Kel you do not look like a sausage! I'm not into Seinfeld so won't be doing that tour but I will be doing lots of walking around and sightseeing.

I am such a good girl, I went to the gym at 6am this morning. Have started up with a personal trainer again and I really like the look of my new programme. It's 2 days of strength focussed weights and 1 day of circuit based weights, 20 minutes cardio after each weights session and a 60 minute walk 2-3 times a week.

I'm kicking butt in our office competition for 10,000 steps a day and so far today I've done 9,912 steps and it's not even 9am yet!

this morning i am 87.2kg that is loss of 900grams
woohoo

julia you are so in the zone!

i am going to the gym this morning if i can, i really want to but i have to take jemima to doc, so so sick of going to the doc! (this time i took her last night but got confusing doc who gave her referral to surgeon and didnt explain anything - she has a teeny tiny tear on her bottom which was only found coz i thought she had hemoroids the doc said she had an anterior something pile which my brother said was the same thing as hemoroids so i already dont trust doc coz he made it like she didnt have hemoroids and i had no idea and he made it like i musthave been lying that there has been no blood in her nappy and she has had no trouble with pooey nappies! so i am going to hopefully go to normal doc but EVERYONE askes for him so i may not have 'time' to go to body step which will suck as then the rest of the day i am in a car doing roadtrip to boonah (at least an hour away) with my 38wk pregnant friend and her 1 year old little boy so that will be interesting.....

Hey Kel hope u had fun on yr boonah trip. I like Boonah. Never been right in main street but pass through on way to Coast often. And looks like a nice place. and I love the shop just near the humungous roundabout. Make good fast food ..... Oops pretend I did not say that nor did u all read it.

Hey I got a good saying by email today...

Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut the b i t c h up with cookies.

Love that saying Vonni very good!

I kicked butt on the walking challenge yesterday - did 17,726 steps! I'd already been to the gym in the morning and then I went walking with a friend after work Feeling the pain a bit today from my new weights programme so looking forward to having the day off exercise.

My period is on its way and I'm starting to get the **** cramps which irks me greatly. It's something I've always suffered from and it never gets any less painful. Unfortunately I've left the superpills my doc gave me at home today so normal paracetamol will have to do.

Have been doing ok with my food this week but not brilliant. I can't stop eating cheese at the moment and that's not good for my diet but I love it too much to give it up!

Julia - how exciting! You seem to love a challenge , and I'm really excited to see you so determined. You go girl!

In some ways my week has been really stagnant. Hopefully I've maintained last week's loss.

Yesterday my landlord sent a handyperson around to "do some work" on the front verandah. This meant that I had to move my plants and outdoor setting down the steps and onto the lawn - with a cracked rib, if you please. Lindor can tell you how many plants I have, and how big a job that is!

And today or tomorrow, when the work is completed, I have to move everything back up the steps and onto the verandah.

Honestly… I was incandescent when I found THAT out.

Isn't it amazing that you can't get landlords to fix a THING all year. Then when your lease is almost up and they decide to sell, suddenly they have an attitude change.

Anyway, I'm hoping to eat a little better today and to drink some water!


Ani

Ani I don't like the sound of you having to do all that lifting with a cracked rib. Ouchie! Make sure you take care of yourself.

I couldn't resist going for a walk last night in order to keep my step count up. Walked to work this morning too and will be walking home again when I finish at 1pm.

I chucked an old pair of black trousers in my bag to wear at work today and my god, they're enormous. I really can't believe I used to be that fat!! I've got a safety pin pinning them up in the front so that they don't fall down as I can actually take them off without undoing the zip and button. What a feeling!

Julia isn't it a great feeling. I have a pair of jeans, which I've had for four years now, and they really should go in the bin. At the beginning of this year they were too tight, and now they swim on me everywhere. At the moment I'm using them as my gardening clothes - but they remind me of how big I used to be, and how far I've come.

They've got enough holes in them now that they will soon have to go in the bin… a few more washes I reckon

I had a small moment of satisfaction with the landlord yesterday. I had argued with the handywoman and landlord about the colour they wanted to paint the verandah (it's concrete). I said it needed an earth colour, but they both insisted on a grey/blue. When the landlord came to have a look at the end result yesterday, she HATED it - and she looked at me and said, "Next time I'll listen to you!".

Julia I'll be really careful moving the plants and outdoor setting back today. I have a trolley (even though the tyres are flat) and I'll go slow!

That will be my exercise for today. I haven't been able to exercise this week because of the rib, so if I achieve ANY weight loss on Monday I'll be delighted!

Lindor - where are you?


Ani

Where is everybody? Thought I'd pop in and say hi. Hope everyone has a good week. Good luck with weigh ins. I am not even going to weigh in as I had a sneak peek and it was not good. So leaving it and not even looking at scales till next Monday. Been eating crap outta boredom and not drinking water.

Gotta fly get organised for clinical. Need to iron school clothes and my uniforms, change sheets on all the beds, get groceries for the week etc.... busy busy.

Bye all, have a great week
Vonni

Hi all,

Very busy week again at work and I have to go to Melbourne on Thursday and Friday which will be a political mine field. I hate that stuff.

