Hey

That's a bummer that they closed the other thread - I was gunning for a record! :P

Well, I am back from Sydney. How can people afford to live there? It is soooo expensive! I was billeted with a fella from Mosman...harbour views from the roof!!

I am going to try to get to the gym this week, I haven't been in more than a month. I think it'll be good to get back into the swing of things.

Sounds like everyone is chirpy and well, good to hear! see you soon

Kylie

Well, I used to earn a crapload! Now that I'm a poor student, I plan to move back to Melbourne where it's more affordable!!

The pays are pretty good too. Most people are on $30k-$40k a year. Plus they share.

I got up this morning and went to the gym!

Am currently trying to figure out if I have the time to do a business management course. Apparently for TAFE evening classes can be anytime from midday onwards! I count evening as from five onwards!

$30-40K in not enough to live comfortably in central Sydney!!

I'm over my tantrum from yesterday. I was really frustrated after working hard all week and only losing 0.1kg.

But I figure this plateau has to break sooner or later, and I'm certainly NOT going to put weight back on. I walked for almost an hour today, and I've been very good with food sofar.

It's hard to drink water at the moment - we've been having some Antarctic weather here, and I'm not very inspired to drink water when it's 4ºC.

:)
Ani

I can't manage the water unless I add diet cordial. Also, for doing the Mother's Day walk, we received a tupperware drink bottle, which is about 850 ml (huge!). Has a very wide mouth, so I just fill it up and use it as my glass. Maybe I'm just lazy, but I don't have to refill as often, and it's surprisingly easy to drink 3-4 of them over the course of a day, and there's my water intake.

Ani, would it be worth recalculating your calories for the weight you're at now? I was still working on the "less the better" philosophy - and I may go back to that depending on this week's loss! - but when I googled "BMR" and worked out my daily requirements, they were a lot more than I thought. I've got the site bookmarked, so I'm happy to plug in your numbers if you'd like? I know I forget to recheck it as I'm losing.

Have you had your hormones, thyroid etc checked also? It's just not fair to be doing all the right things and not losing! I know I'd lose the plot after a few weeks of that, and I think you're much more determined than I am to keep going with so little reward!

Yeah but most people in Sydney don't live in centeral Sydney for that reason!

I can survive living in the inner west in share housing on $40k a year (though I do get over $10k in bonuses) Its not that hard if you budget.

Got up again today! Yay me! Its honestly so much better than at night. It gets me up for the rest of the day and I'm much more alert at work now.

Firstly, thanks to Ani and Vonni for sending me a PM about this new thread ;)

The new medication is working ok so far. My mood has stabilised but I don't feel as good as I think I can. I'm looking forward to another session with my chiro/kinesiologist as I usually feel better after seeing him.

Haven't done anything wonderful in terms of exercise. Managed to go to a 6am yoga class yesterday which I'm proud of. Haven't been able to get to the gym just yet though - the motivation isn't back so far.

I think that I'll start doing my star charts again - that gives me a really good indication of how much I'm exercising and encourages me to do more.

When I was on prozac it was great, my appetite decreased a lot but I've noticed that it's back since changing to citalopram so that's something I need to be careful of.

Keep on keeping on ladies :twirly:

Gen if you can plug my numbers in and find out if I'm eating enough, that would be great. Do you need any more info from me?

I've had all the blood tests done, and I'm afraid I can't blame sluggish thyroids or anything else, except the dreaded perimenopause. It truly does slow weight loss down a little bit.

Your posts about the cost of living in Sydney reminded me of when I spent my misguided youth in Paddington. It was an awesome place to live, very arty, very gay, and still relatively cheap (I am talking about quite a few years ago :) ). I lived in a terrace house just off Oxford St, and my neighbour on one side was a well-known actress - on the other side was a married couple, both junkies. And my rent was $30/week.

Anyway, I digress. Hang in there LittleKiwi. It's good that you've found your way here to our new little corner of 3FC.

I walked yesterday, ate well and did all the right things - and I'm determined to keep it up all week. I want to see SOME progress on the scales soon.

