Diet & Weight loss support #4

Thanks Mothergoose :) You are awsome to be sticking at your PT sessions, expecially when you are hating it! It makes it even worse when you are sore too :wall: I find having a big scoop of magnesium powder before I go to bed helps with recovery and muscle soreness.. Do you take any?

Well after my workout I had my very nutritious smoothie for breakfast than I spent 3 hours cleaning the house woohooo... Than I DID make up a sweet & sour stirfry with rice, tofu & veggies which is really yummy and I think it will make about 3 meals to put into the freezer, so happy I have made a start on those freezer meals and feel great because I've eaten well so far and my house is clean :)

I don't take any supps Cher - I am suppose to take VitD because I'm deficient but never remember :rolleyes: I don't normally hate PT... just at the moment. I'm struggling big time. A bit of internal conflict happening.

Well done on the cooking and cleaning! Wanna come clean my house?

I took DD to the local market and park this morning. Now she is asleep on the couch and I'm looking for new workout tunes on Itunes. I'm downloading some nice "angry" songs which will serve well at Tuesday's session ;) Just have to remind myself to not get too engrossed and over do it or I'll pass out! :rofl:

hehehe MotherGoose... No I will just stick to my house lol it was way overdure for a clean (i'd been pretty slack)...

Well so far so good! Day 3 of calorie counting and I am enjoying it again.... it can be my new little obsession instead of charting! (which will happen again as soon as this bleeding stops!) But I am feeling good about it and I know I did a good workout on Sunday because my butt was really sore yesterday and today :dance: Gee i didn't think I would be so excited about it :rofl: I am going to try and do a workout tonight too if I feel like it when I get home at around 7pm, if not I will def get one in tomorrow YAY

Glad the calorie counting is going well!

I just got back from PT. Man I'm sore. But it isn't a good sore. trainer and I had a good chat about some stuff. I was miss negative today. He figured I was cranky when I walked into the gym with my music blaring in my ears!!! :lol: I'lll get there. BUT, I lost a kilo last week! :dance: That is just shy of 7Kg lost so far!!!! WOOT! I have to buy new work pants now because old ones keep falling down :)

That's fantastic MG!!!! 7kg wooohooo :clap: Iam the opposite way... I had to buy clothes to fit into because I am larger now :( BUT when I loose weight I will have clothes to fit into... I will probably want new ones anyway though heheheh. Well done and stick to it honey :p

AFM another great day of calorie counting but no workout for me.... I will do one tomorrow. I'll be happy if I get in 34- workouts each week ;)

:leap: YAY I just did a workout.... Only 30mins but still a decent workout with weights and a 10 min walk with a couple of slow jogs to get my heart rate up... So chuffed with myself :clap: I would normally be getting ready to go to bed around about now so to get motivated to do a workout was just bloody good heheheh :p

Well done!!!! :dance::clap: Good for you Cherished! I just had a shower after another workout too! I did another 30 min with jogging as well!!! :lol:

Thanks MG :D how much weight have you lost now? You must really be powering on too! BTW your quote on your signature is one of my fav sayings :) I'm a big one for 'action' which is another reason why this weight challenge is so hard for me! Internally I am struggeling with the my brain and the reality of my body :doh: Anyway I am on the right track today and I am happy that I 'actually doing it'

I HAVE JUST HAD 2 CLIENTS IN A ROW ASK ME HOW MY BABY (PREGNANCY) IS GOING AND I NEVER TOLD ANYONE I WAS PREGNANT :crying: THEY MUST JUST THINK I AM FAT :redface: If it isn't bad enough that I lost the babies but now I have people asking how they are going!!!! And just to rub it in they have noticed that I have put on so much weight (nearly 8kg) and I am heavier than ever :crying:

Oh hon :hug: It is so heartbreaking when people make those kinds of comments. And it must be so much harder having been through your losses :hug: I've been told I look 5 months pregnant before :wall: The person who made the comment is amazingly still alive ;)

Keep plugging away at it hon. You will get there. Just remember it takes time.

I've lost just shy of 7Kg now. I would have liked more by now, but considering my diet can still improve, the illness, and the injuries I've had - I'm pretty happy with it. And any loss is a loss!!! And the fact I'm keeping it off is so good for me!

I'm exhausted tonight. I have to get on the treadmill yet - I don't want to. I think I over did it last night. But once DD goes to bed, I will go down and get some time in. Even if it is only 15 minutes...

