Diet and Weight Loss General Support #10

Ok I have had time to read and will reply properly now.

Thankyou to everyone who has replied to my q's. I really appreciate it.

Belfie and ladybird11 in particular, thankyou both so much for your words! So much has actually really resonated with me and I am hoping might be what I needed to hear to help me get back that mojo I had and will need to get, and keep, going.

I am weighed down with the past. I have alot of issues with body image and self esteem and have always had them. My mother and brothers are alot to blame for that. Just that now, it's warrented, I am fat, I am unhealthy and don't look 'nice'. Back before kids and all this weight gain, it was all in my head, and now I know that, I mourn what I was and had then. But that will never be what I will be, it's never going to be possible for me to look like that again, and I need to deal with that. And noone say with hard work I can be waht I was, because I can't. My body is ruined from pregnancy and having large, tall babies in a small body (despite me being overweight, I am quite slight in build, at only 163cm tall), and nothing short of a major plastic surgery body overhaul will change that (though still, I would never be how I was). I need to love me for who and what I am now.

But what I can take from the past, is remembering how it felt to be fit and healthy and slim. To be able to walk into a store and buy size 10/12 clothes and *know* that they would fit, and more importantly look and feel nice. I want to be able to run for the bus and not keel over from exhaustion 5 steps from where I started!

Now, I can lose weight. Now, I can be fit and healthy. Now, I can be a good role model for my family, in particular my children, my daughter. Now, I need to change how I think. I need to change the bad habbits which have formed in the past 5(ish)yrs.

I am going to write out a detailed plan when I have time alone (likely not for another few days). I will go to the library and do it (along with my uni applications!)

Lets see if we can get this tiny spark to snowball!

3LM - I'm happy to be of any help hun! How is your mojo going lately :)? Good luck with the uni applications too!

WELCOME BACK TANSTAR!!! Yup, you were missed chic!

Hi everyone, sorry for it being short and sweet, I should really get to bed for an early start at work tomorrow!

My mojo had hit a brick wall. I just couldn't find that oomph that I needed again. I had decided to stop trying to lose weight and focus on other things which I wanted to do, like spring cleaning, gardening and doing different stuff with the kids, stuff like that. Though I realise now that that all goes hand in hand. I need to feel good to do that stuff, and to feel good I need to eat healthily and exercise. I have trouble with motivation because DS2 still wakes frequently at night, about 2(ish) hourly to feed every night. I don't get more than 2 hours sleep at a time. My other two kids usually wake once or twice a night too. So most days I wake up tired, I'm tired all day. Which of course affects my motivation. But I just have to do it. I am always tired, but eating well and exercise do help me feel better. I just have to remind myself of that when I feel horrid.

3LM - the whole sleep deprivation thing sucks. Still suffer it here to some extent, but not to the level that you would be at the moment :hug:

Will classify this week for me as a write off. There has been my birthday, my dad has been visiting etc. Trying to do the right thing, but sucking at it. Just not in my groove yet, so not really set-up to handle hurdles like this. Oh well, I did say my first month was more of a testing month to see what will and won't work for me. I do have to deal with hurdles, as they will not stop and there is a the major Christmas one coming up! Good motivation to lose weight, but also really scary when it comes to dealing with all the food and alcohol.

Just feeling crappy really. Feeling bloated, like I am bigger than ever. So damn tired (why won't my 3yo sleep?). So desperate for me time, the school holidays have killed me and finishing off with my dad here, as much as I am glad to see him, the timing just sucks. I feel like I can't breathe, which is just not great for me eating well and also for getting any exercise done. Please do not say go for a walk. Going for a walk by myself is just not possible right now and going with others is so bad, I would rather stick pins in my eyes than deal with that stress.

:hug: Astrid you poor thing. Can you take 5 mins - even if it is sitting on the loo to do some breathing/mindfulness if you know how to? Just give yourself some time out for YOU. I will regularly take much longer on the loo (supposedly ;)) than I need to and take in my HOme Beautiful mag with me!! Holidays end tomorrow hun and don't beat yourself up too much.

3LM - I have been there with sleep dep = not for a long time but I can tell you know there was no chance I was exercising or eating all that well. I just simply attempting to keep my head above water without going nuts so be easy on yourself hun xoxox
SB - You go girl!! Woooo well done sweets!!

:grouphug: I know motivation is down a bit - me included but Ihave decided to stop beating myself up, I will NOT feel guilty if I eat BBQ shapes, I won't kick myself for not doing exercise because i nearly broke my foot. I will never look like a supermodel so have stopped looking at pics on pinterest for motivation, but what I WILL do is never give up. It isn't a diet. It isn't a short term goal - it is a long term change in my view on food and exercise and one thing I have found over the last 2 mths is that I actively look for ways to exercise every day - it is a habit now and if I miss it I really miss it. I love that I have my JM dvds to do at home on days like today when the weather is crap. I know that eating wise I am at high risk of getting diabetes with my dad being type 2 and also because I carry my weigh around my middle. I have seen my sister lost 20 kgs recently through low carb -and exercising 5 days a week. She has battled weight for YEARS. I mean nearly 20 years and finally has lost it though a combination of both so I know it works. I know if I eat less carbs I feel better. I KNOW all of this intellectually but if I fall short I refuels to beat myself up because on top of focusing on all of that I have a nearly 3 year old who repeatedly says NO to everything in a day (tiring much) I have a 4 year old bright spark who needs to me to focused on her more than I am on me ITMS so if I fall short, have crappy days and don't meet my goals I simply don't give up and go again the next minute. Does that make sense?? It is working for me - I know it may not for everyone else but for me it helps to know that I am not perfect, I KNOW what I need to do but if I don't do it then that is actually ok but I have to keep going - for my kids sake. I also know that even with falling off the wagon but exercising I feel strong, I feel more toned, I can do PUSH UPS! OMG that I couldn't do before, and my shoulders look HOT if I do say so myself - so seeing those changes is enough to keep going.

Ok off my soapbox now - huge hugs to all, I am also considering cutting sugar for a month using Sarah Wilsons new book. I think I am addicted to it and like lots of people it doesn't make me a very nice person!! Am going to buy the ebook today!

Not sure my last post made any sense! :rofl: Was basically saying that we as mums constantly feel guilt over something in parenting, as wives/partners/ SAHM's or working mamas, mamas in general and I think we should go easy on ourselves with dieting and weightloss as well. Not to say that it should be an excuse to overindulge or not exercise but if we fall short on our goals at times, then just shrug it off and keep going rather than feeling like failures. Just my take!

Hi ladies!

Well, I am going ok. Not great, not a s well as I need to be or want to be, but better than I was! I am trying which is the most important bit :) No real exercise as yet, though I have been getting busy in the garden and I have sore muscles from it, so I am doing something good! I will go for a walk today though cause DH is home and I will have the opportunity to.
I am going to write out my goals and rewards and stuff now...this might take some time!

What are some rewrds you guys give your self when you've reached a goal?

Wow, quiet in here....

I'm still not going great guns, but doing ok. I went on a big walk this morning, pushing DS2 in his pram. it was a glorious morning and makes me wish I could start the day like that every day. But I can't with DH working and I can't take the 3 kids walking that kind of distance (a 4km walking track I go around) since I don't have a double pram anymore. Gosh that would exhaust me...pushing a double pram with 30-odd-kg of preschoolers in it and DS2 in the ergo...LOL! But we don't have one so it is irrelevant!
Eating....not so great. Still having way too much sugar. I am terribly addicted to it, and caffiene(sp) which at the moment are going hand in hand because I have 2 srtong coffees with a tsp of sugar in them each day to try to keep me going since I am having so little decent sleep. But I am going to try to forgive myself that. I will lessen the sugar in it to half, then maybe when I am sleeping more, I can cut it out totally (the coffee) because I associate coffee with sweet, plus coffee just isn't so great for me anyway!
But I am also not eating really well either. I am getting better each day though, and not eating actual junk, just not eating the better choices I *should* make most of the time, iygwim. Not enough fruit, but fruit out here is really expensive, or if it's not, then it's pretty crap quality. I'm not a huge fan of just oranges and apples, which are the only things which aren't costing an arm and leg right now, well, most of them, eg red delicious apples are $2.99kg, but the feel floury and soft. Pink lady's (which I love!) are $6 a kg. Bananas are $12 a kg. Strawberries, $5 a small punnet. You get the gist! Veggies are a bit more reasonable thankfully, plus we eat a fair bit of frozen veg mixed into rice and pasta dishes and stuff like that.
I tried on a pair of shorts this morning, which I brought when I was in mid pg with DD, (who is now 4 1/2) and they still fitted me when pg with DS1as well. Today, I couldn't get them over my hips. I am so ashamed...so sad. That I have let myself get so effing fat. I am fatter now than when I was pg with DD. Almost as heavy as when I was the last time I weighed when pg with DS2 (7kg off it). Ugh. No wonder I feel so horrid. I just can't find my mojo properly to do it....I wonder why? I really want to lose weight. I need to do it. I dunno :dunno:

I haven't been in here for ages... But then again, i've also fallen off the wagon big time. I haven't checked, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was back to where I started :(. Exercise isn't happening, eating heaps of junk... So annoyed at myself.

Only been quiet due to cruddy Internet, have tried to post but lose them.

Crashed big time today. Not a weightloss thing, but a whole life thing. My weight is going and I am sure I have not been that bad with food, had a birthday lunch, but that should not have mucked things up so much. Due to the Internet hassles, I have also struggled to get onto CK to track things.

3LM - wow fruit for you is expensive. Getting strawberries at the moment for $6 for 3 punnets.

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Only been quiet due to cruddy Internet, have tried to post but lose them.

Crashed big time today. Not a weightloss thing, but a whole life thing. My weight is going and I am sure I have not been that bad with food, had a birthday lunch, but that should not have mucked things up so much. Due to the Internet hassles, I have also struggled to get onto CK to track things.

3LM - wow fruit for you is expensive. Getting strawberries at the moment for $6 for 3 punnets.

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I hope you can refocus Astrid, unfortunately I know too well how it feels to fall off the wagon. Everything within your life affects how you eat and exercise.
And yep, fresh produce is ridiculously expensive out here in the sticks. And it's often not nice quality, and definately not much organic stuff. I guess it's a drawback of living in the outback!

Ok. I relent. I give in. Give up. I can't do this. I suck. It has been months since I started and I have gotten nowhere. I can't so it to myself anymore so I am going to stop trying. I am torturing myself over something that clearly can't work for me right now.
Good luck to you all. Thank you to everyone who has been patient and given advice. I truely do appreciate it.

3LM :hug: you do not suck, you can relent and give yourself a break hun because as I posted earlier, we all have so much more going on that the pressure we place on ourselves is huge at times hun. I bet you will find even if you do 'give up" that yo will still try to get some exercise in, you will try to have a healthy dinner at times, you will make choices for healthy snacks - maybe not every day at every meal but just replacing 1 or 2 is making a different health wise and modelling to your kids. I have been cracking away at this last 5 kgs for months and months and months and although I am not tracking now and just generally trying to make some good decisions - give the kids good food, and show them that exercise is a part of every day, that is enough for me right now even if I am not budging the last 5 kgs.

I failed miserably at no sugar :rofl: not sure who I was kidding but I lasted 3 days before I was feeling SO dizzy and sick and just horrible, and unfortunately for me, dizzy = anxiety so of course that amped up while I was feeling like that - then I decided, why on earth am I doing this? Yes I truly feel that sugar is terrible for us but I actually don't have HUGE amounts of it either but if I feel like a little glass of fruit juice with lunch I am going to have it occasionally.

Anyway off my soapbox now and just wanted to give you a huge hug :hug: hun because i can feel your disappointment and how upset you are through the screen xoxoxoxo

3LM - take a break if you need to, this weight loss caper can be so hard :hug:

Tanstar - years ago I cut out sugar. I was terrible for 3 days, then woke up one morning and felt wonderful. Not sure I could go through it again, as it was pre children, I think they would push me too much now ;)

Feeling better here. Not sure what my "crash" was about, but my muscles are feeling quite weak. Wonder if I have been hit with a virus? Just remembered I was switched my super food supplement over from Swisse to In-liven. Maybe my body is adjusting to the switch. A friend as lent me some Zumba DVDs, will be interesting to see how I go, could be a laugh :rofl:

My internet is good for now, but it will probably be crap for the rest of the week, so no CK food tracking, will have to do something on paper. Have done so in the past with the TWD, so will drag out my old checklist and follow it. Have kind of been anyway, as I know that white carbs are not the best for me and need to keep them in control. So high fibre for breakfast, then choose whether my lunch or dinner gets the carb component.

