Diet & Weight Loss General Support #8

[Miss K]

Hey Mildez no not milky tasting at all they are the only ones I have been able to stomach!

[tellytubby]

Yay, on the computer to I can type properly! hehe!

Leesa, err... yes I am a member of your fat chic slim page! Whoopsie! But I am ALWAYS reading your posts, just not posting myself. I loved the one a week or so ago, talking about how you guys can't make people do things, its up to us, and how much we want it for ourselves (or something of that nature). It actually rung true, and I *listened*. I would love love love some tough love from you. I think thats exactly what I need, my two besties are also *cough* obese.. (hate saying I'm obese! sucks!), so they'd never mention my weight - worse still they're always keen for cakes, hot chips, all the crap that got me here in the first place! Gah! So yes, tough love! Slap of reality! Bring it on!! I've been reading your blogs lately too. Bit queer, stalkerish how much Ive been thinking of you lately actually! This morning after my brekky, I sooo wasn't going to go for a walk, and I thought to myself. "Leesa didn't get where she is today by doing sweet nothing! She exercises everyday! I can do it too!!" Yes I know, I'm odd. You can take out a restraining order at anytime, haha But seriously, thanks for the motivation! I might have to look further into my HR when my fitness levels start to increase (which hopefully WILL happen!). Are you hoping to reach your 800g loss at the end of this week? You're doing fab, keep it up!

Hey Miss K and welcome to the group! I've only recently gotten back on track too. First goal is 10kg, second 15kg. Glad to hear your nutritionist is keeping you motivated! Do you find the shakes filling? I've never had one, so no idea really! I'm a WW girl. Been doing it for so many years I just subconsciously count them now. I know what i should eat, what I shouldnt (obviously don't care most times, hence the reason i'm here! ) But am feeling so ready this time around, its quite bizare. I've never felt this mentally focused. Loving it!

Livvy I have no idea on where you're suppose to measure. But it sounds like you're sourced a reputable website to get your info! I like the one where you breathe out too, ha! Did you stay good with your baking today! I can proudly say I didn't even have one bite of my baking efforts! Wasn't easy.... but I managed!

Belfie - don't be jealous of my waist. I'll be jealous of yours! And yes... I am going to join you on the Diet coke loving. It is SUCH a bad habit, but jeeze... I can't help it! I love my diet coke, even when i'm NOT dieting! But when I'm dieting.... yep... gets really bad I find myself, rather than boredom eating, I boredom drink DC. Gah! Not good! All those nasty chemicals are not good for us! I've actually bought some Saxby's diet ginger beer, which is different! Nice with some ice (as I'm finding it a bit spicy!). I have one of them, while DH has his scotch Let me know how your results go, be interesting to know if it does effect your waistline!

Mildez - Hope your walk was nice And definitely food for thought in regards to your hubby subconsciously wanting to keep you cuddly, hehe. Have you talked to him about how you need some support??

Leesa I just remember to say to enjoy your personal stylist!! What a fantastic reward!

AFM. Fish and vegetables for dinner. Not too bad. I really wanted steak, but tomorrow is my official first weigh in, so didn't want anything heavy. Next week I'm determined to NOT weigh myself daily, I'm so impatient. I get so disheartend when the scale says the same number (or heaven forbid 200g HIGHER like this morning!!! Damn it!). So figure once a week really is ample. Went shopping with mum today, she got some redrooster hot chips while she was walking.... wow, i felt like tackling her to the ground and snatching them off of her like a wild animal, hahahaha! So I had a diet coke to keep my hands and mouth busy (see belfie!! so naughty!).

[Miss K]

Tellytubby - The shakes are really filling surprisingly... There is another one I'll have to check the brand its even more filling I just don't enjoy the jamaican chocolate flavour as I was silly when I was younger with jamaican rum and still to this day I can't handle the smell or taste LOL
How do you like WW? I always wanted to be a weight watchers girl! Once a week with the weighing is better than every day as your weight will go up and down slightly (my nutritionist nearly died when I told her I weighed myself everyday as she said it doesn't keep you focused and makes you obsess too much)
Damn people having to have Red Rooster or any fast food really tests our will power! Good on you for not attacking her like a wild animal hehe!!

Another interesting thing I will add about my weightloss is I started walking/ powerwalking and doing 13kms a day and I have been told to stop for now and do aqua aerobics 3-4times a week minimum or water running as normal walking was releasing some kind of thing that doesn't help with my weight loss or frame of mind who'd of thought! I prefer aqua/water excercises better!

