wow... that Zelma woman looks amazing! I imagine she is in the US (because she called it Jello)... but she talks in kg's ... so maybe not? Hope you hear from her Tracey! I also wondered about her excess skin.
If anyone is looking to read an inspiration book to help you along... get hold of The Clothesline Diet by Karen Gatt. She is a Melbourne woman who was 130kg, and could barely walk. So her exercise was walking around her clothesline in her backyard. And without any particular diet or weigt loss programme, she lost half her body weight. She had two small kids at the time too. She is amazing.
Another good book is the two by AJ Rochester (from the Biggest Loser). She wrote two weight loss books before she was on Biggest Loser. She's a comedien by trade, so her books are funny - but also very "real".
Some great cook books are the "symply too good" range by Annette Sym. These are available at newsagents or online. Again, Annette lost an incredible amount of weight by adjusting normal recipes to low fat.
I have chatted online to all three of these women - and all of them donated their books for the weight loss challenges I organised in the past. All three of them are Australian, and lost large amounts of weight, whilst having small children to run around after. So there is no excuses for us!
My excuse is ME. I just realised that I have finished off an entire box of cheezels. Although I have lots of yummy fruit in the fridge. Pineapple, apricots, peaches... damn! It's just my natural reaction to go to the pantry and grab "sweet stuff".
One of my problems is my DH. He is underweight. He could eat like a pig, and still be underweight. He insists on lollies, chips & chocolate in the house all the time. He can eat it. I'm just going to have to avoid it. Maybe I will put all the sweet stuff into another cupboard so that I don't have to see it on a daily basis.
I also have my MIL here, who is cooking every single day. But she leaves on Monday - so I'll start preparing all my own meals very soon.
Gracie: you can weigh yourself once a week - and you can lodge that weight with lea (by pm or email) if you want to. You can also post it here if you want too. You probably only need to do measurements once a month, as you won't notice a huge difference in cm's on a weekly basis.
ADVICE: when trying to lose weight - its really easy to become obsessed with the scales and weigh every day. Please try to avoid the scales. Weigh ONCE a week. No more. If you have to, put your scales up somewhere really high... or give them to a friend/family/neighbour if you can't help yourself. Becoming a slave to your scales is not healthy. Women's weight can fluctuate a couple of kilos in ONE day! Weighing yourself regularly puts yourself on an emotional roller coaster.
Lucy... good on you for starting a weight loss blog! It's great to record your journey. I started a weightloss blog years ago... then got pregnant, and it became a prengancy blog, then back to a weight loss blog, then back to a pregnancy blog...!
Another inspiration tool (that Lucy has used) is VIRTUAL MODEL. You can put in your details (current weight and "looks") and it will present you with an image of what you look like. then you can change the weight to the weight you would like to be... and oila - instant motivation!
check out the website : My Virtual Model
Okay... I'm off to bed.
Night all...