Wooohoooo another great day of calorie counting.....

I realise that this thread isn't too busy and I kinda like that ;) I post lots cause I want to hold myself accountable! AND it's so nice to post in here when I am actually doing well for a change! YAY for me :clap: :rofl:

Hi MG, You must have posted just when I did! Well done on the 7kg loss :clap:

I am feeling like I am really going to succede this time! YAY

honey I wanted to thank you for your support, I am leaving BB... I have found some threads to feel a bit b1tchy and kinda like highschool and I left highschool 'a long time ago' .... That aside I have not had support from the mods so I don't think BB is for me anymore :(

Take care and I really wish you all the best xoxox :hug:

oh cherished. I'm sorry you're leaving. Good luck with your weightloss and TTC journey's! :hug:

Hey MG. I discovered your blogs yesterday. I will read each and every one of them.

How much weight have you lost so far??

You are a very dedicated woman :clap:

:redface: Thanks TD. You made me blush. To date, I've lost about 7Kg. I weighed myself again at work today and have lost another 500g... so I'm pretty much on 7Kg lost. I still have about 30Kg to go though!

Hi girls, MotherGoose & TurkishDelight... There hasn't been much action in here since I left, how are you both going?

I have been convinced to return to BB... While I was gone I became totally focused on weight loss and I have lost 1.3kg in the last 2.5 weeks YAY, It's not anything to write home about yet but it's a great start. I have been counting calories and netting 1200 per day and working out at least 3 times a week (so far) I wanna step that up a bit :p

AF has arrived so I guess I will be officially ttc again in about 2 weeks :crossfingers:

Hi girls,

So, um, looks like we're taking a break from ttc after a loss. Our dear cherished has dragged me in here - lol - (and didn't I kick and scream!) because fitness really makes me feel good, and I think it will be a healthy focus in the mean time.
So, here's a quick history (OK, not quick, I'm so chatty at the mo):
I have always been a chunky kid. Home didn't teach me great eating habits, and then just ballooned a little bit more when I got to the end of high school. When I returned from living in Europe, I weighed in at 90kg (I think, didn't have regular access to scales) Over the four years following, I have managed to lose 20kg following a bit of a two steps forward one step back pattern (only 5kg off, 3 kg on type thing)
I had a goal weight of 69kg, and reached that the same day I got my BFP in May. I was shocked to find that I puton 5kg by 10 wks, and was really worried about how I would go. However now, after the D & C, I'm back to 71kg, so most of it was big angry placenta, which is something of a relief.

Other history: I have followed MG's blog all the way through, and you girls are lucky to have her on your journey, she's a very strong woman who's doing a great job. I love your work MG!

So I don't have a goal weight as such, as I am not officially overweight - the great thing to come out of my scan was that my BMI is 24.9 - yay!!!
But I do want to really focus on fitness and being well for the next year. So here I am.

Congratulations if you got through that :) Cherished will tell you that I have motor fingers, and I won't get offended if you tell me to pipe down and stop hogging your thread :p

I have a hospy appt today and I'm going to check witht hem if it's OK to do the 50km Brissie to the Bay cycle nexy weekend :D

Yay snugglybean you made it :dance: Yes MotherGoose is wonderful and I just wanna give her big squishy hugs for making me feel good and encouraging me on my journey... turkish delight on the other hand just makes me, well, just wanna eat turkish delight hehehhe :rofl: just kidding honey but I do love you and your name!!!:p

krysalyss how are you going, is the 12 week challenge up yet? I saw on your ticker that you have lost 8kg :clap: Wooohooo that is fantastic!

Peanutter my sweet girl where are you? Come and say hello in here ;)

snugglybean we are the same weight! (well I am 71.5kg) this morning and desire to get back to 57 :)

Well my calorie counting is going really well,I find that when I make sure I get plenty of protein (from whey powder etc not meat) my blood sugar doesn't spike and I can get through the day very comfortable without being really hungry... The other day though I had a fresh juice for afternoon tea and I was starving by dinner!!!! No more juices for me.

I've got a bit of house work to do and then a workout oh and the dentist (which strangely I don't mind!)

Hi guys, my names Amy and im yet another lovely lady that our dear Cherished has dragged in here teehee, not that i was kicking or screaming!!

ok just read Snuggly's post and i pretty much wrote part of her first sentence in my post bahaha sorry:redface:

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To date, I've lost about 7Kg. I weighed myself again at work today and have lost another 500g... so I'm pretty much on 7Kg lost. I still have about 30Kg to go though!

