Pre-Xmas 12 week challenge - all welcome!

[~clover~]

I'm hungrier!
I'd usually have coffee, maybe toast, then something at lunch, then dinner. Thats the only times I was hungry, now I'm hungry more often, which should make the 6 small feeds instead of 3 (or 2) big ones.
I'm guessing its my metabolism picking up?? No idea.

[Epacris]

yeah, maybe I'm just weird

[Nadine216]

Ok, here is my specs:

Bust 98
Waist 86
Hips 116
I'm a size 16 pants ... would LOVE for that to turn into a 12, but it will be hard work!!
and a 14 top - that could just go to 12. Being a pear is not always fun

I have the whole thunderthigh thing going on hehehe. I hope this muay thai stuff wil work those babies into the ground. I'm a bit more stiff than yesterday AND I have my second class this afternoon - eeeek. I am sure I won't be able to skip rope, or kick, or get up the stairs LOL But thats part of the fun right?? RIGHT?? Heck yes.

You know Racheal I feel the same way, so we are both weird. The more I exercise, the better I feel, the more willpower I have to eat the right stuff. Sure I get hungry, but it's easier to say no when I have just sweated 17 gallons in the gym. Before I had kids I was going to the gym 5 times a week and were loving it and I could live on a cup of fruit and yoghurt for dinner - without cheating!!

Talking about sweat ... how are you guys doing in the drinking-da-water department? I currently go through about 1.5lt that I know of. I love drinking from the tap so I would say another 500ml during the night that way. I know what you are thinking, she gets too much sleep that she needs to drink water in the night hours So that is 2 liters.

My eating plan looks something like this:
Breakfast: All Bran cereal/weetbix with fat free milk and a fruit
Snack: Fruit/Fruitjuice
Lunch: Whatever is on the table ... yesterday it was chicken, rice and veggies. Today sausage, mash, peas and beetroot. One meat proteien, one carb and fill up on the veggies.
Snack: Fruit/Yoghurt/Crackermates with fat free cottage cheese (this is just before class)
Dinner: Salad - Tuna, Chicken, Egg .... with two slices of Low GI bread.
Late night snack: One cup of hot fat free milk with a tsp honey - not everynight.

You will have to excuse me, when I get this worked up, I talk ... a lot!!

Cat -

Eat less at meal times

Oh that's a good one.

Tomorrow's chapter: How stand up from the toilet if your legs are stiff like boards

[Ginger]

i'm going to do all my measurements tomorrow morning and post them, can't wait to get started!

woo hooo!!!

[Tinsel]

Nadine you are a crack up! I am not too good on the drinking water front. At work, no worries but at home, I just forget (and I'm not back at work until July next year). I am going to make an effort to drink much more water (actually went and got a glass just now).

Epacris - I like how you measure. I often put on my favourite jeans to see how I'm going but still can't do them up

I saw Oprah today and Bob Greene was on talking about his weight loss/eating right plan and Oprah gives herself a time to stop eating which is 7.30pm. Not one little anything after that. She also said when you get the feeling that you could have a little something after dinner, it is the fat cells saying 'eat me, eat me'. I like that and that's what I'll think about when I get the hungries after dinner. Eat the fat cells my little pretties

[Jas]

Well before I can shut the thread and tell myself I will come back later I am going to post and commit my self to my fellow bb'ers!!! I would absolutely love to loose 10kgs! Would like to loose a bit more than that but will make that my starter!!

[sconeonamission]

Oh COUNT ME IN!! I need some motivation!! I have 3.1kg to lose to my goal weight (tho I'm quite happy to lose 7.1kg to be where I really ought to be!!

Ideally, the 3.1 before christmas would be great!! I'll have to think of the rewards later, and I'll submit measurements tomorrow! Where would one find their waist/hips? Is there a particular spot?

[Ryatha]

Well just did my measurements - the bust is great ... but I think that is cause I'm BFing still...

Here they are

bust 105cm
wiast 95cm
hips 106 cm
and my biggest part... thighs/bum a whopping 118cm!!!

But I have been really good drinking a lot more water and eating less, and exercising... so I'll measure again next week and see how I go!

