Dukan -Day 249 – SOCLOSE

Posted on April 21, 2012 by flamidwyfe

Friday was a PV (Protein/Veggie) Day 🙂

Daily Weight Loss: 1.1 ponds/0.50 kg
Total Weight Loss: 88.9 pounds/40.41 kgs
I’ve lost 34.66% of my body weight in 8 months.
My BMI has gone from 45.17 to 28.6
I have 1.1 pounds to reach my Dukan True Weight and just 1/2 a kilogram… HALF!

This is going to be a short one, because I’m working on a long post related to my work field trip on Thursday, and I’m on lunch… Albeit a 90 minute lunch (that’s what we get at my job!).

Breakfast: 2 tea eggs on the bus ride to K’s to see baby H and my little man Søren.
Lunch: Shashimi (salmon) and a baby bell cheddar round
Dinner: Stir fried steak with asparagus and mushrooms and seasoned with cumin and salt… Yum!

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And a pic from Thursday… I look at these pics and seriously can’t believe that’s me… Please note my thighs aren’t touching, LOL

So, back to working on the other post… I hope everyone has a fab weekend!

Ciao!

Dukan – Day 235 & 236 – Guangzhou

Posted on April 11, 2012 by flamidwyfe

Monday was a PP day and Tuesday was a PV day 🙂

Monday:
Daily weight loss: 0.7 lb/0.3 kg
Total weight loss: 86.5 lb/39.31 kg

Tuesday: No weight change

So Monday was a busy day… Worked at my hospital in Hangzhou in the morning, then Vivien, Kitty and I went to The Vineyard to watch the Geelong Cats play (Australian Football, ROCKS!!!) and then when the game was over I headed to the airport for an evening flight to Guangzhou. I’m here for a week doing staff development (water birth, normal birth, international standards training and JCIA) and I’m doing parents-to-be classes, as well. I can’t tell you how much I LOVE teaching about birth and health & safety and infection control!

Monday food:
Breakfast: 2 tea eggs
lunch: tin of tuna
Snack: 1 tea egg
Dinner: at the airport Steak

I’m staying in the hospital and this is my room…

Pretty posh and nicer than a hotel! The hospital cook is making me food to order, although I needed to inform him this morning to lay off the MSG…I got all red and broke out in hives and had numb lips after dinner last night 😦

Yesterday (Tuesday) was a lot of fun. I got up early to search for tea eggs from a street vendor. When I returned the cook sent up eggs.. Lol.
I then did rounds with the doctors and went for a walk to the Carrefour (a French grocery store that I used to shop at in Abu Dhabi)… found Greek yogurt, yay!
On the way back, I noticed the fountain in front of the hospital… NO WORDS…

Lunch in the board room with all the hospital big wigs… I had steamed fish with ginger and steamed broccoli raub… Yum!

At 3 o’clock I did my first parent Ed class and was warmly welcomed!

Lots of great questions from the audience about normal birth and water birth and I did a demonstration with the birth pool. Lots of fun!

Dinner brought to my room was beef with carrots (I didn’t eat the carrots) and a side of very yummy steamed regular broccoli.

I then went out for a run. Finished C25K Week 7 Day 1… Challenging with the ton of people meandering… Slow run given the circumstances, but a run no less… Kind of felt in training for the zombie run I’m doing with Miriam and Connie in November! Dodging people, cars, trucks and bikes!

A quick shower and I finished the night off with a pot of fat free Greek yogurt with bran and Splenda.

I hope everyone is having a good week!

Ciao!

Parting shot… From my room’s balcony… I love rooftop gardens… Anyone see the cat?

Dukan – Day 233 – Easter

Posted on April 9, 2012 by flamidwyfe

Sunday was a PP day 🙂

Daily weight loss: 0.2 lb/0.2 kg
Total weight loss: 85.8 lb/39.01 kg

Back to my normal weight loss 🙂 Still plugging along. I had the morning off for church and had a great time. A few things to note… people think that China is an atheistic country, when in fact, most people here are religious. The largest percentage being Buddhist. It is estimated that there are over 50 million Christians in China. And I have to say the church was rockin’ Easter Sunday morning. And yes, it’s a REAL church with a big ole cross on the top of it… just across the street from the Buddhist temple 🙂

The music was gospel with a bit of reggae and blues... totally awesome!!!