im coming back. was here a few months ago, did ok, lost a bit, got sick, moved house, gave up, didnt go back to ALL my old habits, but some.

so...starting fresh!!!

todays goals/tasks

-drink 1.5L water
-no unhealthy snacks, chocolate, ice cream etc :redface:
-do a good healthy food shop
-do something active for 30 minutes
-lower salt intake

i will weigh in/measure in the morning and set my goals.

hi to everyone, good luck and il be back to read etc later. :wave:

Well.......1.1kg lost since last Wednesday :D Very happy. Started tracking on CK again as of Sunday. Have not been perfect, but pretty good. Damn DH bringing me a glass of wine ;)

Exercising is still my issue. Go the Wii Fit out today, along with Just Dance and DD2 kept on hassling me. She screamed whenever I put on a song that she did not like (what is not to like about "Wake me up before you Go Go"? :rofl: So ended up stopping. Think today my exercise will be cleaning out the car and maybe giving it a wash of we have time.

Big car trip this weekend (9hrs oneway). Going to make food difficult, I tend to eat when it comes to my turn to drive, probably out of boredom. For the way up I will make sandwiches and cut fruit. The trip back will be hard, as we will be reliant on Fastfood. Pretty sure one of the stops on the way has a few more choices than just Maccas (I hope)

Welcome back beckoes! How have you been going?

Well done ont he loss astrid. thats a great loss in a week!!! hope the big drive goes ok. you could always get some nuts or other healthyish snacks to nibble while your driving back that you can just chuck in car before you leave and not worry about going off. then on the way back you wont just have to rely on the truck stop food. :)

Well, i havent weighed in, just did my measurments. so i guess il have to do them again in a few days. i feel better that im not eating a magnum every night. DH would bring one home for on his way back from work as he gets them for free from work. and ive been so good not eating chocolate and crap when ever im near a shop. having salads for lunch and smaller portions for dinner and just having loads of veggies. its going ok. so i muct have lost SOMETHING! :)

Oh no - a magnum a night! I would find that hard to give up. There is something about free food that is hard to say no to.

I handled a major challenge today, DD2 wanted pancakes. So made them for her and the rest for her sister after school. I then took the leftover batter (not enough to make a decent pancake), grated through half a zucchini, a whole carrot and a pinch or 2 of parmesan. Made two nice veggie fritters for lunch ;) Was also good managed to not eat her uneaten pancake, I wrapped it up and put it in the fridge for her for later. Normally I would just scoff it along with whatever else I was eating.

Getting back to it this week, so hard when we are away plus it's 2:25and I'm drinking a Bacardi and coke (zero at least!!!!) love holidays but can tell I've put on some weight in the past few weeks.

Now it's lighter later I'm going to get back into my c25k too because I can do it when DH gets back from work.

Hang in there girlies, Astrid whooo for a loss hun and Beckoes i love your list!! and remember we aren't dieting but on a constant journey if making good choices xoxox

Hi ladies I hope you don't mind me jumping in here.
I am hoping to get some inspiration and motivation from others to keep me on track with my weightloss.
I have struggled with my weight ever since DS was about 3m old and PND set in. I stacked on heaps of weight when I was pregnant but lost about 20kg in the first two months... struggling with and then recovering from PND I put it all back on.

Anyway, I am totally ashamed that it ever got this bad and I have to stop making excuses. After a positive pregnancy where I lost weight (a minimal 500gm) in total, I am down 11.8kg just a month after DD's birth. That is more than 10% of my body weight that I never want to see again!!!
I am starting to struggle now that the natural post natal loss has hit its' inevitable decline (although 1.1kg for the last week is still pretty epic ;)) and I need to start making better choices again and cut out the lollies and chocolate that has crept its way into my diet as a means of keeping me happy and giving me a sugar hit in the middle of the night when I am feeding. Totally determined to use breastfeeding to my advantage to lose this weight and set healthy eating habits because i know my metabolism is faster at the moment and i will struggle more when it slows down again!!

Anyway sorry for the extended blurb. I am in the process of making some mini goals and rewards for myself... The first of which i have already achieved as it should really be getting my BMI under 40 / weight under 100 / 10% body weight (which were essentially a combination all around a similar time) but I kept fobbing it off as it was after the birth... I realise i shouldnt because i obviously lost that weight while i was pregnant anyway given i had no gains!!!

