I'm finding it bearable, apart from stupid heat headaches!!! But I don't feel majorly sweaty and ick like I did when we were in New York and I was more overweight, or when we were in Milan and it was the same temp. Perhaps it's because I'm not walking round!

Tesco man cometh last night! :D :D :D My fridge is full of raspberries, strawberries, pears, apples, bananas, stir fry veg, stir fries (got cooking last night!!) cooking apples, melon etc etc! I'm so proud of my healthy fridge! The only unhealthy stuff is a spinach and ricotta pizza (his) and cherry beer (also his!!), oh and I bought lots of kit kats and crisps (also his) apart from that, it's all good :D Bought a ton of meat, chicken, pork and salmon was on offer. I'm set for dinners for a few months!!!

I was going to "do something" with the raspberries, I'm not sure what, but we ate a whole punnet between us last night - they were yummy :T then this morning I had some for breakfast with splendered and blendered cottage cheese, and some strawberries, and I put some on DF's cereal! :T I doubt there'll be any left to do anything with by the time I have time to do it! :lol:

For those following skwigg's blog (skwigg.com) I've bought a DOOR GYM from e-bay! It's a pullup bar that's ingeniously designed so that you don't have to screw anything onto the door frame. It's held on by the force of you hanging on it and is very clever :yes: I'm going to start my very own pull-up quest! :lol: I might be able to do one by November! :rofl:

Woo Hoo!!!! Cool morning... yay! We haven't had any rain yet but apparently there are torrential showers predicted. Bummer - DH is taking a half day and we were going to take the doggies swimming in the North Sea!

Helen - size 22 down to size 10 is absolutely fantastic! Big Well Done!!

I'm nowhere near my ideal weight yet but, yes, I am a lot more comfortable with the heat this year than I have been for the past few years. Although I think it has been helped by having FINALLY stopped having the hot flushes I got as a result of the hysterectomy I had a few years ago. I can't work out whether the weight loss has helped with the hot flushes or whether its coincidental. Whatever.... I'm not complaining.

Nice meal last night... DH's new boss overheard our phone call talking about it and invited herself, her boss (the Area Manager) and their respective spouses along. Its the first time I've met the new boss and I'm NOT impressed. It was supposed to be a pleasant social occasion and she insisted on talking biz all evening! It was okay for me and the Area Manager's wife - we have met before and get on fine - but I did feel sorry for the boss's husband, he drank far too much and I got the feeling he was completely out of his comfort zone.

Well I survived last night in the Cobden Club for the preview of the Portobello Film Festival. I thought it would be sweaty and packed but it wasn't. I was sweaty but there was a fan on - whch made my eyes water. I enjoyed some of the films - especially "Nun Fight Club" - an animation about Ninja Nuns who celebrate afterwards with tea and scones laced with cocaine! Also an animation from Spain - a sort of Spaghetti Western (or should that be Paella western?). A nother funny one from Ireland (their Government did not stop the film grants like ours did so it is amazing how many Irish films there were) about transport problems.

A copuple of German ones were just bleak and depressing.

I had about 3 low carb low alc low taste beers (to be honest I always think beer tastes watery) they were very cold so I was happy about that (still made me sweat though - the back of my hair was wringing and when I got up to go loo the back of my skirt was wet!!!)

Nun Fight Club sounds ACE! :hyper:

I'm really having fun with my Tesco food! I should buy this much fruit and veg every week! :lol: My food ratios are really wierd - 50% protein! About 35% carbs and not very much fat! I had to add some almonds to up my fat ratio! :rofl: The funniest thing is I don't feel like I'm getting all that much protein, I've just planned to have a protein portion every meal :dunno: Maybe I usually have more bready carbs on a Thursday. We'll see what happens - I don't want to change anything because I'm so excited about all the lovely food I've got to eat! :T

Nun Fight Club sounds great! I get that problem with damp hair at the nape of my neck as well. Its gone all crinkly because I've been keeping it piled up on top with a clamp holding it in place.

