Counting calories again.
It is cold here! Sleet in the forecast. About 34 degrees.
Menu:
Total: less than 1200
Workout:
Floor routines: Pics popping up in FB memories. These are fish cakes and the other is duck dinner at one of our favourite restaurants in Thailand.
Progress as of today: 3.2 lbs lost so far, only 22.8 lbs to go!
Weigh in today: 167.8. Not surprised at all, in fact I feared I'd be 170 again.
I will weigh myself every morning this week to make sure I get an accurate starting point. I’ve been a total pig with food and drinking lots of beer and other alcohol. Christmas season has been very tough for me without my son. We always did lots of videochats, even from Thailand with a 12 hour time difference.
I’ve found the calories for the chocolate liqueurs hubby gave me. So I can have a wee treat in the evening when I want. 1oz for one and 1.5 oz for the other are both 103 cals. Tiny serving and will have with just ice. Very smooth. Found reliable cals: Chocolate cream is 112 for 2 ozs (50g), and dark chocolate is only 89 for 2 ozs (50g).
Menu:
Workout: no muscle work today - feel sore from yesterday's.
Spin bike: 45 mins - running, sitting, jumps, hill climbing
5 years ago today at my favourite Buddhist site: (I totally broke the rules here by having bare shoulders and knees!)
Progress as of today: 3.2 lbs lost so far, only 22.8 lbs to go!
Best to rest, perhaps, if you are feeling a little sore. Maybe a couple of casual stretches? I hope the pain doesn't evolve into stiffness.
I think you've done remarkably well with only 3 pounds. It's been an accumulation of a very trying year.
PS Thank you for posting the beautiful picture!
This one is nicer than Baileys on ice - much smoother. One cube of ice. Perfect.
You've done well. I've gained nearly 5 but could be worse.
I always get sore if I skip a couple days of muscle work, so no problem.
well, that's nice your weigh-in was under what you wanted.
holy...that's a lot of cals for the liquor. too bad right!? perhaps you can water them down a HAIR, just a little, ?? or add them slightly in with almond milk? just a thought. or into decaf...
Pics for Jacky and her friend:
Did Zoom yesterday with family - my sister, my brother and his family, my other brother, my sisters 3 kids and their families. Really too much for everybody getting to speak. Now I’m really missing everybody.
Doing a workout today since I didn’t yesterday.
Damage assessment tomorrow morning - getting on the scale.
Menu plans:
Workout: Floor routines:
Progress as of today: 7.6 lbs lost so far, only 18.4 lbs to go!
I do miss my family especially because of the loss of my son. Hope to be with them in the summer.
lovely photos for Jacky, haha, i enjoyed them too :)
i decided to do some short walking in the cold today, just to get out ...was nice in my super-warm long coat that i save only for the very cold days so that it lasts a LONG TIME :)
Too awful to walk here today - rain and high winds all day.
If tourists could get free healthcare everybody would visit just so they could get free surgery, etc.
Saw a doc film, think it was about Canada, but not sure. Said waits long and some medical substandard so the wealthy come to be US & pay
I think it's mostly Americans who bash Canada's healthcare. And my sisters bashes the NHS even though she knows nothing about it. I've never had a long wait for anything, could be different in big cities like London though for non-emergency treatments (like new knees etc). But I always point out nobody gets into trouble financially over medical bills, or has to file for bankruptcy.
Not for us. I've no complaints and neither do any of my husband's relatives or our friends.
Merry Christmas!
Doing Zoom today with family in US - California, Michigan, Texas and Rhode Island. Being turned on at 10am California time so 6pm ours.
Hubby gave me something I’ve never had - 2 bottles of liqueur - one is dark chocolate and the other is chocolate cream - and I’m planning on behaving starting next week. Hmm...
Menu:
Our windowsill herb garden:
Progress as of today: 7.6 lbs lost so far, only 18.4 lbs to go!
love the herb garden. Awesome!
Herb gargen doing very well once they started popping up.
the liquor looks so good...would be nice in a coffee, right!?
I've only tried to dark chocolate liqueur. The other is next. Might try it in a coffee.
Xmas eve. Opened my bottle of Cointreau (orange liqueur) last night. Looked up recipes for cocktails but they all need vodka or tequila and I don’t want to buy any other liquor. So it’s just cointreau on the rocks. It’s smooth and sweet. Will go nicely with more cupcakes! LOL.
Going by our friends house this afternoon to bring them some sweets and wine, etc. It’s cold - only about 40 but sunny, so our stay on the patio will be short.
Menu:
Workout: Blue skies today!
Progress as of today: 7.6 lbs lost so far, only 18.4 lbs to go!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Not behaving at all this week. Beer every day. Xmas is hard. Normally we’d be in Thailand and I’d be doing videochats with my son and his daughters.
