Diet & Weight Loss General Support #8

Cherished I'm glad I'm not the only one that drools over buttered chicken. Its on my top yummy food lists also. How are you going so far? I only ask as if I go to start a health change I have either been good and keep going or else I've given up by lunch time. I tried twice this time to stick to a healthier eating habits but fell of the wagon until one night I woke up at about 2am and said today was the day and I've been going ok ever since. I've had a few set backs (just a meal or gorged on chocolate or something) but have jumped straight back on the wagon straight away. I've lost 4.6kilos in about 3weeks. Usually the first week I can loose that much but I'm been very careful as I'm BF and don't want to jeopadise my supply. Great idea with the reasons why you want to loose weight. I should do that. My no1 reason it actually quite shameful lol Thats great that your DH is supportive. Mine is not. He expects me to be thin (not even a healthy weight) but will expect me to eat hot chips, hamburgers, take away etc He does not try and reduce temptation what so ever which is hard. He even had the turds with me for cooking myself brown rice lastnight and white rice for everyone else. It would be so much easier if he was helpful. Such a shame he is so skinny (his butt check seriously wouldn't fill up the palm of my hand) Gee I wish him trouble with his weight sometimes!

I've just eaten a ham toastie not that healthy and devoured some yogurt and fruit. I'm not even hungry but for some reason there is just something with eating. Need to go make some ww soup so I can eat and eat without gaining weight. I also spent about 2hrs scrubbing the dirt and stuff off the windows and then cleaned the ensuite. I scrubbed and scrubbed the grout trying to get the yucky stuff out. I wonder if that counts as a workout?

Hi guys...

Ive been MIA & fell off the wagon... naughty naughty I know... I have started writing down what I am eating again & trying very hard to behave....

Off to weigh in argh.... and update my ticker!!!

Only a 200g weight loss for me this week, making a total of 3.2kgs. Over the two weeks I've lost a total of 5cms from all over.

I know I haven't drunken enough water and too much fizzy so at least I have direction for this week (including a fridge full of bottled water)

Crap just lost a big post. Don't you hate that! Arrrgh

In a nutshell... congrats to everyone!

Was hoping to join you all on the weight loss journey! I have 25kgs to lose and hoping that having other people to talk to would help me on my way! I had a quick read thru some of the posts in here and everyone is doing so well! Congratulations :clap:

feel free to join in dale i assume your a male?

Welcome back Mitch and welcome Dale. I'm finding it helps me keep on track when I hear about others struggles and how they get back on the wagon as I tend to fall off as much as I get back on. Oh and Dale I think your a female.

Danielle thats a great loss over all.

Baby crying BB soon.

Thank you Mr Squidipa and Mildez! Had a great weigh in this morning 1.5kg gone! It is my first week though, so experience tells me that I won't get this every week unfortunately....I too have experience that wagon a few times!!
You are right Mildez! I am female.....I have two sisters with names that could be male and female as well.....I think that made it easier for my parents! We would of had these names even if we had been male!

thats a great weight loss dale

Woohoo, 500g down! Not sure how, but I'm losing weight! I'm not doing alot to make it happen, maybe just not eating so much junk and not eating after dinner...I am aiming to strt walking too, 45mins to an hour or so every second day at least.

Congrats to everyone who's had losses and welcome to the newbies!!

Thats great new Lilias. Especially if you haven't needed to change alot. Goodluck with the walking.

Dale thats great news on your weight loss.

Well I'm so excited. I've lost 1.7kilos in a week. I shouldn't get excited as I have been so sick the last 3days so thats why the weight has come off. I have a chest infection (from a chemical burn using mould distroyer) So I have 1.4kilos to go before I am at my first goal which is to be under 80kilos. Total loss in a month and a bit is now 5.1kilos woohoo. I've still got about 15kilos to go but I'll be so happy if I can get down another 6kilos by October. Now as I've been sick my goal this week is just to try maintain the loss without gaining it back again.

