Hello, Hello ond this delightful Friday evening. It's not too hot, there's a bit of a breeze and it's Friday. Could anything be better??
In answer to Ms Mexico's query, my main methods are as follows:
Portion control
Water
Exercise.
Forget the D word. For me that never works. What I do is to limit the stuff that is not so good for me and each lots of the stuff that is good. Heaps of fruit and veg (although fruit is high in sugar) to fill up on.
My menu is something like - cereal and fruit (usually fresh), low fat, plain yoghurt for breakfast, a salad sandwich or wrap for lunch again with some fruit or chopped up vege, and dinner is meat (mostly chicken, but the odd bit of beef, lamb or pork and salad 3 nights a week. Fish at least once if not twice and veges, veges, veges.
I try to drink 1500ml of water per day at least. Sometimes I don't make it, but I try. One thing I have found is that without it, weight loss is really slow, and there are problems with elimination too - to put it politely
I go to the gym 5 times a week - 2 x 40 minutes of weights and resistance training, 2 x 40 minutes of cardio - usually running on the treadmill and 1 hour body balance class (Pilates, yoga, Tai Chi mix). In between times I work around the house and garden. (apart from the day job that is). One other thing I do or rather don't do is snack much. Sometimes I'll have some rice crackers but mostly if I am going to eat between meals it is extra fruit. I'm pretty lucky that I don't have a sweet tooth, but watch me chow down on cheese.
So I hope you have some hints and tips from that and from the other ladies on this thread. It's often a case of experiment until you find the right mix. But I'm sorry, I can guarantee that nothing will happen without control, exercise and water. Control and water will help you lose but not really quickly. Trick is to fill the day to keep your fingers out of the fridge.
I like my job!!!! Did I say that before. I really am happy there. They treat me like an adult and take advantage of any knowledge I may have. The 'boys' are fun, one is slow and pedantic, another a real live wire who doesn't explain anything in his doco - wonder if I can somehow merge the two and get reasonable doco at good speed??? The other two are more or less self sufficient - one is super efficient, so my job although very busy is relatively easy and entertaining. There is always someone taking the mickey. It probably won't always be that way - there will be days where I will complain about things, but it has to be a huge improvement on the other. I can stop coming here and whingeing. We don't have flirty jokes over here much any more, Meadow. The do-gooders have taken a lot of fun from the workplace and made us all into perfect little do gooders who won't or can't harass the neighbours or workmates and who can be warned or fired for being a bit free. While I think things are much better than they were, a lot of the fun and banter has now gone from the office. We seem to have swung too far the other way - many men don't know how to speak to women for fear it will land them in hot water. Mostly they won't even say you look good incase you get up and chastise them for thinking you looked bad yesterday. As I said it's hard. Fortunately being a bit older does allow me to crack the odd funny or two and get away with it. The guys seem to feel fairly relaxed with me so we all get on reasonably well. We had a conference call today where one of the guys was asked if he was looking after me. His reply was that Joy and I work together well - I co-operate and do it her way.
I'm on my way happy!!! Shovel and spade in hand - aaaah no! shovel and spade in hold - otherwise I'll get done going through the xray machine. One piece of advice I will give though is not to get rid of anything or move anything until you have been in the place 1 year! Reason? You are shifting in to the house in the winter. How do you know or not know that those trees provide desparately needed shade in the summer? Or that they don't have beautiful flowers or foliage? Another reason is that there may be bulbs or seeds in the ground which will appear in the spring. Nothing worse than getting a spade depth down and digging up all these bulbs and tubers which you have happily managed to slice in half with the spade. By all means get rid of the known weeds and surface garbage, get it all ready for my next visit.
Yikes Linus, what a price to pay for the IPOD. It must be a good one. Good to hear he is on the mend or nearly on the mend. The poor kid must be thinking this is retribution for the booze bouts. Perhaps you can give a hint about this is what life will be like when you drink. Hey that is some savings you have made with giving up the dreaded weed! Wonder how much Happy has saved in the last 8 months or so.
Tig - why are they ripping your project plan to pieces. Is it a practical one - is that why? Is it logical and budgeted and all those things?
And it is Friday night. So in a few minutes I am about to clear the kitchen and since there is nothing on TV worth watching, I may just have an early night. Get up early in the morning and get cracking on the DS's room. I have a dust mask, I have a neck to ankle caftan, I have steel cap boots and a hard hat. I'm in there. I'm up to the wardrobe/ closet! - it has remnants of both DS's since DS1 left things in there too when he left home. Is life meant to be sneezy????