Happy Holidays
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At least you're home safe & sound, would you do it again?
Quins; back to the plan.
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Quins
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Next Sunday, got to go, I'm picking my son up from Gloucester on Saturday. I am shredded. Pain is weakness leaving the body.... I must be mental, I hope my legs and a##e are fixed by then. Epic ride. Fastest paced distance ride to date, hilliest, steepest, longest too. I've done 2 marathons, 3 weeks in Shaolin, China, Kung Fu training, karate courses, fighting, played county rugby, squash, but this really was a toughie, I had to dig so deep. If hadn't experienced the other things and believed that I could finish, understood how to finish, I would never have got home.
I had to look in the scales too, not surprising but a pound down on yesterday. I'm eating more!
How's the running?
I had to look in the scales too, not surprising but a pound down on yesterday. I'm eating more!
How's the running?
Happy Holidays
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Lol, I don't run I either cycle or walk, running is just too much hard work. But with the weather being as it has been fortunately I'm getting plenty of cycling & walking in.
Quins
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Sorry Happyholidays , it must have someone else that did a bit of running . The cycling is fantastic, my club do have quite a few different groups to cater for most levels, I just think today's leader was from a faster group, I know what to expect now, so at least I will carry some food and another bottle. Do you have a particular route that you stick to or do you get out and about? I'm following a club member who is riding London Edinburgh London! Makes my 70m seem irrelevant.
Happy Holidays
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No I cycle to work & we sometimes go out & about cycling or hire bikes on holidays, but generally we go geocaching which can be done on bikes but we prefer to walk.
faye cheshire
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Hi Quins
Sounds like you are sorted but I just wanted to say that I make soup on a Sunday for lunch a few days in the week and have got a few SW cookery books and if I have time cook stuff up for our evening meals eg curries, chilli, bolognaise etc and have it with rice veg salad etc
This means we are varied and don't get bored. My hubbie doesn't really need to lose weight but has a larger portion and enjoys garlic bread
Good luck with it let us all know how you get on
Sounds like you are sorted but I just wanted to say that I make soup on a Sunday for lunch a few days in the week and have got a few SW cookery books and if I have time cook stuff up for our evening meals eg curries, chilli, bolognaise etc and have it with rice veg salad etc
This means we are varied and don't get bored. My hubbie doesn't really need to lose weight but has a larger portion and enjoys garlic bread
Good luck with it let us all know how you get on
Quins
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Thanks for popping by Fay, I used to batch cook, mainly in the winter. I'm pretty much sorted now, at target and below. Sometimes it's a busy schedule that gets in the way of planned meals, getting home late, 3 kids , sports training......you know how it is. So sometimes I just eat what's convenient and on plan , even t is a bit samey for the day.
How are you finding the plan, is it working for you?
Yesterday
Green
B. 2 eggs, 2 lean rashers bacon sliced less than hex b ,mushrooms, peppers,
L. Tesco peppery salad bowl, mushy peas and 2 Quorn burgers diced in, 1 syn
Late at work, tin of spaghetti
D. 1 egg beans on ww wm toast hex b, 1 syn brown sauce.
Tablespoon f cw cream Côte d'Or , 4 syns, home made strawberry jam 2 syns
8 syns
How are you finding the plan, is it working for you?
Yesterday
Green
B. 2 eggs, 2 lean rashers bacon sliced less than hex b ,mushrooms, peppers,
L. Tesco peppery salad bowl, mushy peas and 2 Quorn burgers diced in, 1 syn
Late at work, tin of spaghetti
D. 1 egg beans on ww wm toast hex b, 1 syn brown sauce.
Tablespoon f cw cream Côte d'Or , 4 syns, home made strawberry jam 2 syns
8 syns
Happy Holidays
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I find my food a bit samey, especially fruit and veg, there is only the two of us now so I don't buy too much as I don't like waste so I'm often eating the same fruit for days on end!!!
suzyflo
Proud to be a loser!!
I'm good thanks Quins, I've got to say, your bike ride sounds horrendous, good on you for seeing it through to the end, I don't think I could have! My son was biking at the weekend at the Glencoe Macavalanche mass start enduro, I hate it when he does these things, he enjoys them though. The house is finished and we have a sale going through, fingers crossed it will go ok, we didn't even have to advertise it as the next door neighbour's aunt wants it. If I get round to it ill post some before and after pics on my page sometime.
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Quins
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Hate this mobile app, wrote a reply and it just kept saying sending.....lost the lot.
Hey Suz, how did your son do at that crazy event? He must have some kit to take part in that. Does he ride for a team? I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you, hope your sale goes through smoothly. The house adventure sounds all so positive.
Been MIA this week on a course, bit bruised, very active.......
Tues-Fri
B. fresh air
L. Stir fry rice , paella, spaghetti bog Quorn
D. Paella, stir fry rice. Sw wedges egg beans
Tonight . Spaghetti Bol Quorn...
