I went and saw Sampson and Delilah last night - excellent movie, very sad and disturbing.

Didn't do so good with meeting my goals yesterday. But today is a new opportunity to get it right. I have all my meals planned, and I'll get it sorted. I'm going to go to Ikea today and buy some more bookshelves - and sort through all my books over the next two days.

Got another housemate moving in - it's just too hard to manage on my own.

Julia I know what you mean about having no money… it sucks.

Kel good on you for losing weight. Stick with it matey - a fatty liver needs some serious attention, and health is a great motivator :D.

Barb how are you travelling?

Gen are you still planning a lapband or gastric bypass?

Vonnie I'm thinking of you - at least you'll find out what's going on.

OK - off to try and have one of those days where I make GOOD decisions. Gotta get this thing back on track…

Yes just waiting for them to ring me with a date to start my "lifestyle program" where you have to weigh in for 6 months. Lapband - I'm too chicken to do something irreversible and drastic like GB.

Had my boss' wedding this weekend. Had a nice dress and some vacuum-packed underwear, so felt ok (altho hot!). But figured out the 4 women at my table had 15 children between them.. and none of them weighed over 120lbs. Beyotches. Hehe.

six months will just fly by! have you got a photo of you in the dress?

Ha Ha Gen, Beyotches indeed! Dontcha hate that :dizzy:

Those vacuum packer undies work a treat though don't they? I wore some to a wedding a couple of months ago and they sucked me in nicely. Very nicely actually now that I think about it because that was the night that I met The Boy :D

LOL@ beyotches.

Ani I feel for you. Its hard when so close but then have a momentary lapse of will power. Me? I dont have any at all but have discovered that I've developed some sort of allergy to chocolate. I asked doc why not earlier in life and reckons its one of those things. So maybe I will be able to leave the choc alone at least. I get really short of breath and cough a lot and a bit wheezy. Peppermint choc is worse and I love peppermint aero bars.

So goal for this week.... No chocolate.

Went for a gorgeous picnic at Queen Mary Falls with Matt and all the kids over the weekend. The full walk around the trail is 2km and its uphill and steps for 1km of that. Was awesome and got some great pics of kids along the way. (Ebony @ 3yrs old walked the whole way)

Yesterday Matt and I took Ebony and went with a friend for a walk around our riverwalk. Its 2.5km but flat. Was nice, didnt push it just leisurely stroll and Ebony rode her little bike.

Have a neonatal resuscitation evaluation tomorrow for my professional development. Don't think I will make it through though with so much happenning over the past ferw weeks and only had 10 days to study the text book. BUT fingers crossed. Can only try again later if I dont get it tomorrow.

Won't weigh myself, george is here and I really feel bloated. I havent even been TRYING to lose weight so I know they will show a gain, or at the very least a maintain. Havent worked much this week either which doesnt help as When I do work, as Gen will know I am on my feet and nearly running the whole time.

Oh, I meant to post the link to our pics of the falls so here it is
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...77197&v=photos

Good luck for your evaluation Vonni, I hope it goes well :crossed:

Yesterday was really good. The only unnecessary things that I ate all day was 3 mandarins and a fruit stringy thing as a snack after dinner.

I had a good workout at the gym - did weights followed by 40 minutes cardio. I was bored as **** during my cardio so did 10 minutes jogging, 10 minutes walking, 10 minutes cross trainer and another 10 minutes walking. That helped to relieve the boredom a bit.

Goals for today are to eat well and have another good session at the gym.


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Good on you Julia, you've foun your focus again. How's the boy going?

I feel really bloated so I weighed myself this morning and have gained 1.8kg. This sucks!

Another ordinary day for me yesterday - but today is better so far.

I need to remind myself of the reasons why I wanted to lose weight, and why it's important to keep it off. Even just gaining a few kilos I have noticed a difference to my energy and motivation - and I'm not feeling very good about this, or very proud of what I have done.

So today's meals are planned, and I am trying to force myself to drink water. It's cold, I don't feel thirsty… and it's a struggle to drink a litre, let alone two! But I will do my best.

Ani I agree with the difficulty drinking water in the cold weather. It's bloody freezing here.

I passed my evaluations today.... phew. We had 9 units and I got 100% on 6 of them, and 1 wrong on the other three each. We had to get 80% to pass. Gen you would prob be familiar with it - It is NRP designed by the American Academy of paediatrics and American Heart Assocciation. We have to do an update every couple of years but ideally every year... just like adult CPR refresher courses.

