I know how hard it is going past those doughnuts. Today I had a cheese sandwich for lunch. I decided to walk to the supermarket and get ingredients for chicken and vegetable soup instead take away fish and chips. Made a big pot of soup/stew with onions, green capsicum (bell pepper) sliced button mushrooms, celery, bean shoots and sliced chicken breast. I usually put in 2 minute noodles as well but I forgot them, instead i threw in a sweet potato I had lying around. The soup broth is flavoured with Vegetta gourmet stock powder a splash of soy sauce some sea salt and about 2 teaspoons of worcestershire sauce. YUm. Had a bowl and 2 slices of buttered bread for dinner. I used a standard size soup bowl instead of the giant bowl like the Vietnamese restaurants use for their soup. 6 hours later at 2am I had another bowl. I made a pressure cooker nearly full of it so I will be eating this for a couple of days.

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I don't think any of us are going on crash diets. My goal is is to change to a lower calorie healthier eating style and exercise a bit more. I think the others are doing the same.

After 35 years of smoking I quit cold turkey in April 2009 and haven't smoked since.

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...I decided to walk to the supermarket and get ingredients for chicken and vegetable soup instead take away fish and chips...

Yay Monday!!! Cooking real food instead of take-out is a good way to control calories, fat, sugar and salt. Way to go, friend!

I don't think any of us are going on crash diets. My goal is is to change to a lower calorie healthier eating style and exercise a bit more. I think the others are doing the same.

Yes, I would like to drop my 30 pounds across a 9 to 12 month period.

After 35 years of smoking I quit cold turkey in April 2009 and haven't smoked since.

Best health move of your life!

Worked for me , I'm laughing. Good find Vic.
Just got back from a 1 hour walk.

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Here's something to get a laugh...

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two for two, Vic.

How many calories does a good belly laugh burn?

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

According to this website http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/calories/burning_calories/laughing-burns-calories.htm fifteen minute laughing burns between 10 and 40 calories.
Not as good as walking, but far better than just sitting in the arm chair snoozing.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

On a more serious note.
Get a pedometer and wear it. Keep track of your daily step count. Use the first week to set your baseline count, and then aim to increase the count by a small amount every successive week, setting yourself a sensible target for your increase. Several things happen, one is you loose a bit more weight, your general level of fitness improves, heart condition is improved.
Silly, simple, things like parking one place further from the store door than normal mean you take extra steps....
I've been using one for about three weeks and have shifted nearly an inch off my belly, and I'm feel less kn****d in the evening.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

On a more serious note.
Get a pedometer and wear it. Keep track of your daily step count. Use the first week to set your baseline count, and then aim to increase the count by a small amount every successive week, setting yourself a sensible target for your increase. Several things happen, one is you loose a bit more weight, your general level of fitness improves, heart condition is improved.
Silly, simple, things like parking one place further from the store door than normal mean you take extra steps....
I've been using one for about three weeks and have shifted nearly an inch off my belly, and I'm feel less kn****d in the evening.

I'm going to buy one of those things. I think it would be interesting if we all get one, and report our number of daily steps.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I'm going to buy one of those things. I think it would be interesting if we all get one, and report our number of daily steps.

Had one for over a year now.

I decided that after I "semi-retired" I was not getting any regular exercise, now never having been of a "sporty" disposition I was wondering what I could do. So I started walking round my local park.

Started slowly with one circuit, built it up to 3 circuits daily now about 4 miles total, I try for the magic "10,000" steps per day but even I don't often manage that.

In the first 12 months I had the pedometer I did;

STEPS - 3,230,795
AEROBIC - 2,496,313
Mins - 22,437
Miles - 1,983

"Aerobic" steps are when walking at more than 60 steps per minute for 10 minutes you have to work up to them!!

Over the 52 weeks that was a daily average of

Steps - 9205
AEROBIC - 7112
Mins - 64 (of aerobic walking)
Miles - 5.65 (Total not just aerobic)

I try to walk every day but that is not necessary to keep fit, half an hour of "aerobic" walking three times a week will definitely help you keep fit.

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I'm going to buy one of those things. I think it would be interesting if we all get one, and report our number of daily steps.

Had one for over a year now.

Any recommendations on brand and model?

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I'm going to buy one of those things. I think it would be interesting if we all get one, and report our number of daily steps.

Not for me, thank you. I do plan to walk our neighbor's dog late this afternoon, but I have no desire to count my steps while doing so. I dislike gadgets more than I dislike caloric curtailment!

I'm going to buy one of those things. I think it would be interesting if we all get one, and report our number of daily steps.

Had one for over a year now.

Any recommendations on brand and model?

Well being in the UK the the models are slightly different, and my one has been replaced.

I got mine from Amazon.uk and this is the closest I can find on Amazon.com

Omron HJ-321 Tri-Axis Pedometer

I find mine easy to operate and has a pocket/belt clip I don't go anywhere without it.

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I'm going to buy one of those things. I think it would be interesting if we all get one, and report our number of daily steps.

Had one for over a year now.

Any recommendations on brand and model?

Well being in the UK the the models are slightly different, and my one has been replaced.

I got mine from Amazon.uk and this is the closest I can find on Amazon.com

Omron HJ-321 Tri-Axis Pedometer

I find mine easy to operate and has a pocket/belt clip I don't go anywhere without it.

Excellent! That's actually the exact one I was looking at on Amazon just a few minutes ago. I'll go ahead and buy it.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I'm going to buy one of those things. I think it would be interesting if we all get one, and report our number of daily steps.

Had one for over a year now.

Any recommendations on brand and model?

Well being in the UK the the models are slightly different, and my one has been replaced.

I got mine from Amazon.uk and this is the closest I can find on Amazon.com

Omron HJ-321 Tri-Axis Pedometer

I find mine easy to operate and has a pocket/belt clip I don't go anywhere without it.

Excellent! That's actually the exact one I was looking at on Amazon just a few minutes ago. I'll go ahead and buy it.

And the irony is, I didn't even use a step to buy it!

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

And the irony is, I didn't even use a step to buy it!

The internet can make us lazy!!

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Not for me, thank you. I do plan to walk our neighbor's dog late this afternoon, but I have no desire to count my steps while doing so. I dislike gadgets more than I dislike caloric curtailment!

How about attaching it to the neighbours dog, dividing the result by 2, then multiplying by the difference in step length to .....

Er on second thoughts .....

I think we should impose a posting limit on the scrawny thin people - It,s obvious that typing is burning way up too many of their calories. :-)

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I think we should impose a posting limit on the scrawny thin people - It,s obvious that typing is burning way up too many of their calories. :-)

LOL!!!

Vic this is just a friendly stab at Chris S. True friends love what is on the inside, not the outside.

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