Week one I'm in for cutting down on coffee, and getting earlier nights. shouldnt be to hard as I start at the hospital for a 4 week stint as of tomorrow.

Vonni

I weighed in at 73.3kg this morning - a drop of 1.1kg :carrot: and I added another 53km to my journey across Australia.

Hey Barb - woo hoo! I'm really happy that you got such a great result.

WOW Ani congratulations:cb:You're on fire :flame:. Thats awesome. You must be so thrilled. I am!!

Well guys my scales havent moved today, so much for 500 gm in 2 weeks..... :censored: Hopefully in these next 4 weeks I am going to lose SOMETHING with all the walking and stuff. Going to wear my pedometer to. Not today, have to clear it with our facilitator first.

It should be a good time to get in habit of eating at proper times and being in that environment the right foods to. Only they DO have a snack machine but I will just not take any coin:D

Gotta run. Have to start in a tic.

Vonni
PS prob won't get on every day now. But will check in soon xxx:hug:

PSS
Barb way to go :carrot:

woohoo well done Barb 1.7 is fabulous.. :) i bet it feels great to be back on the wagon again...


and woohhhoo Ani well done on your 1.1 .. that is fantastic.. :)

One more day to work and then two days OFF! Even better - it's pay day Thursday so I can get some decent food in the house.

I'm determined to stay on plan today, as much as possible, because I want to get as close to 72kg by the end of November as I can - and the only way to achieve that is to make good decisions every single day!

Today I'm on :cloud9:, it's time to :celebrate:!

:woo:

Can you believe I made it to 21?!?!

What could you do if you knew you couldn't fail?

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happy birthday kylie i hope you have a fantastic 21st

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kylie - "what amy said"
woohoo happy birthday to you!

i am doing ok this week i am going to weigh in on thursday at weight watchers and pretend last week didnt happen

i dont even remember what i was going to say coz jemima is pulling my hair and the kitten is meowing
so i best go make dinner
pork stirfry yummmmmmmo

ps - barb what are you doing?? 1.7kg is AWESOME!

Ani - you are going to get past 72 before the end of november i can feel it!

maybe i can get down to 91.4kg..... maybe

personal question for everyone
what do you do about shaffige?? i dont know how to spell it but since i've been bigger in this stupid sweaty weather my legs rub together and i have big red marks and it hurts alot....???

Zinc and castor oil cream Kel, but it does make yr legs stick. I cnt really wear skirts for the same reason so when at home wear some shorts that aren't hot. Even jeans. Any nappy rash cream can also help but I find the Z and C the best for me.

Happy birthday Kylie..... Amy where DO you find these things? lol.

I've had a good 2 days so far att he hospital. Gave IM injections first day for the first time. And I thought i'd be scared but was great. yesterday I went to theatre. Followed day surgery patients right through from admitting to going into theatre in my lovely scrubs lol then to discharging.

Today I am going to hydrotherapy so guess what.... I had to buy a pair of swimmers (blerk) and I gotta go now and shave my legs.

CYA

Vonnie

Happy 21st Kylie!!!

Von, I love my scrubs - I wear jeans to work and change into scrubs every day. When I'm working as a nurse I wear a lab coat because I need the pockets for all my crap that I have to carry.

Don't do what I did when I started giving IM injections - forgot to change off the drawing up (looong) needle and gave an old lady a butt shot.. hit the bone! Poor old dear. Never did it again though!

Hydro today. Man what an experience. I have learnt........ that I don't have very good balance on my right leg, that I am weaker in my left arm than my right. We had many kinds of people... disability, stroke, obese, elderly etc..... was great fun but I am soooo tired. And one of my teachers are coming to dinner tonight. She is also our facilitator this week.

Ouch for hitting the bone. We were made deliberately hit bone in our lamb shanks we practiced on so we know the feeling. grates doesnt it... can't imagine the ouch for the client / patient. lol

Gotta run get chook.

cya

And yeah Gen. Scrubs are comfy as. I thought they looked uncomfortable but was pleasantly suprised :D

Sorry I missed your birthday Kylie, I hope it was a great one!:balloons:

I'm doing well with the new lifestyle at the moment, hoping to record another loss this week. (did you all notice that I never used the "D" word!) My first goal is to be under 100, even if its 99.9 I'll be happy with that. ;)

Gotta run. busy busy busy.

