
500ml water

Breakfast
Total Calories - 170

2 slimfast apricot and cashew meusli bars - 170
500ml water
vitamins

BTW all is well and good this morning. Thanks for being there last night Juha.

Last night snack
2 pieces of 65% chocolate
They were out of my 72% stuff so I got some fair trade chocolate and its only 65%.
But I actually like it better than the 72% and so I think I'll stick with it from now on.

I know what you mean Juha.
That used to be my problem. Not eating often enough, but then making up for by eating WAY too much in one sitting.

Breakfast
Total Calories - 105

1 banana
500ml water
vitamins


Snack
Total Calories - 53

1 cup popcorn - 53
cup of Tension Tamer Tea with tsp honey - 43

Lunch
Total Calories - 563

6 knakworstjes - 150
1 tsp mustard sauce - 20
4 beschuits - 148
2 tsp butter - 74
2 tbsp muisjes - 171
800ml water


Dinner
Total calories - 232

1 chicken thigh - 91
1 cup red beets - 74
1/2 cup mini potatoes - 67
500ml water

Daily Total Calories - 996

dont feel like writing down what i ate today. I just state the discovery I made; I eat too much per/meal. Schedule is [ok] and snacks and late night eating are history. Time to address this problem as next move.

I thought today was worse than it actually was...

What with Beau escaping yesterday and us not knowing where she was. We searched all last night and this morning. Then I was finally able to get through to the animal shelter and they had picked her up.

Talk about major stressing situation...

Breakfast
Total Calories - 406

4 slices whole wheat with pumpkin seed bread - 260
8 slices of chicken lunchmeat - 88
1 tsp butter - 58
800ml water


Lunch
Total Calories - 406

4 slices whole wheat with pumpkin seed bread - 260
4 slices chicken lunchmeat - 44
4 slices ham lunchmeat - 44
1 tsp butter - 58
500ml water


Dinner
Total Calories - 750

2 cups tuna noodle casserole - 750
500ml water


Daily Total Calories - 1270

dinner last night 7pm:
rice and chicken bits and a bun

breakfast 7am:
cereals and coffee and 3 cookies.

Lunch 1200
rice and chicken with salad
and two pieces of rye bread

Snack 1500
cornflakes
and an apple

Dinner 1900pm
rice and porkchops in sweet and sour sauce
coffee as dessert with piece of 75% chocolate

Goes oki with eating, there hasnt been any special temptation to start to devour things. tho i still remember how the banana cake tasted like roughly week ago, sigh.What have you been eating today, while worrying about the dog?

Cackles, did you send me your last chocolate plate then ? ;) Thats nice of you.
Hang in there tho, Its worth of it.

Snack

1 handful of doritos
1 tbsp homemade ranch dip


Dinner last night

5 spare ribs
1/2 cup mixed green veggies (peas, brocolli and snow peas)
handful of fries
1 tbsp mayo
500ml water




Breakfast

2 woepie rolls with cinnamon and butter
500ml water
vitamins


Lunch
1 banana
800ml crystal light (flavoured 0 calorie water)

Dinner will be
Tuna Noodle Casserole and either beets or brocolli
1 liter water

Oki... even though I am craving bad things right now... Like I'm really wanting chocolate and I don't have any 72% stuff in the house.

Breakfast 5am
coffee and 2 fruit cookies

Lunch 1300pm
rice and chicken in curry sauce
slices of beetroot and an egg with sandwich

How is your weekend going there diet-wise Sarah?

Jep, was annoyed merely 'cause i want to have lunch around 12. Timetable matter.
Anyway, had something abit later.

Lunch 1500.
Yoghurt
Bun
Italian salad

Dinner will be, 1830~
Rice, and porkchops in sweet and sour sauce.

Has been a good day, went to gym and got a good workout and in 13mins its time for sauna.

..lunch isnt looking that good 'cause I had breakfast at 10am, only 2h away from lunch hour.



So have lunch around 2pm and dinner around 6pm.
I ate breakfast late too.


Breakfast

1 roll
3 ham slices
1/2 tomato
1 leaf lettuce
1 tsp butter
500ml water
vitamins


Lunch

1 roll
4 chicken slices
1/2 tomato
1 leaf lettuce
1 tsp butter
500ml water


Snack

1 banana
500ml water

Breakfast:
cereals
fruit cookies
a bun with salad and cucumber

..lunch isnt looking that good 'cause I had breakfast at 10am, only 2h away from lunch hour.

So we both have to get back on the right track. *takes out the whip* Already punishing myself today. Having just porridge and a bun as dinner later today. Ate a good lunch in school tho.

