Diet & Weight loss support #4

Hi guys. You all sound like you are doing great.
I have been on holiday for a week and didn't do so well with my eating or exercising. A few nights where I went really over the top. But most of the day times I was in a conference and used up a lot of brain power and the food was quite healthy there. So tomorrow I weigh in and see the consequences. But am back into it today. I have to say the bad eating really made me feel yuck and also hungry - go figure! Anyway back on the wagon and glad of it.
I was told last night my futsal team have disbanded (due to racism against them - unbelievable!) so I was pretty sad but found another team tonight. I love soccer and it is the best exercise I get so was panicking a bit. So fingers crossed tomorrows weigh-in isn't too bad. Bye all!

:hello: krysalyss not sure if you went back through the posts but I had commented on how much weight you had lost :clap: You have done so well, do you mind telling me what you have been doing to loose it? I'm counting calories and working out

AFM the panic has set in that I'm going to a wedding and I am overweight and I have nothing to wear!!! AND the invite didnt' say what type of dress it is so that throws in a whole new set of worries about what to wear!!!!! :jawdrop: The ceremony is at 11am with a ****tail style reception until 4pm... normally I would think 'ok wear a ****tail dress' which I guess I have and it would fit BUT it will be cold in August and ****tail dresses tend to be short and strappy iykwim :wall: Any ideas???

Hi Cherished - Thanks! I didn't actually go back through all of the posts. Your comment means a lot to me. :) I think the biggest challenge with losing weight is the waiting. It has taken me since xmas to lose this much (all up 12kg). Counting calories has definitely helped me to know for sure where I am with eating as I had some big hidden calories that I didn't know about and didn't really even care about (eg. full-fat mayonnaise - OMG!). Plus I have taken up soccer (indoor and futsal) twice a week. It is great exercise and I enjoy it so I don't have to force myself to go. I have also taken up cycling to work twice a week to reduce my car emissions. And I jog once a week. Not a fan of jogging (understatement!). I only do it because I find it helps my fitness with soccer. I think sometimes you need a break from it all though so glad I didn't worry about it too much last week while I was away.

The other thing that seems to have helped me is the 12 week challenge. I am in my second one. For some reason I find it easier to stick to it - this is definitely the best weight loss I have done under my own steam (eg. not due to work or other external factors).

I have told myself this is the only time I have to do this - afterwards I just have to maintain it - which is a lot easier! I have been focusing on some work issues lately so the waiting on the weight loss seems easier. After all nothing else stops just cos I am trying to lose weight.

Good luck with the weight loss journey. I know you can do it! Am so sorry that you lost your bubs. It must be a really hard time for you. Big hugs.

ooo id love to be able to cycle to work, bikes uhmm hurt my bottom :redface: lol. I might measure the kms on my car to see how far it is and try tackle it hhmmm ..

Was extremely annoyed last night, got adjusted at my chiro at 6pm then had to wait around til 6:45pm for an information session they asked me to come to (this would be my fourth information session) and as soon as it started and the first slide came up...id seen it! I couldnt walk out coz that would be rude, its only a small room with about 15 other people and the Chiro talking so i sat through it for half an hour and got home at about 7:40pm then we had to drop DSD back off at home, cook tea by then i was buggered haha

hehhee Ammaki my chiro wants to start those stupid precare classes and info nights at each stage of your care... what a load of CRAP! I get a weekly adjustment and I know what chiro is about, who wants to waste there time going to a stupid seminar!

I had a great day eating yesterday YAY :dance:

I didnt mind going when it was all new to me as it explained what my body was doing etc, but now ive seen them all and been there for over a year i was a little annoyed they asked me to go when id already seen it lol.

Looking forward to tonight, my cousins son is playing soccer on a field about a half an hour walk from our house so DP and myself will be walking the dogs to go cheer him on! Very much looking forward to it!

That walk sounds like fun Amy, I like it too when dh & I go for a walk together... I'm thinking about doing a workout in my lunch break but I think I will end up having a snooze.... Tuesday & Thursday are supposed to be my days off working out though and they say 'rest is important' :lol:

You enjoy that rest!! I hope no one says anything about the dogs being at soccer tho :rolleyes: ... they'll be on a leash so not like they'll be chasing the ball or anything, should i leave them at home? Or take them? My cousins kids love love love seeing them.

They will probably be alright on the leash and if you clean up after them. I can't imagine anyone would care at a soccer game.
Good work on the exercise and eating guys!
I put on 0.4kg over my holiday. Yay! I was having nightmares about 4 or 5 kgs.
Two days back into eating right and feel awesome. Last week when I was eating a lot of junk I also had a lot of nausea and headaches. So just another reason to eat well.

Hey girls!
Well, I knocked out two quick 15km rides yesterday and felt SO good! There was one hill that I was walking up while pg, made my heart rate too high - it is my arch nemesis and I had to face it, but I just pwered up and it is not as bad as I remembered!
Made a big pot of vegie soup last night, was so good, then went to bed at 8:30 - what a nanna!

Sounds good snuggly!! I need to get some soup recipies!

So im NEVER taking my dog to soccer again. She popped two balls :redface: not that it was really her fault...there were two soccer fields, one game was being played on one the other was free. But a few kids thought it would be hilarious to kick the ball right infront of my dog...we sat away from everyone so we didnt disturb anyone but they came and kicked the ball right infront of her...i couldnt really blame her for that one. Apart from that she was really well behaved.

All up about a 40 minute walk, 20 there 20 back but with LOTS of hugggeeee hills lol, spaghetti for dinner which we ate before our walk.

Hope everyone is going well :lol:

Hi my lovlies :)

snugglybean I am always in bed before 9pm! regularly at 8:30... Yep I am a total nana :rofl:

Ammaki don't be disheartened re the soccer, you did all you could :)

krysalyss glad there wasn't too mu h damage from your holiday!

Well I'd lost 100grams since Monday, hope to see some bigger loses in the coming weeks! Still feeling really good and am happy counting calories. I think a friend is coming over laster to do a workout with me YAY, not sure how motivated she is though to loose weight so I will just keep doing my own thing and be happy to have someone coming over so that I WILL workout :)

Working out with a friend always fun :)
I used to meet up with some friends and hit the local pool every Wednesday night. Over 3 hours we would usually rack up about 10 laps and some mucking around, but it really got me started. The with some other friends, I arranged to meet at a pool about 10km away from home, and I rode my bike out there (at the time it was a hard hard ride with lots of hills. Now, I would just laugh at it) So even if we spent the whole time gossiping, I had already got my workout.
Now though, I have a pool just round the corner, but it's too cold! Also, pool hours are rubbish.

Oh, yeah, I got my diagnosis today - definitely a partial molar pregnancy. So no ttc for 6 months and will have to go fit-nuts in the mean time. I'm thinking maybe a triathlon...

6 months!?! Wow. No idea what molar pg is tho :redface: swimming pool sounds like a good idea, our gym has a pool next door to it. We need to invest in some bikes i think!!

Had coconut chicken curry for dinner last night ... which i MADE from scratch woohoo! Are spicy foods good for speeding up the metabolism? Or is that a myth?

Very open-plan soup recipe:
Dice 1 onion/leek and saute in a tiny smidge of olive oil, on very low heat. Toast a spice (if you're into that kind of thing) such as cumin or coriander or even caraway or fennel seed in there too. Add any or all of the following: diced carrots, a few celery sticks, a turnip/swede, 1/4 cabbage, sweet potato, pumpkin etc. Continue to sweat over low heat, stirring occasionally. Add stock to cover vegetables. Add lentils (can use red, green, brown, split peas, anything that doesn't need soaking) and bring to the boil. Continue at medium heat until lentils and all vegies are soft. At this point you could add spinach, nut butter, tahini, etc if you fancy. Remove from heat. Blend, if you like a silky soup. Alternatively, leave it chunky. Season as required (do this last so it doesn't slow down your lentils cooking) and eat. Yum yum yum yum yum.

ooooo sounds good, will experiment this weekend! Thanks Snuggly!!

Yummyo soup snugglybean I make an awsome coconut pumpkin one will add the receipe when I get home and youare a MACHINE with your workouts! I'm glad you have that to focus on while you are waiting to ttc

Ammaki that curry sounds yum (without the chicken... hehehe I'm vego) I love making curries from scratch :p I think chilli and cayene pepper speeds up your metabolism (not sure how much though cause I eat it heaps of it and my metabolism is equal to a 45 year old and I am only 32)` :jawdrop:

AFM my workout last nigiht was GREAT and I burnt 100cals than I normal do, I ran with ease (only for a min at a time heheh) and I maxed out on my weights, felt REALLY good :leap: BUT I got on the scales today and I've put on 1/2 a kg!!!!! :wall: and not 'that' much muscle to blame it on that, it was mainly in the fat department.... Oh well I'm sure there will be a loss on Monday!

