Aussie Chicks
 

A new home for all the Aussie Chicks in the 3 Fat Chicks forum. Somewhere that we can chat in the same time zone, and discuss local programs and products.

I look forward to talking to you all soon.

Great work , I have to go do the shopping yukkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
so I will drop back later to see how all are getting on

Bumping the group up so we can find ourselves. I didnt' make it to the gym again tonite, I somehow managed to cut my left big toe open and its too sore to walk on. I'll definately go tomorrow night.

Hi Kathy and fellow aussies
 

Great thread idea Kathy.Look forward to getting to know u all.
What programmes are everyone following?
I am just making healtheir choices,grilled meats,stirfries,steamed vegies,fruit and yoghurt and multigrain bread.
I have always battled with my weight......hopefully this time I am on the right track.:carrot:

I'm pretty much doing the same as you auzzie. And adding exercise to the mix too. My main problem is protion sizes tho, so I'm going to have to really concentrate on calorie counting I think.

Hi:wave: Girls
Well I thought it was time to talk a little about ourselves.
I’ll start I turned 43 last Sunday :hb: ,I have been married to a wonderful man for the last 23 years(Les) I have two daughters (Melinda 19 and Megan 12) and one terrific little grandson :bb: (Elijah 19 months old).
I work full time for Disability services Queensland as a residential care office, in other words I care for people with physical and intellectual disabilities. I have work for the Queensland government for 10 years, and really enjoy my work, but not red tape.
I have been over weight off and on since childhood.
Two and a half years ago I had lost 45kg (it took me 10 months very hard work) and I only weighted 65 kg, but with a couple of emotional:stress: upset and worries with our grandson and eldest daughter. I am an emotional :devil: eater I was up to 104kg again.
So yes I know that I can do it but I also know how hard I found it last time. I am finding it a bit hard :dunno: to get into the right habits this one last time on the yo-yo ride.
I have been riding my bike :bike: to work for the last week now so that is a good start I think
I am tiring to make healthy choices and kind of work in with WW.
So how about you Girl.
With help form each there we can do it:carrot: :cheer:

Ok, I'm 32. I have dd4, she's starting preschool next week, oh how fast she's grown up. I'm a step mother to 11 ss, and 5sd. and a 2nd time round wife. We never learn from our mistakes do we. At least I upgraded this time when it comes to men.

My highest ever weight was 101kg, and I was preggers and the next week I was back down to 99kg. I got down to 90kg after her birth. I've been sitting at around 88 - 90kg for the past 4 years. I have been mucking around for the past 6 weeks going to the gym, but obviously its not enough cause I'm not losing weight.

So time to pull the finger out, and work the rest of it off and get to goal. Its great to have some aussie buddies.

Hi kathyhegg
three under 11 thats hard work.
Well I think we have to put the the hard yards in to get to were we need to be.So are we going to have a day to post our weigh in????

Luckily 2 of them live with their mother, but weekends are hard. Um, weigh in day, how about Monday's? I have a weigh in tomorrow at the gym, but I'm happy to post it on Monday, not sure how happy I'll be tho.

I'm off to the gym this afternoon, have to get away from dd4, she is driving me batty today. I think she is a bit lonely, not having seen any of her friends in weeks. I'll have to arrange a play date for next week some time. But I'll go to the gym and work my arse off and hopefully come home feeling better.

Catch you soon.

Well I got to the gym and did an hour of cardio, so at least I've exercised today.

Hi Girls,
I'm Tania, 23 and live in country NSW. I live here with my boyfriend of 6 years Jase,27 and we have a gorgeous bubba girl named Cheyenne(Shy-Ann) and she is 14 months on the 13th Feb.
I just started my new job today, which is in the same bakery where Jase is a Baker. I like it already and will get me out the house. I worked in a Cafe until i was 8 1/2 months pregnant which was hard, both physically and cos i ate alot of cafe food...:)
Last time i wieghed myself at the doctor's i was 106kg, i was 113 when i was pregnant with Cheyenne. Looking forward to getting back to my old weight.
Nice to meet you all :)

:welcome3: *Butterfly*Kisses* Nice to have you with us .

kathyhegg good on you :encore: for getting to the gym.
I did over time at work today (8 hrs yukkkk) but part of my day was going on a walking program with one of my clients , so I got paid double time do good things for me by walking so that was good for me and my bank account lol:rofl:
Yes Monday as a weigh-in :goodscale is good for me , like you kathyhegg I dont know that I will be doing the happy dance:dance: this week but we will try.
So come on girls :coach: and get some of that extra you off.

