Ah ok, I've recovered now. Thanks Ani Still have to transfer the license to the state I want to work in, and then get the employer to petition me and get my visa, so I'd say it'll still be 3-6 months till I get there. But I will step up my plans to get rid of stuff and move back to my parents' place in Melbourne. I'd like to spend some time at "home" with my family and friends before I go, if I plan to go.

Renny Sue, if I were you I would go and get some lomotil, or buy some panadeine (codeine is a constipating agent), so you don't have accidents until you sort out your diet. I would say your diet can definitely be responsible. There are a few things, such as increased fat intake along with the usual suspect of fibre.

Increasing your fibre and water intake bulks up the stool but also encourages the movement through the bowel... ending in the pleasant explosive diarrhoea... eek. Do you track your input of fibre? Maybe try going to calorieking if not and entering your diet to see what kind of intake you're getting. Doing that will also give you an idea if you're getting the levels of nutrients you need.

Hi Kel! Sorry you walked into a conversation about crap, so I'm impressed you didn't run the other way Welcome to the thread! Your bubby is GORGEOUS! Can't believe you have the energy to worry about weight loss when you have such a little bub - good on you!

LMAO!!! Here Here Gen. What a conversation to waltz into.

Welcome Kel to 3FC Aussies.... I have a little one too (14 mths) and I don't belong to any mothers groups on or offline. Purely for the fact that HELLOOOOO Mums are people too. Not just a production manager!

I agree with Ani and Gen Rennysue about yr diet. As Ani asked, have you been chewing gum? And also a lot of sweetners and artificially sweetened foods (such as extra) have sorbitol which can have a laxative effect. So do a lot of liquid medications. My little one had a little too much baby panadol in her recent stint in hospital and it was running out of the poor little mite just like rapids.

I also get cramps and need to "go" if I chew to much gum or drink to much coffee. Cigarettes do it to some people to. I know it sounds weird but.... Whats normal these days? No one is normal as everyone is so different normal is impossible to define. You just will end up figuring out yr diet enough to know whats right for you.

Blast gotta go, baby had bad night and is whinging now (supposed to be sleeping)

Vonni xx

Hey Kel - WELCOME! It's great to have you here . Congratulations on the weight you have already lost too.

Absolutely join our challenge. It starts today, and sofar it's you, Vonni and me. All we have to do is keep accountable to each other for how much we "move" every day. Some of it is structured exercise, and some is the things we do every day.

So for me, I plan to walk for an hour today, and do 30 minutes worth of domestics. I also need to go to the stupidmarket.

And even though I have a LOT of writing to do over the weekend (and a major deadline on Monday), I have finally bitten the bullet and advertised for someone to share this house with me - I'm really struggling paying $300/week rent, so even though I really don't want to, I'll see who responds to my ad.

That also means I have to clean and unpack the spare room… so there goes a few more calories.

Anyone else want to join our June challenge?


Ani

Sofar today Ani I have sat on my bum for an hour..... Does that count? Hmm??

VONNIE! It only counts if you're doing your kegels … and LOTS of them

I would be in it, but I'm going to be away for a lot of June, so I might not be doing as much exercise as usual. I'll have separation anxiety from my PT haha.

I finally went and got a quote for the damage I did my car last year - I got home from overseas, half jetlagged and asleep, and tried to unpark in my parking garage...oopsies, knocked off a side mirror and scraped the guard/door. Quote: >$2000!!! Son of a whore! Can't believe how expensive it is. Sorry, that's my favourite quote today.

Also now have to tell insurance co. that it happened recently, as opposed to almost a year ago... how to explain the rust on the door...?

Such a pain, I have put it off for ages but I have to get it done now because my rego needs renewing and car isn't roadworthy without a side mirror.

Where are you off to? And what plans are in place for keeping your weight loss going while you're out of your routine? Hmmm?

I have a similar issue with my car. When my VW Golf was three MONTHS old, a kid ran into it on their pushbike (the car was parked at the time). I too need to make an insurance claim, while convincing the insurance company that the rust is 'recent' .

I'm SO not in the mood for working today. What is it about deadlines that makes me suddenly feel compelled to spring clean?

Lindor? Liiiindor...? Where is she?

I love the honesty of this board. I reckon it's pretty cool that we can spill our guts and there's a ton of support there for you!