Breakfast:
Cereals
2 fruit cookies

Lunch
Potatos with Bolognece sauce
2 toasts
and salad.

Dinner, will be
Porridge a bun
Coffee and a piece of 75% choco as dessert

Weigh in Day

Start: 135
Last week: 128.1
This week: 128.3

Gain of 200grams, must work hard next week with the kids being off I won't be able to go to the gym aside for maybe saturday morning. GRRR!


Dinner last night:

4 small slices pizza
2 small cups cola



Breakfast

1 roll
3 slices chicken lunchmeat
1 leaf of lettuce
1 tsp butter
500ml water

Lunch
1 roll
3 slices chicken lunchmeat
1 leaf lettuce
1 tsp butter
500ml water

Snack
1 banana

Weight in day and it isnt a happy one. I knew the days of gluttony (bday and eating its leftovers) would make a dent in my plan abut that this big. *uck. I got back a full kilo of my weight, but at least I got a first class example how quickly you can re-gain your weight if you start to slip. It's back to spartan life now for me. Hopefully youll be able to tell me positive results tho.

In start: 83,9
last w: 80,5
this w: 81,5, *Roar*

This is me... today... :D

Lunch

2 multigrain croissants
8 slices chicken lunchmeat
1 tbsp butter
500ml water

Breakfast

2 multi-grain croissants
500ml water
vitamins

Man I feel like I'm talking to myself and posting for myself.
OH well. I invited a new friend who wants to join us, her name is Laurie!
I hope she posts sometime soon!

Dinner

1 cup spinach noodles
1 cup chili
500ml water

Dinner

.5 cup brown rice
1 cup chili
1 tbsp grated cheese
1 liter water



Breakfast

1 apple
500ml water
vitamins


Gym
750ml sport drink
35min elliptical
11min rowing
25min biking
30min treadmill


Lunch

.5 cup muesli
.5 cup milk
.5 cup grapes
500ml water

Thought exactly the same even before reading your comments. (thinner)
Thats our Brunhilde :)

About diet, been eating according to schedule though lunch is still problematic sometimes. Had it at 4pm today.. but goes well otherwise tho i got more cookies today but these are good cookies i was told :) I once more thank both of you for your presents and remembering me :)

Is it just me or does your face look thinner already? :)

Nice board!


I don't know lets compare, before the diet and now.

Is it just me or does your face look thinner already? :)

Nice board!

New updates to my Abundance Board, first the whole board and then closeups of the different areas.









Finally a new picture of me taken last friday as I was getting ready for my interview.

Dinner

1 cup spaghetti noodles
1 cup homemage spaghetti sauce
1 liter water



Breakfast

1 cup left over spaghetti noodles with salt
500ml water

Dinner

3 Burritos (meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, paprika, sour cream and tortilla)
1 liter water




Breakfast

2 banana
2 eierkoeken
vitamins
500ml water


Gym
30min elliptical
25min biking
30min treadmill
800ml water



Lunch

2 burritos
500ml water

Thank you :) Sadly this day is the kind of day when I'll 'leave the diet in the corner'.
I have allkinds of tasty things reserved for today. Starting from banana cake and ending up to visit at local kebab house. This is bad I know but this happens only once in a year, right? ;)

Btw, im still hopelessly in love with graphics processing so: Autumn greetings from Finland.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUHA!


Dinner
Total Calories - 525

1.5 speklapjes - 234
1 cup mashed potatoes - 237
1/2 cup andive - 4
1/2 cup gravy - 50
500ml water


Breakfast (almost nothing cause I woke up just before lunch)
Total Calories - 31

1 mandarine - 31
500ml water
vitamins


Lunch
Total Calories - 390

2 slices bread - 130
6 slices of cheese - 202
1 tsp pesto - 58

Dinner Last night
Total Calories - 218

1 chicken thigh - 91
1/2 cup potatoe slices - 67
1 cup brocolli with lemon butter sauce - 60
500ml water



Breakfast
Total Calories - 205

1 banana - 105
1 mandarine - 31
1 apple - 69
500ml water


Lunch
Total Calories - 608

4 slices bread - 260
1 tbsp butter - 58
8 slices chicken lunchmeat - 88
6 slices cheese - 202
500ml water
vitamins

I shall :)

Keep your fingers crossed and hope they call me back for a second interview.

I'm off for my interview
Cross your fingers for me!

Good afternoon!

Weekly Weigh-in Day!

