Diet and Weight Loss Support - October 2007

Hi all,

Not mych of a video workout person, although I own tiebo and have a yoga dvd as well. I love the yoga one I'm just not motivated enough to do it, plus my house isn't the appropriate size for doing these things.

Bec I live in marong Rd, not far from Spotlight. I did WW at home a few years ago, as I'm not one for attending meetings and I did quite well at it, but I didn't really use the resources they sent me.
more than happy to meet maybe for some walking or something, but I don't drive so it's difficult for me to get anywhere, I'm also quite shy so you would want to be a good talker to not get bored with me :lol: oh and I'm going to be back at work as at january 7th.

Krysalyss, :lol: I have avoided our local library for many years as I'm sure the last books I borrowed went back at least 6 months late and I don't want to pay the fines, lol, maybe I can re-join with my married name, just have to lie about having being a member before.

becca - do you have a playstation at home? Just that there are a few workout type games that you can get, some are purely "fun" but they give you a workout, like the ones that come with dancemats (think the U tampon ads with the chick in the yellow outfit playing on that game), nike did a game for the eyetoy which gives you a real workout - heck a lot of the eyetoy games are workout central! I don't like exercise videos either, but love these. DH & I challenge each other to different games we have - the dancemat one we need to have towels handy because we SWEAT!

I'm going to get DH to measure me tomorrow, so I can start gauging what my loss is (I know how much I weigh, I just don't follow weight loss but "size" loss)

schaz, i completley forgot about the video games. we have an nintendo wii and the sports games are quite exhausting. maybe I should be doing some boxing. I'm sure Xavier would find it amusing too.

people think of exercise as the traditional "going to the gym" or "walking/running" - which makes exercise REALLY BORING unless you enjoy the monotony of the gym.

For me I need things that are fun - hence the playstation games we buy that are energetic etc

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people think of exercise as the traditional "going to the gym" or "walking/running" - which makes exercise REALLY BORING unless you enjoy the monotony of the gym.

For me I need things that are fun - hence the playstation games we buy that are energetic etc

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me too but we can't afford a playstation. might have to save up or put 1 on layby with sum active games. will tell DH that it won't work his old games so he has 2 get up n b active with me instead of taking over n sitting on his bum with a controller. used to have ps2.

Hi ladies, I think it's time I climbed back on the wagon of admitting instead of avoiding. *LOL* I dropped most of my pregnancy weight mostly by watching my portion size and trying to get moving a bit more. Got down to 68 kgs at the beginning of this year and then I went back to work and BANG I climbed back up to 76.6kgs again. *sigh*

Finally bit the bullet last month and joined the gym. I'm down to 72.05kgs as of this morning which I'm quite proud of, but my aim is 63kgs, would be pretty happy with 62-65kg mark really.

I need a good kick up the butt to keep me on the wagon..... *LOL*

Well done to all of the girls for your terrific weight loss and motivation.

hi Beckibee. another bec!!! we r gonna have 2 give u numbers!

I saw those fitflops in athletes foot for anyone who was looking for them...

HI all,

more rebecca's which makes me ponder the question is it just a common name or are we all very weight consious?

Nothing good to report here, had a wedding over the weekend, thought I was pretty good, and I've gained weight. Not happy.

I have however been getting some PMS type symptoms so that could be a cause for the gain too, boo hoo I hope it's not if it is it will be my first AF in over 12 months. I was hoping to go a little longer.

weighed in at 79.0kg this morning which was a gain of 600g but in a way I was relieved as I was so sick last week with gastro then mastitis and hardly ate anything all week so I'm glad that my body is coming back to normal
so back on the wagon this week and back into my exercise as well which I was surprised that I really missed while I was stuck in bed and on the couch
hope everyone had a good week
Mel

