Day 2

I got up with a sore body and sore a sore ankle.
Ate another 100 calorie snack and a banana before I slept. As ususal mind in so focused on food but I am not going to let that depress me and give up.

Did 30 min. of exercise today 10 min of Callanethics and then staight into a 20min 1 Mile Walk DVD by Leslie Sansone. My daughter says she is getting boring.
So i think tomorrow i will do some walking on my own in the morning and a different exercise DVD with my daughter.
We also have the option of walking to school which is just over a mile for her which takes us 30min.

Had the shake for breakfast and Supper
Snack 1 - 219 calories Oats so easy with Milk
2 cups of coffee
Lunch 2 naan breads with a can of Taco Beans - I estimate that was about 450 calories.
Also had a glass of fruit juice.

Concerned about my 5 fruit and veg. Got to have a big salad with my food tomorrow.

Live Life Abundantly

Menu Plan for the next 4 Days

B - Breakfast, L- Lunch and S - Supper


Snacks: herbal tea (no sugar or milk), fruit and lots of water !!

Monday

B- Oats with Sunflower seeds and milk ( must admit that I put a tsp of sugar)
L- Salad & 2 slices of Bread
S - Potato & Beans curry with tortillas, Peas and Salad


Tuesday

B- Oats / Cheerios
L- Homemade Lentil Burghers with Bread and salad
S- Soup & Bread

Wednesday

B- Oats / Cheerios
L- Veggie Hotdog & Bake Beans with Toast & Salad
S- Split pea curry with rice (Bread for me as I don't eat rice unless its Breyani)

Thursday

B- Oats / Cheerios
L- Banana on toast (using flora low fat margerine - not ready to leave just yet one small step at a time)
S- Soup & Bread

Jump Start

My husband and I have finally found a diet plan that we are both willing to try. Its a vegetarian plan, starts with a 7 Day Cleansing Plan.
Its called CHIP - Coronary Health Improvement Project and is designed by Dr. Hans A. Diehl.

We start on Sunday officially. We did all our shopping today. We have also planned health meals for the next 2 days leading up to the cleanse.

For lunch today we made Portabella mushroom burghers.
Tonight we will have a baked potatoes with tuna and white sauce and vegetables.

The first two days of the Jump Start plan consists of Fresh Fruit and Wholes Grains (Brown Rice/Rolled oats)

Just should help me switch to a low salt and low sugar diet which should not only help me loose weight but also control the symptoms of Meneire's Disease.

Now the question is what exercise will I do today?

Earth Day Dieting

HYC Report: I have maintained at 107.2kg.

I walked to school 10min and walked back home this afternoon another 10min.

Tomorrow I would like to add in some extra exercise in the afternoon or morning.

SparksPeople: Earth Friendly food and fitness

100 Day Challenge:
Eat a plate of veggies before lunch and supper. Any veggie you like even if its cucumber

I hve not yet implemented this but I plan to start this evening.

Recipe: Garden Vegetable Frittata

Weightloss

Hi

I am happy to report that I now weigh 107.2 kg (236pounds) - a Whole 2kg (4.4pounds) loss. YAY.
Also lost 3cm around my waist its now 112cm (44inches)

Goals:
To get to 88cm (35inches) around the waist)

To to lose 10% of my body weight in the next 6 weeks.

How:
Careful meal planning.
Following my plan 80% of the the time , 4 days at a time.

This week I locked in adding veggies to my meals and exercise. Reducing refined carbs and sugar.

New goal cut out refined carbs and sugar completely and re-enforce new habits.

Dealing with cravings and Brain Exericse

Tried out this recipe today. Its Oh so good. Definitely will deal with my cravings for Lemon Meringue ( I never eat the top of the meringue). Got it on the Somersize Board run by BetsC from Looks Aren't Everything:

LEMON ZEST TART:
Preheat oven to 350.

Crust:
1/2 C plus 2 T vanilla whey powder
2 1/2 T sugar (I use WL)
5 T butter

Melt the butter and mix all three ingredients in an 8x8 cooking pan.
Press down on the bottom of pan. I use a spoon to 'even' it out.
Cook for 5 minutes.

Filling:
8 oz. cream cheese
3/4 C sugar-again whey low
3 eggs
1/2 C lemon jc.

Cream sugar and cream cheese together with mixer. Add eggs one at a
time, mix well each time. Add lemon jc. Mix until well combined.

Pour over warm crust and cook for 20 minutes. Let it cool, and then
refrigerate until cold.


Well I decided to have a rest day. I did try out a few minutes of T-Tapp from You Tube. I am very interested in Brain Gym - Left-Right Brain for learning etc....... I am so adding this to my wish list of DVD's.

"What can T-Tapp hoe downs do for you?
• Increase mental clarity
• Help control hormonal mood swings often experienced with PMS and menopause
• Drop glucose levels quickly. (From 62 to 85 points upon completion and an average rate up to 100 points at 10 minutes post completion
• Burn off excess glucose before it converts to fat.
• Optimal brain balance, because hoedowns involve simultaneous left/right brain cognitive processing. Because of this, initial coordination doing the single count lift/touches from front to side can be challenging, but within a week cognitive processing significantly improves. It is important to exercise the brain as well as the body for quality of life in senior years.

