A New Week

[Pamela B]

KM what book is the vege bake in or is it not a KISS recipe. I have to admit to having very boring lunches and having the same every day. I have my open salad sammies with either chicken or salmon depending on what I have in the house.
At the moment I am finding that suits me and helps me stick to it.
But I like you think any loss is worth a celebration. Big or small makes no difference it is a loss.
I have just got a form in the mail about doing a craft fair over Queens Birthday weekend. If I do it it will be my first one. I would be selling photo cards. I do them for a few shops around Marlborough and was asked about the fair and would I like to do it. Can't see why not really. Might be fun and interesting to see if I sell anything. It is only $30 for the whole weekend for the stand.

[Kiwismum]

So now I am doing the happy dance I am down 1 Kilogram. I am a bit surprised with my bad weekend and the feeling that I am still full of fluid, but hey its a loss and a good one at that so I'm taking it.

PB the vege bake is in the KK in the kitchen book on page 88, makes two serving and I have two small oven proof containers that it fits into so it works perfectly for me.

Last night for my evening snack I had a hot chocolate and two cookies, not the best thing to have right before weigh in but I did restrict myself to only two. Actually I was only going to have one, but then hubby decide he would have some as well so I ended up having an extra cookie

[Pamela B]

Well done KM that is fantastic  you will be thrilled with that. Just think what it might have been without the hot chocolate and the cookies.
I checked out the recipe thank you. Might look at it when the weather gets cooler. Sticking with my sammies for now. But once the cold weather sets in salads loose their appeal somehow.
Getting cooler here as the day goes on and looking more and more like rain so must go and get the fire wood in and the fire set ready to light.
My weigh in tomorrow  hope it goes well. Was at my 5kg loss so hope still there. Will have to find a new ticker for the next 5kg... 

[lynda]

Excellent work on the 1 kg loss KM 
Hope your weigh in is great tomorrow to PB.
Have a great night all.

[Kiwismum]

Good Luck PB hope you reach your 5kg mark

Last night we had  'Layers of vegetable and mince in a sour cream mushroom sauce'  from the all seasons book. Whew what a long title. I guess the name says it all other than it was really nice and there is one serving left so that takes care of my lunch for today.

No idea what tonights meal will be as yet, but I do have to confess that I had a not so good day yesterday. It started with not getting around to breakfast which is not like me at all, but set me up for a bad after noon, so I had my vege bake at 11.00 because I was really hungry, and then at 12.30 I had a pear, then later I had some cheese and crackers and around 3.30 I had my soup. I was still hungry so I ended up having two cookies.

I made dinner which was good and didn't have anything else for the rest of the day in an effort to try and salvage something, but over all not too very good.

Will try to do better today.

I did however get my whole bed room spring cleaned and I even rearranged all the furniture.

Little Missy Fussy chased one of her chicks through the orchard fence last night so will have to try to find it today. It is old enough to be away from mum so not too worried but I will make some effort to find it and keep the peace in the house. I just hope it didn't become a hawk dinner.

[Pamela B]

First things first. I am doing the happy dance all around the house today. I actually lost 1.9kg this week. How fantastic is that.  Boy am I celebrating. Tomorrow I am going to buy myself some jewellery as a reward  Not expensive stuff just something as recognition of my hard work.
Now KM with all that exercise cleaning a rearranging your bedroom that will help your slips. Anyway they were not too bad your cookies are daily indulgences.
Hope you are all having a great day...

[Kiwismum]

Oh PB thats great, you brought a smile to me face to read about your great loss. Enjoy your happy dance, in fact I think I will have one for you as well.

So far so good today.

[lynda]

CONGRATULATIONS PAMELA YOU DID THE DIET.  IT NEVER FAILS AND WORKS AMAZINGLY WHEN YOU YOU DO IT!!!  EXCELLENT TOTAL TOO 5.6 MUST BE A DRESS SIZE ALMOST!!!

KEEP IT UP AND KEEP IT OFF!!

BETTER GET BACK TO WORK.  FLAT OUT AND HEAPS OF MEESY STUFF TO SORT.

