Oh yeah. 4th week in a row I havent gained or lost grrrrr

Barb I've been a bit like that for a week - thus my decision to get serious today. I've just got home from work, and realised that I have only had 1220 calories all day.

Oh well, it's too late to eat anything now - and I can honestly say that everything I ate was healthy and whole (except for five jelly babies :D).

I feel like I've been at Bunnings Boot Camp today. Not only did I walk 10.1km, but I lifted 500kg of fertiliser onto a WAVE (which is a lifting-you-up-to-the-sky machine), and then lifted it onto a shelf from the WAVE! That's a TON!

Tomorrow I am spending the day finishing off my story for the book. I saw the book cover today - it gave me a little thrill.

YAY Vonni! Join me in the chocolate-free zone. I've managed to go 24 hours, and I'm already proud of myself :D.

Gen - where are you?

Here - just got back from a weekend in New York. BUsy busy. Not doing at all well with diet.. have lost approx -5 lbs in 3 weeks, I think.

I was going to join you in the no choc thing, but does that mean no non-fat, no-whip white chocolate mochas at Starbucks....???!!!

Gen I hate you :p starbucks rules. no fair. I wonder if they freeze and post well? hehehe

I weighed in this morning and to my surprise it wasn't as terrible as I thought it would be! I've only gained 400g. :^: No that that's something to be happy about! So I've picked myself up and dusted myself off and got back on the wagon. AGAIN!

I'm with you both with the chocolate challenge, today is day 2 without it! :)

Had chocolate today:o Sorry guys. I have been in a terrible state . Not eating brekky and eating junk. I also had a packet of original thins at work, even though I took a yummy mandarin. Had about 8 cups of coffee/tea. Damn. And 3 slices of pizza for tea. Maybe we should call this confessions of a junkaholic????

TOMORROW I will EAT BREAKFAST:D Drink water and limit my tea and coffee intake.

No chocolate for me - 48 hours now and doing well :D.

Come on Vonni - YOU CAN!

Barb, very pleased the damage wasn't too bad. Sounds like you're back on track - YAY!

Gen - we won't count the Starbucks :p.

Amy how are you travelling? Lindor and Julia, what's happening?

I had a pretty good day. Ate 1500 calories and did a 3-hour spring clean of the house this afternoon. Trying to make myself tired enough to go to sleep - but I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping for the last month or so. Don't know what that's about…

Here I am. I've lost the plot a little this week. Was off work sick on Monday with a killer headache. Was still feeling rotten yesterday and am just starting to feel okay today. All that has meant no exercise so far this week and I've been totally off plan with regards to my diet.

I just got a text from Kel and she's flying into Christchurch this afternoon so I'll probably catch up with her tonight.

Do you all remember that I was looking forward to seeing tattoo boy last Saturday? Well I was so worked up and in a right state and then when I got there he postponed on me!

So I've got a new appointment set up for tomorrow after work. That will probably mean that it'll be just me and him in the shop so there'll be the chance for some good conversation I hope.


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lol Julia yr bad:p. And how exciting meeting Kel. It's funny, we only live an hour and a half apart we should have caught up lol. But I hardly get to Bris any more. Maybe when I have my graduation in Novemeber.

It's almost lunch time and I havent had any chocolate yet. woohooo.
I will NOT give into temptation I will NOT give inot temptation I will NOT give into temptation :D

OK if Starbucks doesn't count, I'll be in on the no-chocolate thing. I have to do something before I hit 100kg again. Since my achilles is buggered at the moment, it'll have to be getting my food right.

Friends have posted tons of pics from the weekend, and I look disgusting. I feel disgusting!! I am in Large scrub tops and XL bottoms... and they are getting snug.

I have to start losing weight again!!!! I know if I could just have one good week then I'd feel like I could do it AGAIN... but I haven't been able to even manage a good week for ages.

I honestly can't stand looking at myself when I'm this fat because it doesn't even seem like it's me.