Barb what a stinker gaining. Same here but not sure how much cause george. Better weigh in next week prob i hope.

WOOHOO VONNI :carrot: you rock congrats on passing your evaluations

barb - putting on sucks - and i think i am going to this week.... i have not stuck to the plan today or last night! i always get this way after a good loss!

julia - yeah how is the boy going??

ani - i think you will lose the little bit of weight you just put on quickly coz it hasnt had a chance to settle in yet.... i think the longer the weight has been there the harder it is to shift! you can do it and when you get back to work and back in the closest thing you have to a routine you will be smokin!

Vonni well done - that's awesome, especially if you didn't have much time to study! I have to do my ACLS next week - need it for work and before I start clinicals with school.

I start my monthly fatty boombah classes next week, so that should be interesting.

I am considering taking a year out of study. Unfortunately because certain courses are only offered certain terms, and there are prerequ's for many of them, I can't just skip a term. Much as I don't want to delay graduation by a year, it would be nice to cut out some of my stress at the moment, and I wouldn't have to worry about missing exams etc if I need to go home.

One of my kitties was sick but she got some antibiotics and she's much better now and running around like a total loon. It's nice to have someone around the house to talk to (yes, I'm starting to talk to the pets...!). I have a few prospective roommates lined up to come check the place out on Saturday - hopefully I find a nice, non-crazy one. Luckily I think Ani already took all the nutbags.

Mum got pretty sick after her chemo last week, and she said she wasn't going to do it anymore, which was hard. I can't blame her, but obviously I selfishly want her to do whatever gives her another 5 minutes. Luckily she got better after a couple of bad days, and now she is back to normal and sounds good. She even went and bought a new couch, which I told her was optimistic!!

Heeeeheeeee:dizzy:

Try not to stress too much Ani, you'll get your mojo back. I think that once you're back at work and have more structure in your day you might find it all a bit easier. :hug:

Vonni, well done on your exam results! :cp:

Gen I'm sorry to hear that your mum wasn't well. I hope that she's feeling better and in more of a fighting mood :hug:

Weighed in last night and am down 500g :woohoo:

Everything's going really well with The Boy. He came over and cooked me dinner last night which was divine but unfortunately the sort of meal only a person who has no weight problems would cook ... pasta with creamy sauce and garlic bread. I didn't eat tooooo much of it but god it was delicious! :dizzy:

Other than that meal, food intake yesterday was really good. I also did a spin class at the gym which damn near killed me. My quads are ACHING today!


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No gym for me last night, I was too tired and too sore so I went home and had a chicken salad for dinner then went with my shopping list and did a big grocery shop.

And I stuck to my list!! :eek:

Today my goals are to 1) Eat well and 2) Go to the gym after work.


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HAPPPPPY FRIDAY
did i tell you all i have a job now?
working from home?
i edit articles for a friend, and i will also bid on articles for her
it is awesome
i have made money already today before brekky while wearing my pjs, you can not ask for more than that
my daughter is a bad influence......

Mummy - Jemima would you like to go for a walk?
Jemima - No, cup of tea.
Mummy - No worries.

heheheh
will go for a walk after i finish one more article
it is so so so so cold here


julia --- i LOVE it when you stick to the list you feel so so disaplined! did you meal plan before you left??? i am really getting stuck into that and NOT buying anything i dont intend to use before next payday

vonni - i saw your photos on facebook - WOW, just wondering does matt and the rest of your family know you want to lose weight?? do they know what your plan of attack is so they can properly support you??? stevie seems the type to tell you off if she knows what you want and sees you going astray..... just a thought.... oh and i reckon lukas would be a great motivator.... perhaps use all their quirks to YOUR advantage...??

My beautiful little man said to me yesterday, "Mum are you having another baby or are you just fat?" What a wonderful way to start the day!

I've gained 1.6k this week. I really hate this ride! :(

Hi Aussies! Just wanted to introduce myself quickly (sneaking on whilst at work) and will try and check in more over the weekend. Glad to have found an Aussie thread!

Hi Danni this thread has been going for quite some time. I've been on here with the same bunch of aussie chicks since 2007.

Welcome :)

Oh wow!!!!! :) Hope you dont mind me popping in!

Ouch Barb, that's gotta sting a bit. Kids eh!

Welcome Danni :welcome2: feel free to post and hang out with us as much as you want. We've got an awesome bunch of ladies here and a great little support network.


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Hey LittleKiwi!! :) Thanks for the warm welcome girls!

