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smylie 01-30-2008 05:04 PM

82.9kg up about 600grams
these things happen
i was up heaps more this week so have actually repaired the weekend's "damage" quite well.

my baby all by herself makes a lot of noise, does not go down to nap easily and has two ear infections and is teething
needless to say i am now seriously considering a part time job.....

PerthChick 01-30-2008 11:35 PM

Kel what's the plan for this week? Are you doing shakes again?

Hey Vonni - if you want a more accurate ticker (or one that records weight loss in smaller increments) you're allowed to use tickerfactory.com on this site.

All OK here - I spent the morning vacuuming and cleaning my car, and whipper snipping the lawn. This afternoon I'm doing a couple of job applications.

I'm reasonably on-plan, although I haven't had as much exercise as I'd like. As long as I don't gain weight while my life is in chaos I'll be happy.

:)
Ani

7senuf 01-31-2008 07:37 AM

Thanks Ani for ticker info, I will check it out on the eekrnd. Ashory nope my one on her own is far from quiet. If anything she is better occupied with the others. She is very demanding, can't sit still for a minute and very very LOUD. I am just hoping she doesnt end up with all the probs my son has as far as behaviour etc concerned. Though she is showing same traits as he at the same age. If I clean she comes behind me destoying everything I have worked hard at. Even if I try get some study done in office she is pulling this out and carting all over the house. I have tried drawing boards, magnets, food tv heaps but........

Oh well (or should I say ****) they are the woes of being a parent. The joys are there (so I am told hehehe). Just joking. I love my kids dearly and yes they bring me joy.

First day back in lectures tomorrow. I am in no way prepared, and havent finished nmy set work. damn it.

Vonni

LittleKiwi 01-31-2008 04:27 PM

Thank God It's Friday

:whoo:

Had a good day with my diet yesterday and had a great workout at the gym.

Today I have an appointment with my counsellor at 4:15pm so am undecided on whether I'll go to the gym or not. I'll just have to wait and see how much time I have between that and starting work again at 7.

Working tomorrow morning and then get to relax for a bit. Phew! Might be going to the movies tomorrow night, I want to see Sweeny Todd.

Have a good one everybody and Ani, good luck with the house viewing, I hope it goes well.


:twirly:

smylie 02-01-2008 04:16 AM

shake shake shake
shake shake shake
shake your booty
shake your booty!
yeah!!!

hehehe i crack me up


At least 2 shakes a day, if I can do it 3 shakes a day, if I cant 2 shakes and a SMALL GOOD meal

My personal trainer did boxing/circuit again this week with me and skipping for the first time, SKIPPING ROCKS i was stuffed!

Have a great weekend everyone, tomorrow I start new volunteer job at Opshop no baby!!! so that is kinda exciting.
Have also asked somewhere i used to work about part time opportunities so we will see where that leads me.

PerthChick 02-01-2008 08:23 AM

I have a job interview on Wednesday in a garden nursery :).

And… I saw my new house today - it has a huge, really neglected front and back yard. I am SO excited about what I can do with my new garden. And it would be a bonus get a staff discount on plants ;).

I just did a workout while I was watching the cricket on TV. My arms are really sore because I increased my weights tonight - so if they're sore now, they'll be like blocks of stone tomorrow! But it was fun.

Kel you crack me up too :p.

LittleKiwi 02-01-2008 03:56 PM

What's the inside of the house like Ani? Will you have to get a housemate or will you be able to live there in solitary splendour?

Yesterday was pretty much a write off for me. I had fish n chips for dinner which were delicious but then I had not one, but TWO ice creams and once ice block all before I went to work for the evening :dizzy:

Onwards and upwards and although it's not even 10am yet, I've had a very productive start to the day so far. I woke up at 6am and went for an hour long walk. Odd how I sleep so much less and feel so much better these days. After that I tidied my flat, did the vacuuming, did my washing, had a lovely long shower and now I'm at work and feeling very satisfied with myself knowing that most of my weekend's work is already done.

This afternoon I'll do my grocery shopping and tonight I'm going to the movies.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

:twirly:

PerthChick 02-01-2008 06:51 PM

The house is pretty small inside, but it's very cute. I have to move there with a housemate because I can't afford to live there on my own. But I have a three-month plan, by which time I am hoping to be able to live on my own. It's something worth working towards… And I can't wait!

