Running with Scissors

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

2022-12-25T13:18:00.004+11:00

Softball. BEST WEEK EVER.

2022-12-11T12:43:00.008+11:00

Girls,

when I tell you I don't have the words to describe my UTTERLY AMAZING AND FANTASTIC TIME I had on the Gold Coast for 12 days.... please believe me.

I drove up a day early and spent a glorious night by myself at Lennox Head which is 1.5 hours out of Brisbane. So pretty! And the weather was perfect. I just pottered around and ate a nice dinner, walked on the beach and saw Lake Ainsworth and generally luxuriated in the upcoming softball days...

I got to our Gold Coast accommodation and checked in. Was SO fun to see all my Sydney friends there and start partying!!!.... the Pan Pacs atmosphere for brilliant and we were all beyond excited.

The next morning.... here I am in my official jersey before the first game. We all had to have a unique number and I chose 34 as it's the year of my late mums birth.

The team... and the stunning weather.

Another team shot.

OMG I know it's vain but I LIVE FOR THIS PHOTO.
Thankfully I played quite well the whole tournament.

The happy faces.... oh how we all love it!

A night out and a PINK cocktail. Actually it's a mocktail. I did limit my "partying" and drinking. I preferred to have a good night sleep and play well the next day lolololol.

The day before the grand final was my birthday!!!.... we had a pink themed BBQ of course.

Ohhhh and pink gin -- naturally!

I was completely spoilt by the girls. I was stunned to receive this amazing PINK batting helmet as a birthday present.

Yes we won the grand final. Gold medal, below.

Kissing the medal.... lolololol... and our last day before driving home.

Diet day 36 of 40

2022-10-31T19:37:00.005+11:00

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

2 smallish crossaints leftover from Saturday

Lunch

Lunch out with a friend: I had chicken and prawn
pad Thai (so good!)

Water

Dinner

Chicken ravioli with vegetable sauce: tomato,
carrot, celery etc

Diet day 35 of 40

2022-10-30T19:30:00.002+11:00

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

Reduced sugar muesli with full fat yoghurt

Lunch

Leftover Greek salad with extra feta and sliced
fresh tomatoes

Out and about ---- large chocolate ice-cream

Dinner

Lean mince rissoles, with roast pumpkin and
steamed broccoli

Water

Day 34 of 40

2022-10-30T09:57:00.002+11:00

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

2 crossaints

Lunch

Reduced sugar muesli with full fat yoghurt

Diet Coke

Snack

4 small pieces of of pizza with softball girls

Diet Coke

Dinner

Chicken schnitzel, corn on the cob, Greek
salad

Water

Diet day 33 of 40

2022-10-28T13:00:00.002+11:00

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

Toasted bagel with Vegemite

Lunch

Out for lunch with friends at the White Cockatoo, I always
have the same thing: garlic prawn pasta mmmmmmm

Diet Coke

Dinner

My BFF is coming up from Wollongong and we are going to
see a band she likes. We are having dinner in Newtown
beforehand, so I'll update you on what-all we had later tonight.

We ended up going to the the Continental Deli for dinner.
We had a glass of bubbles at my place before leaving and
we had a few shared small plates at the restaurant and
I had two glasses of red wine.

Diet day 32 of 40

2022-10-27T13:30:00.002+11:00

I can't believe it's just a week until I zoom to Queensland for a
10 day softball tournament. All my Facebook friends, please stay posted
to my page to see ALL the updates!!

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

Toasted bagel with Vegemite

Lunch

At the shops, grabbed a tray of tuna sushi

Diet Coke

Snack

2 slices reduced fat cheese

quite a few low sugar, tasteless corn chips

Dinner

Chili con carne (extra lean mince) with tomato,
cucumber and white rice

Water

Diet day 32 of 40

2022-10-26T09:43:00.002+11:00

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

reduced sugar muesli, blueberries, full fat yoghurt

Lunch

Leftover burger, lettuce, tomato, beetroot
and a few oven fries

x10 reduced-sugar jelly snakes (arrrrrgh these are so yummy)!!!

