In August last year, when I started this weight loss, I set myself the goal of "walking across Australia" (well - the equivalent at least) as a way of achieving enough exercise to a) help lose weight and b) get into the habit of exercising regularly.
Sofar I have walked about 2,340km - which puts me a little east of Alice Springs.
How can it be childish to make a positive goal, and to use "virtual milestones" to help you achieve it? Childish is when you mind someone else's business and feel some kind of need to make a facile comment about them!
Matey, do not worry about them. Those kinds of comments say a lot more about the person making them than about you!
it is not childish it is awesome.
people have no imagination
or are plain jealous they didnt think of it (like me)
it really puts in perspective how far you are walking and that is cool makes me wonder how far i walk everyday and how far i could have gotten if it had been in a straight line.... hmmm how far is the moon.......
Lindor, sounds like an awesome way to motivate yourself! Just the thought of all those steps makes me achilles hurt!
I have lost the plot at the moment. Just feel very blah. Didn't go to WW today for weigh in, I really felt like seeing a "bad" number would push me over the edge. I think going to the conference in Sydney and seeing all my ex-colleagues has made me panic and wonder why the **** I left. Once you're gone, you forget how awful it was before you left and how much you wanted to leave!
So now I'm having the whole "what the **** am I doing with my life" thoughts... and I just don't bloody know. I'm sick of waiting around for this US job - wrote to them and basically said, I need a job, tell me what is going on and if it isn't going to work out then I will look elsewhere. The guy wrote back and said "don't panic, it'll work out". I need deadlines!
Also doesn't help that I have to write this bloody essay within the next couple of days. I wrote about 1000 words yesterday, but it's meant to be 3000 and god knows how I'll add that much drivel.
Haha Gen at 3000 words of drivel.... My last assignment the teacher told me NOT to go in to much depth. Last one I Had was 300 words just explaining a presentation and mine ended up being 900... oops. I know there will come a day when I fail and have to resubmit because of my drivel.
Lindor thanks for the tip. And Ani Vanuatu sounds great but do u think they will let me escape????? I think not! oh t'would be good but.
gotta go have a coffee. Hanging for it. We had christmas launch at work today and I am OVER the whole christmas thing already I need a rest... Vonnni
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Oh Gen! Where is that strong willed and determined side of you got to? There is nothing worse than hanging on and not knowing, to throw your head out!
So, maybe you need to make the deadlines? If you haven't got this job by such a date, consider it not happening!
"Don't wait for the light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there...and light the bloody thing yourself!" - Sara Henderson
Ani, Kel, thank you! I told myself not to let the 'childish' comment get to me, how I find motivation to do something is entirely up to me! It just kept bugging me though. But I am over it! Mt Everest looms! I will be starting my climb (and my whole new weight-loss journey) in just over a day! And I am looking forward to it
I've had another good day today. I am fairly certain I ate within my calories, I drank some water and I also did some step-ups. I feel sure I have lost weight this week now, despite the first few days. But that is neither here nor there. I start fresh on Monday!!
Ok, it's nearly midnight!! I will post again tomorrow
By the way, where is our Kylie? If you are lurking, I hope you are ok! If you're not lurking...well, I still hope you are ok!
I was woken at 5am by my housemate and her other half - they were in the kitchen making coffee, banging cupboard doors and laughing. I stumbled out, eyes half closed and said: "Did I just wake up in a f@#*king caravan park?".
They looked at me stunned, and said: "Oh… you weren't here when we went to bed, so we thought you stayed out all night!".
Dumb as a pair of fence posts!!!
I'm the kind of person who can't go back to sleep once I'm woken up, so I'm sitting here drinking coffee - trying NOT to look like a wombat on morphine.
Hey Gen don't you give up on yourself now. I'm with Lindor - can't you write to them and set some kind of deadline? Maybe tell them you'll be going in February, or source some other way of getting work over there.
It's going to be 37ºC here today - bit of a shock to the system, so I might go and water my plants sooner rather than later. Aside from that, not planning much at all.
