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  • devash1762
    devash1762 Posts: 34 Member
    Hi Esther:
    Just got back from my 60 minute walk!~ Hot, sweaty, but at least i earned 310 calories which I have no intentions on using. Do you use your extra calories earned when you exercise?

    Tomorrow, is back to work..I am actually looking forward to it. I like going back to work on a Wednesday, two days more then Shabbos :smile:

    Funny you should mentioned tznius. Here in NYC is the anti tznius capital of the the East Coast. What one can see on a subway here in Manhattan, can literally live you shocked, even a seasoned NYer like myself.

    I will write more tomorrow, I am not feeling very inspired. I hope you don't mind. Have a great weight loss day tomorrow.
    Best,

    Devorah
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    Hi Devorah!

    I eat back about half my exercise calories; I get too hungry otherwise. And I'm losing weight at the rate I want to be, so it seems to be working.

    Discovered today that I'm walking about 3.25 mph (Went to my sister's and got the walking route off of Google maps, including distance covered).

    We have someone coming to fix the water damage in our spare bedroom. It's in the basement, below the kitchen. With the leaky faucet. Seems that the pipe has been leaking into the bottom of the sink and then draining into the wall, soaking the insulation, and coming up through the spare room carpet. Sigh. They're going to need to cut the drywall to fix it all. Meanwhile, there's a dehumidifier going.

    Have a great night1
  • devash1762
    devash1762 Posts: 34 Member
    Hi Esther:

    Hope that you had a good day.

    This is the first time since I started my weight loss program that I have the munchies. I suppose it was bound to happen. I have 44 calories left and it is only 10:30 pm.

    I made a fruit juice spritzer with fiber powder to see if that tides me over until the am. Does that ever happen to you? I even at times wake up like 4 am and I am hungry. My stomach actually grumbling. I take a slice of whole wheat with nothing on it, otherwise, I can't fall asleep.

    Today, work was good. It was confirmed that my secretarial temp starts Friday...hoping all goes well. I went food shopping for the week. Going to make Mango baked chicken bottoms with potatoes. It is simple yet very tasty.

    I sent one of my sheitels today to get done. I have a wedding on Monday, and normally I do it myself, but I wanted to look nicer than usual since it is my mechutin's wedding for their last child so I want to look normal!!

    I bought this really pretty long maxi dress in a black and white sort of IKAT pattern. It is sleeveless, with a v-neck and some blingy embellesments around the collar. I will pair it with a long sleeved black shell and my dressy black mesh silvery shoes. Tuesday, I am taking off since the wedding is in Lakewood and I don't want to run out then drive back 1 1/2 hours back to Brooklyn to get up 6:30 am for work.

    Hopefully, near the end of August, my husband and I will rent an air bnb in Connecticut in Greenwich. It is quiet out of the way, yet close enough to do things within a short drive and only 2 hours from our home. Looking to go Sunday through Wednesday around the 20th of August.

    Anyhow, hoping that you had a great day. Tomorrow, I will start cooking when I get home from work for Shabbos. Going over my friends house that lives three doors down the block from us.

    Best,

    Devorah
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    Hi, Devorah!

    I'm a snacker and I usually eat back no more than half my exercise calories. When the munchies hit, I let myself go up to 75% of them. Otherwise, cherry tomatoes, sliced cucumber, or water/tea/diet drinks

    Well, they came to continue fixing the flooding in the spare bedroom. The dehumidifier did the job. Today, they broke the drywall and got rid of the damp insulation. They're drying out what's left and will probably be back Sunday or Monday. Sigh. Under the kitchen sink, the drywall is moldy and crumbling. It just doesn't end. :( My husband is going to try to contact someone he knows and if that person can't come soon, we'll get these people to do it.

    Congrats on getting the temp! And Mazal tov on the wedding!

    I'm more of a snoods and berets gal. The last time I wore a sheitel was at my sister's wedding, about six years ago.