[Nadine216]

OH MY GOODNESS!!!! What a work-out!! I feel like a kazillion dollars, I even wore my heels today
I'm cheating and getting on the scale every morning, it's not looking good, because I'm not losing any weight ???? BUT I'm not cheating on the eating and I'm drinking the water, so don't know what is up with that. Going to stop weighing each morning.

We did some seriously wicked ab exercises (my favorite) and then did some awesome kicks, upper-cuts, elbows and round-kicks. AWESOME I'm fitter than I thought AND I'm kicking DH's butt Poor dude is sweating and panting through the whole class and barely getting his legs up for the kicks. But he has not had a decent work-out in 1.5 years!!
I'm not as sore as I thought I would be, I can feel my abs when I move, but it's not that call-911 stiffness. My legs even feel better than yesterday.

Today I'm hungry. Don't know why? So I'm upping my water intake to try and coax me away from the take-away across the road. BUT I promised myself that if I go throught this week without cheating, I may have a Magnum White Almond ice-cream on Sunday afternoon and my willpower is strong. They just came out after I started my diet on Monday go figure, and Magnum Almond are my all time fave ice-cream.

Hi too Ginger, Jas, Scones (your username is just too long to type ) and Kas
Kas - sorry about your dad (hug)

Tinsel - EAT ME!! That is something to think about. I have a no-eat-after-8pm rule thing, but I do have my hot milk just before bed ... that's not eating

Where would one find their waist/hips? Is there a particular spot?

Your waist is your thinnest part of your tummy, over the belly button. And your hips are the widest part of you bootie, so not really where your hipster jeans sit, a bit lower, like there where they need to go over a bump (for me) to get at were they sit. Make sense??

Ok you lot. Have a wonderfull evening

[~clover~]

Bust - 96 down 1cm (not too thrilled about that! lol)
Waist - 79 down 4cm (wow!)
Hips - 90 down 2cm.

Well my scales haven't changed, so I'm giving it another week, but I've lost some cms! Bit confused & hoping my cheap crappy scales are lying to me, lol! Since I'm sposed to be weighing tomorrow anyway, I'll have another go & see what happens.

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Just because you dont lose doesnt mean you arent working it off. Also you should weugh at the same time each time because in the span of 24hrs your body can +/- 1kg from simple bodily functions. And don't think weighing after a poo is good either I once put on 400gms lmao

[~clover~]

And don't think weighing after a poo is good either I once put on 400gms lmao

Damn!! How about first thing in the morning?? After all night without food? I'm getting desperate! Lol.

I had a slack weekend, so not that worried about no loss, or not much.

[Nadine216]

Oh well done to all of you.

I had my White Almond Magnum as a reward on Sunday and it was definatly worth it. Going to work hard again this week for that same ice-cream on Sunday.

I'm exercising alone this week DH's neck spasm is acting up again. He will be coming with me, but won't be participating. He is strange like that. Don't want me alone with another man behind closed doors ... and I'm greatfull, because men makes me edgy. Especially good-looking men like my trainer!!!

I'm on the AF wagon this week, blah ... not feeling to bad, just a low is thud on my kidneys.

Goodluck for the week ladies. Remember - Seconds on your lips, lifetime on your hips

[berrme]

Ok, I will join too if that is ok.
I have been training at a mums training class twice a week for 3 months now and have already lost 7kg, 2cm from my bust, 8cm from my waist, 15cm from my hips and 5cm from my thighs. My original goal weight was 62kg, but the weight has slowed down while cm keep coming off as I am so much more toned than before, so I think I will be very happy with 64 by xmas. My trainer keeps assuring us that muscle weighs more than fat... Keep that in mind girls when your weight doesn't go down as quickly as you would like. It is the cm that really matter!

At last weigh in (September 30) I was 66.5kg. Bust 94cm, waist 72cm, hips 84cm, thighs 57cm. I am due for another on Wednesday or Thursday so will update then. I am going to include my thigh cm as I think that is where the weight is going to come off the most now. At least that is where I want it to come from!

Looks like everyone is doing really well so far! Keep up the good work.