Other than the salt, the apps sound pretty ok, but easy to get carried away with...

I think that the next time I am sitting around waiting for Eric to get home, I will eat a piece of fruit so that I am not wildly hungry if we have a very late dinner.

Other than the salt, the apps sound pretty ok, but easy to get carried away with...

I think that the next time I am sitting around waiting for Eric to get home, I will eat a piece of fruit so that I am not wildly hungry if we have a very late dinner.

A good plan, but fruit just doesn't have the sexy allure of a salty snack.

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A good plan, but fruit just doesn't have the sexy allure of a salty snack.

Ain't it the truth!!!

Well, I'm going to go hit the hay. Tomorrow is always another day.

Goodnight friends.

A good plan, but fruit just doesn't have the sexy allure of a salty snack.

Ain't it the truth!!!

Well, I'm going to go hit the hay. Tomorrow is always another day.

Goodnight friends.

Goodnight Angela.
Don't worry tomorrow will be better.

Thanks for the advice, everyone, but NOT to worry... I am NOT crash dieting. I am increasing my exercise.

I've moved up to 45 Min. of treadmill a day from 30 Min. I walk for 22.5 Min. take a 5 Min. break, then walk another 22.5 Min. Plus the "Cool Down" times of 5 Min. each cycle brings me to 55 Min. of walking.

I should be able to lose five pounds by Monday doing this... I hope.

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Just remember that muscle tissue burns calories even when you're at rest.

I knew it! I thought it were the brains that burned calories though...

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Just remember that muscle tissue burns calories even when you're at rest.

I knew it! I thought it were the brains that burned calories though...

I dont think my brain is burning up too many calories, it's pretty quiet in here. :-)

Other than the salt, the apps sound pretty ok, but easy to get carried away with...

I think that the next time I am sitting around waiting for Eric to get home, I will eat a piece of fruit so that I am not wildly hungry if we have a very late dinner.

A good plan, but fruit just doesn't have the sexy allure of a salty snack.

If I had money for crackers, I'd want Goldfish, extra cheddar variety...

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Other than the salt, the apps sound pretty ok, but easy to get carried away with...

I think that the next time I am sitting around waiting for Eric to get home, I will eat a piece of fruit so that I am not wildly hungry if we have a very late dinner.

Bananas are good because they release energy slowly and you don't get those sudden dips in blood sugar that make you crave the bad stuff.

I'm off in a minute to our Friday class, it shouldn't be as horrific as Wednesday's was. I managed to get in a swim yesterday too. I've been meaning to ad a swim to my routine for a while now because that is usually enough to tip me over from maintaining my weight, to actually losing it. So thanks for inspiring me to stop putting it off!

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I agree about the bananas, and I actually like them, but when there's a box of Cheez-it's close at hand, the lovely banana rarely prevails. I don't understand why some people's brains make poor choices.

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I agree about the bananas, and I actually like them, but when there's a box of Cheez-it's close at hand, the lovely banana rarely prevails. I don't understand why some people's brains make poor choices.

How do Cheez-it's get in your house?? :D

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I agree about the bananas, and I actually like them, but when there's a box of Cheez-it's close at hand, the lovely banana rarely prevails. I don't understand why some people's brains make poor choices.

How do Cheez-it's get in your house?? :D

I have no idea. They just appear. I know I need exercise, and this house needs a bad snack exorcism.

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Went for a 3 mile walk today (about 45 minutes).

Wow! (And welcome.)

...this house needs a bad snack exorcism.

LOL!!! Mine too.

Julie, you're right; brains are energy hogs:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thinking-hard-calories/

I think that they needed to differentiate amongst types of stress. Using the SAT example, considering possible long term consequences, is a specific kind of stress: fear. I'd bet that mental activities performed under specific constraints, such as time, accuracy, etc., plus the knowledge of a possible punishment running in the background (letting people down, going to state vs ivy, self-esteem, add whatever fears you can think of) and I think you'll get a specific type of fear-based stress, where excess cortisol from the adrenal glands drench the body, and inhibits the retrieval of long-term memories in the hippocampus. To me, that would seem to cause brain-fog, and exhaustion.

Vulcans 1, humans 0.

CC

:D Thanx CC:) I think stress causes the muscles to work because one is always tense then.

