Diet and Weight Loss General Support #10

[Astrid]

Lol about the goat, we are thinking about getting a goat to keep the long grass down on the hill where the chicken hotel is, we'd have to keep it tethered though i think.
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Please don't. They are a herd creature, they need to be with 1 or more their own kind or they go mad. It is just cruel, especially as well to keep them tethered. We have an old rescue goat and after 3 years he still has marks from the tethering. Even really 2 is not enough. We have 2 little goat guests at the moment. They kept on breaking their tethers and finally found their way here. Once they were in with the herd, they refused to leave. We are looking after them till their owners finish their fencing.

Sorry it is a real passion of mine these days. We started off with the thing of get a couple as lawnmowers and now after being with them and learning so much about them, I realise how wrong that is. Honestly it is cheaper to get a ride on and a whipper snipper than what it is to house goats properly.

[christy]

I didn't feel so bad... yesterday I even went for a walk at lunch instead of sitting and reading facebook... I ate my sushi and then went for a 20 minute walk. Today the kids have martial arts in the morning, so instead of sitting and watching them, I went for a walk/jog down to the soccer field down the road and alternated jogging and walking for 30 minutes, then I ran up and down the hill 5 times, then I went to the back of the hall where the girls were and did some step ups and weights with my arms. I then stretched and their hour was up... it was great... I got an app for my phone to be a calorie counter.

I saw my naturopath/dietician this week with my blood results and we discussed how my food has gone over the past month (been keeping a diary) and what to tweak and she checked out the 1mkc website and the menus and we discussed with the food intolerances what supplements I need to take and how to go about it all for my body. She talked about how I have visceral fat causing my cholesterol results, visceral fat is the fat around the organs which causes the liver to not be able to process as well, or the heart or the lungs.... so we set goals according to visceral fat more than weight and it all seems very achievable...

So while I've been working hard physically, I've been trying to adjust my lifestyle... going well atm..... yep.... I'm keeping focused.

I find the hardest time is the dinner clean up, I just want to snack on the left over pasta or the kids meals which have things that are a no no..... so anyway DH keeps saying "don't do it" when I stick a hand in and I'm being good so far...

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

I never thought of it like that, we do have a ride on and a whipper snipper but it takes DP 4+hrs to mow the big paddock (not including whipper snippering) then 2+hrs to mow near the house & chicken shed, then he has to do near the creek and then whipper snipper it all. He wanted a goat or a couple of sheep for the bottom chicken shed paddock so they can climb the hill and eat all the long grass, we can't really get up there as it's steep and not safe for DP to stand on with a whipper snipper

We might eventually get a few sheep to keep in the big paddock once our trees have grown a bit and wont be prone to being eaten by inquisitive green hunting bah lambs next doors sheep get into our paddock and we've had to put up a temporary fence, i should herd them down to the chicken paddock and lock them in there for a day or two.

On the weight loss thing does anyone else seem to feel a bit 'heavy' around lunch time even if you haven't eaten much, i know i've lost weight and i can feel it but come late afternoon it feels like i weigh a tonne, but i get on the scales and i'm ok