Diet and Weight Loss General Support #12

[LionsandBears]

Welcome to the Weight Loss Support thread.

Please remember this is for weight loss, any other general chatter may be removed at the moderators discretion.

Good luck to you all with achieving your goals.

Your previous thread can be found here

[Arimeh]

Wow I killed the last thread...

[Astrid]

Hmm, should not have bought nice white bakery bread. Must resist!!

[Arimeh]

Ooh that was always my weakness too! Just how squishy it is...mmmm

[LysnDan]

Hi I'm a new member & was wondering if I could join this thread. I'm 8 months postpartum & want to lose 20 or so kilos to get to my goal weight. I have been exercising like crazy & trying to curb sugar cravings. How do u all crave them?

[Arimeh]

Hi I'm a new member & was wondering if I could join this thread. I'm 8 months postpartum & want to lose 20 or so kilos to get to my goal weight. I have been exercising like crazy & trying to curb sugar cravings. How do u all crave them?

Hi and welcome! I've been on my new lifestyle for over 3 months now so I don have any cravings for any bad food any more - so I can't help with your question, but wanted to welcome you to BB anyway

[~Kim~]

Ha you didn't kill it you dag, it's was like 40posts over 300 lol.

Kell you do not suck!!

Astrid - you can do it!!...oh but with real butter and honey.....NO you CAN do it!

Hey Purplepixie, welcome chick. I suck with sugar cravings too. No real advice. I've tried a lot. The best is just not to have anything in my house.

Well this plan is showing me that I don't mind stuff I've previously avoided because I thought I didn't like it. Just had a snack of banana, no fat plain yoghurt and LSA meal...wasn't too bad at all. Filled the hole anyway.

It was only 3degree when it was time to take Darc to school this morning so too cold to put the littlies in he pram. Went to the gym and did 45mins on the spin bike and treadie...boring but it's something.

[MrsFabuloso]

LOL, Mel. Thread killer.

Astrid, good luck with the bread. I love fresh bakery bread *drool* Lucky for me our one and only bakery here sucks and the bread isn't that nice!

Purple pixie, I just did a few weeks sugar free. Whilst the first week was pretty difficult and a struggle, it got easier every day. After that I didn't really crave the sugar at all. Once you're over the hump of the physical craving, it isn't so hard not to eat it!

[Arimeh]

OOh I'd love to go on a spin bike. Well, correction, I'd love to own a spin bike, we have an exercise bike, but I never go on it.... dunno really what the difference is.....

Kel - I think its about 3 weeks and then thats it. Then it just gets easier. I think I crave strawberries more than chocolate now LOL

[Ginger]

hi girls
can i join in here?
after being in denial for over a year about my increasing weight, i actually joined weight watchers this morning. the program seems really good and achievable, but just thought i should jump in here to get some extra support

[LysnDan]

Hi and welcome! I've been on my new lifestyle for over 3 months now so I don have any cravings for any bad food any more - so I can't help with your question, but wanted to welcome you to BB anyway

Thankyou Mrs Nerd Burger, what's this new lifestyle? Id love to hear about it! If you don't get cravings, its something id also love to try.

Hey Purplepixie, welcome chick. I suck with sugar cravings too. No real advice. I've tried a lot. The best is just not to have anything in my house.

Well this plan is showing me that I don't mind stuff I've previously avoided because I thought I didn't like it. Just had a snack of banana, no fat plain yoghurt and LSA meal...wasn't too bad at all. Filled the hole anyway.

It was only 3degree when it was time to take Darc to school this morning so too cold to put the littlies in he pram. Went to the gym and did 45mins on the spin bike and treadie...boring but it's something.

Thanks Kim. Yes I find that too, but the husband has a lot of sweets in the house. Especially chocolate.

Wow. 45 minutes on spin bike. I'm so unfit I don't think id be able to handle 5minutes. Well done!

Purple pixie, I just did a few weeks sugar free. Whilst the first week was pretty difficult and a struggle, it got easier every day. After that I didn't really crave the sugar at all. Once you're over the hump of the physical craving, it isn't so hard not to eat it!

3 little monkeys... Did you find that you had massive headaches the first week? I signed up to body trim and the 3 day detox was terrible. Definitely a diet I can't tolerate.

Ginger, weight watchers is really good (I think so anyway!). It is about healthy eating, but also teaches you lifestyle and emotional strategies to cope with eating and weight gain/loss. If I could afford it, I would do it again!

Yes, weight watchers is fairly expensive isn't it. I have a nut allergy, so choosing off the menus is nearly impossible for me. Plus my weekly shop costs less than the plan and I enjoy cooking meals.