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Ideally i need/would love to lose around 40kg so im where you started MG hehe am now going to mosey on over to your blogs as i hear many people raving!!

Hi TD!! :hello: i kinda left the 12 week challenge ... :redface: was feeling very on the outter as a lot more new people came in.

3 posts in a row...sorry guys:redface:

YAY Amy, you made it too... Lets get Coco over here now cause she wants to loose some weight too! And if we can't have our bubs than God dam it we will all look blooming hot until we do :rofl: hehhe

Well I'm off to the dentist and I didn't get in a workout before hand so I'll do one later, I am heading out for dinner and have only had 570 cals today so I'll have plenty of room for wine and a yummy dinner.

Dear coco has no weight to lose!! She's a skinny minny! hehe. Yikes have fun at the Dentist hehe glad its not me!! Im on about 450 calorie wise at the moment but am having souvlaki hut for lunch .. so yummy, one wrap had 400 cal in it tho yikes, better behave for dinner

lol, I already told coco to join us :rofl: I thought she was a skinny mini cause of all the working out she says she does! I'm sure she said she wanted to loose weight though??? hmmmm

Dentist was great, now I am looking forward to going out but I don't really have anything to wear! I've decided to just rug up because it's cold brrrrr

Gonna do a workout now yay :p

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ok just read Snuggly's post and i pretty much wrote part of her first sentence in my post bahaha sorry:redface:

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It's OK - the world needs more people who think like me :rofl:

So I walked up to the hospy today, just to pick up a letter, and get the thumbs up for 50km ride (which I did - yay!) and then DH and I decided to keep going - so we ended up walking into the city, doing a bit of shopping, had sushi for lunch, then walked home via the supermarket. Probably about 7-8km, and done at an ambling pace, but that's about as much as I'm up for right now, and I am good and proper knackered so will sleep well tonight!

Good effort snugglybean you totally put me to shame! All of my good intentions turned into cuddling dh for an hour before he had to go to work so no workout for me... I did walk up an ddown the street a few times tonight choosing a restaurant! My dinner was great and a curry is always a good choice and I only had 2 glasses of wine.... But than I had icecream! <insert smack on the bum icon here> So I am way over the calorie count :( I will need to do an extra workout tomorrow! At least I don't feel full and bloated and I will sleep well as it's now past my bed time (yep, I'm such a nana) :rofl: good night girls

50Km ride?! You're crazy SB! CRAY! :rofl:

Welcome back Cherished and welcome to the newbies... yes, it does get quiet in here.

Well done on your loss Cherished. A loss is a loss regardless of how small or large.

:redface: - stop raving about my blogs girls! They're just my thoughts - better on the blog than in my head! :rofl:

Me? I've lost another couple of hundred grams. Amazing considering the amount of junk I've eaten lately... she writes as she eats another handful of chocolate bullets! LOL. I'm in a bit of a funk at home at the moment which has made me realise I still haven't taken control of my emotional eating. But that is ok, I have also discovered I turn to training when I'm down. I messaged PT the other day to fit in an extra session with him... and felt a million times better afterwards!

Just take small steps girls. It doesn't matter if you train to lose weight or train to get fitter - small steps lead you to the finish line just as much as as sprint... except the small steps allow you to enjoy the journey and the view once you reach the end line ;)

:hug: MG

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Just take small steps girls. It doesn't matter if you train to lose weight or train to get fitter - small steps lead you to the finish line just as much as as sprint... except the small steps allow you to enjoy the journey and the view once you reach the end line

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Oh MG you are so wise :hug: just what I needed to read this morning as I put on 200g overnight with my naughty dinner & dessert! :doh:

I loooovvvveeee choc bullets they are my all time treat especially at the movies! The emotional eating really is hard and it is totally my downfall. I am much better at it now days though and I too am turning towards working out or pampering myself both of which make me feel better :)

Well I need to do a BIG workout today and my body is sore.... I guess I will see what I am made out of and hopefully it's steel and not marshmellow! :rofl:

I'm going to say this with all the excitement of a pimply teen who has just discovered the significance of the number.... SIXTY NINE!
Back to pre-pg weight, woohoo! And hardly any effort required!
Spent the day on the couch, wasn't really feeling too good. Need to get properly back on the bike before this ride though, eeek! Might do a quiet few kms tomorrow, then 30km a day til Sunday ought to have me in shape again.

