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20 May 2013

Good morning, friends!

It's another morning in Paris, and wife and I are getting ready you another adventure filled day.

Yesterday, we decided to skip the markets and go find the "American store" in Paris. It's a little store called Thanksgiving, and it has a nice selection of foods, candies and other stuff from the US. Wife being American and me having lived in the US for 6 years, it's a nice treat to go shopping in these stores.

Wife found a ton of candies, mostly for daughter, but also a little for herself. Me? I just got a couple of these babies:



It's been ages since I've had a root beer, and the diet ones aren't bad at all.

We also went for a quick peek at Notre Dame, since the Thanksgiving store was right around the corner. We only stayed a few moments, as they had mass. It was beautiful. An amazing choir and organ music.





I have DEFINITELY gotten my exercise done on this trip. The travel Friday, along with morning walk and exercise clocked in at 12000 steps. Then walking the market and the surrounding area Saturday gave us 10000 steps. Here, it's worth noting that my pedometer doesn't register "shopping pace". If you only take a few steps, then it simply doesn't count it. We spent about 8 hours shopping, being on our feet at all times except for the lunch break.

And yesterday was so fun! Learning that the Thanksgiving store was close to Notre Dame, and that the big Chinese market was 7 kilometers further south, we decided to walk there over the course of the day. It's a total of about 15 kilometer (almost ten miles). We walked from 8.30 am and until 5:45 pm, only sitting down for a cup of coffee, for lunch, and later for smoothie and ice cream. This walked clocked in at 22000 steps on the pedometer! I think this is the longest I've ever walked to go have Chinese food. :-)

And what great food it was. I think I was low on protein (having only had baguette with a little cheese for breakfast, because I was craving mealtime crazy, and so was Wife.

We had a nice combo with Pekin Soup, then white rice and a mix plate with amazing quality Chinese BBQ. It tasted amazing and it was JUST what the doctor ordered.



After dinner, we came across a little cafe with good ice creams and smoothies. We just couldn't resist. We did regret later, as we were so stuffed we could barely walk.

This made us decide to skip dinner altogether.

I did great on my calories again. I totaled at 1400. Again, I could have had 3000 and it would still be okay. Technically, I could have 4800 calories the next two days (each day!) and not do any damage! Wow! Obviously, that's not gonna happen.

So, right now we're heading to go eat breakfast. I'll have my usual one baguette with cheese. I don't really feel that I need more. Besides, the food there is simply not good enough for me to go nuts. It's simply a matter of satisfying hunger, and keeping me going until a hopefully much more interesting lunch that will be with spending calories on.

We're heading back into the markets, and there are so many cool little restaurants to choose from. Why waste calories on white bread if you have food from twenty nations waiting for you next door?

Since it's still early, we'll be hanging out at the breakfast table for a while, having coffee and enjoying the complimentary hotel wifi. :-)

Today, I'm thankful for:
- An amazing and fun walk through Paris yesterday. What a blast!
- Wife for being such a sport and doing the walk with me. That's true love!
- Morning coffee! Even if it's french.
- Markets, markets, markets!
- A feeling of total control when it comes to my meals. I haven't even needed the protein bars that I brought to fight hunger or snack urges on the go.

Have a great day! Life is good!

19 May 2013

Good morning from Paris!

Wife and I had a blast yesterday, trawling through Marcé Vernaison, the Vernaison Market and other markets surrounding it. It's the most awesome place. We bought some movies, new clothes, stuff we needed, stuff we didn't need, raided an army surplus store, and had lunch at an awesome little Iranian restaurant.


(The King's new clothes)

It was just a nice, relaxed day. The sun was out most of the day.

We had a little breakfast at he hotel. It's incredibly plain, basically just a baguette, cheese, water and coffee. I just had a little, as I really wasn't too hungry. It'll be the same today. This makes the breakfast bang for the buck really lousy, but we get up hours before anything opens, the café has unlimited coffee and it's the better option to kill some time. We brought the tablets, I get to write my journal and we'll watch a movie afterwards while we wait for the stores to open.

I didn't get to take a whole lot of pictures yesterday, so this one of Wife is taken right now at breakfast.



Notice the AWESOME shirt she bought yesterday.

I did awesome on the calories, without even trying. I took pictures of the foods I had, measured conservatively in my head and made enough notes that I could enter the foods in my food diary back at the hotel where we have Internet access.


(Lunch, at Iranian restaurant, so much food that I only had half)

This filled me up so well that I only had a small soup at a Chinese restaurant for dinner. Just an entrée. No main course for neither of us.

My total calories for yesterday was about 1100. Very nicely done.

We ended up walking for about 7 hours yesterday, without any of us really feeling tired from it. It was so nice. Best day in a while.

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Today is a little rainy. It's grey outside and slightly colder. I'm not sure what the plan is just yet. If we can stay dry, it's probably gonna be markets, and if not then find some indoor places. There are virtually unlimited options!

