[smylie]

:c arrot::car rot:
that's for you amy!
:c arrot::car rot::carro t:

[amouse]

hello..........o....o...ooo (echo) where is everyone???? are we playing hide and seek?? someone should have told me i was IT!!!! lol

[7senuf]

I'm here. Hi Amy congrats on the loss. And wow those size changes must really make you feel fantastic

[smylie]

why why why
why do i sit and imagine myself in my red pants and all the nice funky tops i have in size 14
then sit and eat everything on my plate when i KNOW benji has served me a mans sized portion?
why why why why why
why can i see where i want to be and KNOW what i NEED to do to get there
but dont
i KNOW that if i KNEW i would be rich and famous and gorgous

anyway
tomorrow i am going to the gym
i went on friday
and did gardening today but lazy gardening
so tomorrow gym and walk the dogs and keep eating in check
ditto for tuesday
then weigh in wednesday and the weekend of food i had will just hope to have maintained!

i cook a mean lamb roast

[LittleKiwi]

That's the problem Kel, it's easy to know what to do, the hard part is doing it.

Last night I looked back over my measurements and was very disappointed to see that I've steadily been gaining weight and getting bigger over the past 2 months.

My gym activity has been pretty good so it's got to be the diet at fault so I know that I really need to pay closer attention to that.

Today I'm feeling really tired and blah and I wish I was at home in bed. Can't do that though so I will just try to do the basics: stick to my points and go to the gym tonight.

Hope you're all feeling better than I am!

[LittleKiwi]

Hellooo ... where is everyone?!?!

Yay for me, as of last nights weigh in, I'm down 900g from last week.



Stuck to my points and had a great workout at the gym and my goals for today are to do the same.

[smylie]

:c arrot::car rot::carro t:
here is a deal for you
i take 450grams of your awesome loss and you keep 450grams and i dont weigh in in the morning and get all unmotivated coz i have not been 100% on to it!
julia - 900grams is awesome awesome amazing fabtabulous

i am thinking i wont weigh in for above mentioned reason.... i think if i go back OVER 90 now it would not be a good thing for me motivation wise..... so perhaps as i am 90 on the dot i will give myself another week and see what happens... i can tell by looking at me i have not LOST weight but i can not tell if i have maintained
i went to the gym yesterday but then got a out of the blue invite to sizzler so well there you go....

happy tuesday everyone

[amouse]

Kel i would do the same if i was unsure about my week lol ..

Julia woohooooo :c b: :c b:
(ms banana arobics... lead by mr carrot) yeah i know i have too much time on my hands.. but 900g is great ..

so where is everyone else hiding???

Camerons school had a student free day tommorow and then a teacher strike on thursday so... I have bought tickets to go and see the circus. tomorrow night we are all excited about it ... im like a big kids ya know lol... the show is on at 7.30 and runs for 2 hours.. and i didnt want to fight the weekend crowd so this teacher strike thing couldn't have had better timing for us..

[smylie]

really gotta do the circus thing! right next time it is in town, i'm doing it!
next week we are going to the ekka (the brisbane show) so that will be fun, i wanted to go last year but it wasnt worth it with jem only 5 months old and the flu deadly one out and about so this year will be awesome fun
showbags!!!

i am going to weigh in tomorrow - i need to know - i need to punish myself if i have been off track, and i need to know if i am off track in order to get backon track - its all quite simple

is sushi good??
i like sushi
i had it for lunch today
i used to make it
but then got paranoid about rice being carbs

will be back tomorrow for a good spanking after i weigh in

[LittleKiwi]

Hey Kel, good on you for deciding to weigh in. I know that sometimes it's not what we want to see (like my weigh in results for the past 3 weeks!) but it's best to know where you're at so that you can make adjustments to keep yourself on track.

I'm feeling so much better today than I have all week. I don't usually get bloated but this week my tummy's been so big and I've been feeling so fat and today it seems to have gone down which is a big relief.

I'm also nearly fitting into a pair of "average" sized pantyhoes!!!

