Default Julie's food & exercise journal

Maybe! It didn't go too swell, the cycling... I felt a weak in my legs. Normally I cycle faster.
Good thing I started watching my diet again 'cause apparently I did gain corona weight :/. Just 1 kilo, but still. My goal weight is still 58 kg (127 lbs). I'm 64 kg (141 lbs) now. Let's do thissss.
 
JuliePulie said:
You seem to be in a mountainous area so 13k over there is like 30k over here :D
It's so flat in Belgium. No mountains for us. Too bad, 'cause I love them.
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My 13 km is not very mountainous, just against the mountains in my pictures. According to my app I gained about 120 m. A week ago I did an all day hike up the mountain and gained about 1,000 m in 12.5 km, that was a really hard one. I live in Utah, been here 3 years, moved from Florida (no mountains) and the one thing I like here are our mountains. The winter weather, not so much.
JuliePulie said:
Let's do thissss.
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Right!
 
alligatorob said:
My 13 km is not very mountainous, just against the mountains in my pictures. According to my app I gained about 120 m. A week ago I did an all day hike up the mountain and gained about 1,000 m in 12.5 km, that was a really hard one. I live in Utah, been here 3 years, moved from Florida (no mountains) and the one thing I like here are our mountains. The winter weather, not so much.

Right!
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Whoa 1.000 m, that's insane!!
 
Today was okay-ish.
Food:
- oatmeal breakfast
- tuna sandwich and cucumber gazpacho
- vegetarian vindaloo
- snack: 3 cinnamon cookies (in my defence: they're tiny!:))

Exercise: 20 minutes of running
 
I'll do this for two days, because I forgot to write an entry yesterday.
Yesterday:
Exercise: 2 hours and a half cycling trip
Food:
- Breakfast: oatmeal breakfast
- Lunch: gazpacho and a banana
- Dinner: pizza again
- snacks: ginger cookies, cinnamon cookie, apple juice

Today:
Exercise: walking 12k in my city (3 hours)
Food:
- Breakfast: banana with cinnamon paste
- Lunch: sushi salad
- Dinner: gazpacho and popcorn (haha, I know, weird to eat popcorn for dinner, but I love popcorn and it doesn't have much calories!)
- Snacks: apple, some grapes, some cherries, some dried banana

I'm feeling a bit frustrated. I've just been dieting for a long time, or maybe, watching my food for a long time... And I've been much heavier than I am now, so it's kinda working, but still. For others it seems so easy to lose weight. Last time I lost weight was because I stopped birth control (the pill). I'm on a lighter pill now, but maybe I should go off of it anyway. I'm not seeing someone now, and if I am we could switch to condoms or I could maybe consider another form of birth control. It's not just because of my weight, but there are some other things about the pill I don't like (influences your mood, your libido, etc). But last time I did break out loads when I went off it, not looking forward to that...
 
JuliePulie said:
And I've been much heavier than I am now, so it's kinda working, but still. For others it seems so easy to lose weight.
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Definitely true and sometimes awfully frustrating. But those people probably have other problems, even if we don't see them. At least that's what I tell myself to keep myself from comparing me to others too much.
 
Food for today:
- skipped breakfast because I slept late
- lunch: sandwich with vegan cheese and vegan patty
- dinner: vegetable vindaloo with chickpeas
- snacks: banana, some grapes and cherries, a cinnamon cookie

Exercise:
- 2 hours of walking
- one hour of cycling
 
I can't sleeeeep! Hate when that happens. I had such an active day so I thought I would fall asleep right away but it's as if my body is still in active mode.
So yeah, lots of cycling today. Went to Brussels and back with a colleague. Six hours of cycling in total.
My food:
- breakfasts: 2 bread buns, one with vegan cheese, the other with a bell pepper spread. And a banana.
Lunch: avocado toast
Dinner: my Indian vindaloo from the other day but with couscous (i really ate a big portion... And quite late too. Maybe that's also why my body refuses to go to sleep).
Snacks: some cookies on the road

Oh yes yesterday wasn't a good day calories wise cause I had some drinks. Too tempting... First BBQ of the year and there was sangria. I did say no to the crisps so eh, small victory.
 
A bit of sangria at the first bbq is not a big deal. Just don't make a habit of it and you'll be fine. Sounds like today was ok, depending on what "some" cookies means. Six hours of cycling is very impressive, you burned a lot of calories doing that.

Keep up the good work!
 
My backside hurts just thinking about 6 hours of cycling :D Hope you had fun and you definitely deserved a larger portion of vindaloo.
 
I loved reading this-
JuliePulie said:
So yeah, lots of cycling today. Went to Brussels and back with a colleague. Six hours of cycling in total.
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Wowsers! When you live in a vast country like Australia it is so funny to read "Went to Brussels and back"
 
Thanks guys!
Yeah Belgium is tiiiiny in comparison to Australia. I would love to go to Australia one day.... (but not run into huge spiders). We did 120 k in total, but with race bikes. My lower back doesn't hurt, but my ass and neck are a bit sore :D

Yeah I would have preferred healthier snacks than cookies but neither me or my sports companion felt like taking a rucksack on a hot day, so cookies were the only sources of energy that fit in my back pocket :) ... I put them in myfitnesspal and according to that app (of course, I know the calories burnt doing sports are only an estimate) I still burnt way more calories than I took in.
 
Food yesterday:
- skipped breakfast because of sleeping late
- lunch: sushi salad
- dinner: broccoli soup
- snacks: popcorn, some cherries, an apple, four ginger cookies

Exercise: 6,5 k walk (slow pace, I walked 1 hour and 40 minutes)
 
Looks like a lovely day!
 
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