I think that's why crash diets are so tempting: the promise of only having to deal with it for a couple of weeks. It's hard to balance needs and not feeling deprived...
Cate's Diary
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Your main goal is to be healthy and to reach it you need to have a normal weight! From time to time I visit endocrinologist check my gormons and she usually tells all the same to every patient.....YOU NEED TO HAVE A NORMAL WEIGHT
I sometimes have the same problem but I told myself...you are always cary a bag with you with your fat (even it's a 5 kg I hate to cary something
I did the same and hate to visit doctors but it's life lol
I don't do diet I just started to cook a healthy food and now I have -1kg (it's a good result for me during 2 weeks)
Just relax and wait a little...
Hi Cate! So happy you found a solution to the head-butted light. I am not handy and sometimes break things while trying to fix them. The last one was busting a water pipe trying to figure out where all the pipes went. That's great you have your matching retro lights back!
I am having the same problem with creeping weight. I don't eat very many things that are unhealthy, but I do tend to eat more when stressed. Do you know what needs to change in the ways you eat? For me there needs to be exercise stress reduction like yoga or something that releases tension and obsessing over things. Then I don't turn to food for comfort.
Can't wait to hear how your first camping night goes! They do make simple buckets with toilet seats on them, and I think they throw saw dust or something like that in to absorb the liquid. Just be careful about the bucket tipping over. I have read about oopses where you then have to clean carpet if it tips over.
Glad you are getting the sun spots taken care of. I have very fair skin and had a suspicious bump removed from my eyebrow.
I am having the same problem with creeping weight. I don't eat very many things that are unhealthy, but I do tend to eat more when stressed. Do you know what needs to change in the ways you eat? For me there needs to be exercise stress reduction like yoga or something that releases tension and obsessing over things. Then I don't turn to food for comfort.
Can't wait to hear how your first camping night goes! They do make simple buckets with toilet seats on them, and I think they throw saw dust or something like that in to absorb the liquid. Just be careful about the bucket tipping over. I have read about oopses where you then have to clean carpet if it tips over.
Glad you are getting the sun spots taken care of. I have very fair skin and had a suspicious bump removed from my eyebrow.
Missie
New member
I understand how you feel and maybe most of us feel this way. Maybe you could try weighing yourself once a week instead of everyday, that way you'll only see progress and no ups and downs that we go through daily.
Also, idk if it'll help but I feel like sometimes its easier to actually not focus on the diet and stress about it all day, but only when it's eating time/meal prep.
Do you think there's a chance you might be at your healthy weight Cate? I think you were saying to LaMa that maybe your body is happy and your brain is just telling you differently? I think it's good to keep an eye on things so it doesn't keep creeping up, but you sound like you eat super well and you get exercise, so maybe that is the weight that is good for you? I am going through a similar wondering for myself...
Cate
Long term member
Thanks, LaMa, Natasha, Marsia, Missie & Liza 
I do have a very healthy diet & walk every day, but my weight just wants to keep edging up every year as my metabolism slows down it seems. I am about 10 kg over what I think I should be & that has nothing to do with BMI or charts. I will go back to weighing once a week. The mornings are cold & my inclination is to throw on my dressing gown straight away, let Arch out to go to the toilet & I usually have eaten breakfast & drunk my black coffee before my shower & therefore I don't like weighing after all that.
I don't really think about dieting all day & usually have 3 healthy meals & don't snack. G plates up my meals as he's the cook in the household & I find it hard to get him to make my meals smaller.
Re: our camper. We really do need someone to show us how it all works. The gas stove wouldn't light & we can't disconnect the gas bottle, which needs filling so have to ask for help again. I don't think she had used the camper for ages & some things have seized up. I think we'll camp in camping grounds with toilets until we get used to it. The bucket toilets are too bulky, unfortunately. If one fitted into the trunk up the back of the van I would have got one, but it's too narrow. I'll just take his & hers small containers for emergencies during the night. I have a suitable bucket for me, which I have practised with & G can have a plastic screw-top jar. Wish us luck! Having Arch in the van with us doesn't leave much room for anything.