I have an appointment with the OB next Wed and I will prob have a D&C next Friday due to bleeding for pretty much 40 days, Today is so far so good it would just be like Murphys law for the bleeding to stop now that I have had another scan (yesterday) and have an OB appointment for next Wed :rolleyes:

Snuggly and Cherished - with us three veg*ns on here do you think we have cracked the myth that veg*ns are automatically skinny? I wish!

Everyone sounds like they are going great. Yesterday was difficult for me. I felt really hungry and my calories blew out faster than I expected. Usually I just watch my fat intake and my calories seem to be fine but it was the other way around yesterday. It also broke my heart to find that 3 ginger nut bikkies had the same amount of calories I burn jogging for 30 mins (at 5kph) - 3 bikkies!
But oh well. I was a bit over by the end of the day but I was under the day before so all should work out.

Anyway chat soon!

cherished - how do you measure your metabolism?

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Snuggly and Cherished - with us three veg*ns on here do you think we have cracked the myth that veg*ns are automatically skinny? I wish!

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Yeah, I wish! That's why I hate Skinny B!tch - it gives no strategy for weight loss other than to be vegan! Ummmm.... sort of doesn't work for everyone, ladies.

I'm home from work today, so will have to make sure I get out and do something. Only 3 more sleeps til big 50km ride - eeep! After my efforts yesterday, though, I am not worried about it at all. I might get the bike trainer out and do a solid hour while Oprah is on.

Morning my healthy and fit girlies :p

krysalyss I have a Body Compositioin Monitor that cost about $500, dh got it for mr for my 30th birthday... It's wonderful! it measures how much fluid, fat & muscle is in each limb and the abdomen so when the scales move (or don't) you know if it's becuase you've gained muscle, which is heavier or if you are retaining fluid etc.... The BCM also tells you how may calories you are burning which tells you your metabolic age :) And Snugglybean I loved krysalyss myth busting with the vego skinny thing :rofl: I am not tooooooo bad but I don't really come across tooooo many skinny vegos, I find that most eat too many carbs unless they are actively trying to increase/add/get enough protein iykwim... I have never read skinny b!tch, is it good?

I'm looking forward to my workout today and cooking up some meals for the freezer on the weekend, can't wait for Monday (I really hope I have had a BIG loss of body fat & I hope the cm's have gone down)... I'm also looking forward to seeing the OB Wed and strangely Im looking forward to the D&C Friday if I need one, I just want to all over with, then to recover, then to have a baby and be SLIM & HEALTHY when I get pregnant, which looks like a real posibility if I have another 8-10 weeks of counting calories & workingout YAY... I seriously can't belive I am kinda excited about not being pregant and I'm excited about loosing weight... Perhaps that is what my brain is telling myself to keep me sain (snugglybean I think you can relate to this :hug:)

well I'm at work so gotta go!

Ammaki - There are loads of different saddles you can get that will hurt your bot less. Also, you do just have to slowly get used to it - you sort of build up riding callouses. Sounds gross, but you never see them, just notice when you do/don't have them. I don't know how it works, but DH swears it's true, as do a lot of pro cyclists.

2 sleeps til big ride! Have done 15km today and will do another 30-40 on the way home - takign the scenic route! Had apple crumble at lunch today :redface: but rest of the day and week has been really good. Really into my herbal teas at the moment.

ooo thanks snuggly, i'd really love to be able to ride to work, its an 8 minute drive so cant imagine it would take toooo long to ride. Its a pity we dont have a shower at work tho ... that might be a deal breaker if i get really sweaty lol

Yeah you definitely feel it the first fews times but somehow harden up (although I like to think I now have buns of steel and that is why it doesn't hurt. lol. Callouses? Ewww.)

Hello you bike riding babes :P Maybe you can start a club called that hehehhehe.... I used to enjoy a bike ride every now and again in the gym but don't really get out much around here although the sunnycoast has great bike track evrywhere...

I'm happy to be back to 71.3 on the scales today after putting on that 500grams so I have sat and Sun to loose more and show a loss on the scales Monday......

Today is eating well again :D a BIG workout and planting in the garden.... hope everyone is enjoying there weekend xo

Ammaki - I rode all through last summer, and I have a 15km commute. What i did was kept a stash of clothes at work (work are nice enough to wash some of them for me) and I rode in in my lycra (it is SO much cooler than normal clothing) then on arrival wiped down with a wet washcloth then hit all my sweaty bits with a dry deodorant, then got completely changed, including bra. Have a big slug of water, then off you go. Feels pretty good, and you start your day burning, so it works really well. We actually do have a shower at work, but I found that doing it this way was as good, and only had 2 or 3 showers at work)
Added to that, I would just have a cup of soy milk before I left home, not a big brekkie, then I would have a serve of home made baked beans about an hour and a half after I got to work. That kept me going til lunch. I found that if I had a full brekkie, it would be burnt off by that morning tea break, and I would eat a brekkie sized meal again. The milk (or a banana) seems to be just enough to get me through, and then the beans are a really really good way to start the day.
I had a good ride yesterday, BUT did not eat so well. We went out with some friends and I had a beer bfore the movie, lollies at the movie, then red wine with dinner after the movie! After four mnths of not drinking, I was a write off after just having the beer! Hmmm.... so today is supposed to be a rest day before the big ride tomorrow - I might have to do something non-bike. Like run. Hmmmm.