Julia, I am so jealous of both of your trips. NFQ and New York. My hubby and I took the kids to the states last December and changed our plans to spend an extra 2 days in NY as we loved it so much. So much to see and do and it has the best vibe. You sound like you are just powering with the training and diet.

Vonni, a very belated happy birthday. I hope you enjoy the relaxation gifts.

Lindor I am very inspired to know that you have been on this weight loss journey for two years. I know that I will be doing this for a long time and it is good to know that you can keep up the motivation over a long period of time.

I have weigh in tomorrow and although we had pizza last night (first fast food in 5 weeks) I think there should be some loss.

Saw this thing on Today Tonight or ACA (one of those trash current affairs shows) about flabby arms and was so dissapointed that they took the plastic surgery approach and $2000 worth of personal training to offer as solutions. I was hoping for basic exercies to try. Have your girls come across any exercies that help the big tuckshop lady upper arms?

Have a great week everyone

Hi Jayley... Thx for the birthday wishes.

Tuckshop lady arms... hmm... nope, can't think of a one. Even when I was a size 8 and 46kg I had big arms. Thats just me, and no matter how much weight I lose my arms are just still THERE. I've learnt to live with them. The only thing is to do some weight resistant exercises so they don't 'flab' as much.

Cheers
Vonni

I've been a naughty girl.

I went to a BBQ on Saturday night and after quite a few wines I ended up going home with my friend's cousin He's a recycled fling as I'd done the same with him a few years ago so no new notch on my bedpost Another friend of ours came to his flat in the morning and cooked everyone a beautiful breakfast of poached eggs, sausages, bacon, mushrooms and tomatoes. YUM

I rushed home at lunchtime and had to go straight out again as a good friend was cooking me a BBQ lunch as it's my birthday tomorrow.

So all in all, an eventful weekend but the diet suffered and yesterday I did under 2000 steps!

Back into it today and will be going to the gym for a hard session tonight.

Julia I think that relaxing, having fun AND notching anything on your bedpost is a great way to spend the weekend . Far more exciting than mine, which included: moving plants, washing windows, vacuuming, going to a meeting…
a thrill a minute – NOT!

Anyway, I dropped 0.9kg this week and I'm really happy with that. It has been at least 4 years since I weighed 83.something!

For the last three weeks I've been measuring myself in pounds - it feels like a whole new weight loss adventure - and it has definitely helped me get moving in the right direction, after more than three months of being "stuck".

This week's goal is to try and drop another pound (which will get me to around 83.4kg), and I'm feeling pretty motivated to try and get there.

Hope everyone else is going OK.


Ani

Hmmmmm...sorry!!!

It is becoming a trend for me to run away when things get tough. The only explanation I can give that is (and this is probably going to sound really weird) that I see you as friends now? When you were just people I used to post about weight-loss with I was comfortable saying everything. Now I feel embarrassed or ashamed if I have to admit that something has set me back. I think a lot of that comes down to my isolated lifestyle and not having anyone to confide in nearby, and then refusing to talk when someone came by.

Anyway, that is neither here nor there. Fact is, it is a habit I have to put an end too. You ladies are a great source of support and advice in this area of my life and I need to not run away from that when I need it!

The last four or five days have been really shocking for me! I have sooooo eaten out of control! I am talking 4000+ cals a day!!! And there is nothing I can say to justify that - I don't exercise often enough at the best of times, much less when I feel defeated!

The crazy thing from all of that is that upon jumping on my scales, and then off and then on again, and then off and then on again after jumping up and down on the spot for a moment, and then standing on them staring at the numbers and then jumping up and down on the scales a few times, before jumping off and then on one last time...somehow I managed to drop 400g this week!!!! I'll take that thankyou very much!!!

But I must not take it and not accept it as a special gift! I have been very lucky this week! But carrying on as I have these recent days is not going to continue to show drops! I was given a range of ideas and things to think about last night and I am creating a plan to include some of those ideas.

The main this is, I DO NOT WANT TO PUT ON ANYMORE WEIGHT!!!

Ok, I gotta run! Sorry for the very 'me me' post! It is amazing how just putting it down here makes things seem clearer in my head?

Oh and Julia! Going by Gens reports, I am anticipating a 1kg or more loss from you this week!!

And if you do achieve that...I might have to think of your FWB system myself!!!

I will post tomorrow, but if for some bizarre reason I don't, I hope you have a fantastic birthday!!

Have a good day all!

Ani, AWESOME work!!! Well done!!!

You deserve more than a line of praise...but I really do have to run!!!

Thanx for the smile though

Lindor,

Good to see you pick yourself up and be honest with yourself and everyone. But the person that matters most here honesty wise is yourself and you have done that. Good going.

Me I've done pretty much the same thing. I've not gotten back on track, I've been eating carbs and feeling lousy for it. I actually have a bar of chocolate sitting in the kitchen. I've been making low carb dinners and finishing them off with bread, potato chips, chocolate, or donuts. Grrr. I give myself every excuse in the book. Dh is off for 4 days, (he goes back Wednesday), I'm tired, I'm busy, I dont fee like it. It doesn't seem to matter that its not good for my body.

But I am going to get back on track. I have some cookbooks coming in the post, (low carb ones) and I'm going to get back on track. Its time to rid the house of carbs. Its time to take control.