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Well done girls :clap:
Raupe - :clap: hun, i am so proud of you, keep up the great work!
PRMG - hun we need to organise another walk, your more than welcome to come and join HotI and I before a library session or a big walk.
Keep up the great work babe, you look awesome and what an effort on the bike the other day :)
krystals - how you going hun, over your sugar fix?
How did you go at the bridal shower... you know what your ALLOWED to enjoy these yummy foods sometimes.. as cookie monster says they are a 'sometimes' food :p i don't think i would loose weight at all if i had myself on a STRICT diet, i'd give up a million times over.
I have chocolate almost every 2nd day :shhh: don't tell DP :)
~Jayne~ keep up the great work, aww i want a barbie :p
Sorry to everyone else, i will catch-up i promise.. how are we all?
Raupe well done!!! :dance: Great news!
ZF so great you girls can support each other IRL as well as on the forum! Oh my goodness did you say 12.3kgs???? WELL DONE!!!! That's an amazing effort- you're going to look super hot for your reunion!
I was all about 'sometimes' foods yesterday! :rofl: So I had some of my good-for-you delicious cucumber sandwiches (and they really were delicious) but I also had a few too many cupcakes and scones as well. And lemonade. But not wine and not savoury muffins and maybe I did have some marshmallows as well. And maybe I finished the packet of jungle jellies. And then went looking for chocolate. But I couldn't find any :o
It was fun. I don't feel remotely guilty, I had a great day and I didn't have to immediately get out of my jeans in case they busted when I got home, so I'm ok. Today will be great!
Mid week is always my hardest, I'm usually tired on wednesday and tired for me usually means poor choices. Luckily our house rarely has junk food, so I just have to resist the urge to eat toast all day. I think I might make some spinach and ricotta filo pastry thinggys. YUM.
Have a terrific day ladies!
Krytals - Good you on for enjoying yourself yesterday, but knowing it was just a 'sometimes' food day. You sound all energised today. Like you had your fun yesterday & now today it's time to buckle down. I like that! I find Thursday & Friday are my hardest & I couldn't agree with you more about having limited junk in the house. When there isn't any junk, it not only takes away the tempatation, but it takes away being able to give into that temptation. About the worst I have in the house is Oreo cookies. The girls get one after breakfast when they are dressed & ready for school. Either that or a snake lolly. One week I have the snakes, the next I have Oreo's.
AFM _ It's weigh day tomorrow. I'm really a bit anxious about it because I know I"ll be disappointed if I don't get a good loss. I threw everything I had into working out & eating. My knee is just waiting to ping, I can feel it's about to go, so I have stopped my jogging, but instead doing 5km morning & 5km at night on the cross-trainer to make up for that & I'm also avoiding the stairs. BUT........ I'm still walking everywhere. So covering all the same distances, but just less intensity for 3km of it. Also, I doing 10km per day, I am finding I am taking around 48 mins each 5km, rather than the usual 45. So I have had to slow down a bit. But I'm still getting a massive sweat happening & increased breath intake, so I'm ok with that.
It's so hard to count calories or weight watchers points here because the nutrition labels on just about everything is covered over with the Chinese characters. So makes things a bit tricky, but you know in yourself when you have overdone it. I don't think you could overdo the eating & not realise - or not???
Ok, off to do my chinese homework before class.
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Wow everyone is doing SO well. I love this thread :) It's very inspiring to read.
Raupe, ZF - :clap::clap::clap: way to go girls! Awesome work.
PRM - new undies ;) it's the best feeling.
Krystals - love your attitude, you go girl! Here's to a good wednesday for you!
Jayne - that is a heap of walking, I'm cheering on your scales for tomorrow... no wait, I'm cheering YOU on for tomorrow :lol: even if it's not this week, it WILL happen and you are getting SO close.
AFM - I'm improving yaaaaay. Back to dr yesterday who changed my AB's and stuck me on a ventolin as well (and seemed very surprised I'm not asthmatic - which I am categorically not)... but apparently it's a good dose of wheezy bronchitis that I've been whinging about. But already I'm coughing much less today, and hopefully soon I'll be able to sleep the night through without barking like a seal lol. I might even venture a walk tomorrow yayayayay. I'm still on the same weight, so wondering if I might be able to sneak a .3kg loss to get to my next kg... I have till sunday. BUT I go to tassie for a hol on Tues... so if I could just do it by then I'd be pretty happy.