Dinner

Lemongrass/ginger chicken balls with
stir fried veges and noodles

Water

Diet day 31 of 40

2022-10-25T20:00:00.002+11:00

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

1 sliced banana, 2 slices kiwi fruit and 2 passionfruit

Lunch

Chicken pie and steamed vegetables

Diet Coke

Dinner

Home-made hamburger (very lean mince), with
lettuce, tomato and oven fries

x2 glasses red wine

Water

Diet day 30 of 40

2022-10-24T11:32:00.005+11:00

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

Reduced sugar muesli with skim milk

Snack

Half a bagel with Vegemite

skim coffee

Lunch

low-sugar, low-fat spinach flavoured corn chips

low-fat, low-cal tomato and corn salsa

Small amount of dark chocolate

Dinner

x2 Home-made chicken schnitzel tacos with tomato
and lettuce

Diet day 29 of 40

2022-10-23T11:06:00.005+11:00

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

Pot of low sugar yoghurt with reduced sugar muesli

Lunch

Subway: 6" sub with chicken schnitzel

Diet Coke

Teeny amount dark chocolate

Dinner

4 thin beef sausages, boiled potato and lots of
green beans

Water

Diet day 28 of 40

2022-10-22T14:15:00.003+11:00

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

Pot of low sugar yoghurt

1 slice of reduced fat cheese

Lunch

Leftover Thai papaya salad (fat free?) with white rice

Water and diet lemon drink

Snack

Celery sticks and eggplant dip

Dinner

Store bought chicken pie

Very late night (I can't sleep): reduced sugar muesli with no sugar yoghurt

Diet Day 27 of 40

2022-10-21T15:36:00.002+11:00

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

Reduced sugar muesli with full-fat yoghurt

Lunch

Leftover lemongrass chicken balls, vegetables
and boiled rice

Small amount dark chocolate

Water

Dinner

Thai takeaway: 4 fish cakes

Small amount massaman curry with white rice

Small amount dark chocolate

Diet day 26 of 40

2022-10-20T16:11:00.002+11:00

UPDATE: I weighed myself for the first time in 3 weeks.... maybe lost .5kg?
Probably not. Impossible to tell with our ancient and useless scales.
What I do know.... I have eaten SO much less sugar these last weeks. Yes, still
some has crept in, but in comparison to recent months, hardly any at all.

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

1 pot no aded sugar yoghurt

Toasted cheese and baby spinach sandwich

Lunch

Small sushi tray (grocery shopping)

Banana flavoured yoghurt pouch

Water

Snack

2 reduced-fat cheese slices

Diner

Home-made lemongrass chicken meatballs,
stir fried vegetables and rice

Diet Coke

Diet day 25 of 40

2022-10-19T13:32:00.004+11:00

Breafast

2 skim coffees

Home-made bircher muesli with oats, milk, yoghurt
and chia seeds soaked overnight

Fresh passionfruit

Lunch

Grilled salmon fillet, with leftover oven fries and
green beans. Two pieces leftover garlic bread

Diet lemon drink

Dinner

Lamb curry (tomato based) with lentils and chickpeas,
and vegetables, with white rice

Diet Coke

Diet day 24 of 40

2022-10-18T19:30:00.002+11:00

Breafast

2 skim coffees

Small amount blueberries and strawberries w/ full fat yoghurt
and chia seeds

Lunch

The rest of the beetroot and lentil salad from yesterday
with a grilled salmon fillet

Diet Coke

Dinner

Chicken schnitzel, oven fries, green beans and broccoli

Water

Diet day 23 of 40

2022-10-17T21:00:00.008+11:00

Breafast

2 skim coffees

1 banana

1 small muesli bar

Lunch (I had a pretty rough day today)
everything was all over the place

Teeny amount of lentil and beetroot salad bought from a
Lebanese deli while I picked up flowers for a friend

blueberries, full fat yoghurt and chia seeds

1 small slice of cheese

smoked salmon on one slice of white bread

Dinner

Spaghetti (wholemeal) with meatballs and
vegetable sauce

Fruit n nut chocolate (won't be buying more!!)

Diet day 22 of 40

2022-10-16T10:57:00.005+11:00

Breafast

2 skim coffees

Kiwi fruit, passionfruit, nuts and full fat yoghurt

Lunch

Leftover pad Thai with extra broccoli on the side

Diet Coke

Dinner

Ravioli with vegetable sauce

1 glass red wine

Day 21 of 40

2022-10-15T10:50:00.015+11:00

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

Toasted feta sandwich (really low on groceries lololol)

Lunch

Leftover pizza that the boys had at my MIL's place

Diet Coke

Dinner

Home-made pad Thai with chicken, noodles (lots)
and vegetables

water and decaff coffee

The latest (part of it)

2022-10-14T20:58:00.005+11:00

Thanks Tracy!!... by some miracle Tom isolated the leak and fixed it.

Yayyyyy. Still, it's always worrying. One never knows what it going on in the roof.

So it's been 20 days since I started "dieting". Halfway of the 40 days until I leave for the Gold Coast for the Pan Pacific games.

