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#556

mazza , 12-08-2008 09:29 PM

Hey all. You're probably all going to bed as I am writing this.

I came home early from work today because I felt sick - a weird nausea. Plus, every time I stand up, I feel like I'm about to faint. I took my blood pressure with our sphygmo and I do think 98/60 is kinda low.. So that might be it. I also feel lethargic.

Anyway! Enough complaining.

Good to hear you're back at work, Marie - and I hope you keep recovering. It's great you're getting some walking in, and that your diet is going well.

Today I ate bread for the first time in months. Organic rye - my favourite. I'd feared it for so long ... Thank god that's over.

Lot's o' love.

Mariana
#557

auntie g , 12-08-2008 10:05 PM

Hmmmm, I haven't been getting my new post notifications for the past couple days. I wonder what's up with that?

Today I made my old standby, healthy spaghetti. It's so much easier to be back on track that way. Had a few pieces of chocolate, but didn't do too bad. I think I'll be fine when PMS has run its course.

My car was in for inspection today, so I got some stuff done around the house and finished all my Christmas cards - yay! And I got good news from my mechanic, too. That $700 repair on DH's truck that I was complaining about a while ago - well, we haven't gotten it done yet, and my guy says he can do it for $450. Sweeeeeet... A trustworthy mechanic is so hard to find these days, and I've always liked this guy. DH went somewhere else because it was closer for walking home (one block instead of 6 blocks, oh, please!)

Mazza, good to know about the French/Bosnian thing. After I read that, I thought, hmmm, well maybe the whole world doesn't use the same expression as we do here, but perhaps it is universal after all. (LOL) I hope you're feeling better! Any idea what caused the low blood pressure? I've had the feeling faint upon standing tons of times, but it was always because of fluid in my ears. Blecch! Enjoy being back on bread- I'm sure you have no problem with burning calories, so bread can be your yummy friend...

Marie, you GO, girl! Still walking and keeping under cals, even when sick. You are in the groove! Glad the TV watching practice went well , you know, practice makes perfect! My Eagles are trying to keep the hope alive - yay! DH is always writing them off, which kind of gets on my nerves. I figure as long as there's still some hope, we might as well think positive and enjoy it! Next week we have another Monday night game, and I can never stay up to watch the whole thing, so that takes the fun out of it, but I'll keep my fingers crossed, nonetheless. Better luck next time for your guys on your new TV!

Guess I better get things wrapped up so I can get to bed. I expect tomorrow to be crazy at work. Tis the season...

Have a good one, everyone!
#558

Marie , 12-09-2008 11:53 AM

Morning everyone. Mazza, take it easy with the fainty feeling. My pressure drops when I don't get enough salt in my diet. Just a thought. Auntie, I can't get 3FC to stop sending me update emails. No matter how many times I unsubscribe, it re-subscribes me. I finally wrote a rule for my home email to delete all 3FC emails. Too much in my inbox and I check regularaly regardless. Sort of funny we're having opposite problems.

I drove over the mountain yesterday (I was supposed to go today, but legal reasons prompted it yesterday instead). I was good and didn't overeat. I wanted to munch my way but the mountain pass was icy and yucky. I had to have both hands on the steering wheel and no munching or even drinking my water allowed. It was a terrible drive. Anyway it's over and I did my Costco shopping while there.

Auntie, I finished my Christmas cards last night too. I dropped them in the mail this morning on the way to work.

Mazza, I LOVE rye bread. I found a sourdough rye bread recipe that I'm going to try now that I have my wonderful starter.

I walked the doggies at 5 this morning. It was 20 degrees and the stars were gorgeous. So I was thinking I was definitely on the road to recovery. Then at work, I turned funny and wrenched my knee. Man oh man, it hurts. I tried massaging it and that really hurt, so now I'm just sitting at my desk. Soon I'll be working. Boo, I really just want to feel normal and be able to exercise without complications.
Marie
#559

judydc , 12-09-2008 12:19 PM

I'm off, chickies! I'm boarding the first plane in a few minutes, with a small chili and a salad in hand . I will check in when I can, with real posts when I-m hooked up to a computer.

Hang in there!

Judy
#560

mazza , 12-09-2008 04:21 PM

'Ello.

Marie - I think you're spot on about what could be causing my dizziness.
Last weekend at the cycling workshop I sweat and drank tons, and I spent the following week with seemingly insatiable salt cravings. My sodium levels are usually pretty low - and this might have tipped me over the edge.
Maybe ice for the knee? Also - do you take a fish oil supplement? They're awesome for speeding up recovery. That and magnesium - which you can usually get in powder form.

Good control with the chocolate, Auntie. PMS usually has me wanting to stuff my face with all sorts of chocolatey treats. And great deal on the car repair! You're right about trustworthy mechanics.