    I'm cooking tomorrow, too. Hubby wants juicy broiled hamburgers. I'm doing a chickpea lentil stew with (homemade) pomegranate molasses. Another item I have yet to see under hechsher, here, but fortunately pomegranate juice, sugar, and lemon juice are all obtainable and that's all I need to make my own.

    I'm also on my shul's chesed committee; we send over a Shabbat meal for people who have recently given birth, moved house, taken ill, or just got up from shivah. In this case, it's a birth. I'm doing a salad. In other words, I'm making a dressing, chopping up a carrot and halving some cherry tomatoes... and adding a Bodek salad mix.

    It looks like I'm not going to have anything overly hands-on and/or time-consuming to prepare. The only thing that comes close is a potato-beet salad, and that's only because I need to boil the potatoes and beets separately.

    Have a good one!

    Esther
  • devash1762
    devash1762 Posts: 34 Member
    Greetings:

    Shabbos was great! Hope that yours was too.

    Spending today, Sunday quietly at home. No need to cook, since I have more than plenty of leftovers. Later, I am going for my 3 mile walk.

    Monday is a regular workday...that evening going to a family wedding. Tuesday I am taking off since I don't want to come home later after driving 1.5 hours to get up at 6:30...leaves me way too out of sorts.

    We planned a vacation get away by August end to King of Prussia PA. It is 15 miles from Philadelphia which has so much to see and far less expensive than staying in PA.

    Sorry to hear that you had flooding in your home..water damage is a nightmare to fix. How long does the area have to dry before you can start repairs? I live in a multi family sixplex. We each have a front and back balcony. My neighor above me, when it rains, and the gutters are full, it over flows and makes my balcony door start to leak. I have had damage on the balcony door frame which needed repair over time.

    The potato salad you mention reminds me of a Russian one, that is made with pickles, peas, carrots and a mayo mustard light dressing...quite good.

    I hope that you have a good weight loss week. I hope to lose another pound by this coming Thursday then I will be down 7 closer to 10 and even closer to my 20 pound mark.

    Have a great night, hoping Soot is keeping you cozy.

    Best,

    Devorah
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    Soot is being a cuddle muffin. It is a riot the way he knocks on the door when he wants to come in. (And if it's pouring rain and I don't come? He camps on my office window sill and meows.)

    Shabbat was great. Three guests and just under three hours of walking.

    Hopefully, repairs can start this week. The drying equipment is still going, but technically, they could have started work Saturday, were it not for Shabbat. So now waiting to hear from them.

    I was down 0.6, which is fair enough since I had that major 3-lb loss last week, which was undeserved. Some weeks, I do everything right and the loss is modest. Some weeks, I guesstimate more and exercise less and the loss is greater. I just look at trends.

    I don't blame you for taking another day off so you'll be more rested. Have fun at the wedding!
  • devash1762
    devash1762 Posts: 34 Member
    Hi Esther:

    The wedding was really nice. It was in Lakewood NJ the other side of the lake. The hall is fairly new and I can't recall the name at this time. It was nice to see my grandkids, married son and daughter in law. Her brother, was the one that got married, the baby the last one...now empty nest for my mechutin. There is a sheva brachos today again in lakewood, but we opted not to go. My husband went to work today, and to go again to lakewood, and come home late, it isn't fair to my husband who is fasting today and worked.

    I normally only fast for Yom Kippur and Tish B'av full day of course. All the other fasts I just fast until chatzos. Friends of mine who are Chassidish, don't even fast except for the two major ones that I had mentioned. Are you a good faster? Food is not the issue for me on a fast day, but lack of coffee and water, yes. That is why, when I work on minor fast days, I only do so up until chatzos. Running a program for 30 women with intellectual disabilities plus 8 staff requires full throttle energy...without coffee...yikes!

