It took 95 mins, I'm not a particularly fast walker. It works out to a little over 3 mph. Tomorrow I'll likely work on an hour (in another direction), and then Friday I'll go down to the lake, which should run about 80 mins. One reminder though, I'm not on a deficit this week.
aOn purpose, I did add a few calories today. Mainly because of the walk this morning. It came in just under 700 calories according to the HR monitor and I figured that was at least a few hundred more than the 'usual' walk. Tomorrow the plan will be a shorter walk (somewhere between 45 mins and 60). Friday I'll go longer again, and next week we'll see.
The weather this morning was lovely for a walk. I passed more than a couple of people who remarked on what a gorgeous morning it was. I think tomorrow I'll take my mother's camera with me and snap a few pictures at the lake. I'm still working on a plan, something that will take me around 5 miles and to maybe more than one spot. Playing around at the moment in MapMyWalk to see.
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I started a lil side project too...a blog
Must be the time for it, right? I really don't know why I did it myself, as I feel there's just nothing interesting happening in my life at the moment. But hey, if I hate it, I can delete it.
you are so diligent with your food... I'm daily impressed with you!
Yesterday might have included a few extra cherries or boysenberries. Although I weighed out a portion (especially the boysenberries) there might have been a few extra... when walking past them outside.
I was hoping to catch up tonight, but that just didn't happen. I don't always post in every log I read (sometimes I have nothing to add), but I like to try and keep up. I was playing with Google Reader today to subscribe to a few blogs I like to look at as well from time to time. I like the idea that it will collect all the posts in one place and I only need to check it. Of course, that means more stuff to catch up on.
So, off to bed soon as I'm going to try and start off a little earlier tomorrow. Mainly because the forecast is calling for a pretty hot day (with a humidex to boot) and I'd like to be home before it gets too hot. I doubt I'm going to get a nice fresh morning like today, with just enough of a breeze to keep you cool.
Hai! Thanks for checkin' out my blog. I added yours to my reader as well Google reader is awesome. I keep adding food blogs to it...I have about 40 new posts a day to read!
I was just talking to a friend last night about how we both feel we need a creative outlet because our jobs are kind of stale at the moment, and I think this will fit the bill for me nicely.
Hai! Thanks for checkin' out my blog. I added yours to my reader as well Google reader is awesome. I keep adding food blogs to it...I have about 40 new posts a day to read!
I was just talking to a friend last night about how we both feel we need a creative outlet because our jobs are kind of stale at the moment, and I think this will fit the bill for me nicely.
I like the idea of it, since often I feel I don't have time to visit the places I'd like to. Having them all together makes sense. I've only added a few so far (obviously yours is one of them), but I'm sure I'll eventually have a lot of them.
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So, I got out a little early this morning and did do the walk down to the lake. I snapped a few pictures although I haven't downloaded them off the camera yet. It ended up being the longest walk I've done this week. 1hr 42mins - and I gotta say, I was about done by the time I was close to home. After a shower and breakfast though I'm about to go out and do some shopping. It worked out to 5.21 miles (8.29 km), which again works out to just above 3mph. Looking at this week I've done just about 6 hours of walking, which works out to just over 18 miles. That kind of just floors me.
Lots of walking this week (no issues)
Lots of running around shopping this morning (no issues)
Picking mulberries, foot slipped off a rock I was standing on so I wasn't stepping on plants my mother plants under the tree (BIG PROBLEM)
My knee is now killing me, I mean really? I've got some ice on it at the moment, but what an annoyance. I'm sure it's not a big deal, but I went back out to the library briefly after lunch, and felt every step across the parking lot.
On the bright side I've got a little over 2 pounds of mulberries in the freezer. Off to look for recipes...
I decided while looking around online to stop with the ice. It seems that there are two trains of thought. If it's a muscle, then RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevate) but if it's a ligament then MEAT (movement, exercise, analgesics, treatment). Of course this assumes you know which you've injured. Duh.
Having said all that it does kind of feel better when I walk on it, and move it back and forth so we'll assume that it's a ligament issue and not bother with the ice.
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On the mulberry front, I've decided next week to make some sour cherry & mulberry jelly. And it will be a pectin-free product. Look at the difference in recipes:
3 cups juice
1/2 cup lemon juice
7 cups sugar
1 bottle liquid pectin
or
1 cup juice
3/4 - 1 cup sugar (depending on pectin test)
I'll get less jelly, but it won't be 2/3 sugar in each jar.
Heal quickly.. it doesn't sound likely the walking did you in, maybe a wrong move or something.
Thank you very much for that link, it was exactly what I was looking for a while ago as I also heard the 'RICE' protocol was being questioned!
Heal quickly.. it doesn't sound likely the walking did you in, maybe a wrong move or something.
Thank you very much for that link, it was exactly what I was looking for a while ago as I also heard the 'RICE' protocol was being questioned!
It was actually you and Bytsi discussing it in her log that made me go look for the link. I couldn't remember the name of it, but I knew it had been discussed. Once I had RICE protocol, finding the comparison one was fairly well.
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Thanks.
I think moving on it has helped a bit. I might put some heat on it in a little bit as well. It's just odd because I'd been talking with my mother earlier in the week about how I never have any knee pain anymore. I used to always have it. I think I mentioned it in here, but I would go to sleep with a heating pad wrapped around my left knee. It has a slight 'click' in it, not that you can hear it, but I can feel it. My concern has always been that I've done long term damage to it with carrying around so much extra weight. For the past 5 or 6 years at least I've done jobs where I've been on my feet a fair bit.
Anyway, we'll see how it feels over the weekend. If it's not .really. bad on Monday I think I'll definitely do a little light walking on it and see how it goes. I will have to watch it next week as if I end up doing a lot of canning I'll have to make sure that I wear shoes (which I don't always do), and keep moving around more.
I hope the knee thing gets better, and that it's not a big deal. I still think about mine, esp. now that my running mileage is increasing.
I noticed in your meal logs that you included pisco sours. Those are great drinks, but I'm also biased because that is a Peruvian cocktail, and I have Peruvian heritage.
Yep, it was actually Chile when I first had them. And originally I was using Chilean pisco, but at the moment our liquor stores are carrying Peruvian pisco. I admit that I use splenda though instead of sugar. I do use key lime juice, which is about the closest taste I can get (from memory of what we had when there). I consider myself quite lucky in that I was originally buying a case of key lime juice at a time (from Florida) and for whatever reason recently they've started selling the same brand of it in one of the local grocery stores.
It makes a great summer drink. And I can pretend that I'm just boosting my vitamin C with the lime juice.
I've been pacing around tonight, trying not to sit down too much. I find it's the worst when I sit with it bent at the desk, then get up. When I'm done posting here I'll probably use the laptop at the couch and read a few more logs before going to sleep. Maybe use the heating pad when I'm there.
One of my errands today involved doing some grocery shopping. I bought two more half pork loins. Going by memory and the price (1.49/pound) I think it was somewhere between 14 and 15 pounds. Since we have plenty of smoked pork I just stuck them in the freezer. That's easier sounding than it was. I'll brine and smoke them closer to the time I got back to school. I also bought cherries (more from Washington State). I was weighing them out at lunch and they're huge! For 8oz of cherries I got 21 of them. My mother probably ate about the same. I'm guessing we might end up getting more before the sale is over on Thursday. Although if we're down in Vineland getting cherries to can next week we'll probably buy local ones as well.
I did the same as I did on Wednesday, adding a couple of hundred extra calories for the longer walk today. It came out as 782 calories, which is a little higher than the normal ~300 cal walk I'd been doing. The main change was pretty much an extra tortilla at dinner.
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hope your knee is starting to feel better, and well done with all the walking, looks like you were just short of marathon distance last week.
you may have answered this is your log before, but what does the realcdn stand for?
I was thinking of aiming for minimum 20 miles this week, and maybe working up for a little while. I'm not sure what difference the knee pain will make. The odd thing is that it's more sore when the leg locks straight. On Monday I'll probably put my shoes on and try a 30-min walk just to see how it goes. I'll go down the street and turn left onto the bike path. It's basically 10 mins to that point and I can decide at what point I need to turn around. And there's a bench at the 15-min mark just in case. There's one further on, but I think quite a bit further on.
The realcdn came from a pre-internet mailing list I was on. It was back in the days with bbs systems, and really slow dial-up connections. Also, a time when some people (not me) paid by the hour for access and/or paid long distance charges to connect. Basic protocol on them was that posts had to be on topic, and if you wanted to add something off topic, put it at the end of an on topic post. So I logged on one day and took about 15 mins to download a whole bunch of 'happy 4th of july' posts. I made an on topic post, adding that it maybe wasn't appropriate to flood the list with a bunch of country-specific holiday posts, that we weren't all americans. Well, more than one person told me that once I'd left my country and lived in America that I should celebrate the holidays as my own. It took a lot to convince them that I wasn't a Canadian who was living in America. Eventually someone made a comment like 'oh, so you're a real Canadian?' and I think I changed my handle to that. I found that a lot in the BBS days, that people didn't seem to understand that there were people from Europe, Australia, Canada, etc. on the boards. They seemed to think that they were very much a US thing. The interesting point is that for years Canada had a much higher percentage of people who were online than the US did (not sure if that's changed or not). It's just that we have less people to start with.
It was a rather quiet day around here today. We had a massive storm front go through here this morning, which gave us a short power cut. That's really unusual around here, but it wasn't long enough to be a problem. The weather was hot, sticky and muggy after that, but kept clear enough that we had a great swim in the afternoon.
The knee is better today. Not perfect, but better. It definitely is better if I keep walking on it, so I tried to do that a good part of the day. As well, adding some heat to it when I had time as well. It was odd, but most of the pain was coming when the leg was in the straight position (ie. not bending), although this morning if I lifted it off the ground and swung my leg it was sore as well. It's down to more of a twinge (and not with every step) so that's a great sign.