:redface: I stayed away from the weigh in this morning!! Not that I think I have gained quite a lot, but I rather enjoyed sleeping!!!! DD had earinfection and after dropping her at daycare - sleep, beautifull, wonderfull sleep!!! :lol:
I am going to phone my WW teamleader and ask if she will weigh me on Wednesday. I don't think she would mind. My bathroom scale this morning said 70.6kg, which is not bad. It's not over 71, so I am happy. I did have that wonderfull function over the weekend and DH treated us to fish, very greasy but scrumptious calamari and chips for Sunday lunch. And yes, of course we had soft serve for dessert
Trying to eat more fruit and salad. Having a bit of a yoghurt attack at the moment and are devouring tubs and tubs of the stuff. I think tonight might just be some tuna-salad with pasta.
I am a bit sick of eating. Don't know what I would like to have and are not really fancying anything. Makes it very hard to prepear something.
Bec - NO AF IN 12 MONTHS!!! WOW!! Wish I was that lucky :lol: my AF came exactly 2 months after dd came and I stopped bleeding a month after dd was born. So that made me a month AF-free "woot"
Mel - that is not bad 600g after a bout of gastro and you are still under 80kg!!

Once I have a few more tests to make sure I'm fully over the chest infection (and other things), I'm going to try Dr Cohen's program for a few months. Just to give me the kick I need to lose the weight, then I'll go back onto healthpointe to keep re-set my body.

Ack.

Name: Kaz (kazbah)
Start Weight: 75kg
Current Weight: 75kg
Goal Weight: 64kg
Notes: I put on a kilo :(

:dance::dance:67.2 kg:dance::dance:

SW-73
CW-67.2
GW-58
total lost-5.8kg!!!

Hooray!!! it is going now. I didn't expect a good loss this week having been to my aunty's 50th and eating junk!

HEy Everyone!!

Hmm looks like not many people did the weigh in this week! I hope everyone is doing well and is happy with where they are at.

I am doing great!!

Start weight @ 17/09/07 - 84.5kg
Current weight @ 20/11/07 - 76.4kg
Total loss - 8.1kg
Goal weight: 75kg by 7th December

I cant believe it!! I am 400g away from being the weight I was before I got pregnant. I had a wedding dress fitting on Friday last week and they need to take it in about 4-5cm on each side! The dress looked huge on the hanger, couldnt believe that I was that size!!

Anyway, I better get to the gym. I hope everyone is hanging in there :)

oooh Veronica!!! looks like u'll make ur goal!!!! VVVVV excited 4 u!!!!

Veronica - how exciting! That sounds wonderful for your wedding dress!

Ali - well done, you're on the way.

Well I've been silly and not drinking water, or eating properly. Now I've bought a thingy of water designed for the fridge and drinking lots of water, I think that even though its not as cheap as tap water, I have issues with the tap water as we don't have a kitchen upstairs and the bathroom is not great for putting water into jars.

So I'm going to be good this week, starting today I'm cleaning out my fridge of all the junk that accumulated there, and the dodgy left-overs, and get the BBQ fired up (great low-fat meals for the BBQ!)

I'm looking @ getting Picadilly, aka Neverfail coz our rainwater tanks r not trustworthy n we only have rainwater or bore water

Ok...I weighed in at the gym this morning (very unforgiving! *L*)

SW - 76.6. *shakes head*
CW - 71.85 *woot*
GW - 63.00

YAYYYYY!!! :) Probably mostly because I was sick last week, but I think Pilates classes at the gym are really making a difference. Really pleased to have gotten over the 'hump' phase (4.0kgs lost...kept hovering around that mark) Just short of the 5kg loss mark....

Well done to all of the girls on your dedication! (And a special YAYY for Veronica...you're gonna be one hot Momma in your wedding dress!)

Hi girls,

i haven't been on here for a while as my baby girl and hubby have had gastro! Luckily I didn't get it though. My weight is hovering around 75 so I have lost 8 kilograms in nearly 5 and half months. I remembered weighing myself when my baby was 3 weeks old and I was 83! Only 5 to go until I am back to my pre pregnancy weight!!!