XX
Barb

barb that is an awesome attitude, i think i might copy you
new lifestyle coming up
no more living week to week on a diet, trying to cheat towards weigh in days etc

UP 600grams in 2 weeks - officially weighed in to hear that
woohoo NOT

zinc and castor oil cream, i'll have a looksy, i was hoping there was a way to still wear skirts and prevent it, it has never been so bad, but i have never been so fat before.....

lifestyle change is coming up.
i am going to STEP up and take on the challenge of being a wife and a mother like I WANT TO BE and STOP listening to EVERYONE else and trying to please everyone else
it is MY life, MY baby, MY husband, and the way THEY see me is more important to ME than what anyone else thinks
so there

(i have had advice from a friend if you could not tell.....)

weigh in day down 700 grams this week..112.2 kilos now :) im happy with that becuase it means my BMI is finally in the 30's.... lol 39.8 i started this journey at 47.9.. so now im just obese rather then super obese.. lol.... it also means ive now lost 50 pounds.. lol.. yippee.. pounds make it sound so much bigger doesnt it? lol


so bmi wise im nearly at where Ani started at.. lol so i still got plenty of work to do..
all my measurements are up from last week ... who knows what that's about but my body weight is down .. i suppose i may be bloated a bit but then i would have not showed a loss of weight... but anyway im sure it will sort it self out before next weesk weigh in.. .. well im off busy day with the monkey in tow... playgroup day.. .. have fun..

Had a sneaky weigh in today..... down 700gm woohoo hehe lets hope i dnt undo all that over the weekend

woohoo vonni
woohoo amy

i am lost in weightloss void

hopefully will be returning to earth soon.

I've had a pretty ordinary week - I don't even know why, but I have gone way over my calorie allowance, and done just about everything wrong.

Not sure why I keep sabotaging myself when I am this close to reaching my goal. Maybe I don't really believe I can do it - or maybe I don't believe I am worth it. I just don't know.

Somehow I have to convince myself to get back on plan, and I'm not really sure how to do that. Over the last six days I have averaged 2300 cals/day and only 1.3L of water. Exercise has been fine, but I've still been letting myself down.

This week my hours of work will be more "normal" - mostly 9.30 - 5.30 - so maybe that will help me get into a better routine. But one of the reasons I have struggled is that this week I have had five different shifts in five days, including one day starting at 6.30am, then the next day starting at 12.30pm. It's hard to be in a good routine when my hours are all over the place.

I just rang in sick for today because my throat feels like I have swallowed razor blades, and that doesn't help either.

The only way I know to try and get back on track is to take things right back to basics, and set goals JUST for today. If I can achieve 80% of the following I will feel better about things:

• Eat no more than 1600 calories;

• Include 2 serves of fruit and 5 veges in whatever I eat;

• Drink 2L of water.

That's about all I can really ask of myself.

Sorry about the whinge - and for being so self-indulgent. It frustrates me that after all this time I still have weeks where I let myself down so badly.

Ani, don't ever apologize for having a bad week. You are such a source of inspiration and strength for all of us all of the time, and we are here to listen if you need to vent! Give yourself a break - you've achieved amazing things with your weight loss, and one week in the scheme of things is nothing. At least you recognize what you're doing and are questioning why. Getting so close to goal seems like it would be great, but it has to be terrifying too! No more excuses for not doing things or getting things you want.. can't blame the weight any longer. You *DO* deserve it, and you know you do. Just get back on the horse and keep trotting.

ani - your "whinging" helps us
we see what you did "wrong" but we also see how you are fixing it
it helps me heaps to KEEP hearing the challenges and to know they dont go away once you loose heaps of weight
it helps me to know that it is a ongoing battle, so i can keep trying to get outof my head that there is a quickfix...

tomorrow morning i am weighing in
not to "start again" coz lifestyle change is slow and steady i know that now
but to benchmark myself and give myself some goals etc

so tomorrow - new ticker and first day of checkout chick at woolies

Ooh have fun. I loved working at Safeway - did it for 7 years thru school and uni. I was in the checkout chick of the year competition 5 years in a row haha. I still have my sashes at my mum's place.. how sad is that!