KM - HANG IN THERE. HOPE YOU FIND THE CHICK. BEEN THERE DONE THAT - REMEMBER MOTHER DUCKS WERE THE WORST MOTHERS AROUND - I WAS ALWAYS WANDERING THE PADDOCKS LOOKING FOR LOST DUCKLINGS!!!!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND IF I DON'T GET BACK.  HAVE A FEW BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS BETWEEN NOW AND SUNDAY WEEK.  MY BIRTHDAY SUNDAY BUT DYLAN AT HIS DADS SO I WON'T SEE HIM AND MY BABY GIRL WHO WILL BE 20 ON WEDNESDAY IS IN GISBORNE FOR WORK TILL SUNDAY NIGHT. OH WELL.  THIS TIME LAST YEAR I WAS IN PERTH FOR OUR 25TH ANNIVERSARY AND MY BIRTHDAY.  IT WAS LONELY WITHOUT ALL THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND IT WILL BE NOT MUCH BETTER THIS YEAR AS BEST FRIENDS ARE DOING STUFF AND SO ARE THE KIDS.  POOR ME... HAHA.

[Pamela B]

Thanks for the comments. Day in town yesterday. Lunch was okay had a bacon panini so it probably wasn't too far from the plan. It was actually a very nice panini.
KM did you find the chick? I too have been there in the past.
Lynda I hope you have a fantstic birthday and that you hear from everyone even if you don't see them. Last year no-one even remembered mine! Not the kids, my friends or even hubby!
This year I want to have lost another 10kg by then. I am hoping that by Christmas to be well on the way to goal. Just finding it so easy.
Okay confession time.. last night I craved chocolate like there was no tomorrow .. But having said that I went to bed without giving in and this morning felt fantastic for having been so strong. I had picked up some Easter Eggs for my grandson in Australia and they were there and I could have had them and got some more on Monday to post to him but I DIDN'T 
I am going to succeed on this plan. Have to pay up for another lot after Sunday  . Will have to dig deep in the coffers. But it certainly seems to help.

[Kiwismum]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY  I hope you have a great day and we will not ask you to confess your diet sins tomorrow just enjoy the day.

Actually you share your day with us, it is our wedding aniversary today, 12 years, so that kinda special too.

Hubby is taking us all out to a new resturant tomorrow and since I don't seem to be able to spell at all today I will leave it at that.

[lynda]

  Pamela for not having the chocolate. I am sure we are all extremely proud of you. I know I am.   
I wasn't too terrible yesterday really.
Mum made me french toast and Husband cooked me bacon to go with it.  Didn't have lunch as we ended up having to dash out to see someone and then had a small plate of roast pork and veges for dinner. Mum made me a madeira cake which I just had a small piece and she also made an old fashion lemon chiffon pie which I had a piece of.  That was probably the worst thing I had all day.  but I don't mind.
Congrats         KM on your 12 years!!

Weigh in tonight. I don't expect any miracles as I did not confess all my bad food during the week as I was annoyed at the slack 100 grams last week. 
But shall be back to confess in the morning!!!

[Kiwismum]

Well I am going to be honest, if I confessed all the bad foods I ate between friday and now we would be here all day. So I won't, but will say that it would be a very long list.  .

I have toyed with the idea of giving up until after easter, as hubby is taking time off straight after easter and I don't have much hope of sticking to anything then, but we will see.

Went out last night and came home with two nine week old kittens that haven't had much handling, so we will have to waste alot of time sitting and cuddling them to get them use to be handled . Hubby is a cat person and so was an easy touch for these people to talk him into taking them. I had tried to convince the owners that going overseas for 5 weeks with someone just coming to feed them once a day was not such a good idea, but noone was listening to me. The poor mother cat has lost so much weight that the kittens have to be rehomed very quickly for the mothers sake. Took an hour to get the poor things out from under the house, they were not coping at all with the tribe of kids roaming around the house(these people have 4 kids) and there dog trying to eat them . Anyway they are safely tucked away in our a room in our house and have had there morning cuddles and feed. Hopefully they will settle quickly here in a nice quiet enviroment and lots of TLC.

It is really cold here this morning and I can see that I am going to have to get myself one of those funny hats with the ear flaps for when I am milking in the winter, I had cold ears this morning. However it looks like it will be a beautiful day so that is not so bad.

Had a bowl of porridge for breakfast this morning since it was chilly and now I am going to finish up the chores before I play with the kittens again.