I have been ok with my eating but not perfect! I am not eating enough fruit so that is my goal this week, Last night my husband and I were watching a movie and he opened some chips. I couldn't help myself but I just had to have some! Oh well it is a new day today!

Just wondering if any other breastfeeding mums could tell me what they eat in a day. How much weight have you lost since having bub?

Congrats to all those who have lost weight!

WOOT! :) I normally weigh myself on Thursday mornings at the gym so I thought I'd get on the scale regardless of weighing myself on Tuesday.

I'm 71.45 which means I've lost 5.15ks now :) SO excited and now I'm even more motivated to lose the next 8 or so that I want to.

Well I am gutted.... I have been eating good, drinking bottles of water a day & doing aqua aerobics twice a week & trying to get exercise in on the other nights & i weighed this morning &...


I am still the same weight ... grrrrr not happy ... stoopid body...

So Still weighting 79kg!!!

Pooh..... will see how the next week goes i guess

Mitch - if you're doing all that exercise, the muscle should be building, and that weighs more than fat. Are your clothes looser? Any idea what your body fat% is?

Keep up the good work, its better than what I'm doing.

Bec - w00t!

Kaz.. Not sure on the body fat %.. will have to try & find out I think my SIL has scales that tell you that... havent really noticed a change in clothes as yet.. mind you i pretty much live in my baggy jeans !!!!!

My friend brought me in his exercycle today to use yay... its a real flash thing so will have to have a pla tonight!! also rearrange our small lounge to accomodate the exercycle & my cross trainer LOL...

Hi all,

Well done on all the losses, keep it up ladies.

According to the scales I've lost since monday, but I still have the weekend to get through. Don't have too much to do this weekend and if the weather doesn't get too hot again might be able to get out for some walking.

Planing to walk to voting on Saturday morning, may as well get it over and done with first thing.

Morning everyone!!

My weigh in this morning: 75.8kg

The weight it just coming off now! 5.8kg to go until I'm at my ideal weight.

Hi guys! :)
I am back at 71.2kg :( :) mixed emotions about that
Not getting to the gym as much as I would like - DH has told me to come jogging with him tomorrow (?????) *almost fainted*
Going to knuckel down the next three weeks. My birthday is in a month and I still want to lose 5kg!!!!!!! OK, just as much as I possibly could.

Congratulations Veronica :clap:

chin up Nadine! it is only a plateu and will soon b gone. the minor gain is prob due to water. i get it sometimes too. i know that it feels like :wall: but u will break thru it (pardon the pun) and although it may seem impossible now u need 2 keep going

Weighed in at 67.4kg's I really need to try harder. Forgot to weigh yesterday, was a little busy.

Veronica, well done, you are doing fantastically.

Start Weight: 75kg
Current Weight: 73kg
Goal Weight: 64kg
Notes: I hope the chocolate binge yesterday doesn't stuff up what I did last week!

Must say, having the water easily available makes it so much easier to drink.

OK I have put on the three kg's I had lost in the past few weeks :( , due to stress of uni exams....I have been eating really badly cause I just can't concernatrate on uni and eating well and exercising! I will be back to it tomorrow, but I'm not weighing in 'officially' until next week ;) .

Congratulations to all of you who have been strong and have lost weight' Especially to you Veronica!! You have done so well.

Sounds like the majority of us are having an 'off' week. :( I am too, I just know I'll have put on weight this week but all we can do is put our chins up and take one step at a time. So, instead I'm not focussing on how bad I was eating on the weekend, I'm reminding myself I was good and went to the gym this morning and will behave the rest of the week.

