Finished the shopping this morning at 7am for my friends and I. Dampness meant biting midges were all around as we queued up for 7 am opening. Only 2 bites. Wore my mask as usual. Maybe 4 or 5 others wore one. Not enough.
Dusting and hoovering the living room.
Partly cloudy and warm today so might ride my bike later.
Yes, I had a few beers out on the patio yesterday. Starting talking about my son and made me sad. No, I'm not worried about becoming an alcoholic. If I was destined to be one it would have happened decades ago.
Was not even tempted to have a beer or wine yesterday. Socially distant garden party is changed to the weekend when the forecast is better.
Today I do a click and collect at the supermarket. Just sit in the car and the groceries are put in the boot. I can get the majority of it this way, but always have a short-ish list of stuff I can't. So I go back tomorrow to get the rest (wearing a mask and 2 metres apart) and also what our friends need that they can't get with click and collect. This couple can't risk leaving the house at all (except click and collect which is no risk at all). So I just leave what I buy for them on their porch.
Did 60 minutes on the exercise bike yesterday. Will try to do something with dumbbells today - upper and lower body.
Not much ambition to do housework. I do keep the kitchen clean and the laundry done and sometimes do hoovering. Occasionally clean one of the bathrooms. I think I should make a list of household chores and do at least one every day.
I've already finished a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle and am working on another one. Very distracting.
Plans:
Weights???
Progress as of today: 0 lbs lost so far, only 24 lbs to go!
That's so nice that you are helping your neighbors with shopping. Are you finding some foods difficult to come by? Shortages, that is.
I love doing puzzles with my husband. It's one of the few activites that we can do together.
Nice the other couple can Count on your help at the supermarket!
Another gloomy day but tomorrow looks dry although cloudy. That means the biting highland midge will be out to feast on us. So I'll be wearing a midge repellant. We are going to do another socially distant garden party - wine, beer and chat - with friends of ours. We've done this several times now and it's very uplifting. My plan was to only have alcohol for these social occasions once a week (couldn't do it this week - bad weather). Still my goal.
When we were first self isolating I quit my usual after-Thailand diet and started indulging in a nightly routine of 2 big bottles of craft beer with Doritos while watching a Netflix series or a movie. Then when my world collapsed I drank something every day whether 1 beer or 3. It was several weeks before I began skipping days. I really wish I hadn't begun tryiing a variety of different beer types and then liking them!
Plans for Sunday
Plan to get on my exercise bike twice for 30 minutes each while reading my mystery, some work with dumbbells.
Hope you all are being safe and wearing your masks.
Progress as of today: 0 lbs lost so far, only 24 lbs to go!
I also enjoy reading your menus :-)
Back in 2010, when my life as I had known it came to an end, I put on 30+ pounds eating Tostitos with giardinara every night while watching cable TV (before Netflix was a thing). That was the 2nd to the last time I had gained weight.
It’s really easy to get out of routine and even harder to build back I to it - that’s why I am doing and sticking with my home weights which varies in difficulty for me depending how hard I’m working at it .... it’s easy to lose strength !
Didn't do well yesterday. I wasn't going to have any alcohol but I got very upset reading about others losses in a Covid bereavement group and talking about my own loss. So I opened a bottle of rose' wine - low alcohol - but still drank a lot of it. Ate extra packets of popcorn but that's not bad.
Will TRY hard to behave today. It's another gloomy day here - windy and rainy. I work on a jigsaw puzzle which is a good distraction. And I'm reading a mystery which I can do on my exercise bike.
Menu:
B: toast, porridge with strawberries, tea w/soy milk
S: coffee and quinoa snack bar
L: 6 veg salad with cheddar
D: Thai green curry with small amount of rice
S: popcorn
Exercise?? Will try to get on my exercise bike and read my book.
Thanks for your words of sympathy everyone.
I've seriously thought about ending my sobriety. I can understand the temptation to do so. I think that's why I turn to cookies, etc., instead. Same emotions, just a different vice. Try to be forgiving and gentle with yourself.
And if it helps, we're having rainy, gloomy weather here too. The only blessing is that the temperatures will be warm. About time...
((((hugs))))
I also now have a stationary bike ! It’s such a nice option when it rains ! Today was gloomy here too.
I hope you do better today, feel better :)
I've got no junk food in the house and just finished my Ryvita crackers. Tempted by beer and wine though and trying to resist. Being indulgent is comforting but I know it's not a good idea to drink too much when grieving and depressed.
I managed 50 minutes on my exercise bike yesterday but no muscle work.
Menu:
It's a rainy, windy, sunless, depressing day so can't guarantee I won't have a glass of wine or a beer
Hope all of you are healthy and safe.
I'm in a FB group called Yellow Hearts to Remember - Covid 19. So talking to people going through the same thing is more helpful than reading a book.
Are you staying in....England ?
Hi everybody! Been a long time but I needed to come back as my weight is out of control. Most I've ever weighed but I've come close at 167. A lot of my muscle has disappeared.
A lot has happened since I was here in November. Spent our usual 3 months in Thailand. Came home March 3rd and almost immediately went into self-isolation to be safe. Having to cancel some trips and also feeling trapped at home made me comfort eat and increase my beer consumption.
Then I was worried about my son in the US who was in the hospital with Covid. April 5th he died. I didn't eat much at all for about a week though I did continue to drink beer. Every since I've been comfort eating and drinking a lot of beer and sometimes wine.
I feel horrible and huge and unhealthy. I've done very little exercise - just a few walks or bike rides. So I need to start doing consistent exercise. I know I'll feel better. I'm watching my eating more but can't seem to go more than one day without beer. And beer is the worst for weight gain.
