Good Luck with the new job Kathy!!! I know how scary it must feel! I am terrified about my new job that I am moving into in the next few weeks - and that doesn't involve being out of work for any duration nor leaving my current employer!!!


So I weighed in this morning! I am down another 2kgs If I keep this up I should make the 70's next week?? Oh I soooo hope so, I have seen the 80's for tooooo long!!

Hope everyone else had a good week too

I was just updating my signature and profiles with my new figures and notice there is a place to record my height in my profile. So off I went to confirm that my height was the 168cms that I have always worked on only to find I am now 172cms. Is it normal to gain height when losing weight? Or did my fat belly initially get in the way of things?

Anyway, I then went on to check my BMI with my new height and at 28 point something or rather...it puts me well into the 'overweight' catagory! I am no longer obese!!!

I could probably adjust my goal by a kg or two now too? Not going to look at that just yet though

Hi all
i am writing this in an attempt to stay away from food and down some water as well. Bit of a hard day today with one child at home with laringitis(sp?) so the food is hanging about...tv snacks, fizzy drink and chips he consumed after lunch. He is thin so who knows where it goes. I get soooo tempted not to grab a bickie when folding the box down....i wish he would eat the entire box in one go....

Good luck Kathy with the new job....that will keep you busy enough you won't want to eat eh???Plus money is always good too...

Lindor...you go girl...another 2 kilos...you have certainly kept your momentum up of late...you must be focused and determined to get to goal at the moment. You are our inspiration. I think being very busy is the key...other distractions always help. You must buy some new clothes though...your oldies must be so baggy on you now. You must show the world your successes(even though I know it is hard to accept compliments) but you should be so proud of your success and show off just a little

I have been good again this week...i weigh in on Wednesday with my sister at the Chemist where they sell Tony Ferguson. It is a meal substitute(apparently all nutritionally balanced). I must admit i do not get hungry. You mix this sachet with water...2 meals of that a day and the other should be low carbish. No bread, potaotoes, pumpkin(any of the coloured vegies) and of course no crap. It actually is suprisingly easy. I only do the breakie shake, have a huge salad for lunch and then tea plus i have 2 fruits daily. I think i have lost another kilo this week. I forget how to change my tracker...must have a play...all my details are now wrong.... I am determined to reach about 70kg or just in the 60's(69.99kg) by my tummy tuck in Novemeber. So i have a goal and like you said Lindor i really only do kilo by kilo and then wave goodbye to it....forever. I must admit that keeping it off is harder than losing. I did reach my goal after losing 50kg but managed to find 20kg of it again That did take a while but ever so slowly it just came back on even though i was continually weighing myself. i used to say"oh its only a kilo on, that will be easy to lose" and before I knew it i was saying "oh its only 10kgs...now its bloody 20"...

Enough of the raving...i have to go and pick up the other boy from school. He made some apple cinnamon scrolls at school today at cooking and will be deeply offended if i don't try one. I will have half and say i'm full eh

Keep up the good work everyone..xxxxxleeny

Ok, so I havent been receiving email notifications that you all were posting on here! I feel like Ive missed out....I will take the time to check in with everyone soon...

In the meantime, had to kinda go off plan this last week and am a little nervous to step on the scale, so I wont until I get back into it full-force this week. Needless to say, in-laws are gone now, so dont have to worry about food temptations...but Carter and I have a nasty flu bug...so hopefully that will be gone soon - will be nice to have Carter sleeping through the night again and not keeping me awake with his snoring (blocked nose, poor darling).

Anyway, hope you are all doing well!! Check in soon...

xxx

Well, I havent missed TOO much! Sounds like everyone is doing really well!

Congrats Lindor on the weight loss again! You are sure doing well!

Welcome Mary (are you the one from New Zealand??)!

Leeny, Im also on a modified version of Tony Ferguson - altho this last week has been all over the place with in-laws in town and being sick. Hope to get back into it tomorrow tho. I too find it really easy after the first couple of days (have to go thru detox again, ugh!) and find I get really addicted to veggies! I lost 3 kilos in the first week, so we'll see how susequent weeks ago....Im still attempting to breastfeed in the mornings, so usually have oatmeal or sultana bran in the mornings for brekkie, then a shake and salad for lunch, and chicken and veggies for dinner. Like you, I find I dont even get really hungry, altho thats never really been the problem for me...Im at home all day, so eat out of boredom. Unfortunately, the program doesnt help that!

Anyway, glad to be back on the boards.... Go girls!

Hellooooo ladies!

Well, I have to report I had a bit of a lapse today! I did not eat well at all

I went shopping...while I was hungry!!!

So I came home with a 200g thingy of Pringles and two bags of Apple Chips...and scoffed the lot

I have done worse...and I did stop when I said 'that's enough!' I just didn't say it soon enough!!

But I figure one slip up after five kilos in two weeks is not too bad?

Back to it big time tomorrow...and I might even make myself go out and mow the lawn again as punishment!!

I have so much happening just now I think I am stressing a tad. My folks are back in a few weeks, and the guy they had house sitting their place left last week, so I am having to run around there twice a day to tend to the dog and cat! Their house sitter was an absolute SLOB!! So I need to scrub their house before their return!

I start my new job in a few weeks.

I need to pack up my house because I NEED to sell it ASAP!

Then there is the hassle of finding somewhere else to live

GAH!!!

One day at a time right?



Britt, I was wondering what had happened to you! Good to hear from you again. Hope you and Carter are well on your way to recovery too!