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When I woke up this morning, it felt like my body was screaming for a workout. I am glad I have the Chris Powell workouts on my tablet. I did 30 minutes. It's the first time I have gotten to do them in along time, and it was surprisingly easy. Still, it's a good, efficient workout, and for a vacation it's perfect for me. It doesn't kill me to the point where I can't do anything for a while, and it still works all my muscle groups efficiently. And boy do I feel a difference. It felt amazing to notice how much stronger I am now! Wow!

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Today, I'm thankful for:
Paris!
Wife!
Having so much fun!
Eating consciously! I just threw away the other half of breakfast!

Life is good!

18 May 2013

17 May 2013

Good morning!

Wow, I'm up TWO KILOS! LOL.

Yesterday was such a weird day. I totally blew it on the 600 calories I had planned, but fortunately it won't affect my vacation calorie plan. Phew. It's close, but no real damage other than the weight gain today.

Obviously, most of the gain is just food processing and fluid. My scale gives me the Err4, which means fat percentage is lower than 5. It's all water!

So, what happened? Wife's damn cakes happened. Well, sort of.

I felt kinda weird all day. My stomach was acting up, and I really felt beside myself. I decided - stupidly - that I would comfort myself with JUST ONE DAMN COOKIE.

Well, that cookie completely woke up the carb monster. One cookie became several, and cheese cake follow. Dammit.

Along with that, and because of my bad brain not thinking straight, we decided to have BBQ dogs for dinner. LOL. I know. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Hey, at least we did a very reasonable and light potato salad to go with it. It was delish. :)

Anyways, total damage for the day ended up around 2800 calories. WAY over what I had planned, but just about what I would be burning (and normally would be SUPPOSED TO EAT for the day).

The damage, so to say, is two kilos on the scale today. Meh. Who cares. It'll come off again, and there's gonna be plenty more temporary gain the next few days. It's all good.

Looking at the calorie intake statistics on my calorie counter, I can still do a FULL INDULGENCE DAY the next 4 days, while in Paris, if I play my cards right today.

It won't be hard to play my cards right. My stomach feels FUNKY after yesterday's feast. I am looking forward to a LOW CAL day today.

If I don't make it today, I won't be too hard on myself. I'm doing all this long term, and I'm on vacation in just a few hours - and when I wake up tomorrow morning, it'll be in a hotel room in frickin' PARIS! :)

Wife and I are so excited going, I can't wait! I just hope my stomach settles a little more. It's a feeling to remember, this one. Something I'd like to avoid.

It's not really that I did THAT many bad decisions yesterday. It's really more that I did them on a day where I had decided to NOT do them. Had this been a day for me to have a normal calorie intake, I would have just shrugged and said "meh", but since I had decided it to be a Low Cal Day, and I wanted to save those calories for Paris, then it bothers me.

Still, the damage is done, and there's nothing to do about that. Moving on. :)

So, today is the last weigh in I will be doing until Wednesday morning. That's a LONG time from now. I wonder what the scale will say. 85? 100? LOL. Hopefully not 100.

Again, it doesn't matter. I know what to do to make the kilos drop, and I'll be going right back into it. No problemo.

I'm not sure how much journaling I'll be doing either. It's always uncertain when you're out. So if nothing else, I will see you all on Wednesday.

Today, I'm thankful for:
- Suffering a little punishment from stupid decisions yesterday. This is a good thing.
- VACATION!
- PARIS!
...and morning coffee! :)

Have a great week! Life is good!
Weigh-in: 180.1 lb lost so far: 161.6 lb still to go: 3.7 lb Diet followed poorly
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16 May 2013

Goodmorning!

Today's a big day! I am below 80 kilos! :)

Now, I don't want to say "Sayonara Eighties" just yet, as I know this is temporary. I am this low because I am saving up calories for my vacation, leaving for Paris tomorrow. Did I mention that Wife and I will be going to Paris? LOL. "Excited much, Keld?" - You bet!

I'm up early. It's 3:40am, and I already showered and weighed in. I'm just waiting for Wife to wake up so I can get ready for work. Work is in about 5 hours! LOL.

There is no gym this morning, they don't open until noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so it will just be a nice, quiet morning. I will, however, go take my 5 kilometer walk. The forecast says rain, and that's never very exciting, but I think it won't happen until later in the day. And if they DO happen, oh well... it's only water.

I did buy myself some rain clothes the other day. I want to make sure that rain won't stop me from walking. I love my daily walk.

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So, this morning I woke up early. My inner caveman, Cavekeld, is being hard headed and still insisting that I go hunting for deer or berries or whatever it is that he wants me to. I, of course, politely refuse.

It is now day 5 of my Low Cal Days in a row. I gotta say I'm looking forward to Saturday when I am done with this. It's tiresome to do that many days in a row. Not difficult. Just tedious and tiresome. I miss a nice big meal.