I don't have any plans for today, and I'm not sure what I even feel like doing. It's going to be 37ºC and humid, so I guess it would be a good idea to go for my walk soon. I can always do domestics later with the air-conditioner on.

I'm having an OK week with my weight loss. although I must admit it's hard to stay on plan with so many distractions going on around me. Not really expecting to lose much, but so long as I don't gain anything I should be OK.

:)
Ani

Lindor 02-02-2008 12:10 AM

I'm home! Did ya miss me?

I think I managed to stay within my calorie budget - I had room service (Chicken Parmigiana, chips and salad) on Tuesday night!. Failed with the water!! And (shock horror!) failed with the exercise. Will wait and see what weigh in brings!

You all sound in good spirits still! That is great, lets keep it going! :)

7senuf 02-02-2008 07:45 AM

Ani??? I think you should take some photoes of yr current garden that you have done for your interview. From what you have said over thye past months you have a green thumb. I have a really bad spot in my garden and the dog loves it to, so I decided to have it all in huge pots sitting on rocks with a birdbath in the mniddle. Well all was great until I had to take out the flowers from the front pots to replant fresh ones and the dog decided the huge pots were great to dig a cool hole and lay in. grrrrr. Maybe you could come do my garden? Trust me it'd be a challenge. Even the local nurseries here shake their heads when I describe where it is lmao. (South facing, against a wall in an alclove of the house. gets no sun in winter and the hottest part of the day in summer.)

enough about my garden woes.

Good luck in interview.

Shake it out Kel lol.

Welcome back Lindor. Hope weigh in goes ok. Its not about the couple of things you ate but what you DIDN'T eat that may be good for this week. perhaps you maintained?

Julia I'd love to go for an hour walk, but alas the folks in my home and time doesnt allow me. Indulge while you can.

That elliptical trainer I bought? Goes great, but man it is hard work. Can only manage five minutes at a time no matter what setting. So I am going to start slow. 5 minutes 3 times a day for a week. then see how we go.

vonni

amouse 02-02-2008 06:07 PM

vonni the elipticals get easier i promise lol. I do 30-60 minutes on mine but i started on it back in december and have worked it up the longest i ever did was 90 minutes lol But i was buggered lol .

Ani im glad you have seen your house at least now you can mentally move in :) lol . I had my house all set out in my head before we moved in lol..

Kel more shakes huh? lol arent you sick of them? lol

I had a very busy week , i took me all day to clean the ute on thursday and i got really badly sunburnt on the top of my back and neck. I cleaned the engine the outside and the inside lol YUK .. I dont think it had been cleaned in 10 years lol.. We need to sell it so it had to be done..

Friday Leah went back to playgroup.. got allergies again and ended up covered in hives and peeing her pants .. she went in the sand pit ... I give up .. lol what happens when she starts kindy she gonna be sick everyday? grrr.. I took her for a walk after playgroup because she was grumpy .. 30 minutes then spent the rest of the day washing .. lol I was very hot friday afternoon and my back was swollen lol.. (oops shouldn't have had my hair up when i cleaned the car thursday) so by the time i got Cameron i was crabby lol .. Poor kid got a mouth full becuase he didnt come straight away lol .
Yesterday was a nice quiet day and i did a 1 hour pilates swiss ball wokrout and managed to not fall off once :carrot: so i was pretty happy with that . Food and water have been fine this week even when i was fixing the car and eating what i could grab covered in grease.. lol weight is still stuck but measurement arent.. my guess is weight will budge when it feels like it ... lmao..

barbegirl71 02-02-2008 09:20 PM

I've managed to maintain again this week. Don't know why my weight hasn't gone down though............yes I do. TOM came early AGAIN!

I went to pick the kids up from school on Friday and flattened the car battery! We were stuck there for 2 1/4hrs waiting for the RAA to get there.

Good luck with the interview next week Ani. I did an application last week, first one in 19 years!

