Summer - Autumn 2010/2011 challenge #3

[krysalyss]

Hi guys! Am happy as I lost 700g this week. I was hoping for a bit more but overall I am happy, especially as hopefully I have gained a bit of muscle and have AF.
Apple - so sorry to hear about what is happening. I hope it all gets figured out for the best
I am definitely going to try and beat your 10km cycling time. Will have to wait to Thursday probably but you are on!

Hope everyone who has gone off track a bit finds their mojo again.

[Raupe]

Oh appletree... We were in a similar situation a while ago (minus having to raise kids there). We're saving to buy, too. Our rent went up twice in a year and now the price is beyond a joke.

Originally we had planned (3 years ago *rolls eyes*) to move back in with his parents, so we could save enough money for the deposit in one year. But then his parents split and are still going through the divorce (and still living in the same house!!) so we could't bare the thought of living in this poisonous environment. So we moved into this unit, which we absolutely LOVE! It is close to a river that goes down to the beach (where I walk everyday ) in a beautiful, quiet suburb. But like I said, the rent went up twice in a year, so we honestly thought about moving somewhere cheaper . It is ridiculous how much we spent on rent for a unit! So we argued. And argued. There were tears (mostly mine ). But in the end we decided that we want to live somewhere where we felt comfortable and 'at home'. You can't put a price on that. Yes, it is going to take longer to save for the house, but at least we are not unhappy whilst living 'in limbo'. Because what if something delays reaching our goal (pregnancy, losing job, needing a new car)? I sure don't wanna be stuck in a unit I hate! So to cut a long story short: we compromised! I got to keep my beautiful unit, but we wrote up a tight (!) budget, so we could still successfully save. As DF likes to say: As tight as a frogs butthole! (apparently it's watertight...) So yeah, some days are really hard (money wise), but all that is forgotten when I sit in my beautiful garden and walk along the beautiful river. If we manage to stick to the budget, we will reach our goal in July and can start looking for a house!

So babe, I really do hope you can sort it out! Maybe explain to him that this isn't just about the house, but about the home you have there (sorry if I sound like the guy from "The Castle"). You need to be somewhere where you can feel save (especially when you are raising a family). Plus you don't want to have to uproot your kids twice in a few years (the move to the unit and then the move to the new house). That means finding a new daycare/school twice and finding new friends twice and finding a new gym twice etc ... (you get the drift).

I really hope you can sort it out soon.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Hey ladies i'm so sorry i haven't been around, we have a fair bit happening here and it's just all been a little crazy.
I NEED to get back into it though as OMG stayed at MIL's and boy did we eat some crap.. (stupid stress ) so back home and back into it.
Am hoping HotI and i can get back into walking this week if she's free and might try putting my iPhone to good use and listening to some music on the bike for a bit late at night.

Will weigh myself tomorrow morning and confirm the damage

[Raupe]

Oh no ZF! Not you too! I hope things look up for you, too.

I think what we all need is a nice squishy group hug!!

[appletree]

Pmsl, ZF! I think your old people exercise DVD is playing at the gym on the tvs channel! I have the funniest image of you sitting in a chair following along!! Hahahahahahahaha

Ok, who can beat my 5k bike ride time of 7:24m?? I hope you can as I was checking my emails and posting this while doing it! Lol

Or, beat my 3k walk of 31:04, 5 minute headstart if you are pushing a pram!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Not a big walk but a walk all the same today, just me and my girls.
Today it was therapeutic, i put runkeeper on my phone, had P!NK playing and i pushed myself, i prob could have done more but mentally i'm so damn tired and DD2 was in my bed last night.
I did it in just under 30min and i THINK it normally takes us about 45 ??? (HotI is that right)

Then i took the girls to the library and for the very first time DD1 asked to join the other kids, didn't run away and was happy singing and dancing..

So tonight we are having chicken rissoles and salad and plenty of water for me today, skin feels like cr@p

Just got on the scales (after lunch and breakfast ) and am back up to 96.9

[Sopdet]

I have a huge container of salad in my fridge, that I made up on the weekend, with at least 8 different ingredients in it, with no dressing. This is what I grab a bowl of when I feel peckish, it is also what I have with my protein for each meal.

I also have some of those diet type shake powders in the cupboard for when I know I should eat something but the thought of actually eating food makes me want to throw up. When I get home from the gym I grab one of those, throw in some extra protein powder and make it with milk instead of water, it helps to get some food back into me but nothing heavy that will make me feel ill.

[appletree]

Sopdet, how do you keep your salad fresh? I can't seem to even keep my lettuce by itself last for more than a few days so am constantly at the shops buying stuff!

ZF- great time with your walk, how far did you go?