Frus - I always have that amount of fruit and vegies and you get used to it very fast. I love having my stuff delivered by Tesco/Sainsbury - no getting tempted by the choccie bikkies or cheese counter.

I'm trying to come up with an eating plan which doesn't involve cottage cheese every day. Bleaughhh! (Sorry - I've had a cottage cheese overload.)

I'd really appreciate peoples' thoughts on this plan: Calories: average of 1850 (zigzagged). I'm thinking of starting off the day with a carb based meal (to get me through my walks/workouts) and eating 5 meals a day progressively increasing the protein and decreasing the amount of carbs ratio until my last meal of the day which would be all protein/no carbs. This would mean only protein and veg at dinner - hmmmm - might need fine tuning!! All my workouts are done in the mornings (except Monday when I have aerobics in the early afternoon). I do workout much better with pre-workout carb meal (thanks to Helen for educating me on carbing up before cardio - I have so much more energy now).

Well.... what do you think? Do you think its too restrictive?

Nope that sounds pretty perfect to me. I'm also trying to cut the carbs down before beddie bies - Tonight I'm having a pork medallion with some veg. How about your penultimate meal being a meat n 2 veg with hubbie, then your last meal is modified.

The only problem I have with getting in the fruit and veggies is that I don't often have time to go to the shop every day (or nearly) and I don't always have time to prepare them (cook a stir-fry) at night, so I guess that's some of the problem. I did enjoy the fruit for breakfast though, I'm going to be buying more raspberries especially as they are cheap and in season. :D I also balk at paying lots for stuff that grows. How expensive is it to plant something for heaven's sake! I could do it myself and that's why I don't want to pay lots!!! :rolleyes:

Have you thought about buying frozen fruit (and veg)? Keeps well, defrosts quickly and can often be fresher than 'fresh' produce. I buy a lot of frozen fruit - minimum of two bags of frozen blueberries and two bags of frozen mixed berries each week. They defrost quite quickly and you can add them frozen in to smoothies, sorbets, sauces, etc. You could also buy the fresh stuff, cook it, then freeze it so you can nuke it hot on days when you don't get much time.

I think its at dinner that I'm going to notice the biggest change. We have always had half a plate of salad/veg, with the rest of the plate equally made up of low GI carbs and low fat protein. I think I might just skip the dinner carbs but DH can continue having his. I'll have to think more about supper - I can't think of many purely protein snack meals that don't involve (bleugh) cottage cheese in some way.

I never could do ratios, so I just hope for the best! I had a lovely low carb meal last night, we had spaghetti squash with a chicken and tomato sauce. I have never seen spaghetti squash in the uk before, but they had them in Tesco on Sunday.

I'm going to start doing the internet shopping thing too. My plan is to do a massive shop at the beginning of the month, then just top up at our farmers market and local market.

Camping this weekend, woo hoo!

How about healthy living (or be good to yourself) bacon medalions Tesco did do them, and I know Sainsbury's do. With some dry fried eggs or scrambled egg whites or something?

How about that Syntrax nectar protein powder?

Frozen veggies - I'd never thought! I bet they're cheaper too! We don't have much freezer space but I'll grab a bag or two when we're out of stir fry stuff!

For a last meal I'd say you'll be ok with lean protein and just veg. How about a chicken salad?

Missed your post kykaree! I just fitday and see what happens! I never plan to be at 30% protein or whatever, I just try to make healthy choices and see what it comes out at! It is helpful for dinner, do I need protein? Can I swing an extra slice of bread today etc.

We were camping last weekend - was much fun! The weather will be good too! :D

I used to get my food delivered by Tescos but got sick of them picking 'fresh' things that were all just a day or two off sell by - rather than rummaging as I would do, for the freshest. So I stopped using it! As we'd have to eat a week's worth of fresh food for 7 people in 2 days flat, then be left with nothing and have to go shopping anyway.