Thanks for the encouragement Alli, I needed that.
Is not a good day so far either. DD is sleeping really really bad and I am "soothing" myself by eating anything and everything. I had Bran Flakes with banana and 2% milk, small tub of yoghurt, a couple peanutbutter squares (bad, very very bad), half a ham, egg and cheese toast sandwitch and some chicken casarol and jello sweets. AND THAT IS JUST FOR THIS MORNING!!!! O, and an ice tea. I feel so bloated and icky!!! :( :(
I think I need to put in a day's leave and just sleep some. Get rested and motivated again.
OK, moan over :)
I just have to try harder from now. I think it's the whole festive/holiday-thing that makes it harder for me to control my sweet tooth and urges. :rolleyes:
:( :(

Hi all, ive been trying to lose weight since i started gaining it due to my Endo (started 2 years ago) but until my recent visit to the hospital i havent known how much i weighed so saying that im going to lose 10 kilos by xmas this year was a bit hard lol Ive gone from a size 8-10 to a 12 in 3 years :( The last time i weighed myself was almost 2 years ago and i was 55kgs (was normally 50kgs) and i was fine with that but its just piled on and im not happy with me anymore. I watch what i eat, not always a good girl in that area, but im usually good, and plus i dont have a car and so i walk everywhere so its not a lack of exercise

Current weight - 67.8kgs (soooo relieved thats all it was)
Goal weigt - 55 kgs

So i would like to lose 12 kgs, but at least the 7.8 by the time school starts again in Feb as all thruout summer all i eat is salads.

Fingers crossed, and keep going everyone, you all can do it!!

Oops!! I forgot 2 put tuesday's weighin on!

drumroll please.....

66.8 kg

*ding*

That is mini goal 1 achieved! I was not expecting much coz of my huge loss last week, and I lost 300g.

Next mini goal is 61 kg

Hi all,

well done ali good job.

welcome lily, i'm sure you will loose the weight in no time. I have very similar goals to you and am currently a similar weight. Good luck.

nadine, I have been having lots of days like that recently. Ones where I just feel like eating everything and then some. Yet I'm not hungry I just have this desire to eat. Might be a boredom thing. The bit that gets to me though is that it's afternoons and evening that I go through this craving and yet I am so busy just finding time to have a shower, feeding dogs, etc etc that I forget to eat in the mornings.

I'm trying not to forget to eat in the mornings because it's only since breastfeeding I have been able to stomach breakfast, before that I hadn't been able to eat it since I was 12 and only had it occasionally while preggo.

Hi everyone,

I haven't been on this board for a while as things have been crazy here - and not in a good way. I've managed to put back on 3kgs! Argh! I'm now back over 100kg. The gym is still going well but I'm eating pretty much anything that it's pinned down. So much hunger.

Anyway the good news is that I'm off to the Dr today and I'm probably getting my Implanon out due to problematic bleeding (no symptoms for 4 years and now it's just started flooding!) and hope that it will help with the weight. I'm also considering going to an overeaters annonymous group but I haven't got the courage to do it yet.

Gym is still going well so at least I haven't lost fitness.

Back on the band wagon! And ready to drop the kgs! : )

Well guys... i weighed this morning... & am still at 79kg... grrr Im so peeved off... 3 weeks & no difference to my weight whatsoever...

i am still going to aqua aerobics twice a week & trying to get on the bike or Xtrainer other nights.. nothing seems to be working....

Hopefully i have bloating cause af is due soon... one can only live in hope i guess....

fingers crossed the scales move THIS week!!!!!

Oh girls, I hear you both!!

Ruth I have also put on what little weight I have lost in the past two or so months- about 3-4 kgs too. I am back up to 87kgs :(. All from the stress of uni, grrrr! Stress does horrible things to you. I hope things are getting better for you now.

Mitch, I lost weight really slowly too. It took me about 8-9 wks to lose a measly 3-4kgs, and as I said about I have put it all back on in about 2weeks. They slowly is the way to go though, so I'm hoping in losing weight so slowly, it will eventually stay off....

Oh well back to it

Im in a bit of a rutt here too. Every week I seem to just be fluctuating within the same kg. 66.5-67.5 I think I might just be happy with that for the time being.
hopefully I can do a little better once I get back to work and eating out of boredom will be less likley. Plus I might have a better routine going.