2009 Body Transformation Challenge, Week 1

[Lucy]

Lucy, how do you set the figures in the profile... it is probably really obvious but I can't seem to find it. Also, can I ask your opinion - I thought 1500 was pretty ok - and I feel better when I come in under it... so should I just leave it?

Up to you. On the one hand if you leave it, and then hit a plateau in a few months, you know you can go down to 1200 to get the weight moving again.

Or, start as you mean to go on? Retrain your body?

Either way, to change your personal profile in CK:

1. Go to account settings along the top
2. Go to Personal Profile on the right
3. On Page 2 of your personal profile, you'll find the Calorie Target Recommendations, and lower down, Nutrient Targets. You can change any of these, then hit save.

HTH

[tk1999]

Thanks Lucy... I found it. I will have a think about whether or not I will change it or leave it for a bit and change it later

[sconeonamission]

I've been good all week (hehe starting thursday! so maybe not that long! ) so I decided to go and weigh myself to see how much I've lost before I weigh in properly wednesday.... I've put on just over a kilo... wth? Not a very motivating sight. Maybe I just wont eat...

[Lucy]

so I decided to go and weigh myself to see how much I've lost before I weigh in properly wednesday....

NOOOOOOOO!

Don't torture yourself!

Honestly,our weight fluctuates SO much daily, depending on so many things. Weighing yourself intermittently through the day or through the week is nothing but painful demotivating torture!

Weigh yourself once a week only, first thing, after you have done a wee/poo.

[beckoes]

failed!! Ate almost a litre of chilli chocolate icecream over the day...a teaspoon here, a mouthfull there....Bugger! Thrown the rest away!!

Oh well...DD is just waking up so im going to go for a big walk now.

[blackduckies]

Hi girls, yes you can all talk heaps.
No to diet shakes!!!! Just put the weight back on. I don't think I know anyone who has kept the weight off long term.

I have been doing well, enjoying chopping my wood
BF question????

I have'nt felt hungry so feel like I am eating enough and drinking heaps, but feel like my supply is dropping off. I have to comp anyway, never had a good enough supply... I am baseing this on my boobs don't feel full at all at the moment and bubs is frustrated at the breast. Although she is only drinking the same in the bottle???? Maybe she can taste the difference (no sweetners in the milk)
Any thoughts appreciated. Pam

[henri]

Have been a good girl today and yesterday. One of my main weaknesses is not making wise choices when i eat out which is quite often. Yesterday i had brunch with a girlfriend, i had muesli, fruit and yoghurt with skim milk and thats it! Normally i would have greasy fry up when being bad followed by cake. Today i had lunch out and had greek lamb salad followed by fruit salad with yoghurt - i really wanted to have a huge burger and chips followed by the mint choc ripple cake which looked SOOOO good - yay for me!!! Also took dogs for walk this morning....hope everyone having a good day!

[mollycat]

I woke up this morning and almost curled back up under the covers again. I'd spent hours in the garden yesterday afternoon, and I was hurting all over, my back was so sore, my legs ached. I was really strong though, and somehow made myself get up, get dressed and off for a 20 minute walk. Every step hurt, but I'm so glad I did it.

I've also come to the conclusion that Wii fit just doesn't exist. I've now changed the name of it to Wii Fit - The Chase. I spent all morning, going from shop to shop, driving all over the place trying to find one. Even one shop, who boasts that they sell it the cheapest didn't have it in stock. I think I went through five different shops before giving up and deciding that I'd spent another 20 minutes walking from shop to shop to car to shop to car and back again. They all told me they weren't getting any more in until the end of January. Oh well, at least I managed to fit in a second walk, and I used the stairs from the car park not the lift - on the way up that was, (just couldn't face the stairs on the way down).

I also took one look at dinner tonight - my DS1 had cooked on the BBQ - it looked greasy, so I went and ate fruit instead. Just need to work on increasing my water intake now.

[Hoody]

Everyone sounds like they are doing so well

Having an ok day. I dont feel like have done great with my eating but reflecting whilst sitting here its not as bad as i thought. For breakie i had some sustain cereal (the low GI one)With skim milk and a cup of tea- no sugar skim milk. For lunch i had a hard boiled egg and 2 pieces of wholemeal bread- NO BUTTER omg that was hard. Dinner is in the oven. Marinated chicken wingettes (i will only have 1 or 2) and i have a huge plate of salad. Havent really had any snacks today though i did have a cruiser when we had ppl pop in I really wanted another but stopped myself so at least i showed some will power. I have also had lots of water as i think its helping me to feel full and not to graze iykwim. I did 1/2 and hr on the wii fit doing boxing and step and will take our dog for a walk once it cools down and my dinner settles. I'm looking forward to weigh in wed but scared too. I'm worried if i dont see results i'll lose motivation.

Black duckies- I have no idea with regards to your BFing issues but been one to struggle with my supply when dd2 was younger i know how stressful it can be. Maybe just try feeding more often to up your supply (i'm sure you are already doing this though)

Henri- on the healthy choices

Sconeonamission- I was weighing myself daily on my wii fit but after it saying i was .9kg heavier i am refusing to do it until wed now. DH told me maybe i just needed to do a big poo trying to make me feel better. I'm sure you are making progress. Remember its not all about the no its about your health

[DaintreeDream]

Well I have done really well so far and I have stuck to my meal plan - until today when I had two small bits of chocolate fudge .