Gen thanks for the support - and you too Kel - I really value it.

I didn't bother weighing in this morning - I just didn't want to demoralise myself, but I added up the how far I walked last week and moved my exercise ticker along a little bit more.

Good luck with the job today Kel - yay for new adventures :D.

Today is a fresh start for me too. I am going to get back into making better choices and I'll work through whatever is bothering me.

It is scary Gen, and it was a massive reality check to discover just how quickly I can fall back into old, old habits and binge like a mad woman. The challenge now is to find the way to let go of that.

Yesterday was another bad day as far as food choices go, but it has got to stop right now. I can't undo what I have done for the last week, but I can start to make better choices today!

So, the plan is:

• Eat no more than 1600 calories;

• Drink 2.5L of water;

• Walk 10,000 steps;

• Buy the most yummy, tempting fruit I can afford and have that for my snacks instead of chocolate and other crap;

• And forgive myself for a bad week, and just move on!

Ani, I didn't weigh in on Friday for the exact same reason! Last week was a total balls-up with weight-loss...and this week hasn't started off much better! I think my mind has decided to put off weight-loss for a few weeks because of all the upheaval I am going to be going through!

Tomorrow I leave for Perth...will be there 'til Friday...will probably be having minor surgery to have my lump removed. Ani, let me know of your schedule...this will probably be my last trip to Perth for a while and I'd love to catch up for a coffee...or Fish & Chips! :p

I am then home for two days before leaving on a work trip...I have cut that down to just a two night trip rather than the week.

Then on the 22nd I am taking two weeks leave to visit Darwin, get a feel of the place and house hunt etc.

When I return, I have one full week here, another work trip and then I am finished and will be leaving for good a few days later!!

It's all exciting...but daunting too! How am I going to get myself packed in time? How is my old dog going to take the move? What if the job isn't what I expected? What if I am not up to their standards? I don't want to think about it anymore!!

Anyway...back on topic. All I really want to achieve for the next few weeks is to maintain at around the 88 - 90kg that I am at now. I don't want to gain anymore...and if I lose some then that is a bonus! At the very least, I vow to have breakfast every day and I vow to drink 2L of water every day!

Must run!! I have an appointment with the bank manager shortly and I must pack for Perth...and for the move too for that matter!!!

Good luck with the new lifestyle Kel!

Kylie...soooo sorry I missed it, but Happy Birthday for last week too!! :hug:

Hi everyone

Thanks for the birthday wishes - I had a wonderful Tuesday, and a smashing (or was that smashed?) Saturday night!

My boss and I are fed up with being round, so we're going to start bringing lunches to work (instead of racking up $100+ weekly bills at the coffee shop downstairs!). It's going to be good to have someone to work with. We're going low carb (yes in moderation), and just generally cutting out the crap.

Bring on the eggs!

Kel, my relationship with woolies was definitley love/hate, but it's a pretty good place to work generally. My one tip is to make an effort, because most of the young ones don't. Turn up, present well, take an interest in your regulars, and don't take too long on your breaks, and you will be in the good books!

Gotta dash, will be back.

Sorry I haven't been around. Down another 700g last week, but had a terrible weekend. We made pizzas and even though the toppings were very healthy (roasted veg, olives, artichoke, tomatoe, low fat cheese and fresh herbs) I ate WAY more than I should have, pizza just never fills me up! So I'm guessing that this weeks loss won't be a great one.

Oh yeah, Kel buy yourself a pair of bike shorts to wear under your skirts. I think Target have the different length ones to choose from.