[Tinsel]

Well I've had a blow out this weekend with DD2's 2nd birthday party so I'm putting it behind me and will focus on the week ahead. I'm weighing in tomorrow morning which I haven't done in a while and will get the tape measure out too. Right, I'm ready!

I need the tough love Leesa and have liked your FB page. Looking forward to it.

[Sammiejane]

Hi all,
Hi Tellytubby, sorry for your loss well done for getting back into it, after my m/c i did nothing for months...
Miss K, welcome

I have been from you all, trying to pretend that i never joined this group and that i can eat all i like

I had a really bad week, followed by last week where we had DSS for the school holidays and i didnt do ANY exercise - other than clocking up close to 10,000 steps each day (just from general walking around/housework etc AND poor eating, not terrible, but snacking more and not really considering what was going in my mouth... so i didnt weigh in and then stopped reading the thread cos i wanted to pretend i wasnt part of it (easier on my phone too as i cant see my sig each time i post)
I could go on with the excuses, but i wont, i am back and tomorrow I start again.
Tonight i measured my waist... i was totally dreading it, but i have managed to loose another cm so obviously i have been makeing better choices with my food - not sure what i weigh, i am sure that i havent lost anything, will hop on the scales tomorrow, but i am happy that i have not go backwards with my waist.

Anyway... here are my goals for the week...
Drink a glass of water before each cup of tea and ONLY drink water and tea
10,000+ steps a day
Walk x 3 times a week (weather permitting)
Watch food intake again

A quick question for you all... exercise, i find it hard to fit in, DH works weird and long hours, so going to the gym is our really. I can go for walks, but am aware that this really wont give me great and quick results. Girls are in bed at 8.30pm so can do stuff then, but we have a tiny house so have nowhere to go to do it alone - no other TV room etc...
(can you see my excuses here!!!!)
What should i do, what will give me good results?
Leesa - i am up for some tough love

Sorry for the lack of personals

[belfie]

Tellytubby - here's that link about diet soft drink & waistlines. And the good news is that I managed to avoid it yesterday, I hope i'm through the worst of it now! Gotta go

[livvy]

Anyway... here are my goals for the week...
Drink a glass of water before each cup of tea and ONLY drink water and tea
10,000+ steps a day
Walk x 3 times a week (weather permitting)
Watch food intake again

A quick question for you all... exercise, i find it hard to fit in, DH works weird and long hours, so going to the gym is our really. I can go for walks, but am aware that this really wont give me great and quick results. Girls are in bed at 8.30pm so can do stuff then, but we have a tiny house so have nowhere to go to do it alone - no other TV room etc...
(can you see my excuses here!!!!)
What should i do, what will give me good results?

hey sammiejane,

i'm the same re gym - i simply can't afford it quite apart from the fact i don't have time lol. so yep, i go for walks with bub in the pram (have a mountain buggy so is *awesome* for walking hills), other than that i go to a weekly 45 min pilates class that is run locally on a saturday morning ($12 per class with concession, so manageable), i have a pilates book i bought at an op shop for $5 years ago and never looked in til this year, i bought a skipping rope from the heart foundation ($6.50) and my intervals mp3 (which i'm sure would be easy to make your own - fast paced music with no lyrics, voice saying "start...15 seconds down...half way...15 seconds to go...aaaand stop" then about 50 seconds of just music and then "congratulations you have just completed round X of 6 rounds, starting again in 3...2...1...go" etc).

so all of those things essentially i can do in a small space. the skipping i do just outside the kitchen door, the intervals i push back the coffee table in the living room and do it there when bub is asleep and the pilates i tend to actually do (very quietly) on the floor in his room after he goes to bed as is warm in there and there is nothing worse than trying to do pilates in the cold lol. i don't have a pilates mat and his room is the only one in the house with underlay and carpet.

oh and (if you're BF) please drink some milk too to keep your calcium, cos you don't want to end up with osteoporosis.. hope that helps hun!

welcome miss K and hey tinsel - don't worry about what is past hun, we're looking to the future now!

tellytubby - i actually didn't get time to do any baking yesterday so will have to do it today or tomorrow as spent all time trying to get through a particularly dry reading on the parthenon as global cultural heritage lol... still have about 15 pages to go... gah!

[Mildez]

I am glad I am not the only diet coke fan. I think I got stuck on it in the days Diet Coke was 0 points in WW.

