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Hey everyone

Came in this morning to find our moderators have locked our old thread - guess we do talk a lot :). Anyway I thought I would get the ball rolling and start a new one. I hope everyone can find it.

Anyway, all is well with me. Just two days until weigh-in and I hope I will lose a little again.

I don't have any plans for the weekend - always a danger - but I will try and behave myself!

:)
Ani

I'm sorry but I have to do this....

FIRST!

Hee. Haven't had the best week. Worked today, so no weigh in, which is a good thing. I have been exercising four times a week though, which is awesome. I LOVE exercising even if I do need to force myself some days.

My rotaror cuff is much better. I only need one more physio (making it three, instead of the six he originally said) and than that's done. I've got the dyna bands for therapy (I need to get my left shoulder up to the standard of my right one)

I'm also trying to figure out why certain colours are heavier. My dyna bands are green, blue, black (from lightest to heaviest) which is the EXACT same order my weighted softballs are. So what makes blue heavier than green?

Worked a 12hr day today - I'd forgotten how completely physically exhausting nursing is.. my feet are killing me, and the new orthotics didn't help!

Ate well, no exercise today but off kayaking tomorrow and then swimming laps.. and then sitting on my arse in the spa!

Wait you don't count 12 hours of walking exercise?

How come they locked it? Perhaps only so many posts are aloowed on a thread before it gets overloaded? I must go back to the terms and conditions pages to check it out.

Anyhow, I sat for my exam today. OMG was stressful for the first 5 minutes when i was thinking "What the heck am I doing here?" But then was ok till last ten minutes.

In all I think I did ok. I really struggled with about 8 questions but answered them anyhow and went back to them after I completed the rest of the test. We get results in about 3 weeks. I was panicking that there'd be a heap of algebra and area type graphs and questions (my weakest point), but only one algebra and a form of area that I managed to figure out (well I hope i figured it out). There are a lot of paragraphs and exerpts from books etc that you have to read and then answer questions on like what the writer was getting at in certain phrases etc... and I am of the type that forms an opinion instantly and nothing can sway me so I hope I did ok.

AND the way they word things is so confusing and complexing I figured to look at them simply and was ok.

Anyhow must go get dinner... I am starving.... Had Sizzlers for lunch today (a rare treat like once a year) and bad spring rolls for tea tonight but nothing inbetween

Vonni

Vonni I wouldn't take it to heart - I noticed they locked a few of the longer threads, and I figured it's an admin thing, to keep everything manageable.

I had a good day. Did my walking, and then spent about three hours trying to sort out my library of books. Didn't get very far with it, and I will need to do several hours on it tomorrow. Oh well - it will keep me out of mischief.

:)
Ani

Yes, I do it at the board I manage when threads get too long, because it makes the server go more slowly trying to load them.

Well done on the exam Vonni! I would hate to wait 3 weeks, at least my US exam gives results electronically after 48 hours.

I don't count nursing as intentional exercise, because it's stop-start, and doesn't get my heart rate up. I work in ICU, so it's just walking between 2 bed areas, it's more the lifting and oxygen tanks and helping big men in and out of bed that was tiring! There private hospital ICUs are really just babysitting people, they aren't sick enough to need intensive care. Give me a nice unconscious patient that doesn't talk back and doesn't need to get out of bed any day!!!

Gen I heard something on the radio the other day about an ergonomic workstation which was developed by a cardiologist. It's basically a super-slow treadmill, and the concept is that you keep moving - albeit VERY slowly - as you work. The tests they've done indicate that, if you hold everything else the same (ie eating/lifestyle) for a year, but just use this workstation, you can lose 20kg in 12 months.

Sometimes I think we overstate "exercise", and I definitely believe we don't understand enough about it. Fifty years ago people didn't go to gyms, or own a lot of health-related equipment… and they were thinner. Why? Just because they moved more in their day-to-day life, and didn't have super-convenient access to take-away food. (Well that's my theory!).

Over the last 10 months I've done a lot of thinking about weight loss, and tried a range of things to help facilitate my own journey. I've come to realise that whatever I do, it needs to be something I can manage for the rest of my life. And I know me well enough to know that I couldn't sustain an ongoing gym/swim program - but what I can do is build more "movement" into my daily life.

As it is now I love walking, and in a way I'm lucky because I don't see it as "exercise" - but rather something I enjoy doing. But what I need to learn is that as part of my regular lifestyle I have to move more, and just create a more active environment for myself.

