Luciicul
Week 3 Monday
PW: 180.3
CW: 177

Has been a good week. I am on the third week of the C25K running program, my kombucha is going great, I've been experimenting with new recipes and ingredients (no longer bored by my eating routine), and I have cut out the sugar-free chocolate which may or may not have been slowing my weight loss.

As I head into the final week of this month's challenge, I am going to try yoga, as that was my other goal for September (when I last tried yoga, I was about 80lbs heavier, and it was just painful and demoralising. I think I've lost enough now that I will be able to manage it).

cre804 wrote: »

Cre804
PW: 196.5
CW: 195.0

It’s been a week of ups and downs. We said goodbye to our sweet pup on Monday and celebrated our anniversary on Tuesday. Way off of eating plan this week. Now the big question is whether I can continue the losing trend, since I seem to be on a roller coaster.

Sorry to hear about your pup. And sometimes life events are more important than the eating plan - it's not like you have an anniversary every day!

Beka3695 wrote: »

boehle wrote: »

I saw a post of the weird food for each state.
Ohio is Goetta. I wont even try Goetta because how it looks.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/the-strangest-food-from-every-state/ss-AAGArFX?ocid=ientp#image=36
What does your state have?

I want to hear from some folks from other countries. Are some of these things normal where you are? Also, please don't look at this list and assume everyone in America eats rodent. I would venture to guess that most of us have not.

I suspect that many of the foods listed aren't common - in some cases might be one food outlet that does it as a bit of a gimmick?

In Australia:

• Vegemite spread (like marmite, promite, yeast spreads, etc if you've heard of them) is popular and common in many Australian households. If you haven't grown up eating it, you will most likely hate it. It has a strong salty flavour, and is most commonly spread thinly on buttered toast or buttered bread. The biggest mistake Americans make when they sample vegemite is to take a spoonful by itself or spread it thickly on bread as if it were peanut butter - this is too much! I love vegemite, but only spread thinly with butter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite
• Meat pies are a pretty common food, in all kinds of variations (beef, chicken, fish, vegetables, different seasonings, etc), but that's not really 'weird' and is also common in the UK. When I was a kid a 'steak and kidney' pie was commonly available, but not any more (smells bad, people don't eat kidneys much anymore). There is a thing called a 'pea floater' that is not common but available in a few places - where a meat pie is served in a bowl of pea mash/soup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_pie_(Australia_and_New_Zealand) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_floater
• A common take-away snack food is a sausage roll (also common to UK). This is a meat filling in pastry, baked in an oven, consumed with tomato sauce (ketchup). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_roll
• Not often eaten anymore, is the "chiko roll" which was invented in Australia, inspired by chinese spring rolls (egg rolls). A chiko roll is deepfried dough filled with a mix of meat, vegetables & barley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiko_Roll
• An Australian variety of hamburger includes beetroot on it (McDonalds developed a McOz burger that includes beetroot because of our existing tendency towards beetroot), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger#Australia_and_New_Zealand and some people put pineapple on hamburgers (or pinapple on pizza - such as "Hawaiian pizza"). The pineapple addition is highly contentious and divides the nation on whether this is great or terrible. I say no to pineapple on hamburgers, but 'sometimes' to pineapple on pizza (alongside other toppings). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_pizza
• There are some foods that First Nations Australians ate before colonialism but are not readily accessible in the modern era: bogan moths, witchetty grubs, possum, emu, whale, sea urchin, eel, ants, wombats, turtles, etc. People keeping their culture alive might sometimes eat these still, but for most these things there is no commercial industry or ability to "buy." https://www.welcometocountry.org/the-original-fresh-food-people-aboriginal-bush-meats/
• Some foods are available in our supermarkets but are only eaten by some people: kangaroo, spam, seafood extender (these last two are definitely not unique to Australia - I don't know where they were invented). FYI, kangaroo steak is yummy and healthy.
• There are gimmicks, not commonly eaten or available, that you hear about: deep-fried mars bar, chip sandwich, "vegemite and ...." (while I am a purist with my vegemite, there are a minority of people who swear by some combination of vegemite with another substance such as cheese, honey, jam, banana, tomato, or avocado - and the manufacturer of vegemite has released vegemite-flavoured-chocolate, vegemite-cheese spread, vegemite crackers, vegemite chips, and vegemite bagels).

Happy Monday! I've been dealing with some back and hip issues over the past month. For the first time in weeks, I was able to go to (and finish) my OrangeTheory workout this morning. My hip is a little sore after, but not too bad. I hope everyone's Monday is off to a good start.

Back to the norm on the food front, porridge with fruit in the morning, salad + fruit & yoghurt for lunch, and coffee... lots of coffee.

I brought in cake to thank people at work for supporting my cancer research cycle challenge. It always seems that nobody wants to be the person to eat the last piece of cake so I did the honours, sorry, not sorry!