XX
Barb

amouse 02-03-2008 04:20 PM

im not stuck no more :)
 
I have been stuck at 125.5 since the 20th of january. but i finally broke that this morning :) im 124.8.... yay .. im soooo happy .. :dancer::yay::yay:

Our week end was ok It was john brother birthday yesturday , so went went round there for lunch. lunch was good but 10 minutes after we finished Leah got very sick . she had 1 sausage and blew up like a baloon, and got covered in rash and started coughing.. I rang the butcher when igot home and he tryed to convince me they had no preservatives but when i asked about sulphar dioxide and he went quiet muttered a bit then gave me the number of the people that make them in town. Leah spent the rest of the dy zonked out and watched Heffalump 3 times lol.. Her allergies went down with in the hour but she was exhausted.

I wnet for a walk at about 6pm to clear my head . i walk 40 minutes and had a good walk .. hey i probably lost the weight worrying about leah yesturday lol..

Lindor 02-03-2008 04:41 PM

Vonni, five minutes, three times a day 'because it is too hard' is way better than not doing it at all because you can't be bothered (like me with my step-ups!). Well done and keep it going!

Amy, glad to hear your daughter recovered ok! It must be scary sometimes having to rely on the honesty of strangers? Well done on your loss too!

Ani, it is a shame you have to take some miserable housemate with you to your new home!! Good luck with the three month plan, I have my toes crossed for you to get your freedom and independence again! I'd cross my fingers for that, but they are already crossed for your job applications and upcoming interview!

I must have done ok last week! Weighing in at 188.6lb this morning - a loss of 1.4lb. :)

PerthChick 02-03-2008 05:53 PM

I think I've lost the plot - certainly if the weekend is anything to go by! I'm feeling really distracted, and not in the greatest of head spaces; it's really hard to concentrate on weight loss. Or to want to.

How do I snap out of this before I turn around and find that I've gained 10kg?

Lindor great work matey! Are you back home for a while now or do you have to run off again soon?

Today I'm going to try and follow my basic plan - to eat less than 1600 calories, drink 2L of water and do some kind of exercise. I didn't bother weighing in - naughty me - but I will do it tomorrow and just suck up whatever the scale says.

LittleKiwi 02-03-2008 05:57 PM

Congrats to Barb for maintaining and to Amy and Lindor for your losses. Great work ladies :bravo:

I'll be weighing in today but am not feeling particularly optimistic.

At the moment I'm on hold to NorthWest airlines for the second time trying to sort out something for work. I held for 10 minutes and they hung up on me :mad: so now I'm trying again. Bleedin annoying!

Was really tired this morning and struggled to wake up. Wednesday is a public holiday here so I'll be looking forward to a sleep in.


:twirly:

LittleKiwi 02-03-2008 10:52 PM

Me back again. I've had a *#@% of a day and the upshot is that I've decided that working all these crazy hours is getting to be too much for me and I'm going to hand in my notice at the night job tonight. To make up for the lost earnings I'm going to top up my personal loan from the bank but pay it off over the same period of time. All looks very do-able on paper so that's a relief.

I ended up stressing out this morning to the point where I wound up hiding in the toilets crying and that's no bl00dy good.

So that's my big news for the day. I hope you've all had a better day than me!

pacman12 02-04-2008 01:29 AM

Sounds like a good move, Julia - I don't know how you've done it for this long!

Ani, I don't think I can give you much advice given my recent form, but you're SO CLOSE to 80kg, so keep it up, champ! If only I had the gift of words like you do when we are struggling...

I'm down 1.4kg this week.. all my walking must have helped.

7senuf 02-04-2008 01:49 AM

Well done for the losses. :carrot: Julia plz dont gt burnt out. Its great that you realise when you can't take any more so giving notice sounds like the right thing for you.

