It feels like they are!! Feels like my lips aren't big enough to cover them! And flossing takes about an hour because you have to use this stupid thing and thread the floss behind the wire on each tooth.. so painful! Can't believe I actually did it but after these are off, I am getting veneers and having hollywood teeth! Have always had yellowy teeth as my mother took tetracycline antibiotics when pregnant with me, so I am looking forward to flashy superwhite teeth that I won't wear away with grinding!

This may put a dent in my internet dating plans though.. haha.. just started looking better and now I will be ugly betty for at least 18 months! LOL.

You're having a total transformation Gen. Good on you!

The rain cleared yesterday and I was able to go walking with my friend. It was about 55 minutes mostly uphill and half an hour back. My butt is feeling it today so I know I got a good workout It was actually really good because my friend is about the same level of fitness as me so neither of us felt too fast or too slow. We've made a plan to do this particular walk once a week so that's going to be good.

No exercise for me today as I'm catching up with a couple of friends tonight so I'll be keeping a close eye on what goes into my mouth.

Morning all,

I went for my first ever personal training session last night, it started to sprinkle as we started and then after our warm up, and ten minutes of interval training - it started to pour down, and we decided to stop. Our next session is Thursday, so I am hoping for sunshine.

This morning I went to the shops and finished getting school stuff for Liam to go back to school with. I hope I have finished. LOL

I am gonna go plan tonight's dinner, I am thinking of having pork, eggplant and pumpkin curry... a new WW recipe. I miss my coconut milk based curries. Hope this one hits the spot.

See you,

Haha so it's not just me who gets annoyed by these questions! I also feel really embarrassed and all I say is I dont eat sugar but then they start asking me more question and it really annoys me!

oh and btw hi everyone, I live in Perth and have dieted all my life and I think have tried every diet under the sun and now doing Dukan. Which so far is the only diet that I initiated myself (instead of for example Jenny Craig or Cohen etc) and lost weight on and I think that's why I have been able to stick to it and return to it post cheat more than other diets, because I am only accountable to myself. I dont know if that makes sense....

Anyway look forward to getting to know you all! xo

Hi Mascara Blue.
Agree about people asking. It's rude. I also get asked occassionally if i am pregnant. Unless u actually SEE a baby emerging at that moment don't ask lol. I do get a little bulge at the top of my abdo, and its usually when my ulcer is playing up - GEN? Theories on that please?

Julia I PMSL at "slipped" My kids must think I am, crazy.

As for me, Things are pretty full on with my new "friend", and I think that is helping me stay on track with eating though interfering with exercise time. But making most out of the companionship before he leaves

Welcome Mascara Blue it's great to see Aussie Chickes getting some more people onboard! I'm actually a Kiwi Chick and I'm in Christchurch.

Sounds like you're having some fun Vonni so good on you

I had such a lovely evening last night, popped in to see a mate briefly after work and made plans to have lunch together on Sunday and then went to another friend's place for dinner. All the way home I got all the green lights and the radio was playing great music I was thinking to myself that I'm having some awesome karma at the moment!

Got home and had a couple of glasses of wine and the ex rang up pleading for help as his car had broken down. I was very pleased to say no, sorry I've had too much to drink to be able to drive. His karma is very bad at the moment and if I'm honest I find it amusing

So no exercise for me last night. I had been feeling pretty good yesterday but today man, my butt is so sore! The big walk I did up the hill on Tuesday is definitely hitting me now. I'm going to have buns of steel in no time if I keep it up!

Anyway, plans for today are good food and some exercise. I've bought 2 apples to work to snack on, a wee bag of pretzel bows and a small bottle of diet lemon, lime and bitters. I'm meeting a friend for a walk after work and she's a distance person so we'll probably walk for at least an hour which is good.

Hope you're all well!

Welcome Mascara.

I'm supposed to be going down the South coast on Saturday but I feel reluctant to go. Hopefully some time this afternoon I will have the energy to get organised to go.

