After seeing some atrocious photos of me....the challenge is on!

[The[cookie]Doctor]

WOOOHOOOOO! I passed management certification today so now i can stop with the stressing and focus on the dieting.

[~breeze~]

WOOOHOOOOO! I passed management certification today so now i can stop with the stressing and focus on the dieting.

woohoooooooo congrats hun!!!!

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Hehe thanks!

I am off to batemans bay for two days so the sunshine and beach should get me keen to get in shape i be thinking

[MrsFabuloso]

Yayyyy, Ash!! Congrats babe!!!

Well today is a no go for me.....it was DH and my anniversary (8yrs!!!) and we went out for lunch with the kids and I have a couple of glasses of wine while we ate and then watched the Melbourne cup. I haven't eaten REALLY badly but definately not healthily! Had a few hot chips, 1/2 a peice of choccy cake, 2 glasses of wine, too much soft drink, noodles with veggies and chicken. Not too bad but not great. No exercise either. 39degrees out ehre today, soooo hot, and it's still really hot and sticky too. ICK!! And besides DH won't let me go out in the dark alone.
So back to it properly tomorrow. AF showed up today so I am seriously craving something sweet. And I'm moody and grumpy. Sore back sore tummy at the mo too....poor me!! God women get the **** end of the stick don't we??

Mel, did you try the kids int he trailer again? Hope it wasn't as hot in Melbourne as it was in Sydney!

Isabel, I am going to try to do the couch to 5km thing too, though I think I will start with a couple of weeks of walking first, cause I am soooo unfit and don't really like running either! But it's free, so I will try. But I would much rather swim!

Ok, hope everyone is doing well

[Beautitude]

Cookiemonster: Congrats on passing. I used to work at KFC years ago. Back then tho i could eat as much as i wanted and didn't put on any weight. Not that i appreciated it back then. Glad i dont work there now otherwise i would be 3 times my size... yummo...

Lilias: Happy anniversary! Lunch sounds lovely. I always crave sweets whether i have af or not. Craving a choccie biscuit as we speak! Will stay strong. Was looking at the couch to 5km program today and the first few weeks are easy and then they really ramp it up. Scary. See how i go. We can support each other through it if you like. Be nice to have a buddy.

Had a good day food wise today. Managed to only eat 2 biscuits so not great but better than yesterday. Lucky dh is making his way through them all really quickly so they should be gone soon. He is one of those super annoying people who can eat junk all day and still be skinny as. Made a really nice salad for dinner with falafels. Was really yum. Even dh liked it which is amazing as he is def a meat man.

to have some weight loss this week. Would really like to get back to my pre preg weight by ds 1st birthday so 5 kg in 5 weeks. Do-able but dont know if i will make it.

Hope your all well

[minimatron]

I got on the bike again today for about 25 minutes. I had the trailer on with dd1 in it. I dont think i will get one coz she doesnt really enjoy it and dd2 hates it! Looks like I can go riding on my own Dh is encouraging me and says that we wont have any chocolate at home, which is good because we can consume alot!

Hope all is good...I am pumped!

[MrsFabuloso]

Well, I'm plodding along ok. I went walking again yesterday, I took a different route though and it was a bit harder, felt good though. Eating is going ok, still not great, but better at least. I need to drink more water, eat more fruit and veggies and less bread and carby stuff. I eat waaayyy too many carb loaded foods like bread, crackers, muffins....stuff like that. I'm REALLY craving junk tonight, some choccy or icecream would go down a treat tonight! Oh, Oh....or some butterscotch pudding and icecream...mmmmm *drrroooooooooollllllllllll* Ok gotta stop that! Maybe a bit of choccy milk, skim milk of course! And just a teaspoon of choccy powder.

[~breeze~]

boy oh boy oh boy.... I havent been doing well the last couple of days Going to make the time to get to the gym tomorrow with the kids, I feel so angry at myself, I'm just so weak when it comes to junk food at least I've managed to stay away from the maltesers, thats an achievementfor me

Good luck everyone else & well done to those ofyou being so strong!!!!!

[MrsFabuloso]

Danielle, I have been having up and down days. But I want this to be a lasting change, so I am just taking it as I can. It is going to take me time to change my habbits, because I have had these bad habbits for SOOO long! But I am walking every second day, and next week I will start to go every day that I can manage with DH's shifts and work and stuff. Hopefully at least 4-5 times a week. Because it is only walking I think I need to do it at least that often to see some sort of result. When (if!) I manage to start running I will do it less often. DH suggested I go swimming, which I do enjoy, but that will cost $$ not much but still....and it would take longer cause I have to go to the pools, change, swim, shower, change and drive home. All up probably and 1 1/2hrs. When a walk takes me 30-45ish mins depending on where I walk.

Other than that, I have been struggling a bit with healthy eating. Had cake yesterday, and something else I shouldn't have, but can't think what it was now....and then just too much food too. I am an emotional eater, and when I feel crappy I eat, and yesterday wasn't a good day! So I ate and ate, alllll day must use some self control! And find other things to do when stressed out....hmmmm, but what with two toddlers? On the upside, I have lost 1.4kgs this week! Yay!!!! Still keeping my goal of being under 80kg by new years. But I have to stay focussed!

I hope everyone else is travelling along well!

[Floweryfields]

Lilas -Congrats on the loss - BUT if you are an emotional eater, you need to get rid of that junk out of your house totally so you can't get your hands on it when you are feeling emotional.
You might only have 'a little slice of cake' or whatever, but you'd be suprised how many calories are in that slice of cake.
To be losing weight, you should consume around 1300 calories per day - one slice of cake is about 500 cal on it's own - walking fast (puffing) will burn about 200 cal for 30 mins.

I am not trying to be mean to you, but trying to get you in the headspace that you need to be in before you are really ready to lose weight.
I really do recommend the calorie king site using their food diaries for a good few weeks to really get an honest idea of just what you are consuming and what you need to change.
It certainly opened my eyes!

[MrsFabuloso]

Ausgirl, thanks for that advice. I know what you are saying. I don't have junk in my house. I would be absolutely huge if I did! And I have used calorie King before which did work, but honestly, now with 2 toddlers and working I just don't really have time to do it all. And realistically, I don't really want to be doing it long term, I want to learn to do it automatically, and just rely on my knowledge that this food is healthy or whatever. The junk I do eat is usually at work, or I (or dh) go and buy it.

I am trying to make this a lasting change so I am taking teeny tiny baby steps! I know to others it might sound like I'm not doing so well, but trust me this is an improvement from my usual! I actually only had one small slice of cake, rather than two huge ones which I would have done before. I am eating proportionate servings rather than double the amount I am supposed to. I am walking 30-45mins 3x a week rather than nothing at all. I am trying to do it in small managable bits. Increase it all slowly so it is a bit easier to make a lasting transition.

I used to do all of this as my normal life before I had kids, I was a healthy weight, so I can do it, but its been a long time since I have had good habbits, so I'm trying slowly. In the past I have done it all in one go, food exercise and I failed, just gone back to my bad habbits and it just hasn't been managable for me, so maybe if I do it in baby steps, it will work....