G'day fellow Aussies!!!

32yr old chick from WA here looking to lose 50kgs. Started to watch my diet nearly two weeks ago - so far 3kgs down (next weigh-in is Monday). My biggest problem is portion size and binge-ing when depressed (which seems quite often). So far I have managed to reduce serving sizes and I have not turned to the fridge for comfort. AND I STILL FEEL DETERMINED!!!

I have never been a good one for exercise, and so far have not made any efforts to change that. Where I live, we do not have a gym and at this time of the year it is toooo HOT outside!!!

I love this idea of an Aussie Support thread!! I think I'll be posting most of my progress reports here. Although I am a bit of an insomniac so I will probably be posting most of my replies over night.

Good luck everyone!!

I went to the gym today, and had my check up, and while it wasn't what I'd have liked I had lost weight, and lost 1% or so in fat, so thats ok. I'll leave it till monday to post my numbers tho.

I have a new weights program, I've decided for now not to do the "winning by losing" book, and will be doing a lot of upper body work plus my 1 hour cardio a day. I'm hoping that next weigh in I'll be down 6kg's and 2% fat. I must do this.

Didn't help myself much today, had a huge binge, and I mean huge, so I'll really have to work it off tomorrow.

One positive thing to come out of this is I now know for sure that my scales are broken, cause they havn't budged in weeks, they like sitting on 88. So I'll have to find myself a nice new set. I have to be able to weigh myself weekly after all.

Catch you all soon.

Well done kathyhegg,I hope you do well next week , but do you mean that you will be losing 6 kg in one week or all up ,all up I hope.
BBNM

Hi :wave: Lindor:welcome3:
You have been doing well, so how is the exercise:wl: going???
I see you’re awake in the day light hour’s lol:rofl:

I get up purely because my dogs are not insomniacs like me and demand to go out at some ungodly hour of the morning!!! :lol:

Exersice? :shrug: Pffft! Like that is going to happen soon too!! Even at 8am, when the dogs get me up, it is too hot! But, maybe next week I might take on some step-ups or something in front of the TV. I am working late shifts at the moment and don't get home until about 10pm, by which time I can't be bothered. Next week I start on early shifts and get to spend the evenings at home.

I wish I had the 'get up and go' for exersice you guys seem to have! Your energy just amazes me! Good on you though!!

Hi I can tell you that I have to push myself evey step of the way ,I have even told work mates to give me a hard time if I dont ride to work ......what ever gets it done lol

Hi everyone...I'd love to join your little group. I'm a newie to this site but I can definitley relate to all you have chatted about so far. I live on the Sunshine Coast with my wonderful family...I am nearly 40 years young and have been on so many diets (as I am sure you all have) that I'm sure i should be an expert by now. I would love to weigh in on Mondays for inspirtation and motivation with you guys...we can track our success together....hope to get a contact...leeny

6kg's in 6 weeks, If I could safely lose 6kg's in a week I'd be rich...lol :D. As for exercising, I have to push myself every time. I repeat over and over to myself my next goal. I so need to lose weight, and if exercise is going to do it, well exercise I will.

My trainer told me on Friday that if I want the fat to really shift, start doing spinning classes and boxing classes, she said that she did that and it was fantastic for fat loss. She also said to keep my heart rate at an even pace, so no running, so that it would burn fat rather than sugar.

I have lots of upper body exercises to do, arms and abs, and back exercises, cause I dont need chunkier legs, they are very nicely toned, and the shoulders, well, I already look like I run around in shoulder pads, so I dont need exercises for them either.

I'm much happier with what I've been given this time round.

Its Monday, Weigh in Day
 

Its Monday girls, and therefore weigh in day. How have you gone this past week

For me I have lost in the past 6 weeks, 3kg and 1% body fat. I was told to increase my fluids tho, was only 40% or so. But it was also 9.30 in the morning. My scales are broken, so I'm going to have to ask the gym to weigh me each Friday.