[lynda]

Hi Kiwimum.
Now firstly, lets face it we all hve really bad weeks.  As I said yesterday I was so annoyed at the scales last week when I had been so super duper good except for a few lollies with dylan, I ate a heap of absolutely crap food all week - I just didn't care!!!  However, last weeks loss of 300 grams proves to me that I should have stuck to plan and the loss would have shown up this week!! BUT I KNOW THIS ANYWAY AS IT HAPPENS EVERY MONTH DURING MY CYCLE.  Except of course my cycle has a mind of its own now over the last 7 weeks and does what it wants - which is retain fluid  and then nothing else happen!!! (Turned 52 on Sunday)
BUT ANYWAY, my next advise to you is DON'T GIVE UP.  Okay you know it is going to be difficult with your husband home, but its times like this that we have to make the best choices!  Lets face it, the "diet" isn't a hardship really, and I bet for meals we all follow it, its just the snacking that is the big problem.   
Listen to me - I am by no means perfect and I sure have ups and downs but my meals are 98% of the time programme and its the other bits that I need to eat better at.  But if you give up your programme meals and have the other bits as well, the scales will groan and you will just be annoyed with yourself.  Its a long time to Easter in the world of dieting - 51 meals and probably 51 snacks (working on three snack times a day!!)  So imagine the damage and how we will miss you if you drop away because you just can't bear to face us

Please don't    Okay, treat it like a holiday but don't ever give up.  You will feel so much better if you make the meals you can KISS meals and then enjoy the others.  Then when having the snacks ask yourself "Do I really feel like this or am I just eating it because hubby is"

Anyway my dear, think about it.  I feel a bit hypocritical and please trust me when I say I am not judging or anything, but don't want you to go away and not ever come back and I need you for your support (such a selfish little brat arent I???

Well, please think on my words okay - but don't leave me.....

[Kiwismum]

Oh sorry Lynda I didn't make myself clear. I am not giving up on the diet, just the weighing. But then I am feeling like crap right now, I am at the beginning stages of the BIG M and I never know what to expect these days. Right now I feel like a water balloon and have done for the last three weeks. I am sure it will pass one day, but who nows when

So while I go through this I find my brain saying "well all that fluid puts the scales up so you might as well eat as well." I hate feeling like this, and don't worry I will still come a bug you all.

Actually maybe I just need a really good whinge session and maybe that will help. whinge whinge whinge.

Now I donot for a minute claim that I have been even close to staying on track this week, so I know I can't expect any sort of a loss, but a big gain instead, so I don't even want to go look at it.

Hubby will give lots of chocolate at easter (I know that already) this isn't too much of a problem, I still have the 1kg block that was given to me at christmas sitting there unopenned. When I have a chocolate binge it will go quickly, but I don't have them that often.

On the up side I love Carolyns recipes and there are lots I would make just because they are good, as long as I don't eat too big a portion then I can live off these indefinitely. I am not really that big a snacker, most of my problem is in my portion sizes, and if I'm really honest I am just plain lazy.

So I will be around but maybe not weighing for a bit.

[lynda]

 
Oh I am glad I got it wrong!!!  Yes portion size is a problem. You know I notice that I eat far less at meal times now, which is great.  I hv a stint of weighing everything and that keeps me in check a bit more.

The big M was the cause of my 100 gm loss last week!!!  So trust me, I know the problem.  I went to a naturopath in the end and when I take a course of herbs they work great for months. I have some at home, hey maybe I should finish that course.  They were a life saver for me as I was getting pains like labour pains - it was shocking.  She also gve me lymphatic drainage massage and phew, talk about get rid of the fluid - is excellent!!!

You can whinge anytime.  Thats what we are here for - whinge and support!!!
I am extremely realistic and I have no doubts when I have lost, sometimes its just remembering that the M thing can affect everything and see, like this week, I didn't deserve that loss but it was an overflow from last weeks great work!!!

My husband doesn't do presents of any type - drives me nuts as I am believe birthdays are special.  He normally makes me a card on his computer but he didn't this year and I was so upset. He tells me he is taking me out to buy something I want.  I hv two things in mind... new walking shoes as lost mine in Perth and a gorgeous necklace I saw today.... but I shan't hold my breath on the latter!!

So glad you not deserting/desserting.... I would miss you.  I wonder where that Yvonne is!!!!??