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LOL don't worry about it Kel.

For exercise, I share a PT with 3 people I met online, and we meet three mornings a week for an hour. As well, I have a hired treadmill which I use, I ride my bike, and I go swimming once a week. Have gone from not swimming for about 10+ years to swimming 1.5km after 6 weeks!

Ani, I'm off to my niece's engagement party in Brisbane next weekend, then off to parents in Melbourne for 2 weeks, to see my brother's new bubby. Also going to the snow for a couple of days while I'm in Melbourne with an old uni friend - only been skiing once, so that'll be amusing!

Exercise wise, Mum has an exercise bike, and they live one block from the beach, so I usually walk/jog by the water while I'm there.. love the sea. I'll have my HRM watch, so I can track what I'm exercising!

Best way to rule out things giving you a problem with your diet is to TRACK what you're eating, and when you're having issues. You can then go back and check out what you ate and when.

Hi People, Yes, I am still here lurking around. My gosh what a topic, been there done that, had a tummy bug, thought it was wind, but it had humps. lol. It happens!
Gen, congrats on passing your exam, all that hard work paid off. My DIL is a nurse, she looks after prem babies, my son is an IT manager, and they spent 3 years in Edmonton, Canada, had the time of their lives. It opens up so many things you can do in your life.
Hello Kel, Well done on your weight loss, your bub looks lovely, cheeky little thing has her tongue poking out already.
A tip to you ladies, try going out and sanding around the rust, to make it look like you were going to work on the car yourself. Done this many times on my taxi’s, seems to work as far as the panel beaters are concerned. Last year I had some dum *** lady do a U turn on me and nearly wrote me off the road. She had no insurance, and it has cost her about $9,000 to pay back my company. Just goes to show while we may ***** about having to pay, it is worth it.
As for the exercise, gave myself a good talking to this week and for the first time in many years, ran a whole 10mins on the tread mill. Just told myself I was a lazy old so & so, ( can’t repeat what I said) and I could do better.
Weight has not moved but Hubby gave me a very nice compliment. If this is too rude please don’t read. He said that I had toned up so much and felt so nice. He almost felt like he was being unfaithful.
There are times when he says the darnest things. REALLY MADE MY WEEK!!!! So for my exercise challenge I will be working on upping my run to 15mins.

Well, have to run , Hubby is awake making eggs on toast for breakfast ,yum.
The only day I change my breakfast, from weety bix and fruit.
BE GOOD OR AS GOOD AS YOU CAN BE!!!
Mary

Kel the only exercise I do is to walk for an hour every morning. A couple of nights a week I get my resistance bands out and do a few exercises with them - as well as some situps… but that's it. I decided that I needed to find something that would fit into my lifestyle, and which I can keep doing for years. Walking is it for me.

MaryL good to see you.

Gen it sounds like you've got a busy busy month. I haven't been to the snow in years (in fact the last time was ten years ago in Prague and Stockholm) - I can't ski for nuts but I'm a hoon on a toboggan .

I walked for an hour yesterday, and ran around a shopping centre for another hour - so I met my goals.

Today I'll go for my walk, then I'm going to get the vacuum cleaner and mop out. That will get me to today's goals, and this afternoon I'm going to clean out the spare room in case anyone answers my 'share accommodation' ad in tomorrow's paper.


Ani

I go to the gym 4/5 times a week. Cardio and weights and I love it! I am single with no committments though.

Both nights were fatty foods (Italian than steak) I got cramps right before I lost it. (no matter what I couldn't hold it. I was fine till I got out of the car and started walking towards mine. Than it was horrible)Sat I begged at the servo to use their staff toilets.

Renny Sue, I could tell you a story that would make you feel better, but I won't as it's horrifically embarrassing. Suffice to say, you're not alone!

I had Thai for dinner last night, and the scales had boinged upwards this morning, so have been madly drinking water to get rid of the excess sodium. Still (just) on track to have a 7700 calorie deficit this week, so still aiming for a kg lost. May have to adjust that aim tomorrow depending on how much exercise I manage tonight and tomorrow though!

Oh shoot u guys been busy since y/day. I read half the posts.... Sylie Kel I really gotta reply to you. Look forward to a novel tomorrow, trust me it WILL be a novel, just ask these guys. And they dunno where the iggy button is or they would have done it to me forever ago. lol. Write away, we'll read it. But three things before I sign off ...#1- yup the artificial sweetner will do it. #2 apples help boost along yr metabolism so thats a good thing yr doing. #3 C-sections don't help things, I've had 2 natural and 2 c-sections, things are DEFINATELY different since the ops.