Sorry to hear you're feeling so bad Gen :hug: Time perhaps to set some new goals and start afresh?

I had a lovely dinner with Kel, Benji and Jemima last night. We went to a Thai restaurant and it was great meeting them all :D

I'm still not managing to get to the gym, this week is pretty much a wash so I'm just trying to watch my diet and hope for the best.

I WILL BE BACK ON FORM AS OF NEXT WEEK!!


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yeah i have had a good week :) and have lost some weight .. yes i know i should put the scales away again.. lol.. but i have a problem...

Hi everyone my name is Amy and i have had a scale problem for 5 years... i havent weighed in for 3 days........ lol We need AA or weigh_a lol

So anyway Atm the scale is my friend becuase i have gone from 274.5 to 273.. lol so 1.5 pounds .. im happy with that..

OK confession of a junkaholic for me too lol ( that was a good one Vonni)
I had a gf come up yesterday with her kids she live the othe side of town and on a bad day it can take 1.30 to drive to my house anyway she came up with her kids and was here all day .. the kids were hungry and they wanted tinned spaghetti for dinner.. i hadnt cooked anythingt becuase i hadcooked lunch .. so instead she jumped in her car said she would be back in a minute and came back with KFC.. lol something i havent had in hmmmm 9 months... yumm..... but you know what.. it wasn't as good as i thought it would be lol.. Leah wanted it and i just felt guilty for eating it since she definatly cant have it .. she was eating her food but still poor little kid couldnt even have a chip.... lol so not worth it .. i had one of those twister things.. im thinking oh well twister would be pretty good .. but OMG over 600 calories in one of those.. i couldn't believe it .. so after i had eated my 900 calorie meal i logged in and found out ther truth i was pissed lol.. amazingly i only went over my points buy 50 calories .. but still.


im jealous of julia gen and ani.. i wish i had someone to drool over.. lol .. ok i usually do i have a rather good looking hubby who is fit and sexy but,,, lol ATM .. im all alone and have no one to drool over.. lol

as far as chocolate goes.. hmmm i cant make that sort of promise lol.. though i dont have it everyday . I love the stuff lol and i have found a few snack bar things with low cals and a light cover of chocolate that are really yummy .. so im not gonna give it up not now maybe not ever lol ..

Julia did you end up meeting with kel?? i bet it would be a blast to see her and jem..

Vonni how is the little bub going .. has she settled into a routine yet?

I have realised that I can't go longer than 2 days without chocolate! Is that bad?

Barb this is my 5th day without chocolate and I've had some serious cravings. But I promised myself that until I can figure out how to have chocolate as a treat and not a habit, I'm not touching it.

But I haven't got it worked out by any means. I've been eating 'treats' anyway - so I'm a bit stuck at the moment.

Gen what's going on? It was a big life change moving to the US, and it was always going to be tough to find a routine. Are you happy over there? Settled?

Julia, how exciting that you caught up with Kel. Are you travelling OK? It's been up and down for most of us lately for some reason.

Amy it's a really long road to lose weight. I keep an Excel spreadsheet and chart my weekly goals, and it's funny when I look at it because it shows exactly how tough it is. But it's definitely worth it.

Vonni are you OK?

Lindor what are you up to?

I have to work today - at least it pays well, but honestly! Work until 9pm tonight and then start at 6am tomorrow… Blurk!

Well my tattoo is finished and my foot looks amazing but I totally chickened out on asking him out on a date :(

I feel so incredibly frustrated. I like this guy so much but just don't have the guts to do anything about it. Aaarghhh!!!

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Yeah, I'm still about! And I continue to plod on!

I was away Monday to Thursday last week for work. Twenty-four hours into the trip I came down with an icky bout of gastro. I continued to work despite having to go to the bathroom...well, very frequently! And it got a bit scary when it was announced that the water was going to be turned off for an hour at work!!! Pleased to say I survived that without embarrassment!!!