Starting Weight - 135
Last week Weight - 129.9
Today's Weight - 128.1





Breakfast
Total Calories - 105

1 banana - 105
vitamins
500ml water


Lunch
Total Calories - 205

1 mandarine - 31
2 slices multigrain bread - 130
4 slices chicken lunchmeat - 44
500ml water

The train moves onward for the rest of us but I hope you re-discover your smile and energy soon Heather. Nice pic btw. About myself, just as I expected last week was a fluke and today we returned back to normal readings. Have to focus and stay hard with this, tho I won't forbid cake from myself on sunday :)

Last week: 79,9 kg
Today: 80,6 kg

Hiya.

I've been off diet for a few days, and probably will remain so for a little while. I had a very bad call with my dad yesterday which left me shaken and I don't really feel like adding mysery to mysery by having rising and falling sugar levels do to the starvation of a diet I have to place myself to lose weight from my current weight.

I'll join again when I feel I can relax and smile more.

Got to run across town now to give medicine to a rat, so I'll leave you with a pic of Tux.

Breakfast
Total Calories - 481

2 mini paninis - 130
chicken filet - 50
herbed cheese - 101
500ml yoghurt shake - 200



Lunch
Total Calories - 305

2 multi-grain broodjes - 195
4 slices chicken lunch meat - 44
6 slices chorizo - 66
500ml water
vitamins

*Ah* life is back on the track because the nhl season started last night. I have game scores and reports to check while enjoying of breakfast :)

Breakfast:
omelet (tuna and cucumber didn't make such great combo though. it was hell dry to eat)
cereals
2 slices of rye bread with ham
coffee and a bun.

Was on strangely good mood today despite of the fact that I didn't eat that well and the exam I had went badly. If only I could figure out what did it perhaps I could learn something and repeat the trick again tomorrow and find the balance between the good and the bad days. Anyways, hope you guys had a good day as well.

Breakfast: 5.00 am (got up early again to read)
4 toasts and porridge + coffee.
thats +2 to usual amount but the "tostis? "( is this a nickname now for these things?)
tasted so good.

Lunch: 12:00
This is where we failed had just cereals and an apple.

Dinner:18:00
Porridge and toasts with cucumber slices.
coffee and one of buns made by mum as dessert.

As you can see the whole day went through with the "breakfast" recipe. Fried some chicken slices for later tho. I'll change my bad habits tomorrow.

Lunch: Two tostis, cottage cheese and coffee

Heyas!
Happy Animal Day!
give your animals a special pat and an extra cookie today!

Dinner last night actually ended up being
Total Calories - 378

2 x 100ml cups of mushroom soup - 180
1 wasa cheese and onion cracker - 198
500ml water


Breakfast
Total Calories - 174

1 banana - 105
1 apple - 69
500ml water
vitamins

Breakfast: An egg salad sandwich and coffee

2nd snack: I actually had a sandwich when I came home from work. Was way too hungry from walking so long.

Dinner: "Sweet potato pie" but no marshmallow in this version ;) green tomatos and mushrooms and a single sausage piece.

I LOVES my sweet potato pie!

Slept 12h last night, and got up at twelve, which explains the strange schedule.
The rain and cold weather must have had some effect to these "bear" symptons.


Breakfast 12:00
cereals and coffee
Snack 16:00
more cereals
Dinner 19:45:
italian pasta
2 toasts with tomato/goat cheese slices.

Snack: Cornflakes... Coffee later when I finish my work.

Dinner will be

Dinner
Total Calories - 259

1 bowls spinach vermicelli soup - 93
(500 gr tofu (732), 500 gr spinach (176), 1/4 cup vermicelli (43), 1.5 liter vegetable boullion (50), 500 gr mushrooms (105) - total calories for wok full of soup - 1106)
2 slices of dk brown multi-grain bread - 130
1 tsp butter - 36
500ml water


Well Dinner was gonna be the above....
But I forgot that the kids are going to opa with Kees so he can look at their computer.
So dinner won't be this, this will be tomorrow's dinner instead, so I'll prolly just have a sandwich or so...

Snack
Total Calories - 370

1 multi-grain pistolet - 195
1 tomato - 27
1 tsp pesto - 58
4 thin slices feta cheese - 90
500ml water

Lunch
Total Calories - 344

1 multigrain pistolet - 195
3 slices chicken lunchmeat - 33
1 tsp pesto - 58
1 tsp herb butter - 58
500ml water

Lunch: Croissants and sausage on it. A piece of bread with goat's cheese, but the bread (which i bought yesterday!) tasted stale so that was disgusting. That's the last time I buy bread at the lidl. Bah, nasty...

Good morning!