My meal plan consists of the following:
Breakfast: 1 x Carb, 1 x Dairy, 1 x Fruit
Snack: 1 x Carb, 2 x Dairy, 1 x Fruit
Lunch: 2 x Carb, 1 x Vegetable, 1 x Meat, 1 x Fat
Snack: 1 x Dairy, 1 x Fruit
Dinner: 2 x Carb, 3 x Meat, 4 x Vegetable, 1 x Fat

Which goes a bit like this:
Breakfast: 1 and 1/2 weetix, 1/2 cup full cream milk and a banana
Snack: 5 water crackers, 40gm full fat cheese and 2 nectarines
Lunch: 2 slices wholemeal bread, 75gm Tuna, 1/2 cup of fresh salad, 1 tsp butter
Snack: 200gm diet yoghurt, 1 orange
Dinner: 2/3 cup basmati rice, 90gm chicken, 2 cups steamed vegies and 1 tsp olive oil

Herbs/spices/garlic are free to use as much as you like along with some other items for flavour.

This is about 1575 calories. I do not count I have it listed as above and then have a chart on my fridge of how much everything amounts to - although I almost know my favourite things by heart.

I have lost weight and toned well in record timing before using this method so I am happy with it

Blackduccies - I express full time and I have found that so long as I drink enough water and eat enough I do not drop in my supply due to this program, I am trying to increase my supply at the moment due to a long standing battle and I have found that I have increased in supply since starting this program. I have added two extra pumping sessions to my day though so that might be the answer. Hope you supply keeps up for you.

Deanne.

[Roryrory]

Hi all

Had a good day today - a road trip to Bendigo (4 hour return trip) with a stop at a bakery, McDonalds and a servo resulted in the following:

• small bowl of porrige for breakfast
• grain bread sandwitch with salad (no dressing), 1 slice of cheese and no butter for morning tea
• a McDonalds grilled chicken burger (no dressing) and a diet coke and about 1/2 a small fries for lunch
• about 1/2 a Go Natural nut bar and a low-fat banana slice for arvo tea
• about 100 g of grilled pork fillet, couscous and baby spinach with water for dinner

(Meanwhile, my mum at pies, ice cream, OJ, soft drink, chips, toasted cheese sandwitch - the works )

I just kept thinking how eating that cream cake wouldn't get rid of my big butt, and that a Quarter Pounder (my usual McD's poison) would just make me feel like I had fallen off the wagon.

So yay!!!!

[~kellie~]

everyone is doing so well!

As for me, all I can say is, I have no will power

But tomorrow is a new day, so I will try extra hard.

[MrsFabuloso]

Well, I thought I had a pretty bad day though according to Calorie King it wasn't as bad as I thought! Still over with calories- 2200 instead of 2000, but not as terrible as I thought. I thought I'd be WAY over! Made bad choices, with chocolate, chocolate ice cream, wine.....should have had more water too. I went over with fat and carbs though and way under for protein. And I didn't exercise either. So still not a great day. I WILL do better tomorrow!

[DaintreeDream]

I have noticed that the biggest wall that people are hitting has to do with willpower and I am wondering if as a group we may be able to come up with something to assist the ladies that are struggling in this department?
I am really tired at the moment but will brainstorm tomorrow, however in the meantime what does everyone else think? Any thoughts? Suggestions?
Maybe this could work well with exercise also as I know that it is also a bit hard at times to convince yourself to get up and just do it!

I just think that if we come up with something? An incentive. A group goal for the day/week? It may just help us all to succeed!

Just a thought anyway.

Deanne.

[queenbee]

things going excellent here! my daughter's 1st birthday party was today (she turned 1 on 2 jan) and i didn't have anything! there were sausage rolls and everything! felt really good about it then went for an hour walk this afternoon and 200 sit ups (doing that exercise regime every day). get on scales this morning and lost another kilo! wtf?! yesterday was weigh in day and i had lost 0.6 but i wish the scales said the 1.6kgs yesterday! hehehe.

loving exercise too, it is giving me HEAPS of energy and i feel like i can do anything!!

hope everyone else is doing great! i am so motivated this time!!

p.s. never weigh myself daily! just couldn't help myself this morning...!!

[Roryrory]

Daintree Dream, that is an excellent idea!

Here's my thought - we have probably all lost weight before (problem is we have put it on again - that's why we're here ) So how about we think back to what WORKED for us when we lost weight last time. I mean mentally, not things like "I straved myself for 2 weeks" LOL!!

For me, thinking about the end goal was what helped. I imagined how I would look and feel - positive visualisation, I guess. And I did that often enough that when I was faced with a bad choice (like the cakes at the bakery today) it was more appealing to be slim and healthy that it was to eat the cake.

[~kellie~]

Deanne - sounds like a great idea to me. Anything that can help me (or others) to stay focused sounds wonderful!

Queenbee - well done on resisting the temptation!

[Laranna]

Well done ladies on all the good work so far

I think I did pretty ok today even though I had my sisters bday party where I made the cakes. I had one cupcake as a treat and a salad and bbq for lunch. Walked to and from the party so half an hour walk today. Still feeling a bit blergh from the tonsillitis but feel ready to start getting back into the exercise. Aiming to walk every day minimum of 30 minutes. Plus on Tuesday nights I go to a pilates class.

Have been entering my food diary in calorie king and it seems I am going ok with the amount of calories, the problem seems to be that I go over my fat limit and fall way short with the protein. Anyone got any ideas on how to reduce the fat intake and increase my protein?

Daintree Dream - great idea! For me losing weight last time had alot to do with a relationship breakup. That's not going to work this time! But I guess it was all about having fallen into a comfort zone and then having to go out there on my own again, so like RoryRory, for me my motivation is visualising the end result. I have some pictures on the fridge of myself at the weight I'd like to be. I've also written down on a piece of paper my weight loss/current weight and will tick it off as I go. This is also stuck up on the fridge.