    I don't know if I mentioned that I took up meditation. I found an app on my work phone called Calm and it does just that. There are no avodah zorah, religious methodologies for this meditation, just mindfulness and calming scenery with sound and a walk through for breathing to get you calm. I love it. I do it on my way to work. Just hearing the calm soothing voice of the facilitator going through the relaxation techniques, the waterfall sound and birds chirping sets the tone for my morning.

    At times, I feel guilty regarding the meditation, since davening doesn't provide that feel for me. Reading a siddur rotely vs talking to hashem whenever I do on my own feels more natural, more spiritual. Do you ever feel that way? I don't know how men manage to daven three times per day with kavana and focus... it is so hard. In the morning brachos, i am very glad that I thank Hashem for not having made me a man!

    So I am just relaxing today at home. Later after Maariv we will break the fast, I mean, my son and husband. I already broke mine at chatzos. Doing some incidental laundry like curtains, duvets, the sort of stuff I put on hold because I don't have the koach during the week to do it. Have some tea, make sure I eat right, and iyh on Friday morning, I will have lost something. I totally get what you meant about guesstimating and you wind up with a bigger loss...I think even though you don't precisely enter everything to the letter, subconsciously, you might be more careful...that is my unprofessional psychological input :love:

    On that note, have a great day, stay healthy and thanks for corresponding with me, it is awesome.

    Dev
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    edited July 2017
    Hi, Devora!

    I'm fasting today. I'm something of a night owl, so I was up until 3:30 writing a scene of fanfiction. Then I had a slightly larger breakfast than usual and went to bed. I'm going to try to keep going till 9:45 when it ends here. A little sad I won't exercise today.

    My reasons for eating include boredom, stress, and emotion. So, it's not so much that I'm hungry as that I'd really like to be nibbling on something right now. (I think I mentioned I keep low-cal options on hand like popcorn and dry cereal.)

    I've tried meditation before. When I was in college, I took a stress management class (in Montreal, we have something like junior college where the profs give the students a bit more hand-holding than college, but more freedom and responsibility than high school. At the time, over two years/four semesters, taking four phys ed classes was mandatory. I'm not athletic, so my main goal was to avoid team sports. Stress Management was offered under 'theory'.) that covered different coping strategies, including meditation. And in drama workshops at camp, they usually started with some meditative exercises. Mostly of the 'relax your body, one limb at a time' variety.

    I hear you on the siddur. Sometimes, I feel a connection, but it's almost entirely independent of the words on the page. I do try, especially during Aseret Yemei Tshuva.

    Well, the wall in the spare room has dried out and B"H, there was no other leak beyond the sink upstairs. We had someone come over this morning to start a drywall job in one of the bathrooms. (There was a leaky pipe causing dripping from the ceiling and it turned out to be an issue in the shower, so we've had a couple of holes in the wall and ceiling for a while. Since it's a basement bathroom, we haven't rushed to fix it, but it's time.) He took a look at the spare room and we should be getting it fixed up shortly.

    The drywall under the kitchen sink isn't going to be so easy, because of all the pipes. Fortunately, it doesn't smell, but it is crumbling. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

    For now, I'm just taking it easy at the computer. Posted my fanfic. Soot came in to cuddle, but it's a sunny day. He's outside snoozing now.

    Wondering whether it's permitted to sit on a stability ball on Tisha b'Av. I need to ask. It's low enough. I just worry that it may be inappropriate for the day. But sitting on the floor, even with a cushion, makes me sore after an hour or so. I bought a toddler-sized folding chair some years ago and that's not much better. Neither is a small ottoman that Mothers of Bais Yaakov included with the Mishloach Manot a couple of years ago. The ball is comfortable. (Which might be a problem on Tisha b'Av, but I'm going to ask.)

    Best!

    Esther
  • devash1762
    devash1762 Posts: 34 Member
    Hi Esther:

    Had a hectic week so I hope that you understand the delay in writing back.

    B'H I lost another pound for a total of 7. It may not seem a lot but for me it is pretty good. I have another 15 pounds to go and I hope to hit that target by October 1st.