DH is also improving (about time OMG I am so thrilled), and really wants/needs to lose 13kg once he's feeling a bit better, so I'm really looking forward to having a weightloss buddy (so saying, he approaches weightloss TOTALLY differently to me! He does it MANstyle... by which I mean.. stupidly. *looks around* no men in here right? ;)) But he has a dodgy back so he really can't do it manstyle thistime, he's gonna have to take it slow, steady & SMART! I think he can do it. And I can do it. I'm feeling pumped, and I can't remember the last time I stayed this motivated for this long!
ZF - I know, it's been ages since I've seen you guys for a walk. I'm busy for the next couple of Fridays - that's library day isn't it? But I could probably do the big walk, when you next go - or you guys come here and do the big 7km one :)
Krystals - You're echoing how I've been feeling! With birthdays and me the main cake maker in the family, there are way too many temptations here at the moment. In the past 10 days, I've made 48 cupcakes, 4 butter cakes, about 1.5 litres of icecream (that is admittedly to die for), and chocolate crackles. Throw in a couple of bags of chips and you've got me :( I swear my floor is still sticky, even after vaccuming, sweeping and mopping. I never want to see green icing again.
Jayne - Hope you are happy with your weigh in results. Got my fingers crossed for you.
Belfie - I think I need to invest! I'm about to get a savage hair cut, and I've found a shop with clothes that I love, so it's about to be the new me. Think I can throw in some new undies. I've just done socks and that was exciting enough! Six whole pairs!!!! And the last time I got socks, well I think I was about five years old :lol:
AFM - Yep, pretty ordinary eating. Feeling yuck because of it too. But I cooked up a stack of bok choi, broccoli, asparagus and mushrooms last night, in some garlic and chilli with a little bit of butter. Made me feel better :) Went for a walk this morning, it's beautiful in Melbourne today. And I've been giving my arms a workout by restaining some decking bits.
no weight change this week again :(
But I've just pushed myself at the gym and burnt 600cals, going to do a dvd later on today and see if I can bring total cals burnt today to 1,000.
:hug: Sopdet - I know that frustrating feeling only too well. I know you have heart it a bazillion times, but you're building muscles my friend, lots of 'em too! & they weigh way more than fat! lol. Do your clothes feel looser? Can you see the difference when you look in the mirror??
PAKRAKMG _ I'm loving the sound of your veggie dish that you made **thinking thinking** lol. Oooh share with me about what kinda 'do you're thinking & what kinda clothes??? I'm loving the sound of giving yourself a make-over!!! Completely worthy IMO!
BELFIE _ I can't wait to hear the 'man approach' that your Man takes. What kinds of exercise does he do to get all buff again? Does he go really insane with it? What about the food? I just have an image of him saying to you 'Darlin, how many calories in this slice of cake, do you think it's worth it for me??'. bahahaha. Alan is best man at a wedding in Aus & went on this massive build muscle binge to look super hot in his tux that lasted all of about 3 days. Honest to god he is worse than a woman with excuses. He can't work out of an evening & then the following morning, because he works soooooooooo hard that his muscles are still pulsating 12 hours later. His back is sore. His arms are sore. His stomach muscles hurt so bad he can't bend to lift the weights. Seriously! It's so hilarious that it has turned pathetic. & if I dare even mention if he is planning on working out today he launched into this massive speel about why he can't/won't, etc... I know it sounds REALLY mean, but he has always given me the impression that if you want to lose weight, bang, you just do it. No questions asked. How hard is it to lose weight? He would always scoff if I had only lost a small amount & now that he 'tried' I can't help but give him back just a little of his own medicine! Plus, he would work out & then sit down & eat an ENTIRE loaf of bread with dinner?? Like WTF?? Or he would indulge in a HUGE dinner & then workout & then go have a few glasses of wine & a block of chocolate? Seriously. Ok, now I'm REALLY mean. :redface:
xxx
Jayne - It's going to be a messy bob with a fringe, me thinks. I've been wanting it for a while, but have been too chicken. My hair is generally layered, sits just past my shoulders (although it's a bit long atm) and has been that way for a long time. I figure I'm going to go the bob, if I hate it, it will grow. Clothes wise, I've fallen in love with most things in a shop, which is very rare for me. It's called Temt. And the prices were really great too, so I figure I can get a few things on layby and won't kill the budget.
Sopdet - Great work at the gym!