Snugglybean :clap: WELL DONE & I am totally jealous!!! My weigh day is tomorrow, not too confident this week that I will see a change... will let you know....

:dance: YAY Not as bad as I thought! a loss of 300g... I thought it was going to stop on 71.3 but turned to 71.4 right at the last second (I hate it when it does that!) I'm really going to do my workouts this week and get well into the 70's next Monday :) I'm so proud of myself for sticking at my diary for 3 weeks and I don't see an end in sight, just so happy today... AND I think today will see the end of AF and the whole mc drama and I will be back ttc in a couple of weeks with a strong ovuataion (hopefully) Ahhh all is well :p

Arg i wish i was in the 70's!! Haha baby steps!! Gym tonight hopefully; i need someone to text me and be like GYM NOW!!! Although i have to go to my chiro at 6 until like 7:30 so that may cause me to put of the gym; i think i need to get up earlier and go in the mornings. Its so cold tho arg. NO MORE EXCUSES lol.

Good job on the losses!! :dance:

Anmaki - I think that cold is not a valid excuse this week - the days have been beautiful!

I ran out of sultanas this morning, so walked over to our local organic food shop (about 1km further than supermarket) only to find that they didn't have any organic ones left! Bummed. So got some regular ones and walked home. Feel good, can veg out for the rest of the day now.

I agree the days are beautiful, however i leave the house at 7am every morning so will have to go to the gym around 5 - 5:30am and at that time its still dark so not very warm haha. But im going to try and get my butt outta bed super early!!:leap:<= thats me on the treadmil => thats me doing star jumps:hooray:

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Good job on the walk btw snuggly!!

Hello my lovlies :) I'm still very impressed with myself! Did a great workout after posting this morning, went to acupuncture, had a massage and my nails done (and chiro tomorrow Amy) So happy that my hormones are back to normal :dance: so I wont be going to acupuncture for a while now.

Ammaki The days are also absolutely beautiful here! I find it really motivating to workout as I can already feel the lead up to summer... I almost want to go and sunbake in the back yard :rofl: Seriously though it can be better to workout when it is cool rather than already being sticky and hot from the weather in the warmer months... hey where are you going on holidays?

snugglybean you are a machine with 30km a day!!! How much weight are you trying to loose?

We got an invite to a wedding today, it is in 6 weeks :o they only got engaged a month ago and I have a feeling they are pregnant..... I will try to loose as much weight as I can so that I at least feel good if there's an announcement...

Cherished - 30km a day is my commute to and from work. It's an easy enough ride, and I figure if I have to spend 45 minutes getting to work, I might as well wrap my exercise up into the package too!
Hard to put a figure on how much I want to lose. I'm actually happy at my current weight, BMI must be down to about 24 now, so I couldn't lose more than about 10 kg, and would be OK with 5.

How nice is the sun? We have just scored ourselves an outdoor couch, so I have had two little stints on it today already. Mmmmm. I love Brissy.

DP and i are heading to Bundaberg for just over 2 weeks :dance: cant wait, snorkelling, fishing, beaching ahhh LOVE it!! I have a wedding in October cherished! One of my really good GFs from school so will be a mini reunion, gotta try lose more KGs before it hehe

oo i didnt realise you were so close snuggly; im just down on the Gold Coast. SO jealous about your day bed type thing, would be so nice to sit out in the sun.

Had a mini mini mini woohoo, i walked to get my lunch instead of driving!! Its not too far but its more then i was doing before hehe. How silly does that sound haha

Ammaki that's not silly at all, I latch onto anything I can woohoo over :rofl: Yeah the day bed thing is great! I can't wait to get one for out our deck, it will be great on sunny winter days but we haven't gotten around to organising any furniture for our deck yet, we've been too busy planting plants in the garden!

I need to get out and do the gardening!!

Before i head to the chiro going to do a quick walk down my street and pop some Avon catelogues in the neighbours letterboxes!! My street is SO SO SO steep (steap?) so shall be a good workout, even if it is only 10-20 minutes!!

Doing great on my water intake today, had one and a half 1.5L bottles of water!! "The more your drink the more you shrink" hehe i remember that one from the 12 week challenge!! :dance: