i'm not due to measure up just yet but i did and have lost 1cm from hips and 1 from thights none from waist tho.... :( in weight i have lost 1.5 kgs??? maybe just water???
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i'm not due to measure up just yet but i did and have lost 1cm from hips and 1 from thights none from waist tho.... :( in weight i have lost 1.5 kgs??? maybe just water???
I'll do my measuring tonight and also take my before shots (which I will keep private for now). I'll be back tomorrow with official stats for Lucy.
I've been good today - got caught having to go to a business lunch and ordered a thai beef salad - I still don't have an appetite though so I barely ate half.
Has anyone else ever randomly lost their appetite completely?
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It is Jan 2010 and I have just turned 30. I am staying in a flash hotel in Melbourne with my beautiful, supportive husband, surrounded by bags of new, much smaller clothes that I have just bought for myself. I am the lightest I have EVER been in my adult life and I am sooooo much healthier too. For the first time in my life I have made health and fitness goals that I have stuck to, and with my new fitter healthier body I completed my first fun run in 2009. Regular excercise and healthy eating habits are now a part of my everyday life. The road to get here has not been easy but with great effort comes great reward. I am proud of me!
Is it just me or what... whenever im on a diet i cant stop thinking about food... all day everyday.... when im not on a diet i really dont eat all that much (i guess its what i eat then) but its driving me insane today
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Hi Ladies. Everyone is going amazing. The morning sickness has hit me shockingly. The vomiting started today, I hate it. I have been good, I haven't hadn't any juck food or takeaway, hey. Takeaway is my biggest downfall. I went into town today for lunch with a friend, she had mac's and I had a diet coke and a homemade tuna & salad wrap I brought with me. That is a very big step for me.
Lucy - Can I leave off the measuring and just do weight? I know my measurments are not going to get smaller, my pant have already gotten very tight but I'm sure I haven't put on any weight.
Is it too late for me to join this challenge?
I am 40kg heavier than when I met DP, was already 30kg overweight when i got pregnant with DS.
I have joined a gym which has free personal training and have been a few times so far. Going to build myself up to going every second day and every other day just going there to do cardio or going for a walk with Cooper (DS)
My biggest struggle is junk food.... it tastes so good and seems to be sooo much more convenient... wat takes less time.... opening a bag of chips or making a salad.
I really need alot of support... I want to be thinner... I want to be able to run around after Cooper.
I've found a good motivator for me is to put photos of DH and I when we first met on the fridge. That's when I was skinny and gorgeous and my ideal weight/dress size.
It makes me think twice about going to the fridge or the pantry - "Am I really hungry?"
Well my day is'nt going good, but not bad either, nothing really wrong just feel like I have'nt eaten enough good stuff, and certainly not enough water???
I think the biggest problem is I have'nt exercised today and i find I am thinking about the weigh in!!!! I feel like I can make it..... until I imagine how I will feel if I have'nt lost much weight or at all.:wall:
I am going to pull my socks up now and go and make tea and add loads of vegies and might try to go for a walk after that.
Oh I added a quick delicious recipe, all my friends love it and it takes 15 minutes from start to table.
Willl work on my affirmation, kind of know what I want but will have a good think about it, great idea.
Brainstorming, love the idea of a group activity eg: lucy's exercise routine nice to think most of us could fit it in on the same day. Or maybe we could go for a walk at a certain time lol.
blackduckies- That recipe is tops... still waiting for more people to add their fav diet recipe...
Being sick i so badly wanted to eat mashed tato... the best when ur throat is sore but i resisted all yesterday and today... for munch i had a delish soup which made my throat feel better. was going to have a salad wrap but though it'd be too hard to swollow. For tea i had a microwave tuna morney... it was ok but dont think it was the best choice... did some Wii fit but its like 38 degrees here and oh so sticky and hot... its past 6 and still hasnt eased up... I dont think i'll be walking tonight will get up tomorrow morning early... that my goal for the next 24 hours...at least a 30 min walk... might walk to the shop the long way with the kids... need milk so good excuse not to drive also...
A friend of mine is also trying to loose weight and she introduced me to a friend of hers also trying to loose weight... She's doing the Bubhub challange.. well we all got talking on MSN and showed pics of ourselves at our best and our worst so now were helping out each other which is great we all live far away from each other so no REAL contact or group working out but its just that EXTRA support...
Might Wii Fit once the kids are in bed... looked into the Wii fit new games... trying to find one in AUS but looks like there all in the US... Bugger i want a new game...
I always walk on a Sunday at 8am. And Thursday nights at 7pm. Always. (I walk with a girl that I met in my personal training group. We yak our heads off for 5km!):
Or maybe we could go for a walk at a certain time lol.
Are those times convenient for anyone else?
I cant stick to a particular routine with excercise... Would love too but with the 2 kids and a DP who's a shift worker our day is not the same twice... :( would make things easier if it were but isnt... i would love to get organised a bit better so i can get a morning walk in more often but it seems like when i'm ready the kids decide to sleep in... :rolleyes:kids in bed now so time to Wii fit it again... Bye for now
I've been going shocking. We went to hervey Bay and spent the whole 4 days eating crap and drinking!!!!
Errr.. maybe I won't do my measurements this week.. :redface:
I'II walk with you and your friend Lucy.:lol: Good to imagine others walking at the same time. Sometimes I might have to leave a bit earlier to fit in with feed times, but being so much fitter you"ll catch up.;)
I'd love to walk with you Lucy & Pam - but I'll have to walk earlier too as DS will be in bed. :rofl:
Sounds like a good plan though.
Is anybody else a freak that dances around the house to music? Maybe we could all dance around to two songs a day, and change the songs once a week or something. Something easy that you can fit in rather than having to get out... if anyone kwim LOL!
yay! on day 10 of WW! doing great. so motivated!! i went for a 90 minute walk today. legs hurt :rolleyes: cant wait to weigh in again this saturday!
Hi there,
Start my healthy eating plan today. Had weetbix with skim milk this morning, had coffee and sour cream and chives rice cakes for morning tea x2. Then for lunch had another 2 rice crackers with tomato on it. Afternoon tea had a jasmine tea and a apple. For dinner we had grilled chicken breast marinated in olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and rosemary and toss salad. Very nice, my other half had seconds, I had split the chicken breast into two, I had one the other half ate the rest. He is suppose to be on a healthy eating plan as well.
No exercise today, not feeling to crash hot. Maybe tomorrow. I weighed myself this morning 72.2kg. I have never been this weight before, I am always around the 65kg mark. So it's time for a chang for sure. I don't want to be like this next year. I want to be healthy and have more energy. Go into a shop and know that size 10 - 12 will fit instead of always wearing big clothes to hide my fat.
Oh and I had 1.5ltrs of water today as well.
Too dools
xx
I walk at 7pm every night so I am in with you on the Thursdays :D:
I like the idea of making say Tuesdays - everyone make an effort to do Lucy's workout and then on maybe Thursdays make an effort to dance around the house to two songs. Maybe if we have something small-ish (that we can do around the house) for every day that everyone is aiming to do it might help us. If we miss one or two no big deal but at least we have something small to work towards and every little bit of exercise helps. Only for those who wish to participate of course.
Deanne.
Well it was an absolute scortcher here today, 38degrees! So I haven't exercised today. It's still 27degrees apparently, and besides that DH is out with a friend so I can't go out anyhow, stuck here with my sleeping babes. I did do some heavyish cleaning though-cleaning 2 bathrooms and the bath and a couple of windows, so that's a little exercise I guess.
I have done pretty well today, kept within my calories according to calorie king, though I am struggling with getting my ratios right (ie- fat/protein/carbs) I have had way too mach fat and not enough carbs or protein. I think I will have to cut out all butter. I think that might be part of my problem, though I only have it on vegemite toast, and when I have eggs and soldiers which I did today.....and I'm using too much oil cause I need to buy some spray oil to cook with. Anyone have any other ideas?? I'm eating healthy foods, lots of fruit and veg, bread/cerials, meat/protein. I don't understand!! I haven't had any kind of junk food to day at all. And very little processed stuff, only some instant rice meal thingy to go with dinner (continental one, kwim??) and rice bubbles, that was it really, no bickies, processed meat, muesli bars...
LOL, does the Fairies count? I dance around with DD to her DVD's. Wiggles is another favourite....:rolleyes::
man it is hard to keep up in this thread, hehehe. we are all chatterboxes!
good work everyone, seems like so many are doing so well! isn't it great that we are all here to support one another!
I'll try to do the morning walk since it's been so hot here in the evenings, but I'll go on WDST :) 6am would be too hard, although I am up at 5:30...mmm might start the walking early....
I'm off to pilates tomorrow night...woohoo can't wait I LOVE it. Didn't get any formal exercise in today but cleaned the entire house, 5 loads of washing, vacuuming and mopping, scrubbed the bathroom...so I think that all counts for something :)
Had an ok day today. Had raisen toast with mashed banana on top and a cup of tea with 1 sugar for breakfast.totally skipped lunch as dh told me to pick him up from where he was, and we didnt get home til about 430, i just made dinner. We had special fried rice, made to WW specs. Then, and dont fall off your chairs now, dh,ds & i went for a walk to the park. All in all, we were gone for an hour. I had a WW icecream and 2WW bickies after watching Top Gear. A lil hungry atm but only coz im thinking of food!
Ill pop back in tomorrow to post my affirmation, and the recipe of the WWfried rice- it was so yummy!
I walked tonight. Fark me it was HOT. And my gf decided she was bored of our usual route so we did a track walk up Blackhill. V.steep. With the flies and the kangaroos at dusk. I am buggered.
And we had a delish dinner (very low fat and low carb) of tuna and sweetchilli which I will go & post now........
And I bought new shorts today: I am officially a size 12. This time last year I was a size 24. Blimey.
Lilias.......with the fat/carb/protein thing. The trick is to cut all butter and oils and milk, sadly. And then to find high protein low fat foods, like egg whites, tuna, turkey and chicken. You can eat A LOT of these.If you still struggle with protein, a shake in the morning made with protein powder (I use Natures Way from the supermarket) :it bumps up your protein well. And curbs all your cravings. Then carbs can be made up of fruit and veg and salad. It IS hard to get your head around it at first, but here is a typical day for me:
Brekky: Piece of fruit, protein shake, coffee
Lunch: Egg white omlette with salad (made with 4 egg whites, so a BIG omlette)
Afternoon tea: Tuna salad (A whole big can of tuna)
Dinner: Low fat Butter chicken (no rice) (About 120g of chicken)
Snack: Watermelon.
HTH?
OMG finding it so hard to keep up with this thread. We certainly are chatters :)
Well had a really good day til this evening BUT then had a shocking dinner as we went fishing and DH wanted chicken treat. I only had a lg chips and nothing else though so i tried to be good. I thought i'd completely blown my day but after checking in with Calorie King i was/am SOO relieved to see that i still came in with my calorie intake. :dance: So glad that my choices earlier in the day had been as good as they had. I also had 1.5l of water today. I am looking forward to weigh in but very scared- anyone else scared of the scales?
So glad everyone else is doing so well keep it up ladies. I will be back tomo to write my affirmation. Off to bed.
Hi there.
I can try to fit walks in at those times. I usually walk anywhere from 5.30 - 6.30 am each morning. So if anyone wants to join me, please do. Depending on what day it is my work starting time varies from 7.30/8am/9am.
