Kathy\’s Diet Journal

Breakfast

1/2 Bagel - WW cream cheese, cheese stick, yogurt smoothie

Lunch

ear of corn,  tortilla wrap with turkey, provolone, mayo, avocado, tomato, 100 cal York bar

Dinner

Piece of pizza, 100cal york bar

Waiting for plane connection

1 Hard pretzel and a go-tart, and another 100 cal york bar

Home safely from Wisconsin - great visit with my daughter, Amy and lots of great shopping.  Back to work tomorrow,  but thank goodness it’s only teachers this week.  The students come back the day after Labor Day.

Hi All,

I had a very stressful month and a half - to make a long story short - it was involving my principal - I’m a teacher.  They decided to give me a difficult time about moving from one bldg. to another.  And accused me of stealing things. 

However, I just read a blog - Roni’s Weigh - and it inspired me to write in this blog again.

Here’s the excerpt:

This weekend’s quotes is from Theodore Roosevelt.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

This may seem generic at first but I think there is a lot to be learned in it’s simplicity.

How many times have we said things like…

I’ll start Sunday

Or

When the kids go back to school, I’ll…

Or

If I only had a treadmill I’d…

Or

After vacation I’ll…

I’m super guilty of this way of thinking and still do it to a point. When I saw that quote I thought, how simple but how true! We just have to make the choice that’s in front of us!

End of excerpt:  I had the same reaction to that quote that Roni did - I have been waiting for school to start thinking that I will be on a regular schedule again and that I would start keeping track of what I eat and get back to exercising regularly. 

School for teachers starts Mon. and so I will start a day early and write down what I eat tomorrow - it won’t be easy as I’ll be traveling home to PA from my daughter’s in WI - but I will do it!

I have spent the last 9 days with my grandsons in China - age 6 and 9.  They have kept me busy!!  I weighed myself this morning - Fri. July 4 - and I am up 1 pound.  But still down 2 lbs. from when I left home.

On Sunday, June 22, I started a climb up a hill that ended with me standing on the Great Wall of China. It was an awesome moment in my life.  It was at least 85 degrees and the humidity here feels worse than home - if that’s possible!  I have never sweated so much in all my life.  My son, Dave and I had to walk up this path a long way with vendors on each side trying to sell you all kinds of junk.  Then we got to the steps.  And the cable car - I tried not to look down.  After the cable car, there were more steps.  We got to the platform at the top and while I rested, Dave went up on the great wall.  He was gone about a half hour.  I sat there and thought that I had come this far, I had to climb the oversized steps and stand on the great wall.  It was worth it and as Confucious says, I am now a hero because I stood on the Great Wall.!!!!

     A special thanks to my son, Dave, who had the patience to help his old, arthritic mother make the climb and come down the hill afterward.  Despite drinking tons of water, I only went to the bathroom 3 times all day.  Once when I got up and once at the restaurant before we went on the Great Wall.  That’s a whole different experience - Chinese bathrooms are basically a drain in the floor so practice squatting now if you plan a trip to China!  And the last time was on the plane ride home at 7 P.M.  The rest of the water, I sweated out.  My clothes were soaking wet.

Since I wrote last, I have traveled halfway around the world.  I made it to China with no problems and with my luggage.   And celebrated my birthday yesterday with my son, dil, and 2 grandsons. 

 The weirdest thing is how you are flying and you lose 12 hours.  I left Mon. morning at 9:30.  I had eaten breakfast at home. I ate soup and salad at Detroit airport and then early evening ate an airline chicken dinner (3oz. chicken, tops!)  Fell asleep and every couple hours got up and walked and I tried to drink lots of liquids.  At 1 a.m. Pennsylvania time, they woke us up and fed us - I got an omelet but realized that they were really feeding us lunch and now it was 1 P.M.   Later on the same flight I got a chicken and rice meal but couldn’t eat the chicken at all!  But that was dinner and I landed in Shanghai at 8:55 their time. It was still 8:55 in Pennsylvania. 

I have been writing down my food intake in a notebook.  It really hasn’t been much.  I have totally controlled snacking - it’s been no snacks for the past two days.  I’m going to try and continue that pattern and see how it goes. 

When I go away, I tell myself that my goal is to not gain any weight.  I would not like to gain any weight while I am in China for 26 days but since it is that long, I would like to lose 2 to 5 lbs.  I think that is reasonable.  I will be staying at my son’s house so it will be possible to stay with my usual eating habits. 

I will also check in here, at least, once every 5 days. 

It’s been a good week overall.  And I’ve also managed to get to Water Aerobics twice.  I should be able to go on Thurs. too.  Yea me!!

Even though I haven’t been writing regularly, I am continuing to eat healthy.  The best news was that Tues. Wed. and Thurs, I was able to wear blouses and sweaters that I haven’t fit into for awhile.  So that was a boost to my ego. 

 I will be weighing in Sat. morning and I am pretty sure there will be a loss.

I weighed in this morning and I lost 2 lbs.!!  Yea me.  It was 20.8 lbs. last week and this week is 22.8 lbs. lost.  I am 2.2 lbs. away from my goal of 25 lbs.  It is so-o exciting.  I looked back through my WW membership book and the lowest I got before was only 0.6 from where I am today.  I can do this!!

I’m back on track - I’ve written down food for every day in May.  This blog has really helped me to focus on my diet or live-it as Weight watchers says.  I lost focus the last week of April and it’s nice to see that I was able to get back on track!!