I would love to join to. I will pm details as soon as I find the tape measure.
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I would love to join to. I will pm details as soon as I find the tape measure.
Okay i really ummmm and ahhhhh'd about this for a little while - but know i really want to become a Yummy Mummy and i can't do it with out some help and motivation - so count me in!
As soon as i find tape measure i will PM details!
Thank you :D
I'm in too, stats on their way soon
xoxoxoxo
will start on the goals tonight!
Ok, I've just emailed you Lucy, so when do we need to measure again?
Is it this Wednesday or next?
hugs xoxo
Oh my gosh - how much did i pack it just sending those details off!
its all done now tho :redface:
You will need to email me your next lot of stats on WEDS 7th Jan:
so when do we need to measure again
Ahhhhh I would have sent them to you on 31 Dec! Thanks Lucy xx
it seems the local weightloss centre isn't as helpful as i'd hoped. I have my weight and waist recorded but not my chest & hips. Lucy(or anyone really) tell me where to measure hips and chest? Is there a particular spot/point? Also, is there a good sale on scales somewhere coz mine are dodgy.
OK, for measurements, think of it this way: you will be the one measuring yourself regularly, so as long as you measure yourself in the sme place each time, you will see a variace.
My advice would be to meaure boobs around the widest part so that the tape measure is around the nipple.
For waiste, use your belly button as the indication of where to measure.
Hips are the trickiest: I meaure my widest part: around the bum.
Scales: I got mine from the supermarket. They are digital, measure in 0.2kg increments, and cost about $30.
Scone I got my scales from Bunnings, were $25 and are digital ones, not bad! The brand is PROPERT.
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pmsl.. or if your boobs hang down like mine do - the widest part is above the nipple.. lol
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...
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?
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!
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!!!
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!
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!
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.
:clap: 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!!!
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......
These are things that I have decided to do to:
*need to try and drink at least 2L water
*cut down meal portions
*make sure I eat breakfast
*cut down on sweet things
*eat more fruit
My goals are:
*to be able to put my engagement ring and wedding band back on my finger
*be able to buy some new clothes for my birthday in June
*increase my sex drive as I don't feel very sexy at the moment
I think that's all for now, I really just want to feel better about myself more then anything, and I'm finding that been over weight makes it really hard for me to like myself.
hugs xoxo
Oooh I did this last year and it was a great way to start the year off!! Not sure I can really get into it this year though :( Might have to join you Nai in a post-baby health kick.....Lucy, how long does the NYBTC go for? From memory it was only 2-3 months last year which might not be long enough for me to really join in? I might just have to cheer from the sidelines and use all of your successes as motivation.....starting with a big whoohoo and :clap: for Divvy! Health (physical and mental) is definitely far more important than what you look like or what size clothing you wear.
Just 3 months, but I am happy to continue on if we have anough motivated souls.........:
Lucy, how long does the NYBTC go for?
Arrrggggghhhhh!!!! I soooooooo have absolutely NO willpower!!!! I have barely started this weightloss thing and I am already falling off the wagon! We went for a drive up the coast today and because of the horrific traffic, it took what normally is a 1hr10min trip to being 1hr50mins. DD was whining and DH was hungry and said he couldn't wait (til we got to dads and for him to make us lunch!) So we ended up getting maccas for everyone. I SHOULD have had a healthy roll, salad or meal, since they have those choices now, but they're sooo much more expensive! So I ended up with a cheese burger meal, with sprite, not even diet coke! There were good choices I could make, but I chose not to...WHY OH WHY!!!!!!!!!!!! Ugh, I so need to change my thinking! No I need to change my will power somehow. I know these things, I know about healthy foods and how bad for me these things are, WHY do I eat them????
Got out the Wii fit to weigh myself. Been a long time since it has been used :redface: have managed to lose 2 1/2 kgs since the last time, so that is good.
Going to be be hard though, I received some rather nice choccie for Christmas and there are some other foods left over. Have chatted to DH about it, so he knows I am doing it. Also I am using the new year to really start sticking to a grocery budget, so some meal planning and not having extra to eat rubbish will be helpful.
Lilias - was like you today, we had to get lunch and there is not a huge amount of choice where we were. So Macca's it was. I am afraid to try their salads for some reason, so next time we go there I will give them a go.
