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Hi BellaB - thank you for your birthday wishes, I like your tips for keeping on the right weightloss path, might have to follow some of those. Unfortunately as much as I love Diet Coke due to my wheat intolerance those diet drinks are now off the list as my tummy can't take them so it's full fat Coke for me if I want it grrrr! I loved having those as a treat when I was doing Weight Watchers a few years ago though.
Hi Blackduckies - Happy Birthday to you too, hope you're having a lovely day also.
AFM - I'm having a great day so far, the weather is beautiful in Perth today, my mum is up from down south so came and visited, one sister who is away holidaying in Penang (lucky duck) rang and my other sister popped in. We're off to the inlaws for an early dinner shortly and then tomorrow having lunch with my family so should be a great weekend. I weighed in this morning instead of tomorrow or Monday and I've lost 400 grams this week so hopefully tomorrow's eating won't do too much damage. DH bought me a new phone, it's called a Desire, it's the competition for the IPhone, it's pretty speccy although I have no friggin idea how to use it lol! Guess I'll have to find time to read the instructions over the next few days lol.
Have a great weekend everyone! xx
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Oh look at all these Gemini girls, we should get on great!!! Hope you had a great birthday Alison, mine was a bit of a downer, good thiong I'm not starting till tomorrow!!! :(
Bella, woohoo down to a 14 my 14's are a pretty tight fit especially around my tummy, but like you I am not buying anything until I lose more weight...I am hoping that I get back into some of my old clothes???but this baby has done some serious damage to my body....eg: stretch marks and an overhang :( I so hope that dissappears but I don't think its going too, the skin is really stretched and rough/dry feeling but nothign seems to soften it..oh well th ehazards of having 5 kids I suppose.
I am walking tomorrow and really looking forward to it, the twin pram is at mums just ready to go, have to start on the flat, its too hilly where we live and I am nowhere close to being able to do that yet..
Catch you all soon for a chat and update, I'm off to bed ready for tomorrows weigh and measure.
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Hi Blackduckies - I had a naughty food weekend for my birthday lol and I don't care! And if you've had 5 kids you're allowed an overhang, wow!!!!!!! My baby has a snotty nose and isn't sleeping well at night because of it, this is her second cold in 4 weeks.....and she's teething, some have said that can cause it, whatever it is I want it gone, poor baby I feel terrible for her, not to mention I'm completely exhausted! Hope everyone had a good weigh in result, I weighed in on Saturday to get in before the cake lol.....400 grams down, not bad considering I have AF. I was too scared to get on this morning though lol.
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Hi girls,
I lost 1kg! YAY! I did my measurements as well as I hadnt done them for a while and was really pleased with my progress.
Trying to get the motivation to get on the treadmill now and watch tv while walking instead of sitting on ym lazy bum on the couch.
My big thing this week is that I need to add in more exercise. My body wont keep losing weight if I dont step it up and I have just under 11wks until we go to Fiji. eeeekKK!
So what exercise is everyone else aiming to do this week?
Alison- 400g loss with AF is fantastic!!! Well done and hope you enjoyed your cake :) Hope DD1 is better soon. Its awful when they are sick :hug:
Blackdukkies- How did you go for your first day today? I cant even begin to imagine what my body would look like after 5 kids. You are incredible! I was so upset about my apron like flab and stretchies but they are fading and my flabby tummy is getting flatter.
Now where is everyone else? Hope everyone is going okay :)
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Pam and Alison Happy Birthday!!!
Sorry I missed it - we took a drive to Katherine for the long weekend.
WTG Bella and Alison!
How's your first day going Pam?
Hope everyone else's weekend was relaxing (or not - I guess it depends on your take on it :D)
I've had a bit of a shocker of a weekend. It's really hard to have healthy options in the middle of no-where. I didn't snack though and only ate until I was full. We did some fairly hefty exercise too - hiking through Katherine Gorge and then swimmimg in the springs but you had to walk up and down these huge stairs. Then we went to a cave which involved some hiking with Nate on my back and some serious stairs again. This morning I actually felt so good I took Nate for a walk in the pram on his own while DH was here to watch Darc. Had forgotten how fast i liked to walk without a dawdler lol.
My plans for this week are to eat well during the day. Not only is Dh a huge sabotager, we also have multiple social functions on.
Oh and at least a bit of exercise every day.
Right now DH is giving me the irrits. He is really sucky at continuing anything he's got to try a bit at, and seeing as he thinks he should be able to eat what he wants (which is fair dinkum enough for 3 people every day), then losing weight is too hard. If he wants choccy then he brings home a block for after the kids have gone to bed....yes I know I should be stronger...but come on!!! :angry:...he also tells the kids they can have Maccas for lunch....and then makes me feel like the baddie when I tell him there's sandwiches at home....grrrr....but anyway.
500gms for me this week so not too bad.