    Anyhow, I made for Shabbos Moroccan Meatballs with Carrots to serve over cous cous. I also made gefilte fish, beet salad with garlic and cilantro, potato kugel, cholent. I bought kishka and challahs. My neighbor is making salads and also shalos sheduis.

    IYH, next Shabbos we will be down in Lakewood for Shabbos with my grandkids...

    My computer for some reason died right before Shabbos and I just realized I never sent this post. I apologize. Hoping that your Shabbos was good. Ours was very nice.

    Have a great week!
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    Hi, Devora

    No worries!

    It was a great Shabbos. A girl at my shul became Bat Mitzvah and there was a seudat shlishit at her house. I did my walking. We had three guests for lunch, including my walking buddy. And I was down 1.8 lbs this morning! So that's a total of 70.6 lost, 54.4 to go!

    Just bought an adjustable 20lb ankle weight. Got more of a workout getting it home (I walked and the store is over an hour away). I'm just glad I brought a backpack with me; I doubt I could have managed carrying it in my hands all the way. The strength training exercise I'm doing give three levels for each exercise. I use the weights for leg lifts and I'm transitioning from L2 (15-20 reps with 1-3lb ankle weights) to L3 (8-12 reps with 5-10lb weights). The store didn't have 10-lbs in stock, but since the weight I got is adjustable, I can just take out the bits I don't need. Eventually, I may work my way up to the full 20, but for now, this is good.

    Enjoy Lakewood!
  • devash1762
    devash1762 Posts: 34 Member
    Hi Esther:

    Wow, your weight loss is amazing! Yasher Koach to you...keep it going.

    This week I lost 3 pounds, making it a total of 10. My next goal is another 12 to reach my comfort level of weight loss. I find, that everytime I want to go overboard with food, just the thought the effort it takes and how long it takes to lose just 10 pounds, keeps me on the straight and narrow.

    Yesterday, I had more calories than allotted. We had two birthday celebrations for 2 of my program participants, so we made peach crisp from peaches they picked themselves on a trip a week earlier. It was served with vanilla ice cream. So I decided, to have a 1/4 cup of the crisp, with 1 tbs of vanilla ice cream. For me, it isn't the quantity I crave is the actual having. Psychologically, if I deprive myself, then I want it even more.

    Glad the weight training exercises work for you. I have dumbells in the house, and I can certainly do it, it is the motivation to. I am still walking, a bit less with the high humidity we are having. We are going to Lakewood for Shabbos as I had mentioned previously, so that will be awesome. My daughter in law is cooking up a feast. She is such a doll all around, BH she is in my life.

    Overall, B'H all is well. Doing some reading on the Three Weeks, trying to keep improving myself as a Jew, truly praying Mosiach comes and we get the Temple again. I would love to be able to actually see it one day.

    On that note, have a great Shabbos, stay cool and let's keep losing!
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    Devorah,

    Kudos on your 3 lbs!

    I've been keeping to the plan and reminding myself that weightloss isn't linear. In other words, the scale is telling me things I don't want it to. The only weigh-in that 'counts' is Sunday morning, but I do check daily. And I know that

    1) I haven't been off-plan
    2) There are a million reasons the scale could be up, not limited to water weight, sodium, hormones, using some database entries that are lower than the actual foods, etc.
    3) By Sunday, it may have resolved itself.

    Meanwhile, I'm annoyed. Not panicked. Not stressed. Just irritated.