I weighed in this morning but saw no real change. George arrived yesterday so I can't say I am suprised. Will get a more accurate result next week. Here's just hoping it is in the negative. :D

Ani chin up. I reckon you just need to go and get yrself in the shower with some really loud music playing and have a bawl. You may feel lighter afterwards. But I feel all things happening for you right now are positive. (excepting that bloody housemate)

7senuf 02-04-2008 01:50 AM

Oh guess what guess what

PS PS PS

I did a whole 20 MINUTES on the elliptical yesterday woohoo how cool is that?:carrot:

smylie 02-04-2008 08:44 AM

hi hi
lindor they copied your idea!!!!! this charity is walking up mt everest but they need a whole freakin team and you are doing it by yourself so you go girl!!!

ani - you are 400 grams away from 80!!!! go go go go go go go go go.... just get it gone so you can regroup and focus on next goal!!!!!

me - getting back down slowly, REALLY peeved, i have one "naughty" meal a week and saved it all week for mexican last night, get there and they dont have margaritas OR fajitas so i had a diet coke and some chilli beef thing oh and i was served by an asian with old fashion trumpet music playing NOT mexican trumpet music, it was just not the mexican experience i had hoped for and still cost me and benji $55, it was a friends fave restaurant.... we have to take them out coz mexican my fave meal.....

tomorrow lunch with a friend, so i will try and buy a salad or vege thing, i am more concerned about pub lunch on wednesday, i have not had it for a month fitting in with shakes diet but the girls are begging for it so i am going - pub lunch = roast and veges so i can eat around the fat and leave the potato and not do too much damage EXCEPT it is the day before 'weigh in'

i take it we are ALL watching the biggest loser!!??? i am HATING the attitudes of basically all of them thinking like they couldnt do it without being on tv..... but being completly jealous of them having NOTHING else to do but exercise and lose weight, if i had a month no jemima, no job, i would make NO excuse and get rid of 10kg..... but watching the show made me realise why it has been so hard, and that with 'life' happening it is hard to lose weight but that it should not be an excuse and you have to make time for it.... i didnt go to gym today coz jemima was sleeping, but i still could have tried to make my cross trainer (which i think is an ellipitcal thing) to work ..... i still made sure to go for walk with the dogs this arvo though (but then had a choc hedgehog slice at friends house followed by a choccy bicky when i got home and a mini meringue (made by me for benji) and a milo.........) grrrrrrrrr

oh amy - carrot carrot carrot for you not being stuck anymore that rocks

and carrots for everyone that lost weight!!!!!! carrot carrot carrot

PerthChick 02-04-2008 09:31 AM

Kel I got the sh!ts with The Biggest Loser tonight. Must be related to where I'm at with my own weight loss - but the pathetic excuses of: "I need to be here to save my life" and "I won't be attractive/find a partner until I'm slim and beautiful". Pfft! What a crock.

And then they train them like crazy, put them on super-restricted diets - and do it all for "entertainment". I read a blog from one of the American Biggest Loser contestants (she came 2nd last year), and she fully trashed the show and said they exploit the contestants. She also made the point that they don't get any counselling or emotional support while losing weight.

I still think that the way we're doing it is the best way to lose weight and keep it off.

I'm sure I'll get back on track. It's a really disruptive and tough time for me - but I'm going to be super disappointed with myself if I can't apply the lessons of the last 18 months to TODAY. Just because life is chaotic, the fact remains that I still have to eat - it's up to me to CHOOSE to do that in a healthy way. It's just tough, but important to do.

Anyway - it's bedtime. I promise to weigh in tomorrow and try and get back on track.

:)
Ani

LittleKiwi 02-04-2008 03:02 PM

Congrats Gen on your weight loss, that's really fantastic. Unfortunately I weighed in at 83.4 which is 800g up from last weigh in. Disappointing but not surprising as I've had a few slip ups lately. Not to mention the roast pork with crackling I had at mum's on Sunday night :o

I handed in my notice at The Warehouse last night and my last day will be this Friday. I felt bad as they're pretty badly short staffed but I feel that it's the right decision for me so I'm looking forward to winding that up.

I'm a bit nervous about what's going to happen to my routine once I have my evenings back. One huge benefit of working every night is that I wasn't snacking which is something I find really hard not to do when I'm sitting at home in the evenings. I'm going to aim to continue going to the gym every night after work and now I'll be able to enjoy it a bit more and not be quite so rushed.

Goal for today: no eating crap!!


:twirly:

7senuf 02-04-2008 04:07 PM

Julia u sound llike a weight has been lifted aready. Can't wait to see yr posts in a couple of weeks time.