For those of you that have/are BF do you notice a drop in your milk supply if you restrict calories? For weeks now I have been doing Calorie King and pretty well sticking to the calorie reccommendation. This weekend I ate a bit more and I had heaps more milk. Nate has been feeding about 10 times a day for the last 6ish weeks so my supply should have adjusted to that, but he didn't feed half as many time because there seemed like so much, and he fed better....:dunno:
Might give CK a rest for a bit and just be careful and continue with exercise....
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Kim I know you said you had a bad weekend but your lifestyle choices with the activities you are doing are fantastic. All of that hiking and stair climbing and swimming is all moving and moving burns calories. 500g is great so be proud. I know how hard it is when you have someone who can eat so much and brings home crap. DP bought home pizzas and maccas over the weekend. I resisted but it took a lot of will power and focus. I went and loked at my Fiji brochures (sigh). I lost 10Kg doing WW last year (kept 8Kg) of it off. I got extra points when bf. I have all my books for it somewhere so I will look up how they decide the points you're allowed. I cant remember if its 4 or 8 extra points for BF. You def need to increase your calories when BF. What has been your calorie recommendation on CK?
I just finished 45min on the treadmill (5Km). DP is good at helping with me with my exercise as he is so active so at least he isnt trying to sabotage me there. We have a post it note tally this week on the treadmill for who can do the most Kilometres in a week. I have the home advantage (as I am only working 1 day this week) but he has the speed advantage as he can run for a long time, I do a fast walk and add in some interval jogging here and there. So will be interesting to see what our end of week totals are.
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oooh that's a cool challenge!
My allowance on CK is 1780cals per day.
If I wan't feeding it would only allow me 1200ish.
Yeah cheers that would be great if you could have a look for me - all my stuff is in storage and i can only rely on what I can find here.
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Just popping in to let you know I am in deadline mode at the moment and will post results tomorrow around lunch time. Sorry guys! Am only just heading to bed now at 3am. Oh to sleep in!
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Hey girls,
I am still here! The past week has been a complete write-off - ate lots of naughty food and didn't exercise. I have done something to my right knee, and now my left foot is sore too... my body is falling apart and I'm only 24!!!
I'm on my back though - am going swimming at the gym tonight with Mel - I think swimming is the only exercise that isn't going to hurt me right now. Eating I'm trying to get back on track with, but it's hard going back to healthy food when you've been eating not-so-good-but-oh-so-yummy food all week! I haven't bothered weighing or measuring this week - mainly because I just don't want to know!
But I am here, I'm back! I'll be good again, promise :).
Keep up the great work girls!
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Welcome to week nine of the BB mid-2010 weight loss challenge. The total challenge is 12 weeks long but split into 1 month periods so you can commit to one month, two months or the whole lot.
The challenge is based on two measures
1. Percentage of weight lost
2. Centimetres lost
What do you need to do:
1. Get motivated and have a plan!
2. Get yourselves your bathroom scales and tape measure ready!
3. Start eating healthily and taking more exercise
4. PM krysalyss every Monday with your weight and measurements who will post results by Wednesday.
Please weigh yourself in kg's, and measure, in cm's, bust, tummy and hips.
Results so far are below (% loss so far ; cm loss so far):
Congratulations to everyone!!!
AliciaMrsH (7.5%) (19cm)
Alison1973 (5.7%) (9cm)
Arimeh (3.12%) (9cm)
BellaBambina (8.1%) (25.5cm)
Chrysalis (0%) (4cm)
~Kim~ (11.2%) (20.5cm)
krysalyss (3.5%) (10cm)
Sterla (9.7%) (42cm)
*suz1* (10.8%) (25cm)
Good luck with week nine!
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Hi Girls!
Happy Birthday to all the Geminis! Congratulations to everyone for sticking with the Challenge! Extra congrats for losses on the scales or cms.
We went away for the long weekend and only got back yesterday. I still managed to lose 100g even though we ate bacon and eggs and lots of other stuff that we don't normally have at home. I didn't think I had really exercised, but there must've been lots of incidental pram-pushing, baby-carrying etc. Plus for some reason I decided to do things like 'the plank' while watching TV. Plus my boobs seem to have really shrunk this week after putting DS2 on 3 solid meals.
3 weeks left! I'm not sure that I'll make the final goal that Calorie King has set me, but I'll try to fire up the motivation and see what I can do.
DS2 is calling, time for his BF :)
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Hi girls, well my first day was good eating but I did'nt get my walk in..Yesterday and today I did thoughI'm fitter than I thought!!! Lumping the babies around i guess..
Alison: Talking babies my baby is sick again, as well as DH (man flu) and middle DD just a cold but sore throats and snotty noses equals lack of sleep for me..this has been going around our house for weeks , we just get rid of it and some one brings it back...the joys of having a large family.
Kim I am BF and comping..I have a feeling my milk will go completely..but that was a possibilty anyway I am not counting calories I am eating sensible stuff and if I feel extra hungrey grab something in the dairy line or fruit.. I am not a very good cow, so I will continue on for as long as possible but I can't put weight loss on hold seeing as little Miss Tilly gets more from the bottle than BF.