I am doing some back-reading but I loved this post!

I too am trying to stop the little daily mind games and just focus on today and just DOING. Some days are easier than others . . .

oh barb!!!!!!!!!! that is not what you need to hear.... but could it perhaps be the motivation you need to stop gaining??? My ex-neighbour is asian and in asia they must be different to here as in it must be ok to point out each others 'faults' i have lost count the number of times she has told me how fat my belly is, only twice of the countless times has she indicated she thought i could be pregnant. when i was pregnant with jemima but not fat yet she pointed out the hormonal pimples i had, she has also told me i had too much hair on my upper lip..... etc etc

danni - hello!!! the more the merrier!!!!! i love hearing another perspective to what we are going through and would love to support you if that is what you are here for........ support when we stuff up is awesome but i also think support when we achieve is needed too..... makes it worth it in another way??

today i did good until dinner time when i phoned benji and said KFC so no treats for me all weekend and hopefully i will have a loss on monday!
i just had a BIG win with optus, got them to waive $469 cancellation fees BUT it gets better yesterday i had a win with telstra getting them to give me a $200 welcome CREDIT so woo hoo hoo hoo hoo
especially coz yesterday i also got a fine for talking on my mobile while driving.... sigh........

I bought lunch with the guys today, but they got a pizza and I got a salad with grilled chicken, no cheese and no dressing. Also no taste, but oh well haha. Luckily their pizza had spinach on it, so made me want to hurl anyway. Eurgh. I am having a starbucks caramel latte at the moment, but it's non-fat milk and sugar-free caramel! It's the little things heh.

I'm so fat my neck feels like it's squishing me when I'm just sitting. Heh.

LOL Kel why oh why does it not suprise me you were busting on yr phone. That is too funny but NOT funny. How much was yr fine? Hows the job going?

Yummmm starbucks. Wish we had starbucks. And good on you for going the salad. I WAS going to have home done calamari and prawn cutlets (fatty i know) but got called into work cause we had emergencies coming out of our ears so I ended up with KFC on the run. Our ambulance bays were full all night and even on the ward we had 3 emergencies then subsequent transfers to bigger hospitals. We had all our wards full. It was run run run all night.

Pity it didnt show on the scales this morning.

Hi Danni - Welcome aboard! I'm Ani and I've been here for ages, and I agree with the others - it's great that you have found us.

Are you currently trying to lose weight? What's your plan?

I'm back at work tomorrow, and looking forward to it. I have had a nice, restful break - and feel 're-charged'.

And I have promised myself that tomorrow I will get straight back on that wagon :D.

Hi gals!! :)

Ani - yeppers I am definitely trying to lose weight (I am a yo yo dieter trying to just. get. it. right.)

I lost 50kg in a really short period of time (9 months) and now have gained back about 17kg and it feels as bad as the 50 did! I have PCOS and am trying to get my head around that . . . still not sure what it means for me.

I am trying to eat intuitively as whenever I am on a "plan" I tend to turn into a 2 year old (no offense to 2 year olds out there!) and get very rebellious . . . but as I have some wheat intollerances and am insulin resistant, LOWER carb works best for me.

I feel like Oprah . . . I thought I would be done with this c.rap by now (I am 36) and here I am still talking about weight. I have thought I was fat ever since I was 11 . . . even when quite the opposite was the case. I feel like most of the time the mental battle is better for me, but its time to start DOING and not just thinking about it . . . if that makes sense?

Hope to be around a bit more, I still havent gotten around to hooking up the 'net at home (just moved) and work is nuts at the moment with financial year end (I am an accountant).

Hope you are all having a happy and healthy weeekend :)

I will get to know all of your names :) but for now if I stick to screen names i think it will be good!

Smylie - I love that you say that you 'think' you are 174cm under your avatar - why is it that every time a doctor measures my height I seem to be 1cm shorter than the last time I was there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! heheeeeee

Weight-loss attempt #648!!! :^:

YAY Lindor - I was only thinking about you yesterday. What's happening in Darwin? How are you?

Danni I'm a calorie counter. I've been losing weight now for almost three years - everyone here can tell you how slooooooooow I am at it, but I've managed to drop over 30kg. I've gained about 4kg in the last few months - so am trying to get back on the wagon.

Back at work today, and here are the goals:

• Eat no more than 1650 calories;
• Drink at least a litre of water;
• Walk more than 10,000 steps on my pedometer; and
• Eat at least five serves of fruit/vegetables.

Hi Ani!

