cat slave diary

Month: May 2004

  • My Top WW tips

    Here’s stuff that I have learnt from WW and the meetings which have helped me in my weight loss:

    1. Drink room temp water. It’s more filling than chilled water.
    2. Clean your teeth. You’re less liekly to eat if you’ve cleaned your teeth (toothpaste + OJ == Yuck)
    3. Consider portion sizes. If in doubt, cut 20% off the portion size.
    4. Grazing is Good.
    5. Sweet stuff should be a treat. When I was growing up, sweet stuff was only for special occasions, or in small amounts. I no longer did this before WW, used to gorge myself.
    6. Points Tracking is Important, but if you don’t reflect and think about what you’ve tracked, and modify as appropriate, points tracking is Useless.

  • Two links for you

    Woojae’s IMPOSSIBLE iPod Challenge of DEATH!

    http://sal.woojae.com/

    Delights like this await (but you have to explore!):

    They’re just like us, but well, fruitier. For example:

    “I think I am becoming an anorexic woman. I went to Costco the other day and I bought some stuff. I got some gum, energy bars and a tub of vodka. Kelly said, “Sal’ you’re becoming an anorexic woman!” I looked in my cart and knew it was true. In fact, now that I think about it all the women I know have my exact same eating habits. And every time I’ve been shopping with a skinny woman she bought three things: gum, alcohol, and energy bars. I thought I might be going crazy, so I asked my friends if they thought I was becoming a woman. I told them what I bought at Costco. They weren’t surprised and thought my purchases were normal. I was relived until I realized that they were all girls. The only difference between their usual purchases at Costco and mine was that they bought a fourth item: Tampons. I was in the dining hall tonight and this girl I was eating with looked at my dinner of Raw Broccoli and soup and said, “Sal.. you are and anorexic woman.” I was depressed. I think I’m going to have to eat a steak or cheeseburger soon to make some testosterone. Even if it doesn’t do that, at least it it will make me feel like a man.”

    Classic!

    Lastly, what link post would be complete without:

    Supersize me!

    Andrew

    ps. Had a bad day. But for a bad day, it’s been a good one!

  • Photos

    Hey Folks isnt it time we did another photo shoot at WW?

  • well done Paul ! – you are making my paltry 3.5 seem even more pathetic 🙁

    Sorry about the no show last night, been fighting off this cold all week and just felt too tired and over it to do anything more after I got home last night…I have been pretty good though, and I have upped the exercise by incorporating it in my daily routine by walking to the station to catch the train (20 mintues each way) with B instead of being lazy and grabbing the tram out front. I also went to the zoo with B today and walked around for an hour or so. I am going to *try* at least to do it everyday.

    Cooking zuchinni slice tonight – 3 points a piece – bargain!

  • 20kg mark

    Well, last night I hopped onto the scales to find that I have lost 20.5 kg since commencing the program in January. Woo-hoo! The light is at the end of the tunnel, and it not an approaching train! 10.8kg to go until I hit the upper limit of goal range. Perhaps my plan to be within of 5kg of goal before heading OS is not so fanciful after all… 5kg in 5 weeks — can he do it? It’d be nice, but no matter if not.

    PE

  • Its a crock and a pot

    Got the good ole 70’s crockpot out last night. There is nothing better for making those lovely thick winter soups in. Bought a pack of soup mix added it to 2.5 litres of water and a chicken stock cube. Let it soak while it was warming up for 1.5 hours then added a stack of cut veggies, garlic, herbs and a small tub of tomato paste and left it to cook overnight. Got up this morning and it had all magically turned into a really tasty soup. While i do not know how much the soup mix (split peas, lentils beans other legumes, dirt and bits from the grinding wheel) is points wise it and the stock cube are the only items in the soup that would have a points value (oh and the 2 spuds). I will probably freeze half of it and then get three meals out of the rest.

    If i weigh in well tonight i might even treat myself to some crusty french bread to go with it (but no butter that would be too much)

    I think everyone should go out and trawl opp shops for a crock pot.

  • Paradise Lost

    What I forgot to say in the previous entry is that it’s those wretched Paradise biscuits that have been doing me in 🙁 Just too damned nice, especially the choc chip ones.

    I also noted something interesting, can’t recall if I blogged it or not… the days when I do *not* struggle with keeping under points are the days when I have a high protein brekkie, eg baked beans or bacon/egg.

    Food for thought, so to speak?

  • Leon’s getting laaarger

    Well, I’ve been consistently eating about 2-3 points above my daily allowance for a week now…. not expecting a good result at all tonight… my own fault though 🙁

  • I cried and cried and cried

    http://www.b3ta.com/questions/shitstories/

    Man was it funny.

    Then I’m a sicko.

    Andrew

  • And the good news is, it’s low on points

    http://www.semenex.com/whatissemenex.htm