Breakfast
Total Calories - 324

200g pineapple - 100
200g mango - 134
1 cup pineapple 0% fat milk - 90
vitamins
500ml water

Dinner: Leftover soup and bread.

Breakfast: Croissant and coffee, oatmeal or cornflakes or something like that later.

I've been having trouble with my legs this week. They ache. I don't know why. The same feeling of numbness as when you are in a plane 8 hours flying. It's weird. I don't like it. I feel old. :(

Dinner
Total Calories - 630

2 bowls of mushroom soup - 260
1 small bowl of leftover ghoulash - 175
2 rolls - 195

Daily Total Calories - 1054

morning everyone (erhm afternoon that is there go the air raid sirens)

Dinner last night
Total Calories - 415

3/4 cup mashed potatoes - 200
3/4 cup ghoulash - 215
500ml water


Breakfast
Total Calories - 105

1 banana - 105
vitamins
500ml water

Lunch
Total Calories - 319

2 broodjes - 195
6 slices chicken lunchmeat - 66
1 tsp herb butter - 58
500ml water

Lunch:
Italian pasta
2 toasts with goatcheese/tomato slices.
lingonberry porridge with milk as dessert, yum.

g'morning and nice to start of the week to everyone.

Breakfast:
porridge
salad
coffee + bun.. something mum baked.

Yeah I know McDonald's isn't the best place to eat and I know I could have gotten a chicken salad or something healthier, but for once I was in the mood for fries and cola. I've been really good and not had them that often since we started this diet and we used to eat fries at least once a week.

Just gonna have to work harder and eat healthier this week.

I was in the middle of a thought here... and left to do something else came back and don't remember what I was writing.

I'm still tired even though I took a nap today... my hip and knees hurt, but at least I know I was having fun at the wedding party last night.

Oh now I remember...
My Abundance Board, I will post new pictures as I add things to it. :D

Juha please don't starve yourself to death. It is not worth it. Skipping lunch on a work day when you slave away outside for hours doing serious activity just can't be good for you. Please eat.

Snack: Some home made applesauce fresh from the pot. The apples were from Mark's dad's tree and boiled up by Mark himself this afternoon.

Dinner: Will be a nice stew, made from the vast array of bits plucked from the garden as we cleared it wof winter. Bread along with it. Mjam.

Interesting board indeed.

Breakfast 4am
Toast and coffee
- No more muesli, it's literally coming out of my ears. Tho I have some of it still left and should eat the yoghurt as well before it gets old but I just have to buy cereals on monday.

Lunch ?
- No lunch, It vanished somewhere again ..this will be just a 2 meal day again.

Dinner 6pm
- Will be 'italian pasta' a little pouch of peas,pasta,paprika and spice combined to minced meat and most likely toasts(cant stop eating them) again with coffee and chocolate as dessert.

Breakfast: Cornflakes and coffee

Lunch: two pieces of bread with a lil goat cheese and a deli slice of chorizo esque stuff.

And Mcdonalds?! Are you sure you want to eat there!? Of course if you try really really hard, you can get a Mcdonalds meal with the normal amount of caloris for lunch.

The board sounds like a nice idea. You'll have to show what all goes onto it :)

This is about the Abundance Board I was talking about

The word ‘instruction’ is actually pretty loose. There are very few distinct rules for an abundance board:
-it must be a real 3-D thing
-it should be placed in a higher traffic area in your world
-it should be filled with positive things, taking care to avoid the use of the words no or not**
-it should make you happy

**psychologists believe they have proved that the sub-conscious mind does not process the words no and not the way we would want them to, so the sentence “ I will not cheat on my diet” becomes “I will cheat on my diet”. It may not be true, but who wants to risk it?

That’s it for the rules. The rest is a blank canvas waiting to be filled with your highest aspirations.

How it works: The idea for an abundance board is not mine. It’s also not the only technique that would work. I liked it because it’s very non-denominational and shouldn’t raise the eyebrows of too many various family members if they walk past it.

The mind has a great amount of power to create our lives around us. I truly believe we are all responsible to be co-creators in life along side our Higher Power. (can I just use the word God for convenience?) Because we are blessed with Free Will, we need to understand that we can only receive what we ask for-what we take ownership of. How does that happen? Well, I believe God is listening and waiting for us to do our part of the bargain. It’s called Free Will because we need to WILL want we want. When we give that energy to our lives, then God is allowed to enhance that energy. It’s a partnership.