Yesterday I tried on some "jeans" that have been too tight for ages & they fit, so even though I may not have lost much weight, that was a relief. Last night I got my first covid shot. G was meant to get his too, but he got a shingles vax last week & no-one clicked at the medical centre as you have to wait 2 weeks after any vax before you can have the covid one, so he has to wait until Friday of next week to get his. We, of course, knew nothing about this or he would have waited. I didn't feel a thing & this morning have no side-effects.
R & K9 are coming up for Easter, which will be lovely
I didn't know that they would be but had bought some dutchy treats when we were in town last week. She is still not able to visit her family & is really missing them.
I do have a very healthy diet & walk every day, but my weight just wants to keep edging up every year as my metabolism slows down it seems. I am about 10 kg over what I think I should be & that has nothing to do with BMI or charts. I will go back to weighing once a week. The mornings are cold & my inclination is to throw on my dressing gown straight away, let Arch out to go to the toilet & I usually have eaten breakfast & drunk my black coffee before my shower & therefore I don't like weighing after all that.
I don't really think about dieting all day & usually have 3 healthy meals & don't snack. G plates up my meals as he's the cook in the household & I find it hard to get him to make my meals smaller.
Re: our camper. We really do need someone to show us how it all works. The gas stove wouldn't light & we can't disconnect the gas bottle, which needs filling so have to ask for help again. I don't think she had used the camper for ages & some things have seized up. I think we'll camp in camping grounds with toilets until we get used to it. The bucket toilets are too bulky, unfortunately. If one fitted into the trunk up the back of the van I would have got one, but it's too narrow. I'll just take his & hers small containers for emergencies during the night. I have a suitable bucket for me, which I have practised with & G can have a plastic screw-top jar. Wish us luck! Having Arch in the van with us doesn't leave much room for anything.
Yesterday I tried on some "jeans" that have been too tight for ages & they fit, so even though I may not have lost much weight, that was a relief. Last night I got my first covid shot. G was meant to get his too, but he got a shingles vax last week & no-one clicked at the medical centre as you have to wait 2 weeks after any vax before you can have the covid one, so he has to wait until Friday of next week to get his. We, of course, knew nothing about this or he would have waited. I didn't feel a thing & this morning have no side-effects.
R & K9 are coming up for Easter, which will be lovely
I didn't know that they would be but had bought some dutchy treats when we were in town last week. She is still not able to visit her family & is really missing them.
Cate
Long term member
Quick report- I got on the scales & am holding onto my 2 kg loss, even though I weighed after breakfast & coffee. I'll weigh again on Sunday I think. I can't quite make up my mind which day will be my weigh-in day. I just got back from a lovely longish walk with Arch & am currently sitting outside in the sunshine with him. It's a lovely day. G is off playing golf & I am going to potter about with Betsy a bit more. In there I will do some housework
alligatorob
Respected Member
Good for you!
Enjoy the camper, getting it figured out will be half the fun! Just get out and use it, whatever way makes sense, you will figure it out! Mine is still at least 6 weeks away, but time is passing, it will be done someday.
Maybe you can weigh before and after breakfast once or twice to see how much to mentally subtract from the post-brekky number?
The only way to circumvent G's overnurturing may be to start leaving a few bites of food on your plate. As long as you eat everything he plates up he must think you want it all, right?
Congratulations on the fitting jeans!
The only way to circumvent G's overnurturing may be to start leaving a few bites of food on your plate. As long as you eat everything he plates up he must think you want it all, right?
Congratulations on the fitting jeans!
Cate
Long term member
Thanks, Rob. I'm not good at winging it. Today I did put more stuff in there. It probably makes sense to have the bed made up before we go anywhere, but I won't do that first up. I'll push to get the gas bottle problem sorted tomorrow & get our neighbour to show us how it all works. I fitted it out a bit more today- hammer, first aid kit, clothesline. The wiki camps app is excellent. I am not going to put spare clothes in there first trip either. We'll take a bag as if we were staying in a hotel. I may buy us each a dressing gown that stays in there though.
Good idea, LaMa. I'll do that on Sunday.
I think wine is still my downfall, so I'll keep cutting that down. I do ask G to give me less than him, but his food is usually so nice it's really hard to leave on the plate. I do often ask if he can eat extra & pass over some of my mine.