The gastro had me a little fearful of food for a few days - which really helped me avoid the roomservice temptation!! :lol:

I got home Thursday and was starting to feel better, then got struck by TOM!!!

So, I've been kinda laid up in bed for most of the long weekend feeling pretty yuck!

Feeling better now though :)

I am looking forward to weighing in on Thursday. I feel positive that I'll see something good on the scales. Give or take a day or two, I have managed to stay within my daily calorie allowance since returning from holiday, and I have managed to drink a good amount most days too.

Ani, well done on the chocolate challenge so far. I thought about it, but I have decided I won't be joining you in that challenge. I have managed to cut back my chocolate intake to just one 'funsize' portion a day, and only if my calorie budget can afford it. And I don't take chocolate with me when I go away either. Thinking about it, for me that is really quite an achievement considering I was once, not all that long ago, able to sit and gorge a full 250g block in one go!! Not to mention a full pack of Tim Tams in one sitting!!!

And shift work sux, I know!! But think of the $$$ for doing them! How does your roster work? Do you occasionally get more than two days off at a time? That can sometimes make it all seem worthwhile too. And if it is any consolation, going from six plus years of working odd hours to a 'normal Mon - Fri, 9 - 5' job is also difficult to adjust too! :lol:

Julia, how cool was it to finally sit down talk to one of us face to face!! I know it was pretty cool catching up with Ani in Perth last year. And, if all goes to plan, I hope to catch her again at the end of May! Yay!! :)

And Julia, maybe you need to plan on getting another tattoo?? ;)

Gen, hang in there, you know you can do this!! Bite the bullet and pick a day...you know one good day will lead to another, and before long you'll have that week wrapped!! Where are all your gadgets that had you so motivated before? Your progress charts and records? Maybe pulling them out again will help you find the motivation? You know, we want you to be successful with this journey as much as you do!

Vonni, you're being too quiet!! :p

Ok, I gotta run!

If I don't get on before, I'll definately be on to report my weigh-in on Thursday!!

Has it really been 80 days since my last weigh in???

I am sooooo going to want to see a drop on Thursday now!!! :lol:

Sounds like you've been awfully sick Lindor. Glad you're on the mend now though. Still can't stop thinking about tattoo boy. At least I've still got more to be done on my other foot so I'll still get to see him again at some stage ;)

I had a really quiet long weekend. Haven't been to the gym for a week now so it's time to get back into that today.

Goals for today: 1) Stick to my points 2) Have a good workout at the gym.


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Lindor I am very glad to hear that you're feeling better, and I will cross everything for you for Thursday's weigh-in. I'm going to weigh in on Wednesday this week, because I find that all the shift-work and overtime I have done this week has thrown my body out of balance. Going to bed at midnight, getting up at 4am, not eating properly… so I will have Tuesday off and let my body calm down - then I'll weigh in.

Julia I would ring that man and tell him you want to take him out for dinner! Well I think I would ;).

Gen - HELP! There's this married woman at work and she is chasing me. Seriously!!! I would not care if she was not gorgeous. And by the way she isn't the one I have a crush on…

Bloody ****. Do I have to put 10kg back on to uncomplicate my life? I"M JOKING :D

Good luck for Thursday Lindor. After the nasty week you've had I hope you see something great!

Don't have any advice for you Julia. If you never ask you'll kick yourself! Go on can't hurt!

Ani! Goodness! What did you do to her! You should be flattered! I know I would be.

I've had another really bad weekend. I'm allowed one free day a week and I'm making it a free weekend so all of the good that I do throught the week is ruined by Monday morning. I must show more self control! So once again I'm not expecting a loss this week, but the kids are back at school now so I'll be able to get back into the swing of things again.........hopefully!

Ani, yes I hate to tell you, but I've always found getting fat again defers the attention from love interests... heh. So don't listen to me! I wish I could help, I'd like to have that problem I think. Would you like to switch for a crush on the married one that remains at the smouldering, sexual tension phase? I have one of those...