Whether that means walking to the shop for milk, doing a little more around the house and garden, or making time to go and wander around shopping precincts… I've become very conscious of needing to incorporate more physical stuff in my life.

I think that being 'aware' of how you live is half the battle. I'm a lot more conscious now of what I eat, how much I sit, the things that trigger me - and the things that scare me. And I'm almost halfway to my goal weight.

Today I'm planning to sort and re-shelve my books. I have a pretty big collection, and when I moved here I just unpacked boxes and shoved things where they fit. But it drives me nuts when I can't find anything - so as much as it will be tedious to do, I'll feel a lot less chaotic when I have all that sorted out.

Weigh-in day tomorrow, and I'm quietly confident I can lose a little.

Hope everyone else is having a good weekend.

Lindor - where are you? I miss you!

:)
Ani

True Ani, I think we do underestimate the role of just moving. I wore a pedometer to work a few weeks ago and did 6000 steps in a shift, which is nearly my day's exercise.

I am also trying to have a generally more active life, rather than be a gym bunny. I enjoy my PT, mostly because of my workout group buddies, it's quite social and fun. I think I'd hate it if it was just me and the PT. I am riding my bike quite a lot to go to the post office or shops etc rather than driving, which is saving me money and fat!

I am hopeful I can lose at least 0.5kg this week - I've had the monthly curse, but that's over and I didn't eat chocolate hehe.

Woohoo - lost 1kg this week! Very happy, as I ate more than usual (average 1578/day) and lost that much. I worked out my BMR and daily calorie needs, and tried to trust it (I usually aim for 1250/day!), and it worked out and I lost more!! So maybe I hadn't been eating enough, which is good!

Also rode my bike to training this morning and burned 1150 cals, so that's left me room for some nice dinner today! GOod luck weighing in, everyone!!

Onya Gen - that's fantastic :)

I lost stuff-all - 0.1kg, and I'm very frustrated. Nine weeks on a plateau, and I'm not liking it.

Going to sit down and tweak my goals, and see if I can't break this stupid plateau. grrr…

Oh Bugga, Don't want to come in here, but I confess I put on, .5 kg. That will teach me to pig out on the weekends lol.Ate everything that didn't run too fast.and drank everything that was wet, excpet for water. Happy to see some of us are losing though.:bravo:
Oh well better luck for me this week.,:crossed: I will have to get to that :censored: gym and :censored: well get my :censored: on that bike and pedel like:censored: ****.
Perth chick, I think your theory is right. 50yrs ago ,it was grow your own veges and everyone had fruit trees etc. And was Mum telling you to eat your veges or you get them for breakfast lol. Now it's more like heres $5 go buy Mc D's.

Renney Sue, My dyna band is grey I am doing the same thing, tied mine up to a handle in the kithcen to remind myself to pull on it now and then. Seems to be working my shoulder does not wake me up in the middle of the nite now.

Nursing!!!! No! No! Not for me, I just could not put up with, not only the people moaning at you, but the doc's as well.
And for the hard job that you do. They don't pay enough.
I will stick to driving taxi's at least I can throw the passenger out the door if they get out of hand, can't do that when they are sick in a bed lol.
Give me a drunk anytime. Well back to work for me,
Have a good day.
Mary

:rofl: OMG Mary I can just see you oening the door and giving a good shove and tehm runing after teh cab :whoo: I've been there done that with the drunks, except mines been behind the bar and at a 24hr servo (3am drunk munchers).

OK guys not good for the weigh in this week. Can I take a raincheck till next week? No? Damn! Well the scales say I have put on 2.5kg. How can that be? a week and that much weight? :cry: How depressing. With all the stress this week with my other half I didn't eat for 3 days and then I must admit that George was hanging around the last part of the week, and there's something about George that wakes up the all the Gremlins and Boogie Monsters in my head that tell me "Food is good, junk food is good, have it, have it all". I am going to weigh on wednesday when he has left the building.

I've drank NO water in a week and I know its naughty of me. So today I have already had 2 glasses of water, and I might walk up to get my daughter from school. It's bloody cold though so no telling if that'll happen. I'm also thinking to drink a warm glass of water on rising. Supposed to be a good detox for you and I know all the asians do it and they live forever.

OK Congrats to all who did lose, even the tiny bits. They all add up at the end of the day.