It's been forever since I updated here with anything personal, but believe me --- a huge amount has occurred in my life over the last 18 months. Guy finished Year 11 and is now in his last year of high school: Year 12. The stress he will soon be under is immense. And absurd. But the all important HSC result and ATAR mark (required to get into uni) will soon dominate out lives and IT'S MY MISSION not to make the stress on him worse. Unfortunately I am not good at hiding my emotions or being calm in any situation.

He announced the other day that he's having a "gap year". Tom put that idea into his head. What Guy actually means is I INTEND TO GAME ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT WHILE YOU SUPPORT ME. I HAVE NO INTENTION OF GOING TO UNI AT ALL, SO NOW I DON'T HAVE TO BOTHER GETTING A DECENT ARAR SCORE. .... yes, he's addicted to gaming. Covid and the isolation orders didn't help.

These teenagers have been screwed by Covid and it's raminifications, but to be honest, he was addicted to gaming long before Covid probably.

I have a therapist. He has a therapist.

Hopefully I can help him as required and not make things worse. BUT he's turning 17 this month. He's a smelly, grunting, door slamming teenager. He knows everything!!! (apparently). He can't be told anything and knows best (obvi)

😩😩😩😩😩

I have other stressors which I won't mention here. Many of them. My emotional eating is out of control. Writing everything down for 20 days has highlighted the problem.

Something else that has highlighted the problem? Today's visit to the GP who said my blood sugars are vvvv slightly over what they should be and my cholesterol is on the up as well. (Kidneys, liver, blood pressure, vitamin D and iron all good).

Weight????? up up up.

What is required is literally a diet of eggs whites, celery sticks, steamed fish and veges.

If only I was joking. I think --- at almost 55 --- that menopause is finally coming. Some mini hot flashes, and of course, the slowing of the menses. (Very ready for that part!!!!!!).

I will really have to make MANY drastic changes regarding my lifestyle. Merely documenting the rubbish I eat is not going to cut it lolololol. The doc has given me until January to sort out my cholesterol and sugars and weight.

xxxxxx

Diet day 20 of 40

2022-10-14T20:44:00.001+11:00

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

Snack

Baker's Delight mango passion tart (NOT great diet food)!!!

Lunch

White baguette with lots of smoked salmon and
fresh tomato

Diet Coke

Snack

Full fat yoghurt with a few blueberries

Snack

Hungry!!! Two slices of cheese waiting for the
oven to pre-head (OMG). Hormones????

Dinner

Oven baked sweet potato (no oil)
Chicken pie

Diet lemon drink

Diet day 19 of 40

2022-10-13T20:28:00.016+11:00

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

Lunch

I was out and I was ravenous. So I ducked into a local
Sushi Train, which I have never done before. It was gorgeous
but super expensive. A nice treat though

diet Coke

Snack

White chocolate and cranberry protein cookie. Huge amount
of calories on this thing.... won't be buying that again. :(

Dinner

Miso sesame salmon with white rice (absolute loads)
and stir fried veges

Water

Diet day 18 of 40

2022-10-12T07:30:00.001+11:00

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

Home-made bircher muesli with Kiwi fruit and
yoghurt

Lunch

Defrosted leftover Thai green curry and rice

1 banana

diet Coke

Dinenr

Salt and pepper mushrooms, with stir fried vegetables
and noodles

2 glasses of wine

Diet day 17 of 40

2022-10-11T10:16:00.006+11:00

well.... did you ever hear of a DIET that included chips,
garlic bread, fruit cake and wine? Lolololol, me neither!

I might weigh myself tomorrow morning, but I'm not
expecting a loss, obvi. But maintaining would be good
at this point.

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

Blueberries with full-fat yoghurt and a sprinkle
of chia seeds

Lunch

Out with a friend: I had a smallish mezze plate, with salami,
prosciutto, ricotta, tomato, olives, small slice of toast and mixed leaves

diet Coke

Diner

Roast lamb, green salad, extra cucumber, tzatziki dip, baked
sweet potato

Water

Diet day 16 of 40

2022-10-10T17:09:00.007+11:00

Breakfast

2 skim coffees

Toasted cheese and baby spinach sandwich

Lunch

Home-made pasta salad: pasta, baby spinach,
mixed tomato, parsley and feta

diet Coke

Snack

I had a piece of iced fruit cake that I bought
at the supermarket mmmmmmmmm

Dinner

Asian chicken meatballs, home-made, with garlic,
ginger and lemongrass, stir-fried vegetables and white rice

Water

UPDATE: I haven't weighed myself since I started
this 2 weeks ago.... I don't feel any different and our
scales are very inaccurate, so it hardly matters.