One week in, and added on an extra two blocks to my walk this morning. My muscles have stopped hurting now, so figured it was time. I'll give this distance a few more days and then add in another block or two. Can't wait to get my old walking distance back that I was doing a couple of years ago. Cheated on dinner last night - with the heat last night, I ducked up to the shops and bought a couple of cooked chooks, brought them home and threw a salad together with them. Healthy and cool - or at least I didn't have to cook anything and make the house any hotter then it already was.
Lucy - Just wanted to say CONGRATULATIONS on being a size 12. I had a similar thought this morning, (just not as a big a jump). I've gone from size 20 to size 14. I'm pretty proud of myself for that. Won't be long and I can aim for size 12.
I'm off now to make sure I'm ready to start work - today's 7.30 start so haven't got long and don't finish til about 5.30 tonight, so I'll have to see what the weathers doing as to if I walk again tonight.
Hope you all have a great day.
I am SO SO proud of myself!!
I went for a walk last night in 30 degree heat! Not only that.. but I walked up TWO hills! Our house is at the top of a hilly suburb so after my walk down to the flatter part of our suburb (2km winding through houses) I started up one of the hills. I reached the top (exhausted) and then turned around and went back down - then I climbed up the second STEEPER hill to get home!!!
My legs are sore today but I feel fantastic - it certainly got my heart rate up and kept it there for quite a while. Hopefully I burned some major calories!!
Wow Lucy, that's AMAZING! You should be so proud of yourself :clap:
Everyone is doing sooo well!
Cookiemonster, I'm one of those freaks that dances around the house :redface:
It's so hot here if I don't get out of the house by 7ish it's just too hot to go for a walk.
I have been dancing for 45 mins or so and then doing the exercises that Lucy put up for us.
Has anyone else been doing them? I'm so useless at push ups, it's more a slight bend of the elbows. I don't make it anywhere near the ground :rolleyes:
I walked for 15 mins in heels yesterday arvo! I'm trying to regulate my sleeping patterns at the moment so I actually can get up early and exercise before work, because I'm exhausted when I get home. I'm going to go and check out the gym this afternoon.
Thanks for the advice, Lucy. I must admit that I don't eat alot of meat, usually only at dinner if then. And I'm not a huge fan of fish or eggs. Though it's not that I don't like them at all. I have been making an effort to have an egg for breaky cause I know it's good for me to have that protien. I feel fuller for ages when I do, especially if it's with lite ham or something. I will try to have more tuna and fish. I don't eat that at all unless I make an effort. Not really on my list of favourite things! I love my fruit and bready stuff, but even still I can't meet the requirements for carbs! But it's 250g which seems like a hell of alot. I'm not so worried about carbs though.
Congrats on being size 12! If I could get there again, I would die a happy woman!
Good on those of you that went for a walk in this stinking heat! I will go tonight! Or at least I'll do exercise today. It's going to be 41 at least here today....yuck!!!
Our first offical weigh in day, whos excited?
Well I lost 1.3kgs, yay!
Lucy, I sent through my updated ticker but I forgot to mention that I would prefer to measure at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks. I hope thats ok :D
Good luck to everyone today on seeing a lower number :goodluck:
Deanne.
Isn't weigh in day tomorrow? And we PM Lucy our results? If it is today, I have lost 1.4kgs.
Great stuff Deanne on the weight loss too! Very well done!!
Captain, the more exercise I do the more I want to do, have had not trouble keeping up with the exercise, and have done 40 minutes a day (bar Sunday, which was a total right off LOL) and am loving it. Am waiting for miss muffet to wake up and we're going for a walk to the post office. I'll carry her in her sling (I carried her around the shops for 90 minutes yesterday) which will be like carrying a 9kg weight on me LOL!
:hug: scone, do you have a wiifit? It tells me every day that within a 24hr period weight can fluctuate 1kg up and down. Defiantely only weigh yourself once a week, in the morning (as evening weight can be pretty depressing!).