Gen I got a pedometer the other day from Big W. I can't understand how to work the bloomin thing. But I will try.

Tomorrows goal - Drink a litre of water,and no snacks. Maybe even a 15 minute walk around the bock.

Vonni

Mary, my mum reckons I like ICU because the patients are unconscious (usually) and can't answer back. I don't take crap from the patients! Most of mine are so sick they don't have the energy to be a hassle though!

Hello everyone - sort of went MIA the last week as my son was sick and we were up every night. He has finally slept through Fri night and the weekend but I am still catching up from a week of broken sleep- I dont know how I did it when he was little LOL. I havent weighed myself this morning, will do it tomorrow and post it - but I have been still exercising at the gym, that was my time last week LOL

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.

Congrats Renny Sue. Thats right a loss is a loss!
I lost it at work last night. For a start I had worry bout our bub, then I needed someone to go to back office to check on a product for customer and the aparrel manager was on break so I called a 17 year old trainee manager. She upped me said "why should I do it, I'm busy?" really nasty in front of a customer. She was taking a while so I asked a girl to go down and let me know whats going on so THEN the 17yr old rang me from another office to continue abusing me saying "Don't u think I can do it? huh? huh?" like shaping up to me on the phone. Then she came back down wIth only HALF the info i needed glaring at me so I let her have it. She told me she was busy and didn't have time to do that meanial task. I told her "Love yr 17 you are a TRAINEE you have no OFFICIAL AUTHORITY. You are LEARNING. What you need to learn is ulitmately we are all here for the same thing - CUSTOMER SERVICE."

Well, after she stormed off the customer said she was a rude girl. Then my superviser came in to me and I just burst into tears. OMG how embarrassing! She saw me leave to go upstairs and compose myself but now I suppose now the girl thinks haha. I think that incident was just the last straw. I( tend to lose it when I get angry, but I CRY when I get really mad. Strange hey? But
Anyhow u guys don't need to hear any more of my sooking.
Where is Lindor?????
VONNI

Urgh Vonni - upstarts! I think we have all bumped into one or two of those in our time.

I was in Target a few weeks ago, and the woman at the checkout was being really ripped to shreds (in front of me) by her supervisor - and it was over something really petty. I could see she was close to tears, and I couldn't help myself - I jumped in to defend her. I can't stand officious people!

I've written down my weight loss goals for today and stuck them up on the fridge. Gen's info got me thinking, and I realise there are a couple of key things I need to change - so I'm going to aim to eat 1600 calories a day, walk for an hour, and plan for an extra hour of 'being active' every day.

The other thing I'm going to change is that I'm going to plan my day's meals every morning. Living on my own I am pretty slack about that, but have come to realise it isn't the wisest way to manage a weight loss program. So from today I will plan my eating every morning.

What's everyone got planned for the weekend? My beloved footy team, the Frematle Dockers are playing St Kilda tonight - so I'll be glued to that (and braced for yet another thrashing), and aside from that I want to give my house and garden a good clean and tidy.

It's only three days until weigh-in and I have no clue about whether I'll lose anything this week or not. It would be nice to beat last week's MASSIVE 0.1kg - but given this bloody plateau I seem to be stuck on, I'm not optimistic.

:)
Ani

Bugger, wrote a big reply and lost it. Took progress pics this morning at training, after 14 weeks of training. Have lost 7-8kg in that time, but gained muscle tone and lost lots of cms.

Before (me in middle): http://galleries.joesdiner.com/gen/a...7_Group?full=1
After (2nd from left): http://galleries.joesdiner.com/gen/a...5/DSC01944.jpg

WOW Gen - what a difference :). Imagine another 10kg…

I've set 1650 calories/day as my aim for two weeks, combined with walking an hour a day. I'll see if that makes a difference. I've also been much more diligent about drinking water today.

Tomorrow I'm planning to spring clean my house (well, Autumn clean really), and I intend to burn many calories doing that. I know it sounds like a very boring way to spend a Saturday, but it needs to be done.

Lindor - wherever you are mate… :hug: . Hope you're OK.

:)
Ani

I have managed to lose about .5 kg over the past two weeks, I guess a little is better than none.

I had planned on having a weekend for ME. Doesn't look like that is going to happen. :(

Kristina has a friend over tonight but the mother is one of those who expects you to pick the child up and drop her off, she lives about 30 minutes away and if I have to meet her where they keep their horse it is also about 30 minutes away. :( I am one that can't say no so I will be running around. Thankfully I told her there was no way I could do it tonight so she dropped her daughter off. I will end up spending about 3-4 hours at the horse tomorrow, but I guess it is ok cos Kristina hopefully will get to ride a bit.