    I've slowly built up a (discount!) home gym with dumbbells, ankle weights, a mat, a cardio step, a stability ball, resistance tubes and bands, and a couple of balls. (My warmups include using a ball and one of the interval workouts I do when I feel like I'm in a rut and want to mix up my exercises a bit does, to. I think it helps with core and balance.) And I do notice changes. Like when I'm in the fitness store, I'll try picking up a 15-lb dumbbell and realize that I can actually do a few reps with it, when a few months ago, I could barely lift it and set it down again gently without slamming. Or when I started doing lunges, doing 2 sets of 10 with no weights was hard to complete. And when I started 'leveling up' doing one set of 10 and one set of 12 with 3 lb weights, I was positive that I wouldn't be ready to increase the difficulty for about a month. And yet, a week later, it was 2 sets of 12 with 3 lb weights. And this week, it was a set of 15 with the 3s and a set of 12 with 5 lbs! (Next week, IY"H, it'll be 2 sets of 12 with 5-lb weights). And it's an effort and a bit of a strain, but it's something I can actually do. Me, the uncoordinated gym-class dunce! And the strain doesn't last long. A soak in a hot bath and I'm fine the next day.

    We're going to be a full house for Shabbat lunch. We're friendly with two related couples. Twin brothers who married two sisters. They're sort of a package deal; I don't think we've ever had one couple without the other. And last night, a couple of our semi-regulars messaged me asking if they could join us. So, we're going to be eight. B"H I don't know how not to cook for an army when Shabbat comes along.

    I've been reading the Nesivos Shalom on the Three Weeks and the Shoah. And I just picked up R. Chaim Kanievsky's book on the Three Weeks as well. I also got a novel by Toby Orlander, Who by Fire Who by Sword. Four journals of fictional Jewish women living during terrible times. (Going by the back of the book, that would be the Crusades, the Inquisition, Gzeiros tach v'tat, and the Shoah.)

    Oh, and I got my answer about using the stability ball on Tisha b'Av. According to my rabbi, it's fine. Not that I'm really looking to exercise, but I find it really hard to sit on the floor and the low chairs I have aren't much better. The ball is much more comfortable. Which... probably defeats part of the purpose, but at least I won't be constantly moving around, trying to find a decent position.

    Anyway. Shabbat is supposed to be happy. Have a great one! Enjoy Lakewood!

    Esther
  • devash1762
    devash1762 Posts: 34 Member
    Hi Esther:
    my apologies, it has been a killer busy week since we last corresponded. I hope you won't hold that against me.

    I have to buy a new scale, the one I have is really not calibrated and it shows ridiculous weight gains and losses but I am still trudging along.

    Happy to hear of your loss and that you have a really well organized gym system. Maybe your doing this will inspire me to use my dumb bells.

    Anyhow, how are you otherwise? I can't keep thinking of how food totals keep adding up. You think I don't eat much, but you turn around and there is your total for the day!

    For example: Today, for lunch it was a modge podge of stuff just picked to not have to make anything. 1 small home made challah roll, 1/2 a slice of gefilte fish, 1/4 cup of home made vegetarian chili, 1 tbs of light sour cream and it added up to 300 plus calories!! I would have normally eaten a whole slice of gefilte fish, a whole cup of vegetarian chili and 2 tbs of light sour cream...jeepers.

    Today, it is just me and my younger son. It is nice every now and again to not have guests or go anywhere. I made for tonight baked bottoms with sweet and sour sauce. I don't eat the skin. Gefilte fish, tossed romaine with mango and slivered almonds with lite nish nosh dressing. challah of course, home made broccoli kugel and store bought yerushalmi kugel.

    Shabbos day, small meat cholent, potato kugel, kishka, gefilte fish, cole slaw home made with light mayo, and perhaps some deli. I have 1 cup of cholent 1 2x2 of potato kugel 1 slice of fish, 1 cup coleslaw, which I make with light mayo and stevia and perhaps 2 slices of meal mart pastrami. I for sure could eat less fattening, but it isn't Shabbos without the traditional foods...I know it is just an excuse.

    Otherwise, bh all is well. We are having a heat spell here but can't complain otherwise it has been actually cooler. Erev Tish B'Av, I am making baked flounder, rice pilaf, salad, either string beans roasted or tzimmes *home made

    Break the fast is normally, tuna salad, vegetable soup, cut up vegetables and something sweet.