I also decided to set myself a 10 week goal which was from last week 24/10 (as I had gained in that week which is when i went oh bummer no more easy losses!) to the end of the year and am aiming to lose 10-15kg during this time. I am realistically pushing for 15kg but I don't want to set myself up for failure so I will be happy with 10 ;) . 1.1 down so I have made a good start.
Now I have to try and get some more exercise in...

Dragoncookie...HI :wave: sounds like you have set some really good goals!! good luck with reaching them :)

Astrid: well done for not eating the leftovers, i have that problem too, i just cover it with washing up liquid before its too late!!

AFM: i have basically been getting rid of my sweet tooth and sugar cravings, havnt really had any chocolate of lollies for two weeks, been having healthy lovely food, not really restricting what i eat, not weighing and measuring my food, just eating healthy, lots of salads I have lost about a kg, but i was putting that on a week with the way i was eating so im happy with that. And about one cm from my tummy.

I basically want to get rid of the fat that has found its way to my tummy! Its like my belly button is having a party and all my body fat is invited! I look pregnant...and im NOT!!

Im feeling a little unmotivated and time poor and i found this recipe book/diet book. CSIRO total wellbeing diet. I like the principle and its basically the sort of food i try to eat anyway but just explained an bit better and portion size is really exact! i think thats my main problem, portion size. i make a healthy dinner and then eat DHs portion too as he is never here...works late almost every day.

So i have started that today and im going to try and do that 'shred' dvd i was doing before. id love to do it every day, but i dont know if il make that goal! anyway, off to plan my meals for the week...it takes a bit of planning with this new book, but i think it will be so worth it!

Good luck everyone.

Dragoncookie - Welcome :D Totally get the weight gain shame. Amazing how we let it "sneak" up on us :hug: I definately like the idea of utilising breastfeedings to help with weight loss.

beckoes - the CSIRO TWD is great. I lost weight on it last year when I did the online trial. It is what I am "trying" to follow at the moment, in combination with using calorie king.

Weigh in tomorrow - not looking forward to it, the big road trip on the weekend took its toll. Too much sitting and too much eating. Came back feeling rubbish, almost like I was coming down with something. Had the shakes, was feeling hungry, but just could not stomach any food. Think my body is used to the healthier eating and rejected the excessive amounts of carb.

Well - no weigh in today. DH was in the way. I have only the Wii Fit board to weigh on, so I need space and time to get it done.

Ok with food today until this evening. Not sure if it was due to AF being here, but I was beginning to feel faint and very hungry, so decided to eat more. I certainly had not undereaten during the day according to CK, but maybe I had.

Ok, think I am going to stop counting calories. Monitoring every bit of food that goes into my mouth is doing my head, plus I have been feeling constant hunger, with the odd dizzy spell, even on days I am over on calories.

It seems the weeks where I have a loss is where I have been keeping my carbs in check, so it looks like the CSIRO TWD is the way to go with me. Being on CK has been helpful, seeing the calorie count of some foods was a quite a shock and actually explained why I lost weight limiting carbs (Amazing the amount of calories in one lasagne sheet). Logging each carrot stick was just too much, I like having some "free" foods that I don't have to worry about.

Well I did say when I started this, that it was going to be a time of discovery for me and it has been. I will be heading off to the GP for other things, so I will ask about my weight then. It has been a struggle this time and need to know whether it is to do with aging or something else. I have always had issues with hunger and it would be good to know why.

Ok, enough about me ;) How is everyone else going?

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i think thats a great way to do it, i counted cals for a few days ages ago, just to see what was ''right'' but i was still pretty crap with my portions. im doing the TWD too, i got a great recipe book and have been using it for 4 days, not only do i love it and enjoy the food, DD1 has enjoyed every dinner too! no changes to them, just as they are in the book. which is great as she normally says i made her a yuck dinner....last night she told me that every mouth full made her smile bigger, you cant put a price on that!! :)
i think im loosing on it, i feel like i am. although DH bought me a little piece of chocolate cake from work yesterday, but i guess thats my 2 units of indigence for the week ;) im ok with that....its bloody good cake!!!
Any tips for that diet Astrid??

I have the same cereal i normally do, home made.

40g rolled oats
20g mixed nuts/seeds
30g dry fruits
cinnamon
1/2 c milk

but i find the rest of the day takesa bit of planning, i have to right it all down etc.....what about you??