Nope I dnt watch the biggest loser. Every now n then during each series I will flick to it for a minute or watch one episode, but usually end up in tears. I actually think it is cruel. Pushing them until they throw up? Thats NOT healthy. Or safe. And doesnt do much for self esteem either. And exercise SHOULD NOT hurt. Yes it should get uncomfortable as your body gets to its limit, but thats a natural thing. That is the body saying stop before you do damage. And the whole food thing doesnt really teach them about lifestyle. Okay I will shut up now. I could go on forever.

Ani I echo Kel and Gen... you are so close that even I am getting excited for you. this little voice in my head is going go go go! hehe!

I am going for my massage today. The other half bought a voucher for my birthday last year and I finally have a morning to go. So I am going now to get kids lunches and drop little one to daycare. Pity I have to work after lunch. I coulda come home and chilled out for the day. Oh well.

Vonni.

Lindor 02-04-2008 04:49 PM

I am home for two weeks, then away for work for one week. On my return from that week I am on four weeks leave. The day after I finish work I am on my way to Esperance to catch up with friends!! Will be away for three weeks, then one week at home to recover before going back to work - or maybe that is to prepare myself for going back to work?

Hang in there Ani, you know what is upsetting your weight-loss journey, and you know that is going to end soon. Even if you just stick to achieving one goal for the time being - water, walking or calories - it is still going in the right direction.

Well done Gen on your loss! 1.4kg is excellent!

And Vonni...how do your legs feel today? :p

I bought Pringles yesterday. And Smoked Almonds. I haven't had any of either item yet, but I have separated them into portions. I figure if I can do it with the chocolate and Tim Tams (and I have done for over a month now), it is time to try the Pringles and Almonds! And I wasn't even tempted to sneak a taste while I was separating them!

I am feeling in a good place dietwise, not so alright in other areas of life, but feeling good about the weight-loss for now. Maybe that is because I feel it is the only area I can sorta control just now???

PerthChick 02-04-2008 06:25 PM

I'm UP 0.5kg - bugger!

Right!!! Today I will aim for less than 1600 calories - and that's the only goal I will set. Tomorrow I have a job interview, then in less than two weeks I will be moving house. If I can't knock off this ONE lousy kilo while packing/lifting/shifting/unpacking I will feel ripped off!

Julia - good move. It sounds like you were wearing yourself out.

Vonni, most of the Biggest Loser contestants put weight back on after the show.

Lindor you're going great guns matey - good on you!

amouse 02-04-2008 07:27 PM

i read somewhere most of the bl poeple are as big as the y ever were some bigger a couple still skinny.. I bet the skinny ones went to a nutritionalist or a surgeon after the show lol.. I know im very sarcastic lol..

John flew away this morning they confirmed his flight laste yesterday afternoon .. which left us packing like mad. lol luckily i had already sorted out the tubing to put his rods in :) The kids are fine and Cameron hapily went to school today . Leah is still sick from the week end so its hard to tell if she feels bad becuase of daddy or becuase of the sausage lol. which reminds me i need to ring thr butcher that sold them and tell him what the manufacturer said was in them.. as he is selling them as preservative free .

Anyway ill stay on track and hope to exercise not today mind you i have been awake since 4.30am and im feeling so tired.. lol .. We woke the kids at 6 am so I have left a note with Camerons teacher with my number on it so if he gets tired she can call and i will pick him up.

You guys are all doing good :) im glad about that . night night lol.. im gonna go lay down ..

pacman12 02-05-2008 06:36 AM

Got my passport back with the visa in it today, and booked my flights. I leave two weeks from next Monday. Eeeek!!!

PerthChick 02-05-2008 06:48 AM

TWO WEEKS? Nooooooooooooooooo!

I hope you're going to keep us posted, be our Aussie Chick Abroad :)

smylie 02-05-2008 07:34 AM

lindor i know exactly what you mean about weight loss being the only thing in your control... exactly..... but it is bad in a way coz then you get SO p!ssed off and so upset when you stuff it up... i sometimes feel "how hard is it" honestly.... but then knowing it IS in my control kicks my butt into gear the next day or meal

if biggest loser was big brother that Sheridan chick would be voted off.... she is not not married or whateva coz she is "fat" she is not married coz she is freakin annoying, i couldnt watch it all tonight but enough to get the gist for tomorrow night ho hum

