honestly, I've never eaten the stuff (right up there with weetbix) I may possibly like it and again, maybe not *shrugs*

The forum condom stays on

i tried to follow the convo, but i give up now. lol. hope your day is going good.

Some conversations are better left to their own...meanderings

I had a jar that was about 2 tablespoonss that i brought back from australia - i made sos many people taste it - but they used toothpicks for tasting to get small quanties - and the jar was still mostly full i couldn' convince anyone to have a full serving.. though it wasn't awful on toast with a thin layer of butter and a thinner layer of the vegemite -i just found it salty

Is this as a sign of approval?

Yep. A good day. It's always good to see your face first thing.

Agreed.

I've mostly eaten Vegemite on toast too. I haven't actually tried it on toothpicks.

Breakfast ~7:00 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 boiled egg. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. ½ glass tomato juice. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.

Snack 10:30 Coffee with whole milk. Apple.

Lunch 12:40 2 slices wholemeal bread, a grilled chicken thigh. .

Snack 4:00 1 Salada cracker. 6:00 1 carrot.

Exercise: 8:00 pm. 50 min. Walking. Long warm up and a few intervals on the oval.

Long warm up (10 min funny walks plus 5 min exercises and stretches) - took longer than I expected.
Intervals on footy oval, fast to one end (61 sec, 63 secs) – ie faster than last time, slow back (2 min 17).
Between the long warm up, chatty passers by and no-good dog, I only managed 5 sets. However they were good ones. They felt right. I finally managed to time a fast heart rate and it was 180. I did not feel like I was dying but one site I looked up said my maximum heart rate was 169? Never mind I am pretty sure I have seen things that suggest 180 would be ok, not too fast or too slow.

That dog is in danger of being deleted from my exercise program on the days (like today), when someone else has already taken her out. She really doesn’t get running back and forth. I saw her running along the boundary line on my way back down the middle of the oval, one time tonight, and started to think she might be getting a bit more of a workout than usual, then she totally disappeared. Turned out she was lying down waiting for me right out of the oval, across the car park by the church. All ready to go home and quite illegal. And she wouldn’t come back. I had to stop and go and get her!

Dinner 9:15 100 gm lean pork, ½ onion, ½ pear, balsamic vinegar. 1 roast jacket potato. Microwaved carrots. Fresh baby spinach.
Water: ~2000 ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 12:30

On plan:117 days. Achieved food target: 99 days. Exercised: 100 days. All goals: 7 days.

Too Funny about your dog Felici!

I've never been able to bring my little ankle sharks! I'm not sure if they could go a mile or not

Hope your day goes well!

I wish the dog had kept up with me!

I really want to extend my occasional long daytime walks now but I don't think she could handle it. I would rather have some company though and she tries harder to hang with me on the walks than anyone else would!

Now that's a real accomplishment when your dog can no longer keep up with you. As for the maximum HR calculations, you have to take those with a grain of salt. In my case, the 220-age formula is about 9 or 10 beats too low.

Actually, if I tried it on the weekend it might be ok. Maybe I could take her, do what I wanted and if she started looking worn out maybe I could phone my husband to come and get her. I don't think he'd mind. Despite having too many ideas of her own, she's still the apple of his eye!

Thanks Tom. It is nice to think I can manage more than the dog. Sometimes like tonight, she just thinks my games are boring, but other times it's because I have more stamina now.

I don't know how to work out a maximum heart rate properly. I just saw that different sites are saying different things to each other. And that my quite reasonable feeling heart rate was supposedly more than I could manage. Actually, now I think about it, maybe my resting heart rate has changed down from what it always used to be and that makes the calculations wrong. I'll try to take it in the morning.

Just visiting. You're doing some challenging running! I've begun to run. Used to think I was too fat to run, but I'm not. I've got some serious midsesction jiggle going on but I"m persisting with it.

When did you take it up?

When I do my heavy interval cardio, my heart rate sometimes goes up to 162. According to the 220-age formula, I should be dead at that point.

That's why you have to look for a formula that incorporates resting pulse. Since mine is in the low 50's, that changes things around a bit.

And even then, you have to experiment. If you're able to exercise OK at your "maximum", then it's not really your maximum. Once you get to about 95% or 96% of your real maximum, you'll be able to last about 20 seconds or so before you have to give up (assuming your ticker is OK!).

Cool. Thanks Tom. I'll have another look tomorrow.

I'm not exactly running I think. Maybe something hybrid? I'm just trying to go as fast as I can without feeling like I'm landing too much weight on to my knees and ankles. I would love to really just run flat out and not worry about it, but I think it's too much of a risk in my case. Although I can do a ton of things I used to think I was too fat for even when I was the same weight I am now, and the jiggle wouldn't worry me either, I don't want to damage some joints I have that I know are already worn, and make myself start getting older again instead of younger!

I used to hate to run so much when I was a kid. Even when I was a teenager I couldn't go much father or faster than I can right now!

I have running pencilled in my mind as a maybe someday. Maybe if my muscles were strong enough and my knees had recovered a bit - and I had them x-rayed, and asked the doctor first...but I really think I'm past running as a regular thing now.

That ought not sound like I'm complaining. I am thrilled about all the things I can do now that I couldn't manage 4 months ago and never even imagined doing! I did expect to be able to breathe better with less weight and be able to eventually tie my shoelaces more easily. In fact the shoelaces thing happened really fast, and I can do squats and get up from the floor without clearing a 4 foot space around me first ... It's very nice! I love feeling stronger.

More strength and a lot more flexibility... there are some nice spin offs in this get healthy business.