Exercising and Loving Life Again

Well I am walking alot now. In the past week I have walked 4 1/2 hours according to my heart rate monitor - these are great little devices that record how long, at what intensity, and how many calories you have burnt at each session. Then it adds up the whole week and gives you a summary. Apparently I burnt (during exercise sessions) 2248 calories. Not bad. I have noticed that when I exercise that is when the weight comes off. If I don't exercise it just sits there.

This week I lost another kilo - so now I am 103 kilos. I am atually enjoying going out again and getting dressed up. This is a photo of me on Sunday 25th May. Also enjoying going out and eating. I shared a seafood risotto and I probably had about 1 cup of it - or perhaps even less because I couldn't resist a tiny corner of their fresh dinner rolls with butter. In terms of drinks I am still only strictly sticking to water. Nothing else except for an occassional cup of tea - without sugar of course. Today I had fruit smoothie for breakfast - for lunch I had half a steak sandwich and for dinner I had boiled fish with boiled brussel sprouts and a tablespoon of spinach rice. YUM all drizzled with Portuguese olice oil of course. YUMMY - It will be my lunch tomorrow also. Today I got hungry at 12 noon - probably because I had breakfast so early. Then at 4 pmish I was hungry again so I had some pepitas, 2 shelled peanuts, and sunflower seeds. This kept me happy until dinner at 6.30 pm. Now I am very full at 9 pm and will go to bed soon without even needing my evening snack. Way too full for that. Gosh I love this feeling. Psycholgically still difficult to not think about eating and having a snack - but I am working on it, and when you are this full - It is not so hard.