Tonight's dinner is beetroot and chicken risotto. I had one beet left in the garden, so thought I'd try something different.
Hey PRMG _ Ooooh we had TEMT in our local shopping mall in Aus & I had never gone in there because it had all the pretty small girls clothes in. Cute layered type stuff? Singlets? Cardi's? Skinnyleg pants? That kinda thing? I know a few people who shop there & always say it's really quite cheap. Go knock yourself out love! I have a similar love affair with a store called 'Forever New' where I can go in there & want every single item I lay my eyes on. I can't wait to hear all bout it. OOoh the hair sounds really, really awesome & really chic too! I have REALLY long hair at the moment. The longest I have had it since I was a kid & DH LURVES it. He says I can't cut it anymore. I also have it black, he loves that too but my girls are asking for dark brown hair like them again. So I think I might for Summer. I haven't my hair cut in 5 months now it's long enough that I want it cut so it sits in a V shape from the back - you know what I mea? I also have lots of layers for the body in my hair. Ooh listen to me ramble! Can you tell I'm talking about hair, shoes, clothes. lol
Dinner at yours sounds awesome! Have you any spare??? lol. I am attempting to roast some beef (the red meats here are a little to be desired), & I seasoned it then made a bit of a baste with barbecue sauce, honey, tiny bit of olive oil & some worcesteshire sauce. I have covered it with foil to roast in the hope it makes the meat more tender & then I am roasting potato & carrots & doing corn, cabbage & cauli steamed. With the baste I'll make a gravy too. It sounds good in theory but I can guarantee you the meat will be awful. :(
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PRMG - omg are we in sync or what!?!? I've been "training" a new hairdresser at the top of my street. Had 3'rd haircut on Thurs and it was 'orrible. So I cracked it & went back to my faaaave old hairdresser (40 mins away in Malvern - that's tough to justify for me) but it was sooo worth it. Shattered bob with fringe :D (well that's what we call it anyway ;). Having a new cut is just the best feeling. Temt sounds nice too, I'll have to keep a look out. I'm not letting myself shop until I'm within 3-4kg of my target weight, sometimes I so want new clothes but I figure the reward will be getting them when I look HAWT!
Jayne - your dinner sounded so yum, I really hope the beef is a pleasant surprise. Your hair sounds lovely too.
Sopdet - that is impressive calories, wow! I bet you're looking more toned & fit even if the scales haven't been your friend this week :hug:
Well I managed a walk! Admittedly the toddler was actually the fastest of all of us, and it was only 10 mins but I didn't cough too badly and felt good for going. Plus had much sympathy from MIL & FIL who dropped by to help out (FIL did lawns YAY) and I conveniently hacked my lungs out while they were here hahahaha yay. Plus I"ve spent all day refusing to eat crap cos I know i"M close to getting back on the bandwagon :D
Jayne - the clothes were always on the small side, so I never went in before, but I went in with mum the other day - she was after something (she's tiny) and I was looking and noticed they have lots of 12s and 14s there. Made me happy! I like the frills, hides the bits of me I don't like :lol: I get what you want your hair to look like, and I'm jealous that you can carry off black. Mine is a mousy colour and I'm pale, so if I went black, I'd look ill :) .Your dinner sounds yum, hope the meat worked out for you. And talk away about clothes and fashion. I have no clue so any tips are appreciated :) 'Spose it's a bit hard though when you don't know what I look like :rofl:
Belfie - at least you can train a hairdresser!!! My hair is really thick and every hairdresser I see and tell them to cut it off all go, oh no, it's so lovely. Yeah. Try living with it. But the girl I go to now, I've been going to for a while and she's lovely, so as long as I'm not a chicken, I'll be coming out with a bob next week! EEK! And a 10 minute walk is better than a 0 minute walk! Awesome stuff!
Dinner was YUMMY! I cooked some garlic and onions first, then threw in the chook with some white wine and some wholegrain mustard. Then some mushrooms, and spring onions, then the aborio rice and mixed through some chicken stock. On the last lot of stock I put in, I mixed through the beetroot (roasted it earlier), some basil, oregano and parsley and some tasty cheese (didn't have parmesian). DD refused to eat it, even though it was "pink rice" but I scoffed it off!
ooooo, all these haircuts sound so nice!! It must be the time of year for it- I'm soooo frustrated with mine, I'd really like to go blonder (I'm mousey) but don't think I could afford the upkeep so I think I'll go darker instead. Not black, although I wish I could!