Ani I was naughty, no exercise today. Last night was crap with the other half. he's being a prat long story, so got an hour sleep last night then worked on my feet from 8.15am this morning - 6pm tonight. Can that count as exercise? I wasn't idle, I promise!!!

Gotta run bed now, I am stuffed. But will read all in morning. Looks like you've all been busy but my eyes are to tired to read anymore.... Or write another chapter.

Vonni

Vonni I would definitely count that as exercise… phew, I'd fall over if I had to do your job! Now where's that novel you're promising us? Is everything OK with your other half? You've hinted a few times that you've got stuff going on, so I hope you're OK.

Gen I am amazed. How do you know how many calories you expect to burn/swap? Do you write everything down, or does one of your gizmos keep track of it for you?

I met my goals yesterday. Walked for an hour, then did a couple of hours worth of domestics - and I drank 2.7 litres of water. My calories were a little high (1720), but I'm not going to beat myself up for that.

Today I need to keep cleaning (I spent most of my 'cleaning' time unpacking boxes from the spare room), do some washing and vacuuming… boring stuff like that. I'll go for my walk first and then get into it.

I'm hoping for a good result again tomorrow. I'll be really happy if I can drop another 0.5kg.


Ani

I was all good, got up went to Pilates and the CLASS WAS CANCELED! ARGH!

Even worse, because I was only planning on doing Pilates I didn't bring my joggers so had to turn around and come home. I'll only make that mistake once! Am planning on pulling out my Pilates DVD later and doing that.

Yes I'm somewhat anal retentive, and have a training log excel spreadsheet, where I track my intake and what exercise I do each day.

I started it mainly to record my HR monitor info re max and average heart rate, so I knew if I was getting fitter, but it's evolved so now I record each training session in there.

Also help me track my in/out calories so I can aim for the 7700 calorie deficit per week. If I have hardly any cals left by Sunday, I just have to exercise madly that day to earn them!

Not sure how I'll go today - had major cravings yesterday and ate lots of cereal, so we'll see. About to head out to the pool for a swim, so that should do about 3-400 calories.
Edit: just added in yesterday's food, and unless I eat negative calories today (!), I definitely won't make it to the 7700 cal deficit. Hope to lose btw 500-750g now - if I can make 88 even I'll be rapt.

Augigi - i used to write everything down and work out how many calories i had burnt on the cross trainer in relation to what i had eaten (easy on the optifast diet as you basicallly dont eat anything) this time i am bored of writing down the same things.... fruitybix and lite milk for breakfast, 2L water, etc, hubby said i should get some symbols for the boring stuff i do everyday... maybe i should do it on the computer then i could just copy and paste it.... i used to have a weight chart, i found it the other day and put in the day before jemima born weight and the weight after 10 days and it looks so funny goes from 74 to 103 that is just disgusting.... NEXT pregnancy i am not fooling myself with the eating for two or i have to eat or i'll be sick thing... i just freakin be sick.... i call jemima cookie monster as 10kg of my weight gain was in the first 10weeks of pregnancy when i couldnt figure out why i wanted to eat cookies

vonnie - how old are your other kids??? 4 kids is amazing... i dont have room in my house or my car for that many, but i want a lot of kids.... do you "work" as well, i hate it when people if I work.... no i just sit at home on my arse all day and look at my baby..... what do they want me to say??? I am not going "back" to work and am trying for number 2 but dont think it will happen anytime soon as i am breastfeeding, doc said not to anyway, i am going to doc tomorrow to ask about some new pains that i blame on c-section... getting sick to death of people saying that the weight will just drop off as i'm breastfeeding or dont you love this one "it took 9 months to put on so it takes 9 months to take off" thanks that makes me feel heaps better.... although they might be right.....

i cant remember the name of the girl who posted Elinei? - anyhow my brother got a scholoraship(see why i'm not the doctor) to whatever uni course he wanted and he picked some IT business thing, started it decided he hated it and almost stayed the 5 years just not to disapoint other people, but then i told him all the stuff i'd done in 5 years so he dropped out and now is back doing Maths and Spanish teaching.... he is so smart he was dux of his highschool and now is in Chile studying as he found out that studying for 6months in a spanish speaking country counts towards his degree in australia, so i say follow your heart and study english and social teaching, teaching can take you anywhere ESPECIALLY if you are qualified english teacher, they give english teaching jobs to anyone these days overseas so imagine how far you could go with qualifications! and also teaching my baby to poke her tounge out and find her feet has made me think how incredible it must be for teachers to see results...

exercise this weekend for me - ikea yesterday and then walk the dogs in arvo, today just walk the dogs in arvo, does breastfeeding count?? cant remember how many times i've done that this weekend...

i just changed my weigh in day, i was depressed at contstant disappointments on Monday just coz it was monday so didnt see results for 2 weeks so changed dayto thursday.... am going to weigh in tomorrow for fun of it but only tell if it is better.... otherwise it nevefr happened.

i want to reply more but my hubby just got dinner ready so i better go...

