Diet & Weight loss support #4

[Beautitude]

Hi all!

Jut wondering if i can join in, im currently trying to lose about 10kg and although i have lots of motivation at the moment ( I am burning 300-500 calories at a work out at the moment and am exercising 6 out of 7 days in the week) the kg just dont seem to want to budge, in fact they are going up! Be nice to share tips and hints and my woo hoo's as well as my boo hoo's. Weighed myself today and had a gain but af has just shown up so thinking that might be why.

[Butterfly Child]

Hey Isabel B welcome
i too have about 10kg to loose already lost 3.5kg this week, you may find your gaining muscle (correct me if im wrong) frustrating i know have you tried measuring yourself you might notice the cms coming off that way thats what im doing, just so i dont get to dosapointed if i put on weight from muscle. i hope im making sense verry tired lol Well goodluck hun im sure you'll see results soon with what your doing x

[Cherished]

belfie yeah go and pamper yourself I highly recomend it! You're right though a trim is nealy a pamper day, heck add some cucumber on your eyes and a cup of herbal tea and it's as good as! ahhhh the old skinny clothes! I had kinda gone through mine a few weeks ago and had a huge revelation that one program my brain was running was that if I loose wieght I wont be able to wear the nice clothes that I have NOW! and I figured out that I got that from my mum because when I used to ask her why she does't loose weight her excuses was that she would have to buy heaps of new clothes... BUT for me that doesn't make sense because I already have heaps of nicer clothes that I dont' fit into! So it was great to recognise that negative belief that I was carrying around and have no fear about loosing the weight... I know it sounds a littel crazy! (sorry for doubling up on this btw for everyone that has read it!) Anyway after reading your post yesterday I acutally went through all my clothes and put them into sizes hanging up where I can see them so that I can be encouraged and want to fit into them iykwim, it was fun and I found stuff I'd really forgotten about, so now I have my current size which is pretty much size 16 (but a few larger size 14's in there) than there's all my size 14 stuff which I 'nearly' fit into and did fit into before the 2 pg's and all my size 12 which I loooove and my size 10 stuff which if I fit into again I will be very bloody happy about

JBM that is a great loss of 1.6kg in 3 weeks! Well done and keep up the good work, I"m sure you would have lost cm's

Isabel, keep up the motivation it sounds like you are actually doing really well If you are eating well and burning so many calories you may just be putting on muscle (like emmasn said) which is heavier, that might be why the kg's aren't coming down? After displaying all of my clothes yesterday I plan to know I am losing weight by being able to put on my jeans etc from the next size down hehehe

AFM OK weigh in was 70.3kg! so it's the lowest I've gotten to and it brings my total weight loss to 2.5kg over a whopping 8 weeks. That is an average of only 300 grams a week which is still good as it is a loss but cricky I had originally wanted to loose 1kg a week but thought 500grams a week was more likely... I guess this is what happens as you get older Looking at the positive side I am so very proud of myself for not going off the rails when I had that huge gain in one week and for just sticking at it in general especially when I was going through such an emotional time when I started out on this journey... I know putting on weight in the past has been from emotional eating and to have not done done that after the 2nd mc and instead actually lost weight from working out and eating well is dam impressive

hello everyone else and Good luck for everyone else weighing in today xo

[Eng]

Hello,

I would like to introduce myself to you all. I have always had problems with my weght in my adult years (I was a swimmer at school - kept me healthy and fit). I have lost weight before both successfully and unsuccessfully. 8 months ago I lost 9kg and was feeling great. DH and I decided to TTC, now 6 months later I have gained all the weight loss back. We have put TTC on the back burner until Jan/Feb 2010.

Now its time to concentrate on getting weight off so Im healthy and fit. Last time I lost the weight I was using optifast. Now Im looking at going back on it once a day and having 2 healthy meals a day. I havent weighted myself for a couple of weeks cos of the fear of what the number will be. When I was at full term with DD I was 124, I think/believe I am almost back there. I lost heaps when I had dd, actually I lost weight while pregnant. I was like 98kgs after her birth.

So here I am to tell you Im serious about losing weight but I hate it when my olds keep nagging that I have put on weight and when your on a diet they monitor what you eat. Its actually the worst thing they can do to be cos I eat more! lol Im actually going to look into buying/hiring a walkign machine to do a work up every morning.