    Have a great Shabbos.
  • Kintsugi_Haikyo
    Kintsugi_Haikyo Posts: 361 Member
    I would like to join the group. I am shomer shabbos and I find it hard to log food after shabbos; especially if I have shabbos dinner at someone else's house.
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    @briansolomon7863 Welcome! We haven't actually set up a group; we just keep posting in this thread.

    When I'm having Shabbat dinner at home, I pre-log. (Guesstimate 4 oz of challah; don't track the fraction of a shot glass of grape juice; pretty much eyeball salads and dips. I do set aside a weighed portion of rice in a ramekin, but as for main dishes, I'm vegetarian married to a meat eater, so I'm usually the only one eating my entree. If I make something that serves 4 and on Friday night, I eat 26% of it and on Sunday 23%... it evens out.) At someone's house, I admit it's trickier. Best I can do is eat light during the day, and hope for the best.

    @devash1762

    Hi, Devorah!

    No worries! Life happens.

    I got a new scale after Pesach, but that was because I was using an analog and once I dipped down below 75lbs to lose, my target was a maximum of 1.5lb per week and suddenly fractions mattered...

    I had my usual breakfast today: seedless grapes, Greek yogurt, and a granola bar. I usually have a light lunch on Fridays: 1 veggie sushi roll. I'll make up for that tonight, lol! (Budgeting for 4 oz of challah; probably be slightly under, but it's not something I can pre-weigh. Hummus, pickled beets, mock chopped liver, Spanish eggplant, fennel-apple-raisin salad, and then yellow split pea dal with steamed rice.)

    Shabbos Day, I will indulge at kiddush in 2 pieces of potato kugel—a food that is not safe for me to have in my fridge, but I can take at kiddush and leave before I'm tempted to take more. Hopefully, they'll have the frosted shortbread cookies I love; if not, I'll find some other mezonos for similar calories. I've had sugar cookies the last couple times. And melon. Lunch will be the same salads, one piece of vegetarian kishke, and what amounts to a chunk of potato and whatever else hops into the ladle out of the cholent. Upside-down peach cake for dessert. It's more like a shallow-dish peach crisp.

    And then a bagel with Munster cheese and red onion for Seudat Shlishit.

    I'll also be meeting up with one or two walking buddies and mean to get in at least 2 hours (including the 2 10-minute walks to and from shul).

    I think for Tisha b'Av, I'll be having leftovers from Shabbat. Possibly not; the dal has a serrano chili pepper in it. However, yellow split peas are so bland normally, that it might just give the dish a little flavor without making it overly spicy. Plus, I have a green tea granita in the freezer. If I end with that, I don't think a little heat in the main dish will be a problem.

    Breaking the fast is usually a light meal of whatever's there. I bought some butterscotch pudding as a treat. Normally, we break with cake; I bought an apple cake at the bakery. But I'd rather have the pudding. Yes, it'll be after a fast and I can have cake. But I tend to worry if I don't know the calories, even if I have room for them.

    I've got an appointment with a registered dietician on August 14th. I'm curious as to what they'll say.

    Shabbat shalom!

    Esther
  • devash1762
    devash1762 Posts: 34 Member
    Welcome Brian. Just a caveat. We are both married women, therefore, only discussions about diet, kosher, and within that arena.

    Welcome aboard.
  • devash1762
    devash1762 Posts: 34 Member
    Hi Esther and Brian:

    Hope that you both had an easy fast. B'H mine was fine, just the usual bit of dizziness and dehydration. Since I fasted, I decided to indulge in some regular dairy ice cream..why not?

    Anyhow, today back on track. I still need to buy a new scale so I don't know if I lost anything from the last entry. Esther, let me know how it goes with the nutritionist. Under my health insurance at work, I would get about a dozen free visits with a good nutritionist. My only thing is, that they starve you. My secretary was on this no fruit, no carb, not this no that food plan. Things were added over time, but I know myself, those tight restrictions won't work on me.

    In any event. Let me know how things are.