Hi everyone. I was a bit naughty yesterday with my eating. Nothing too over the top but didn't really check how much I was eating. I was then punished on turning up to soccer and finding out we had to play two games back to back. All up I played 70 mins of soccer - a whopping 900 calories worth. And boy did I feel it. So I ended up being definitely down.
This morning I had soccer training so that was pretty full on too. So my exercise plan till the next weigh in is cycle tomorrow - around 40 mins (but stop halfway as riding to work and back) then monday is futsal and then weigh-in Tuesday morning. So I have to lose weight this week. Surely!
Am off to the movies this afternoon with some gfs and am getting my haircut too plus getting some new clothes. Feeling good!

Wooohoooo Tomorrow is my weigh day but I jumped on the scaled and I am 70.9 :dance: which means that if I loose at least another 100grams today I will have lost 2kg in 4 weeks :hooray: I'm so happy with myself! And it's alway extra exciting when you see a different number in front of the decimal..... next time I will be back in the 60's so that is even MORE exciting! YAY

krysalyss It's amazing how guilty you can feel when you don't so your diary properly! But with all your exercise I think you can get away with it a bit more than me :redface: I just do standard workouts and I pretty much 'net' 1200 calories per day

Same goes for you snugglybean you are a machine working out and can eat lollies at the movies if you want to :p How are you feeling anyway?

Hi girls,

Just got back from my 50km ride - raised $148 for MS, not bad with only 8 days notice! It was such an awesome day, finished too soon, I could have done another 50! I have ridden that route before, but doing it with 3000 other people just makes it so much better.
Came home and smashed apart some carbs, but I think I sort of needed that. My blood must be running green, I had so much Gatorade :lol: Met someone whose daughter has leukaemia, she told me about a 300km ride for leukaemia foundation in August, so I'll see if work will give me the time off...

Krys, I bet you'll feel awesome with your hair and clothes!

cherished (chezza!) I feel incredible, on such a high after the ride.

Oh, and in other news, I put on some shorts yesterday (god bless QLD!) that I only bought 4 weeks ago, and they are suddenly too big! So although scales are still happy at 69, my waist is miraculously shrinking! Yipeee! What a brilliant feeling.

How did I double post that?

That is so awesome Snuggly!!!
Well I was really naughty last night and had fried food and bikkies and lollies. Not sure why I went so over the top. Trying to be better today. Off to calorie king.....

YAY Snugglybean and yes BLESS QLD! I have had a great day, a bit in the garden and then I sunbaked for an hour on the deck! I'm determined to look fab this summer with a tan and all so why not start now :D plus it would be great to show up at the wedding in August with a tan and not the winter whites.... btw I had a giggle with ya Chezza line :rofl: I feel like you are my cheer squad but you are the one doing the marathons hehehehhe

krysalyss whenever I go over the top or fall off the wagon I know it's emotional eating. I am honestly bewildered that I am not totally emotionally eating after this loss, whatever has changed in my head I don't know but am happy for :)

just thought i'd say hello to everyone.
i've been lurking for a few weeks, but decided to join and stuff.

i have lost a whole lot of weight since i started (sept 2008) but since i just mc last month, i decided i needed to lose the rest of my weight before we ttc again.

i just _cant_ budge this stupid 83rd kilo, the lowest i've managed to get down to is 82.8 and then i'll gain the same stupid kilo over and over again.

my scales are just simple coles variety ones that only do mass, so i'm hoping my emerging leg muscles (i have definition in my calves, i havent seen that in about 15yrs!) are the reason why the scales are stuck :)

:welcome: mmm :) so glad to have you on board and it seems you are in the same boat with the loss of a buba, both snugglybean and I had a loss around the same time :hug: I'm so sorry and I hope your focus on fitness and health gets you through like it has me :) It sounds like you have done an AMAZING job already :clap: keep it up.... I've gotta run as my dinner is ready :)

Hi mmm!
Congratulations - 20kg is an incredible amount to shift! Sorry to hear of your sad loss, as chezza said, we have been through similar losses, but are both finding that a fitness focus is a great way forward.
My scales are Kmart ones! They do the job - I think as long as you're using the same ones, and weighing yourself at the same time of day, you should be OK.