LOL. To be honest, the only way to stop someone chasing you is either a) Let them catch you or b) Tell them you're not interested.

I weighed in this morning - think I've lost a couple pounds, so that helps my mental state hehe. Got all organized yesterday with lots of arranging my room and made a big stirfry, so I have my lunch to take today (even though hot guy will be annoyed I don't want to order lunch).

Julia - I would love yo give you advice, but I suck at dating myself. Could you call him and say "I meant to ask if you'd be up for a drink sometime?"

Hey ladies. Yes, yes. I know, I really should just suck it up and ask him out but I just don't have the guts basically. What I am going to do is continue to get any work done by him and continue to chat and get to know him.

My number one focus has to be me. I'm still at the very beginning stages of trying to give up alcohol, deal with my depression and get healthy and that is more than enough to focus on for the moment.

I weighed in last night and am down 300g, now sitting at 82.7kg. Isn't the human body an odd thing ... the 2 weeks previous I had eaten perfectly and exercised lots and I gained both weeks and then the week I don't exercise and don't eat so well I have a loss. Go figure :dizzy: I know that I just need to stick to my guns and keep on keeping on.

Goals for today: 1)stick to my points 2) do weights and 20 minutes of hard intervals at the gym tonight.


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Yes I need a slap - it's ridiculous to have URST at Bunnings. Honestly! I really need to ground myself so that I don't run off and eat to cover my discomfort with everything.

Weigh-in is tomorrow, and if my roster comes out this week and I continue to have Tuesday/Wednesday as my days off I am going to change my weigh-in day to Wednesdays every week. I haven't adapted to shift work yet - got home from work at 9.30pm last night and didn't go to bed until 1am. I've been up since 6am today - so clearly need a day or so to settle.

This week I have afternoon shifts every day, so that should be better.

My goal for May is going to be to try and drop a kilo. I have discovered that, now I am in the 70s it is harder to lose weight, and I think there are two reasons for that. Firstly it's a big head-game; I look and feel better, and there's a constant battle to motivate myself now. Part of me thinks I have done most of the hard work, so I can afford to relax. It's also physically harder to lose, and it's true that weight loss slows down when you get closer to goal.

But I'm not happy to live with this weight. So onwards and upwards :).

I didn't weigh in today..........I'm afraid of what I might see!

ani dont you mean onwards and downwards??? lol

I have had agreat week op no problems even had my mums birthday and i made the dessert so stay op then too .. i made a mixed berrie and apple crumble.. added only one spoon of sugar and used oats and coconut to flavour the very thin top.. I stewed the fruit b4 i made the crumble so i wouldnt have to add to much sugar ..

so all week i have been op and i feel great . im sleeping well again. im exercing everyday and twice some days .. and i am feeling happy and grounded .. :)

Julia i would be chicken to ask him too lol .. i would wait till your tatts are done so if you ask and he says no you wont have to see him again..lol

Today was awkward to say the least.. My "FRIEND" was at school this morning .. ignored me completly and made me feel very uncomfortable... *****.. lol .. She didnt bring her duaghter to school yesterday .. so at least it was ok then.. i just hope she doesnt come to play group on friday and ruin it for Leah.. . this morning Leah fell over and lost her shoe right in front of my ex friend and she just ignored her when she asked her for help.. Like my 3 year old knows she is a *****??? poor Leah.. She was upset and said .. My Jenny wouldn't say hello to me .. .. cow ***** .. and all the other nasty things lol ..

Ani i wonder if you will ever get used to the shift work? i think everyone find it hard.. is there anyway you could ask for a non shifting position?..

gen congrats on the weight loss :)

Julia did you meet up with Kel yet?

ok im off :) have a great day girls :) school pick up will be intertesting to say the least.. lol ...

Amy you must have missed my post from last week. I had dinner with Kel, Benji and Jemima last week. Was great to meet her!

