I wish it was cold here - I was away for the weekend in Kentucky, and it was about 100 deg F... I was DYING of heat!!! I even braved the hotel swimming pool, because it was so bloody unbearable. Driving home today through the heat of the day was great fun.. not. Well, at least I was in the backseat being cooked under the sunroof while my friend drove.

Ani, glad the storm didn't do too much damage to you. Nice to meet a neighbour who came out to help - you can't have too many friends with chainsaws, I always say... haha.

Ruth, welcome! I am sporadically here now, and not doing too well on the weight loss front, but still read most days and check in here and there. I think I'm going to rejoin WW too.

Did I tell anyone that *I think* me and the hot guy at work are going to Toronto for a conference in about 6 weeks? Heh.

Welcome Ruth and welcome back Kylie!

Great to see you back Kylie. Don't worry about not being ready to focus on losing weight just yet. Just being here is a great first step :hug:

Ruth I'm sure you'll enjoy it here with us :D I'm doing weight watchers points but I don't go to the meetings, I just have all the literature from years ago and I follow it by myself.

Ani I'm pleased to hear you're okay after having a tornado. That's very dramatic!

As for me, I had a nice weekend with my sister and the kids but didn't write down anything that I ate and basically ate crap all weekend :mad:

No point dwelling on it though so I'm back on the horse today. Goals for today:

1) Stick to my points
2) Go to the gym after work and do weights followed by an aerobics class


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hello everyone
hey hey hey hey kylie!!! i was worried about you! so glad you are back
hi ruth - i am in brisbane too! brisvegas rocks

i am still in my pjs and only just out of bed.... so didnt make it to the gym YET the day is not over (but i had planned to go in the morning) so next plan is to go this afternoon
think we are going out with friends for pub steak dinner but i have decided this can also be a healthy choice... will get chicken if available if not the smallest piece of steak and give benji and jemima all of my chips and get NO sauce rather than saying will start more hardcore "diet" choices tomorrow etc perhaps i will even book jemima into kidsclub in the morning too so i have to go to the gym otherwise they charge me 3 bucks hmmmm

vonni - does depression ever go away totally?

Dunno Kel. I think in my PERSONAL opinion is that some people are more susceptable than others and also life circumstances can be a major factor. I have bi-polar disorder in my family (my brother is severe) so I am always very aware of my moods etc and if at the first sign of anything untoward I will be seeking help.

A good point to start getting back to normalcy (what really is normal?) is to learn to recognise the signs of depression coming on and try to divert it by getting on track with things. Not easy to do when a lot of the time it's not being able to keep on top of things that brings on yr depression. I think it is a nasty vicious cycle that needs a kick up the rear (if it had one). One day and one step at a time.

Gen? Do you have much to do with mental health? Ruth?

Then to some people suffer due to deficiencies of certain hormones or even excess so........ go figure. Wish there were simple tests to see what factors in everyones depression. Physical, chemical or just life.

Nope, not me. I did 6 weeks of MH prac during my training eleventy million years ago and that was enough for me! Hubby suffers from depression though. He's fine at the moment, drug-free, but I'm always alert for the warning signs that he's lapsing again. I think it's a lifetime thing, I don't know of too many people who've suffered from moderate/severe depression who aren't still at risk.

Thanks for the welcomes, girls, I think I'm going to like it here!

First weigh in today. I know the first week is water etc, but ... wait for it ... -2.7kg! Go me!

Congrats on your big loss Ruth, a loss like that is really encouraging!

I weighed in last night and am up 1kg to 85.9. Very up and down at the moment! Stuck to my points yesterday and had a good session at the gym although I really had to force myself.

Goals for today are to stick to my points and go to the gym tonight.

Kel, depression is a really tricky thing to understand. Some people just need the help of medication for a short time, others need it for life. It's a very personal thing and everyone is different.

Hope you're doing okay :hug:


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Well no professional experience, but personally I have come to realize when I'm winding down and finding it hard to get out of bed. I definitely want to get back to taking SAMe (herbal mood stabilizer) which gave good results and seems to have the clinical evidence to back it up.

I'm doing my own head in with this weight loss thing. You would think I'd get it after two years, but no… still trying to make it work.

The problem I have is this: it was easier to be motivated when I was obese, because it was so easy to see how far I had to go. Now I wear a loose Size 16 and I'm physically strong - it's hard to "deprive" myself of those extra treats when I have accomplished so much.

It's easy to make excuses, to just eat a little bit more - and easy to be complacent and say: "I'll just eat what I like this week because I've proven that I know how to lose weight, and if I gain a couple of kilos I will just lose them again".

Oh yes, super dangerous thinking.

It was my aim, when I started this, to learn how to CHANGE my lifestyle and make regular healthy choices. NOT to lose all this weight so I could eat bad food again! Bad, naughty me!!!

So… I need a big slap :frypan:!

:kickbutt:

Ani first of all:hug: and then :club::frypan::kickbutt:
you didnt come all this way just to go back to bad habits and gain it all back.. a few doesnt matter turns into a few more and before you know it your packing back on the pounds.. sure ive never got as close as you to my goal but i know where you are at i have been there too many times before.. and look where i ended up... :( the smallest i have manged to get down to in the last 8 years is somewhere in the 90's and the highest i got before this time was 118 i think.


you can do it ani you just have to bleieve in yourself and you will be fine .. go ani go:coach::cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer:


Im kicking my own butt and im hoping for a good weight loss this week did 18ks in an hour on the elliptical yesterday and 9ks in 30 today .. i have done similar Everyday since i got it bar one .. and im sticking to my calories pretty well too.. apart from yesterday when some kettle chips got the better of me pinned me down and jumped down my throat all on there own.. lol .. but other then that i have stuck to 1500-1700 cals everyday and im feeling great :) .. finger xed on a good result for the week


Kel did you get to the gym?????? if not i hope you went for a walk??? anything eat better ,???feel better???? i hope you feel better soon :) :hug:

Hey girls!

Kel, I have depression too (must be the in thing). I am usually aware of when an episode is coming on, and it wasn't until recently that my counsellor gave me some practical advice about what to do.

Instead of letting it go, and falling off the wagon completely (which is usually pretty spectacular in my case), I divert my attention to something else. I really have to be aware of things, because once I'm gone, I'm gone. So I take a walk, or ride the tram, or anything that will break the pattern. (Disclaimer: I am taking medication for this as well).

*shrug* helps for me. :)

Welcome Ruth! I'm not the most reliable poster, but when I'm here I'm friendly! It's nice to meet you. The things the other girls said above are true - we're always here for support.

Thanks for all the welcome backs, too. It's nice to see! Started thinking about exercise again recently. With the Tour de France on at the moment, I'd love to buy a bike. I used to ride all the time back home.

Ok, enough from me for now. Will pop by tomorrow.

:)

Thanks girls - I feel bruised now :D.

Today's goals:

1. Eat no more than 1600 calories.

2. Drink at least a litre of water.

3. Get at least six hours' sleep.

Amy I set myself an "upper limit" to try and prevent myself from gaining all the weight (in the past I've lost weight and gained it all back again). At this point in time my limit is 78kg - I am banned from going above that :dizzy:. I weighed myself this morning and I am 76.7kg, so not as bad as I was expecting.

OK, need to get ready for work.

Kylie I am so glad you're back. All we need is for Lindor and Barb to come back too…

:nono::nono::nono: no no no Ani, don't allow yourself to stray off track! Sounds to me like you need to start setting some different goals. Do you keep a diary of everything? That's probably the one tool that helps me more than anything. I write down literally everything that goes in my mouth and I write down every bit of exercise that I do.

I really do find that I will think twice about eating certain things when I know I have to write it down and I push myself harder at the gym knowing that I'm going to write down what I do for my workout.

A star chart is also something that worked well for me. Just like parents do to reward a child's good behaviour, I kept a chart on my wall and gave myself a star for each day that I went to the gym. I actually got a real kick out of seeing the weeks that were filled with stars!

I had a great day yesterday, stuck to my points and did a 20 minute run followed by 20 minutes of 75 second walk/45 second sprint intervals.

Went to cook macaroni cheese for dinner and buggered up the cheese sauce so spectacularly that I had to bin the whole lot so ended up having a much healthier meal of plain pasta and veggies. Tonight I'll buy a packet of cheese sauce to pour over the rest. Much safer. It's funny, no matter how much I try, cheese sauce is the one thing I just can not cook!

This morning I took my car to the panelbeater and I won't get it back till tomorrow afternoon so that means no gym for me tonight as it would be too late and dark (and a pain in the a**!) to bus home afterward.

Goal for today: Stick to my points.

Have a great day ladies :D


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A star chart? That's an excellent idea - I'm going to do it.

And I'm going to try your idea of a food diary as well - I'll just do it for a week and see how that goes.

Thank you :)

twinkle twinkle little star!! that is actually kinda cool.....

hey hey
guess what
today weigh in 90.1kg!!! last week was 91.7kg so i think that is more than a kilo lost - i dont do numbers i just cant be bothered.
woohoo

i went to the gym!
i went monday afternoon! and then picked jemima up on the way home and then took the dogs for a walk! (i got a new lead it is a three way rainbow one!)
then
yesterday i went to the gym AGAIN
did 149 cal on monday and 194 cal yesterday according the treadmill, which is ok for how long it has been since i've done ANY exercise (but i used to do more than 300 cal in the same amount of time)
have totally been thinking about what i've been eating.

doc has doubled my medication and i am feeling awesome - still find it hard to get out of bed but that is just me - FINALLY have an awesome shrink too and had a fab session on monday where she is helping me understand it all - she says i have a long way to go but it feels like i am on the right track, simple things like important and unimportant things you can and can not control and the balance of this seems to be where i get in trouble so those thoughts are helping already

thanks heaps for all your help girls, i know it is a personal thing to discuss

oh and maybe TMI but i dont care - for the first time in 27 months i am having a visit from george! it is that time of the month and it is weird, more than 2 years feels like forever! its funny though jemima watched me go and get a pad from my drawer and i swear she thought it was so normal that mummy was getting a nappy..... she is so cute!

Love your work Kel that's all awesome news!

:carrot::cb::carrot::cb::carrot::cb:

Fruit and Veg party for you!!

I'm so pleased that the meds are working and that you have a good counsellor to talk to. You may have a long way to go but you're on the right path and that's awesome.

I was talking with a friend last night and complaining that I'm sick of being single but I never meet any interesting men and that until Tattoo Boy, I hadn't had a proper crush on anyone in 8 years.

Then, it occurred to me .... I've been chronically depressed, self medicating with drugs and alcohol and food. I've been fat, unfit, unhealthy and I've hated myself for all of those 8 years. It's no wonder I haven't liked anyone and haven't had a relationship! I wasn't capable of loving myself, let alone anyone else.

Wow, what an epiphany!

I feel so positive after realising that. It makes me think of just how far I've come in the past year. I've stopped binge drinking, stopped smoking, started looking after myself and started to value myself.

I'm so proud of myself :D

wow julia that is cool - i guess if you cant see a reason to love yourself you would never allow the possibility of someone else loving you - that's huge

ani - i dont want to give you an out - but - i was thinking - perhaps when you first set your end goal you did not think you would look so awesome and feel so amazing like you do now - so maybe you are done?? at least for a while??? or do you see yourself in 6.5kg time and REALLY want to be there??

What an exciting lunch break I just had. Went to see Tattoo Boy about the next project and he bent me over and pulled down my skirt :D:eek:;)

Sadly it wasn't in the manner in which I would have liked, he was taking a photo of the lizard I have on my lower back so that he can design something for me :lol:

The great news is that he thinks he'll be able to cover the lizard (it's an ugly, plain black thing I got when I was 15) with a beautiful bird. So he's going to do some research today and tonight and we'll get started tomorrow.

Yippeee!

I must say that I'm finding it such a pain being car-less. Thank goodness I should be able to get it back this afternoon. No gym yesterday and I can't go today either as I've got a hair appointment after work. Almost fell over in the bus this morning and practically ended up in somebody's lap as the bus driver took off before I was able to grab something to hold.

I did really well with my diet yesterday and plan on doing the same today.

How's everyone else travelling?

Hope you're all great.


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too funny! i would have loved to see you bent over tattoo boy! so what is the deal with tattoo boy?? you and him just friends?? or are you secretly hoping he gets rid of apparent girlfriend???

guess where i went today
THE GYM
209cal - bring it on! (still not working out to my peak but baby steps people!)

and been awesome with my diet
woohoo

go everyone

wow everyone sounds like they are having a great couple of days. I havent been to bad, prob not ENOUGH calories which can be just as damaging but....

Went to Twba hospital with my 7yr old y/day. She may have a disease in her hip called perthes disease. She has been for numerous xrays and ultrasounds since thursday last week. Has been a bit of a whirlwind. Dr Thursday xrays n ultrasounds that afternoon have to keep her from running jumping riding bike. Man how do you keep an active 7 yr old down?

Orthopeadic surgeon again after her MRI in a couple of weeks and taking it from there.

apart from that everything going great guns. Studying hard assignment due already lmao.

I LOVE LIFE :D

Yes, just friends with Tattoo Boy and more than happy with that.

I had my hair done last night, was there for 3 hours and it cost $150 but I'm so pleased with it. It's a lot lighter than I've ever gone before and it looks awesome.

Kel you're sounding so positive, it's really awesome to see :D

Vonni I'm so sorry to hear about your daughter. Fingers crossed that everything will be okay :hug:

I had a good food day yesterday and am planning on doing the same today. Only working a half day then spending the afternoon getting inked. Woohoo!


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Julia bent over huh?? you ot us all excited then talk about some lizard... wish you had talked about a snake instead.... lmao....

yeah i know im bad..

Kel i feel like having a party on so happy you are ghetting that groove of your back..

Vonni im sorry about your daughter and hope they find very little with there tests.. and just put it down to growing :) :hug: you cant keep a 7 yo down.. not for a minute..

As for me.. well leah had her first ever day at kindy yesterday and i felt empty alone and lost.. :( .. lmao.. i came home with Cameron and John ( Cameron had an extra week off becuase he has had a cold.. John has been home and the school was doing swimming.. in the middle of damn winter).. anyway i came home fiddled around for 20 minutes .. felt lost and like i needed to go out.. so we went up to the target toy sale.. decided which trampoline the kids were getting for xmas.. go some groceries and wasted all the time until pick up.. the whole time i saw other mums with there daughters and felt sad and jealous of them.. omg.. im terrible i know ..

We picked leah up and she had a rash from her backside down to her ankles.. little terror went in the sandpit i think.. and she whined all afternoon.. so i gave her claratine and smothered her in cream.. and after lunch we went ten pin bowling.. it was great .. ..wednesday night we went out for dinner.. and John bought me a lemon ruski and two glasses of wine... and i was drunk.. lmao .. ( i dont drink at all so!!) we had more wine and some baileys when we got home.. and i annoyed him the rest of the night.. . i drank over a 1.5 litres of water .. in the night becuase i was feeling sick.. and managed to wake up with out chucking or a head ache..

so yeah i have gained a bit of weight since earlier in the week .. i was down 700 grams more but this week i am down ther 119.9 kilos.. .. yeah under 120.. woohoo.. "just" lol.. i was 121 last week so im happy with that considering my big bender pub meal and lasngna last night .. just to name a few off plan things this week including .. not enough exercise.. ( the right kind anyway.. lol). BUt John left this morning .. so im back op.. and back to normal today ..

wooo hoooooooo under 120kg!!!!! you GO GO GO girl
that really is cool
and dont be silly about feeling silly about feeling jealous in the shops when you see other mums and their kids.... i feel EXACTLY the same way!
i see them (and think their kids are gawky looking) and wish i had my jemima with me she is amazing.....
what tramp are you getting your kids?? i ended up preordering the target one the 14ft oval with net

vonni - that is scary about your daughter! is she going to be ok?? is it scary treatment?? is it ongoing for ages??

i had something to tell ani too but i think i have forgotten - something like how things change..... oh thats right i was thinking how the first time i went on optifast i remember i was doing really well and then i had a malteaser yes you read right ONE malteaser and i thought that i had failed big time there was no way i would lose weight that week it was all over
and i was thinking today that if i have ONE malteaser and just ONE then that is not that bad at all....
so i was thinking that that is maybe how ani you are thinking about your weightloss now and how different you must be thinking every day from when you first started... do you know what i mean??
the amount you eat and why you eat and everything has changed so much you have done what we all are trying to do which is make a healthy lifestyle change, now your everyday is different so then your mind track has to be different too
your ONE malteaser is most likely something else that in your new 70odd kilo world will be something you only did in 120odd kilo world - do you know what i mean???

life is like a box of chocolates - if you read the little card you WILL know what you are going to get!
mwah mwah mwah

lmao..kel.. glad to know im not the only crazy jealous mum who wants to stick my gorgeous kids in front of others and wave them like.. a flag.. cause there sooo cute and polite and good.. lmao..

we actually wen and stood next to the tramps.. the 14 ft as a great shape but was skinny and we decided with our 2 looneys on it the circle being wide all around would be a better choice.. we got the 12 ft circle.. it is huge.. lol.. especially since Cameron has motor skill problems ( gross and fine motor skills and muscle weakness and low muscle tone) and falls over all the time.. Leah is more co-ordinated then Cam and half his age.. . but he has improved a **** of a lot.. so im dont worry aboiut him so much.. now.. he does swimming lessons an soccer .. to help his body ..

so the 12 ft being a large mat all around was better for cameron.. even though the oval was so much better for our back yard.. its on xmas layby .. and the circle was 299 the oval was 399 ( i have to say the oval looked better made becuase the legs had more support on them ) .. so the price helped with the decision too ..

hee hee i got the oval one so my six foot four hubby can play on it with my three border collies! and yard space as well and jemima likes to walk so she can walk 14 foot and then run into the side and then turn around (after laughing histaricaly) and walk back again - hours of fun! that girl just wanders around from activity to activity drives me bonkers how she doesnt stay still but that is 17 month old i guess!

today i did awesome with food - didnt make it to the gym i wanted to but honestly not enough hours in the day when you dont get out of bed until 11!!! so slack of me!!! but jem woke us and kept us awake a bit last night so i think i was lucky i could recover then i had an facial and nail appointment - pamper and relaxing woo hoo go me - and then i had to get some groceries and then i had to pick jemima up and benji was home and we made tea and i did some tupperware stuff so damn it no time for gym.... but eating went ok i only blew it with some lollies later tonight but was proud of myself that on the way home from the grocery store i snacked on mushrooms and not the party mix lollies!!!

i figure basically any loss this week will get me under 90kg again - and then baby the ONLY WAY IS DOWN!!!!

oh and BIG thought process here which may put some kilos on..... am thinking about asking the doc if i should go on the pill.... am pretty sure i dont want another baby right now.... and if i am not careful now.... i probably will get pregnant again..... and then that could be interesting BUT i dont know if i could handle the weight gain that sometimes comes with the pill etc..... have a feeling i never thought long and hard about wanting another baby but got caught up with what all all all all allall all of my other buddies were doing..... even one buddy who didnt want another baby for ages is thinking about it at the moment.........

WARNING: Another Ani speech!

Kel that's a very interesting insight, and I think you could be on the mark. My attitude had completely changed to food, and it makes my 'sins' seem bigger than they are when I overindulge.

In the past I would think nothing of pigging out and eating who-knows-how-many-calories a day (in fact I would hate to add it up). I never ate breakfast, I had crap food every day, and I had a much more sedentary lifestyle. When I first got my pedometer there were days when I would barely register 2,000 steps.

How things have changed!

Now I NEVER miss breakfast. Not only that, but I insist on a big, filling healthy breakfast that ALWAYS includes fruit and nuts.

Now I hardly ever eat takeaway. I always used to get something like Chicken Treat, fish and chips or italian takeaway at least once a week. I used to eat hot chips at least three times a week - now I have takeaway about once every three months, and it's the ONLY time I eat hot chips!

Now I notice EVERY treat I eat. In the past I could eat all manner of crap and barely notice I had consumed it.

Now I am physically active, doing things on a daily basis that I would never have thought I was capable of. These days it is a very rare thing for me to spend a day sitting around.

And now I can listen to my body's signals and know what they are saying. I know when I am hungry, thirsty, tired… and I often know exactly what kind of fuel my body needs. For example the other day at work I spent about three hours lifting a heap of heavy stuff - and I knew I needed protein, not carbs for lunch. It's funny.

I'm not there yet - I still consider myself a "work in progress". I know I still have at least 6kg left to lose before I can do an honest assessment of where I am at. Will it be enough or will I need to drop a little more? I won't know until I am closer to that point.

I still battle with water. It's a daily challenge for me to hydrate myself, and it's a challenge I often resist.

But you know what? In just two days from now it will be my SECOND ANNIVERSARY of starting this journey. By anyone else's measure I have been the slowest person in the world to lose 30kg, but I simply don't care. Because in two years I have completely changed who I am and how I live my life - it's the biggest ever gift I have given myself.

I was thinking this morning about a reward for that. Not for losing weight, but for sticking to it for two years - and there's a part of me that would really love to go and buy something to symbolise that, and to pamper myself for having done something so big. And there's another part of me that knows that if I walk into the bathroom and look at myself in the mirror, there's the reward staring straight back at me.

I'm especially gratified because I DON'T have anyone at home to encourage me, lift me up when it's hard, tell me off for eating crap… or to inspire me to lose weight. I don't have any external reason - no wedding/birthday/holiday/graduation to look good for, no woman to impress, or anything else that might keep me motivated. It's just me, and it has just been me for the last two years.

And my friends here at Aussie Chicks - you ALL ROCK, and you know it. I cannot begin to tell you how much I value the way we share this journey: its battles and victories, the stories we tell each other, and the support we give and get.

Somehow I found it: that inner strength, the place where the desire to become the best person I can be outweighed the poor self-esteem, the lack of care about myself, the belief that I wasn't good enough. And in many places along this journey I have surprised myself - I'm stronger than I thought, more patient than I imagined, and I like myself more than I realised.

And I owe myself a big apology. I just looked at a photo of the "old Ani" from two years ago and felt incredibly sad. What I saw was a big, fat woman who was wearing track pants and a loose shirt (because nothing else would fit), standing on the verandah and simply taking up too much space. What the **** did I do to myself? I can kind of see me in that photo (the 'me' I know) but I'm wrapped in so many layers of fat that the real me is trapped. And the real me is hiding from the world. I am really, really sorry I did that to myself.

I've finally decided to put up some photos. The first was taken two years ago, and the other one was a couple of months ago, when I was 79kg (and didn't have Bunnings biceps :D). As I said before - still a work in progress ;).

When I first joined 3 Fat Chicks I noticed that one of the women on another thread has an avatar which goes something like: "I saw an angel in the marble and I chipped away until I set her free". That has been my mantra ever since…

you are awesome!
holy dooly people would not recognise you!!!!!
too cool
dont let yourself down - i failed the last time i lost weight with 6kg to go.... i even wrote notes all around the house 6kg to go.... but to be fair to myself i was pregnant and didnt know it.... still i went for the milo and cookies gun ho and put on 30kg in my pregnancy

so ani mate YOU CAN DO IT
you have come too far to stop now

water water water
or for you special treat.... go to a salon and get a body wrap, they do take a couple of centimeters off and make you feel awesome, get a facial while you are there

ps - i watched the family have bacon and eggs for brekky and hashbrowns....

oh and my fish are still alive Go moose and cybill!

Well said Ani. All of these realisations that happen along the way are so important when it comes to maintaining a lifestyle change long term.

Myself, I had a terrible weekend in terms of my diet. I overate and what I did eat was rubbish. BUT. I learned an important lesson: if I don't plan to succeed then I will fail.

Learning these sorts of things about yourself is so important. Good on you for finally putting some photos up. You look FANTASTIC!!! Anyone can see what a huge difference there is and most of all, you look happier and more alive.

