The Ninja Diet: moose to lose weight

 

I woke up this morning with sore tighs.

I don't know if it came from me rushing to the store on the bike yesterday to buy a fuse after my fridge and freezer broke down yesterday filled with healthy food I cooked last weekend.

Or if the pain is from walking up and down the hill in the summerhouse.

Or from the swimming in the lake!

I'm the dot to the left.

 

I have the feelings my legs are getting skiner.

The pants are feelings loose.

Yesterday I practiced the weight loss advice from the Buddhist monk:

hang out with some good friends! 

Ahmed, Daniel and Johan were the perfect choice. 

 First Daniel made some Baywatch moves. 

Ahmed also felt like a great lifegard watching over the sea, even though, in case of emergency,

the water was far to cold for his taste.

The dinner of the day, a perfect moose steake.

The best lean meat you can find. 

When biking the other day I spotted the king of the forest him self. 

 Not the one for the BBQ.

Daniel duck face.

The Ninja Diet: one weight loss goal reached today!

For a long, long time I wished to see today's number on the scale!
When losing so much kilos as I have to, it's to distant to only picture the final goal.
Actually it all started in December, 5 kilos down in happiness over my new great boss.
Since the ButterflyBattle challenge January the first I have lost 20 kilos and the last week another 1.1! All the worried I had leaving my low calorie diet are gone.
I'm enjoying food as never before. The taste of a sweet bell pepper or a ripe tomato.
Blueberries and raspberries straight from the nature. Juicy chicken, bean stew, cray fish.
It such a pleasure to prepare healthy meals and try to find out how to get the best out of my 1240 calories a day.
In the picture a tasty salad of chicken and cottage cheese.

The Ninja Diet: hunting good calories

 

At the moment I am chasing healthy calories for my weight loss.

 Didn't check out if this little fellow was a prince or not...

As mathematics is not my thing, it's quite a challenge calculating calories.

To realize one square of dark chocolate is 60 calories is the most scary, but at the same very educational part.

I have found out, to lose one kilo a week, I may only eat 1240 calories a day.

I need to pick the one I stay happy one the whole day.

I also need to get adjusted to stay a bit hungry.

Water and tea help out when the craving for food kicks in.

Taking care of my flowers make me think of other things than food and eating.

I have been so busy with my weight loss I haven't noticed the one starting to bloom!

 

Flowers and birds brings me happiness! 

I got these from my mother yesterday. She bought them at the farmers market.

I have been cooking a lot this weekend. The freezer is filling up with healthy food.

I have no snacks, candies, cooking. 

I also avoid pasta, rice, bread  and potato at the moment.

The most carbs I get from veggies.

Protein from chicken, beans, fish, and very little red meat is my major diet right now.

The Ninja Diet: flash backs from Eastgermany

 

I know nothing about the life of my aunt Ingrid.

When she died I got her photo albums.

While showing them to my mother today, I found this picture from one of all the journeys around the world my aunt did.

This was without comments. Look like the crew from a restaurant. The picture on wall caught my attention. 

The dictator of DDR, East Germany, Eric Honeker.

Bizarre, as my french speaking friend would say.

Theme of today is beans and peas. 

Chili Con Carne for lunch.

 

My mother enjoyed the food and memories from all the old pictures.

Dinner: pea soup without pork.

The Ninja Diet: palt from Piteå is my weapen!

Palt is a traditional dish here in Northern Sweden. Either you love it or hate it.
 It's like knödeln in Austria  or gnocci in Italy: a very compact, boiled ball made of potato, barley and wheat. With or without pork meat hidden inside. You eat palt with butter and lingonberry sauce and drink milk.

Friday dinner with my son. After the meal you get paltschwimen, food coma.
 You want to sleep and can't eat anything else for a day or so...
170 calories each palt.

For lunch I had chicken and veggies with halloumi. The kindneybeans are waiting in water to be boiled into a hot, healthy chili con carne. Everything keeping me full for long is working in the Ninja Diet. Hunger and cravings are my worst enemies.

The Ninja Diet: thanks to my army around the world!

 

One of my greatest supporters in this ButterflyBattle fight, were I'm working hard to defeat over weight, is Rose-Marie, to the right in the picture above.

Check out the trendy low budget fashion we are representing around 1981.

Rosie has her own blog and had made her own weight loss journey .

She has reached her goal and is a great inspiration to me.

She's taking time to comment almost every blog post I share on Facebook.

 Many of you readers are helping me out. 

Cheering, pushing, giving advice and compliments.

It gives me power.

Thank you!

Return of the Ninja!

The Ninja mentality is back!

I'm gonna make it! Keep losing weight!

One month ago I stood in front of this wall:

 

In this picture I'm ten kilo heavier than today.

And in this 20 kilos...

The scale this morning showed 0,2 kilos weight loss and I was astonished.

Going from low calorie diet on shakes to food usually results in a few kilo gain due to water.

I feel so inspired!

Yesterday I was reading a lot about what to eat and got some advice from my son Elisha.

Have porridge for breakfast, he said.

I have loaded up the fridge and freezer with healthy stuff.

I write a food diary.