XX

Barb

hey babr good idea. Never thought of doin that cause i dnt wear dresses n skirts much either cause like Kel - the chaffe (?) thing.

We have a new facilitator at the hospital. She started today. lets see how she goes before I make judgement :D. Friday going to orthopeadic theatre wow that'll be good.

Okay I havent lost any extra weight than my sneak peek but thats ok. We are up n down stairs ALL day lol. so I'm guessing reason for not any more loss is muscle is getting better underneath all this flab. All I am concentraing on is eating okay and drinking water. Not bothering with exercise or being too pedantic about diet over the next few weeks till I am over this hurdle of clinical.

Looks like everyone is faring ok this week. Ani not only do we see yr set backs but we also see how you pick yrself off and dust yrself off again and soldier on. Its an inspiration :D

Phew! Met all my goals yesterday.

My roster has changed, so I'm now working 6.30 - 2.30pm today. I have realised that my 'danger zone' is those afternoons when I'm not at work (or when I finish early), so I am going to have to come up with a plan to overcome that.

My main plan for this week is to get myself back on track, and to reach at least 80% of my daily goals. One day down… :D

Ani do you think you could have your main meal when you get home? Snack on some celery while cooking it if necessary. And make those days quick easy meals to cook, or cook extra day before and make something out of it..... eg, if you have mashed potato and veg with meat one evening, cook extra spud n veg and make a shepherds pie the next with leftover.

i just cant stop eating

i loved woolies - my first shift last night, next on thursday night then soon i find out what regular roster will be i hope

regular roster will mean routine for exercise
doc orders routine in some exercise

oh yeah and i didnt weigh in
maybe next week

and thanks for chaffisge advice
bikepants awesome idea will do that
and then cream for when it hurts
it seems to come and go - right now all good!

i am one big fat deflated balloon and i dont know why

hey guys had a stressful weekend.. that led me hiding in a corner ignoring the world and switching the phones off , keeping the curtains closed and myself binging yesterday.. i had chocolate 160grams of it plus a snickers bar..... yup you guessed it had to skip dinner last night.(wasnt hungry). and felt angry at myself.. .. but better day today ...

Its all over my sister.. who has once again had a mental breakdown and is in a hospital in the mental ward over in sydney..

She has been in and out of trouble for 12 years.. trashing houses.. gathering debt.. druggy friends.. abusive hubby.. you name it.. she has done everythign she could to upset our parents from not talking to them to calling them names . and marrying mr incredible... But now expects us all to go to sydney because she has really ballsed it up this time.. My parent are towing there van to sydney as we speak.. and yesterday they were nearly killed when i semi plowed straight into a stupid P platter that tried to over take there van and car without looking .. they also blew a tyre replaced it only to be pulled up by someone becuase the one the put on was falling off..... wrong sized nut holes made the wheel move and the nuts wiggle off.

My sister keeps trying to call me reverse charge.. so im ignoring the phone.. i dont want to know... her usual lies... she is saying she is going to leave her pond scum husband but we will see... ( he is a ex child prostatute with paraniod scitzophrenia that got locked up for trying to kill some one.. a couple of years ago for 18 months.. lost his job cant get another one and has been living off her wage ever since... any wonder she is in a mental ward? and the pair of them live in one of those rentals you see on ACA)

so yep i have had enough and got to the point of ....... talk to the hand.. becuase the ear aint listening.. ...

other wise ive been ok.. one dietry slip up.. only was 1832 cals that day so not to drastic really just annoying.. I have been keeping busy clearing out extra crap in my house.. started with my fat clothes.. then the shed... then the kids toys.. then Leahs clothes... then the kitchen and today the linene cupbaord.. IM sick of having all this stuff we dont use and having trouble putting away the stuff we do use.. so its all gone.. goodwill bins.. and the salvos shop.. :) feels great :) oh and of course the good old fashioned rubbish bin too lol..

Amy :hug:

oh amy that is full on
hang in there!

Amy I think it's very wise to not get caught up in your sister's dramas. As tough as it is, you have enough going on in your own life - and she needs to take some responsibility for her own behaviour. And even though it has been said a million times before, you can't control or change what someone else does - all you can control is your own reactions to them.

