Milestones (Amy's diary)

Hi Amy, just popping on to say hello! Good luck getting into the 160s!
What tactics have worked for you so far?
 
Happy May Day Amy . Apparently the first one to say White rabbits will have luck for the month . Or so my mother used to say.
Hope we all have a better weight and fitness by month end .
 
Wow - where did that week go? I guess:
  • in being back in the neighbourhood (ie the real-life neighbourhood),
  • in keeping up the working from home (two internet meetings this week - Zoom and Skype),
  • in sorting out the house - and a tiny little bit the garden, and most especially
  • in catching up with people - in particular the woman I did the shopping for on the way up.
She was ill this week - doctor, tests,that sort of thing - and I was on dog duty. She is an older woman, living alone apart from the little dog, and it was important that someone looked after him while she was in Regional Town having tests, or she'd be fretting, and maybe cutting short time with the doctors. So I've been letting him out for runs, and feeding him, and taking him for walks - and I must scoot out and take him for this morning's walk, before threatened rain turns up.

Yesterday's walk took us alongside a river (not what anyone outside this part of Australia would call a river! I think you'd think it was a very small, cantankerous weedy creek) where I gathered up some bush tucker in the form of bunya nuts. Investigation and experimentation to follow, if I can find the time in between projects! :)

Oh - other experimentation - chickpea flour! I had a gluten-free guest coming, and used it to make some quite okay lemon and tahini biscuits, and some abominable not-worth-eating little quiches. In former days I would have forced myself to eat them, because food waste, spent good money, it's still nutritious even if horrible, etc etc but I am happy to say that this time I didn't. I still do think food waste is wrong, if it can be avoided, but for me, this time, it was the better option.

Anyway - the dog-walk calls! :seeya:
 
I would love your recipe for lemon & tahini biscuits please, Amy, No hurry. Have fun with the dogger. We have a brief window too, between rain so I should also skedaddle (dogless for now).
 
Glad to see you are sticking to your word about not allowing yourself to be the bin.

If you are saying food waste is wrong - are you talking about supermarket bins/fast food places/restaurants? Or are you talking about the tiny amount of food waste in your own home? We are all destroying the planet, just by typing in here and being alive in general. I don't feel guilty about being alive, do you?

I had those teachers in school who talked about the starving African children that made you feel awful if you weren't stuffing your mouth at the cake sale. I remember my junior infants teacher (I was 4-5) criticising us for not eating the crumbs off the plate.
 
Sounds like a good (and busy) week Amy :)
your little "cantankerous weedy creek" /river sounds lovely. I will take a little flowing water wherever i can get it. Always lovely to walk beside :)
I also try and avoid throwing out food. The worst for me is when i keep trying to "fix" something that just keeps staying gross and end up just adding more to be thrown out in the end! sometimes we just have to admit defeat!
 
liza said:
The worst for me is when i keep trying to "fix" something that just keeps staying gross and end up just adding more to be thrown out in the end! sometimes we just have to admit defeat!
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Completely agree. Trying to avoid food waste is laudable but it's true that most of it by far happens before we as consumers have an influence on it so no need to fret if you can't always be perfect.

I quite like chickpea flour in savory things but I find it hard to magine in something sweet so your biscuits sounds very interesting. I do remember using mashed chickpeas (didn't have the flour) for the filling of an eggless quiche (my sisters are allergic to eggs) and that turned out nice, mostly because you couldn't taste the chickpeas :p I just used shredded potato, water pressed out, brushed with butter, blind-baked until golden, for the crust, which worked really well. Probably no longer officially a quiche, of course :D
 
Hi Amy I am like you where is the time going . Hard to get it all done. Glad you could help your friend out with the dog and I hope she is lots better soon x
 
misty22 said:
What tactics have worked for you so far?
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Oh, Misty! I still haven't answered this question - sorry! For me, the three most effective of the Tactics of the Day have been:
- having celery (and carrot) ready to go as an anytime snack
- having something to do which can't possibly have food near it, like knitting
- make the downfall food inaccessible (for me, this was putting the butter in the freezer)
I'm still not back into the 160s, but I've lost the kilo-in-a-week that I set out to do, and the 160s Club isn't far off!

Recipe delivered, Cate! Let me know what you think. :)
Emilyrose said:
Glad to see you are sticking to your word about not allowing yourself to be the bin...
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Thanks, Em! :) And yes, about food waste within my own home - but it's extraordinary how deeply I've internalised that training not to "waste" - which links, I have a depressing feeling, to a conviction somewhere that I don't "deserve" to have nice things/food/etc.
Emilyrose said:
I don't feel guilty about being alive, do you?
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No, I don't, and when I do (about perfectly reasonable things, like dumping the quiche not worth eating) I shouldn't, and should address it - thank you for this reminder!
liza said:
trying to "fix" something that just keeps staying gross and end up just adding more to be thrown out in the end! sometimes we just have to admit defeat!
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:rotflmao: Oh, do I recognise this! Thanks for letting me know I'm not alone!
LaMaria said:
no need to fret if you can't always be perfect
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Thanks, LaMa!
LaMaria said:
...mostly because you couldn't taste the chickpeas :p
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(plaintive voice) But I like the taste of chickpeas! (Thanks for the tip about shredded-potato pie-base! Noted for future reference!)

Thanks for your good wishes for my friend, Petal. I'm not sure how long the dog-walking will go on, but my friend is home and doing the feeding etc herself, so it's now just a daily walk.

Today's walk was fun, of a sort! This dog is only little, but boy, can he exert a tug on the leash - more especially when he spots another dog whose very existence is (apparently) a challenge! Today I ended up at one point scooping him up and carrying him to get him away from the (MUCH larger) dog, who was just looking at him with a placid curiosity, as if to say "what's the matter, little fellow? Have I done something to offend you?"
 
Hey Amy, I am just trying to catch up with folks, it sounds like you are getting settled in, that's good. Walking a dog can be fun, and I have noticed that most small dogs have little sense of proportion, too willing to go after a much bigger dog.

I am sometimes amazed what folks out west (our west) call a river. One of my favorites is the Hassayampa River in Arizona, it is close to a place I have worked there. I have probably driven over the "river" a dozen times in the last dozen years and never seen the slightest hint of water, bone dry. Apparently it only flows after a very rare flash flood.
 
aiminglow said:
Today I ended up at one point scooping him up and carrying him to get him away from the (MUCH larger) dog, who was just looking at him with a placid curiosity, as if to say "what's the matter, little fellow? Have I done something to offend you?"
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I see that so often!
I think those little dogs are trying to make up for their size. I much prefer those big quiet dogs that never have to try and prove anything. Though I have met some really nice little dogs who are at ease as well.
 
At least you can carry the dog Amy when you need to . Nothing as bad as hauling a dog off on its leash . Sounds like fun times
 
Just dropping in quickly today, because much to do, but I wanted to report that so far on this week's morning walks with my friend's dog I've seen kangaroos (three mornings), and plenty of birds, like crested pigeons and ring-necked parrots and of course galahs, but the absolute best was one lone pelican slowly winging his/her way inland - they do go far inland, way further inland than I am now, but it's very unusual to see them here - and a lone one is unusual, too. :)
 
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