New Years Body Transformation Challenge 2009!

[Je$$_84]

OK I'm posting before i chicken out... Need to get a tape measure and scales... I gave mine to MIL... quite busy within th next few days so will have to try to get back here to PM details...

I'm such a lazy so and so also... i KNOW i need to do something but with lack of sleep and a sooky bubs motivation for weightloss is usually the last thing on my mind... Need to get cracking... even if its walking round the back yard.

Before the kids i had lost 27KG's by walking to and from work so i know it can be done its just when your fat its hard to get that motivation up to keep going... I think its great that there will be others here to keep us all going... I have a wedding in end of Jan... I know i wont have reached the goal weight but some loss will be better then none...

Good luck everyone...

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Lucy - I have just realised I have packed my Wii and Wiifit and my scales aren't digital orf useful for accuracy. So I will have crappy scales and less accurate (no small increment) measurements until end of Jan - is that ok?

[*Ali*]

I just PM'd off my measurements- while it was scary I decided that it was ok, because every number I see from now on is going to be smaller!

[tk1999]

I would love to join in - will PM my stats when I get home this afternoon... you guys may be just the motivation I need... I have been seeing my personal trainer 3 times a week and whilst it brought about change it wasn't as good of a change as I expected which leads to disappointment and then lack of motivation!

[Amity]

Argh bugger it, I'm in too... will measure up tonight. Need to go buy scales and tape measure!

I need to lose 35 kilos. At least. I'm in denial. I weighed 75 kilos before I met XH. I'm sure I'm well over 100 now... My "healthy" weight range is 51-64 kilos (although I never weighed that light, even when I played state level basketball). My aim will be 70 kilos, but lighter would be good.

I have some psychological issues with my weight. I don't want to lose weight, because I then become attractive to me, which for me is "dangerous". Being an incest survivor isn't easy - and I've had years of counselling and psychotherapy to help deal with it.

This will be the first NYBTC for me, and my mental way of doing it (for the first time) is to GET HEALTHY. For me, this won't be about losing weight, it's going to be about HEALTH. My health is seriously screwy and I need to fix it now, so that I'm going to be around for my boys. My boys need me. God help them if anything happens to me - you all know what the XH is like. Let's just say he was convicted in October of assaulting DS2....

So this is about ME getting HEALTHY! I'm going to think about goals etc and get back to you Lucy. Sorry for the waffle on. Sometimes it's hard to take those first steps.

[Nai]

Yay Divvy! That is the best way to think about it - you are doing it for your health! How you look is a secondary concern really.

I will join in after I have bubs so is it ok to start sending measurements post-birth as if I start now they will just keep getting bigger!!!

[~kellie~]

maybe I should join in too? There is only so long I can blame my weight on just having a baby!

Will send through my details as soon as I find the tape measure......

[Roryrory]

Just PM'd Lucy my stats - weight is 85.5 and I would like to get to 75kg. Less would be nice but I will reassess when I get there (LOL - was about to type "if" I get there!)

My goals are to weight 75kg by the end of March - at 5kg a month I think that do-able.

I am doing weigt watchers and am a member at my local Contours gym, so I think I have all the "support" I need - plus all of you guys!!!

[Lucy]

Thanks for all the stats that are coming in. My spreadsheet is getting fuller by the hour!

Any scales will do: digital or old fashioned. I'd probably suggest weighing in at the same time each week (ie Weds AM, when you get up, after you have done a poo!).

Rory, you sound like a woman with a plan on a mission.......go for it!

[queenbee]

I am doing weigt watchers and am a member at my local Contours gym, so I think I have all the "support" I need - plus all of you guys!!!

Roryrory, I too am on Weight Watchers, joined online and so motivated this time!!!! The site is EXCELLENT and they had a special going so I joined. I am hoping to lose 15 kilos.

I am on my 4th day of WW and walked between 1 to 1.5hours per day! I am drinking at least 8 glasses of water per day and not even tempted with all of the rum balls in the fridge! I have put up an old photo of myself (skinny one!) on the fridge so everytime I go to the fridge...I see it and it helps motivate me! That might help some other people, just an idea anyway. I haven't been the weight on the fridge for 12 years!