Ok, I gotta hit the sack! Goodnight all

Hi all

WEll it was weigh in day for me today...i lost 1.5kg this week I did deserve it though...i was soooo good it sometimes scares me. So that just proves a point that i can do it...all it takes is that dreaded willpower. I am counting the days until my tummy tuck...it is now only 15 weeks away and i would love to lose 15kilos. big ask i know but a girl has to have a goal.
I am now at my thinnest i have been all year and feeling better for it so i thought i would come along here and brag.

Hope all else is well and trying to stick to their plan. Welcome back brit...those dreaded flu lurgies floating around winter are yuk. you will get back on plan when you feel better I'm sure.

Lindor...remember you are a strong woman and just take those baby steps with all your stuff going on and you will eventually get there.

Anyhow just checking in...i was in the middle of vaccumming when my youngest yelled out that hubbie was online so of course that is more exciting than vacumming. Kids are home today...it is Ekka day and schools are off....i asked them to mow the lawn and help with some chores...at the moment they are engrossed in the XBox...do you think they will ever surface????/

Keep on dieting girls...one day we will type that we are at goal....xxxleeny

Hi everyone

You all seem to lead such busy lives, I'm surprised you've got any time for looking after yourselves. Good on you for making that commitment and sticking to it.

Lindor I wouldn't beat myself up if I were you. Sounds to me like you've got a really busy and stressful time - packing, moving, family coming home … a bad day does not a failure make!

I'm doing OK - one foot in front of the other. The first 2kg are gone, and I can't complain about that. This week i am just trying to eat well, exercise when I can, and drink enough water (which gets tedious in this cold weather).

Stay strong and brave … there's no question that this is a big roller coaster ride we are all on :-)

Ani

Lindor, I did the same thing today......went to Walmart and came out starving.......went to McDonalds! Is anyone here using intuitive eating (hunger and fulness). There is a new thread on that if you just search those words.

Carol, I had a quick look at your thread...very interesting! I'll keep popping into it to see how you are going with it, maybe you can post here occasionally too?

From the quick look at it, it sounds kinda like what I have been doing all along. I concluded along ago, that if I was to diet I would concentrate on portion size and eating times. I had no intention on giving up what I enjoyed eating! My biggest problem was not knowing when to stop.

My diet has essentially consisted of plated meals from the frozen section of the supermarket. I figured if the meals were already plated, I couldn't serve myself a larger portion. And the range of frozen meals for one these days is huge!!! Spaghetti Bolognaise to Tuna Mornay, Chicken Parmigiana to Steak Diane!

Smaller portions, and regular meal times has produced a smaller me! What more could I ask for??

That kg thing is a little cofusing for me Ha! I like your avatar. Sounds like whatever you are doing is working so keep up the good work. Maybe you could give the IE thread a few tips. Today I wrote about how things were years ago. Would love your input.

Hey Carol, the KG thing is pretty easy to work out; one kilo = 2.2 pounds. I had a look at your thread about intuitive eating, and it's really interesting. I imagine it might take a while to work out when you're genuinely hungry, as opposed to thinking you are … but I'm going to have a good think about it.

Already posted this on IE but thought you might be interested.
I had one of those "first in a long time" moments last night. I fixed supper and didn't eat. Nobody seemed to mind. There was a lot of cheese in the meal which I don't eat. But the main thing was I was just not hungry. My hubby usually doesn't like it when don't I eat with the family but last night was ok with it. Before I went to bed I had 2ou of orange juice and was fine...not even getting hungry in the night like I sometimes do. Wish I could do that more often. When I was growing up we always ate at 5:30 pm and never ate anything after that. It wasn't a rule or anything that I couldn't have something later......we just never did. I was thin then. Being a veterinarian and a farmer, my dh always wants to eat pretty late......sometimes as late as 10pm....but not often. I think I personally need more of a schedule.

I found if I only ate when I was hungry and then only ate until the 'hungry' feeling was gone, after a few days I wound up soooo hungry I'd binge.

I agree with you Carol, a schedule is definately required. My job involves me working a fortnight of early shifts - 7am to 4pm - followed by a fortnight of late shifts - 1pm to 10pm.

For most of my life I never ate breakfast - just never felt I could face food first thing in the morning. I could often go until after lunch with nothing to eat...but once I started eating I couldn't stop!!

So during my early shifts I'd start without breakfast...make it to lunchtime and have a feed, then come home at 4pm and eat more!

On the fortnight of late shifts, I'd have a huge lunch before work to carry me through 'til knock off time at 10pm (with a snack on my tea break), and then have another big feed before bed.

On starting this current 'diet' I turned around my whole eating schedule. I actually woke up to a whole new life when I was staying with friends for six weeks. They had a young family to cater to as well so they were eating (and feeding me ) proper meals and normal meal times. I found I was eating less and, better yet, sleeping better. I vowed to myself then that I would continue a similar lifestyle at home.

And here I am today, eating 'normal' meals at 'normal' mealtimes. I sleep better and have lost 30kgs (66lbs) since January. I eat no later that 7pm and I wake up feeling hungry and enjoying breakfast now! And I don't exercise excessively either

I really feel the best way to diet for weight-loss purposes, is not to 'cut out' stuff, but to moderate the amount you take in. Like I said before, I could never stop myself from eating what I enjoy, I have just had to learn control!

It is an interesting topic Carol...and I will head over to your thread and contribute there too

Lindor, What you do sounds exactly like IE. And you have lost 66lb since Jan? That is really something. Thanks for your story......so interesting.