Besides, remember its not the WEIGHT itself but also the cms lost, as muscle weighs more than fat so theoretically you can be losing fat, gaining muscle, getting in GREAT shape with a GREAT figure and could put on weight.
Sunday was SHOCKING, as is pretty much every Sunday because Shel is home and her turn to cook :doh: I try to get her to cook healthily but that usually means I end up cooking after she asks "how do I cook this" for every ingredient involved! So I just let it go, and give myself the 'treat'. Well, it wasn't a treat when CK told me I was sooooooo over my intake. DOH, didn't exercise either. Well I studied HEAPS, which apaprently I can burn 48 calories an hour studying LOL! Ah well, Sunday's supposed to be a rest day right? Yesterday was pretty good, walked around the shops wearing Jazz, had grilled steak and salad for dinner.
This morning I've done 40 minutes - 25 minutes of cardio plus 15 minutes of yoga stretching. I feel great. Want to go for a walk except its just started raining :wall: The weather hates me, I'm pretty sure!!!!! I want to buy a rain cover for the pram except Shel doesn't want Jazz out in the rain at all, which is kind of fair enough. I should vacuum today, plus some other cleaning, so I'll make an effort to actually do it.
My affirmation... I tried to write my affirmation... but it ended up beig all about Jazz, somehow... it's hard, and I find it really hard to motivate myself for MYSELF... Is that ok? I find it hard to do it for myself, but easy to think "Shel will like it when I'm a size 10" or "I'll be able to play with Jazz when she starts being mobile"...
I did, however, have a shower this morning, as part of my self-care regime now. Yes, I had trouble justifying (and finding time...) having a shower every day, I don't think about myself often. But I had a shower while Jazz was asleep after my exercise and I already feel better and refreshed for it!
My food goal this week is still to replace coke with water, and at night I was thinking a tea before bed instead of coke. I have trouble sleeping sometimes, despite being bloody exhausted!
Well the princess is awake, better go. Hopefully the sun will come out and I'll be able to go for a walk.
Oh, I thought weigh-in/measuring was tomorrow...?
Leash, sounds like you are doing really well. I know what you mean about motivation for yourself! It is hard with a little one, it is all about my DD for sure as well! It is good to feel healthy though isn't it? For our DD's sakes too! I have so much more energy for her now. It is great. Replacing coke with water would be fantastic, if you can do that, perfect. I drink about 10 glasses a day and I think it's the water that makes me feel so hydrated and refreshed about everything. Don't forget coke dehydrates you, but I guess you know that! Yes, is weigh in tomorrow?
Just put my weight loss ticker up :D
so will I PM Lucy today with my measurements etc? And not tomorrow?
I forgot to do measurements last night. I might officially start tracking that from today.
Sorry I'm still catching up - I think I'm a bit behind!!
Lucy and Mollycat - that is fantastic, inspiring stuff!
Just got home from my pram fitness training session, and my trainer told me to keep eating how I've been eating and write out a food diary and next session we will go through it and see what changes I need to make. That sounds like a great idea to me! I spent about 10 mins in the cereal aisle last night trying to make a decision and still ended up buying the wrong thing!
I'm a bit slow... is there any chance I can join now?
I'm only a little one, I need to drop about 6 kgs... but I lack severe motivation and I have the most enormous trouble eating well. So its an all about face challenge for me and my old habits. I am actually really excited about sharing this journey... I've never had a support team before.
And I know we have to email, but what is the actual email addy please... my email isn't linked to the computer so it doesn't come up.
Might be my mistake, I just thought that we got out weights and measurements in by Tuesday night last week to start on Wednesday, so therefore thought that we would get in our new weights and measurements on Tuesday to start week 2 fresh on Wednesday. Please do let me know if I have got this wrong.
Thanks QB :D
Deanne.
ETA: S'rose - you just need to PM Lucy, that may make it easier for you rather than worrying about email.
What is a "glass" of water? Just grab a glass, fill it with water and drink? Or is there a standard measurement?