Vonni - you can't get permission to escape, it kind of defeats the purpose
Lindor your work colleague has a very sad lack of imagination - and that isn't your problem. You just start climbing that mountain…
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The answer is simple Ani - next time you come in late at night, make a lot of noise!
I was woken at about the same time too, with my neighbour doing exactly the same thing!! Banging cupboards, clanging dishes etc! See, the only thing separating my bedroom from her kitchen is 9cm of brick! She is the most self-centred, inconsiderate b!tch I have ever known!
37C huh?
We are headed for 41C today, apparently. But at the moment it is nice and overcast and I struggle to see it making 41C if it stays like this. I don't anticipate rain yet though. It is troppo season - we go crazy at this time of the year as the skies tease us by threatening rain but not producing any for another few weeks!
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I think for the first time in a very long time I am actually looking forward to weigh-in tomorrow! Maybe that is because I am not looking for a loss and won't be noticing a gain. Once I know what I weigh in pounds I will then decide on a goal to take me to the end of the year (seven weeks exactly!). One thing I do know now though, is I want to be well on my way up that mountain!
Ok, I won't babble on tonight, I am sure you are all getting sick of me going on about my new start, weighing in pounds and climbing Mt Everest!
It's been kinda quiet here this weekend? I hope it is because everyone is keeping busy and behaving themselves?
Thanks for the quote Lindor - sounds like what my mum has been telling me. Might just have to find something to keep me entertained for the next 6 months and tell the US I'll be available from May.
Got my 3000 words of drivel finished - am at the point of not knowing if it's good or crap after staring at it for 10 hours today haha but at least it's finished.
I have no idea how I lost weight this week - but I managed to drop 0.3kg and weigh in at 83.5kg. Sometimes, since I changed my eating habits, I tend to 'magnify' the bad days … and then expect the scales to punish me for them.
Hmmm… something to take to my Journal there!
Anyway I'm pleased with the loss. I'm aiming to drop another pound this week, and my big goal is to try and achieve some balance between food, water and exercise.
Lindor I'm with you on setting a goal for the end of the year. I'll ponder that this week!
How is everyone else travelling?
Gen, I'm glad you got those 3000 words done - now what's happening with your weight loss?
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Morning all!
So here it is! Monday! Weigh-in!
I start my new journey weighing in at 191.4 pounds. I have no idea what that is in kilos...I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW! I have no idea if it is up or down compared to last week...I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW!
My weight goal for the end of the year now stands at around 182 pounds. That might change over the next few weeks as I start to see what trend my weight loss takes!
I start my climb up Mt Everest today too! I have scheduled that to start this evening...anyone know what is good on TV at the moment?
I will be dropping into a shop after work to get some fresh salad stuff and I plan to have a fresh salad lunch tomorrow - my first of three.
I am currently feeling very determined! And that has me feeling happy
Gen, May sounds like a good plan! I say go for it!
Hi everyone. Sorry I haven't been around, life got a little more hectic than usual.
I have no internet at home, and...
bf and I broke up.
*sigh*
It was all very aimicable, very friendly. It's a little hard at the moment, coz we keep finding ourselves accidentaly going to kiss the other person and stuff like that. It's hard to break habits.
I have lots of really supportive friends around, everyone is being great. I'll be moving out of our little flat soon. It's going to be difficult to un-entwine our lives, but we'll manage. I've never broken up and moved out before, so I'm not relaly sure what to do. Do I ask for the bond back straight away, or do I get it later? I bought the fridge, washing machine and micro - do I keep those or does he? where am I going to find a bed? *sigh* Its all the complicated stuff that is going to throw everything out of whack.
Anyway, happy birthday to me for the 4th. Big ol' 2-0 now. I feel like I'm 12 - I want my mum!
Weight loss is out the window. Trying to go back to the old ways of healing (aka smoking, binge drinking, whatever else), but I just don't like that anymore. So I'm eating to make myself feel better/worse, but it doesn't fix anything either....what else can I do?
Sorry for the misery dump - I'll get over it :P
Take care, I'll come back to read the posts again soon. I scanned this page tho - Ani - I bet you don't really look like a wombat, but I keep seeing a cartoon image in my head of the situation lol!
