Barb i dont think i had time to get teaqry. I do however get sympathy for the mum. i hate watching people in pain.

Did anyone see the news last night? We had a favourite local pub (historical one) go up in flames Sunday night. Matt was gone from 6.30 sunday evening till 8am Monday morning fighting it then waiting around for investigators to get there. was pretty big. totally gone. heere is a link to the photoes i took (yes we went down to see as we could see the glow in the sky from 4km away.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...3477197&ref=mf

OK I will focus on finishing the book and then concentrate on losing weight after that. Only two weeks to go and it will all be finished.

But in the meantime I will try and make as many good decisions as I can, and not do too much damage to myself :D

keep celery and cream cheese (lite) and bottles of water beside your comp while writing Ani. :) (says me whos the worst for grabbing crap)

oh and weighed in y/day down another 400gm whoohooooo :carrot:

and I'm halfway to my first goal of 5kg :D

Hi everyone
Good on you Amy, I will start classes (one day) I'm just SO uncoordinated, it's the gym for me for the time being.
I just spoke to my sister & we have started a weight loss challenge (as we are about the same weight). This could get really ugly as we are horribly competitive......

That sounds great lila.... i wish i had some one like that in my life i could knuckle down with so far my so called gym buddy has not turned up once... and keeps canceling at the last hurdle.... but i have been going anyway .. and i have found i really love it..

this afternoon though they only muscle in my body that doesnt hurt is my jaw.... lol... and even though its not sore i havent been exercising it.... which is my usual thing to do when im sulky..

im happy yet sulky.. i have spent they day sitting on my butt... but have behaved otherwise... i tried to run to the phone before.... hmmmm 3 steps and i stopped.. ouch ouch ouch.... lol ....

I know im sick and twisted because im happy to be sore.. its been such a long time since any exercise had made me feel like i worked the next day .


Vonni well done on the 400 grams and half way point... thats brilliant...

wow vonni that really rocks - i didnt even notice you had lost so much i feel terrible - great idea the cream cheese and celery, i forget sometimes how much i like those things - today's snack was raw mushrooms and sweet chilli sauce

but tonight was pizza

Lila it might be good for things to get ugly :p could be incentive to push harder and get really competative heehee.

Kel thats ok its been sneaking away very slowly so havent really broadcast it. just had that big 400g jump and HAD to post :D

I cant wait to get over these damn flus and head colds etc so i can actually have energy to walk around the block and get MOVING. Have decided NOT to join the gym till after my gold coast holiday in september. Cause i know if i miss that week it will be harder to get motivated again.

so just eating ok and work exercise and occassional walk will do it for now.

Got massive headache today. My daughter is back home with her little one till my nephew and her find a house to rent so i have 8 people here plus occassionally her boyfriend and weekends matts 3 boys. Pretty full on household and slowly going insane. Might bring my pillow to your place kel haha any room in the dog kennels? Or maybe the chooks will keep me warm.

Crikey Vonni that is a helluva full house! :dizzy: Congrats on your 400g loss that is really great :cp:

I have lost the 500g that I gained back the other week so am very happy with that. Currently sitting at 85.6kg.

Had a really good day yesterday, ate well and did spin again which was good. Did indulge in 3 glasses of wine in the evening though which wasn't so good of me!

Goals for today:

1) Eat well
2) Go to the gym


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woooooooooo julia :carrot:
vonni - yes i have a spare bed, or you can sleep in the laundry or chicken world heheehe
amy - last night i was the piker of a gym buddy relationship BUT i am so so sick of being the one to ALWAYS go and to ALWAYS have to go so she goes, she will NOT go without me and i hate the pressure
you on the other hand ROCK for going without gym buddy.... sometimes i prefer no gym buddy coz you can zone out and concentrate on working out and it is relaxing

i am going to the gym this morning to do cardio, yesterday did weights and hurt bad!! then tomorrow night boxing and then friday morning cardio again which will be the same amount of exercise i think i did the week before last so hopefully my weightloss will reflect it

im not exercising until i can walk.... lol ... im even worse this morning.. so much so i have gained 3 kilos... and i can tell you its all the fluid in my muscles.. i had to take neurofen plus... lol ... ... its my thighs that are the worst.... trying to sit down stand up is horrible... then my abs... hurts shoulders chest .... arms are pretty good ... until i try to lift them.. lol.