Darwin is great! Still haven't experienced any sense of being 'homesick' yet and it is nearly six month since I got here. It is tourist season now and to a small extent I am playing the tourist part too. I have had a few evenings out with friends (Wow! I got some friends! Actually they are work colleagues, but they are good fun!). I have learnt how to gamble at the Casino! Been to the annual Greek Festival. Done the Mindil Beach Sunset Markets.

Consequently, this has all had an adverse effect on my weight-loss though. Don't know what I weigh just now, and I don't want to know. I do know my clothes are very tight, and I am feeling very uncomfortable.

I am still doing my junkmail delivery round, but need to consider taking out a life insurance plan if I plan on continuing for much longer. After the initial run in with the dog that resulted with a buggered up ankle, I was bitten by a Pitbull cross last weekend which has left me with a couple of rather impressive looking holes in my left shin! Yesterday I was bailed up by two aggressive dogs in a cul-de-sac. For someone who adored all dogs, I find myself having minor anxiety attacks if a dog so much as looks at me now! Dog owners - and I mean the owners - are out of control here! Most of the time they keep their dogs shut up in their yards, but for some stupid, insane reason, they think they can pop down to the shop for five minutes and believe their dogs will remain in the yard with the gate open!! Anyway, the council ranger and myself are now on first name terms and we must know each others phone numbers by heart now!

Food is once again my problem. I am still sticking to home cooking...the thought of microwave dinners sicken me now although they were what helped in my initial weight-loss. Problem with home cooked meals is I can't keep track of the calories as precisely as I could when I could read the info on the side of the box. But I have just discovered this website (www.mealopedia.com) that provides a weeks worth of recipes that also shows the nutritional data per serve of that meal. You can set the paramiters for the type of recipes - I select 'budget', 'easy as 1-2-3' and 'freezable'. And it will even adjust the ingredients to the number of serves you want. And it will even write up the shopping list for the week! I cooked up my first meal from there last night and it was B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!

Anyway, I'll quit waffling on. Not sure if I am going to weigh in just yet, thinking not, but thinking it might also be the kick in the butt that I need.

I haven't read over what I have missed in my absence, so I hope all are well.

Welcome Danni! And good luck with all your plans and goals for this journey!

mealopedia seems really cool, when i have sometime i am going to look at that - a bit of variety will help me i think.....

danni - hehhehe sometimes i am 174 sometimes i have shoes on hehehehe i say i'm 5'7 my dad 5'9 and my mum 5'11 and i think somewhere once i read 5'7 was 174 all i know is my baby brothers are heaps taller than me
so do you have any kids? how did you lose the 50kg back when??

i have NO idea what the scales are going to say tomorrow.... ANY loss will make me a VERY happy girl as last night for a BIG treat benji and I NOT jemima - jemima was at grandmas for a sleep over had THAI and it was YUMMY and friday night i was lazy and bad and we had kfc and i have not done a heap of exercise this week either, one or two dog walks and thats about it.........

vonni - do you have support at home to lose weight? who cooks dinner?

I cook an i cook well and mainly healthy. No suport. Matt buys me choc and chips then gets offended and sulks like a 2yr old if i say thanks but no thanks. He SAYS he will support me but then craks that he wont have time with me if i say i am joining a gym. work is my exercise at the moment. and i love it. when i work at least 3 shifts the scales drop.

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGawd. I got on the scales. I almost fell off them in complete shock. Can I just pretend that I have gained some extra weight in the breasticle area and pretend that the rest of me is not looking as bad as I know it is . . . .

I had a really good day yesterday with food etc and am trying to do what Lindor is doing - cook at home more rather than eating out so much. I am going to give the "intuitive" eat real foods and stick to low carb/low GI thing a go for a week and see the effect on the scales.

Today I am at OMG! weight, so hopefully by next Monday I am at OMG! minus at least 1kg!

Smylie , I dont have any kiddles and although I can see 40 in the distance I still hope I get to use my bits at some stage :) I lost my weight doing low carb & lower fat - but the thing that helped most was that I was consistent and didnt stop no matter what speed bumps I hit. This past year I have let anything and everything derail me. But, we do what we have to and then when we can we do better, so that is what I am hoping for . . . just to do better again :)

So, its odd, although I am at my OMG! weight I am feeling better than I did when I was much slinkier. I think that is a good thing - once I get my head in the right space the rest gets easier.

