Having got brave drinking all the black, unsweetened herbal teas lately, I decided to try my normal tea black and unsweetened. I'm afraid though that it doesn't have the same allure of herbal teas and I only managed to get through half a mug before adding some sweetner and fat free milk.
I love my tea (normal tea that is) and for me to continue to love it, I actually need to enjoy the taste. When it has no sweetener and no milk, its just yukky - rather bitter and unappetising. So I guess I won't be giving up the sweetner and fat free milk any time in the foreseeable future.
I know that using sweetner isn't that healthy, but as I drink copious amouts of tea during the day, having sugar in it would just be asking for trouble. For the same reason, I use fat free milk. Originally when I started with the fat free milk in my tea, it took a lot of getting used to, but now I can't even drink a cup of tea with full cream milk it it without feeling rather nauseous. If I HAVE to have full cream milk, then it must litterally be just a teaspoonful.
For me, a nice mug of tea is like a haven in a storm, its something to be savoured and enjoyed with relish (not the hamburger kind hehehe). Its an almost mystical experience LOL. It usually takes at least two cups of tea in quick succession in the morning, before I feel like my day has really started. Having tried various teas over the years, I have to say that Glen tea is definately my favorite favorite :-)
So here's to tea in general and Glen tea in particular *raises mug in a toast* Cheers!!!
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Done & dusted
Well, week 1, day 1 is not done and dusted. I successfully completed the first session of my Shape 10km Challenge. I have to say that jogging the 3min sections were easier than I though they would be. Tomorrow is going to be a rest day, but I don't want to do nothing so I'm going to do some yoga or pilates type exercising or something like that. Nothing too strenuous. I'm gonna be doing some weight work each day with 2kg dumbells. I started that about a week ago or so already. I started off with 3 x 5 reps of various lifts and I'm now doing 2 x 10 reps of the same lifts.
Things are definately getting better. I weighed myself today as well and i've lost about half a kilo. Its difficult to tell exact weight loss cause I still have one of those old fashioned scales. I told my hubby that I want to get a digital scale. The reason being, is that you feel less discouraged about the weight loss if you can see you lost even a little weight. With an old fashioned scale, its very difficult to get accurate results. I've been about 63kg's for ages now and couldn't seem to shift any weight and I don't even eat that much.
I think the problem was, that I was eating a lot of bread, mostly white bread, because thats what was available and convenient. I'd have two or three slices of toast for breakfast, then a sandwich or two for lunch and then my supper - not such a lot really, but it was really difficult to cut down on that without starving myself.
I'm now having oats or yougurt for breakfast, a healthy snack midmorning, usually provitas with a healthy topping for lunch (sometimes a low GI wholewheat sandwhich), a healthy mid afternoon snack and then my supper. I'm also drinking more water and having some black, unsweetened herbal teas during the day as well.
On the subject of herbal teas, I can tell you the following based on my exerperience (I prefer if possible to drink them without milk or sugar):
Green tea - pretty revolting, I'll never have it again. Even the Freshpak 'Shape' one with added hoodia was impossible to get down (I even tried adding honey, lemon & cinnamon to try make it more palatable).
Buchu tea - not as bad tasting (with added honey) as the green tea if you can get past the awful smell - I couldn't, so won't be drinking it again.
Freshpak 'Energy' (rooibos with added ginseng)- a very pleasant tea, with a lovely, slight strawberry flavour. My doc has warned me off ginseng, so lamentably I won't be buying this lovely tea again, but I'm gonna finish the container by limiting myself to one cup of it every couple of days (shhhhhhh, don't tell my doc).
Freshpak Fennel (or any fennel tea for that matter) - A lovely tea, one of my fav's and very good for lowering high blood pressure (don't drink it if you have low blood pressure), and also good for lots of digestive problems.
Herbex 'Detox Herbal Tea' - Slimmers Tea: - a lovely tea, which I really enjoy. Its a mixture of rooibos, honeybush, black tea and some herbs as well.
I passed all the teas I don't like on to my fil (father-in-law) cause he'll normally drink just about any weird tasting tea LOL so at least I didn't really waste money buying them.
On the subject of money, the herbal/healthy teas are so expensive, its really annoying, its time the peeps who make them get on the bandwagon of getting the populace of SA more healthy - come on guys give us a break, we're trying to do the right/healthy thing here.
Things are definately getting better. I weighed myself today as well and i've lost about half a kilo. Its difficult to tell exact weight loss cause I still have one of those old fashioned scales. I told my hubby that I want to get a digital scale. The reason being, is that you feel less discouraged about the weight loss if you can see you lost even a little weight. With an old fashioned scale, its very difficult to get accurate results. I've been about 63kg's for ages now and couldn't seem to shift any weight and I don't even eat that much.
I think the problem was, that I was eating a lot of bread, mostly white bread, because thats what was available and convenient. I'd have two or three slices of toast for breakfast, then a sandwich or two for lunch and then my supper - not such a lot really, but it was really difficult to cut down on that without starving myself.
I'm now having oats or yougurt for breakfast, a healthy snack midmorning, usually provitas with a healthy topping for lunch (sometimes a low GI wholewheat sandwhich), a healthy mid afternoon snack and then my supper. I'm also drinking more water and having some black, unsweetened herbal teas during the day as well.
On the subject of herbal teas, I can tell you the following based on my exerperience (I prefer if possible to drink them without milk or sugar):
Green tea - pretty revolting, I'll never have it again. Even the Freshpak 'Shape' one with added hoodia was impossible to get down (I even tried adding honey, lemon & cinnamon to try make it more palatable).
Buchu tea - not as bad tasting (with added honey) as the green tea if you can get past the awful smell - I couldn't, so won't be drinking it again.
Freshpak 'Energy' (rooibos with added ginseng)- a very pleasant tea, with a lovely, slight strawberry flavour. My doc has warned me off ginseng, so lamentably I won't be buying this lovely tea again, but I'm gonna finish the container by limiting myself to one cup of it every couple of days (shhhhhhh, don't tell my doc).
Freshpak Fennel (or any fennel tea for that matter) - A lovely tea, one of my fav's and very good for lowering high blood pressure (don't drink it if you have low blood pressure), and also good for lots of digestive problems.
Herbex 'Detox Herbal Tea' - Slimmers Tea: - a lovely tea, which I really enjoy. Its a mixture of rooibos, honeybush, black tea and some herbs as well.
I passed all the teas I don't like on to my fil (father-in-law) cause he'll normally drink just about any weird tasting tea LOL so at least I didn't really waste money buying them.
On the subject of money, the herbal/healthy teas are so expensive, its really annoying, its time the peeps who make them get on the bandwagon of getting the populace of SA more healthy - come on guys give us a break, we're trying to do the right/healthy thing here.
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