Miss K that is interesting about the walking. I hope its not the case for me also as walking is one of the only things I can do effectively. I was another daily weigher. I needed to kow it was going down and if I had a slight gain I would work extra hard. Now I am older I don't care as much (hence why I am so much bigger now)

Oooo I love the skipping rope suggestion. Thats something I can do at home. Of to buy one today if I can get a big enough one.

Livvy thanks for the tip of measuring your waist. I did mine this morning above my belly button and it was 90cm. Alot smaller then the 97 it was yesterday around the belly button. My thigh was 66 and arm 32. I didn't do my bust as I'm BF and little miss sucked me dry all night so I imagine it would be smaller then it really is and every time I measure its going to give me something different depending on how full/empty the old jugs are.

Leesa how can I join your fat chic slim? Do I just like your page?

SJ welcome back.

TT I did speak to DH about it but he clearly didn't give to hoots as yesterday I packed my healthy lunch (we were going to our property out of town which we do every SUn) as he buys hot chips/scollops and knowing I couldn't eat them and prepared for that (after he goes on about no one else missing out) he fed my food to DD because mummy's food looks better then her's. So not impressed but thats the way it is. I know I'll never get his support on this. His a good bloke in many ways but supporting me is not one of his good points. Actually he sucks. But never mind. I'll do it on my own.

[ladybird11]

Mildez - Yup, all you need to do is 'like' the page hun. As for your DH I'd not be impressed at him sabotaging your effort to eat healthy. My DH has a sweet tooth and he used to offer me ice cream, chocolate - you name it. And the more he offered it (knowing that I was in the process of losing weight) the more is pi$$ed me off; which caused me to dig my heels in and become stubborn on it. In fact, then, the more he pushed me to try and eat badly ('oh, come on - what is 1 little chocolate going to do' he'd say) the more I found it easier to reject the bad food. And that carried over into social functions where there would be the option for cake or fruit salad for dessert - I'd feel his eyes on me and just to tick him off I'd go for the fruit salad no matter how much I salivated over the cake lol! Hang in there, I know there is an even sexier Mumma in you dying to come out - it's only a matter of time!

SJ - Yup, I'm reading an excuse there hun - and yep I've heard it before from others too. Lol, 8.30pm is generally when I start my exercise too - and being so so cold at night (and when DH is on afternoon shift) I have no option to exercise BUT to do it inside. So I have exercise DVD's which I manage to get a big sweat up in a space of 1.5 mtrs x 3 mtrs. I have to change direction a bit more than they do in the DVD lol, but I still sweat and that's all that counts. This week though DH is on arvo shift so I'll exercise, um, when he wakes up, so soon I'm hoping(before breakfast). This way I'll be burning more fat cells. If DD2 is in an ok mood this evening I'll also do some more exercise then too (maybe just a quick 30 min session).

TT - Lol, you're not stalker-ish at all. But you have reminded me to add a new entry to my blog - thank you . I think kinda similar things during my workouts too (not about myself though - that'd be weird lol). During an RPM session I'd think 'hang on, I'm not working as hard as I could - what kind of results do I want? Spectacular or just ok'? Then I'd turn up the resistance dial and work that little bit harder. In that case there are a few things you should know about me 1) While trying to lose weight, I very, very, VERY rarely give in to eat a 'treat' no matter how badly I might feel like it; 2) If there is an option to do incidental exercise (like walk to the shops instead of drive or take stairs over the lift) I'll do it - lol I even play chasy in the house with the kids lol!

Belfie - Hun, being short is the reason why it takes us longer to lose that off the waist area. Just accept that - try not to get too hung up on it? You have gone so far and so friggin brilliantly with your weight loss thus far, the last place fat will come off of is the waist / belly area (generally). And yep, I think you're ready to go scientific on the fitness now - by far! In fact I think you jinxed my HR monitor - that battery indicator came up last night - first time ever lol. I hope it gets me thru this mornings workout.

Tinsel - great hun, I'm glad you're with me on FCS too.

[Tinsel]

I weighed in this morning and I'm 1kg heavier than I thought I was sadness!
So I'm starting at 75.2kg
Waist (thinnest part) 84cm
Waist (at belly button) 97cm
Thigh 61cm
Bum (or widest part around there) 103cm

I'm starting my Wii Active 30 day challenge again when DD2 has her nap soon and I'll continue with the Michelle Bridges crunches, tricep dips, push ups, stretches etc

Plus I need to drink more water - I am a shocker at home, but I find if I have a glass near me I will drink it.