I use the calorieking.com.au database to enter my food, that's easy because it has all my favourites listed so I just click them off, don't have to spend ages writing down my food. My spreadsheet isn't that detailed, it's just total cal intake for the day, then whatever exercise I did and cal output.

Gen I keep an Excel spreadsheet on the go too - not as comprehensive as yours by any means, but just to record my calories. I have no way of knowing how I will go tomorrow at weigh-in, but I know I've met all my goals.

And just my luck… after a 5-month absence, it's TOM for me today. Still managed to walk for an hour and do a few hours of leisurely domestics. I even cleaned the oven, and that was a hideous job. I've barely used it since I moved in, because it was so gross - and I reckon it hasn't been cleaned for a few years.

I wish Lindor, leeny and Barb and the rest of the old crew would come back. Would love to know how they are all travelling, and what's happening in their lives.

Kel, the doctor might be right - that's REALLY soon to fall pregnant again after having a baby. And if you're still healing from your c-section, it might be wise to wait a little while. Spend some more time getting to know this baby .

OK - better go and sort out what I'm having for dinner.


Ani

Kel. I have 7 all up, HIS, MINE, & OURS...
Girl 17, Boy 12, Boy 9, Girl 6, Boy 5, Boy 4, Girl 14mths. The eldest boy and 2girls are MINE and the baby girl OURS and the other boys HIS lmao. Have I confused anyone yet?

Yep I took 10 mths off work, was supposed to be a year maternity leave but I got itchy feet to get back into it. I love my job most of the time. Makes for a busy life, a messy house and sometimes a few to many take aways. Mind you, the take away thing has settled a bit now I'm back inot the swing of time management.

Be careful trying for another baby so soon. The outside heals well, but the inside is scarred and can take a long time to heal properly. If you haven't healed properly before getting pregnant again you have a higher risk of miscarriage, or pre-term labour and sometimes rarely, but for me that risk is still too high - rupture of the uterus if too much pressure is put on it. You also need time to emotionally heal. Ani's right too in saying get to know the baby. Time is so swift and they grow so fast. Enjoy the moment.

(I took over 12 mths to physically heal and longer to emotionally heal from my first c-section. I had a pretty traumatic labour and then traumatic emergency ceasarean. I lost a lot of blood during labour, baby did a u-turn which made the op a necessity. Then over half my blood during op as they couldn't get her out so I tore and tore into arteries had major blood transfusion, died on the table, baby was flat when born and need I go on. lol. Thats why recovery took so long. Last one was planned op and a breeze though even getting pregnant I knew it was risky from previous damage and had to be assessed thoroughly by doctor first.)

SEE GUYS I TOLD YA I WILL WRITE A NOVEL.

Ani and Gen I was writing things down but I was getting sidetracked and then forgetting what I had before I got a chance to write it.

But I promise tomorrow I will start to do so. I am goign to set reminders on my mobile.

Speaking of writing things down want to know the crap I ate ths week???
A whole block of nestle milky bar white chocolate (a big block)
A tim tam
A serve of hot chips with tomato sauce
a packet of home brand cheezles.

I know it doesnt sound like much but to me it is unacceptable. Especially when I sit on my bum to eat it.

Shoot BB eviction. BBS

Vonni

My Gosh 7senuf your family sounds like mine.13 all together, only 7 are mine. Yours, mine theirs, ours,and over the years taken on specail needs kids on holidays and weekends. Even had one young friend of the kids living here for about 3 weeks and never knew the difference. lol. 27 grand kids so far, and 5 haven't even started their families .At family gathering I am thinking of putting name tags on them all,(with parents names) so I can tell who is who. On most days it's dishes and washing up to your eyeballs. But I would never be without any one of them.I only have to get out there and crack the whip now and then and everything is cleaned up.
Have to go son is coming in with that Mummmy thing.
Can you take me to work.
Mum <<<< sucker is going to take him.
Have a great day people