My goal for today is to go to the gym and do my pilates. And to just eat for hunger and stick to whole foods (today its chicken & saladdy things and 8 brazil nuts (whooo hooo!) - I had 2 scrambled eggs for breakfast & dinner will be broc soup which I made last night and I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE)

Lindor - watch out for those dogs!!!!!!

Ani - congrats on the 30kg!!! :) Your goals for the week look good too. Water water water . . . some days I drink litres of the stuff and other days like today I need a reminder!

Hope everyone has a good day!

Danni I love your OMG weight.:fr:

"Slinkier" - I like it! Not much new here - have lost about 6lbs since my last weigh in, by being a bit more sensible. No soft drinks (or "pop" as they call it here!). They do have this nice fruity water that has no sodium and no calories that makes it easier to get my water in.

I did buy icecream today, but it is little icecream sandwiches called "Skinny cow" that are 150 cals each. Now as long as I don't eat 8 at once, I'll be right. Heh.

Had one prospective roommate come - almost 2 hours late for her appointment.. I almost didn't open the door. Why are people late when THEY picked the time!!?? And don't call or text? I just find that impossibly rude. Another girl is coming over tomorrow night, she's a teacher and sounds relatively normal, so let's hope.

OMG Von that is the perfect smiley!!! I am sure I looked like that when I saw the number come up . . . . funny thing is, when I hopped on the scales I heard a crack and my first thought was "I BROKE THE SCALES!!!!" but they just slipped on the tiles in the bathroom and I have lost the little thing on the back to keep the batteries in so the scales went blank as they fell out . . . oh boy.


augigi ohhhhh are you an Aussie in the USA??? I tried to transplant myself to NYC last year with no luck darn it. Good luck with the flatmates! I am living on my own at the moment and I secretly wish I had done it years ago . . .

hey guys sorry i have been around much just dont seem to find any time. :( for anything.. my parents are complaining becuase they havnet seen me.. my hubby is complaining and so are my friends.. im always doing something ... lmao..

John spent 2 weeks at home .. and is now working in adelaide :) which is so fabulous.. i cant even tell you how happy i am.. for the 2 weeks he was home i was busy almost eveyday and he ended up grumpy at me becuase i didnt spent enough time with him.. but such is life.
Monday i clean the house tuesday i go do my laps then take johns nan shopping .Wednesday I do laundry then go to yoga . thursday aqua aerobics followed by work then. friday is playgroup. friday afternoon im usaully stuffed and spent the arvo doing very little and then the weekends i spend with hubby.. John is home every day at 4pm.. which is lovely..


My workouts atm are just the 3 times a week.. whicgh has meant my weigh loss has stopped atm.. but im hoping it will start going down again.. tom this week didnt help the scales.. it hasnt gone up but hasnt moved either.. but then im not behaving food wise 100% either.

Atm my focus on weightloss is on the bach burner for now im just settling back into family life and enjoying it a little too much.... lol but you know the honey moon will soon be over and il get my butt back into gear.


Nice to see a new face hiya danni. :)

Lindor #648 hey... at least your still trying :) lol i think i passed the 700 myself.. lol Im glad you like darwin :)

Kel get a pen and a book ,stand againest a doorframe make the book flat on the wall behind your head and mark the bottom mark it then measure then you will know how tall you are... lol

Ani back to work already... that holiday wasnt nearly long enough :)



oh last thing i just read you guys are on face book... me i love the place.. :) add me.. [email protected]

Amy I love your siggy and the quote about it not mattering how long until you get to your destination but what is important is just getting there!! Love that! :)

On my virtual walk across Australia I am about 120km west of Ceduna in South Australia - making good progress girls :). Another year and I should be in Sydney - although I'm thinking of 'heading north' when I get to Port Augusta and going right up through the centre of the country until I hit Darwin. Hmmm…

Lindor it's terrible that you're getting that kind of attention from dogs. Don't give up your walking - I think it's a great way to get exercise - but maybe see if you can change routes or something.

Danni at least you've had that OMG moment now - that will give you something to plan for, and you can make it a challenge to beat it next week.

Yay Gen - great to see you have a good result on the scales. You KNOW you can do anything if you set your mind to it.

Amy, good to hear from you. I've been wondering where you are - you sound busy.

Vonni when's your biopsy?

Kel how's your vegie garden?

Julia - are you actually getting into a relationship with this man? What's happening?

And Barb - what's going on? Are you eating more because you're grieving? Are you getting lots of support?

I've had a good day today - so far. Haven't drunk as much water as I would like, but I'm getting better and am mostly on track!