I am thinking about changing my degree, from business to secondary school teaching. I have always loved teaching (was an instructor in Army Cadets for about 4 years), and bf reckons I'm 'good at English', so *shrug*, it sounds pretty good actually. I would love to be a combination of my english teacher and Social Studies teacher. Those two were the coolest people ever!

well, be back soon

hehe sorry guys couldnt resist. I had to make a claim last year just after I had bub... Was in Dr surgery for blood pressure check and we heard a scrape and a bang... Someones tailer had come off their car and hit my parked car. Turned out I knew the person (small town) and it was their insurance that paid out, but I 'neglected' to tell the company that they never had a safety chain on trailer. And were speeding through roundabout that made it swing off on exiting. Oops. But all good now.

Oh, and my blood pressure? PERFECT! Dr reckons I thrive on stress

My pressure had been for 2 weeks 165/109 give or take a couple points.

Vonni

PS Ani my kegals are always happening. I even do them at work when I can't get anyone to cover me a loo dash break.

You're a cheeky bugger Vonni .

Now - did you do any exercise today?

I did! Had a PT session and did 20 on the treadmill.

I don't chew gum, its 'now allowed' on the SureSlim diet. Would sweetners in Diet drinks have done it? Maybe my grandfather was right......

Sweeteners in diet drinks could definitely do it. How many do you drink every day?

thanks for the welcome.....
i had suckiest day ever!
I have been looking forward to Mummy and Me yoga since before I was a freakin Mummy, since at least when I was 14wks pregnant doing 2nd trimester yoga.... and my baby (the sweetypie) decides to scream worse than she EVER has in public JUST as we are about to start the mummy yoga bit and then sleep like a freakin angel just as we got to the baby yoga bit! silly baby...
so for my first day of june for exercise i got maybe a couple of minutes of relaxation at yoga.... hmmm does that count!
how about i use yesterdays exercise instead! I went for a walk with my 3 border collies for about 40mins.
you know how you have those days when you just could cry!? well i did! and I did!

oh and dont worry about crap conversation, i am a mum now all we talk about is the bowel movements! my baby is a different kind of normal to "most" babies she only poos once a week or so, i think it is awesome but most people think she is weird, i dont have to clean poey bum so i dont care what they say...
but Renny I have a similar problem to you... and i had never thought of it to be to do with good different food i am eating, i have been blaming the once a fortnight treat fatty food i have....
my brother is a doctor and said that it could be greasy food that does it to me. (i just realised i said my brother was a doctor, he is a scientist studying to be a doctor so i treat him like one and email him with health concerns) (he is EXACTLY like House really smart but a pri*ck really, used to decide i had nothing of importance to say so used to ban me from talking....)
do you get cramps before?? i get goosebumps and thats when i know i am going to get really really bad cramps but i have not had an accident....... i was also thinking mine was to do with caesarian healing too all my insides have not worked they way they should since Jemima was born...

the weightloss on my ticker is kinda cheating, as most of it was lost in the first 10 days after having jemima and a lot of it was jemima or support network for baby and probably fluid too as i was retaining a lot at end of pregnancy so day 10 i had lost 9.5 but i guess i have done ok loosing another 3 since then
i have a friend who has just emailed me to say that she will do weight watchers if i will.... i have never been to the meetings before i have always just stolen my mums books and did it myself....
i have been more committed the last couple of weeks and been beating myself up if i dont lose 500 grams a week.... i have worked out i will be at 74kg by end of january if i loose half a kilo a week which makes me see that slow and steady will get there.
when i get to 74 i will be 'happy' but i will still want to get to lower, i am just using 74kg as a weight as that is where i was when i got pregnant (yep i put on 30kg when i was pregnant)

before i got pregnant i did the optifast diet and lost 15kg between end of feb and end of april, not allowed to do optifast or tony ferguson while breastfeeding.... there are lots of things you cant do while breastfeeding,.


sorry for such a long post, i had such a crappy day today you'd think i'd just want to go to bed and wake up tomorrow as jemima was cute as pie this arvo so should probably be fine tomorrow....
anyway looks like i just wanted to 'chat'
have a great weekend
tomorrows exercise will be walking around ikea with a 6ish kilo baby attached to me, i'll make sure to do some lunges while she is in the pouch surely that has got to count! (maybe i'll walk the dogs in the arvo or something too)

what kind of exercise does everyone else do?

is that true??? my brother said it probably wouldnt be it when I mentioned this as a possibility for my funny bowel...... (and then i'm like great i just dobbed myself in for drinking an unnatural amount of softdrink)

i was drinking a heap of diet softdrinks every day but have found that i am a heap better now that i only have one for lunch and one for dinner and make sure to have 2L water everyday.....

so i reckon you gotta be right and fake sugar in softdrink CANT be good for you..... i make myself have an apple for afternoon tea now when i used to think it would be 'better' to have a diet softdrink (no points vs 1 point) but i KNOW how good water is for weightloss so have been trying to grap a bottle of water rather than a can out of the fridge....