The really awesome thing about attending church outside of my home country is the diversity of the fellow church goers… you don’t see that so much in churches in the U.S…. it was the same in Al Ain… people from all over the world in church with you… it makes it so much more fun!

The kids group... rockin' the house at Easter services.

I then walked 2 miles to the bus stop for Bus 900 to take the 1 hour and 18 minute ride to work. Wasn’t too bad… I love people watching.

I then had another marketing event to ~~live through~~ smile through 🙂 Steve, Romina and I got up and sang “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”… the crowd loved it and the kids sang it in Mandarin… pretty cool.

I then went home and got another run in… I’m really trying HARD not to overdo it, but I love it so much! I can’t explain it better than that… took my time, worked on pacing, since I am now running for longer periods without stopping… I think I’m doing pretty well…

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Breakfast: One baby bell low fat cheese roundy thingy, 2 tea eggs
Lunch: 1 tea egg, tin of tuna
Afternoon snack: 1 tea egg
Dinner: Stir fry pork loin with onions and garlic cloves… yum

Exercise:
1 mile walk to and from work
2 mile walk to the bus stop
2.98 mile/4.79 kms Run

I hope everyone had a nice Easter Sunday or Passover weekend!

Ciao!

Parting shot… PJ’s AND high heels in the tea egg line this morning!

PJ's and High heels at 651 a.m.

Dukan – Day 232 Cruisin’ Along

Posted on April 8, 2012 by flamidwyfe

Saturday was a PV day 🙂

Daily weight loss: 0.4 lb/0.2 kg
Total weight loss: 85.6 lb/38.91 kg

Just cruisin’ along at the end here. Had a marketing event in the evening and I’ll load up the pics from that at the end.

Breakfast: 2 Tea eggs
Lunch: Leftovers from night before
Afternoon snack: 1 Tea egg
Dinner: steak fajitas without the fajitas at the Mexican restaurant. Yum.

Exercise: Walked the mile to and from work and then ran later in the night.

Left knee holding up well, I’m very pleased 😀
It feels good to be out there running again two nights in a row.

I hope everyone has a lovely Easter/Passover weekend!

Ciao!

They are huge on marketing events here. This is the final celebration weekend of the MONTH celebration of being open one year.

Dukan – Day 231

Posted on April 7, 2012 by flamidwyfe

Friday was a PP Day 🙂

Daily weight loss: 1.1 lb/0.50 kg
Total weight loss: 85.2 lb/38.71 kg
I’ve lost 1/3 of my weight since August! 33.40% to be exact.
I’m in the 160’s!!! And have 4.84 lbs to go until I reach Dr. Dukan’s True weight and 14.84 lbs to go to reach my goal.

The full moon last night was gorgeous:

Breakfast: 2 tea eggs and bacon
Lunch: tuna
Dinner: stir fry steak with onions and garlic

Exercise: I RAN and I was FINE : D

No pain in the knee while running!

I hope everyone is having a good Easter weekend!

Ciao!

Dukan – Day 229

Posted on April 5, 2012 by flamidwyfe

In very late from consult, so quickie update….

Wednesday was a PV Day 🙂

Daily weight loss: 0.7 lb/0.37 kg
Total weight loss: 82.5 lb/37.51 kg

1. The 160’s are very close!
2. Plastic surgery consult went well, full update in morning blog tomorrow 🙂
3. Sneak peek… Doc said I had very little fat to lipo from abdomen… I love him 😀
4. Didn’t get enough calories in today, but did take some food… Need to work on that better!

I’m off to bed, spent a total of 8 hours on high speed trains today!

Ciao!

Gorgeous old stone bridge contrasted against new buildings in background. Seen from train this morning.