oh oh jealous of those clavicle bones Gen. The 30+ is WOHOOOOOOO

Can I get some of those clavicle bones too please? ;) Sounds like you had a great night Gen!

Vonni you're good not adding salt to anything. I eat way too much and absolutely love the stuff.

JM I know what you mean about your fingers swelling as mine do that too. I put it down to the fact that my arms hang at my sides when I walk as it never happens if I'm at the gym on the treadmill where I pump my arms. Don't want to look like a twit doing that out on the street though!

I stood and had a long hard look in the mirror yesterday and ladies, I do not like what I see. I've put all the weight on that I had worked so hard to lose and I'm now back up at 97kg and feeling really yuck again.

I've been thinking about it a lot and know that I really need to commit to doing something permanent about this. I've been trying to lose the same 20kg for 10 years now! So I've got a lot of thinking to do. In the meantime, I've at least planned for a good day tomorrow and have made a delicious chicken salad to take to work and I have some good snacks planned out too.


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Yes I don't even have salt in the house. I do have some seasonings that I can put on stuff if it's too bland but I have never been a big salt person, it actually tastes awful to me if I eat something salty.. ick. Julia, what kind of "permanent" are you thinking about?

By permanent Gen I mean learn how to get the weight off and keep it off. I'd gotten all the way down to 84kg and now it's all back!

I'm back to writing a food diary today and am considering trying weight watchers again because that's worked for me in the past. I've started my day well with a home made veggie muffin and a banana and now I'm sipping on a cup of mint tea :D

I know that one thing I need to cut back on is alcohol - a couple of glasses in the evening adds up to a lot of calories by the end of the week.

My goals for today are:

1) Write down everything I eat and check it tonight against my WW info
2) Exercise tonight!


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You did do really well on WW.

I think with the regaining, we have to realize this isn't a short term thing. Even when we think we understand the whole "lifestyle change" vs "diet", I think there is some part of us that thinks when we hit our goal we can relax a little and stop "dieting". In reality, we have to just do whatever we need to do forever, or we'll gain it back.

Absolutely. As soon as I get to a decent loss I seem to lose the plot and convince myself that I can eat whatever I want. Clearly not correct!!

I have help in that I don't get "hungry" anymore. But it's still a lot of work and thinking and planning to succeed. I must say, once you're on a roll it is a lot easier, you can see the results and it makes it worthwhile. I have the food down now, but I need to start exercising soon! At least you're a star at the gym stuff!

Today I ate:

Breakfast: Coffee, Greek yoghurt, vanilla flavor, 167g (one serving)
MT: Coffee, cheese stick
Lunch: Digiorno 200 cal pizza single serving
AT: Cheese stick
Dinner: Fire roasted chicken breast
Drinks: another coffee, bottle of Powerade Zero.

Totals: around 800 cals, 60g carbs, 30g fat, 75g protein. My dietician wants me to stick around 800 cals if possible. Most days I am 800-1000, it's usually the evil Starbucks they built in the lobby of our hospital that adds 150-200 cals!

Tomorrow I am going to have turkey bacon for breaky, salad and hard boiled egg for lunch, yogurt & starbucks latte for snack, chicken breast for dinner.

Wow Gen it looks like you've got it all worked out. It's good to see your food all mapped out like that eh?

I look back and I think that my day was pretty successful. The only "naughty" thing I ate was a tiny bowl of ice cream with loads of raspberries.

I did my attempt at a run and holy moly I am unfit. I jogged for 10 mins then had to stop and walk for 5. Did that again - jog 10 / walk 5 then jogged another 5 before cooling down. Tonight I've got a walking date with a girlfriend lined up so that'll get me out there.

Today for breaky I had greek yoghurt with muesli and for lunch I'm having salad with steak. I've brought muesli bars, bananas and rice crackers with me for snacks so that should keep me satisfied for the day.

Goals for today:

1) Eat sensibly.
2) Write down everything I eat.
3) Exercise.


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Went for a 1 hour walk with a friend last night so that was good. Did pretty well with food etc all day until late in the evening when I discovered that the man I broke up with 1 1/2 weeks ago has already managed to find himself someone to have sex with. Classy.

I went straight to the pub and drank an enormous glass of wine with a friend while I thought about it all.

Anyway, I've decided that I'm not going to let it bother me. He's proven to me that I made the right decision and I'm now looking forward to moving on and being FABULOUS on my own.

Goals for today:

1) Eat well
2) Record all food eaten
3) Exercise (providing the rain stays away!)


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Wow, that's an amazing Chrissy present! I'm sure you did well in your exam, don't beat yourself up if you don't ge a perfect score :D

I think that the woman involved is probably blissfully unaware that the breakup is so fresh and he will have lied to her about the whole situation. He kept telling me that he did it because he's so hurt about the breakup he just needed to feel wanted.

My reaction to that is ...... WHATEVER!!


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Yeah but she slept with some guy she knew for a week, so she's still a slag. Heh.

Just when I was losing faith I get proof that good things do happen to good people ... I won a trip! Next Wed I fly to LA, do a tour of LA airport, a tour of Long Beach airport, out for dinner and the fly home in the evening on Air New Zealand's brand new aircraft.

YEEHAAAA!

Oh god, that's a long way for dinner! Hope you get FF points! Enjoy.

Nah no points as it's all industry travel. I'm so excited though! That was just the news I needed :D

Booo that's so unfair! Can you complain to someone about that? Seems very dodgy to me.

So yesterday was a rollercoaster of emotions and as a consequence I totally lost the plot. Didn't do my food diary, didn't exercise (apart from biking to my friend's place 5 mins away) and I ate pizza for dinner and washed it down with a whole bottle of wine. OOPS!! :eek:

Not surprisingly I woke up with a hangover today and ended up at McDonalds eating a bacon & egg McMuffin. Not good but totally unsurprising. Isn't it funny how we turn to junk food etc when we're emotional.

Anyway, I'm back on track now. Had sushi for lunch, a weight watchers muesli bar for afternoon tea and mum's making me a home cooked meal of sausage casserole for dinner. NomNom.


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