Chris is Still Too Fat

In response to:Daily Report : Day 3 Week 133

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:17:24 +0100

Sorry for lack of response....found this reply in the spam box along with about 40 other replies from other people. There's odd things going on.

If it is any consolation, I finished a second container of twiglets. I had it about a week or maybe, a bit more. Would you believe it, this incarnation are designed as mini-twiglets. All that means is they aren't long ones. I guess the weight of the cylindrical container is what it should be. ;)

In response to:Daily Report : Day 6 Week 133

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:11:54 +0100

Your really doing great!.I appreciate it. I will come back again soon...

Estate Agent

London Apartments

In response to:Daily Report : Day 3 Week 133

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:09:52 +0100

Thanks for the encouragement, Menhir. I need it.

I am not so sure about using up more reserves in winter. Seems to me I eat more to keep me warm ! So keeping within calories budget is doubly difficult now onwards.

Now Twiglets is something I have not seen for years, still less sampled. But you spoiled it by mentioning the 'S' word (salad !).

And you are setting the example once again with the virtuous sounding stir-fry. Whereas I had beef casserole (a Mrs CITF concoction) with baked tatie and copious varied veg. I was offered stewed apple to follow up (to get rid of it !) but really I am sick of apple these days. There are still some rather ripe red ones on the tree in the garden, despite the dedicated attentions of blackbirds, tits, jays and, to my surprise, green woodpeckers.

But, despite all this banter, the harsh fact is I have bust my calories budget for the day so am consoling myself with a cup of tea (20 cals).

And so, shortly, to bed.

CITF

In response to:Daily Report : Day 3 Week 133

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:31:04 +0100

Just to enthuse you, in Winter you can lose weight a little easier, as the cold weather makes the body use up more of its reserves. It won't do to replace them with lots of sweeties though. However, you are allowed treats within your usual cal intake...not out of it. (Easier said than done).

To cheer you up, I had a wee pig out today, on twiglets and some potato salad.

Tonight is definitely stir fry and a small quantity of egg-fried rice with one egg. It's a small amount because the rice was in the pan covered with water waiting to be cooked...it was surplus to requirements for a meal hubby made and was not cooked till this morning, by me. I did not add to it.

;)

In response to:Mid-Week Report : Week 131

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:17:02 +0100

So it was black bread, eh ? Sounds very East European. It was quite tasty but I will not be searching it out specifically in future.

You lost your appetite ? I could do with that problem !

Oh dear : chocolate. I assume when you say 81% you refer to the cocoa content ? If so, 70% is my top limit before revulsion sets in. But dark chocolate is not my favourite anyway. It will hardly come as a surprise that white chocolate is my favourite but I do try to avoid it due to fat and calories content.

Actually chocolate for me is banned but that does not stop me eating it !

CITF

In response to:Mid-Week Report : Week 131

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:57:37 +0100

Sounds like you had a taste of black bread in a strange form. Sounds like reducing on intake was not such a bad thing on this particular trip.

I know I lost a bit of avoirdupois last week as I lost my appetite; it's back now, and I need to watch quantities.

We received a gift of a large bar of a Lindt chocolate nut bar - 49% chocolate and it tasted like it. Hubby says he'll eat it, otherwise the birds would have got a treat as an extra to their peanuts. But I did eat a small bar of better quality chocolate a couple of days later, so I am not that holier than thou. My really good big bars of chocolate - 81% - stay untouched, both of them. I am not sure why. I guess I'll just have wait till the notion takes me.

In response to:Daily Report : Day 1 Week 130

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:25:34 +0200

Thanks for the encouragement !

Alas, I have already been down as far as 170 lbs then lost my way and ballooned back up, though only regaining about 50% of previous loss; bad enough in itself, admittedly.

I persevere; I actually KNOW it makes a worthwhile difference !

CITF

In response to:Daily Report : Day 1 Week 130

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:17:39 +0200

Keep up the good work, it'll be worth it.

In response to:Daily Report : Day 1 Week 129

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:58:29 +0200

Your grant sounds about the same as mine. It needed topping up with work when there was space and time in a busy study schedule to do some.

It is true then you've only got yourself to compliment for your seamless culinary transitions into your domestic bliss.

:)

In response to:Daily Report : Day 1 Week 129

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:58:14 +0200

Nope, I was adjudged to be financially independent at 22 and got the meagre grant according to the student support rules of the day. £340 for the year if I remember correctly.