Judy - How exiting! All the best for your travels. Salad - a great start

Oooh.. before I forget.. I'm down another 2lbs this week . 5.6 Kilos (14lbs) away from my goal. It's getting close... I hope I stay on track.
Looking forward to salad and grilled trout for dinner tonight.
Next November, there's a 90km bike ride I'm keen to participate in. It's gonna take a lot of training, but I think if I set my mind to it....

Mariana
#561

auntie g , 12-09-2008 06:48 PM

Today has been a loooong day. Work was overwhelmingly busy and I need to get wrapping tonight. I really feel like going to bed...

Marie, yeah, that's funny about the emails. I did get them today, so maybe my trouble was temporary. Icy mountain pass driving sounds horrifying to me! I suppose you must have some experience, though. I'll always stay home when it's icy if at all possible. Argh! I forgot to get stamps to mail my cards. Maybe tomorrow... Hope that knee heals fast! I've had some knee issues in the past and I know it's no fun. I'm still trying to get my foot to heal - now I'm sure it's an arch thing, not a heel thing. Everything feels good in the right shoes, but my problem is that I hate to wear shoes, so as soon as I get home, they're off. And that just isn't helping.

Judy, have a safe trip!!!

Mariana, congrats on the 2 more pounds! I guess all that exercise makes a difference. Maybe I should try it sometime - LOL! I don't think you'll have any trouble training for the bike ride. That really would be kinda cool. Go for it!

Have a happy hump day!
#562

Marie , 12-09-2008 09:19 PM

Hi all,

Mariana, DH has fish oil so I'll start taking it tonight. I tried web md and a couple other sites and nothing describes the pain I have. I did put my brace on it and DH will drive me over the mountain if I need to go to the dr. Thanks for the idea of fish oil. AND CONGRATS on the 2 more vanished pounds. You are doing so great.

Auntie, you make me laugh. I even read your comment about exercise to DH and he laughed. He's pretty impressed you've lost 51.5 pounds without exercising. Actually his eyes nearly popped. Between my knee and foot problems, I might have to take your idea on exercise.

Judy, I hope the travel goes good. I'm guessing you went to Wendy's in the airport for chili and salad.

Well, that's about it. The knee hurts and I'm depressed.
Marie
#563

auntie g , 12-11-2008 07:32 AM

Hellooooo out there! Well, spaghetti week is definitely helping me. It's so great to not have to think about what's for dinner, when there's so much stuff to be done at this time. And thankfully, the Kisses seem to be gone from work (for now, at least.) Hopefully the boss doesn't re-stock before PMS loses its grip!

Marie, how's that knee doing? I'm glad you guys got a chuckle out of my exercise regimen! Seriously, I have never been able to sustain a program that seems like work. I wish I could find a sport, or something fun, but no such luck there, either. I do try to walk as much as possible in the course of the day, and just work in things here and there so it doesn't seem like something to rebel against. I'll lift little weights while I wait for computer stuff to load, and do stretchy things when I'm on the phone or waiting for the teakettle, etc... It's all no way to do any serious re-shaping or burn a whole lot of extra calories, but at least it's something, right? Oddly, I am the most flexible person I know (in my age group, that is!), so I guess there's some benefit to the bits that I manage.

Oh, I'm going to be late for work. Have a great day, everyone!
#564

Marie , 12-11-2008 03:21 PM

I agree Auntie... Helloooooo out there........

My knee is pretty screwed up but it is getting better. Thank goodness for the brace. I talked with one of our school nurses and her DH has the same problem and she really explained what is wrong better than the orthopedist. Unfortunately her DH finally surrendered and had surgery. She said, "he just wouldn't stop". Hmmm, sounds familiar. But for now, I've stopped, no exercise since Tuesday morning. But I am thinking of a slow walk after work and only about 3/4 mile. We shall see. Depends how bad/good it's doing in a few hours.

Food has been on track. Mr. Scale gave back what it had taken back over the last week of TOM plus another .2 pounds. That was a nice surprise this morning. I'll take .2 any day. Oooo, .2 everyday would be even better.

Auntie, I'm glad the kisses are gone and the spaghetti week has been working. You had me worried there for a moment. Anyway, if you're incorporating lots of movement into your day, who's to say that isn't enough. Look at your weightloss! You're doing something WAY right!
Marie
#565

mazza , 12-11-2008 04:20 PM

Yesterday I worked a mars bar into my daily calories. It was delicious! I hadn't had one in, easily - over a year. I've been trying new foods and things to give myself variety in my diet (i was tired of canned salmon, peas and low fat yoghurt..not that that's all I was eating ).

A wedge of light laughing cow cheese on half a slice of rye is my favourite snack right now - and only 85 calories, with 9 grams of protein.