Will update on the rest of my (slightly less eventful) life soon. Take care ladies.
Hey Kylie, big from me. Breaking up is really tough, and even though you already know this, please yell out to us if you need a chat, or some other support.
In terms of the bond, it depends on your situation. If he is going to stay in the flat, can he pay you the bond? Or if it's in your name, maybe a new lease needs to be drawn up in his name - and then you will get your bond back in about three weeks.
The other thing you could do is maybe have the bond transferred to a new place.
Do you know where you're going to live yet?
As far as all your material possessions are concerned, it's a good thing you are both friends. Maybe you could sit down together and write up a list of things, and then divide them according to what you both need. Be careful - because this is where breakups can go pear shaped.
It's good that you have lots of support from your friends. Breaking up is awful, even when it's amicable.
I know you don't want to think about your diet/weight loss at the moment, but don't punish yourself with food either. You're worth more than that.
Lindor. Your motivation to make exercise fun and interesting for you is ingenious, not childish and your work mate needs a slap! It’s good to see that you’ve found your determination again. You go girl!! I tried to stay on track this weekend but had a slight , shall we say, lapse! Today is another day.
Vonni. I feel terrible for you at the moment. You have so much to deal with and it doesn’t sound like anyone is supporting you at home. What’s up with bf, is he jealous that you know what you want and your going out there and getting it? Men! Would I be right in assuming the 13yo is male too?! Doh! Just went back and read your post, it is your son!
Gen. Have to agree with the other girls, don’t give up on yourself just because others can’t pull their finger out and get things happening for you.
Ani. Not much luck with the new flatmate I see! Some people have no idea! Congratulations on your loss, even with all the disruptions around you still manage to keep on going.
Kylie. I’m so sorry to see that you and bf have parted ways. If I was you I would take this as a chance at a new life. Leave all the old stuff behind when you move from the flat (I mean the things that you don’t like about yourself, not the furniture!) Make this a step forward into a positive and new you. You have great friends in the virtual world and out in the real world, so use them for support and advice. I’m sure everyone has had a relationship go wrong for them, so you’ll find plenty of understanding out there. Don’t keep your misery to yourself; it doesn’t help, believe me. If you want to talk PM me and maybe we can go for coffee or something. Chin up.
As I mentioned earlier, I had a little bit of a binge over the weekend. Friday was a good day, had the standard brekkie, a cheese and cucumber sandy for lunch and steak and salad for dinner, a latte, some rice cakes (more than I should have), a banana and an apple. Saturday, standard brekkie, a latte, bean salad, home made hamburger for dinner. Later that night we watched a movie and this is where I come unstuck. Home made tzatziki dip with corn chips, carrot and celery, a small packet of salt and vinegar chips and three cruisers. Not as bad as usual but not terribly good either. Sunday, banana for brekkie (slept in), tuna and salad sandy for lunch, fish and salad for dinner, latte, an apple and some rice cakes and another cruier and packet of salt and vinegar chips. I spent the day baking and didn’t even taste anything! YAY for me! Had plenty of water and got a little bit of exercise too.
I think I’ve dribble quite enough for one post, wouldn’t you agree!!
Oh Kylie, that sucks. Hugs to you. I don't envy you the untangling of lives - yet another reason I like staying single .. all too messy when it goes wrong. Strongly agree get out some paper and write down how you are going to split things, and then both sign it! It's easy to play the martyr and say "oh no, you take it, I'll get another one" just to make things easier, but don't do it - make sure you look out for your own interests. My dad is a solicitor, and you just hear SO many stories about relationships going awful.
OK, I'll start tracking my food again today - it's a start. Ani, I'm so PROUD of you - which is strange, considering I don't know you from a bar of soap - but 83-something is AMAZING! Especially considering your flatmate wars this year! Just makes me feel very slack in comparison haha. I do have a double PT session this afternoon, so I'll get my arse kicked to start the week and will do my mea culpa and weigh in at WW this week.
from me. Breaking up is really tough, and even though you already know this, please yell out to us if you need a chat, or some other support.