Thankyou all for the welcome. Let's kick some kilos. My first main goal is to lose 5 kilos. Small achievable goals to start with. I've just got to over 90kilos. The heaviest I've been in my life, even when I was pregnant, and I didn't even get to term!

Its too scary looking at loosing 20kilos. But I'm determined to do this!




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[Arimeh]

Purplepixie - I had 35kg to lose so I get its so daunting when its a biggish number. I'm halfway though - woohoo lol

Um, my new lifestyle was just eating well and exercising! That's about it really! I weaned myself off chocolate and all the sweet stuff before I started the new lifestyle so thats why I no longer crave it. I think if you wean yourself off it properly, you don't get the same cravings as you do if you allow yourself a little bit - cos I could never stop at a little bit, so I knew I had to go off it completely. I haven't eaten chocolate in a while, well I had m and m's at my BIL's place, but it didn't really do anything for me - so I haven't craved them again! Though the thought of farm fresh strawberries dipped in dark chocolate is on my mind a bit at the moment haha!


How often does everyone weigh themselves? I do it pretty much every morning, just out of curiosity. I know weight fluctuates dramatically so I don't really pay any attention unless its my proper weigh in day (every Sunday, and we record it monthly on the 23rd). I think this morning I was just a smidge over 82kg so I'm getting excited about that! Thats getting close to the 70's lol

[Ginger]

nerd- I'm going to be weighing in every wednesday. once a week for me, daily does my head in too much!!! 82 wow that is terrific! what is your goal? what sort of exercising have you been doing?

im not really a sweet tooth, more into savoury foods- love cheeses and wine and hot chips. yum!!!

[Arimeh]

I started just by walking around the streets near my house, and then we got a cross trainer, so I work out on that, we also have an exercise bike (that I was using but now I'm not) and then we got a rower (which now doesn't work, have to get it fixed) and then we got a treadmill - which I use. So I exercise nearly every day, either the cross trainer or treadmill. No exercise today though, DD1's birthday so we haven't had a chance to fit it in.

BTW - we are definitely not rich or anything, our equipment was all secondhand, think the bike was $65, rower was $80, treadmill was $275 and my cross trainer was $750 (which I sold 3 baby carriers to fund).

Anything to get fit huh!

Whoops - and my goal is 65. So I started at 103kg in March, then when I started my new lifestyle in April I was 100kg exactly.

[Beach Mama]

Everyone!!!!!! Welcome Ginger and Purplepixie!

I am doing cr@ptastically over here!! 3LM don't be so hard on yourself hun, this is HARD work babe. My exercise is fine - doing something every day, with about 1 day rest a week. Food on the other hand is terrible. DH came home with a block of Cadbury tonight - what is wrong with the man? He KNOWS we both need to lose weight, he KNOWS i have zero control. Ugh. ANyway frustrated much. Scales still not going up or down - same weight i have been for weeks and weeks and weeks. In my bathers I definitely noticed that my tummy is a bit flatter but whatever. I need to still lose 6-8kgs and it's not shifting until I do some major turn around on food. Got my csiro diet book out tonight and am going to have a good read tonight once kids are in bed and see if DH can choose a few recipes too!

Work has been awful this week so I have had a few alcoholic beverages as well more than usual although am trying to stick to vodka and soda! ( I don't have a problem I promise - just stressed!)

BBL!

[jaqus]

Hi I'm a new member & was wondering if I could join this thread. I'm 8 months postpartum & want to lose 20 or so kilos to get to my goal weight. I have been exercising like crazy & trying to curb sugar cravings. How do u all crave them?

[Kazbah]

Hey ladies! Some very impressive figures there!

Well. I'm currently 76.4kg and my mini-goal is 70kg. Then 65kg and I'll be in healthy weight range. Ideally 55 kg, but I'll be happy with 60.

My doc wants me to aim for 1kg/month, which apparently tricks the body so it doesn't go into starvation mode. I'm weighing fortnightly with my PT and doing my waist measurement then too. The real goal is to het to a healthy 80cm waist - I'm currently 98.5cm.
I do weigh myself daily but more as motivation.

I did the 1mkc earlier in the year, so using the recipes from that where I can.
sent from the Hellmouth.

[LysnDan]

Oh my!

I can't get enough chocolate right now.

Its really setting me back on my weight loss goals. Plus I've felt that lousy, I haven't exercised. :-( got to really get motivated!

sorry for the "all about me vent" :-( feeling really low about weight right now.

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