I had a great week
 

Hi everyone...this is my first weigh in day with you ladies. My vital stats are 167cm tall, medium build. I used to weigh 112kg, reached my goal ot get to 66kg but managed to find some again...seems to be the story of my life. Today I weighed in at 84.5kg. This week I lost 3kg....very very happy. I seem to carry a lot of fluid some weeks so some weeks are great on the scales and others I only see a slight loss or even a gain at times. I am really determined to reach my goal again as I know how great I felt at 66kg. Im hoping our little chats will help us all achieve our goals. Actually today I am off work and am going to see a Plastic Surgeon about a tummy tuck. After losing lots of weight I am left with a lovely tummy skin flap thing which I hate. Anybody else in the same boat? I will keep you all posted. I hope you all had a great week...if you didn't today can be a new day...I'll see less of you next week:D

Good work Leeny!!!

I'm down another 2kgs this week - 5kg all up now :) Still feeling very determined too!

Another week gone and I have not been tempted to binge. Still have exercise issues...maybe tonight :lol:

Good luck all!!

Back from the gym, and I managed an hour of cardio, covered 3.3 kms on the treadmill on a level 2 incline, 11km on the bike, and then did weights as well. I'll have muscley arms in no time. After my shower I realised that the pump class was about to start. Oh well, I'll do it tomorrow night. I loooove pump class. Going to they gym really woke me up. Oh and I managed to talk myself out of chocolate on the way home. Good on me.

I went to the gym today, did another hour of cardio and 1/2 hour of weights. I'm a bit sore tonite, but thats good. Got up to 6.7km/h on the treadmill, pretty happy with that. Got my heart rate up too, and 5% incline. Getting there. I was starving afterwards tho.

Well you have all been great :bravo: this week it's the happy dance for all of you:dance: :cb: :dancer: and a big group hug:grouphug: .......I think I had better get the kick:coach: :kickcan: in pants this week :rollpin: I have had a shocker:mcd: ,
Rode my bike:bike: to work but not much else and food :dunno: intake was not good either ,I feel really lazy:sumo: .And you girls are going ahead in leaps and bounds:cheer: :cheer: :cheer: good on all of you keep it up and I’ll try to drag myself up out of my lazy hole:^:

Sorry:sorry: girls forgot to say that I have stayed the same weight:nono:
Well I'm going to try:rollpin: to have a goog one next week:goodscale

come on girls and post or we will never be able to find our group we will be on page 44 or something ,maybe we could get otheres to post on here for our insomniacs and added support so if we log on any time we could have support and we could also give support

I didn't go to the gym today, had a shocker of a headache, but big plans to go tomorrow, I've booked dd into creche for the 9am session, and promised her a swim afterwards. I wont do a class, but will do my cardio and weights. 1kg till my first goal woohoo.

Great to see some support
 

Hey ladies..Just logged on tonight to see everyones success. :) Good on you Kathy for your gym madness...:strong: I wish I could catch your enthusiasm for that...exercise and me...thats another story. Thats no good for you Butter Ball...::cry: : just think that this week is another and you can move forward from that. Noones perfect and temptation sometimes can be too great. Hoping this week will be better. So far I have had some cake but otherwise pretty good food wise. I have made another goal for the end of March as I am thinking about getting a "tummy tuck"as the excess skin is gross...hopefully I can lose another 5kgs or so by then (if I stay away from the cakes that is)..:crossed: I will post again in another couple of days...work is too long and i'm too tired to get on computer every day. :coffee: I hope this link takes off as I think support is great. Thanks girls for your encouragement and I hope this week is kind to us all...leeny

Sorry Lindor forgot to congrats to you as well. Keep up the good work...2 kgs this week is fantastic....we will all be good for one another...leeny

Hi everyone! Just found this thread, so thought I'd add my 5c worth (seeing as we don't have 2c pieces anymore, so I hope my contributions are worth the inflation rate).

I live in Western Australia, am 43 (44 in April) and am a primary school teacher. This year I'm teaching year 2, but usually prefer to teach year 4 or 5. I'm finding the adjustment to the younger grade a little difficult to cope with and I'm VERY glad that I am too well rooted in my new healthy lifestyle to end up binging because of the stress. That used to always be my solution.

I am married to a wonderfully supportive man, who loved me at my largest, so can't be too bad huh? No kids or pets - I'm allergic... to pet hair, not kids. I think I just manage to get all my nurturing done at school, so have never had the urge to have my own kids.