    Brian, feel free to share.

    Best,

    Debvorah
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    Hi, Devorah!

    I was fine with the fast. I stayed indoors where it was air conditioned. I ended up breaking it with a 4-egg omelet (usually, I'd only have 3, but I wanted a little more protein) and some oven-baked french fries and carrot sticks. As well as the pudding.

    One thing about hanging out in these forums; you start to learn the difference between the healthcare professionals. Apparently, to be a nutritionist, you just need to pass an online course that can be taken over a weekend. Registered dieticians study for years. (Of course, I'm not saying that there are no good nutritionists and a university degree doesn't make anyone infallible. But in general, one would assume an RD to be more knowledgeable. That's who my appointment is with.) At any rate, I'm going to be bringing in a few pages of my MFP food log, along with the reports. I'm not opposed to good advice. If it turns out I need to include more potassium, fiber, etc., and s/he has tips on how to do that, wonderful. But I would like him/her to realize that I've been losing weight steadily without cutting out any foods.

    Well. Okay. I've cut back on a lot. Here in Ontario, the law is that if a chain has more than 20 locations, they need to provide calorie numbers for every item on the menu. Since I don't think there's a kosher restaurant in the province with more than three locations, that's generally not relevant. BUT we have a couple of coffee shops that get in hermetically wrapped pastries from a kosher bakery and that bakery now has to include calories on the food they send to those shops. As a result, I now know that their muffins are 380-450 calories, depending on flavor, their turnovers are 600, and their jam rogelach are 1210! I don't eat those anymore. I mean, I might have a muffin for breakfast if I was on the run, but the rest of it? Not worth it. But it's not that I can't have it. It's that I've decided that I'd rather not use up my calories on it, so I'll choose something else.

    Had a dentist appointment today and tried walking to it, but I should have allowed more time. I thought it would take two hours. At the 1-hour-40-minute mark, I realized that I was about a half hour away from an appointment set for 20 minutes from then. So I hopped on the subway and made it with a couple of minutes to spare. Then afterwards, I went to St. Lawrence Market. They've got a bunch of fruit stores, as well as a bulk shop where I can get high-gluten flour. Between walking there and walking to the next subway station and home, I got 2 hours and 10 minutes, so no need for the fitness glider today. I will be strength training a little later.

    Planning on chocolate truffles for Shabbat and I want to make them today. They're not hard to do, but they have to chill in the fridge for a couple of hours and I'd rather handle it when I'm not cooking anything else.

    Hope you're having a great day!

    Esther
  • devash1762
    devash1762 Posts: 34 Member
    Hi Esther:

    I am impressed on the amount of walking you did.

    I haven't been good about going on my evening walks. I have to motivate myself once the weather becomes less humid.

    I made for Shabbos Ancho Garlic Baked Chicken, Scallion Rice, Salad, Fish, Cholent etc. I must weigh myself tomorrow and make sure where I am weight wise. I think I stayed the same.

    I think that getting moving is the key. I eat 1200 calories per day so output needs to increase.

    Have a great Shabbos!!
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    Hi, Devorah.

    I had a few errands to run. Grocery store twice. (I bought skinless, boneless chicken breast for my husband and they smelled 'off' when I was dicing them. My fault. It had a best before of August 3rd and I had my signals crossed and thought today was only the second.) The store has a miniscule kosher meat section and they didn't have what I needed. So I bought a whole chicken and roasted it with vegetables. That was trip one. When I was done with the stove and wanted a break, I went to the library to pick up a hold. Came back, made the hummus, realized I was out of salsa. I like to put that in my cholent instead of tomato sauce. A second trip to the grocery store.

    So, the chicken for my husband, a 3-lentil dahl, the potato-beet salad I've mentioned before, hummus, mock liver, pareve kishke, the truffles. Beans are soaking for cholent. Still need to slice the cucumbers for salad.

    My base calories are 1380 to lose a pound a week. With exercise (and eating back half my exercise calories), I usually come in around 1700 or so.