Thank you Mildez and Mr Squidipa! Great results for you both, even though you were both sick!
Mildez, that is terrible about the chest infection, glad to hear that you are on the mend.
Lilas, well done! I need to drink more water and also do a bit of walking.
With the weather getting colder I am not drinking as much water as I should, BUT it a nice time to get some walking in especially before it starts to rain.
Hoping to get to know more of you a little better as time goes on. Here's to a great week for everyone! :D

Yes Dale it is nice walking weather. I'm finding it really hard walking. I don't have a good pram to go during the day and I wait for DH to get home but he doesn't get home until 5-7pm and I'm finding its dark when he gets home and I am then unable to go. My exercise is pethetic and I know if I could do more I would see the kilos fall off faster. Or I could afford to eat more desirable food lol I think as its a month now my body is use to the reduced intake so its not hurting me anymore (hurting my feelings that is) I actually don't feel hungry most of the time I eat but make myself as I don't want to loose my milk supply. DD is only 8weeks old so way to young to give her solids or anything to make up for any loss in supply.

Does anyone know any options or suggestions when eating out? Next week is my DH birthday (30th so a big one) and the follow lunch is his friends 30th so we are dining out twice. We are going to SSS for DHs and HogsBreath for his friends. Is the caesar salad the best options at Hoggies? Anyone know what the best option is at SSS? I'll have to be so careful and really increase my exercise that week to ensure I don't gain weight. There is also a real possibility by then I can get under 80kilos so I don't want to gain a few kilos that week and be back to were I started from.

just counter act what you may be eating like really ramping up your exercise for a few days and seeming that you will be going out make that your meal for the day enjoy the day but try not to go over board 2 much

Hi ladies, can i join in?
I lost 20kg prior to my pregnancy, then put on 28.9kg while pregnant, 9 months to the day after i had dd i had lost 29kg, and am sitting at 30kg now but that means in 10 months i havent lost a thing.
Me and dh do weight watchers and i've recently started bootcamp once a week due to the plateau effect that i cant seem to break through. hoping to lose 5-7kg by the time we ttc later this year.

goodluck to you all, it will be nice to have and give some moral support

yes do join in i lost 2kg this week happy with that

Welcome Jen!! When are you planning to TTC? End of the year?

Well done on the loss Mr S, Mildez and Dale!!! Keep it going!!

I've also had a loss today - I'm a happy camper :D

Hi everyone - I have hit 80kg - highest I've been for many years. And it's pretty much down to me comfort eating a pile of crap really! I am about to go to the coast for a week, so in reality, it's not worth starting anything full on before I go - but I do plan doing lots of walking on the beach, etc while I am away!
I have actually ordered the 17 day diet book - which I hope, when I get it, will help kick me off with a good loss to start with which will give me the positive edge that I need to keep going.
Ideally, I feel comfortable in myself at around 73kg, anything higher than that and I don't like how my clothes fit me, needless to say, I hate myself at the moment! I would love to be 70kg or slightly less - but I have to be realistic too!

Anyone heard of the 17 day diet program? It's not just 17 days, it 4 cycles of 17 days with various foods included back into each cycle, which is supposed to prevent the levelling off of weight loss that you always seem to get.

Hi everyone, just found this thread. I have just joined a local gym after weighing in at 76kg. Which is 3kg up from Pre-pregnancy and approx 11kg up from where I would like to be. Going to the gym 3 times a week and cleaning up my diet. We are planning on TTC after ds turns one in july, which gives me two months!!!! Guess we will revise the plan when july comes and see where I'm at. I am going to need all the moral support I can get to actually get off my butt.