So I'm back here looking for suport and I need to check in every day.
Hope all of you are healthy and your families and friends.
Thursday plans:
B: toast, bowl of mixed fruit, tea w/soy milk
S: Quinoa snack bar, coffee with coconut milk
L: 6 veg salad w/chicken breast, 2 ryvita crackers w/butter
D: Thai curry, no rice
S: packet of unbuttered popcorn, caffeine free diet coke
Exercise bike, dumbbells for upper and lower body
We are here to support you.
Take care of yourself; good to see you back. Keep us updated.
My weekend in the city was good but very, very tiring. Sat was 2 ½ hours standing in a huge crowd listening to speeches about independence for Scotland - I felt like a sardine in a can! Then changed into nicer clothes back at the hotel and had a nice Thai dinner. Then an amazing classical concert in the evening. Sunday was visiting 4 museums in Edinburgh. Did a TON of walking.
I did not behave but didn’t go as much overboard as I could have. There was definitely alcohol and sugar.
Busy today! Gym, then grocery shopping, then muscle workout at home!
Menu
Total: 1050
Gym:
Home muscle workout: 3 sets of 5 or 10 (sets of 5 for those that target shoulders)
I try to keep current with Brexit, but it's hard to watch/read for too long. I have no solution nor any strong opinion either way, but as a lover of all things in the UK, it's difficult to watch people in conflict. Mostly I feel sadness.
Sat
4 weeks from today we leave for Thailand. I will obviously have to lose weight after we arrive so my shorts and swimsuits get comfy and stay comfy.
Treating myself to a weekend in Glasgow while hubby is in Australia. Got a hotel room in the city centre (easy to walk to everything). Heading in this morning after breakfast and will drop my suitcase off at the hotel. Unfortunately, the forecast is 60% rain all weekend! Oh well….I’ve got my long raincoat with hood and waterproof athletic shoes.
I had planned on going to a museum to see the Linda McCartney photo exhibit, but I did that on Monday when I went into the city overnight for the funeral. I discovered that there is a Scotland independence rally this afternoon. And our First Minister (similar to a prime minister) will be speaking in the city centre. Plans are for another independence vote in 2020.
I’ve booked dinner at a nice Thai restaurant. Later in the evening I have a ticket to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for one of my favourite classical concerts. Will have a gin and diet tonic before the concert and another at intermission.
Sun
Heading into Edinburgh right after breakfast - a 45 min train ride from Glasgow. A fascinating and very old city. Going to visit a few small museums I’ve yet to visit. Lunch at the biggest museum - National Museum of Scotland. Planning on dinner back in Glasgow at a new-ish brewpub. They only serve pizza and will have one of their amazing beers (a porter) with it (wish I hated beer!!).
Mon
Breakfast at a lovely cafe with decor in the style of Glasgow’s favourite artist - Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Might meet up with an inlaw. Afterward I finally have my hearing test. Then some lunch and shopping and will head home and back to 1,000 calories a day except one night on the weekends.
I was going to visit my friends yesterday but they were in the city, so I’ve arranged to go down this afternoon. Was planning on walking but it's raining, and I'm bringing her a birthday gift.
Menu
B: porridge, tea w/soy milk
S: coconut/almond milk cappuccino, quinoa & cranberry bar, chocolate
L: turkey on a roll, blueberries, packet of crisps
D: homemade curry out of freezer
Total: 1340
Gym:
treadmill - (intervals uphill and speed) - 10 mins
elliptical - 10 mins
rowing machine - 5 mins
recumbent bike - 25 mins
Leg press (22.5kg) - 6 sets of 10
Shampooed hall carpet this morning (did deep cleaning yesterday). I’ll do some other cleaning/organising on my list. I’ll walk down to visit friends if they are home.
Groan….I did some snacking last night. Mostly it was hot chocolate I made with milk from the stuff I use for chocolate sprinkles and on my cappuccinos. A few almonds. I need to have quite a lot of 1000 cal days by the end of Nov! Menu B: porridge, tea w/soy milk S: coconut/almond milk cappuccino, quinoa & peanut bar L: 6 veg salad w/cheddar and turkey D: veggie and bacon omelette Total: 1014
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I'm beginning to get to know quinoa....and find it a nice rice alternative...it seems to be a good base for lots of things...but I don't think I have seen a quinoa bar...sounds interesting. Hope you have nice weather today Annie.
We used to eat quinoa instead of rice occasionally, but don't have any in the house right now. The quinoa bars I eat are made by a British company. https://perkier.co.uk/ They are gluten free which hubby needs but I don't. He is very fussy and not a snacker but he loves the Cacao & salted caramel quinoa bars. They have nuts, dates, cacao, sea salt, caramel. 137 cals, protein, fibre. Sunny today and mid 60's. But Sunday is to be 70 and sunny so looks like a socially distant garden party.
Donkey on 05/26/2020:
I'll say it again: I love to read your menus!
I like to shop early myself, but my husband prefers to go around 3p, which usually means dinner will be late.
Thanks :) We only have 2 supermarkets in town. The hours at the big one are 6-7 NHS workers, and 7 on is anybody. So I get there at 7. It's supposed to be only 20 allowed in the store at once and 2 metres apart but I think they let in more than that now. I've always been a morning shopper as they run out of fruit and veg later in the day. Used to go after a gym workout around 9:30 or 10.
horn_of_plenty on 05/26/2020:
Here in nyc almost everyone is wearing a mask !!!!
Understandable. You got hit really hard and you are in crowded conditions. My entire peninsula has about 20,000 people.