mostly useless crap from me

I felt rather crummy last night, so I had a carb and dairy blowout. The work situation is pretty rooted, so it was one of those emotional things. Like Nicole, though, I found that the extent of the blowout was limited by feeling incredibly full after only getting about 66% of the way through the planned gorging. I still ended up +7.5 points for the day.

Hot tip: Felling shitty about your work situation, and then going home to watch the DVD of “The Office” is a combination that leads to emotional triggers and wanting to blow out. Avoid. I might mention this at the next meeting.

The only good thing about having to bail last night was that I had a ww compliant dinner of baked beans on toast It really was a 2 parent job that toddler evac, it took two verbatim renditions of “where the wild things are” with Luke doing the sound effects to get him to stop *screaming* all the way home….

….tired and hungry is a deadly combination, as us ww-ers surely know…..

Thanks for the praise guys. To be perfectly honest I haven’t been tracking with the same zeal as I was for the last couple of weeks. Call it superstition but whenever I write down every last thing I put on weight! I put the success down to the portion size at night thing as well as eating fruit (when you think about the old metabolism actually it makes sense). Also helped by the fact that I was able to get a bit of moderate exercise in now my toe is feeling better (not normal yet, but getting there).

I *bet* I will put weight on in the coming week, its just how it works. But I am going to try to minimise any gain or keep it steady by continuing to be careful at night and keeping my carb intake to only 5 serves a day. I have also atomised the protien over every meal and try to get at least a half an hour walk in each day to try to get the metabolism moving along again.

I took B to the zoo this morning soon I really got my walk in. About half way through the hour I bought B an ice-cream but this did not present a ww challenge. You see it was milo flavoured and his two very favourite things are milo and icecream. Everytime I begged him for a taste he yelled “No mummy! Mine! Yummy!”. Eventually he relented and let me have the most measly bit off the end of the spoon, that was a poofteenth of a point but it was yummy

btw, I put a link to the login page on the side bar.

Hey Inger, well done on your -2.3 kg. A fantastic effort! I’m curious as to whether you think that this is the result of careful tracking over the last three weeks (given that you’ve intimated that it quite often takes up to ten days for bad and good things to be reflected in your weight), or if you believe it was the cutting of the portion sizes.

I trust that the rest of the evening was a success. Should we return there in a couple of weeks for the next double figures party?

I am a bit concerned over what will happen over the easter break. I am going to the Canberra folk festival for four days and then off to a secret bush location where Master Whispy beard from Taiwan is going to teach me secret dim mak death touch techniques for a dew days.
Canberra will be bad as going on past instances we dont cook at all and tend to forage fast food at the festival. I may have to try and bring about some change or at least go shopping so as to defray the worst excesses. And as for exercise forget it. They do have early morning tai chi and yoga but we have never made it in the past.
As for the Kung Fu camp i am hoping that 2 or 3 kung fu sessions a day will burn off the non WW compliant food they will be having there. I did have a conversation regarding the food on the camp with Amelia one of the instructors.

J: So how WW compilant is the food on the camp?
A: Its compliant its all really healthy food.
J: I am sure it is healthy but how WW compliant is it?
A: Its very healthy pasta for lunch and a rice dish for dinner. The bacon and eggs for breakfast mightnt be but there will be cereal like corn flakes, oh and there will be pancakes one morning.
J: *sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

I am going to visit a Safeway and pick up some soy milk and some WW compliant breakfast cereal which is a pity as i am paying through the nose for this camp ($500 for 3.5 days). I might also grab some deserts as i am pretty sure what will be on offer might be healthy but not very good for me.

Anyone else expecting a horror easter?

Cathi and I went shopping on the weekend. I bought a new belt, as the old one was too big. And I also bought two new paris of jeans. Unreal McBeal: I went down two sizes, from a 102cm to 92cm. Whacko!

We also bought each other a Haig’s chocky easter egg, but, I stress, they were small ones, and dark chocolate, not milk (which has slightly less points, but I know, it is like smoking low tar ciggies)

I have a bad feeling about tonight’s weigh in. I have not done anything bad, I just feel as though I spent the last week cruising as far as points watching was concerned.

Are we still heading out afterwards tonight for Mr K’s double figures at last party? Of the non-bloggers, Sophie is coming, Paul is 50-50, and Michelle(? I think that’s her name! Charlotte’s first tooth has arrived, so that’s the excuse I’m using…) is definitely in.

I have put in some hard lifestyle changes this week. I hope they work.

I have started to cut my portion sizes in half at dinner time – regardless of how many points I “have to eat” before bedtime. Trying to keep that meal at or below 6 pts and picking up any hunger cravings with fruit that I haven’t managed to eat during the day or yogurt (ski now make half sized tubs that you buy in packs of 12 which are a point each) . I did well most of the week, it fell over a bit on Friday because I didn’t have a snack during the afternoon (I have this class that is all talking, time flies and I forget to eat the yogurt I have in my bag).

I also feel a bit powerless when we decide to get takeway because I buggered after work on Thursday nights and Luke is the worst cook in the universe. This week it was indian…. bad news. Instead of getting the meal deal which has 2 small tubs of curry, a large rice and naan bread I got one small curry and a small rice. When I got home I split both the rice and the curry in half and put it in the fridge for Friday’s lunch with the rice that luke couldn’t finish from his large serve. To make up the difference I had half the naan bread from Luke’s serve (which is still *bad* – but not as bad as the curry!). I found I was actually really full after this anyway and didn’t need to snack before bed so the points for the day were either under or on par.

So I think Marti owes be a star for that one, and yesterday at lunch I sat in front of a bowl of chips and mayo and *I didn’t eat a single one*. I have also walked at least 3 times this week and I plan to take B to the zoo today so that will be the forth walk. Bring on the scales!

btw Paul, did you get the comment to one of the previous entries about seeing you in the tv show ‘In the realm of the hackers’ wearing a wig? Love your work darling!

Loui & Franko’s, which had changed hands in August/Sept last year, is now back in the hands of the original owners.

This is good. Cheap, yummy Italian food.

This is bad. Points.

Apparently Tuesdays are now $10 days — ie nothing on the menu over $10.

I just checked the bread we’ve been using at home. Have been counting 2 pt per 2 slices. It’s actually 3.5 points per 2 slices. Whoops.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/31/1080544544617.html