it kinda shows i have never done weights before huh.... i may be fit and able to keep up but... i used muscles that have been asleep for a long time...

either way i will go to aqua tommorow though ... i can take it somewhat easy.. but only if i tell lindy ( jillian micheals twin, let me tell ya) i am injured... lol... i just have to come up with an injury good enough for her not to ride me like a prize stallion up and down the pool ... lol


well today is a big day.... Leahs first school visit.... ... its so cute her school clothes are huge on her and it just goes to prove how little she is...lol. her piccy is on facebook... ill take some more at school though.. and add to the album.. anyway gotta run... sitting in a robe.. with driping wet hair is not getting me dressed... lol

Amy so sorry to hear your bits are so sore . . . when you mentioned that you felt no pain the other day I though ruh roh . . . its on the way :( I have been in so much pain from the gym that I have come into work and had trouble typing lol cos I couldnt lift my little arms lol

Everyone else - you are all doing so great! I hope to join you soon once I get some work crappppppppppp under control.

x

Congrats everyone on the losses!

Well my week's been up and down. First I kept forgetting my lunch, so I'd have to go buy it. But I made healthy choices, with a chicken sandwhich being the fave. I also had two dinners at friends places, but they were healthy. On Saturday though I cracked and had a small can of Pringles. (from work that we won, the rest went into work on Monday)

BUT I lost 2.5kg at weigh in this week! Which means after 11 days I've lost 3.7kg! Yay me!

Now I need to exercise and it will keep coming off!

Wow RennySue that's great, congratulations! :carrot: :cb:

I ended up being stuck at work late last night so couldn't get to the gym. Had a pretty good day with food though and am looking forward to going to the gym tonight.

Tonight I'll aim to do weights and spin.


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Well done Renny Sue. When you see great results like that it really makes you want to keep at it. Congrats!

Amy. I know exactly where you're coming from! The best thing for you to do is go and do another class, maybe get a massage too! How was Leah's first school visit. Did you cry? I did when my baby first went!

I start my new job on Monday and I'm starting to wonder how I'm going to manage working and mumming and wifing all at the same time! How do you do it Vonni? Maybe I'll have to change my priorities a bit, like a spotless house is not the most important thing! Will be a challenge for sure!

I had a sneaky peak at the scales this morning and I think I'm on the way to losing a whole kg! Will see tomorrow!

Have a great day peoples!

XX
Barb

Hare and tortoise
 

Good for you Amy...I hope both you are sis go neck and neck down to the wire.
Don't forget though like the hare and the tortoise, slow and steady wins the race :smug

wow you go girl well done Sue... that is a fabulous effort .. :)

Barb its so nice to hear you up beat and happy .. good luck with your first day you must be nervous/excited about the big day :) and love the sound of your sneak peek... :)

alan you're right.... just sometimes... being the hare would be nice... lol ... not too often once every few months would be fine... im not greedy... lol

just got back from aqua im no where near as sore today ... but did stop early and take it easy at the end.. i have lost most of those extra fluid kilos... so am looking forward to weigh in in the morning when i think they would have cleared off.. ... will wait and see.

going to body jam again tommorrow night.. :) cant wait love dancing.. :)

Renny Sue - that is awesome!!!!!

i have a confession to make - i cant add up
i only lost 100grams this week i think
not 300grams
i was redoing my whiteboard and noticed the discrepancy sigh

going to the gym tonight BOXING

kung fu kel!

Hope you're not too disappointed Kel, it's still 100g in the right direction :D

I had a really good day yesterday, ate well and did weights and spin after work.

BIG challenge today will be to go to the gym after work. Always hard on a Friday!


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pffft... i have gained 100 grams this week .... lol i know i have been good.. so it better show next week..

You know it will Amy :)

amy i put on weight my first hardcore week at the gym and my trainer did have logical reasons for it all and so next week you will kill the scales!
and also annoyingly enough next week you wont care what the scales say - i am here still over 100kg but not caring! i am feeling fitter and healthier everyday and i know that in time the fat will move around and then off my body

i have one hour til i have to go and get jemima so i best not be sitting in front of the computer and try and do something "productive" OR i could go and crack open the first episode of "little house on the prairie" that i have started to buy!!!