tell me vietenmese rice paper rolls are healthy! i had 2 with mostly capsicum and carrot in them and just shakes and a bit of jemima's left overs so hopefully publunch tomorrow does not make too much of an impact on me trying toget back to the lowest weight i have been yet 82.6 then next week i get lower just in time for jemima's birthday i doubt i can get to 80 by her birthday which is sunday 17th but i know i can get close

my baby projectiled vomited everywhere... no not everywhere just all over me.... nice

gen i missed your post last time i was here 1.4kg is MASSIVE you rock!! carrot carrot carrot!!!!!! and how exicting 2 weeks to go! and yes u have to keep in touch u still aussie chick aussie aussie aussie OI OI OI!!!

butter ball no more 02-05-2008 08:30 AM

Hi all, It is good to see you are all still working hard.
I have been making a slow but steady start.
I have started out at 1500cal a day and have stuck to it really well for the passed two weeks (well it will be two week’s tomorrow) so hoping that the scales will reflect positive news (fingers crossed).
I have been doing weights and riding my exercise bike (Yuk I get a pain in the Butt).
I am counting down the days till I go on Holiday, Hubby and I are flying down to Tassie for just under three week, we are doing some of the two day walks around the Apple Island. That should help move that weight.
Hope to talk to all very soon.
Butter ball no more

7senuf 02-05-2008 04:37 PM

Welcome back butterball. Wow Tasmania you lucky thing. Thats on my wish list of destinations. New Zealand is first then Tazzy then Ireland. (The ireland thing will prob be never but..... dreams keep us going) Have you thought about buying a sheepskin cover for your bike seat? might help a bit, or lower the seat if you can?

Oh Gen I am so excited for you. Are you scared? I mean an excited scared not oh my god help scared. I echo Ani in you being our Aussie abroad chick.

Kel I am pretty sure the rice paper rolls are ok. They were steamed weren't they? But I am really sorry to say but you seem to have Mummy Syndrome. DON'T eat Jemimas leftovers. You may thing its just a bite here n there but it really does add up. You would be suprised. In a lot of things I have read about weight watching etc it says avoid eating the kids leftovers. In fact try to avoid having leftovers after any meal that you cook also. Cook just enough, even undercooking is great and serve yrself less. If you do have leftovers, put it in a container for Benji to have for work lunch. (sry for sounding a bore)

I've been going ok. Had a couple of bikkies each night with a cup of tea. Its my other halfs and my night cap together. Only 2. no more than that. the water thing is what is killing me. I just can't seem to. I just forget. And the brekky thing is starting to happen slowly. When I am not having to rush out the door.

Lindor suprosingly I wasn't sore after my 20 minutes on the elliptical. I am going to try again for another 20 today. Didnt do any yesterday :(

Have to go get kids on bus now. Have a great day all.

Vonni xxx

barbegirl71 02-05-2008 06:52 PM

Gee Gen, after all this time it's only two weeks away!!!!

Anyone heard from Ani yet? Wonder how her job interview went.

butter ball no more 02-05-2008 08:28 PM

Good Morning all. I got on the scales this morning:carrot: one Kg down well it is down but not as much as I had hoped for ( I was hoping for at least 1 ½ kg). I think I will have to start dropping my calorie intake down :(to 1200 and increasing my:exercise: exercise. I had a talk to my Dr about calorie intake and she said I should start on 1500 (for at lease 3 weeks) to reduce getting to hungry and blowing my efforts at a healthy eating style.
I will have to go out and see if I can find a sheepskin cover for the bike seat as I can not lower it any more.
“The Biggest Loser” I really don’t like it, I feel that it degrades the contestants and as so many of you have already said it makes out that YOU could not possible lose any weight without being on TV. I have a gym junkie friend that loves the show, but she also works out till she vomits, so maybe you have to have that kind of mind set to get it. Me I will be happy to never understand it as I am tiring to do all things in moderation not change one obsession for another.

pacman12 02-05-2008 10:16 PM

BB, I'd be very surprised if you don't need MORE calories than 1500. I know when I started at about your weight, I didn't lose at 1500 cals and had to increase to around 1650 cals. You can google for "BMR calculator" and work out the cals you need, or try going to a site like calorieking.com.au and filling in the profile and it will give you the cals to try.