Raupe- thanks so much for your advice! Can i get you to come and fight my battle for me? Sounds like you have it all down pat now and you can just do a repeat of your arguments for my DF! LOL. Your place sounds amazing! You are so so lucky! I wish we could find somewhere as nice sounding as that! Thankfully, DF called the real estate and told them that he wasn't interested anymore, i think it took his mum telling him how awful it was to convince him though! I have applied for another unit which i haven't even seen yet, but it has an indoor swimming pool, spa, gym and tennis courts, as well as being about 20 mins from work for me and still very close to his parents house, so fingers crossed we get it! I am not actually seeing it till tomorrow morning, but am crossing everything that we get it based on photos. Also, i am off to look at a nice house now that is in our local area so if the other one doesn't pan out then we have a back up!

Krysallys- well done on the 700g loss! That is so good, and very motivating for me to see others losing weight

Even though i had a slight gain this week, i am still pretty happy because i scored the best dress in witchery yesterday for when i go back to work! So excited and so please with myself for it not only fitting, but looking really good on I think i might wear it to the inspection tomorrow morning so the agent thinks i am hot and gives me the place, at a discount of course! LOL.

[Sopdet]

Sopdet, how do you keep your salad fresh? I can't seem to even keep my lettuce by itself last for more than a few days so am constantly at the shops buying stuff!

If I've not made it up into a salad, then I have everything in tupperware fridgesmart containers. When I go shopping I try to get mine from the markets, where I ask when the things were picked, how they were grown etc, I try to go for organic as much as possible.

I only make up enough salad for about 3 or 4 days, make sure the things that go yukky in the salads (like bean sprouts and tomatoes) are kept separately and I add them when I put the salad into the bowl.

At the moment the salad has:
Portabello mushrooms, slided
Zucchini, sliced
Cucumber, sliced
Carrots, diced
Lettuce, torn not cut as it doesn't go brown if it is torn
Celery, sliced/diced 2cm long
Snow peas, whole

and on the side, tomato and bean sprouts.

Will be interesting to see the menu on the 12wbt.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Nice salad sopdet.. yummmm
Our was walk was 2.9k's i am going to keep track of all the walks this month and see if we can get ourselves a nice BIG total, while DP is off and i am driving into town nearly every day to get his paper i am thinking i might just use that time and go for a 30min walk

HotI are you up for a little more walking if i can sneak away? do our long walk once or twice a week and then maybe sneak in some smaller ones

I am really really looking forward to getting back into it, today honestly felt GREAT.. now if only i could do it kid free.. imagine the time i could cut off then.

[Phteven]

Hello Do you mind if I join you?
I need to get back in shape ASAP because the longer I leave it the harder it's going to be
I've joined a gym so now I need to make it a habit again. I did abs today but not for as long as I wanted and about 20 mins on the cross-trainer. Cross-trainer and legs tomorrow.

I need to change my eating habits too. As Sopdet pointed out in another thread I need to eat more earlier in the day. At the moment I have coffee for breakfast and nothing else until mid-morning so I need to start eating breakfast. I also need to stop eating the boy's left-overs.

I haven't dared to measure myself....

[~Jayne~]

Welcome Onyx!!!
I'm back in the game girls - I knocked over 3km on the Elliptical this morning!
BBL my parents are Skyping me!

[~Hestia~]

I'm going to jump in here too if that's okay?

I have just seen a very unflattering photo of myself...

I don't own scales as I get too obsessive with them so I am going to go by measurements & how my clothes fit. I just measured my tummy & it was 97cms!! Time to stop burying my head in the sand & get back into shape. It's been a month since my miscarriage today - that's a month of sitting around, drinking copious coffees & eating whatever I felt like, along with VERY little physical activity.

I need to get off my butt, get out more & stop eating Moo's leftovers

[Phteven]

I did legs today - ouch! And also 20 mins each on the cross-trainer and step-machine.
Now I'm starving. I always get really hungry when I increase my exercise. I think I need to do some healthy snack shopping.....

[appletree]

Welcome Cheezel Monster and Onyx!

Way to go Jayne!! What was your time for your 3ks? I did 3ks in 20:18m this morning, very pleased! I covered the monitor with my towel so i couldn't see what was going on and turned up the music LOUD! How was your trip away? WOuld love to hear all about it as i have a bit of a travel bug at the moment

I did absolutely nothing yesterday, was just so exhausted! This moving things is mentally and physically draining... I did apply for a great apartment yesterday which meets all of DF's criteria and just about meets mine, so things are looking up. I also but in a back up application for 3 other places in our local area this morning, and am inspecting a few on the weekend. One of them is on Red Lion St, and i absolutely want it because i love the name of the street! LOL. It also comes with the added bonus of MIL 'threatening' that she would never come visit us if we moved to that suburb as its too hard for her to drive too! I am so applying for that one! Hahaha.

