I slept in this morning and missed WW... oops.

Ani and Lindor......... I did the same thing this afternoon. Went to vote at 5.30pm and a they had rounded up a lovely lad who is intelectually impaired (true, I know him) to hand out the flyers. I said no thanks love with a smile then promptly turned to the organisers and said "shred the forest and recycle the earth." They looked at me a little strange so I made it clear to them..... How many trees died to make these.... the world is NOT recyclable. That paper is but it will take 20 or more years to rejuventate what was destroyed to get it. I will use Kels saying here.... hohum

Someone came up to me with their flyers and tried to hand me one saying "How to vote liberal" and I simply replied, "I know how to vote." lol.

heheehe we knew how to vote but went to wrong polling vote so did absentee one instead as couldnt be bothered to go to right one... JEMIMA07
we gave our how to vote cards to the baby and she ate them

lindor - of course i didnt mean to upset you, whateva i said was coz sometimes it is nice to know you are not the only one giving in to choc and not the only one having a shocker, i had a shocker on wednesday felt like a failure as friend, mother and housewife among other things, lucky it was before thursday when i found out i had put on a heap of weight or i would have called off the rest of the week

GO BARB down anything is such a good feeling slow and steady wins the race, annoyingly true

any of you guys on facebook?? i have just found so many people i went to school with it is weird, makes me wonder if maybe i hadnt been in contact with them coz i was hiding? hiding coz i was ashamed that i am no longer the size 6/8 i was at highschool? hiding/ ashamed coz NOW i am JUST a mum? and before that a receptionist (director of first impressions) or a callcentre goddess?

ani - breakfast and me...... we have an interesting relationship.... for food in the morning makes me feel sick when i exercise.... i am going to try and have more food and now i am off the shakes trying for toast as it doesnt make me feel as ill as milky stuff does but you are right when i have brekky i dont feel as hungry, so i am going to try and eat when jemima does, but she has been getting up at 5amish and benji has been feeding her and then she has a nap at 7am ish and then well if i have managed a sleep in we have been rushing to the gym no brekky coz i am always on the computer and wake up tired....
but month of december NO gym so NO excuse not to have brekky... thinking about hopping on cross trainer at jemima's nap time... will see how that goes

still going to the gym next week but have way less things planned for the whole month of december.... i am sure i will stress out in a bout 2 weeks time coz jemima's christeining is on 23rd december and xmas etc.... but maybe i'll be too busy too eat crap!
i have to decorate christening cake.... that will also be interesting! (and find something to wear)

I dropped 0.7kg this week - and I'm pretty happy with that.

There are five weigh-ins left until the end of the year, and I will be happy if I can drop four pounds (1.8kg) by then. Honestly, by the time I deal with birthday and Christmas - then New Year parties, and all the disruptions that happen in December, it's amazing to lose any weight.

My plan is to take things a week at a time, count my calories, and work to stay on track and accountable.

How is everyone else going?

Well girls, I'm back on track. Woohoo. Yesterday I came in exactly 20 grams of carbs for the day. I didn't cheat, and I've reduced my coke zero intake to 3 cans a day. Thats a lot for someone who not too long ago drank 2 litres in one day.

I've also lost 1kg. Oh yeah! Pretty happy with that. So I've changed my little ticker.

I went to the gym this morning and worked out on the treadmill, 30 minutes of 4km/per hour at elevation 4 and then 10 minutes at 5.5 km/per hour at flat. Still burnt a stack of those rotten calories though. When you take my exercise calories off my eaten calories for the day I'm actually back to just under 200. Mind you I was starving after the workout, does exercise do that to anyone else?

Woo Hoo Kathy - you go girl!

Where is everyone?

up 1.2kg

Its noones fault but mine but geez i am over this battle.

hey vonni i know exactly what you mean, you figure that if you are half thinking about dieting then you shouldnt be putting on weight and then you hop on the scales and you have.... and then you wonder why bother.... but then i guess you hop on here and see everyone else drop weight and gives you another week's worth of motivation?? i am with you though i am over it

but i am basically over everything at the moment, this week though food i have been better, the m&m cookies are too crispy for my liking so i have not been eating them (hubby loving that coz then he gets them all) and i have gone off m&ms by themselves there has been some choc in the house but i have been just maybe having a row with hubby at night time which is not fab plan but i just keep telling myself it could be heaps worse.

baby causing stress at night time coz i am starving by night time and dont want to have dinner without hubby but he has been getting home at random times never same time so i never know how much i need to pace myself or i cook dinner and it goes cold while we are getting baby to sleep and she is fighting sleep at the moment so all that stress and timings mean we quite often sit eating dinner listening to her 'self settle'

Hey Kel, maybe this might work........ we did it with Eb and it is great. When you put her to bed take her in with light off, lay her down,kiss her goodnight, then turn away immediately. Sit at end of her bed/cot NOT looking at her. Now you can do several things... One is stay till she gets to sleep THEN after a few nights try the following, or do the follwing straight away. We did it after 2 nights of bed sitting. After a few minutes (when she settles down a little) still witrhout looking at her, stand up and stay there for a few minutes, then walk halfway to the door. (still don't look at her) Stay standing there for a few minutes, then move to the doorway. (by this time I lean on door frame from standing still so much lol) Stay there for a few minutes then completely walk away. DONT look at her during the entire process.

EB used to be marvelous to get to sleep but we went through a 'bad patch' she got clingy and would SCREAM the place down. This worked for us. They still are comforted that you are THERE.

Vonni

that sounds like a plan.... i was also going to "try" reading her a story and getting her to chill out a bit in the cot.... do you have a SET bedtime?? we dont we just put her to bed when she is tired.... until now has worked like a charm... it might be the super clingy thing affecting her not sure.... usuallly if i am in the room she freaks out coz i should be holding her...... and that is now annoying me coz she loves to pull hair while going to sleep and that is draining and if i get rid of my hair she pulls on my skin she just is fidgety and when she stops fidgeting we know she is asleep.....
will let u know how we go, except tonight i made appointment for 7pm thinking baby would be asleep and i could escape but last night at 7pm she was screaming coz benji was cuddling her not mummy..... ho hum

Vonni and Kel are you setting goals for your weight loss and working to a plan? In my experience you can't actually lose much weight without doing that? Vonni which one is right in your ticker - are you 67kg or 71? I'm a bit confused

Gen… where are you?

I'm doing alright this week. I've now had six weeks in a row where I've lost something - and I'm aiming for another one.

I'm really determined to get this next 8 pounds off, and get beyond being obese - it's a huge milestone for me.

Another thing I am looking forward to - if it EVER b!oody happens - is this big tummy flattening out a bit. I'm not talking six-pack, I'm not even talking flat. Just to see it get smaller would be good. I keep hoping that it will happen 'soon' - pfft! At this rate I'll get to 70kg and still have a tummy that sticks out.

Ani yep I agree about the tummy thing. And the 71 is almost right... add another kilo. Just havent gotten around to changing it yet grrrr. lol. The 67 was what I got down to a couple months after I started and now its crept back up again. NO goal right now BUT. We have just decided to go away next xmas with the kids for a whole week to the beach yikes. So my goal will be getting made very soon. Not to be a beach babe or want a bikini body (getting to old for that anyhow, and ps I never wore bikinis even size 8). Just to feel comfortable in togs and boardies and be able to play beach frisbee and cricket with the kids without dying.
Vonni

You're doing so well, Ani!

I've lost the plot. I hate to regain, but I just can't be bothered at the moment. My achilles is really getting me down - took some time off work to see if it helped, but it's no better and I'm sick of it hurting with every step.

Just wallowing, basically. Heh. But I'm still here.