Hoedowns are really aerobic AND they work your legs, butt, core, lats and abs all at once, (and if you're really twisting those thumbs back and getting your elbows forward you'll feel it in your arms as well!) So try Hoe Downs once or twice a day and see what they do for you."

Day 1 of the new cycle

I have done 30min Taebo Workout Basic 2 no.2 . It is bit more difficult I could not do all. But I know I will get there.

Liquids: 1 Coffee (oops I was supposed to stop today)
4 glasses of water (will drink more before I sleep)
1 orange juice


B: 1 apple
S: none
L: 2 slices of wholewheat toast with a little avo
S: none
SP: hard one - my daughter wants the traditionl Afrikaans dish that we have not had for ages.
But its dairy and I love it - Melkos.

Melkkos
(Serves 4)
2 litres milk 300 ml Snowflake cake flour (165 g) 5 ml salt 15 ml butter cinnamon sugar

1. Bring milk to the boil.

2. Sift the flour and salt together and rub in butter. Add to milk and beat. Lumps will form, but keep stirring well.

3. Cover with lid and simmer for 5-8 minutes, until cooked.

4. Serve hot with cinnamon sugar.

I always use 2% milk.

My actual plan was to have fish, veggies and salad mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Day 4

Exercise today was running after children and picking up shells on the beach.

B: Shake with fruit
S: Herbal Tea
L: One low fat burger with egg and cheese and salad
S: Coffee
SP: 1 pita bread with tuna salad and a glass of orange juice

Water in take 5 glasses plus the tea make 6!

YAY that is a 4 Day WIN for me.

Reward:

Get myself something nice for the bath either radox bath salts or oil.

Next 4 Days
Up my water and herbal intake by 2 to 8 glasses a day
Continue exercising - 2 aerobic days, one weight focus day and yoga/stretching day.
Ensure that I have 2 fruits and 2 veg servings everyday (Dietician recommended 3)
3-5 Protein servings
Going to see if I can keep the carb servings at 2-3.
Cut Dairy and coffee out
Continue to record what I am eating

REWARD: A Healthy You NSV badge next Tuesday.

If I get hungry I am going to try looking a the list of free food on Somersize plan or increase the protein.

This weeks progress

Today I did the 30min Taebo II workout.
Drank 3 cups of herbal tea and 3 glasses of water

B: a few grapes and tea
S: coffee and carrot muffin
L: 1 slice of whole toast with egg and cheese
Glass of orange juice
S: none
SP: Avocado pear, Marconi with a tomato & veggie sauce (lots of veggies) topped with a bit of cheese.

3 Day going strong on meeting my 4 day goals.

I have also finally decided on a definite eating plan which I will implement tomorrow. Also added coconut oil to the list of supplements I am taking. It is apparently good for fighting candida and weight loss.

Weigh-in Tuesday

I weighed myself at my friends but I have decided that she must have played an April's Fool Joke on me cause there is no way I could have put on 3kgs in the last two weeks that I did not weight in.







QUOTE: "Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours." ~ Swedish Proverb

Todays Report:
I did a run/walk around the block with my daughter. Going to measure it with the car tomorrow.
Splashed around in the pool this afternoon

Drank 3 glasses of water
3 glasses of herbal tea
1 cup of coffee with sugar and milk

Breakfast 1 apple
Snack 1 medium popcorn and coke (went to the movies)
Lunch 2 slices of cheese and onion bread
Snack Few grapes
Supper 2 slices of toast and butter

Missing Scale

Today I really looked for my scale and it was nowhere to be found. I beginning to suspect foul play but it is not the 1 April.

I have arranged to weigh myself at friends tomorrow morning.

Drank 4 glasses of water today

Did 20-25min if yoga. Felt good afterwards. Did not feel so while I was doing it - I could not do all the poses. Not sure if it is just my weight that is in the way or if I have become less flexible.

Tomorrow I intend on doing some aerobics.

Eating was going well until my husband brought some hotcross buns...........

One of my 4 goals that I have not yet completed is recording what I eat. So goes my next try. Please note that this is not a particular diet but what I actually ate.

M: Glass of water
B: 1/2 Pronutro and 1/2 glass of milk
S: herbal tea and Homemade Low GI Jam tart
L: 2 Burghers and salad
Herbal and more water
S: 2 Hotcross buns with Real Butter and a glass of milk
SP: 2 rolls with cheese ( I gave my family fish, salad and green peas - but I just did not feel like eating that)

Reflection:
I started of the morning with good intentions but as the day progressed I made unwise choices.

The focus this week is to add in good things - not to focus on what I should stop doing.

So tomorrow it is going to be important for me to have at least one fruit and 1/2 veggies and 2-4 more glasses of water/herbal tea.