I found printing out a check list works. I did one up in excel, with the day/dates down the side and the portions across the top. I think there are some PDF's on the CSIRO site that have various types of check lists to print out.

Of a morning I would tick off my breakfast, then as I made my lunch for work, I would tick of that. Then I would have a bit of an idea what I could have for dinner.
Basically I kept the high fibre for breakfast, so normally porridge or bircher (DH really likes that one as well, but it does take some getting used to), then made the decision of where to have my carb portions for lunch or dinner (found it was not worth splitting). The kids enjoyed some of the meals, they really like the tandoori chicken ones.

Got to admit to not really going for low fat dairy, we have access to unprocessed milk and that comes full fat.

Screen capture of my portion check list - it is not pretty, but I found it helped.
https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...wdportions.JPG

I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAAACCKKK :rofl:

Gosh it is quiet in here?? How is everyone going in the lead up to Xmas?? 4 weeks to look hot is my aim, I hated photos of myself last year and am determined for it not to happen this year. I have been shocking for the last month.. I have eaten all sorts of rubbish willy nilly, basically no exercise and my anxiety of course has sky rocketed. So I am back to the psych, anxiety is under control which means my energy levels are up. I am tracking on MFP again starting today, just had a yummy omelette with sausage in it, really going to do a mega carb cut back and went for a 45 min walk with DS.

Am going to do some classes at a gym too, either Pump or something else I think - what do you guys think is the best fat burning workout at a gym?

Hey ladies - hoping that I can jump in here to help me focus on not gaining too much weight during my pregnancy.

My gp explained to me that bevause I'm already classified as 'obese' (how embarrassing) I shouldn't need to gain any weight during pregnancy, and if I focus on being fit and healthy I will lose weight quickly once bub arrives.

Tanstar - I always think pump is the best weightloss class because you get your heart pumping as well as getting those muscles working hard. And doing weight causes the body to burn calories for hours longer than cardio.

I can't believe that it's only 4 weeks until Christmas - crazy!!


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hey it is quiet in here

no one diets over christmas hey ?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well my baby is 12 days old and i have lost 8 kg since he was born and only 1 kg to go to pre preg size.

then 4 kg to go to pre IVF size

so all in all i need to lose 5 kg more.

early days yet

hope everyone had a nice christmas

x

Arggh just lost a huge post - damn DH's new iPad! Quick one and will retype later- up another 2kgs:( mega unhappy but am starting tracking again today, upping water and exercise daily again. SO annoyed at myself,
But am determined to get back on the wagon.
Welcome JBM!

ET: Back on my lappy!!! Ok so I am up to 66.4 kgs which for me is wayyyyy too big, am only 5'1 so any extra kgs make a huge difference. I haven't been doing my exercise, just erratically going out for C25K. Luckily my fitness is still up there but I hurt my neck a week ago plus with Xmas have been pretty demotivated. Am eating whatever I want when I want which is a recipe for disaster - no self control at times, so annoyed but determined to lose it all and then some. I need that buffer that I never got to. If I can get to 60kgs and maintain that will give me a few kgs buffer in case I do fall off the wagon again.

No NYE resolutions here, I am starting today and am getting DH on board because he needs to lose weight too and am worried about the kids picking up on our shocking eating as well.

Ok that is all from me, off to the pool with DH and the kids - awesome, hanging out in bathers is JUST what I want to do :rofl:

Dragoncookie, Beckoes and Astrid how are you all faring over Christmas???? CSIRO sounds interesting - Im just not that good at sticking to a plan though, toyed with the idea of doing MB 12 week thingy but can the kids eat the same food??? Is the CSIRO one like that as well - in that could the kids eat the same??
Maybe I do need to mega meal plan....Mmmm.

Off on holidays next week and am determined to walk every day with the kids, or run by myself. It WILL happen!!

I'm back too. Have gained 2.7kg - not too much I know but I dont wanna let the slide continue.

On the bike right now, back later with more

Go tan, I'll keep you company :)

Yay Hun! It's that time of year I guess! Off to Invy today but I am going to walk and bike heaps while we are there! Should be around a bit at night while we are away to check in!

Oh boy. Trying not to think about the past, but thinking about moving forward. Took some time off worrying about weight as I was having other issues health wise and really trying to get the hang of working again.