Yay for me :carrot:

I stuck to my points yesterday and had a good session at the gym last night: weights followed by 20 minutes of jog/run intervals.

Up at dawn's crack this morning to see my PT and did weights followed by a 20 minute jog and 20 minute work.

Hope you're all doing well.


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Well, to my surprise, (and relief) I'm down 500g from last week. Yay. My bad choices over the weekend weren't as bad as I thought them to be. :)

Up 600gm and George is visiting

I got new foster babies - 3 x 7 wk old kittens. They are SO cute, although not so cute after they all went face diving in their whiskas last night...

lol i bet they were even cuter covered in whiskers.. lol the only problem then is the smell..

Julia i do remember you saying you met them now you mention it lol .. i must have had a brain fart.. lol

I had another great day I did my exercise and stayed op .. so im happy hopefully when i weigh in friday i will have lost a lil or not gained any.. either would do at this point lol..

anyway .. im off to watch som tv in the lounge where i have the heater on lol.. too cold in the study tonight.. lol yeah i know im a woose.. but i dont have John home to warm me up. lol ..

He will be home on the 8th and we will go up to mannum for the night of the 9th and go fishing on the river good fun :) Hope the kids like it.. and i hope its not too cold.. lol..

ok im freezing now so ill head off see ya's later

I was rudely awoken just after 3.30am this morning and haven't been back to bed! But I figure being able to watch some not too bad looking firemen at work doing their stuff on my front doorstep isn't really too much to complain about!! :lol:

Anyway, I did weigh in this morning! Not sure how accurate it'll be as I was up a good two hours before I weighed myself...although I had not eaten or drunk anything prior.

Last recorded weight was a week or two before I went on holiday at the end of Feb, and that was 188.6lb.

I am absolutely sure I'd have gained on that while on holiday.

This morning I weigh in at an even 184lb!

That'll do me :)

Not going to weigh in again now until June 1...hopefully I can continue what I am doing and lose some more :)

OK...gotta run!

Have a good day all :)

thats great lindor :) congratulations on the weight loss. always a giood thing watching hot men .. lol i hope you made the most of it :)) lol

Well done Lindor! Why'd you have firemen to look at this morning? I hope everythings ok. :)

Some delightful soul decided it would be fun to torch one of the cars in the carpark to this block of flats that I live in!!

Looking at the car in daylight...I swear it looks like the remains of one of them car bombs you see on the news!!!

Well I'm glad noone was hurt Lindor. Funnily enough, I had the fire dept at my place on Anzac day. I was enjoying a lie in and the house fire alarm went off. Where I live there are 12 flats in one big old house so we all piled out to the front of the house. There was smoke surrounding the house but we couldn't find a fire. Called the fire dept and they said it was a neighbour burning rubbish. Because the downstairs of our house is open the smoke had blown in and set all our alarms off. :dizzy:

A rude awakening but good to know that the alarm system works and that everyone is capable of evacuating quickly.

I'm working from Wellington again today so no gym until Monday for me. Will try to be careful with my diet to make up for it.

I had THE BEST haircut EVER last night. I decided that I didn't want any length off, just to have it thinned out and she only charged me for a fringe cut ... $5.

:eek: :yay: :woohoo:

Have a great weekend everyone.


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Hey everyone, good to see that most people are back on track. Lindor you must be really pleased with your results - I would be.

I'm going to weigh in tomorrow. After all these months it's too hard to get my head around changing my weigh-in day, so I'll stay with my original plan. I lost NO weight in April - not a gram, but I didn't gain any either, so I guess you have to call that a win.

I'm hoping to drop a kilo this month though, so I'm going to pay more attention to everything I'm doing. I still haven't figured out shift work, but I will. As long as I don't gain weight while I'm sorting through it, I'll be happy.

OK - gotta fly. Hope you're all having a good weekend.