Ausgirl, I saw the 17 day diet book at kmart, didn't really read much off it. But I might have a look, I really need my meals set out for me or will eat whatever I come across!!! :shakehead:

Well done to all the people losing weight. Hoping that will be me soon too :D

hi folks. Just popping back in so I can crawl back on that wagon. I had a gain this week of +.3kg. Not much... but you know... a gain is a gain is a gain and isn't a loss. Lol. So I promptly hopped off the wagon & wallowed in bad food with a rather naughty weekend... I've been so good for 3 months I think it felt really good to cut loose for a bit. So now I'm a bit nervous that my .3 was probably just fluid, but now I will have thrown some fat onto the heap too!!! Arrrggh! So as of tomorrow i'm gonna focus again - food & exercise, I'll feel better for it. I've got till Sat and I wanna be really good. It's just weird cos I had been finding it really easy to do, and now after having some less than healthy foods oh my goodness I'd forgotten how tempting they are! But... they won't help me get slimmer. Plus I'm at that point where traditionally I sometimes get complacent or I think I worry so much about plateauing that I make it happen! Daft! But who knows, maybe I needed a gain & some unhealthy food to shock me into being a bit more disciplined. And I'm finishing off that last pesky biscuit (:rofl:) as I write this, so I can start tomorrow on the right foot!

Starlite - good on you for joining us, you will feel great once you start losing! Plus it's great feeling so much stronger & healthier. I found after putting it off for ages, I felt great once I started (which was start of March cos my DD was nearly 6 months old).

ausgirl - welcome to you too! Walking on the beach sounds like a great idea. Haven't heard of the 17 day diet, but it sounds interesting.

leesa - congrats on your loss!

Mr Squidipa - wow you are just doing amazingly, that's fab. Congrats to you too :)

Jen82 - bootcamp sounds like a good idae. I'm worried that I'm about to plateau (admittedly I definitely will if I eat crap! :redface:) so I'm going to try a zumba class this week. Hopefully we'll all get through the nasty plateau.

Mildez - aah eating out can be tough. I'm pretty sure i read that caesar salad is actually usually pretty bad with all the cheese & bacon (it can be as bad as a typical junk food meal of chicken & chips or burgers). I'd suggest you have a look at the menu & jump on calorie king to get an idea of what is what. But I would have thought going a salad with meat that isn't as rich (i.e. lean meat, no cheese, not a creamy dressing) plus asking them to hold the dressing might be a better option. But then as Mr S said too, sometimes it's great to get out & have a great meal, enjoy it then work harder too. I guess if you look at the points or calories it just means you're making a more informed choice and you know how much exercise it would take to burn it off.

Dale - welcome as well! That was too funny about everyone tryign to guess if you were male or female tehee. Hope your week has been going well too.

My favorite weight loss saying when it comes to food is "what you eat in private shows in public"....

Helps me veer away from naughty food all the time lol.

Ok, I shall crawl back into my hole ;)

Got the 17 day diet book in the mail today - So there are 4 cycles
Cycle 1 is strictest obviously - and is supposed to guarantee fast large weight lost - 10 -12 pound (so 4.5 to 5.5 ish kg) in 17 days. Apparantly new studies say fast weight loss is good....
The food in cycle 1 in a nut shell:
Fresh salmon, snapper, tuna (or tinned in water), sole - eat as much as you want *
Chicken, turkey -eat as much as you want *
Eggs - 2 serves with yolks (2 eggs) without yolks (you can have 4 whites)

Cleansing vege - Basically all of your brasica family (cabbage, cauli, broc, etc), carrots, asparagus, green beans, onion family, basically nothing starchy (potato, corn, etc) - eat as much as you want *

Low sugar fruit - 2 serves per day
Apples, orange, grapefruit, pears, peaches, plums, red grapes

Probiotic - 2 serves per day
Yakult
Yoghurt (75g)
Kefir millk (which I have yet to find what this is!)

