Annba
Joined May 2010
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Start Weight
141.1 lb
Lost so far: 5.7 lb

Current Weight
135.4 lb
Performance: gaining 0.0 lb a week

Goal Weight
121.3 lb
Still to go: 14.1 lb
I am a 56 year old office worker and grandmother..I live in Norway now, but am born in Canada to Finnish parents.

I walk about 5-8 km a day. This is my only exercise right now. Taking my walk to a slow jog seems way beyond anything I can manage, but I will try (at least on the downhills!).

I have been preoccupied with dieting and cooking since I was 12 years old. I have grown to realise recently that my love of cooking and entertaining my family and friends with food is dangerous for me and for many around me. Food doesn't have to taste fantastic all the time. If it doesn't taste fantastic, maybe it is because I am not hungry. If I allowed myself to have a real hunger more often (not emotional or intellectual hunger) or found other satisfying hobbies (music, carpentry, art, language, reading) that did not involve food I would be better off and appreciate all foods, in their simplest form. All those cooking shows are feeding this food obsession. I think we who love to cook have to "feed" our creative impulses with something that causes less harm. Maybe a love of cooking is doing more harm than good.




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cals: 71kcal | fat: 0.33g | carbs: 15.45g | prot: 2.75g
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Can't have lemon juice, need a sub for it
Yes! Please try a good apple cider vinegar...1 to 1. Malt vinegar is used by chefs, ratio about half the amount. If you have dry white wine on hand...you could try that or in combination. taste your way through. I love lemony acidic hummous, but I apple cider vinegar would be my second choice.
posted 20 May 2018, 07:18
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I post whenever. Some post daily. Some post monthly. Some post when there is even the slightest movement downwards.
posted 11 Apr 2017, 03:37
Exercise
You must be a young person or just a lucky person.
posted 07 Sep 2016, 13:23
Exercise
I just searched discussions online on how long distance (marathon) runners must eat. They don't seem to eat anything they want, except before a race when they shove in the carbs (75% of intake). Daily Caloric intake for the average long distance runner who does 25 miles a week, is 2500 calories a day. You can't run stuffed! Of course a lean body needs fewer calories to propel forward than my tubby one. 2500 calories is only double of my current caloric intake I need to lose about 1 lb every two weeks. Personally, when I lift weights, or row, or cycle in the gym its only to tone muscle or distract me from eating. The calories burned are not significant enough. I am active enough (4 km x 2 walk to work), and live on the 4th floor without elevator. What can I realistically (time, etc.) do more to make any difference re. weight loss?
posted 07 Sep 2016, 12:59
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itbeollie wrote:
I always considered doing the forth of july nathans hot dog eating contest - I swear I could win. One hot dog just does not hit the spot - even at barbecues I have to effort not being greedy, or looking greedy - so I just stick with six or so... and 3 burgers, and chicken and ribs. ouch.

The funny thing is one can eat so much more of cooked meats than say any of the carbs at a picnic.If I had one plate or two of mac and cheese, or pasta or rice and beans say - I would be good to go. ???

I say cooked meat because raw meat is also a carb.


I felt the same way. I always told people "I never feel full". But I have managed now more frequently to push away my plate. But then there are the tough times when there is just one more piece of cake, chicken wing, whatever, left on the plate. I have already had my share. That last piece is all I can think of. Kind of ridiculous, isn't it? Everyone else might be thinking the same, I don't know. Maybe they are. I usually turn to the youngest young man/boy in the room, and say please finish this off! Or other times, at home, I say "someone save me from this food! " Overeating might be a kind of an addition. Be it drugs, alcohol, sugar, salt, fat. Or then, maybe it is fear that kicks in. Fear that we might never have opportunity for good food again. "Binge now" says that scared little voice. "You might not see food again for a long time". That strategy might have worked for near starving mammoth and reindeer chasing ancestors. But for me today, I must repeat to myself "There will be a chance to eat good food again". "There will always be enough food for tomorrow."
posted 07 Sep 2016, 12:03
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