    I have a new fitness challenge involving my stability ball. For abdominal muscles. Doing a deep jackknife with my shins on the ball, hands on the floor. So far, I can only do the 'modified' version with my knees on the ball. Barely. My book says it's 10 reps to a set. I can manage five before the ball does what balls do best and rolls out from under me. At least I don't quite fall off, so much as slide down. I will master this. Eventually. There was a time I could barely manage 10 lunges with no extra weight. Now I do 27 (one set of 12; one of fifteen. Next week, I increase to two sets of 15) holding a 5lb dumbbell in each hand. I'll keep at the jackknifes.

    Shabbat Shalom!
  • healthymichael
    healthymichael Posts: 8 Member
    Hi,
    Pleased to meet everyone.
    I just started my diet. I keep shabbos, kosher etc. I just calculated my carbs and gee I went so overboard! I'm here to hear how people deal with Shabbos eating.
    Michael
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    Hi, Michael!

    Shabbos has always been a challenge for me, too. I think what's been working for me this time has been,

    1. Admitting, up-front, that I'm going to have a few indulgences. My 'challenge' isn't to avoid having them. Because if I do that, odds are I'll just overdo the healthier stuff to 'reward' myself for being strong. My Friday on MFP I sort of sat down with myself and asked 'How much do I think I 'need' to eat at kiddush before I can walk away? No, seriously. There's a difference between having a couple things I really want and stuffing my face.' And then I checked the calories on one frosted shortbread cookie and two pieces of potato kugel and came up with about 380. And decided that, considering that was going to be 'breakfast', it was totally worth it.
    2. Pre-log everything I intend to eat over Shabbat as much as possible. Obviously, if we're going to a friend's, I can't control what they'll serve. But the meals I have at home? The shul Kiddush that usually has the same foods? Yeah, I have a pretty good idea. I limit myself to two slices of challah at dinner and lunch. Seudat shlishit is Munster cheese on a bagel that I pick up on Friday mornings. Sometimes it's gouda, but usually Munster.
    3. I walk for more than two hours on Saturday. Once we turn the clocks back, it'll be 65 minutes on the fitness glider, motzi Shabbos, but until then, long walks.
    4. Sunday is my weekly weigh-in day.

    Hatzlacha!
  • yfbrklyn
    yfbrklyn Posts: 18 Member
    Shalom aleichem yidden!
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    Aleichem shalom!
  • healthymichael
    healthymichael Posts: 8 Member
    Hi Esther and yfbrklyn
  • rshira91
    rshira91 Posts: 1 Member
    This is a great idea! I find especially shabbos lunch is difficult. And now that it's getting colder, it's more difficult to go for a walk/distract yourself.
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    Hi, Michael and Shira! I know. I think it'll have to be the glider in the basement Saturday nights once the clocks go back.
  • Buddie66
    Buddie66 Posts: 3 Member
    Hi, I just joined. A kosher group was the first thing I looked for. I'm a mother of two grown girls and married for 40+ years. My husband is much closer to a healthy weight than I. What do you do about keeping track of eating on Shabbos and Yomtovim?
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    Hi! I usually eat in, so I pre-log what I can in advance. I guesstimate that two slices of challah will be 4 ounces (probably less, but my local bakery isn't in the database anyway, so I figure everything's an estimate and this is close enough.)

    I'll usually weigh out my main and sides and warm them separately.

    Salads are an estimate. If I make them myself, I know the calories. If they're takeout, I avoid the mayonnaise-y ones. Most matbuchas and Spanish eggplants are around the same. Ditto pickled beets.

    I keep my homemade desserts to 200 calories or fewer per portion. This past week that was meringues. This week it's oranges in marmalade and brandy.

    My cholent is oil-free. I usually just have a piece of potato and whatever else falls into the ladle.

    If we're going out to eat, I just do my best.

    Also, I try to get in at least two hours of walking on long days.