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well i have found out I can only see other people's blogs on connect if i'm not logged in and i've got no idea what other people can see of mine. well and truly fed up of it. goodbye from me on connect. if anyone can actually read this and is interested i can be found on The Book Club board and Community Cookbook.
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I had a good weekend away - nice to see my Dad's health improving, and had a great day with my old school friend. It was like we'd only seen each other the day before, instead of about five years ago.
Did fairly well food wise. On the Friday night my Mum made bolognese, and she gave me quite a large portion so I had to stop eating because I was full. The next night we had some chicken in sauce, I had a smaller portion than everyone else and I was the last to finish. So I think a little something is sinking in from these rules. I did have some pudding and cake and things, but tried to snack on fruit. I didn't reach "stuffed" at any stage.
I couldn't weigh over the weekend, but I think I maintained where I was previously given the level of food I was eating. Things are going ok this week, although due to various things happening my exercise has not been great so far. Should pick up towards the end of the week though.
Flag it:I can't see anyone else's blog at the moment - connect tells me "the user does not have any blogs". So presumably no-one can see mine, including this one, either. But hey if anyone can see this, what's going on? Can you see other people's blogs?
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For me work ends today, yay! I have the day off tomorrow as I am going up to my parents for the weekend. No major activites planned - my Dad had a heart attack earlier in the year, so this is more of a keeping in contact visit - he hopes to go back to work in a month or so. I will also be visiting an old school friend I haven't seen for a few years. She split up with her husband last year and has gone back to live with her parents, ten minutes walk from my parents, and we have been in email contact since then. Sad situation, but one thats brought us closer together again, which from my point of view is good.
Anyway, I suppose with that weekend in mind I haven't been quite on the ball with food and exercise this week, although I have been doing some thinking. The weekend as always will be damage limitation and I will try and remember the four rules as they are definitely helpful.
Some of the thoughts my thinking has produced:
- Sometimes just thinking about food makes me hungry, or makes me notice my hunger and imagine it bigger than it is. The worst times for this are when performing a repetitive task at work, or when tired in the evenings.
- I think that having cake or cookies or very sweet pudding makes my hungry again more quickly, I suppose this would fit in with the whole GI thing. But yet I do get the urge to "finish a meal off" with something sweet.
- Its unfair that I can't eat anywhere near as much as say taller or larger people, and thus have to eat smaller amounts or less food items than other people. This is life, and if I want to stay as the new smaller me I have to deal with this.
- When I cook for myself (if DH is working) I tend to overestimate. Had pasta last night and did way too much. Even though it included a lot of vegetables it was still very filling. Maybe I should consider always cooking for two if I do this kind of meal and having half for lunch the next day.
- If I only eat till I'm just satisfied, I seem to hungry again too quickly, sometimes within the hour. Its very hard to judge how long a particular full feeling will last, and to know how much of the food was excess, but its really not convenient to snack every hour.
- Big meal in the evenings is not good but quite often unavoidable, and I don't want to avoid it, especially at weekends. I get hungry trying to save calories for the evening. Need to consider how to change this - big breakfast and a big fat salad or bowl of soup for lunch maybe.
- However much I plan x amount of exercise to do, I never make target, and unexpected circumstances do crop up. But I DO exercise, and must accept that I can only do what I can do, and that every little thing I do is better than doing nothing.
- I always think about meal planning but rarely get round to it. Must think of a more effective way of doing this. I'm always thinking of nice things I can cook, or reading recipe books but quite often end up sticking to the same old things.
- Sometimes I will be hungry and circumstances mean I cannot eat, or I have a meal planned for a particular time and have to wait. I have to learn to deal with this!
That's enough thinking for one day. I wont be weighing in this weekend so I have another 10 days or so to try and focus on Paul McKenna. I think it will work for me if I can get to grips with some of the above thoughts and make it fit my lifestyle. Some of the things he says although they make sense are not always 100% practical.
Flag it:It was nice having Monday off, but back to work today. I have a three day week though this week which is good as I have Friday off - going up to visit my parents at the weekend.
The weather was awful yesterday, but I didn't really care. DH was working so I fished out my Dirty Dancing video and watched that, a nice cosy afternoon!
Eating hasn't gone particularly well over the weekend. My stomach seems to switch off over the weekend and just go into "eat what you want regardless of hunger" mood. I always do homemade pizza for Sunday lunch and give half to to DH and half to me. Really I should only be eating say 3/8 or something. I think that every time and yet my hand just cuts it in half...
And then yesterday, I was hungry around 6pm but DH was working and wouldn't be home till 7.30pm. So I ate some snacks - but then wasn't properly hungry at dinner, but couldn't change the time of it. Paul McKenna doesn't have much to say about mealtimes that can't be flexible. When a meal takes a little while to cook as well you have to judge when you will be hungry taking cooking time into account. I'm starting to think that arranging food around hunger is not always practical.
Having said that, when I am at work I can pretty much eat whenever, and its easier to structure my day around hunger. I am getting the impression that my natural hunger leads me to eat more during the day and less at night - so on weekdays at least I should probably eat more in the day, and have a small dinner and no pudding. That doesn't really work for the weekend though, particularly Friday and Saturday nights as what we like to do is have a nice meal, a glass of wine and relax or watch a DVD. Some thinking is needed.
I did however manage to get off my butt and do my salsacise DVD yesterday which is good.
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