Still in touch, on a Christmas letter basis, with final landlady and husband, both now in their nineties ! Her makeshift risottos were delicious and never have I had their equal since. His garden rhubarb I used to take to my then girlfriend (Mrs CITF) and we would scoff her delicious rhubarb crumble and custard. The transfer from student to married nutrition was relatively seamless !

In response to:Daily Report : Day 1 Week 129

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:39:04 +0200

I re-read your 'mature student at 22' and smiled. I was a mature student at the age you got married. I thought the graduation to maturity as a student, then, and perhaps now, was/is 23 years old.

Landladies are fatal, especially if they like you. Then following the feeding experience on with a wife, well...... the landlady must have had quite an impact on you.

Hubby had a landlady when a student, who adored him. The struggle was that he had decided to lose weight and she wanted to feel she'd done her landlady feeding duties to more than the best of her abilities.

In response to:Daily Report : Day 1 Week 129

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:57:37 +0200

I would settle for 19 years old if granted a wish !

Rot set in on going to college as a 'mature student' at 22 and, living in lodgings rather than halls, I was well-fed ! So I ballooned from 10st to 11.5st by marriage at 26. The ballooning then continued ... So there is still a rather small person in here trying to get out !

Yes, I am keeping the slim-line trousers in eager anticipation but I have optimistically and determinedly retired the old 42 in waist ones as permanently redundant. I am NOT going back to those !

I agree that the occasional treat does no real harm. It is the regular treats that are to be avoided.

CITF

In response to:Daily Report : Day 1 Week 129

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:27:06 +0200

It's good the wish is there.

Yep, unrealistic to think you'll be the Adonis shape of your youth. Coming the think of it, how youthful?

Two pairs of trousers in wardrobe, not unrealistic, shouldn't need to languish too long. They'll miss you.

Some people love the martyrdom of self-denial, not me. I find alternative treats that suit my purpose and in time, the desired shape(less) form I want. We all have something at our time of maturity from which a lighter frame would benefit.

In response to:Daily Report : Day 1 Week 129

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:32:43 +0200

Well, it's male vanity to some extent, I suppose. I would prefer to get back to the physical peak of my youth (totally unrealistic), or, failing that, a return to the physical level I had reached about a year ago, before the rot set in (much more realistic - achievable even). So an increase in muscle mass would not come amiss for that.

And to parallel your trousers situation, I was oh so pleased to buy, for the first time for decades, trousers of my own with 38 then 36 inch waist last year as I shrank. Sadly I am back to 40 now and the others languish little used and mocking me in the wardrobe.

If I were to let the situation dominate, I could be right depressed over it all; I am certainly far from pleased. But it is not my way and I live in hope and belief that I will triumph in the end.

I do not have the self-discipline to have 2 or 3 months of writhing purgatory to reach my goal, so it will have to be maybe a year of gentle denial and raised exercise level - knee willing, that is. I admit it is not very obvious from recent confessions but the wish is there !

CITF

In response to:Daily Report : Day 1 Week 129

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:49:27 +0200

I like your analysis. Do you really want increase muscle mass?

My personal analysis: pink trousers which were not as comfortable as they should have been at the beginning of this week, are more comfortable by the end of this week. To stay that way, I must not buy things to ratchet up the avoirdupois.

In response to:Daily Report : Day 5 Week 128

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:01:35 +0200

oh nice weight loss journey.. I'm Kate whats yours? can I add you as my blog friend?

In response to:Mid-Week Report : Week 128

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:28:11 +0200

Umm .. you got me there. Depends on one's belief system I suppose. Never actually tried the sacrifice tactic. Not sweeping great herds of them round here in NE Hants anyway. Plus I would be expected to clear up afterwards. No, on balance, prayer is much more neat and tidy and its efficacy will be reported in due course.

CITF

In response to:Mid-Week Report : Week 128

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:00:43 +0200

You want us to pray? Wouldn't it be more effective to sacrifice a goat?

In response to:Daily Report : Day 2 Week 128

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:01:20 +0200

Mrs CITF is needed here to guard my domain from me! :)

You are so fortunate to have a built-in guardian.

In response to:Daily Report : Day 2 Week 128

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:22:14 +0200

Only assisting decorators with door opening and cups of tea. Plus answering questions if they come up (and hoping I am answering correctly as proxy !). Decorating due to flood from above. Months to sort out.