PacRakMG I'm so jealous, your risotto sounds so much better than mine! Risotto is my staple, I can make it with my eyes closed, a baby on my hip and the phone on my shoulder, but hubby 'helped' tonight and boiled the rice while I was feeding DS. In water, no stock. So we had veggies and rice. It was SO bland!! LOL. I mixed some spaghetti sauce from the other night through it, and added extra parsley ;) Poor thing, he thought he was helping :)
Well, DS and I went for a short walk today- he's about 8kgs now so I can feel it walking up the hills! Thing is my walk which used to take an hour now only takes 45 mins. Good in one way, means I'm getting fitter (yay!) but now I have to extend it! LOL. Or maybe I'll get back and do some pushups or something, I'm going to need to get some arm strength before I go back to work!
Sopdet they're amazing calories!!!
Oh! Remember girls, if you're dehydrated your body stores fluid- I often find when the weather cools off I don't drink enough- keep that water up!!!
Belfie, I read your undies thread :lol: yay for great undies. I just buy bonds usually. I like the big wide waist banded ones. I think they're called hip hangers. Well done a eating well today and getting some exercise in. My DH is a man style fitness freak lol. I hate it when we end up working out together. I always end up yelling at him and getting really angry when he demands the 100th stomach crunch. His dieting is weird. It's all or nothing. Either he doesn't touch the cake or he eats the whole thing. After our wedding I put some of the cake in the freezer for our 1st anniversary. I busted him eating it frozen like a giant cookie :o :rofl: He does a lot of spot training so if I know where he trained the day before I can threaten to poke him there if he doesn't behave.
Sopdet, it sucks when your work doesn't translate to weight loss but extra muscle and being hydrated can cause a plateau on the scales even though you're fitter and healthier.
krystals, well done on the healthy choices. Those cucumber sandwiches sound ace :p
Jayne, mmm hmmm, roast beef. I love roast beef but other than steak and pho I can't cook beef. It never, ever works for me :(
PRMG, I need a haircut too. I have long hair at the moment but I need it cut short by winter so I can fit it all under a hat/beany/helmet. I have the number for a mobile hairdresser. I just have to find the energy to call her. I love walking in the autumn mornings. There's something about the air and the crunchy leaves...
AFM, I've lost 2kgs now. In about 2 months lol. On the positive side I can run for 30 minutes now which is about 25 minutes more than 2 months ago. I increased my weights for most of the tracks at pump today. I'm loving the new release. The lunge track totally makes me feel alive although it hurts like hell too.
Onyx - Well done on the 2kgs! And fantastic that you can run for that long. I have no idea if I can run for any length of time, tried once but felt a bit silly trying to run and pushing my non-jogger pram! Call that mobile hairdresser! Have an hour of pampering. And I don't really want to hear about your beanie and helmet. Seriously. Okay, so I do. A bit.....Might be a little jealous of your coming snow season....lol.
Only.6kg down today............. *sigh* Not the over 1kg I was hoping for, so a little upset.
Time to revise my goals.
It's 2 weeks to the day til we head off to Aus.
I am .4kg away from my lowest recorded weight which was 2 weeks ago now. So as long as I am BELOW that weight, I will be a happy girl. I only have .5kg to go, so it's achievable.
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Jayne! I am ready to kick your skinny bottom! You have done awesomely, you should be SO proud. It does get harder to lose the closer you get, so to manage .6kg is AWESOME! Ok you do get props for revising your goal weight, smart chickie - and lets face it, no matter what, you are gonna look hot hot hot when you're back in Aus!
Onyx - now I'm picturing you with helmet hair... oh dear lol. We are virtually identical in our gaols, 2kg gone & 9kg to go. Go us!
AFM well I jumped on the scales for fun... and omg I weighed 1kg down from Sunday! I don't know what's going on and I reckon some of it is just fluid for sure... but now i've got my hopes up for a reasonable weigh-in this Sun. I think last Sunday's was a bit falsely up IKYWIM. Now my thursday food is normally notoriously bad, so I'm gonna be really good today. And maybe a lil' 15 min walk too :)
I got out of bed this morning, rolled into gym gear and put on a dvd - without having a shower first (well only one at home), felt good doing a 30 min workout first up. Need to get back into this habit. Will be heading to the gym this afternoon probably if I can fit it around vet appointments and a dinner date. Even if I don't - I can do more of the workout dvd.