1-2 tabs friendly oil - olive or linseed

And limited amounts of condiments

So a fair bit to choose from there

Obviously cycle 1 is pretty strict, on cycle 2 you gradually introduce more foods back in.
Cycle one begins with 17 mins of gentle exercise - eg walking - nothing too strenuous while your body is getting used to the lack of carbs.

leesa ttc around sept so i better get my skates on and lose this weight!
mr squidipa thats awesome good on you
starlite goodluck getting started
belfie sometimes a break is all you need to re-focus and start again. i hope being naughty hasnt had too bad an effect on your weight, but you'll have more reason to get cracking if it has!
ausgirl i have never heard of it, it is definately too strict for me, i am a carb fiend!!

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My favorite weight loss saying when it comes to food is "what you eat in private shows in public"....

Helps me veer away from naughty food all the time lol.

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Aah I love it! Might be my new mantra. So glad you shared!

Ausgirl - thanks for that. Well I had a good day today, stuck to my goals food-wise, plus 30 mins walk/run yippee yay. Jumped on the scales this morning and it didn't seem toooooo horrific. But I think i"ll have to put some hard yards in this week to get back to level pegging.

I love that leesa, might have to stick it on my fridge and pantry to remind myself to stay away from the oreos!!!

Ausgirl, 4kg sounds great!!! Make sure you let us know how you go. Im thinking Strict eating is perfect for me.

Jumped on the scales yesterday after my first week at the gym (3x sessions incl weight training and cardio) and had lost 1.5kg. Then MIL was in town and we all went out for dinner. Feeling very mad and depressed for eating so much. :shakehead: so back to the gym I went this morning. Stupid food...

A weigh gain for me this week, 500 grams, time to step it up a little (not doing anything to hard out at this stage)

I'm still plugging along....I've really turned a corner and am getting back into my fitness groove; and the scales thank me for it.

I'm of the 'go hard' attitude when it comes to weight loss, did me well last time around (36 kg loss after ds); so I'm running (literally) with it again lol!

love that saying lessa thanks for sharing and that is so true too

Ive put on 500g this week too :( But I have been really slack. I shall have to chase that wagon down and tie myself to it!

I wont even weigh myself as I know I would have gained the 5kilos I lost all in a week. Was going so well until bub was admitted to hospital and I couldn't go to the kiosk so was having quick trips to the vending machine. DH couldn't come up as he could not bring the other kids (due to us been in isolation) and the stupid hospital didn't provide me anything (suppose to provide BF mothers with a meal) anyway that was my undoing. Going to get right back on the wagon after DH birthday. So disappointed Im back to where I started at a months hard work gone in less then a week.

I'm sorry to hear your bub was unwell Mildez, is all ok now?

I can't believe they didn't provide you with food, that's not right. I'd write a letter to explain what happened to prevent it happening again to another mother.

Awwww man so much to catch up on! I guess i should start appologising for all the typos to come and if my posts are all over the place as I'll be going back through the thread to catch up on everyone! I'll start by checking in on my weight loss on Monday where I recorded a loss of 600g Not bad considering I couldn't do any excercise. I weighted myself of Sunday actualy as I feeling particularly light and i had lost a huge 1.3kg's then had a glass of wine Sunday night and no surpirses but I was retaining fluid and my recorded weight loss for this week is less. Plus af has arrived so that wouldn't have helped things either.

Mildez What's going on with your bub hon? Hope everythings ok? I didn't end up doing any of the things I said I was going to :rolleyes: such a slacker! I filled in the food diary for about 2 days and I didn't even add everything up! I just haven't had time. Doesn't it suck when your partner doesn't have a weight problem and expects you to be thin especially when they aren't supportive. I know how lucky I am! Re the workout I totally think house work is a workout. In fact I often wonder how much people could get done if instead of going to the gym they did 'real' things like build a cubby house, landscape the garden, paint the house, scrub floors etc. I guess that's why laborious have hot bods lol

Danielle I noticed that fizzy drinks are a fav of yours, have you tried mineral water In a fresh fruit juice (if you have a juicer) or add lemon and lime juice to it with Some fresh fruit chunks like a punch :) Bummer on the gain this week. Don't give up Though!