Went to my good GP and spoke my health, mental and physical. On anti-d's now. Have had my bloods checked, not low on iron yet. Surprising as I am really good at eating meat, but AF is quite bad these days, so will be getting that checked out. Also going for a colonoscopy. Thyroid is fine, which she thought would not be due to my symptoms. I do suspect I might have adrenal fatigue, but that is something GP's don't recognise. All I can do for that though, is rest, good food etc.

My fitness levels are shot, went to the beach with lots of steps, going up killed my thighs. So I really, really, need to do something about that along with watching my food. Once the in-laws are gone and life is back to more of a routine I can do some planning. Need to do some food planning from a budget point of view as well. We have lots of veg coming from the garden now, so that should help.

Tanstar - CSIRO should be ok for kids, they do have a kid book (CSIRO Wellbeing Plan for kids). The mains should really be fine from the main plan, they really are just meat with a good dose of veg.

Astrid :hug: Hope the anti-D's help hun. I really find that the more I exercise the better off my mental state is ( der) - I have anxiety - bad at times with panic attacks, but all under control with seeing my psych and applying mindfulness techniques etc. Thing is though, I find myself on a really bad cycle of eating bad food= low energy= no exercise=weight gain= depression coz I feel fat=low energy = you get the picture. Once i start exercising regularly I tell myself I will NEVER stop - until 6 weeks or so later and I get lazy :rolleyes: Seriously drive myself batty at times. I was looking at some photos of myself from back in August when I was on my way to losing weight and that has given me some motivation that I CAN do it, I have done it in the past and will do it again, this time I will keep going though instead of easing up on myself. Just a little here and there turns into a lot all the time and by tracking I should get that perspectives.

Anyway I guess what I am saying is that I hope you find a balance for health/mental and physical hun - all so tied up together aren't they and once you lose in one area the others suffer too :hug: Food planning is one thing I need to do once we get back next week as well. Vegies in your garden sound ace!! We have the bare minimum this year because I was a bit low around planting time and then got too busy - wonder if I could still put in some zucchini!

Definitely bad cycle stuff here Tanstar - just need to break what parts of it are in my control (can't control that DD2 is still a horrid sleeper).

Lots of zucchinis coming, lots of lettuce. Snow peas have gone now, pity they are such short lived. Cucumbers should be starting. Lots of silverbeet and spinach.

I'm back in here. Stood on the scales yesterday, while I'm same weight I was this time last year, I know I've yo-yo'd during the year. So goal is to get to double figures & down 2 dress sizes by my birthday. I have an added incentive of a volcano climb in Oct/Nov which is about 9kms each way - so approx 8 hours of climbing in one day with a ritual thrown in the middle of it all. One of my best friends has given me training tips to get ready for the climbing.

What I need to do is re-look at my food, go back to a 100% protein day a week, cut down on the carbs, actually eat 3-6 times a day. My signature is my reminder of how long I've got to get to my fitness goal.

i am finding it a little hard cause i really cant exercise yet at alll
so i just need to control diet

had scrambled eggs x 2 this morn
2 x mushrooms
2 x corn thins

no bread..... baby doesnt like bread... makes us both very windy.... lol

JBM - wow I think I'd be ravenous after that, did it fill you up?

Sopdet - how are you going so far? Great goals you've got there

Astrid - oh it just bites when you're not feeling good, not getting rest - that's hard work :( I hope you feel a bit more energetic soon. I always find that a few weeks in I really start to notice an increase in my energy levels.

Tan - breaking the cycle and not looking back. Sooo important. how are you finding it?

Well I just tried a PT with my DH. We've never used a PT outside a gym setting before (she has a small home-based studio) and I thought the first session was great. Plus she really tailored to his limitations (still can't do a full range of stuff due to some residual vertigo issues). She also has us doing quite different things as our fitness levels are vastly different, but it worked really well and wasn't that obvious that we were different IYKWIM (which I think is good, I didn't want him to feel disheartened). I don't know if I'd do it on my own as I don't have a heap of weight to lose, but it's better value $-wise if we both go, and I figure some fitness is good, more is better right? ;). Am already seeing the scales moving in the right direction, yay, so hoping for a good loss on Sat morning :)

Today I'm planning to do a bike ride and tomorrow a good 5km run. Gotta keep my eating on track today as I already had a pretty high cal treat this morning.