Me either Kel! I thought I was on track to losing a whole kg this week but got my numbers mixed up!! Hehe. Did manage to go down a whole 600g though!

i had a fabulous day .. went for a wlak this morning after playgroup with Leah to the shops and back to the school .. that took an hour.. ..

after school i took the dog for a walk.. 5 kms.. up and down hills.. along the bike track and back through the neighbourhood.. ( all hills) then tonight i went and did my body jam clas... at it was fantastic...

I tell you what its a damn small world we live in i saw a girl from school there i havent seen in like 12 years... turns out she goes to the class as a regular and only lives a few streets from me.. way cool.. it was great catching up... she and i have completly different lives mind you.. shes just bought her first place with her new bloke.. ( 1 year relationship in love!! ) works .. and thin... then theres me..

still with the same guy i was with in school 15 years later and married fat 2 kids and not working .... lmao . on house number 2 and vaguely remembering.. what a kid free relationship is like... lol

but im happy shes happy and we both working out.. so .. i hope she is there next week . :) was great fun indeed. !

too cool who you run into sometimes! where did you go to school??

i am a little bit down but still a lot excited, i am so sick of ringing the banks and getting told we can borrow LESS and LESS each time, really mucks with your mind when you are trying to find somewhere to move to.....
so the banks changed it again and it is now about 60-70k less than it was a couple of weeks ago which changes heaps
today we were meant to look at 5 properties but after my phonecalls there is only one in our price range but i found a couple of others and hopefully we can see them too
its exciting because we are looking at rural properties, doing the 'tree change' thing - big lifestyle change, more room for the dogs and the chooks
its almost now that money is an issue is going to come down to landspace vs condition of house but benji and i were never afraid of hard work, the house we are in now was "partially renovated" which means they had started each room and gotten bored so we are ready to do it again, and may even go for landsize and extend a little country shack or something

anyway it is exciting and i've even lately been thinking if we do put a contract on a place it will probably be 3 months til we actually move which will be a great incentive and motivator for me to lose weight
at the moment i have no real deadline which means i am just "plodding" away and my goals involve "eating less than last week" i am slowly changing my portion sizes and it is working i think....

anyway have to go and kick my hubby and daughters butt so they get out of the house to gymnastics, saturday morning gymnastics a super stupid idea! but better than me having to take her thursday morning when i think my sister in law goes as well (very competitive) and it is nice for jemima to do something with her daddy

have a great weekend everyone, i am going to NOT have any milo all weekend (because i had some last night)

HI peoples. Havent been on cause been working nite duty and late shifts. Got another tonight but cant sleep.

Kel thats awesome you might be getting another place. Go land size.

Eating isnt TO bad but could be better. drinking more water now weather warming up and though i havent lost weight this week i feel ok. Though today i had a "fat" day. just being hot and tired (worked overtime last night due to another 2 women in labour at same time lol).

Hope everyone doing ok.

I ahve 3 weeks till my holiday and halfway to my 5kg goal. was originally 10 but in my heart knew it was probably not a reality so halved it. now jjust gotta work my butt to lose the last bit.

oh, and i went to dr for blood results. Iron levels are very low and apparently have been since 2001 when they were extremely low. Also my vitamin D levels are low. so 3 mths of iron and D tablets then a 2 week break before more bloods to see if iron has built up. if not then more tests to find why.

Iron tablets MAKE me go to the loo more often which is opposite to usual people (guess i am unique) so Dr wonders if for some reason my body doesnt WANT iron so gets rid of it like that when on tablets. go figure.

Back from my work trip to Nashville.

Not liking the new roommate. The day after moving in, she told me she bought cleaning supplies so she could clean the bathroom (I JUST cleaned it the day before and I am anal-retentive cleaner!!!). Cheeky upstart. Plus her room already smells weird, she has all these rugs that smell musty. Ugh. And I got home from my trip to find flies all over the kitchen and a stinky rubbish bag. She said she was waiting to ask me how to handle it. I said "What? How to change a trash bag?" Idiot. Anyhow. I think I'll keep doing my thing and let her hang out in her room (hopefully). This is month to month so we shall see. Major dork. At least school starts next week, so hopefully she'll be studying a lot.