Hey chezzy-pops, got a hot dress for the wedding? :D

YAYAYAYYYY 70.6kg this morning which is a loss of 800grams wooohooo I'm so excited! I have now lost 2.2kg in 4 weeks :hooray: This weight loss thing is much more exciting than the ttc game! For starters I get a weekly dose of excitement when I have my weekly weigh in and I have a daily thing to strive for (staying on the calorie count)... Gosh I think I will be smiling for the rest of the day :)

Snugglybean you sure do make me smile :D I have not got a dress for the wedding yet but I wore one to a wedding in November and it still fits and I love it.... BUT it might be too cold for that one, I will wait and see how much weight I loose and what the weather is doing :)

Wow you ladies are chatterboxes!!

Snuggly good job raising that money!! Every dollar counts! Cant beleive you cycled 50km, thats huge! & good idea with the wet cloth, one of my work friends who lives down the road has a bike, might see if i can borrow it for a day see how i go!!

Good loss Cherished!!! Thats so exciting!

Hi mmm!!! Excellent weightloss!!

Dont be down about your bad day krys!! I had a shocker too, didnt help that AF reared her ugly head & out came the chocolate! :wall:

I think im going to try a different approach and have a "cheat day" atleast then if i have a little of what im craving i might still get somewhere those other 6 days a week!

Bought DP a quad bike for his birthday on the weekend, so much fun! Hehe

Hello again

I was just thinking of what I am going to do today and I'm going to do another workout and go through my clothes and put them into sizes, I have a range from size 10, 12, 14 and I got some size 16 pants a month or so ago when my weight went up because I didn't fit into anything else! I figure this will motivate me because I will see that I have some nice things to wear when I shrink some more hehehe... It's funny that there is a weird part of my brain that used to think that if I lost weight I wouldn't be able to wear the nice clothes that I have now... AND A LIGHT BULB JUST WENT OFF IN MY HEAD! I GOT THAT BELIEF FROM MY MOTHER!!!!!!! I used to say to her when I was a child "why don't you loose weight" and she would say that she would have to buy new clothes! You have no idea of how much of a break through that is to finally figure that out! It also helps me to think that it doesn't matter if I don't wear the clothes I fit into now because when I am pregnant I will wear them again so it's not a complete waste...... People are 'strange creatures' Or maybe just I am :rofl: Seriously though it really is hard to figure out what little thought patters are subconciously sabotaging weight loss efforts and I am so happy to have figured this one out!

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Hello there,

I see this is a new thread so I might just start with my little story. I am about a size 18 to 20 and we are planning on TTC starting in December. By that time I want to have lost about 15 to 20 kilos and feel healthy, probably about a healthy size 14 to 16 to be realistic. I have about 6 months to achieve this so its time to get stuck into it. I dont want a quick fix and put the weight back on plus some, I want to do this the healthy way. I have been pretty much up and down in my weight over the years but have never been this big. I put on about 10 to 15 kilos when I met DP and never really got it all off permanently so this is the time to do it! I want to avoid the high risks being overweight in pregnancy brings such as PE and GD and want to avoid having to use an obstetrician for my care vs midwife. I am a student midwife and should be qualified by the years end. I see how much of a risk weight brings with pregnancy not to mention how hard it is to TTC. So I am really just trying to get started and see how other people are getting on with their weight loss too. Talk to you soon,

Leanne

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Hi Leanne.
I thought I would responded to your blog, because my sister had the same problem. She wanted to loose some unwanted wait before she fell pregnant. She ate well, and exercised regularly, but it didn't seem to be enough.
So she went and saw her naturopath and he suggested that she drink this shake called IsoWhey Complete. Its full of minerals and high in protein. Its great for your immune system and you can replace meals with it. She lost a lot of weight and achieved it doing it in a healthy way. It can also be taken whilst your pregnant! Its also really tasty, she was drinking the french vanilla, but has recently changed to the double chocolate (which I went out and bought directly after). Anyway, I recommend you give it a try, and I wish you all the best with your weight loss and your new baby:clap:

Oliver Baker I used to drink that and got sick of it. The same flavours over and over again.... Being vego I have heaps of whey powder but I have a fantastic no name brand which is a natural flavour so I can add it to anything without changing the taste, eg pasta, my breads, salad dressings I make, smoothies, I even sprinkle it over my avo on my organic spelt bread that I make :)