I know it's really tough, because she is family - and I am thinking of you :hug:.

I had an OK day yesterday: ate 1650 calories, walked 10km - but I only drank 1.2L of water. Still… a lot better than I have been, so I'll take that as a mostly successful day.

I think I have discovered what is wrong with me - I'm feeling restless, and beginning to think about leaving Perth. On some levels I have been thinking about it for a little while, and I have been here for about 20 years, so it isn't all that easy.

But I've been toying with the idea of moving to Queensland (I have two sisters living there) - and then on Sunday one of my closest friends from many years ago got in touch with me through Facebook. And would you believe it, she lives in Brisbane!

I'll give it some more thought over the next few months and see how well it sits with me.

Anyway, in the meantime I need to try and have another good day with my weight loss, and work to reach those goals. I have two days off, and I'm hoping to catch up with Lindor while she's here - it might be my last chance for ages because she is going to be moving interstate soon.

Julia are you back from Canada yet?

I'm back!

:wave:

Had a great time in Canada but am suffering for it now. I'm tired and run down and feel like I could sleep for a week.

Had a nice weekend celebrating my 30th birthday but overindulged somewhat and that is no doubt adding to my feeling crap.

We were so well fed on my trip and I'm finding it hard to get back into the swing of cooking for myself again. I've got a session with my trainer tonight that I'm dreading because I feel so flat but I'll go because I know it'll do me good.

I've had a quick skim over all of your posts. Happy birthday to Elerine - hope it was a great one! Kel, congrats on the new job, I hope you enjoy it lots. Amy, I don't really know what to say about your dramas but hang in there chick, you'll get through it.

Ani that's potentially an exciting change for you to make. Vonni, sounds like you're loving what you're doing at the moment and that's awesome :D

Keep checking in Barb, you're doing some great work at the moment. Gen, how's things going with you? You in the middle of winter over there now? Brrrr.

That's about it for today. I'm so out of synch with food etc so will just try to get back on track this week.


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hey hey
i have NEVER really thought about weight control that way
being "in synch" with your food
being "in synch" with your body
my daughter and my hubby are TOTALLY "in synch" with their food choices and know when they need to eat and can and are satisfied with just that they dont OVERinduldge but they induldge

i will THINK about that
and go and find something for lunch - i know there is fresh bread and i have lettuce IN MY GARDEN but no tomatoes ready yet.... tomorrow i will buy some and keep watching the rain make the ones in the garden bigger

so yippee LETTUCE SANDWICH for lunch hehehehehe maybe i will add some tuna

hey guys thanks .. im ok but just really needed to vent. :)

Im back in control and ignoring the phone.. lol.. well letting the machine get it before i do and scanning the calls :) my folks should reach sydney today and them being off those roads makes me feel a bit more relaxed..

Im making some real progress with my excess stuff.. which is great and i have tied up some loose ends i keep forgetting about.. like the canceling insurance on the old car we no longer have a hard rubbish pickup for the old dishwasher.. and filing away paper work to find the new bankcard in the pile.. :)..

this month has been a great one for weightloss for me.. i have lost almost double what i usually do.. so im very happy about that... im gonna make my goal of 110 for xmas.. no problems at this stage.. lol..


Ani you sure are changing your life around.. first the job and house and now thinkignabout the state.. wow .... so could you get bunnings to tranfer you ?? that would be good to have a bit of job securitry when you get there..

Kel .. can you come over and dig me a veggies garden please??? frsh veg is so much nicer then shop stuff...

Julia great to have you back.. i was just wondering when you were coming back

I went to the gym last night, the only chance I'm going to get all week. Weighed in and am up 0.5kg which I'm relieved with that it's not more.

Off to get more tattooing done tonight then off to Auckland for the weekend to see Def Leppard in concert.

Off work on Monday as my dad's going into full time hospital grade care so I'm going to have the day off work to help mum get him settled in.

That's all for now, will check in again next week.

Ciao!