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...