Our thoughts and our emotions are the tools we use to fuel this energy.
thought + emotion= Intent
They work together and create the fire. This group is special because we all have a natural inborn ability to make things out of nothing but our imaginations. We create jewelry and beads out of our dreams and desires. We play with the fire and metals and glass and gases and they too are our partners. We are natural manifestors and the board is how we ignite this ability into regular daily life.

Materials:
-some sort of board.
Could be a canvas, foamcore, cardboard, etc. I have a corkboard I’m using-it’s big, 24 x 36. I don’t think size matters too much. It just shouldn’t be too tiny that it can’t fit your dreams inside of it.

- affirmations -words that say what you mean, like “I am healthier than I’ve ever been” “My life is filled with grace and ease” “My family respects me” These words can be folded and tucked behind pictures. as long as you know they’re there, it’s o.k. not to display them.

-pictures that represent your goals. Maybe someone wants to get to a certain level in their flameworking. They can put up a picture of a bead that represents to them what a high level of ability is. Putting that picture there with that idea in mind will help you get to that level. I’m personally going to use Google Images and collect stuff and print it. I don’t have a lot of magazines around the house.

-positive gifts from other people.

-anything that makes your heart sing.

I imagine I’ll have ribbons and fabric and a crystal and maybe moms will have some cool kid art and the skies the limit. Have you been wishing you felt younger? Then do something you would have done when you were a kid-like gluing noodles with glitter around the frame, you know? It’s your kingdom and you make the rules.

I plan on putting pics up of my board, and it will constantly evolve and I’ll probably show updates. I think it’s fun to share with each other and help cement these hopes into reality. I think of thoughts as 5-D and I know I want them to become 3-D. (4-D is Time).

If you are stressed right now and don’t have time, I would like to offer a suggestion. At the very least, begin with an empty board that has just one thing in the bullseye that you want more than anything. Perhaps a photograph of your family healthy and happy and together. Just that one thing will be a powerful beginning, and it would only take a few minutes to do. Life is a process and the board will represent and mirror that process. There is no right and wrong and it probably never should be finished. It just needs to Be.


Here is a picture of what I've done to mine so far.

Sunday Breakfast
Total Calories - 243

1 nectarine - 69
1 banana - 105
1 apple - 69
500ml water
vitamins

Sorry for not posting yesterday, but we weren't home most of the day do to one of Kees' co-worker's wedding.

Breakfast
Total Calories - 382

1/2 c muesli - 212
100ml 0% fat yoghurt - 40
1 banana - 105
1/2 cup strawberries - 25

Wedding Church Service

After the service we went to Xenos, I bought a corkboard to make an Abundance Board. Then Kees had promised the girls if they were good during the service, then they could go to McDonald's.

Lunch
Total Calories - 1090

McDonald's and to tell you the truth, after not having it in so long it actually tasted good, a bit greasy, but the lettuce and tomato on my sandwich actually tasted like lettuce and tomato.

1 medium McChicken Mythic Menu - (500 + 380 + 210 = 1090)

Dinner
Total Calories - 712

1/3 stokbrood - 260
cheddar cheese - 101
herb butter - 75
nut cheese - 101
1 small huzaren salad - 175

At the Wedding Party

4 glasses white wine
1 glass cola
8 glasses water
1 tbsp rice
2 chicken sate sticks
1 tomato
10 slices cucumber

Dancing from 9:30pm until 1:30am (not slow dancing, the bouncing good dancing that makes you sweat) It was a wonderful day and evening. The kids stayed at oma's so we got to stay out as late as we wanted.

Daily Total Calories - I'm just gonna guess at over the 2000 mark for saturday....

Due to work eating schedule went to bollocks again. Got up at 4am to have breakfast. Ate a little snack at noon and now at eight pm im about to have dinner!
But in other news: I also did some exercises today. Based on the conversation about the length of breaks between the series with Sarah, _I_ changed my gym program, and cut the length of breaks by 45s. Damn that the program got demanding :P

Breakfast: Cornflakes and coffee

Lunch & afternoon Snack: One whole sandwich with cheese and another with Turkey and lettuce. Two bananas, some tomatos, sultanas and juice.

Biked 54km... hence all the eating. Saw lotsa nature too! Four storks (the baby toting sort), lots of swans, a male and female phesant, lots of bunnies and herons, and even a partidge!

I'm pooped now.

Dinner will be a thin crust oven pizza.

Dinner
Total Calories - 245

1 cup cauliflower with cheese sauce - 50
3/4 cup spinach targetalia - 100
1/2 of a piece of scholvis - 95
500ml water


Daily Total Calories - 1005

Dinner: Strange wheat-rice stuff in a yoghurt curry sauce with bacon and mushrooms. Coffee and a bit of bitter choco after.