Kel, don't beat yourself up babe. At least you had a cheeseburger not a big mac, it couldve been much worse.
I will get up the courage to weigh myself etc tomorrow and send my stats to you Lucy. I started last year and lost a couple of kgs but then sort of petered out. Having a teenage DD who weighs what I did/should is quite motivating if not depressing LOL
I'M IN!!!!
I don't have a heap to lose, but it's those last few stubborn kilos that are really getting me down. And I have a goal to get fitter and firmer, so this should be the right start to a new routine.
Will send through my figures in a few minutes.
yeh I rocked, it gave me the huge push start to continue through the rest of the year (ok I had a hand with 10kg of my loss due to stress) - but check out my ticker now!:
Having a mother who is a Size 6-8 and at most 50kg with A cups is depressing too *sigh*:
I got the short genes from mum and the fat genes from my father. LOL!
LOL, me too AJ!!
If it is any consolation, I had a shocker yesterday too...........we have far too many left over goodies from Christmas!
So plan for today is to collect up ALL the snack foods (which are my greatest weakness) and ALL the chocolates and put them in a green bag and then put them all in the garage fridge.
That way they are available for the kids, for genuine treats, but way out of picking reach for me!
I will also actually be chucking some food out. Its wasteful, I know, but it gives me real sense of power to be able to throw food in the bin.
So today girls, maybe get tough on your fridges and pantries: If it is a type of food that not going to help you, bin it or give it away?
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!
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I'll be your mother Ash!!! Then you can have a fatter one- no boobs though sorry.
LOL I don't want boobs haha!!
I really need to get on a waiting list for a reduction because they are causing me no end of health/body/psychological issues. :lol:
I have done a lot of research into how I am going to tackle this challenge and I am feeling really confident and motivated. Now to 'stick it out' through the sugar detox. Eeeeeek.
I know a few people who have had reductions and they are so happy afterwards.
If I give up sugar I get cranky and quit quickly so I am just cutting down on things and trying to exercise more.
I've opened and read this thread many, many times in the last couple ofdays and have chickened out on replying, but this morning I woke up thinking I should really do it. So, what the heck, count me in too!
I want to lose 5.7kg to get to my pre-pregnancy weight and then probably another 4-5kg to be smack bang in the middle of my "healthy weight range" (but will reassess after this after the first loss).
Doesn't sound like much to lose, I know. But these last few kilo's are the hardest to shift! I have a terrible weakness for chocolate and sugar, if it's there I will eat it, I can't help myself. So, if there's anything I want to get out of this, at the very least, I'd like to curb my sugar and chocolate cravings. Bye bye chocolate *sniff*
OMG, I just calculated my BMI and it says I am obese :( I'm sooo disgusted with myself. I will need to lose up to 30kgs to be at the lower end of my healthy weight!! Though I don't think I could ever be that slim- 54kg! That's not very doable for me, though the upper end-67kg is about 4-5kgs more than I was before/when I met just DH. That's what I want to be! About 65kg......so almost 20kgs to lose, WOOOOW!! But I will do it, I have to do it. For myself, and my babies, my DD in particular, I so don't want her to have the issues I have with my body.
i have to agree that one of the big motivators for me is to get myself sorted out before my DD is old enough to realise the struggle that I go through daily with food/ weight etc- I dont want her to have that burden.
I've found by starting the day with some exercise helps be curge the urge to eat junk. I figure I've gotten up early and worked hard I'm not going to waste it. It's hard though because it means getting up before the girls and I'm not really getting much sleep as it is.
Laranna, I'm a chocoholic to and I've found that I can't get rid of it completely. As soon as I do I just want it more and end up binging. So I've kept it in my diet, but in much smaller amounts and I get the dark chocolate instead. If your worried about having it in your house you could break it up into small portions and freeze it. That way it is hard to just pick at, but if you feel you really need it you can have a small piece.
Ok i'm in too :) - I'll pm my stat's tomorrow
My main problem is what i eat.... I can go to the gym 4-5 times a week but my eating is horrible... no self control here :(
ETA: just a thought Lucy .... Could we all make up weight loss tickers (or those who want to) and you put them in a post at the start of the thread??? (saves putting them in our sig)it would give everyone a great look at how everyone is doing???
Its just a thought anyway... im not sure how everyone else would feel abt it or whatever