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Ani

hey hey hey party people!!!!!!!!

i'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!!!!!!!

had the best most awesome holiday ever

met julia, she is awesome, it was great like we were just mates catching up for dinner
my daughter though was a little restless, and we figured out later why she was the naughtiest she had ever been while we were out.... it was only 3.30pm her time and we were sitting her down for dinner, she was most likely saying "what the??" poor thing, it was after christchurch that we properly figured out how to work with 2 timezones, hers and ours, she was stuck on aussie time and we were on nz time, so we had to do everything 2 hours later for her but we hadnt perfected it straight away. benji was sick and got worse as the days went on which means i did a lot of the driving but that is ok coz i like the control.... anyhow holiday was amazing i will upload some photos to my facebook and then put thelink on here or something

BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT

i did really bad

i ate for basically the whole holiday
i ate crap
i have now though managed to do something i thought not possible... turned myself OFF every kind of bad food imaginable, kfc, chips (i hate chips), chocolate, everything i have eaten WAY too much of it, to the point (and this is embarrassing) i can not breath, i can not bend over to tie up shoelaces without feeling sick, i was having cramps i was so full of rubbish
so that is the good part of the bad thing.
heard of the 2 week wait - usually this is when you are trying to get pregnant andhave to wait and see if monthly friend makes an appearance well my 2 weeek wait is going to be before i weigh myself
i am going to weigh myself tomorrow morning and get benji to write it down and not tell me
then in 2 weeks (after "normal" eating habits resume) i will weigh myself again if i am under 90 i will ask benji to tell me what i weigh if not i will wait another week
ho hum

hello to everyone
good luck with the no chocolate
gen does that cat have nailpolish on?

mwah!!

Welcome home Kel!

Sounds like you enjoyed yourself on your holiday - looking forward to seeing some pics.

Maybe you need to spend the next two weeks setting a whole new healthy eating routine for the family? I have to admit, just reading your description of what you ate while away had me feeling bloated and sick!

Ani, the fact that you have maintained the same weight over the last month is a great result! I know how shift work can mess with dieting, a lot of my bad habits came from shift work. Eating a big meal late in the evening and going to bed feeling full was probably my biggest problem. Getting up later as result of a late night screws with a regular breakfast time!

What plans have you made to overcome the irregular shifts? Do you have a roster that repeats itself after a week/fortnight/month? If you need to bounce ideas around drop me a line...I somehow managed to lose my initial 30kg while working shifts. Oddly, I started losing track when I switched jobs to one that works normal hours!

I haven't been doing overly good myself these last few days - comfort eating again I guess? Not over eating but I am constantly picking at stuff...to distract me maybe?

Seems I was affected by the fire outside the flat the other night. I have not slept properly since. I wake with a start at every noise I hear that slightly resembles the noises that woke me that morning. When I immediately open my eyes I see the reflection of the flames dancing on the walls again...I have to blink a few times before I realise there are no flames. My sense of smell is on edge and I am convinced I smell smoke all the time!

I scared myself that morning because my immediate thoughts were that the fire was in my neighbours kitchen...just a 10cm thick wall away from where I was sleeping. I was convinced I had lost everything, that it was just a matter of a few minutes before it would spread from that kitchen into my flat! It was only as I was looking out the front door to see if it was a safe way out, two dogs and cat in arm, that I realised that it was not the flat next door, but in the carpark next to that flat. But the panic that swept over me in those first couple of minutes has spooked me!

And the knowledge that the 12yr old that started the fire probably got little more than a slap on the wrist and released back into the care of his family (the family that obviously had no idea he was out at 3.30am starting fires!) could just as easily do it again!

But...I can't let these things mess up my routine! I have to stop letting my mental issues control my eating habits!


My work roster has me working one week home, one week away, one week home, one week away, until the end of June! That, I think is going to be my biggest challenge for the next couple of months! It starts with being home for this week.


Alright, must try to get some sleep. Just wanted to check in :)

Good luck to all who are weighing in tomorrow and this week :)