Suz, hope your weekend was nice I prowled ebay for bargains that i forgot about and ended up missing anyway :( and they were cheap!!!! damn.
Sterla the swimming will do you good, I started falling apart in my late 20's but came good in my 30's, my last 3 pregnancies I had no issues with aches and pains, like I did with my first 2 :) lol getting older suits me!!!
Bella my DH is good at trying to get me off track, he can eat anythimng and not put weight on just his build, I guess. I have to really restrain myself..so far so good, but it is ony week one for me.
Krys thanks for letting me join I am about to read your PM..
We are expecting a huge storm, so not sure when I will get my walk tomorrow,but will be going no mater what!!!!
I keep having big problems with posting anyone else?? they just disappear or the screen flicks away from me??? Why I posted then added more.
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Hi girls had a really busy week with all the celebrations but managed to lose 500g. Dont know how though? My tummy feels bloated and pants a bit tighter.
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Hi Girls!
BellaB - Maybe you did lots of incidental exercise?
Blackduckies - I have dramas posting too. Most of the time I type my reply up and copy it to notepad in case I lose the post, but sometimes I'm in a hurry or forget.
Kim - With BF supply and calories, CK gives me 2000cal and I told it I am BF and inactive. I figure I'm probably taller/heavier than you? You could be more active than CK has allowed for with your 1780cal and need to eat more because you're actually burning more calories. I try to keep in my calorie range, but I read somewhere that you actually use protein to make milk, so I try to include protein in every meal. I also try to have small meals often.
Sterla - Sorry to hear about your knee and your foot. Swimming sounds like a great option to keep exercising without the impact.
Alison - How did you go this week with a sick bubba again?
Hope everyone had a great week :D Mine was a short one after weighing in on Wednesday. But I've had a good result to make up for last week's 100g, this week was 1.2kg and some more cms. Just out of curiousity I pulled up my starting measurements and wow! There's some inspiration right there! This week probably won't be as good, I've got a scratchy throat and feel like rubbish so I think a cold's coming. Touch wood the kids don't get it.
My exercise challenge this week is to do 10 push ups every day :)
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Hi girls. Just letting you know that I am doing some moving today (our shipping container is going to our new land). I should be back tomorrow night so will post results then. Hope you are all well. My weight is pretty much stuck but I am eating better so feeling better anyway. Take care!
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Hi girls, well my week was'nt as good as I hoped, I lost 7oograms and a little bit in cms... I walked most days but had a shocker end of week, kind of a mini clebration at how good I had been going midweek I had lost 1 kg!!!! But baby was fussing at the breast, mind you she still is even though I ate more calories once she strted doing that..so this week will go back to trying hard again, I reckon I am losing my milk anyway just by how she is behaving????
Hope you all went well??? sorry for my lack on being online, my walking is taking away my online time after tea/before bed, Dh is home RDO this morning why I was able to post now.
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Hi Girls - I had a terrible week in more ways than one!
Hi Suz - I've put on 400 grams this week:doh: Amelia was sick with teething and a cold (you can't tell me they're not related when as soon as her tooth popped on Saturday she went back to sleeping again and the runny nose has pretty much gone!) Anyway, lack of sleep had me doing no exercise and eating lots of chocolate so I'm not surprised.
I've decided to stop making pathetic excuses and this week I'm going to attempt to not eat so much crap. I've had nearly 12 weeks to lose this weight and I've only lost a little over half of it, I'm so close yet feel so far. So this week it's time to get serious. I'm sick of having this baby guts staring at me in the face every day grrr!
Congrats everyone else for doing well, I'm going to use you all as motivation.
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Oh man, have had a dreadful week both health and eating wise.
Went away for the weekend before last, then DH got sprayed with capsicum spray (it was voluntary, part of training, and both of us have been sprayed before - joys of the job :rolleyes:), but I'm allergic to oranges and it has orange oil as the base. All I did was kiss him and put his uniform in the wash (after he had stood under the shower for 1/2hr and had dried off too might I add) and within an hour I had a migraine that lasted 3 days, so there went tues to fri.
Friday was my first night out without the kids - ever.
Sunday was: a kids party in the morning, coffee with friends over lunch, a movie with a GF in the arvo, dinner with other friends on the wharf.
I have done no exercise other than incidental and oh AF arrived last night.
Consequently I'm too scared to weigh and have been much better today, though on 2 hours sleep, exercise doesn't feel like a priority. So Alison I hear ya.
Krys, I'm still in and still trying, but I am not going to weigh this week and won't be able to next week (we're moving) so will just send you details of my last weigh in.
Suz, though I can do pushups.....maybe I should just add a few of those sorts of things in.
Pam walking sounds like it's going well. I 've just been reseraching a walking group in Alice with the heart foundation. Thought I might be able to drag DS out when DH isn't working.