Im interested in your stories and I look forward to getting to know you all.

[sas85]

Well! I weighed 67.1 on Thursday morning, and on Sunday morning I weighed 68.9kg!!! And although I didn't do celebrity slim for the weekend as I was at a convention in Sydney, I didn't 'blow-out' or anything and I did a fair whack of walking. But, AF reared her awful head on Sunday though in a very real way (first proper cycle since bub born) so am sincerely hoping that this weight gain, along with rock, hard swollen stomach and inability to wear my wedding rings is fluid caused by the suckfulness of womanhood and can be peed out - as I am noooooot impressed.

Krysalus - all I can think is (to music) "She wears short, shorts" woo woo

[Cherished]

Hi girls, I've been pretty slack lately and it's been pretty quiet in here too, hope you are all doing well!

Well I went to a party last night, I'm not much of a party animal these days, in fact since meeting my dh a few years ago we pretty much just hang out together and those party days were over along wtih my cigarette smoking habit and all the alcohol that went with it... oh and did I mention my skinny days were over too so it was a bit of a re-awakening in that all the girls there were skinny and most of them were 5 years younger than me anyway but it just made me even more determined to get thin, fit and healthy, only problem today is that I'm a little hung over to start working out hard

So Krys my little inspiration I am going to get back into calorie counting again starting Monday!

[Nai]

Sas - AF is always a killer for weight loss. I'm sure next week will be a good one.

Krys - well done on the big loss. I am getting a bit sick of the small losses here and really need to start getting some bigger ones to keep me motivated.

Cherished - I went to a party too last night but we were home by 8.30pm as the DDs were cracking it and needed to go home to bed

I measured myself and so far have lost 14cm from my waist!! 10cm from my hips and 5 from my bust - the BF must be keeping the bb's big When I stop I'm sure they will go from being a DoubleD back to a B. I reckon there's a good extra 2kg in them at the moment.

[Cupcake]

Afternoon ladies!!

Just took me a while to catch up on posts hehe

Welcome to those who have recently joined us!! More people to kick my butt...

No persies sorry, just a quick one. Am still on holidays, not eating a whole lot of crap but wont be able to weigh myself until i get home, so far we have been snorkling, fishing, walking and swimming everyday! Today is the first time ive said NO im not doing a thing today haha.

Hope youre all doing well! xo

[Nai]

Hi Everyone! Welcome funangel!

I'm not sure I will be able to weigh in today as DD2 has conjunctivitis and won't be able to go to the creche at the gym (and that's where I weigh in ) I don't think I have lost much anyway as I had a big blowout on Friday. I went to The Press Club (George Kolombaris's - from Masterchef - restaurant) for my best friend's birthday and I ate a bit too much and drank a fair bit too. It was lovely though. I have since been stuck at home all weekend with 2 mucky-eyed, snotty-nosed girls and unable to get out and do anything. So it doesn't look good!

What I might do is see if I can jog up to the gym with the pram and weigh in on the scales and jog home - depends on what sort of mood DD2 is in....

[belfie]

very quick one for me. Welcome to the new folks... the more the merrier.

Well no loss this week for me - I knew i'd been slack tracking my food but thought I'd still lose oh well. So off to plan my food for the day! So saying, nearly thought it was gonna be a gain, so I'm glad it wasn't.

Hope everyone is doing well BBL... gotta focus on food & exercise not typing here hahahah!

[Nai]

Well I tried to jog to the gym - pushing a pram into a headwind and up a hill is not fun!! So I walked most of the way Anyway I lost 0.5kg so am now 8kg down - woohoo! Not too bad considering I had a not so good week.

[Ryatha]

Ok - I'm a baaaad poster... But I have been reading everyones posts and keeping up to date.

I was pretty bad this week. I had a lot of downs with my physical health and so I kept comfort eating. It also stopped me from doing much exercise but it seems like everything was back to normal last night. Goals for this week are again to use the Wii and to talk DD1 to school with DD2 and dog, so fingers crossed I behave myself this week!

Start weight: 77kg, todays weight: 76.6kg WOOHOO!

I know it isn't much but it is a start!