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

Welcome Danni 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.

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 .

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.