Dale :welcome: to the weight loss thread and BB! Congrats on your huge 1st week weight loss. I also have a male/female name as do my brother and sister. Not sure why it turned out that way though? I also need to up my water. A trick I used to do years ago was make up warm tea and put it into either a 500g bottle or a 1tr bottle (glass bottles) for 1 it was like a hot water bottle in winter and 2 it was soooo easy to drink my water intake for the day. I used to make up a number of different things, lemon water, soda a bit of fennel in water (great for fluid retention) or peppermint, green, rosehip, camomile tea etc I really should start doing that again!

mitch welcome back, nothing wrong with falling off the wagon as long as you jump back on when it come by again ;)
Lilias Boohoo to that stinking 500g gain and an even bigger boohoo for you Mildez :( Just jump back on girls, we will all be your cheer squad. :cheer:

Jen woohoo so gald you are in this thread with me too. It's like catching up with an old friend :hug: and we both have the same motivation to loose that extra weight!

Mr Squid 2kg's! That is impressive! You were alway inspiring but I have to say that it's mighty impressive that you are still in this thread after so long and have lost 20.5kg's YAY for you and thank you for being your awsome self :)

leesa woohoo for a loss, it's really all that matters at the end of they day. A loss is a loss. Just reading everyones posts has gotten me all ramped up again to get on that 'loss high' 36kg after your ds holly molly woman you are amazing! How long did that take to loose?

ausgirl hello hon, I was goign to ask you about he 17 day diet, I haven't heard of it before it does kinda seem like a cut the carbs out type of thing though. have a great time at the coast and goodluck when you get back getting into your new diet.

Starlite ello ello ello there stranger! Loving my ttc gals in this thread, lets shake some butt hehehe

belfie my naught friend I am just the same lol when I am about to be good I have to finish the naughty stuff 1st, if it's in the house I will just end up eating it anyway. I'm back to my old rule of not having any naught food inthe house but if I really want somethign then I can go out and get it. I find that works well. Oh and I have hot chocolate in the pantry for a JIC cho craving as I know I can control myself around hot chocolate.

Wow, cherished, what a post!! Don't have time to reply properly now, though.

Just came in to say that I hope your bubby is better Mildez. Don't worry about your gain (if you have gained, you might find you've lost because you were stressed out?). Sometimes other things are more important. You can jump back into things and I'm sure if you've gained weight, it will come off fairly easily because you have been healthy and doing so well! And if I were you, I ouwld be getting in touch with the hospital too and telling them what happened, that is just not on!! You and your bub came as a pair, and they should have looked after you just as they looked after her!

Just a quick post, hope to BBL. .6kg loss for me today yippee! (even though that's from my increase last week so I think I've really only lost .3kg from 2 weeks ago) But either way I'm just so happy to have a loss yay!

Hope everyone else is going well!

Hey!

Remember when I said i was going to go to Jenny Craig? Well I went last Monday evening. All sounds brillant until it works out to be $100 extra per week of food. It would not be like our groceries would be reduced because I was not as much because DH and two boys still need to eat and Alannah is starting to eat more now. The price of membership was not too bad. I would have chosen the 7 year one for about $400 with a goal of keeping to your weight for 12 months to get half the fee back! THEN......she weighed me and their scales read 79 kgs. I was shocked but she took it for being shocked that I weighed that much. In actual fact I was shocked because I knew I had lost weight because a bracelet I wear is much looser on me ( I can slide a finger in between it and my wrist whereas before it was snug around my wrist and left a mark) and some of my clothes feel looser and my belly has shrunk which I can see in the mirror.

So, I told her I would speak with the Mr.

Instead, I went home and weighed myself and the sales read 76kg, the same as they did that morning. two days later, I jumped on Wii and they said I had lost 1.8kg in the past 15 days.

THAT alone has made me decide to go it alone and not bother with Jenny CRaig!

Grrrrrr @ scammers that cost loads of money!!!!!!!!