Gen I was thinking about what you said about not seeing results. The hard thing to accept is that no matter what I do, I'm getting a result - it just often isn't the one I want. I must say I feel really proud of myself for sticking to it through this plateau. In the past I would have given up - but something has changed in my head, and I'm really determined that even when I'm not actually losing weight, I'm determined not to undo all my good work.

Anyway, must stop waffling and get on with my day. I'm going to walk again this morning.

:)
Ani

OK, by estimating your age and level of activity (low to moderate), I get:

1. To maintain weight: 2226 - 2509 cal/day
2. To lose 1 lb/wk (455g): Eat 1726 - 2009 cal/day
3. To lose 2lb/wk (909g): Eat 1226 - 1509 cal/day

So to average those (you'd need to stick to it for a week to work out which activity level is right for you), in order to lose 1-2 lb/wk, you need to eat:
1226 - 2009 cal/day if you were doing 1-5 days of light to moderate activity per week.

=> Average = 1617 cal/day

Is that what you were eating? If you do less exercise, you'd need to aim lower, or vice versa.

After seeing your post about BMR Gen I googled it. OMG I got heaps of hits and looked at a couple - one explaining about it and another that had an explanation on how it is worked out. If my calculations are correct according to this website to maintain my current weight I have to eat a WHOLE BIG 812.20cals a day :yikes: yeah right. They get this figure by the following -
if you are female start with
65 plus
weight x 9.6 plus
height x 1.7 minus
your age x 4


...........................................652.... .....255.......159.8
okay so that means me - 65+(68x9.6)+(150x1.7)-(34x4.7) = 812.20 :lol3:


OKAY someone tell me this is incorrect PLEASE!!!!!!!!!! And the website I got it from was a well known Australian Health site. I'll just not eat hey? :ziplip:

GEN HELP......... What site did you get your info from. I like that one better
VONNI

Ani with your updated info:
1. To maintain weight: 2183 cal/day
2. To lose 2lb/wk (909g): 1183 cal/day
3. To lose 1.5 lb/wk (682g): 1602 cal/day
4. To lose 1 lb/wk (455g): 1683 cal/day

This is on "light" exercise, so if you do more you could eat more.

Vonni, I've not seen that formula before - generally you work out the BMR, which is what you'd need if you lay in bed all day. Then you use the Harris-Benedict formula to multiply it by your activity level to get your "daily calorie needs".

I used: bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator

Hey Gen

Thank you for that info - I'm going to make a plan now and see how it goes :). And of course I will keep you posted with my progress!

Feeling OK about things at the moment. I walked yesterday, but I must confess I ate a bit wrong… I'm having a bit of a hard time with my business at the moment (the usual mid-year cash flow problem), and having to move house put extra strain on me financially. It's one of those problems that are familiar to just about everyone who runs their own business - getting people to pay their bills!

Anyway, must go and walk so I can get on with work. Hope everyone else is travelling OK.

:)
Ani

I know the feeling, I did some contract work 5 weeks ago and haven't been paid yet - apparently the invoice got lost or something... doesn't help me when my terms are payment within 30 days! Give me my cashola!!

As well as that, my nursing agency had some screw up so hadn't paid me since april for any of my nursing shifts - I wondered what the **** was going on. I don't think they would have noticed if I didn't call and say "oy, where's my money??".

So I've been watching my bank account going dooooown for a month or two hehe. Hard when I'm used to a high paying job!

I'm currently freaking out severely about my exam next Tuesday - it's got such a bad pass rate for foreign nurses that I am just sh!tting myself! Also it's very expensive if I have to retest! Eeek.. back to the study.

Also got my uni assignment back and got a credit - the lecturer thinks it's a good mark, but I'm pretty disappointed - I put a lot of work into it, and he didn't really give me any constructive feedback about how to improve next paper. Sucks being a perfectionist.

I lost .45kg this week! Its not a huge ammount for two weeks, but I'm looking at it, as a loss regardless.