Still, it serves a great purpose - the freedom to just enjoy (conscious) eating in Paris.

According to my calculations, I should have something like 4000 calories available per day in Paris. There is NO chance that I'd be doing that. It'll never be necessary, and it would destroy what I have accomplished this week.

It would be nice to come back from the vacation and NOT have gained a ton. It would be nice to be at least close to the 80 kilos, and see that I was able to handle reasonable eating for five days. I'd like to see that.

My plan is basically to try to remember what is needed for me to be satisfied, when it comes to eating. I do not need 5 croissants for breakfast. Or baguettes, for that matter. If I was at home, and baguesttes or croissants were my breakfast options, then I'd eat one. Maybe two, if we're talking croissants, as they really don't fill you up at all (and therefore shouldn't be consumed, period). I don't need 5 slices of cheese. I don't need a whole lot of things.

So the mission for breakfasts there, as I know we'll be having them at the cheap buffet at the hotel, will simply be to get ONE baguette, with or without cheese, and some coffee. That's all.

Lunch - probably more baguette. This is a general pattern I saw from Paris last October. Bread, bread and more bread. The lunch baguette will have to have some meat in there to fill me up. I can do that.

Dinner - some restaurant somewhere, probably. Smart choices, Keld. Smart choices. But, of course, also remembering that it's okay to do a little of the fun stuff. I have saved up for it, after all.

I think what is more damaging in my plan is if I start giving too much into meals between meals. I'm gonna try hard to not be snacking. I will bring a nice large handful of protein bars, to keep this at bay. This will also save quite some on the money - Paris is not cheap when it comes to treating yourself, and we ARE on a budget.

I think I am pretty well prepared mentally.

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When doing something like the upcoming trip, I think the mental preparation on the calories is essential. Sure, it might go out the window once we're there, but at the same time I do feel that everything I mentally prepare will help me when I get there.

I have such a focus on my calories that I know it will be hard for me to not be able to calculate my calories. There is no mobile internet available for me in Paris, so I can only log my food when I have WIFI access.

My solution will be to simply take a picture of the foods that I decide to have outside Wifi spots, and then register when I get back at the hotel. This will, of course, not prevent me from going nuts, and I hate the fact that I can't register the food before eating it, but I hope and think that just taking the pictures WILL make me more aware of how much I eat, and make me think twice. That's all I need.

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I had so much fun working at the gym last night. I was there from 3 to 9 PM, and it was busy busy busy. It doesn't feel busy for me though - it's just chatting with people, helping them out, getting new clients in for the gym and for me.

I was selling my class to a few, and I hope at least one will join. I think they might. I also introduced the gym system to 5(!) people yesterday. It takes about 40 minutes to do, so that alone was pretty time consuming. Also, it made me take about 6000 extra steps. :)

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I have concluded a solution to how to track my exercise in Paris. I can't really go for my 5 kilometer walks in the morning. I know Wife wouldn't be comfortable with me walking around a strange city super early morning like that, and she's probably right. A lot could happen. I better not. I myself would actually love to explore at 4 or 5 am, but I get her point. It's a big city, a lot of poverty around, and that can be dangerous if you smell like touist. Let's not do that.

So, the walking will have to be with wife. I know we're gonna be doing quite a bit of walking, so I am not too concerned, but I would have loved to do even more. I love walking.

Anyways, I found my little pedometer to be fairly accurate when it comes to steps. 1300 steps on it equals a kilometer, more or less. So, my goal will be that we try - over the course of a full day - to walk 10000 steps, as the brainiacs recommend. It's a nice goal, and not unaccomplishable. I know that we'll be moving around a lot, and I know that Wife is up for it. She want's to spend lot of the time taking pictures and looking at markets, and I think it'll be a pretty good combination. Besides, I can probably talk her into doing a kilometer or two of "warmup" walks before we slow down for the markets. That would give us an advantage.

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Today is an easy day at work, though it's a long one.

We start off with a morning class. Yup. That means breakfast. You're right. Geeez. Those breakfasts sucks, especially on a Low Cal Day. It probably also means lunch. Which equals crappy sandwiches. Geez.

So, I will be having a tiny breakfast in a few moments, and then bring 2nd breakfast. I will also bring a salad for lunch. This way I am free of the food that they serve, I will still be able to eat, and I have enough calories available for dinner tonight and still be able to stay under 600 calories.

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Today, I'm thankful for:
- A weigh-in under 80 kilos! It's been almost a year! :)
- TOTALLY on track!
- One more day before vacation!
- Feeling simply amazing. I love what a few Low Cal Days do to my body (though they get tedious when I do too many. I can't recommend it).
- Wife!
- My walks!

Happy Thursday! Life is good!
Weigh-in: 175.7 lb lost so far: 166.0 lb still to go: 0 lb Diet followed 100%

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