100 Days to Health - Starting TODAY

Day1 - Week 1 ~ 100 Days to Health! Theme: - Adding the good things! You will be focusing on adding more of the good things to your existing diet. You must not give up anything. Rather focus on introducing some raw fruit or vegetables before each meal. http://www.mary-anns.com/100Days/Week_1.htm GOOD HABIT 1 Start all cooked meals with raw vegetables or fruit

Atkins and Candida

Hi

I have not been following any 4 plan over the last two weeks. But a teacher at school lent a copy of the Atkins diet. I have been reading that. She thought I might find it useful after she heard that I had suffered with Candida.

I must say I was very skeptical and felt like hiding the book from other staff members because I know they would not approve. Half of them are vegetarians for one and the most belief that the less meat you in your diet is best (so do I).

Last year when I went on the Candida diet the doctor put me on - I found it extremely difficult and ate at least one thing everyday that I should not have. At the same time various books I read and the dietitian I saw said that the diet would not really help.

Carbs are my weakness eat a lot of them. I tried replacing my carbs with wheat-free carbs but that was really horrible. I just could not get used to it. I still cannot imagine going on the Atkins diet either but it definitely seems more doable and not as unhealthy as I thought it would be.

I am going away for the easter weekend - be making Monday night.

I am thinking of designing my own diet combining the Low GI concepts and food with some of the Atkins concepts. I still need to complete reading the book, I am also reading one of Joanna Hall's books (that I took out from the library before I got the Atkins Book).

Reports

Sjoe - been a busy few days.

here is my reports

Day 2 Friday- 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 wholewheat pronutro and 1/2 tsp of sugar

Lunch - chicken strips, spaghetti and salad

Day 3 Saturday - muesli and yoghurt

Lunch: gluten, mixed salad, lentils and a broccoli cheese pie

Day 4 Sunday - 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 wholewheat pronutro and 1/2 tsp of sugar

Planning to have two eggs, toast, tomato and cucumber.

Concern my appetite has increased a lot since I am on the Provera but my menstrual cycle has stopped.

I had my second session with "Magic" - reflexology.

New 4 Day Cycle Report

Day 1

Breakfast: shake
snack: herbal tea
Lunch: 1/2 cup of wholewheat pronutro and 1/2 glass of milk

Walked up the hill to a friends house - was less out of breathe than usual.
Got my liquids in!

Day 4 Report

I had a shake at 10am this morning. - Reached my 4 Day Win goal.
Last night I did Tai-Chi for 20min. it was very relaxing.

I gave into stress today after going to gynecologist and for more blood test - this time for a hormonal profile. I have had a menstrual cycle for over 2 months now. I got a lot of small cysits - I have been put onto progesterone treatment for it.
I digress - I had a coke, 30g pkt of chips and a Ola Magnum Ice-cream - ARGHHHHHHHH.

Goals for the next 4 days:

record Breakfast, snack and Lunch.
Coontinue to drink water
Continue to Exercise

Day 3 Breakfast Report

Glass of water & I have made a shake to take to school with me.

I seem to have lost my appetite a bit in the morning.

I sat in my exercise clothes yesterday but got up doing other projects in stead.

Tomorrow is a guest post on my Simone's Butterfly Blog from one of the Authors of the Virtual Tour I co-hosting with other bloggers. Be nice if stop by and say hi.

OOPs almost forgot that today is weigh in day - let me get on the scale.
YAY - 105.5 kg (232.6 pounds)

Last Weeks Stats: This weeks stats:
Starting:109kg (240.30 pounds)
Current:106.4kg (234.57 pounds) TODAY: 105.5 kg - a 0.9kg loss almost a 1 pound loss
Total loss: 2.6kg (5.73 pounds) Total loss: 3.5kg

TODAY - I am rewarding myself with a Reflexology session

To be honest I would be doing it anyway - a friend needed volunteers for 5 weeks 2 1hr sessions a week for her studies. Its a WIN-WIN in my books.

Later

Report on Day 2

Hi All

The strangest thing today is that I can't remember having breakfast. After talking to my daughter and husband we have concluded that somehow I did have breakfast today.


This is unusual for me I rarely skip meals. I did not take lunch to school either. I finally had a two egg omelet and rye toast at Mugg & Bean coffee shop at 3pm.

I did drink a cup of tea in the morning and a cup of coffee at work. Also had two glasses of water.
Yesterday evening I went swimming for 20min. So it was a good exercise day.

Having a cup of detox tea and planning to exercise before having a light supper. think my mind and body is still trying to recover from last weeks stress.

Day 2 Report

Hi All

The strangest thing today is that I can't remember having breakfast. After talking to my daughter and husband we have concluded that somehow I did have breakfast today.


This is unusual for me I rarely skip meals. I did not take lunch to school either. I finally had a two egg omelette and rye toast at Mugg & Bean coffee shop at 3pm.

I did drink a cup of tea in the morning and a cup of coffee at work. Also had two glasses of water.

Yesterday evening I went swimming for 20min. So it was a good exercise day.

Having a cup of detox tea and planning to exercise before having a light supper. think my mind and body is still trying to recover from last weeks stress.