So this week for me will be all about getting back on track. I'd done such a fantastic job with diet and exercise over the past couple of weeks I really want to get back to that and I'm determined not to let a few bad days derail me.

Goal for today: 1) Stick to my points. 2) Go to the gym after work and do weights followed by aerobics class. 3) Go to the supermarket and stock up on lovely fresh veggies so that I can cook something delicious for my dinner tonight.

Here's to us all having a great week :hat: Happy Monday ladies :cheer:

Morning morning morning all. Going to have a weigh today I think. Holding my breath cause I haven't been that good. Haven't been that bad either so will be happy to have at least held my own and not moved the scales (at least not moved em up)

Finally! I dropped 0.6kg this week :carrot:.

Julia I'm with you - aiming for a really good week, and to help it along I planned all my meals on Saturday, then went shopping and bought what I need to cook etc.

I'm working 11am-7pm all week. This cuts across two meal times for me, so I have to be really disciplined.

Kel I decided that I will reward myself when I get to 75kg, and my reward will be to buy a three-month pass to the local aquatic centre. I really want to go swimming, but it's a little out of my budget - so this will be a bit of a luxury for me.

OK - today's goals:

• Eat no more than 1600 calories

• Drink 2L of water

• Increase my work intensity by 10% (the physical stuff).

Have a good day everyone!

:)
Ani

see my ticker see my ticker see my ticker :carrot:

was 73 at last weigh in. woohoo. Hopefully is the beginning of a new chapter.

Ani way to go. You've lost again and in doing so you're winning woohoo :carrot:

Congrats Vonni and Ani :carrot::cb::carrot::cb:

I wish I could join you but according to last night's weigh in, I'm up 900g.

:(

But hey, life's full of ups and downs and I can't really expect to have lost anything when I've been eating such crap all weekend and only went to the gym twice last week.

So onwards and upwards. Goals for today: 1) Stick to my points 2) go to the gym and do at least 40 minutes cardio tonight.


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Woo hoo Vonni! It's always a good thing when you see something positive on the scales :).

Julia I have faith - I think some of your gain would be from water retention. And I know you have the focus and determination to move forward from this.

I'm on track at the moment too. It makes all the difference in the world if I plan ahead and have the right food in the house. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the single biggest thing that helps me stay on track.

I think I've got my head in the right place now to get to work on losing the next 5kg, and it's full steam ahead for me. I've set myself a goal of trying to get to 74.5kg by the end of August - so I'd better get to work :D.

ani oi ani oi ani ani ani oi oi oi
julia oi julia oi julia julia julia oi oi oi
vonni oi vonni oi vonni vonni vonni oi oi oi
amy oi amy oi amy amy amy oi oi oi!
tomorrow morning weigh in for me!
i cant wait
really
i hope hope hope all this trying will have meant a loss which will get me back under 90 and back on track
focus focus i can do it
sick baby means no childcare or kidzclub which means dog walking only and today not sure if even going to do that but doing housework NOW so that will be something - maybe i should 'give in' and shag my hubby and get rid of some calories that way......

mwah mwah mwah
i am off to treat myself to a diet coke gold, no nothing but weird **** in that - but no calories and no sugar and no caffiene and i have about 6 in the fridge i want to get rid of - i have been drinking water - not enough but choosing it over soft drink
oh oh oh and i bought jarrah 99% free hot choc to replace WAIT FOR IT my milo! omigosh it is way yummier than i thought it would be!

LMAO go Kel.

Thats too funny.

Milo yerk

Jarrah
Yum
the mint one is really nice

Mmmmm I used to drink Jarrah choc n toffee and that was delicious!

I had a great day yesterday. Stuck to my points and had an awesome session at the gym - ran for 30 minutes including 20 minutes of run/sprint intervals and then walked really fast for the last 10 minutes.

An old friend is in town so I'm going out for lunch today. I've no idea where we're going so the challenge will be to find something healthy!

Goals for today: 1) Stick to my points 2) Go to the gym tonight and do weights followed by at least 30 minutes cardio.


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