Hi everyone,
Amy I wish I was as motivated as you about exercise. I was pretty good food wise last week, but I had waaaayyyy too much red wine last night. I woke up with a medium hangover (not the "Oh my God I will never drink again" hangover, but it wasn't pretty). But I hopped on the scales & I've lost 1.5 kilos since last week! I bet it was because I was dehydrated lol.

lila well donw on the 1.5 that is fantastic.. :) i bet your pleased.. :) must be nice to be getting out of holiday mode and back to behaving...

Vonni .. it must be amazing being there while a baby is born.. are you going to go into the midwife side of nursing?

gen i hope your roomy sorts out her ****... lol not nice living with a slob... trust me.... i know .. lol ... omg.. my sister is a pig ( still is ) and as teens .. you could smell her room a mile away... lol eeewww...


anyway... i went on a 7 km walk with jetson yesterday .. and today we only managed 1 km.. becuase we had leah with us and it started raining.... mum and dog dont mind rain ( we've been rained on the last 3 days.. as long as im warm.. and have my coat on im dry and happy and the dog doesnt care at all , just wish he would be so happy at bath time... lol ).. little girls in pink.... hate rain ... lol

anyway .. im kinda having the day off anyway... gotta have one of those every now and then... ate some naughty things and enjoyed them too... lol not regretting it at all.. no regret just move forward and be happy ..

anyway off to cook some dinner ..got some lovely lean lamb steaks.. yum.... mash potato and gravy and mixed veg planned.. :)

yum Amy lamb steaks are really nice aren't they? No fat and no bone so makes it worth the price cause there is no waste.

Little girls in pink not liking rain? wow my kids try and escape into it lol. Maybe cause we dont get it very often.

Harvey Norman had a promo with 4 years interest free during the weekend and now I have a new toy. Bought a lovely new laptop yesterday :D and last night I played a game until my eyes went funny! Still haven't managed to get it connected to the wireless internet connection but clever flatmate has offered to figure it out for me on Wednesday. It's amazing what you can buy when you're broke!

Diet wasn't very good over the weekend so need to knuckle down and get back on track today. Will also go to the gym tonight and do weights and pump.


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lila - :carrot: :carrot: :carrot:

me - ok coz i cant trust my adding up hehehe last week i was 104.1 today 103.6 by my calculations that is 500grams GONE GONE GONE :carrot:

gen - your flatmate sounds annoying, i guess you just figure it could be worse she could be bringing home lots of extra dorks?

julia - i am thinking about getting a netbook - i really dont need one but it would be cheaper than me doing internet stuff on my mobile when i am feeling lazy, i was also thinking of bringing it to Jemima's swimming lessons and next year dancing so i didnt have to talk to the other mums, seriously in most cases all you have in common is a child that is having swimming lessons
we didnt end up getting our pearl jam tickets what was left when they went on general sale was crap (and not cheaper) so we will go another year, but we got our wiggles tickets!! wooo

vonni - we are wanting land so bad but the banks are making it hard for us, we looked in Laidley on the weekend and now looking and thinking other suburbs, i just wish benji didnt work in fortitude valley it is SO far from all the cheap land and then when you find the land it usually has a mega crappy house on it sigh sigh sigh
so are you going to take the iron tablets?

ani - how is your book going? can you tell us what it is about???

my little girl has just found a little thing that you wind up and it makes noise (like the inside of a music box) and it looks in her mind like a tattoo gun so she is giving me a tattoo on my arm.... too cute but a little scary that that is where her mind goes first... my little tough chick.... (but she wont wear anything she cant rina rina in - ballarina skirts ONLY)

today is going to be a good week! my study is almost tidy AGAIN and same with all the other rooms.... the chooks are walking around the backyard i am just praying they dont jump the fence (we have to clip their wings yet) but i didnt want to keep then just in chicken world (their pen) coz it doesnt have any rain proof i just realised and it has been raining since 10pm lastnight here

ok - half a kilo this week i'm on my way down to under 100!!!!!!!

renny sue - tell us more about jenny craig? how does it work?