How about raisins in cornflakes, Tori?

Snack, 17eet.
Muesli

Dinner 21eet , just light version due to snack:
Ham pasta and an apple
Just sucky microwave food but didnt feel like cooking this late.

ps: cornflake girl, dont go hanging with the raisin girls.

4pm snack: Cornflakes. I luvs my cornflakes.

When doing my weights
I do one reps of 15 of whatever, then rest for 1 min, then do my next 15, rest 1 min, then next 15.

When doing the other things, elliptical, rowing, biking, walking...
I go from one to the next, to keep my heartrate up. I'm supposed to have it at 144 minumum, 175 max. I haven't hit the 175 yet and hope I don't ever hit that again. Sometimes its REALLY hard for me to get my heartrate up to 144 and keep it there throughout the hour plus exercising.

Nice to hear that the week went well Sarah. I was interested of your workout. What kind of pauses do you have between the series/repeats? I actually take time. 1min 45s sharp always, and then a new set. I do this to build up aerobic condition and as I keep it fast paced the visits feel more efficient. Perhaps you could ask from your instructor if it would be fitting to adjust the length of breaks, that is if you want to adjust the program at some point.

Went to see my mother in the afternoon 'cause I felt I needed company, and her words were something along the lines "havent you been eating, there are dents in your cheeks" - The first comments I've heard about this diet in rl. Felt good to hear feedback. In other news learned about bmi from Heather today. I swear I haven't used it as a measurement stick at all. Just calculated the ideal weight with the help of calculators and started to go towards that kg reading. She found it very odd, and compared it to not knowing about existence of Africa, which I for my behalf found very amusing :)

Juha - congrats on the 1.5 kilos loss. 1.5 kilos isn't a fluke just cause you didn't eat good one day. its the combination of your gym time, soccer games and eating healthier.

I was pleasantly surprised when the scale read 129.9 it may only be 100 grams under that 130 mark, but heck its still 129.9 and its 200 grams off from last week's kilo gain. Even with eating pizza last night. ;)

my munchies craving has subsided some, and today after the gym I felt really good. That sauna was awesome today... have to say I kinda prefer it when there isn't anyone else in it... I like to lay day and feel the heat slowly seep into my muscles.

Lunch: 3x pieces of bread, a small bit of paturain, lettuce, and 4x pieces of turkey shared with the cat

Good job ducking back beneath the 130 mark, Sarah! Keep it up and we'll pass this plateau for real soon!

Begin Weight - 135
Last week Weight - 130.1
Today's Weigh-in - 129.9

Breakfast
Total Calories - 105

Banana - 105

Gym
30min elliptical
10min rowing
25min biking
30min weight lifting
10min sauna
800ml water

After gym snack
Total Calories - 210

1 cup grapes - 120
1 cup 0% fat milk - 90

Lunch
Total Calories - 445

2 multigrain broodjes - 190
8 slices chicken lunchmeat - 88
1/2 cup lettuce - 23
2 round goats cheese - 86
1 tsp pesto - 58
4 pickles - 32

(exchanged the tomato for cheese and pesto cause I was outta tomatoes)

in start : 83,9
last week : 81.5
today : 79.9kg

Tho I know this result is mostly due to fact that I didnt eat properly yesterday, and had just water after dinner it is still nice to see the figures I haven't seen for a decade. I was 86kg in May still.
Next week ill prolly go back above 80 again but yeah this was nice to see. Hopefully the week has gone well resultwise for you guys as well, waiting to hear of your reports.

Weigh in: 59.5kg

Time to get back in gear for me.

Breakfast: Coffee and cornflakes

Dinner: oooooh you dont wanna know. Went to a new resturaunt called Kanzaman and had their special... boy was it lots. Food for three presented on one big plate we all ate from. Bowl o fruit after. Boy am I stuffed.

The scale won't be kind tomorrow... at all ;P

Dinner
total calories - 560

1/2 a big american cheese and onion pizza - 560
750ml water


Daily Total Calories - 1275

If I had known what kind of day was ahead of me when I woke up this morning
I would have stayed in bed. The day was a rollercoaster of emotions and thoughts during which i did some embarrassingly stupid things, which I now regret. Didn't even eat right. I just wasn't hungry enough. Had breakfast and dinner, and that was it. I drank just water after that.

Lousy day, but perhaps I still learned something out of this tho I am grateful that there's only 30mins left of this.

Snack: More cornflakes. I like cornflakes.

Lunch: Some cornflakes and a whole turkey sandwich thick with lettuce.

