Stumped at every turn

Sometimes things are sent to try us & some of us take more trying than others. It seems that I get foiled at nearly every turn. Take the smoked salmon I've had twice this week -contains sugar! What about the Chow Mein I had last weekend (thinking it might have been a 'safer' option) aka how to gain 2kg overnight! I'm itching for a stirfry but I'm used to making them with soy sauce. I swear that every soy sauce has wheat in it. Yup, I know that soy isn't Primal, but a decent fermented soy apparently becomes more bio-available (or something) - if only I could get hold of some. I guess somewhere in little ol' New Zealand, we could probably get coconut aminos but from what I've heard, you either like it or loathe it & if I'm knocking up a stir-fry, I have to consider the random tastebuds of my other half too.

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The importance of staying away from weighing everyday/week, is often emphasised in a number of different websites that I use for reference. Far better to focus on what you put in your mouth & how you feel rather than hopping on the scales each morning (guilty) or worse still each even as well (guilty). During the first couple of weeks of the year I managed infrequent weigh-ins which was good - liberating almost, but with the event of that rouge takeaway, I'm back to weighing daily - just to make sure that the weight IS actually coming back off again - I mean, up until yesterday, I was heavier than my start weight on Jan 1!

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Exercise is important. Unfortunately it takes a deal of concious effort on my part to make it happen. Ususally once I get going I'm fine, it's getting started that's the problem! I was hoping to get quite a bit of kayaking in, but we've been out twice as it's quite windy lately, that & the tide has to be right or we have to wade through mudflats - blergh. So my darling has rigged up this bike for me. Honest, it's an old clunker with 1 gear out of 20? that work. It's all of about 20 years old! I have a new bike on my birthday wish list but I'm just as likely to get a new kitchen gadget which in itself isn't a bad thing but it'd be quite nice to have something just for me.

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Using you brain is important - apparently. Pity I didn't get the memo! I didn't use mine to remember sunblock when I took the kids to the beach the other day. The kids almost came off scott free whilst I have the 'delights' of sunburn to the point that the DH is scared to hug me. I'm pissed at my stupidity.