I will definitely still visit this thread when I get there!! I'll need it more than ever once I'm confronting US portion sizes!

PerthChick 02-06-2008 04:40 AM

WOO HOO! I'm now employed, and I can look forward to a regular income :carrot:. It was a weird interview - I got there at 1pm, had a chat for 20 minutes and then he drove me over to the nursery and showed me around. Even before he offered me the job he talked to me about being very interested in training me to manage one of the Garden Centres! And then offered me a job and signed me up on the spot.

It isn't great money at this stage, but it's regular income.

Phew! Big load off my mind - I start Monday week :).

Now I can concentrate on packing and moving… and losing this next bloody kilo!

smylie 02-06-2008 05:31 AM

Originally Posted by butter ball no more:
all things in moderation not change one obsession for another.

that is so so so so real and right! i am doing the same thing and almost positive i will be able to maintain after i lose the weight i want to coz i have not changed obsessions and have learnt that there is no evil foods

vonni - ricepaper rolls are not steamed or anything what it is is chicken (i soak ours in soysauce for a while first) in the frypan (no oil or anything) and then capsicum, carrot and lettuce cut up and then ricesticks/rice noodles and then you get rice paper and put it on the table with big bowl hot water and then you put the rice paper in and then you wrap up all the yummy stuff and then you eat it, like a wrap but with ricepaper.... so i am hoping it is ok

tomorrow is weigh in and i dont know what it is going to say coz of publunch today, i had a coke zero even though i was hanging out for vodka and i didnt have a bread roll (they are huge and so crispy) but almost jumped out of chair and ate friends... but restrained myself

i am ready to vote out most of the girls on biggest loser they are all victims and i hate it, i dont think ANY of them have taken resposibility for being fat and not one of them are doing it for themselves all for other people i hate that

oh yeah -vonni i KNOW i gotta stop eating jemima's left overs, it is hard though coz i hate waste and she has been sick and not eating alot (that girl always sick) but i dont pick that much when cooking or if i do i am concious of it and actually dont serve myself alot, half the reason i cook most things is for benji for his lunches! the other day i made him lamb casserole and didnt have any which made him almost a weeks worth of lunches, he will be sick of it by the end of it oh well tonight i made him butter chicken almost from scratch so am doing ok to be making and not eating

i cant wait to start eating again!!!! there are so many meals i am going to make so many stirfry combos i want to do, 10kg to go, at least 2 weeks of really really trying fast approach then we will see what i do, ideally still lose at least 500grams a week, am kinda annoyed that this week IF I AM LUCKY i will be back to lowest weight, but that is ok, i was really really really really stupid for the australia day long weekend so deserve to have to work hard this week hopefully i get tot he gym in the morning i want to do body balance after a GOOD half an hour OR SO on some kinda of cardio thing

everyone is doing so good has everyone drunk their water??? - i didnt today i suck, but will go and get some now

butter ball no more 02-06-2008 05:59 AM

Thank you for the input Augigi I did some Google searches
And will look into it more, as I said I had spoke to my Dr about were I should start.
Congratulations Ani on the job, that’s a big one down the rest you can do I’m sure.

PerthChick 02-06-2008 07:47 AM

BB when I was about your weight I was losing steadily on around 1800 calories a day. Even now, at almost 80kg I eat around 1500/day and am still losing. I think it can be a bit dangerous (for the long term) to eat too few calories now - because there's no room to move when you get down to a lower weight.

Kel good luck with weigh-in tomorrow!

LittleKiwi 02-06-2008 02:59 PM

Congrats Ani on your new job :D That's really awesome news. Sounds like it'll be something that you'll really enjoy doing which is so, so important.

2 weeks to go eh Gen? I'm so jealous! I'm sure you'll love it over in the US and I'll echo the others when I say that you'd better keep checking in with us when you get there!

I had yesterday daytime off work and spent most of it sleeping and lazing around the house. Today I've got a terrible headache and bad period pains and I doubt I'll last the day at work.

I'm really counting down until my last shift at The Warehouse tomorrow night. I've been thinking about ways I can best ensure that I don't slip into unhealthy habits and have decided that I'm going to try and become a morning person and go to the gym every day before work.


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