I used to have a weekly organic box delivered from Abel & Cole which was lovely - but we have a small veg patch now and in summer we're getting almost self sufficient in salads at least, so it doesn't seem worth the money, for now. We have a couple of local organic farm shops we try to go to, too but they're not all that close, so usually it's Tescos.

I can't be doing with fitday. I found it just reinforced my preoccupation with food, so I have no idea of my ratios whatsoever, and hope I can rely on my body to tell me what it needs!!!

I'm all packed. One of the friends going camping with us is a ranger leader, and sent me a kit list. I felt like I was back in primary school!!! But at least I'm all packed! I hope the weather stays nice, but not too nice, don't want to boil in the tent!

omg... i woke up with pin n needles in my leflt leg... painful...happens quite a bit since my accident last summer... its only 4am grrr .. its soooo hot i am just trying to chill and haiving a pint (of sqush!!!)

Poor lou!

Horses for courses kykaree ;)

I have a sore cheek, like I'm getting an ulcer or something right up near my cheekbone, but I bet it's cos I got hit last night. I don't remember though :dunno: But I bet that's what it is! :dizzy: I really pushed myself quite hard last night - I'd had 4 cans of pepsi and dr pepper (sugar free!!!!) so I was like tigger on speed! :rofl: I did lots of skipping, and lots of press-ups and lots of hard sit ups and I got my brain in gear and just got on with it. "Ninjas don't quit!"

Anywho - I'm all stocked up on fruit, I just bought some more. Tesco didn't have any raspberries today so I got a kiwi to go in my Fromage Frais. Sarah - this is a good protein heavy snack that isn't CC!!! I've got a 200g pot of Tesco healthy living natural fromage frais, bung some splenda in to take the tartness off, then add fruit of your choice! :T

Scales were being kind this morning, I'm more determined to last the weekend this weekend. We're doing stuff and going places where I can control the food better than at other times! I'm taking our American student round London and she eats :censored: junk ALL THE TIME! I've already established myself as a bit of a fitness freak, gym 3 lunches this week and teaching kickboxing - I will have to keep up the image when I take her out to eat! :D I can't let the Ninja-Jen facade down! :D :D

Nice weather today - not sunny, not hot, not humid - in fact its just right!

Oh dear! On my walk I met some idiot people who were lost on the Moors. Apparently they had had a few too many glasses of booze last night and decided to go on a moonlight stroll. I know the Moors better than most people and I wouldn't even begin to think about doing that. When I found them they had been wandering around in circles for more than 6 hours and were completely confused, exhausted and very frightened - and not one of them had thought to use a mobile phone to call for help! D'oh!

I keep waking up with cramp in my calf muscles at night - I'm wondering if its the huge amount of water I'm drinking at the moment diluting the salts and minerals in my body.

I don't much like Tesco home delivery either, also because of the short-dated stuff. Sainsbury online seem to be better at selecting the longer dated stuff - their policy is if anything is short dated it is packed in the blue bags separately (along with the substitutes) and the customer is given the opportunity of rejecting it or sometimes I've been offered it at a reduced price. Sainsbury's problem is that they seem to have more substituted items than Tesco.

I get fresh veg delivered for the three days after delivery, for the rest of the week I use home grown or frozen - which is much fresher than using the local farm shop or greengrocers (who very much specialise in wrinkly apples and rubbery vegetables!)

The only veg I grow now is tomatoes, chillies, runner beans and packs of those mixed salad leaves but I do grow a lot of herbs. I can't wait for DH to retire so we can go back to having an allotment again. I used to LOVE our allotment - we only had it for a couple of years and had to give it up when we moved here - but the taste of the fruit and veg was wonderful and there was something very, very satisfying about eating something that you've grown yourself. We used to freeze loads of it which is why I've still got so many freezers!

Jen, Good idea about the fromage frais - I never thought of that. I shall put it on my next order - but I won't be having the kiwi fruit - yuck!