Hoping to get to Michigan this summer - maybe August? Had planned on a memorial luncheon in a big hall with maybe 60+ people but I doubt that will be safe even if most are vaccinated. Might need to be immediate family only in a private room in a restaurant.
We are in total lockdown in Scotland and most of the UK. Will walk down to our friends house tomorrow - sunny but about 40 degrees. So will stay on the patio long enough to give them the bags of goodies I got them and maybe have a dram of whisky.
Jacky, I'm really curious where your friend near Glasgow lives?
Menu:
Workout:
Floor routines:
Progress as of today: 7.6 lbs lost so far, only 18.4 lbs to go!
The vaccine will still work though.
also, is your hubby brewing beer at the moment?
Hubby brews beer in the garage and even has a 2 keg system with taps. He's been doing it for years.
Shopped today at 10am for alcohol (flavoured gin and wine for friends and beer for us) and few other things.
I am so angry! Everyone wore a mask that I could see but there was zero social distancing. The store was mobbed! You had to line up to get in so I thought only a certain number were allowed in at a time (used to be 20). And the alcohol aisle was the busiest. Pubs are all shut now plus xmas week.
Menu:
Workout later?
I would be very annoyed with the lack of social distancing too. UGH! Too bad you can't fart loudly on command. That would get you some social distancing.
LOL, but I can fart on demand!
We were doing distant garden parties all summer but now it's a high of upper 30's and into the 40's. Xmas eve looks to be 40 and sunny, so we'll pop by friends.
I should have listened to hubby. What was I thinking going into the main store here at 10 am 3 days before xmas!?
I should have gone at 7:30am for the stuff I didn't buy yesterday and stopped at our petrol station for the alcohol. They only allow 6 in the shop at one time.
Got the gin and wine for our friends, and beer for us. Wish I'd thought about booking a click and collect spot for this week ahead of time. Anyway, I'm booked for next Tuesday as usual.
No click and collect - all booked up this week.
Heard on the news this morning there will be a shortage of produce from the continent because other countries in Europe don’t want our trucks over there because of the Covid variant here. So went in at 7:30 am. I had planned on shopping for produce tomorrow and doing a 10am for alcohol this morning, but got worried. Also with the ‘final divorce papers’ from the EU on Dec 31st there will be problems. We get most of our fruit from Spain.
Car park was much more full than usual at 7:30 this morning. It is Xmas week though so to be expected. More people in the store than usual but I think there is still a limit of 20 at a time even though our area has very low cases. No shortage of produce today - shelves in the produce section were piled high so I got everything I wanted.
Most of Europe, South America and many other countries are banning flights from the UK because of this variant of Covid. Notably, the US doesn't care and we aren't banned. FFS.
Planned Menu:
Workout:
Floor routines:
Progress as of today: 7.6 lbs lost so far, only 18.4 lbs to go!
When are elections for Prime Minister?
This is the worst time for a disaster like Brexit!
We'd be in a panic if we couldn't get all our fruit and veg.
I heard also that the US hasn't banned flights yet....is the US stupid or what!?
As for your second question, looking at the last 4 years will answer that question.
Baked the cupcakes and 1 layer of cake yesterday. Vanilla cake and chocolate frosting. Not as good as I expected. Might have been the frosting - not fluffy because I was lazy and bought pre-made. I froze the cupcakes unfrosted and am nibbling on the layer of cake now.
Menu:
B: cereal with raspberries and toast
S: coffee with coconut milk, quinoa/nut/dk choc bar, cake
L: 6 veg salad with chicken and cheddar, apple
D: Tom Yam curry
S: popcorn x 2
Drinks: diet tonic, sugar free diluting fruit drink, water, tea & coffee, hot chocolate
Workout:
Spin bike: 45 mins - running, sitting, jumps, hill climbing
3 x 10 lunges, squats using 2kg weights
3 x 10 side lunges and calf lifts using 4kg weights
S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-S
Progress as of today: 7.6 lbs lost so far, only 18.4 lbs to go!
I do 45 mins twice a week when I do shorter muscle workout (lunges & squats & calf lifts). 30 mins when I do the full muscle stuff.
I never got past 35 mins when I was using the gym, but then I was also doing other cardio as well.
Just tried to cancel my subscription to The Daily Beast. Got auto email saying office closed. I don’t want them to auto change my credit card on 2/17/21. Said I have enough to read and don’t like their focus on the UK Royal Family. Originally subscribed because they had good antiTrump guests on MSNBC.
See pic at top of my feed.