One more day of high calories and then back to the deficit. Originally I was going to do Sunday to Saturday, but we have company coming (which I knew) so I ended up with Monday to Sunday. I'm enjoying the not sticking to the 30% protein level and I might keep that up for the rest of the summer. I admit it, I just love the local fruit, and hate the idea of forcing myself to say take a protein shake instead of fruit. We'll see how it goes next week. You would think with the canning I have planned that I'd get sick of cherries, but I know that I won't.
Just wanted to let you know that I just finished making your tandoori chicken recipe, and that it's smelling oh-so delicious in my house right now. I used chicken thighs instead of drumsticks in my version, so we'll see how the texture/consistency comes out, but I think it'll be very good.
You take care of that knee OK? I'm still convinced you made a wrong move, rather than walked too much.. but you aren't even sure yourself?
Hmm got to check out your recipe for the tandoori chicken thighs
And.. when was that time of BBS again? It makes perfect sense what you did, it *can* be annoying at times when every American list member assumes that everyone else is Merkan (actually for me both Usonians and Canadians are Merkans). This still holds true for some of the more US-dominated forums I'm a member of.
Funny detail: I've gotten a free email addres in 1996 and still use it. That's where my name Espi comes from too (Espi = abbreviation for someone speaking Esperanto)
Just wanted to let you know that I just finished making your tandoori chicken recipe, and that it's smelling oh-so delicious in my house right now. I used chicken thighs instead of drumsticks in my version, so we'll see how the texture/consistency comes out, but I think it'll be very good.
I'm glad to hear your knee is feeling better.
I use both actually, thighs and drumsticks. It came from 99 cent chicken pieces, that I cut apart. It's really not bad considering I generally detest yogurt in anything.
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You take care of that knee OK? I'm still convinced you made a wrong move, rather than walked too much.. but you aren't even sure yourself?
Oh no, I'm convinced what did me in was twisting it while picking the mulberries. Walking around the house seems to keep it from tightening up, but I'm just not sure that putting a lot of walking on it will be good or not. I'll just be cautious on Monday.
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And.. when was that time of BBS again? It makes perfect sense what you did, it *can* be annoying at times when every American list member assumes that everyone else is Merkan (actually for me both Usonians and Canadians are Merkans). This still holds true for some of the more US-dominated forums I'm a member of.
Funny detail: I've gotten a free email addres in 1996 and still use it. That's where my name Espi comes from too (Espi = abbreviation for someone speaking Esperanto)
Trying to pin it down, it would have been probably late 80s, maybe early 90s. I bought my first 'real' computer in 1987 and bought the modem just shortly after that. The mailing list I'm talking about might have more likely been early 90s as I played around local boards for a while. Most Canadians don't like it when people assume we're Americans.
I might still have an old email address that I used for another purpose, but the old original email address was from a now defunct BBS system. In fact, the email addresses I use now are all relatively new (within the last 10 years and/or less than 2 years old). I switched over accounts on the provider I use here 2 years ago and was told I couldn't port over my old email addresses. Silly really, but they are the same with .net instead of .ca - I bitched long and hard about it and they said they'd keep the old ones active for 6 months. Well, coming up on two years and they're still active (so I guess it wasn't such a big deal after all).
Well, the US, Canada as well as Mexico is all North-America and technically speaking I'd also include Mexicans into my 'Merkan' statement but that just doesn't make sense.. instead I am sometimes saying Usonians instead, which was once introduced but never caught on.
Speaking about ice cream.. how do you like Cows? Or is it too local to be known across Canada? (it's from PEI)
This morning’s weigh-in was 239.6, which is 1.6 pounds higher than last week. I'm actually surprised it isn't higher, as I really didn't keep the protein numbers as high as they usually are. I've learned to ignore maintenance weeks gains as I know by mid-week they'll be gone. Anyway the 9-week loss is 10.2lbs (1.13/week) which is usually the ‘number’ I look at to see how things are going overall. The other little compulsive number I look at is how many days I’ve been ‘on plan’ primarily with food. I still consider a maintenance week ‘on plan’ since I accomplished what I wanted to. So this is day 11 on plan with food.
Still working on the elusive 233.6 from the end of March, so seriously, no congratulations until then!
Next week’s plan is:
Back to a deficit starting Monday morning. I'm planning a walk on Monday, so we'll see how the knee does. I actually feel funny calling it a knee issue as it seems to be more the ligaments around it. I'm likely going to relax on the 30% protein levels for the rest of the summer. Last week's ran anywhere from 24% to 33% so I'm interested in seeing where they land while eating fewer calories. It might not be so bad once the cherries are over though.
Speaking about ice cream.. how do you like Cows? Or is it too local to be known across Canada? (it's from PEI)
Never heard of it. I just looked, and there is a store in Niagara on the Lake (under an hour from here). I haven't been in Niagara on the Lake for a few years. It's very touristy, although a lovely area. If I could have gotten my mother into the walking this summer more I would have probably suggested a trip down there (as it's a great place to walk). She's working too much in the garden and dropping the walks. She talked about that the other day, as I think she'd like to explore more with me, but doesn't feel that she's up to it. She keeps talking about maybe later when the garden work is not so heavy... but she's the type that will always find tasks to do, so we'll see.
I have been getting out after dinner just for a stroll only about 25 minutes, but it feels great. 
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