373 miles walked, jogged, run , 11 more miles walked, 384 total
Hey Suz, how did your son do at that crazy event? He must have some kit to take part in that. Does he ride for a team? I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you, hope your sale goes through smoothly. The house adventure sounds all so positive.
Been MIA this week on a course, bit bruised, very active.......
Tues-Fri
B. fresh air
L. Stir fry rice , paella, spaghetti bog Quorn
D. Paella, stir fry rice. Sw wedges egg beans
Tonight . Spaghetti Bol Quorn...
373 miles walked, jogged, run , 11 more miles walked, 384 total
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Quins
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Saturday
Spent most of it in the car travelling to and from Gloucester for another rugby match, All Golds u20 ( more like u23) v Army U30s! Brutal affair, too many injuries to the All Golds. Great first half but the physicality took its toll in the 2nd. Army won the collisions and made ground easier on their sets and win 25-4.
Red
B. nu me sausages, grilled toms, 2 fry lite eggs
L. Fresh air, writing match notes and helping with injured players
Stopped on motorway at about 6 pm and managed to buy some M&S chicken drumsticks
D. Lamb steak small jacket with Phili lite and 2 syns horseradish , salad, muller lite cheesecake yoghurt 1 or 2 syns ,
Slice of wm crusty bead and butter and 2 small slices M I Ls fruit cake, absolutely starving. So probably used about 20 odd syns?
And worrying about bike ride tomorrow, hope I can last out better than last week.
Spent most of it in the car travelling to and from Gloucester for another rugby match, All Golds u20 ( more like u23) v Army U30s! Brutal affair, too many injuries to the All Golds. Great first half but the physicality took its toll in the 2nd. Army won the collisions and made ground easier on their sets and win 25-4.
Red
B. nu me sausages, grilled toms, 2 fry lite eggs
L. Fresh air, writing match notes and helping with injured players
Stopped on motorway at about 6 pm and managed to buy some M&S chicken drumsticks
D. Lamb steak small jacket with Phili lite and 2 syns horseradish , salad, muller lite cheesecake yoghurt 1 or 2 syns ,
Slice of wm crusty bead and butter and 2 small slices M I Ls fruit cake, absolutely starving. So probably used about 20 odd syns?
And worrying about bike ride tomorrow, hope I can last out better than last week.
suzyflo
Proud to be a loser!!
Hiya, I think he said he was 15th overall, he would have done better but he managed to crash the bike at one point! He works for Cyclewise in Whinlatter Forest so he entered the event as part of 'Team Cyclewise' on this occasion. He has body armour so I feel a little bit happier about that!
He is the one on the right on both photos.
Re the house, we're hoping it's all sorted in a couple of weeks, thanks for crossing your fingers
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Quins
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Wow, he did well, shame about him crashing. How did the team do?
Just back from my Sunday club run. Another emotional ride. That bloody word "undulating" , it's used so casually however, it's real meaning is hilly, savagely hilly for me. It didn't disappoint today. I did fuel up with carbs all week on green, but had a red yesterday, had 2 egg omelette with mushroom bacon, spring onion and peppers and toms, 2 ww wm toast too fir brekkie. Similar group to last week, last weeks ride got a couple of mentions. We were led out by another old boy in 60s I'm guessing, unless he had a really tough paper round. Our route took us through some of the Weald and across the East Sussex border, Cranbrook, Benenden ( posh girls school), and through "undulating " country side and lanes to Burwash. Some of the hills were a drama to go up, and they came often, only punctuated with great descents, but knowing that we we had to make our way uphill just rid the corner. It was the hilliest outward leg I've done and it had one of the steepest climbs that I've managed to complete. No ears left and pulling on the bars, lifting the front wheel. The stop at the tea Roos was really welcome, I came at the top of the big climb. I was very quiet for the first 10 mins lungs and legs burning. Lemon curd cake was beautiful, the coffee good. The others had cooked breakfasts....how? The return leg started off with a descent out of Burwash that meant we ad to climb up to Brighling. I kid you not , I nearly saw my cake again. The hill was brutal, a long climb finished on a liplip that just got steeper at the junction with a minor road. Made more complicated by a car turning into it that stopped on the steepest bit. Lungs and legs burning fir the umpteenth time. The descent welcome but more climbing...... This continued through to Lamberhurst and then our leader decided to avoid to more major hills and A&E a flatter route missing the climbs in Goudhurst.
That only meant one thing, the pace got quicker for the run home. By new my lower back was screaming in pain but I hit the front fir a while to take my turn, pushing along at 22mph , then to be overtaken by 4 riders who lifted it again. I could only hang on. They were off, I was in with the tail enders, better than last week when i git totally dropped. Made it back, 57 tough miles. General consensus is that I'm doing well , I could do with a new bike, one that fits .... Long reach us causing back ache, so I could shorten the stem, but I really would like a Giant Defy Composite 2. 3 kids, horses, dream on, unless I win the lottery. Mind you I would have bought one on the spot when I was hurting.....