My sis in law took me to her spin class on an xmas trip to Michigan one year and I loved it. I was 'skinny' and fit at the time. So when I rejoined my gym I signed up for spin classes. Loved it! I'm really happy with spin bike purchase although it's not nearly the quality of the ones in the gym.
I'd much prefer brownies but there weren't any mixes in the store.
The only UK paper I look at is the UK version of the Guardian. Sometimes the Scotsman for Scottish stuff.
Still haven’t made a curry bc I don’t wanna pay for the ingredients - but since I am going to be home for several days straight, I’ll prob make a curry around Christmas ;) we shall see !
West of Glasgow could be Paisley, Greenock or my area across the sea.
Heavy duty cleaning today. Glad I did the bathrooms yesterday. Doing living/dining dusting and hoovering and kitchen floor.
In a local FB group there was a post about my supermarket having xmas gift bags for the food bank. Each bag has enough for a full family meal plus some toiletries. I didn’t notice them when I was in last time, but next time I go I’ll pick up a few to donate.
Not behaving myself at all. Beer. Too much popcorn and other stuff. And I have a cake mix and icing sitting in the kitchen to be made for xmas. Xmas is depressing me this year.
There is a rough timeline for when we’ll get vaccinated here and if it’s true then I, being the younger one, would get my second one the first week of April at the latest. Hubby is suggesting we might be able to take some kind of trip after that (with a mask of course). It would be somewhere in the UK as we need to wait for family to get vaccinated before we go to Michigan. Anyway, the idea of a trip gives me motivation so I’ll need to get tough after xmas.
Menu plans:
Sunset last night:
Progress as of today: 7.6 lbs lost so far, only 18.4 lbs to go!
The struggle is real.
(Beautiful picture - thank you!)
It's actually amazing that I got to 68 with my weight maxing out at 171 when it could be so much higher.
This is a GOP zone and you wouldn’t believe the loons that flocked in from NY, WV & Ohio to see Dump the few times he came to town. The last time was a brief stop and they erected grandstands at some little flight school adjacent to the airport. He insulted the crowd and Erie & it’s hilarious how the late night comics parodied it. Oh, my! Poor Erie!
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Wow! I’m drooling! Especially the fish cakes. Tried duck a few times and found it greasy.
I had the fish cakes. Don't like duck on its own like this but they make a gorgeous duck curry.
Jacky82020 on 12/28/2020:
Yum!
Delicious! I'm really missing being there. Although this year we were booked to go Jan - April instead of Dec to March. Still not allowed in yet. They don't want to risk tourists with the virus.
Jacky82020 on 12/28/2020:
Smart country like New Zealand
Thailand had very low cases and they want to keep it that way. Asians don't rebel when they know they need to wear masks. I was in Viet Nam for a few days early Feb and everybody was wearing masks.
Jacky82020 on 12/28/2020:
They were ahead of the curve. Don’t recall masks here in Pennsylvania until March and many states didn’t do it at all until much later. Still loosely enforced in places like Iowa
I didn't think anyone was wearing masks in the US until April. My son worked in a supermarket and the store did not mandate masks. So he caught it mid March.
I started wearing a mask here well before it was mandatory.
Jacky82020 on 12/28/2020:
Maybe it was April. Sure you’d know better than me. Sometime I will check my Amazon purchase history. Much variation among the states.
When were they mandatory in PA? They were mandatory in Scotland sometime in the summer. I was one of the few wearing one in the store.
Jacky82020 on 12/28/2020:
Can’t find purchase at Amazon. Our first masks were black and ordered from some popup ad. Next batch were KN95s from eBay. Anyways, I did see the PA Gov asked that everyone wear masks on 3/31. Don’t know when we started, but it would have been earlier. Sometimes I wear 2, like when I went to the optometrist last week. Uncomfortable! The second mask really pressed the underlying one into my nose & mouth.
Masks were impossible to find for a few months here but hubby had bought some good ones in Thailand and brought them home and found packs in the garage. So until we could get cloth ones we used those.
Jacky82020 on 12/28/2020:
They were hard to find here initially too. I remember now Amazon saying they were available to frontline workers only. And we never found N95s Supposedly the KN95 is the Chinese equivalent. I bought ten from a guy on eBay who sold bedding. Big seller with good feedback. Claimed to have a Chinese connection.
Not sure when PA mandated masks. As I recall, some counties were faster than others to require them.
Horn_of_plenty on 12/28/2020:
that was out temps yesterday, just a little higher than 34. not the best, but it was sunny so it was a nice outing yesterday...today temps are back up, just under 50...so once again that was nice with mom walking...
those meals look incredible!!! love all the fresh veggies that the restaurant includes with the meal. that's why i love thai! it just seems healthier than most other ethnic restaurant varieties.