Anyways, just needed to get that off my hopefully shrinking bust! lol

Mr Squid - BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO!!!!!!!!!

Best get back to my three monkeys!

Keep up the awesome work guys and remember, tomorrow is always a brand new day with brand new beginnings!

xxxxx

Good on you vixstar for realizing you can do this without having to fork out all the extra $$$! I'm so happy to hear that :D.

Cherished - it took me 5 mths to lose that 36kgs. Just tracked calories and exercised daily, no other tricks ;).

Keeping at it everyone!!!

:shakehead::shakehead: fell off the wagon yesterday... not one, but TWO. Magnum ego caramel ice creams :cry: so mad at myselt :shakehead::shakehead:

Starlight do you know why you had them? Maybe work that out to help you get back on.

Hugs star lite, if I feel tempted I just remind myself that every bite of a naughty food pushes me further from my goal weight.

I'm a bit of a hard at$e when it comes to food though, I don't have treat meals and luckily I don't get cravings either. Food is just a fuel for my body.

Extra exercise this week might help u feel a little guilt less??

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Cherished - it took me 5 mths to lose that 36kgs. Just tracked calories and exercised daily, no other tricks ;).

Keeping at it everyone!!!

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Leesa - OMG wow, that is a HUGE effort! Did you have to be really strict with your calories? I was trying to work out how much you were losing per week. I'm taking about 5-6 months to lose 11kg lol, way slacker (I am BF'ing tho I suppose - that's my excuse :p). Had to larf about your hard ar$e comment. I think I'm the opposite. I'd rather eat a bit naughty & work out more, than eat super strict. Which can get me in trouble if I am in a state (i.e. injured) where I can't work out (not that I'm injured now anyway!).

Vixstar - gooooo Vix... gooooo Vix.... go V.. I.. X.. S.. T.. A.. R!!! (that's the cheerleader chant for you JIC you couldn't tell ;)). I think you're making great decisions and wow it does sound pretty pricey. You've got us, set yourself some nice specific goals & how you're gonna get there... and you'll be there in no time!

Starlite - aaw hun, it sux when you feel like that :(. I'm sorry to hear you're mad at yoursel. I reckon like Danielle said... try to work out why and then you'll be able to do something different next time. Who knows, you could use this to kickstart a huge weightloss journey and at the end you'd say, you know what, I'm so glad I had them cos it got me moving. Sometimes we have to hit rockbottom in terms of how we feel to dig ourselves out of that stoopid ol' hole (ok so I'm mixing metaphors here but hopefully you get my drift).

Cherished - hun, awesome post. How are you going this week? How is your knee? Hopefully you'll get a lovely loss once pesky AF has gone again. I know what you mean re having the naughty stuff in the house. DH and I were talking today about how much healthier our grocery shop is looking. The other thing I try to do more now is to let myself have something but only have either the recommended serving size (man, it's amazing how small that is sometimes!) or maybe even less if I think I haven't got the calories to spend IYKWIM. That way I feel I'm not denying myself and go into that deny/binge cycle which I don't wanna do. I must admit I've struggled more the last few weeks, but I'm feeling back on the wagon big time. It really helped having a loss this week.

Soooo... it's a big week for me. If I can lose more than 100g by Sat, I'm offically a "normal" BMI. Geesh am I excited or what? And then, if I can lose another half kilo, I can be down to the lowest I got between having DS & DD. And then once I go below that I'm in terroritory I ain't seen for a while! So I'm trying to use this to really motivate me as my head really fell out of the game for a week or so, and I think it really rattled my confidence more than I thought it would. I'm also starting doing zumba, first class (ever) was last week and I LOVED it. Haven't done an organised class like that since pre-kids, so I was pretty nervous. And I so don't have ANY wiggle or sway in my tushie (I'm very top-heavy, no hips) so I'm pretty crap at it, but hey, it was awesome fun. So i'm committed to doing 1 class a week :).

Hope everyone else is going well :)