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....