7senuf - are you near the floods? Is anyone else on here from Queensland? How bad are the floods? I can't imagine how long it is going to take them to clean up.

I am looking forward to my personal training session tonight! I will let you know how I feel in the morning. LOL

catch you all later,

How did your PT session go Vanessa? I used to love my PT sessions when I went to the gym, it really made me push myself.

I met up for a friend last night and went for a walk around a big park and ended up jogging a bit too. She's nearly 6 foot tall and I've been feeling really intimidated at the idea of jogging with her but it turns out that her pace is about the same as mine so now I have a jogging buddy which is exciting.

I'm meeting up with another friend tonight for a big walk and then we'll grab some dinner together after that.

I'm looking forward to next week, I've made an appointment to go talk to someone at a place called the Academy of Combat. They run womens thai kickboxing classes so I'm looking at doing that.

Sounds like you are doing some exciting exercises! Its good to try new things.

I loved last night's workout. I had to stop and catch my breath a few times, but definitely worth it. I did a variety of exercises I would never have tried before. I can feel the effects from doing some boxing. LOL

Liam and I are off to the baseball tonight. We are watching Sydney Blue Sox vs Adelaide. Can't wait.

Until then I am about to plan what to take away. Have you ever dreaded going away? This is my 5th year going to the same destination with my mum, my sister and her partner and kids. I know I will enjoy it when I'm there but I hate packing. We take everything - linen, food, cleaning products, clothes - the works.

I am sooooo looking forward to my week away in April, I'm taking my mum and son to Lindeman for a week. That's my kind of holiday!

If I don't check in later today, see you in a week's time!

Hope you have a good holiday Vanessa

Hi!

Can I join you? My name is Helen and I live in Cambridge, in the North Island New Zealand ..... (I see you have a flexible definition of Aussiechicks!)

I have three daughters and teach for a living ...

I tend to always do well with diet and exercise at this time of year .... bit fall of the wagon about march/april .... hoping to ensure I keep at it this year ....

Looking forward to getting to knowyou

Hi HHM3, welcome to extended-aussieland!

could it be that you start falling off the wagon as it gets colder, or do you find you just run out of new-years-resolution-weight-loss steam?

Hi Summershine ....

Thanks for the welcome ...

I like to exercise and the long summer break from school allows me to get stuck in to exercise as well as more time for meal planning etc ... ....

As it gets colder and the stress/work increases I find I make too many excuses .... but no more ... not this year .... I am determined to finish the year trimmer and healthier than how I started

I have recently joined Anytime fitness in my hometown .... so I'm going to use this after my girls go to sleep .....

Good luck with your goals .....

Helen

Read everyones posts briefly. started work at 6.30 this morning, finished at 3 then have been helping a friend clean his house all evening as h is moving and needs to be out by tomorrow. I am stuffed.

Ummmm someone out there asked me if I am near floods. Yes we are, our town was isolated, but now the main bridges into town are opened. There was no milk, bread or fuel in town and even now the shelfs in supermarket are becoming bare of other items though we can now get milk and bread. 2 fuel stations went under so i will never buy fuel there again lmao.

Have been busy with the man friend and working nights and stupid days so i apologise for not responding to individual posts.

oh and i lost a kilo the past 2 weeks

Hi Helen welcome to 3FC! Great to have another Kiwi chick onboard

Vonni congrats on the loss that's awesome! You getting some extra exercise with your man friend

I had a pretty lazy weekend, didn't exercise on either Saturday or Sunday and I felt really lazy and blah for it. As a consequence I really didn't feel up to doing anything today but forced myself to get up and go to a local forest wehre I did a half hour jog. Feeling lots better now!

Tonight I'm going to find out about starting some womens Thai kickboxing classes so am excited about that.

Funnily enough, my diet doesn't seem to be too much of a problem at the moment, I'm not feeling like overeating and I think that's probably due to the amount of exercise I'm doing. It's a good feeling.