Before I changed up my diet, I was eating small amounts of healthy, high-ish calories foods, but now I'm eating smaller amounts, more variety - and the same number of calories. The change has been refreshing and it also means I'm less insane about not eating certain foods... I'm allowing myself more 'treat' foods - in sensible portions. (That still doesn't mean I get a mars bar every day...

Work is getting really crazy lately. Everyone's buying christmas things...(duh). I'm really sick of the cd we have playing in the store - it's a 40 or so minute loop...a mixture of generic christmas songs and a man saying "thank you for shopping here" as well as other things every few minutes.

It's raining in sydney right now, and I'm feeling lazy and tired form my workout yesterday, and I have an active day ahead of me tomorrow - I'm going to a parkour jam.

How's the knee feeling, Marie? Braces are brilliant. The slow walk sounds like a good way to ease back into activity - also, do you cycle? It's a great way to strengthen the quads (and stabilise the knee joint), and it's low impact.

Auntie - still really busy with work? At least the evil kisses temptation is gone...even if only for now.
Hey - even if you don't sustain an exercise program, you're active in your everyday life! What with the tea kettle waiting stretches/ computer loading waiting weights....It's all about incorporating activity into daily life, right? This is why I love accidental exercise. I plan to make couch plyometrics a craze. It's simply - every 5 minutes when you are sitting on the couch watching tv (which i do a lot, even though I'm also active) you spring up and jump as high as you can and land back on the couch. My friend dubbed it (a$$ trampoline). I should get the idea copywritten.....

Ok my insanity has infiltrated this post enough.... time to go now.

Happy friday ladies!

Mariana
#566

auntie g , 12-11-2008 07:52 PM

It's been raining so long, now, I think I need to start building an ark. Ick! If this were snow, we'd be in deep! Anyway, I've had a completely chocolate-free day today, and I am under calories for once - yay! I think I'm really back in the swing now, at least until I have to do my baking. But I am not going to extend my Christmas day eating like I did Thanksgiving. Whatever goodies are still here by that night will be going home with my sister for the kids. So there!

Marie, egads! You might have to find different exercises for a while to let your knee have a chance to heal. I know you don't want to be a couch potato! Congrats on Mr Scale's good behavior once again! And don't worry about me, I do expect to go temporarily insane again for Christmas, but I am not abandoning ship! I realize that this is a lifetime battle, and there will be times when things are a bit out of control. In the past the bad times would make me give up, but now I accept that they are just part of the ride. I don't have to be perfect, I just have to KEEP GOING!!! It's very freeing...

Mariana, I don't think I've ever had a Mars bar. Hmmm, what's in it? Or maybe I don't want to know - LOL! Seriously, I don't know how I could stand it without the Laughing Cow cheese. Mmmmm, so yummy, and so satisfying for so few calories - a fabulous invention. And yes, I am still crazy busy at work, too. I'm so sorry you have to listen to the same CD all the time. I thought I had it bad, but we have a 5 CD rotation, at least. Oh man, am I sick of them, though! All day, every day, the same songs over and over and over. And most of them are not even songs I like. They're weird, not traditional Christmas songs that I could sing along with. But I think I'd be screaming if I had to hear the "thank you for shopping here" man. Hang in there!

It's just about time to watch Survivor- I think I'll try a little a$$ trampoline...

Happy Friday!!!
#567

Marie , 12-12-2008 12:58 PM

TGIF!!!!

Auntie and Mariana, I'm so sorry about the retail end of the holidays. And a 40 minute loop. Holy, moly, I'd be nuts after one day. I take the PTB are cheap??? Even 5 cd rotation is too little variety. I listen to my Christmas playlist (about 2 hours long) once a day and even that is too much.

No knee brace today. It's stiff and achy but certainly improving. I do have the brace in my work bag because one never knows. DH and I walked about 3/4 mile yesterday with the doggies. They certainly were disappointed in the speed and distance, but hey, better than nothing. Mariana, I love biking although my a$$ hates it. No matter how many ergomically correct seats I buy.try, it always hurts after a few miles. DH says I'll get used to it, but he lies. After 3 months in summer 2007. I begged to differ. Anyway, I bought a fluid trainer for my bike for the winter. I do like it but haven't done it in a while. Now there's no way as bending my knee is where all the pain is. But I will start slowly probably this weekend. Makes sense about stabilizing the joint. Besides, I won't be able to ski if my quads aren't in good shape. And skiing season is right around the bend as TWO arctic storms are set to hit tonight and Sunday. Snow on the way.

Mariana, I don't know what a Mars bar is either and probably shouldn't know. A Milky Way bar sounds really good right now. I might buy a mini-bite package for treats. I don't have a problem munching on stuff if it's nearby. I'm so "cheap" with my calories that I wouldn't "spend" erratically. Now, if I could only be cheap with money as well.

auntie, good for you on the chocolate-less day. I can't do that. I have to have my 70 cal serving of dark choc m&ms daily. They are my friends. Sometimes I even have 2 portions if my cals are a bit on the low side in the evenings.