I started on my new lifestyle journey mid-January 2004 and have lost 85kg since then. Started at 160kg and am now floating around 75kg. Having another 'hormonal' week where the scales are not budging, which doesn't impress me, as I want to reach target by my birthday. My original goal was to have maintained a healthy weight for 12 months by my 45th birthday. I know that I am MUCH healthier, but I still have 4kg to lose before I am officially in the 'healthy' range. My ultimate goal is 68kg, and I know I'll get there, if not a little lower, I just have to be a little more patient.

I'm not following any program, or measuring or counting calories. Just basically MUCH healthier foods (very little processed food) and lots of exercise. I use the treadmill every morning and the exercise bike every afternoon/evening. I also try to do steps every other day. I'm planning to get some more equipment for my birthday that will work on my upper body and add some strength training. I have my own treadmill and bike as I am not a gym person and I find every excuse under the sun to not go out and exercise. With it sitting in the lounge room, staring at me every day, I just make myself get on. I'm not sure I would say I "enjoy" exercising, but I know that I feel bad if I don't and I know that it is showing results. I only got the exercise bike for this last Christmas and I have had SO many people say that I have lost a lot of weight since they saw me at the end of the last school year. I have actually only lost 5kg, but things have toned up quite a bit.

Well... that was probably a lot more than anyone really wanted to know, but I do tend to go on and on at times.

Hope to catch up with you all on a regular basis, but can't promise I will make sense if I have had a tiring day at work.

Take care,

Zelma

Zelma!! You are such an inspiration!!! I got so much out of reading just that post and seeing those amazing photos. I know now, that whenever I get those "I can't do this" days your story will be one thing I'll be thinking of to convince me that IT CAN BE DONE!!!

Well done on your fantastic efforts!!!

And thankyou for your 5c worth (although I think it is worth so much more!!)

Hi Lindor
See you are still awake or just up????
I have just got home from work I am off to bed.
Have a great day all

Got up at 5:30am to do a little job after going to bed at 2:30am...going back to bed now :lol:

I went to the gym today, and was all prepared to do my treadmill and bike workouts, but when I heard the annoucement for box circuit, I thought, hmm, thats something new, and it will shake up my workout. So I did an hour of that, wow what a work out. And then I took dd "swimming" for an hour. I am exhausted. But I feel good for it.

Well what a inspirational effort ZedAus.Yes your 5c was well worth it, I still have not been able to catch the exercise bug, but I helped my eldest Daughter move out of her old flat so dose that count, I forgot how hard it was to wash walls with sugar soap (boy did my arms get a workout, but they are in need of it lol). I totally understand not being able to post after work I work 12 hrs shifts and because I have been riding to work it adds around 1 1/4 hrs to my day .youngest Daughter just came in and its time to take her to school so bye for now. All be strong

I honestly didn't think that yesterdays workout was that big a workout. Yes I was tired, but I had put that down to the swimming with dd, cause being in the water is really relaxing for me. UNTIL THIS MORNING when I woke up!!! OMG, I am still in sooo much pain. My arms hurt, my chest hurts, my wrists hurt (I must keep up those strenthening exercises for my wrists), but most of all, my left butt cheek and thigh hurt. I could barely move my leg all day.

Next time, and yes I've decided to give box-circuit another go, I'll make sure that each time I run down the room and do my sit ups or push ups, I'll make sure I change sides that I'm getting up from. I never thought that I could get a work out getting up from the floor.

Oh and I went shopping today, and I'm no longer a size 20...woohoo. 20 was a little big, I'm in the teens !!! happy dance happy dance I remember not being able to fit into size 22 a little while ago.

:high: Great work:encore: :hug: kathyhegg here are some happy dances:carrot: :cb: :dance: :dancer: for you ,you are doing so well hope you butt and thigh are feeling better have a great day to all

Hi all, I'm Kylie, a lost Aussie, I live in England at the moment but hopefully you'll let me join!!!

I was 120 kilos early last year, and now I am 90 and aiming for ??? 60 ish ??? 58 ??? who knows!!! I am coming back to Oz for a holiday in June, and I really want to get to 80 by then, aiming for 75 at least by Christmas, and then goal in June 2007 for my 35th birthday.

I'm basically doign what you mob are doing, eating healthily, cutting out the junk food and the emotional eating, and exercising, a LOT! I have discovered a love of weight training, swimming, body toning classes and cardio! I like the gym! I used to hate exercise and now it's a compulsion.

I so miss some warm weather, it's so cold here at the moment, and snow is predicted, yuck!