alan - hi

amy - your girl looks SO adorable in the school trip photos... what ARE yougoing to do with yourself when she goes to school full time?? how scary

danni - how are you going???

if i have forgotten anyone please slap me!

ok i can add up but i have a memory of a shiv! i think my problem and 200gram discrepency last week was becuase i couldnt remember when i got to my whiteboard in the kitchen how much i weighed so must have guessed?

so get this according to my whiteboard i weighed 104.3kg last week and 103.6 this week which is so so so cool that i have lost 700grams this week but i am going to stick with 500grams as the computer is closer to the scales so i would have probably updated computer first who knows - from now on i write it down - i am glad i just weigh in once a week

Hey everyone,
My name is simonne im 22 and live in adelaide. Just thought Id say hi cause I just signed up :) Im going to start by saying that im a really bad yo yo dieter ive tried everything under the sun. Im always looking for some miracle diet even though I know that doesnt exsist and of course never works or I wouldnt still be needing to lose 10 kilos :P
So im trying to take things a bit slower and not take the all or nothing approach so hopefully that works fingers crossed
Everyone looks like there doing a great job so keep it up it gives begginers like me hope ha x

hi simone - been there done that now doing the boring but slowly working healthy eating and exercise......... good luck!
what do you weigh now?
what do you do for a job?
i think amy lives in adelaide

Amy you are right..... then there's you. YOU are amazing. You have held a relationship for 15 years. how many people can say that? 2 houses? I only ever had one and back to renting again. 2 lovely children whom you absolutely adore and who adore you in return. Don't be envious of her just cause she's thin and has a job. She may not even BE happy with that. She could be envious of you...

Hi Simonne. Yeah you're right about the yo yo diets. doesnt work. But we all have good and bad days.

Kel you are so speaking double dutch lmao. I couldnt follow yr adding up then yr not adding up and something about a whiteboard and computer update and and and........ :p

And I'm with ya on the talkin to other mum stuff. I found most are super competitive and their child is better than your etc..... I dont think i am really friends with ANY of my kids mums. Oh one but we only get together every 6 months or so for coffee and chin wag (mind u we do it all day ahaha) and she only lives 3 blocks away.

I jumped on scales this morning and havent lost weight since the last but havent gained either so thats ok. Going to FORCE myself to walk around the block this arvo. It isnt a huge block but its a start. I figure i have to work not only on my weight but my fitness, and the walk around block will probably kill me. After that block gets a weeks worth i will go 2 blocks. after that i might even try JOGGING the block. and peoples you can pick yr jaws up off the floor now :p

another good day .. went and did shopping for the fathers day stall this morning for school.. followed by a nice walk ( 15 minutes maybe to see my friend at work.. and then a 6 km walk with jetson once i got home hung my washing out did the dishes and..... Leah did the lot with me.. walking round the shops to friends,, and 6 km... she did amazing... i am so proud.. and she had energy to burn all afternoon.. i thought she would be stuffed but NO! she was great :) ... then i went and did what may be my last class of body pump... :( they have changed the timetable and the new one doesn't suit me at all ... :( ... will have to see what else they are going to offer on a monday night instead.. ..

anyway.. im good.. :)

Vonni i am not envouis of her i just thinks its funny how much different things can be.. i wouldn't change a thing in my life other then my size and im wroking on that so... all good :) ( maybe the perfect job tooo.... lol )..


so how did the walk around the block go????? did you go??


Kel well done on the loss whatever it ended up ebing...... LMAO

HIya simonne me and barb are adelaide girls too :)

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Ok, that was just proving that I am about and reading what is going on!


I am doing lots of overtime at the moment to support my dogs habit! Vets must live a cozy life with what they charge!! But, having said that, I'd spend my last cent on my boy if it was to keep him comfortable!

Diet is out the window at the moment...I have lost any sense of routine with the extra hours I am working.

Everyone sounds like they are on top of things, and exercise seems to be the in thing just now? I should at least pull out the Wii Fit board and try that again!

Anyway...must run! Keep up the good work folks! :)

Hi Simone, welcome to our group :welcome2:

I had a pretty good day yesterday, ate reasonably well and did weights and spin.

Will do spin again tonight.

The big challenge today will be to find something good for lunch because what I had prepared is sitting in the fridge at home! :frypan:


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