I am sure I am eating more due to cooler weather, yet I am indoors 95% of the time ! Odd. And annoying.

Anyway, Mrs CITF finishes work contract this Friday and can then guard the kitchen against allcomers in person ...

CITF

In response to:Daily Report : Day 2 Week 128

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:45:18 +0200

Are you assisting decorators?

I'm trying to keep out of the kitchen but am being coaxed into it. I suppose I shall have to think about sustenance soon.

Hard to keep the cals down. You're not far off what is a male daily norm, if I am not much mistaken.

In response to:Daily Report : Day 3 Week 126

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:50:16 +0200

Stir fry is what it says, I use a little veg oil and finish with a wee flourish of sesame oil for extra flavour. Forgot to defrost some chicken, so added chunks of lightly fried fish to the veggies, instead. The noodles were nice.

It all sounds unhealthy really, but lunch was light, a cheese scone, a couple of mini tomatoes and a piece of fruit. That was fine till I had to start cooking. That's when it becomes really difficult not to feel hungry.

I think I am working up to doing things 'proper' but not quite there yet. These nibble phases don't usually last too long with me.

As I said, I think you will be looking at a beaming smile by the end of the week.

In response to:Daily Report : Day 3 Week 126

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:32:37 +0200

Keep going indeed. If only it were not so relentless. I was going to say smugly 'wait until you see tomorrow's report on exercise' but then I remembered what will be in tomorrow's report on munching ...

Gale ? No gale down here. Was quite benign sunny day; but definitely autumn.

Stir-fry sounds quite abstemious, healthy even - despite the word 'fry' built in. Perhaps we will both have a surprise with the next scales' appointment. Must stay optimistic .. and focused.

CITF

In response to:Daily Report : Day 3 Week 126

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:35:24 +0200

Keep going..........

I had my nibbles of cheese, but then I don't usually have a daily milk allowance. I have started to reduce quantities. Tonight is a stir fry meal night.

Walked around in a gale and trotted home-insofar as gale would allow a trot - with a couple of manageable bags of shopping.

All-in-all, I think you will do much better than I am doing. :)

In response to:Weekly Report : End of Week 125 (19 Sept 2009)

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:44:27 +0200

I didn't know chubsy.

Nice little loss there.

I haven't got round to weighing myself yet. I shall do. I don't expect to see anything wonderful! My regime started today.

Gosh it was hard to find an adjective I could live with!

In response to:Mid-Week Report : Week 125

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:57:40 +0200

I know what has caused my wobbling. It is comforting to eat things you like or to nibble when you don't actually need to, just want to. Or, take today, amusing myself in a café whilst waiting for a call to say, after a lengthy test run, the repaired car is okay to get us home.

My notebook is going to see daylight again. :)

And yes, it is a struggle.

In response to:Mid-Week Report : Week 125

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:05:31 +0200

It's a struggle, innit ?

A right Jekyll and Hyde situation for much of the time, causing me to say on a daily basis, 'why on earth did I allow myself to eat that ?'. So, not much has changed here (except my weight and, oddly, my resolve) in the interim.

We shall both have to persevere. This is not so much a project here as a remaining life-time commitment now !

I feel quietly confident. But I have felt this way before ...

CITF

In response to:Mid-Week Report : Week 125

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:32:39 +0200

Hi,

I am going to have to join in here. I'm impressed with you. I do and don't at the moment.

The 'do' is quite good for a couple of weeks, then the 'don't' slips in front of my thinking and taste buds and I do a don't and the benefits of the previous weeks, slip away.

Back to lunch time soups for a while, ones I like. :)

In response to:Gosh is That the Time ?

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:37:06 +0200

Bonjour mon ami !

Aah, curry (last night) and spagbol (Friday night)! Etc.

It is a question of degree, of course, and constant resolve. Pretty good right now on both counts but one cannot duck the physiological process for long and hunger seeps in, insidiously sapping one's resolve. And the cupboards/fridge are far from bare ...

But thank you for your encouragement; appreciated.

CITF

In response to:Gosh is That the Time ?

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:29:01 +0200

We can indeed do it. We have to; we have spoken. But I am philosophical and expect a halting success, with emphasis on success rather than halting. Hence the missing schedule.

Let us see how we get on and stay in contact.

CITF