I had a good day today. I felt like eating an ice cream after lunch but instead had an orange. I felt like a glass of wine not long ago & instead made a pot of herbal tea. Win.
My arm is aching just a little from the covid shot, but no more than a flu vax does. I drank lots of water today & took Arch for 2 longish walks.
Great work!
Cate
Long term member
I feel good about my last couple of days. Two days in a row of no wine & about 1400 cals per day. I weighed myself this morning & am down another .5 kg, so -2.5 in the last month. I won't weigh again until Monday now.
With the cooler, damper air I'm aching all over, but I think that's par for the course every year. My body adjusts I think (I hope). It's osteoarthritis & could be something much worse.
BF this morning was one slice of oat toast with 2 eggs & 1/4 avocado, black coffee.
Lunch will be chicken curry with veg (no rice, thanks G)
Dinner probably Salad bits & pieces.... not sure really, maybe some biscuits & cheese, Dolmades....?
Somewhere in there, I'll have some fruit, maybe with greek-style yoghurt.
I don't think I'll go into town today, but will do some gardening perhaps, maybe wash my car & clean Betsy's windows.
With the cooler, damper air I'm aching all over, but I think that's par for the course every year. My body adjusts I think (I hope). It's osteoarthritis & could be something much worse.
BF this morning was one slice of oat toast with 2 eggs & 1/4 avocado, black coffee.
Lunch will be chicken curry with veg (no rice, thanks G)
Dinner probably Salad bits & pieces.... not sure really, maybe some biscuits & cheese, Dolmades....?
Somewhere in there, I'll have some fruit, maybe with greek-style yoghurt.
I don't think I'll go into town today, but will do some gardening perhaps, maybe wash my car
& clean Betsy's windows.
Cate
Long term member
Thanks, Liza. If I keep making those better choices most of the time then I should keep losing.
I’m trying to cut down on portions wherever I can easily. One piece of toast, instead of 2- that sort of thing. It doesn’t have to be black & white or good & bad, just better.
I’m trying to cut down on portions wherever I can easily. One piece of toast, instead of 2- that sort of thing. It doesn’t have to be black & white or good & bad, just better.
alligatorob
Respected Member
That is not a bad idea. I weigh all the time, and have learned a lot about how much a meal, even a cup of coffee can add. I also know what my shoes and various pieces of clothing weigh, and can pretty much guess how much weight I will lose over night. It helps to understand what weighing means. Not all mysteries solved, but some of them.
Cate
Long term member
Yesterday-
Felt lazy really. I took Arch for a walk in the morning, washed my little car & Betsy, did some housework & took him for another walk late afternoon, but I didn't even take 5000 steps. Not good enough!
I had some bubbly with G late afternoon. My calories were probably about 1500- lots of veggies, some chicken, minimal starchy carbs, some fruit & a little ice cream with stewed rhubarb. Not bad/not great.
Today-
BF- 1 piece of sourdough oat toast with leftover chicken & veggie curry. Black coffee.
Lunch- will be a prawn salad
Dinner will be peppered venison with lots of veggies.
Somewhere in there will be some fresh fruit.
There will also be more bubbles as R & K9 will be arriving this afternoon. He will be staying 3 nights I think & she will be staying just the one. I'll show some restraint. I will also report tomorrow.
I'll take Arch for a big walk this morning. I might even take him into town for a river walk. That would be a good start to my day.
Felt lazy really. I took Arch for a walk in the morning, washed my little car & Betsy, did some housework & took him for another walk late afternoon, but I didn't even take 5000 steps. Not good enough!
I had some bubbly with G late afternoon. My calories were probably about 1500- lots of veggies, some chicken, minimal starchy carbs, some fruit & a little ice cream with stewed rhubarb. Not bad/not great.
Today-
BF- 1 piece of sourdough oat toast with leftover chicken & veggie curry. Black coffee.
Lunch- will be a prawn salad
Dinner will be peppered venison with lots of veggies.
Somewhere in there will be some fresh fruit.
There will also be more bubbles as R & K9 will be arriving this afternoon. He will be staying 3 nights I think & she will be staying just the one. I'll show some restraint. I will also report tomorrow.
I'll take Arch for a big walk this morning. I might even take him into town for a river walk. That would be a good start to my day.