Mr Scale was again nice and dropped another .2 pounds. So now I've lost 16 of the 25 pounds I'd regained. I will be so happy to see the 9 remaining go but I think that will be April at the speed I'm losing. Late 40's has done evil things with my capacity to lose weight. So a word of warning to my younger chickie friends, don't regain in the late forties. It's so slow and I'm more vigilant than ever.

Marie
#568

auntie g , 12-13-2008 07:44 AM

Yippee! I'm down 2 lbs, which brings me back to where I was before I lost my mind. This weekend will be a little "foody", but I really do feel like I'm back in the right mindset. We're going out to Olive Garden today for DH's birthday, which is actually next Thursday- same day as Judy's! And tomorrow is my niece's birthday party- she'll be turning 5 next Friday. Busy, busy, busy... Tonight my nephews have a performance with their church group, which we will be attending, and luckily that's not an eating event. I still have a mountain of wrapping to do, but I'm trying not to get too stressed out about it. After I'm done posting, I'll be going grocery shopping, and I will re-buy the truffles for my sister that I ate. I will then wrap her gift immediately, before the chocolate monster strikes again! Wish me luck!

Marie, glad to hear the knee is showing some improvement. Has your snow started? It finally stopped raining here, so hopefully we'll dry out a bit before we start looking for any snow. Oh, about the chocolate-free thing- I still have my fake brownie (the HG fake fudge) every day, but I don't count that as REAL chocolate. I wouldn't want to go a day without some sort of chocolatey treat, even if it is fake! And congrats on another .2! I know things have changed since I turned 40, so I guess it continues to get a little more challenging, huh? That's ok, we'll get there. Slow and steady wins the race!

Must get off to the grocery store before it gets too crowded, ugh! Have a happy weekend!
#569

Marie , 12-13-2008 01:24 PM

Okay auntie, I literally laughed out loud. Re-buying the truffles you ate. Oh that sounds like something I'd do. That was funny. Congrats on the 2 pounds. I always have OG Spaghetti with tomato basil marinara as it's pretty lo-cal and delicious. The bread sticks chant my name but I only allow myself one. You can be strong. I know you can. Enjoy grocery shopping - if that's even possible. I hate doing it.

Our snow did start. It's very light even though everyone's predicting a bit more. It's swirling out my window at the moment. It's actually pretty as long as my fire is going.

My knee is a tad better than yesterday but closer to the same. I decided I'm going to try my bike with nearly no resistance and see how it goes. I'm definitely going to use the treadmill at a low speed and no incline. I'm going nuts with no exercise. I did, however, clean like a banshee this morning. The DirecTv installer should be here anytime in the next 1.5 hours. Or later considering the icy roads. Our service is being changed to Hi Def today. So I had to clean the house somewhat as being sick and then the knee, I didn't do much for cleaning. It looks way better. I also made bread and ice cream. Tonight I'm making lasagna. I don't like much meat, so with the part-skim ricotta and skim mozzerella and my lo-cal marinara, it should be within the diet. I already made the ice cream as I want it hardened so that I can have a small scoop. I like is soft serve best, but then I eat way too much. I'm learning my little tricks.

Oh and Mr. Scale gave me another .2 pounds this morning. Auntie if slow and steady wins the race, I will win because I'm like a tortoise.

Hope everyone else out there is doing great. Thanks Auntie for checking in daily as I'd be so lonesome.
Marie
#570

auntie g , 12-14-2008 08:12 AM

Hi Marie! Yay for another .2 for you! Yesterday did not go well for me, food-wise. My mental state really is fine, but I just got swept away with the current. I always get the Tour of Italy at Olive Garden, so that I won't have to choose one thing, but I immediately divided everything and brought half home to make a 2nd meal out of it. Well, that was definitely an improvement! But alas, we ended up walking around the mall last night, and somehow I ended up in the Gertrude Hawk chocolate store. Don't know how that happened. I must have been abducted by aliens.

There is no chocolate left now. (Oh, but I did get my sister's truffles wrapped, so they are safe!) So, today's a new day. A birthday party day, but a new day nonetheless. I don't think the party will be too bad- it's just a quick afternoon thing, not an all night extravaganza.

How's your snow? Is it piling up yet? We're going to be warming up this week, with one day getting up to 60�, or so they say. I hope we get some snow for Christmas, but I guess it's ok this way for now.

Gotta get moving here... I'm off to the pet store, then have to make puppy's food before party time. Another busy day ahead! Take it easy on that knee, and enjoy your Hi Def!

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