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Now doing a challenge that includes weekly journalling, which I haven't been doing previously. Not sure I really want to, but hey, it's a challenge, maybe it will do some good?
Had an unusual week this week. We will be leaving UK soon, going back to winter quarters in Spain, so starting to say goodbye to people here. Always a funny time. We know we'll see them again next summer, and we'll stay in touch by email, FB etc, but still slightly upsetting! Also a couple of worrying things going on right now with friends here healthwise.
And we are going back to a Situation in Spain involving an association we belong to which provides a lot of our social life, where a big fall-out is occurring between two groups of people. We have friends and sympathies on both sides, and have been trying to stay neutral, and hoped it would blow over, but now hotting up, and we may be forced to choose. Not helped by the fact the people we rent our house from are involved, and the contract is up for renewal soon!
So I don't know if that's why, but I blew my limits a couple of days this week. It seemed like the right thing to do at the time, I just kicked back and enjoyed it. Thankfully haven't gained weight overall, and this week will be different, as not seeing anyone particularly, and anyway I think I've got that out of my system now.
I'm still enjoying the weight-loss journey, still looking forward to losing more, and motivation is good 😀
I have some specific challenges I failed this week, and will be focussing on those. One is low-glycemic eating, another involves not using food and alcohol to alleviate stress, and I need to fit in some meditation time. (Was about to add 'if I can', but my advice to others would always be, 'If you want to enough, you will find that you can!' LOL.)
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74.2 kg
Lost so far: 6.5 kg.
Still to go: 3.4 kg.
Diet followed: Reasonably Well.
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View Diet Calendar, 28 September 2015:
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863 kcal
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Fat: 21.53g | Prot: 72.76g | Carbs: 91.71g.
Breakfast: Sainsbury's Be Good to Yourself Pineapple British Cottage Cheese, Lidl Rivercote Sesame Crispbread, Tea with Skimmed Milk. Lunch: Sainsbury's Be Good to Yourself Pineapple British Cottage Cheese, Rivercote Sesame Whole Grain Rye Crispbread, Tea with Skimmed Milk. Dinner: Hovis Wholemeal Bread Medium, Heinz Baked Beans, Tesco Medium Eggs, Carrots, Sainsbury's Unsmoked Gammon Steaks. Snacks/Other: Tea with Skimmed Milk, Tesco Crunchy Peanut Butter, Hovis Wholemeal Bread Medium, Tea with Skimmed Milk. more...
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Losing 0.0 kg a Week
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Oh my, that does sound like a stressful situation . . . it would be nice if you could remain 'Switzerland-neutral' in the matter, but it sounds as though that's no longer an option. (Is this the cinema club or something else?) I suspect that even though you went over limits a bit due to the stress that ironically it was the stress itself that kept your weight stable?! (just a very unscientific theory -- either that, and/or it's because you continue to keep your body 'guessing' with intake and activity, etc.). You're still in the proper frame of mind, though, to SUCCESSFULLY continue with your plan and continue tweaking with adjustments (e.g., meditation, low-Gl, etc.).
28 Sep 15 by member: losinit1655
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OH dash it...I'll keep you in my prayers and all those snagglepusses who are argueing over something I'm sure just isn't worth losing friends over! :-D
28 Sep 15 by member: spiritspell
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The cinema club is part of the organisation, but no worries on that front. It may come down to membership voting on a no-confidence motion against the existing committee. We could just stay away, but I actually do want to hear what is said before the vote is taken, and would then feel that I have to vote. One possibility is that Mike and I will agree to vote on different sides. I believe I heard about a couple who did that in the English civil war, and managed to survive!
I have another theory about the weight thing, waiting to see what happens next LOL.
28 Sep 15 by member: heidij123
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Heidi - It's always easier to give advice to other's and not follow it ourselves. "Do as I say and not as I do.";) Wishing you and Mike a safe journey. And I am truly sorry you & Mike have to deal with such a unpleasant situation. My prayer's and thought's are with you. *HUGS*
28 Sep 15 by member: Jones Jennifer
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Glen, yes, you're right, things are constantly changing there. If people are planning to leave (I mean permanently), they often don't tell anyone till a couple of weeks before they go. And being older people, there are often health issues that disrupt plans, and sometimes people pass away quite unexpectedly. Maybe that's also part of the reason we prefer to maintain a base in England, things are more stable here! I like the chocolate simile, although it's probably best not to think about chocolate at the moment!
28 Sep 15 by member: heidij123
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Jen, thanks so much for your kind thoughts! There is still time for one or other side to back down, and we hope this might happen, although it's been developing all summer and nobody has backed off yet. We don't leave here till next week, it will take us 10 days to get there, and the crunch meeting, if it happens, won't be till November 5th - a significant date in British history, when a group of rebels tried to blow up the King and Parliament. I can't help seeing the funny side of this!
28 Sep 15 by member: heidij123
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Blowing your limits occasionally should not do much harm. Sorry to hear about your stressful situation. I like your solution of you and Mike voting on opposite sides, very diplomatic!
28 Sep 15 by member: eclipsesolaire
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Sounds tricky to me, almost damned if you do, damned if you don't. Hope it sorts out without you having to get involved. There is always some sort of fall-out where everyone suffers with these things. Ill be sending my best wishes for a happy outcome for you Heidi.
29 Sep 15 by member: Darkazana
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Thanks, Deborah. I wonder if I'm being too paranoid about this? I think we probably could just not vote. Claire, you're right, blowing limits shouldn't do much harm, but it does seem to! And generally makes me feel unwell because what I'm eating isn't healthy food. I had a rule when I started on here: 'no bad days', because I lose weight so slowly and put it on so easily, I didn't think I could afford any 'bad' days, or I'd never reach my goal weight! But that was when I was only intending to do this for three months. Now I know I'm going to be here much longer, and some 'bad' days are necessary for my sanity! But not too many of them.
29 Sep 15 by member: heidij123
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heidij123's Weight History
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