Today I am grateful for good food, clean water, a comfy home.
Rest day (no workout, anyway). Got the pasta sauce made and the French bread started. My day to cook. But it's supposed to be one of my 1400 cal days, but won't work out that way. I'll make up for it though during the week.
Menu:
TOTAL: about 1700 probably 2000 - lots of parmesan, french bread, wine
Progress as of today: 38.8 lbs lost so far, only 0.2 lbs to go!
Today I am grateful for living in a place with so much beauty!
A no-workout day and a treat day! Went to our botanic gardens to look for autumn colours (not much yet) and took some photos. Then had lunch at the cafe - jacket (baked) potato with shredded cheddar, salad, cuppa tea, and a slice of cake. 
They put a massive amount of cheese on my potato and when they brought it I thought there was no way I could eat all that cheese. Wrong! Cleaned my plate. Cake was a bit dry so didn't finish it.
Next I went to a place called Puck's Glen (King of the Faeries) - a very nice walk in a place that could make you believe in faeries! I hadn't been for a long time and was pleased with how easy it was to walk up all the steps and hills. Only got a bit breathless once and my legs did not object. Took some photos but many didn't come out as I should have brought along my tripod. It's also a dark place and hard to get the lighting right (and I don't use a flash!).
No calorie counting today but this will not be normal eating on a non-counting day! This was a deserved treat as the scale is nearly goal. 
Tomorrow is supposed to be a rest day and a calorie-counting (1400) day but it happens to be the day I'm making pasta and homemade French bread (giving hubby a break from cooking). Hard to eat small quantities of French bread and I'll be having red wine as well. So I'll have to make up for it during the week somehow.
Progress as of today: 38.8 lbs lost so far, only 0.2 lbs to go!
I think u dont need to worry, cuz u r almost on your goal weight, and as I guess you were walking a lot, so a little bit more food cannot be too bad. Have a nice weekend!
Today I am grateful for the beautiful sunshine on my blue loch!
Hope you all are having a healthy, pleasant day!
Put my plan into action. Nice not to be a slave to calories and my excel spreadsheet. I can deal with counting 3 days a week (1400) and w/o counting I can tell if I'm eating more than I should. So today is the first of the no-counting, no meal-planning days. I'll see how it goes. This is definitely not an excuse to pig out. I still weigh out my food - 100 g yogurt & 75 g raspberries, etc. But I am due for a treat and will take advantage of 3 days of predicted sunshine. Tomorrow I'll go to our botanic gardens for a walk and will treat myself to a nice lunch at the cafe.
Workout at gym:
Workout at home: (usually move the Friday routines to Sat but want to get it out of the way and just do some leisurely walking and some housework over the weekend)
(Anything I've done before in sets of 4 x 10 will now be 3 sets of 12.)
Menu: planning on clean eating all day with possibly a bottle of alcoholic pear cider tonight.
Progress as of today: 38.2 lbs lost so far, only 0.8 lbs to go!
Today I am grateful for feeling 20 years younger than I am!
Congrats on your weightloss!!
Today I am grateful for where I live!
Still have an aquarium and some other stuff to get rid in the loft but it's a LOT emptier.
A regular at the gym asked me today about how much I workout. I told her and she seemed to think that was too much (she's very fit) and that our bodies need good rests. I'm wondering how long I can keep up this intensity and if I'll burn out. I didn't want to go to the gym this morning but made myself. I rarely feel that way. I wonder if I should get a professional opinion on my workouts? Most weeks I do a minimum of 3 hours cardio, 5 hours strength training (gym & home).
Workout at gym:
If I do a intense class in the morning, i usually follow it up with a stretch/yogaish class in the evening and do my ab routine Mon. Wed. Friday.. Anyhoo I am sure you will find a happy medium..Have a good evening Annie <3
Just checking in quickly. Busy sorting out and cleaning stuff for the charity shops, more out of the loft and other places to dump or give away. Cleaning the guest room - washing the musty smelling pillows and freshening the duvets and covers as we'll have guests mid October. Will shampoo the carpet and sofa bed later. Guess that was my work out. A bit of extra snacking today. Back to the gym tomorrow and a full home workout of strength training.
Progress as of today: 37.2 lbs lost so far, only 1.8 lbs to go!
Today I am extremely grateful that my packrat husband has finally decided to clean out our loft which is packed with junk. We are putting in extra insulation before getting a new heating system and all that stuff would make it really difficult. Woohoo!!!
The charity shops are going to be happy to see me! I helped with the loft emptying, of course, and did have to keep an eye on him so he wouldn't dump stuff that I wanted to keep, like a couple things of sentimental value and some nice picture frames. So I didn't get to do my strength training this afternoon. I'll do it tomorrow which kinda screws up my schedule this week as I won't do these two days in a row.
Rainy, yucky day and very chilly! Oh well.
Workout at gym:
So had to juggle calories for today to compensate. (95 cals each).
Happy Sunday, ladies. Today I am grateful for my family & friends.
We have booked our trip to Michigan for next summer to see my family, especially grandkids. So far no plans for a trip-within-a- trip as last year when we rented a house on Lake Michigan.
Scale finally creeping down even though I haven't been really good lately--mostly wine and too many oatcakes.
Rest day, at least from workouts anyway. Plan to 'super-clean' one of the bathrooms today--wash all the wall tiles, tops of cupboards, sort out the cupboards, all the wee corners that get missed during a regular cleaning. Might start on the guest room as we have a couple coming to visit the middle of Oct.
Menu:
TOTAL: 1418
Progress as of today: 37.2 lbs lost so far, only 1.8 lbs to go!
Today I am grateful for breakfast in bed with the love of my life and a lovely view of the loch propped up in bed!
Forecast was wrong. Was hoping for a hike today but it's cold, cloudy and showery. Sigh.
I'm afraid the end of the berry season is coming. Strawberries have not been very good the last couple of weeks. Raspberries are still very good. Blueberrries (unless in a muffin or pancakes) are not my favourite and really only eat them because they are very good for you. Don't know what I'll do with my plain greek yogurt - can't eat it w/o fresh berries. Guess I'll need to go back to buying mixed yogurts until berry season returns - I refuse to buy frozen berries.
Workout at home: (did 1 or 2 extra sets on several of my routines since I missed Weds. strength training)
Edit: oops forgot to add: also did 200 jump rope and 20 mins on my exercise bike!
Progress as of today: 36.6 lbs lost so far, only 2.4 lbs to go!
Today I am grateful for fresh fruit.
A few people at my gym were discussing the new Dallas and they asked if I was watching it. I replied no but that I watched it in the 80's and that was enough. Got a quizzical look from a couple of them as they did the math! They are all 20's to maybe early 40's so were kids or not yet born when it was first on (I was in my late 20's/early 30's at that time). The UK has been showing reruns of the original since long before I ever moved here. Why?!
There's a parade in Glasgow today with all the Scottish participants who were on Team GB in the Olympics/Paralympics. But the weather is not nice (surprise!). Very windy with showers off and on. So we're not going. If Andy Murray was going to be there I'd go anyway, but he isn't.
Workout at gym:
I'll do the at-home strength training portion tomorrow morning.
Menu:
TOTAL: 1579
I've got the very first new "Dallas" to watch on the DVR--I wanted to see what the fuss was. I never got into the original--a couple of roommates watched it and I never could. I think the appeal is the cutthroat drama perhaps (more than they'd do in a regular daytime soap--never got into those either). Being a native Texan, I think the accents just threw me. I love Larry Hagman's story, but to watch him as JR is a stretch. His mother, Mary Martin was a native Texan, but his accent leaves a lot to be desired:-)
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