I'll make some coffee later too.

Blogger's been crapping out on the posting a lot lately, habging on 0% posted, then posting multies for me. Annoying ;P

Breakfast
Total calories - 105

1 banana - 105
500ml water
vitamins


lunch (I'm eating lunch early today)
total calories - 305

1/2 steamed pasta with spinach and courgette - 305
750ml water


midafternoon snack (will be)
total calories - 305

1/2 steamed pasta with spinach and courgette
500ml water

I'll get you the next time _you_ typo woman
ill get you and it wont be pretty! :P

Breakfast:
Wheat porridge and coffee

Snack: Oatmeal and some bread

Dinner: A mixmosh dinner of everything in the house that needed cooking. Bits of spek, some hamburger meat, mushrooms, spinish and noodles with yoghurt. Coffee + choco after.

Breakfast: Will be some oatmeal and rasins with coffee when I'm hungry enough after my shower. Zzz...

PS: Don't toss old feet into the microwave, oki?

Dinner
Total Calories - 379

2 slavinken - 250
1/2 cup mini kriel - 67
1 ear of corn - 59
750ml water

Daily Total Calories - 876

Oh lookie, he can cook something after all and not just toss old foot into micro:

Dinner, which took place already 5h ago but i was busy:
tomato sauce and pasta with meatballs. (..finnish meatballs at least i think those were)
2 toasts with cheese
coffee and yes, a block of the chocolate i bought yesterday, the 70% one.

good afternoon

breakfast
total calories - 105

1 banana - 105
500ml water
vitamins
2 aleve - I've been fighting a headache since yesterday morning... its still not gone even with 2 aleve.

Gym time - more than 500 calories burnt today! WHEE!
800ml water
30min elliptical
10min rowing
25min biking
20min treadmill
10min sauna


lunch
total calories - 395

2 mini broodjes - 130
8 slices chicken lunchmeat - 88
1 tomato - 24
1/2 cup lettuce - 23
1/2 paprika and olive broodje - 130
500ml water

Breakfast: Oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: Two pieces of bread with lettuce and about a tablespoon of egg salad and a 2nd whole sandwich with chicken curry

Sorry guys for being MIA.. Hubby didn't make it to China. Long story... mixup with his tickets. Anyway we have been in the process of getting ready to move. Well this week we are boxing like crazy as the decision will be made this week as to which house we will rent. Plus since he is off and he can help me box it's as good a time as any.

Haven't been on the computer at all. Will be back when things die down a little.

Gmorning pinkie team.

breakfast
wheat porridge
2 toasts
coffee
muesli

midafternoon snack
total calories - 195

1 onion foccacio - 195
500ml water


Dinner
Total calories - 412

1 shoarma bread - 130
1/2 cup shoarma meat - 165
1/2 cup mixed lettuce - 23
1 tsp garlic sauce made from mayo and 0% fat yoghurt - 50
1/2 cup green beans - 44
500ml water


Daily Total calories - 1069

Could work if I nab something light like a fruit or so. Have to figure out some solution. Thanks.

So have a snack at 4pm, Juha. Thats considered healthy as your blood sugar levels stay in line. We've said this before :)

Dinner: Vindaloo with organic brown rice (ooo) and lettuce + lowfat yoghurt. Coffee after... huzzah...

I suppose im a liar. Said yesterday that I couldn't possible eat more macaroni casserole after 3 days. Today was the 4th day. Came home as tired from gym and surfing around in city and didn't have the strength to cook anything. Tossing the leftovers in the microwave was the easiest option.

Also bought 75% chocolate from shop today since someone keeps talking about it so much so I got curious. Little bock of it with coffee tasted nice. Seems to me that I have dessert ready for some weeks now, that is if I eat it block/day pace.

Was a busy day, gym and cycling like a maniac, looking for cable for my phone. I should sleep like a baby this night.

Dinner:
Macaroni casserole (it will take weeks before i make this again)
3 toasts with, ahem, dutch paprika :P and cheese.

As a side note. I got a bad habit. I can't have dinner without reading or watching something. This is when I eat alone and I usually eat alone. So I keep stretching the meal till 19:30. this is when simpsons start :P But its far too late time of day considering that lunch takes place at 12.00. Problematic indeed.

Lunch: Two whole sandwiches, one with chicken curry and the other with egg salad and lettuce. Coffee after. Banana for snack at 4pm. Mjam.

lunch
total calories - 46

1 cup strawberries - 46
500ml water

breakfast/lunch:
paprika&mushroom omelet
2 toasts with cheese
coffee
muesli

Had a bad night again. Got up at 3am for 2hours. Just browsed allkinds of strange inet pages I found. It's pretty wierd btw: how you are hungry if you get up in the middle of the night and then even if you wont eat a thing you are not hungry anymore after you get up for the second time in the morning. Had to force myself to eat breakfast.