Sunday I am off to church then off to a pony club that Kristina wants to see, it is near the church so not too bad, then off to a 5 year olds party.

I still have to fit my 3 hours with Nana into each day too. She needs help with the bathing, making sure she has her medications, food etc, and I need to wash her clothes for this week, I have been at work so haven't done that yet. Gosh where does the week go to???

Sorry needed a bit of a grip.

I hope everyone else has a good weekend and manages to lose some weight.

Jennylee

Well, I tried talking to manager today, she SHOT ME DOWN IN FLAMES. She herself is finishing in 2 weeks and I guess she's just put it in the too hard basket. I went to the lady who mans the phones and asked her to contact manager and ask if I can have a private chat. She said to get another girl (BM) without even checking what was about, I didn't want that person because thast who this young missy went whining to last night. So I asked a department manager o have a chat, she was willing and while in the room the BM came in and said why didn't I get her, I said so as not to drag her into it, then the MANAGER came in and yelled at me if it was about the crap last night she doesn't want to bloody well hear about it.

I said well obviously you have already heard about it and she said yes, and it's her word against yours. I said well she had no right to talk to me in that way and then the MGR said I shouldnt have asked the girl for assistance in first place its not her 'job' and if someone called her (the manager) to do a job like that she'd be rude too. I asked her if she was excusing the girls manner and noone deserves to be treated that way and said that we're all supposed to be available for customer service. And how was I to know if she isn't to be called for a job that might be 'beneath' her if I am not told. and then said one word - COMMUNICATION. paused then said, it isn't that hard, and if there was better communication between management and staff here the whole place would run a lot better.
It ended up in a yelling match and me bursting into tears in anger and disbelief that someone I thought was a great boss could act like that. She was the one who started raising her voice to me and I couldnt get a word in hardly, so I just asked the BM for my statement back, took it from her hand and said if you don't want to know about it then I'll go higher. This was all said and done in front of about 4 witnesses all management.


I sent email to the HR officer of qld stores and he rang me said the original incident needs to be handled in store by management, I told him that I went there today and also waht happened, he then said he was ringing her and phoning me back.

He called back said my boss would speak to me next shift that we are both there. I said yep thats thursday nights and saturdays, she isn't there those times and she transfers in a week and a bit. Convenient to speak at next shift isn't it. (Maybe I should cross out my well wishes on her good luck card thats sitting in the staff room?)

He told me if it wasn't resolved then he could step in. Hmmmm I wonder how i will go at work tomorrow???

Sorry guys I just had to vent.
Anyhow must run. I wont be around till tuesday. have a christening to go to on the gold coast.

Has anyone seen Lindor?

Vonni

PS - I wouldnt cross out the card... thats nasty and I'm not a nasty person.

I started my new plateau-buster plan yesterday. Ate 1570 calories, drank 2L of water and walked for an hour.

And then Freo won the footy :D

It's raining here this morning, so any plans for gardening are on hold today. I'm going to try and spring clean the house. After many experimental moments I have FINALLY discovered how to keep cats off my bed - I bought citronella oil, mixed it with water in a spray bottle - and sprayed my bedroom. Works a treat!

I'm trying to stay positive about this plateau, but it's hard. I'm almost tempted to not weigh myself until Monday week, just to give this new plan some time to kick in - but I know me… Can't help myself!

Anyway, I hope everyone has a good weekend.

Vonni I hope you get your work situation sorted out - it sounds nightmarish.

:)
Ani

Mary don't tease… what have you done?

I met all my goals for yesterday and am happy with that. Tomorrow I will weigh-in and do my measurements, and let you know how I go.

No big plans for today. Might potter and finish off the housework that only half got done yesterday.

Hope everyone's having a good weekend.

:)
Ani

Wasn't able to find the 3FC weight tracker! Had to get a new one from Ticker Factory.

Woohoo - well my calorie counting is still doing the trick (knock on wood) - lost 1.2 this week!

Down to 88.8 kg, total loss: 16.8kg. Also got the body fat scale to work: 44.4%, total body water: 40.5%.

Waist: 89cm
Hip: 109cm
Thigh: 61cm
Chest: 104cm