737 miles cycled, another 57 today, total 794 miles
That was tough but not as tough as my sons rugby league match against the Army yesterday. He and out with just a black eye, there 2 knee injures, one concussion and a stinger to the shoulder that made the players and swell up...the army fielded the reserve team to the full first grade against or U20s that contains a load of u18s. They had blokes of under 30, islanders from Papua New Guinea and some real bruisers. Payed in good spirit, but they got the better of us in the physical stakes in the second half.
Bath, relax, BBQ later.
Just back from my Sunday club run. Another emotional ride. That bloody word "undulating" , it's used so casually however, it's real meaning is hilly, savagely hilly for me. It didn't disappoint today. I did fuel up with carbs all week on green, but had a red yesterday, had 2 egg omelette with mushroom bacon, spring onion and peppers and toms, 2 ww wm toast too fir brekkie. Similar group to last week, last weeks ride got a couple of mentions. We were led out by another old boy in 60s I'm guessing, unless he had a really tough paper round. Our route took us through some of the Weald and across the East Sussex border, Cranbrook, Benenden ( posh girls school), and through "undulating " country side and lanes to Burwash. Some of the hills were a drama to go up, and they came often, only punctuated with great descents, but knowing that we we had to make our way uphill just rid the corner. It was the hilliest outward leg I've done and it had one of the steepest climbs that I've managed to complete. No ears left and pulling on the bars, lifting the front wheel. The stop at the tea Roos was really welcome, I came at the top of the big climb. I was very quiet for the first 10 mins lungs and legs burning. Lemon curd cake was beautiful, the coffee good. The others had cooked breakfasts....how? The return leg started off with a descent out of Burwash that meant we ad to climb up to Brighling. I kid you not , I nearly saw my cake again. The hill was brutal, a long climb finished on a liplip that just got steeper at the junction with a minor road. Made more complicated by a car turning into it that stopped on the steepest bit. Lungs and legs burning fir the umpteenth time. The descent welcome but more climbing...... This continued through to Lamberhurst and then our leader decided to avoid to more major hills and A&E a flatter route missing the climbs in Goudhurst.
That only meant one thing, the pace got quicker for the run home. By new my lower back was screaming in pain but I hit the front fir a while to take my turn, pushing along at 22mph , then to be overtaken by 4 riders who lifted it again. I could only hang on. They were off, I was in with the tail enders, better than last week when i git totally dropped. Made it back, 57 tough miles. General consensus is that I'm doing well , I could do with a new bike, one that fits .... Long reach us causing back ache, so I could shorten the stem, but I really would like a Giant Defy Composite 2. 3 kids, horses, dream on, unless I win the lottery. Mind you I would have bought one on the spot when I was hurting.....
737 miles cycled, another 57 today, total 794 miles
That was tough but not as tough as my sons rugby league match against the Army yesterday. He and out with just a black eye, there 2 knee injures, one concussion and a stinger to the shoulder that made the players and swell up...the army fielded the reserve team to the full first grade against or U20s that contains a load of u18s. They had blokes of under 30, islanders from Papua New Guinea and some real bruisers. Payed in good spirit, but they got the better of us in the physical stakes in the second half.
Bath, relax, BBQ later.
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Quins
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794 miles cycled.
373 miles walked, jogged and run, -another 6 miles walked, 379 miles total (500 last year)
Busy at work, missed my run tonight , trains were pants and 2 of my athletes needed a rub down so did that instead.
Was in plan yesterday except some beers...not had any in a couple or 3 weeks
Today
Green
B. nothing
L. Quorn spag Bol , salad
D. Eggs ws wedges, beans
Synned on home made turkey pie, 10 syns
Muller lite yoghurt , new yor cheesecake, 2'syns?
373 miles walked, jogged and run, -another 6 miles walked, 379 miles total (500 last year)
Busy at work, missed my run tonight , trains were pants and 2 of my athletes needed a rub down so did that instead.
Was in plan yesterday except some beers...not had any in a couple or 3 weeks
Today
Green
B. nothing
L. Quorn spag Bol , salad
D. Eggs ws wedges, beans
Synned on home made turkey pie, 10 syns
Muller lite yoghurt , new yor cheesecake, 2'syns?
Quins
Gold Member
Thanks Texty , that one syn will struggle against the the multiple syns of beer that I've had in the line of duty..... But, I've enjoyed it, missed my trail runs cos I've been busy at work and then given shiatsu massages to my kid athletes but will still do the the tough bike ride. Then get back on plan, get back to the routine and keep the faith.
I really don't miss out on anything yet have lost over. 2 stone.
Hope you are finding your way.
I really don't miss out on anything yet have lost over. 2 stone.
Hope you are finding your way.
Quins
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Texty, keep the faith! Keep to plan , value exercise of any kind, walk or dance in your kitchen for 15 or 20 mins( try scuffle to ska music!) . As long as you are moving and sticking to plan, really sticking., youVe lost this week , brilliant. Log it and focus on another half. If you did that per month it would be 2lb , superb. That's all,it takes, chip,away at it texty. X
