I didn't realise if you edit a post you can take the gremlins out!

Hi ladies

Just a quick note to let you know that I'm still around. Have been feeling low again so have been to visit my doctor. She's changing my anti-depressants so hopefully I'll be on the way up again soon.

Something interesting that I never knew is that the medication I'm currently on and have been on for 7 years or so can cause weight gain!

Imagine if a side effect of changing meds is that I lose a little weight!

I'll be back next week, more on track I hope.

LittleKiwi, hope your new meds are helpful - they can certainly increase appetite, so it'll be great if you feel brighter AND lose more weight!!

I've strained my achilles tendon, so I'm sitting around with ice down my ankle support, trying to decrease the swelling. It's niggling but not REALLY bad - the treatment is rest, but I don't want to stop training as I'm on a roll! I'll tell my trainer I can't do skipping (hah!) as jumping makes it worse, and maybe drop the running and stick with boxing for cardio.

Morning all!

I never managed to post yesterday...busy, busy (and of course running late )

Anyway, Monday was all good food and water wise! I took the night off of the step ups as promised...now that felt naughty

Yesterday, was good as well - water, food and step ups done.

But, I have been having some huge cravings these last couple of evenings!! I am just droopling for stuff I should not have! It's a huge battle with myself to stay in control...so far I have managed that! It worries me though, as I am going to have to step into a grocery store in the next few days! I am going to have to psych myself up for that big time!!

Ani, how did the move go? Are you in your new home now? Are we all invited to the house warming??

LittleKiwi, good to hear from you. Pleased you made it to the doctor and I hope the new meds help with your mood with the added bonus of helping with the weight loss!

Barb, hang in there mate. It is hard to stay in control of your habits when your emotions are running wild. Your feelings toward your bother and gfs new arrival are totally understandable. Of course you are going to resent people who are happily extending their family when the dream for you has been put on hold. Try not to let it affect your relationship with your brother though and certainly not with the new babe.

So, is it a niece or a nephew?


Alright, I gotta run!

Have a good one ladies!!

http://www.precor.com/cons/en/tools/workouts/#tre

Anyone who has a treadmill, or uses one at the gym, I found this website with lots of great programs - fat burning, cardio conditioning, and peak performance. They have great detail and hopefully I'll see some results with the "fat burning" program this week!!

Just a quickie from me tonight. I've got a thumper of a headache.

Weighed in today and have gone down another 500g, not as much as I would have liked but its in the right direction at least!

No baby yet, turned out to be a false alarm. They've been told if nothing happens in the next week then she'll be induced next Tuesday. Must be a girl!

I think I need an early night or three! I'm having so much trouble sleeping lately I feel dead on my feet. I think I need to reprogramme my head, I lay awake for hours after I go to bed then when its time to get up I'm just about needing to staple my eyes open!!

Nite ladies
Barb

Thank you for the site augigi very helpful

omg mary where did you come from? I thought you had disappeared. Welcome back

Vonni

Hi girls -

So I ditched work and uni today to go home to mum. My sister pressed charges, and he was arrested today. Wow. It was totally stressful, and I am buggered now, but mum + kids are going as well as can be.

I stuck to the food plan, no variation. Hanging on to normality?

Hope everyone else is well, I just thought you girls would like the update. Oh, his bail conditions mean that he cant come near the house, so there is less pressure on mum to move out. But she is still looking.

Take Care - proper update when I;ve caught up all that work that was meant to be done.

Kylie

LOL No I am still hanging around. Just lurking and hovering between 81 and 82kgs. Just got a new program from the gym and will be starting on that today. Sort of lost my mojo there for a while. But I think I have found it again. Good to see you all still hanging in there and losing. Well done! Well off to work have a good day.

Morning!!

Firstly, Kylie, thankyou for the update. I think it is great that something is being done! This should help with the healing for your sister and also you and the rest of the family. I hope he gets what he deserves!!

Well done too, for sticking with the diet

Barb, well done on your drop! 500g is nothing to be scoffed at! Any further progress with the babe??

Mary, glad you are still with us! You seem to be stuck at exactly the same place as me! I've been hovering between 80 - 85kg since well before Xmas!! Grrrr...it is sooo frustrating! But we will make this won't we?

Vonni? How are you doing mate?

And Ani????? Where are you? This place is so empty without you! Seriously, I hope you are ok and that you are just having internet connection issues at the new house?

And not forgetting all the others...Britt, Leeny, Kathy... I hope you are all ok.

Me...for the first time in three weeks, I fell off the wagon yesterday. I think I know where I am going wrong now too. I gradually cut things out of my diet as the days go by, just small things like the apple after lunch or the coffee after work.

I don't know why I am doing that when all I want is to stay within the 1400cal range. I set up a meal plan for each day that fits around 1400cal, and then I just don't eat/drink stuff on it thinking it'll help. In the long run it doesn't...it leads to hunger and ultimately eating too much of the wrong stuff.

So, my plan now is to continue to set my diet each day...AND STICK TO IT!!!

I am back on the wagon today.

Next week might have a few hurdles with a visitor and possibly dining out once or twice, and then the following week I am away for a few days for work again...then it is Easter!!!!

These things are meant to test us right?

Have a good day ladies!!

Morning all.

Kylie great news to hear. Well, it'd be better not to hear at all but you know what I mean. And so good to hear you are going to your mum. You all have a long journey ahead of you but you WILL come through it. Thanks for update

Lindor did you know that apples are GOOD FOR YOU Something to do with the type of acid in them that helps your metabolism. Now if you cut them out I will find you and But I'm guessing it doesn't mean eat only apples. If it was like that there'd be an apple diet. I couldn't do it anyhow, cause I don't like them very much. But you know the saying - an apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Ani???? ANIIIIII????? Please come back. How's all the moving going?

Hey Gen hows the tendon? Hope it gets better soon.

Congrats Barb on yr weight loss. Glad to see you got the better of those little gremlins. Your headache all gone now? Or is it a tired / stress / diet one? You know the type - hang around for days and can take the edge off with painkillers but still lurking in the background!

I've been ok with my eating this week, but still no exercise. So not expecting to lose any weight - again! I have worked a few days this week, and by the time I get home I am exhausted and no energy to go walking. Besides work, George is visiting and being iron deficient it saps all my energy too.

I DID however walk on Monday though. Walked to pick kids up from school then came home and weeded (pigweed) then mowed lawn. First time in AGES. On Tuesday my legs were really sore from squatting and pushing so I gave my walk a miss, then worked Wed / Thu. My oldest kids go to their Dads this weekend so I will take opportunity to have some quality time with DH and Bubba. Might go walking later this arvo on the river bank with them.

Oh, BTW - update on promotion I applied for...... Didn't get it. Thats ok though cause it would have taken a lot of my time that I want to spend getting ready for study and I don't think I was ready to put the little one in care yet.

Gotta run. Banana cake in the oven needs to come out and I have 4 loads of washing to hang

Catch up with you all later

Vonni

Hey girls -

Things seem to be going well at home. My other sister and brother have been told, and mum got a new post box!

I have been feeling really really flat, I think I may have pushed myself a little far in the last couple of days. I got home yesterday, with just enough time to throw my uniform on and dash to work, followed by getting up at 5.30am to finish all the study/essays that should have been done on Thursday. I had another AIESEC presentation today too.

I went to the gym this arvo, did a kickboxing class followed by BodyBalance. That was great! So I got the best of both worlds - I could bash the crap outta something, then totally relax!

poor bf is still here too, amongst all of this. We had a fight on Wednesday, because I needed him to come home with me, but he said that he had to work instead. I was devastated by that - I would have dropped everything for him. ANYWAY - he had a change of heart, and was absolutly perfectly helpful, kind, understanding and supportive the entire time we were home. I don't underdstand men sometimes.

Well, I am still on the go - best be off. Sounds like everyone is still movin' and shakin'. I do miss Ani though. *sigh*

Kylie

Where does everybody go on the weekend?

I'm here...lurking.

I've not been very good with the food intake these last few days. I am so hopeless at this whole thing. And with the food going out the window, I wonder what the point of exercise is! It's a nasty circle with me.

Why is it one day I can feel so motivated and determinded and the next I lose it all??

I can only try again tomorrow.

Arghh...another miserabe post from Lindor!

Sorry.



How are you going Vonni?