I've had an exciting invitation to spend New Years Eve in Melbourne with a friend who's going with a group to go to a massive dance party. I've applied for a few days annual leave and am now just waiting to see if it can be approved. I really hope I can go!

It does mean though that if I do go in December, I probably wouldn't be able to afford to come meet up with everyone in March and that would be a bummer. Will just have to wait and see what happens.

Goals for today: 1) Stick to my points. 2) Have a killer session at the gym tonight. That one won't be hard as I'm back with my trainer tonight.

[pacman12]

So... I'm 106kg. That's more than I was when I first joined here. I tried on a size 22 shirt tonight and it was too tight.

I'm considering starting the process to get a lap band. I am pretty sure it would be covered by my medical insurance. You have to get all sorts of testing, and see a psych, a nutritionist, undertake 6 months of supervised dieting first... so it would be a while away.

I just can't keep doing this my whole friggin life. Yes, I can lose it but it's SUCH a struggle, and I have to do SO much exercise, and then I just gain it back (plus more) when I stop trying so hard.

I'm sick of it.

[smylie]

wow! benji's boss is about to do the same.... if it is covered by your medical insurance then maybe it is a solution for you - especially if you are going to have 3 months out of action with your ankle - it cant be good for your mental state to keep getting bigger..... especially when you are trying and stuff...!

i was 90.9kg - not happy but not surprised, i am going to fix that big time after my perth holiday -it is the BIGGEST i've ever been except when i was pregnant.... and i know i should say AFTER but i know me and i know where i am at the moment, so i am going to maintain til tuesday have a great holiday but still be good and then get home and seriously work at getting the weight off, i have some new lovely friends and i the medication seems to be doing wonders - i am contemplating a vege patch and all sorts of things that would keep me active and since getting rid of the tv i have been motrivated to do all sorts of things areound the house
and keeping up with jem is exhausting but fun so i am trying to work out if i have a way to also get rid of friday daycare............

[smylie]

oh and i was also thinking about joining a netball team!

[LittleKiwi]

Aw Gen I'm so sorry to hear you sounding so down I know how hard it is to have the scales go up lots like that and I know how defeated you feel. I don't know anything about lap bands so can't really comment on that but I will say, whatever happens, please keep coming here so that we can all support you.

Kel joining a netball team sounds like a great idea. Keeps you active and gets you out socialising too

I had another great day yesterday, stuck to my points and had a good session at the gym.

Goals for today: 1) Stick to my points. 2) Go to the gym tonight and do 40 minutes of cardio.

[PerthChick]

Kel before I forget, yes it would be awesome to catch up. PM me about it and we'll sort something out .

Gen I had tears in my eyes when I read your post. It reminded me so much of my 2004-2005 weight loss efforts. I got down to 83kg that time, and then proceeded to work my way back up to 105kg.

Have you taken a serious look at your options? Are you thinking about lapband surgery because you're just so frustrated and annoyed with yourself that you can't see any other way out?

It's true that surgery will give you an excellent short-term result (and I'm not arguing that you shouldn't do it), but don't you have massive restrictions on what you can eat for ages? Think about life post-surgery, and ask yourself if that is how you want to live your life forever.

Nobody is going to lose weight and keep it off by going on a diet, or by restricting/depriving/punishing themselves with food.

Gen you know I will support you 100% in whatever you choose to do. I just want you to promise yourself that you will make a considered decision and not a reactive one. You deserve more than that my friend .

I'm going OK. This last week my roster has been all over the place and I'm finding it hard to be in any kind of routine. I'm also in the midst of the most stubborn plateau of the last two years, and can't seem to shift my weight no matter what I do. But I'm just going to be patient because it could be that my body just wants a rest.

I could be a drama queen and get annoyed with myself. After all, I have only dropped ONE kilo in the last four and a half months. But I haven't gained weight in that time, and it's wonderful to know that I can maintain this new 'me' - it means I have learned how to live differently.

Over the course of the next year I will figure out how to lose the next 6kg, and it still means a lot to me to get there. But it also means a lot to me to know that I am now beginning to live the life I dreamed about a couple of years ago - so I'm not going to beat myself up over 'only' losing 29kg.