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Hey HEY It's Saturday.

Saturday is REWARD day. In other words the day I undo all of the weeks starving to death and pig out on take away food. For the last 6 months or so Saturday mornings have started with cruising the bike around past the bike shop, around the waterfront and around town. Getting to the food court at the shopping center, hopefully just before the lunch time rush, and having a KFC fillet burger ,chips and can of Pepsi combined with some people watching. Saturday evenings start with a cruise around town stopping by at my fave Japanese restaurant for a deluxe box of sushi to eat in front of the TV.

So okay, after my drinking binge last weekend I've finally managed to get back to sleeping at night and waking up in the morning so Coffee for breakfast and definitely going the KFC for lunch in about 2.5 hours. May or may not have the sushi.

Keep up the good work every one and thanks for all of the support. I feel thinner already.

Went for a 3 mile walk today (about 45 minutes).

Wow! (And welcome.)

...this house needs a bad snack exorcism.

LOL!!! Mine too.

Snacks don't live long and prosper here, they get obliterated. :D

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I know what you mean about Saturday, Monday. Tomorrow Eric and I have afternoon theater tickets and we are going out to dinner after the play. I am in charge of getting the dinner reservations.

Restaurant dining is a pleasure that I am unwilling to give up... but in order to still work on weight loss I think I need an advance plan. I have decided to make reservations at a Cuban Tapas restaurant in the area that Eric and I visit a couple of times a year. I know the menu well, which helps in devising a plan.

Angela's Restaurant Plan For Diet-Deadly Saturday Dining

1. Eat a smart but filling lunch, so I won't be super hungry when we get to the restaurant at dinner time.

2. Make the dinner reservation for later than we expect to get to the restaurant, so that we will be forced to take a little walk in the area before dinner.

3. Only one Mojito! Not two. No splitting a second one with Eric. Just one and ask them to deliver it with the food, not before. Sip slowly and enjoy.

4. Order a whole salad, not a half. Eric and I often split a salad before the tapas start arriving, but it would actually be smarter for me to eat a whole salad so that I will (hopefully) have less of an appetite for the higher calorie tapas that will follow.

5. Order tapas carefully.

We both like the steamed mussels, which is a good food choice, but I need to limit myself to one slice of grilled bread for soaking up the delicious garlicky mussel broth that comes with this dish. If I want more broth after that one slice of bread is gone, I will need to use a spoon! Eric and I can easily go through two orders of grilled bread, but I am choosing to not go down that road tomorrow.

We also typically order the Empanadas de ropa vieja... which I think, loosely translated, means "little pies filled with old clothing". Who knew that old clothes could be so delicious???!!! I don't know what is really in those empanadas, but they are one of the best things on the menu... but hey, it's tapas. Only a few come on the plate and I'll be sharing what comes with Eric. Quantity is limited for me.

Sometimes we get a third little something, but if we do that tomorrow I am going to encourage Eric to order something that only he likes, so that I won't be tempted to eat any of it. If Eric orders a whole salad like I do, he may not even want a third small plate anyway...

5. No dessert. This shouldn't be a problem actually. Eric doesn't like most of the desserts on the menu and if Eric is not having dessert, it will be easy for me to not have dessert.

There. Now I have a plan.

A quick ride up to Aldi and back with very light rain that turned into heavy rain about 2 minutes after getting back into the garage. Got the timing right for once.

Any way I dont know how I did it but I went straight past the most addictive bags of lolly bananas and got a big hand of real bananas, some Olive spread,box of tissues and ran past the frozen cheesecakes as fast as I could and escaped junk food free. Wow...

Earlier I walked to the fruit shop and got 2 kilos of the biggest sweet potatoes i've ever seen and a 500 gram bag of cashews. Passed the local charity sausage sizzle without stopping as well. Those big fat juicy sausages sure looked good.

edit ; Good plan Angela thanks for sharing how it's done.

Monday, congratulations on passing up all those temptations! Go Monday Go!!!

Monday, congratulations on passing up all those temptations! Go Monday Go!!!

It's a bit easier when I know I can have 1 guilt free treat.

Today's predicted rain has com early so I may be walking to town to get lunch. The rain radar isn't looking too promising.