Had a good morning at the gym, did 2ks walk/run, a strength session for legs, arms + tummy, 3k elliptical, 1k row and then 10k bike ride. Wow, i am amazed when you add it all up like that! Can't believe how far i have come, i was doing absolutely NO exercise whatsoever since well before i fell pregnant, then i started walking with the pram after DS was born, decided to start running so did a few weeks of the couch to 5k and then i was inspired to join the gym and went from there! Wow, I hope i never go back to the old me! Still battling to change some food behaviours, but i am doing pretty well there too overall

ZF, how is your DH doing in his plaster? How much longer does he have it on for?

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

ZF, how is your DH doing in his plaster? How much longer does he have it on for?

He's ok, bored out of his brains though. follow-up appt is on the 25th but it's anywhere from 6wks + in plaster then possibly a moon boot, roughly 3mths out of action they think, if not more

[krysalyss]

Hi guys! Just a quick one from me. Have been off the last few days as I have had a cold and then DH's birthday and our council approval came through for our house plans so lots of celebrations! But did 40 mins on bike yesterday and then again today so pretty happy.
Apple I managed to do 10kms in 16:36. What are you aiming for atm?
Am going for a jog with the doggie tomorrow on the road. Will have to work out my current speed to give myself something to work towards. Oh and signed up for soccer. Woo hoo! Now if only the ground would dry out so training can start I will be very happy.
Take care everyone!

[~Jayne~]

Hey Ladies,

I'm very happy to report I have packed away my scales until my weigh day (Thursday) & in the last 2 days I have done 7km on the Elliptical/CrossTrainer. I have also been eating VERY well & cooked another batch of my special soup. I have to come back to Aus in April for a wedding & I know this sounds ridiculously shallow, but I want to touch down at Perth Airport at my goal weight. It's achievable & the added bonus that the bride of the wedding HATES me & my DH is the BEST MAN so it's rather a bit complicated but I want a killer dress, killer hair & look absolutely RADIANT. PMSL.

KRYSALYSS _ The run with the pooch sounds great, I really miss doing that with my dog WTG on the building approval!!! & Happy Birthday DH.

CHEEZEL MONSTER _ I love your way of thinking with no scales, I have a scales weighing 'issue' as well. The measuring & using your clothes as a guide is a fabulous way to gauge your loss.

APPLETREE _ The trip to Beijing was great. I am so OVER fireworks, you can guy them off street corners here, so everybody fires their own, so needless to say when you have a city with the population size like Beijing & Qingdao, that makes for lots of fireworks. I'm just sick of them & Beijing even though was really quiet as a lot went away for Chinese New Year, there were still so many fireworks. Claudia hates walking down the street & they are being set off everywhere. I don't blame her, they are noisy & scary for kids, plus dangerous when they set them off on roads as cars are driving by. Anyway! We went to a Snow & Ice Festival at the Birds Nest Stadium & that was really great. The kids went down ski slopes in tyre tubes & they slid down a big castle on carpet mats & they threw snowballs & dug in the snow, etc... We went down to Hou Hai where there is a lake you can skate on in Winter but it was closed due to unusual high temps (6) & there was water forming on the top, so it wasn't safe to skate - but there is a great restaurant there we like to go to. It's the oldest in the area & we ate there. Super healthy! I got myself some new Nike's which make my feet feel like they are on clouds when I"m on the cross-trainer! The kids got shoes from the markets, we just generally chilled out. Oh & darn you girl, it took my 38.39 mins to do my 4km last night. You're a machine woman!

ZF _ When Alan was in plaster I hired him heaps of DVD's to watch? Is this an option?? Good luck - it sucks for you big time! Especially with 2 little monkeys in tow. I would make sure you get out for a walk every day, just to regroup!

ONYX _ Well done on your workouts. I like how you focus on a different area each day. It keeps it interesting & not monotonous.

SOPDET _ Your salad sounds awesome. How long does it last in the fridge like that?

Hey ladies, what do you all have for breaky each morning? I have been getting into a small bowl of museli, with a little drizzle of honey on top & then putting a tub of yoghurt on the top. We are big fans of bacon & eggs on the weekends, so I got myself a really good (& it was CHEAP) fry pan where you use NO oil & it does actually work! I have bought pans like that before where they say no oil & it just burns the crap out of everything & everything gets stuck, but this works. & so we have bacon, eggs, mushroom & tomato on the weekends, but I rarely have the toast.

Here's to a great & healthy weekend girls!

xx