Heyas everyone!

Breakfast
Total Calories - 416

1 banana - 105
2 slices of bread - 130
1 tbsp herb cheese - 101
4 slices chicken lunchmeat - 44
rucola lettuce - 3
1 tsp pinenuts - 33
500ml water
vitamins

Breakfast: Two pieces of sunflower seed bread with some egg salad and coffee and a lil oatmeal.

Grey day out there at the moment... hopefully the sun breaks through a little later. We've been spoiled with nice late September weather, but alas... I know fall is coming for real soon enough!

Dinner: One schitzel and some spital noodles with tomatos and mushrooms. Dessert was coffee with a lil 75% choco

ps: where's Diana!

Dinner
Total Calories - 447

1/2 cup mini kriel potatoes - 67
1/2 cup green beans - 22
1/2 cup ground meat - 196
1/4 cup onion - 23
1/4 cup paprika - 25
1/2 cup sate sauce (for ground meat casserole with green beans and sate sauce) - 114
1 liter water

Daily Total Calories - 943

dinner, 3rd straight macaroni casserole day (this thing is starting to come out of my ears soon):

casserole,
2 toasts with ham slices(turkey meat actually which is lighter),tomatos and cheese.
water
yoghurt with muesli as dessert.

Good job again Sarah :)

Late Lunch: Lettuce and a piece of brown bread and another slice with blueberry jam and some cocoa.

I have woman issues today. Urgh!

And Mellon is sick. Bleh. Kitty's all grumpy and urgled and to top it off I had to give her a bath. She's going to the vet on Wednesday.

Dr. Phil is on TV about losing weight. He's a complete dork, but sometimes the show is good to watch... like now... for some inspiration

Way to go Sarah. Doesn't this now help you to battle against temptations when those occur? Remember the good feeling. It will carry you far. I'm happy for you and I don't wish to be a spoilsport when I say this but this isn't a point to get too satisfied yet for satisfaction marks the end of development in everything.

Breakfast
Total Calories - 174

1 banana - 105
1 nectarine - 69
500ml water
vitamins

I did at the gym
25 min elliptical, 10min rowing, 20min biking, 10min elliptical, 15min treadmill
30min weightlifting, 10 min sauna
800ml water

Lunch
Total Calories - 322

1/2 paprika and olive bread - 195
1 small piece 72% chocolate - 58
1 apple - 69


I measured myself today.
My last measurements were done on Aug 21, 2006.
They were
Chest: 130cm, Waist: 120cm, Hips: 148cm
Then I measured my troublesome areas, thighs (87cm), calves(51cm) and upper arms(47cm).

Today's measurements are:

Chest: 129cm (-1cm)
Waist: 118cm (-2cm)
Hips: 145cm (-3cm)
Thighs: 82cm (-5cm)
Calves: 52.5cm (+1.5cm WTF?)
Upper Arms: 45cm ((-2cm)

So no matter what that damn scale says, I'm even happier than I was before with these measurements. I can't believe that in a little over a month, I've lost that much already in cms....
Watch out world! Sarah's on a roll and you better get out of her way!!!!

I love you all! Thank you for being there for me when I've found it hard to press on and when I want to eat a bucketful of ice cream and chocolate!

Breakfast: Coffee and bread with honey

Lunch: Two open faced turkey and lettuce sandwiches

The first morning when the temperature was below zero when cycling to school. Nice and cool trip.

Breakfast:
the leftover sandwich from yesterday (egg/cheese/tomato)
wheat porridge (got myself to make porridge, my accomplishment)
muesli with banana yoghurt.

sort of heavy breakfast but i was starving, will be countered by lighter lunch.

Hey Heather, nice to see that you didn't get kidnapped by the evil germans, seeing that you ventured so close to border. + points to you also for the ice cream bout and all the biking :)

Nice critter pics, but I see your failed attempt at feeding the children to the goats! Better hide those pics before social services sees them!

Just got up, but so tired. The weekend was nice, but I won't bother to put all the foods eaten. Needless to say as with all big family gettogethers it was a lot, but end the end I avoided the massive bubild your own ice cream sunday bar and only went for the fruit there. Small accomplishments.

We also biked a full 55km yesterday, which accounts for my being zzz and sore. I'll go have some coffee now... zzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........