Getting Buff to Get Up the Duff

[Maruschke]

Sounds great N2L!

I walked home again, so that was 1h50m of fast walking today, and I ate really well. I have blisters, but that's OK, I'll do pilates instead of walking tomorrow as I am working from home.

Hope everyone else is going well.

[minniemouse]

well done girls :-)

i am within my calories and just been for an hour walk

are you all planning on weighing in once a week and sharing or do you want to keep that sort of thing out of it ?

[nothing2lose]

Good job minnie!

I think I will weigh in once a week. Happy to share. Looked up my walk - it was about 2kms.

[Maruschke]

Well done minnie! I think I will weigh in each Sunday. I changed my goal... I want to reach the healthy bmi range... the upper limit is 25 which means I need to get under 70.5 kgs (4.5 kgs to lose). I think that is a nice starting goal. That should be only 5 weeks... I can be in the healthy bmi range for Christmas, wahoo.

The next goal will be smack bang in the middle of the healthy bmi range (22.5) which means 63.5 kgs for me, so another 7 kg loss from the first goal, or 11.5 kgs from where I am now.

[minniemouse]

Maruschke: sounds like a great plan ! and think how good you will feel at christmas when you are down some kilos :-) how are the blisters today ?

nothing2lose: how did you go with your lunch today ? i take it you are leaving your job by choice ?

afm: on track with calories, having home cooked chicken pad thai tonight, never tried it before so i hope its ok ! im about to just in the pool with the kids, does that count as exercise lol

[Maruschke]

How was your swim? I'm hot and sweaty after cycling so a swim sounds fab right now!

Managed 40 mins fast walking and 30 mins cycling all up today, and ate well so FX it is making a difference.

[minniemouse]

Maruschke: you are doing great !

swim was good, i was trying to do a bit of aqua while i was in there :-)

[myturn]

I've been avoiding you all on this thread, cause I've had such a couple of weeks, with EPU, ET and being sick - I just couldn't be bothered... but I also know myself well enough that any excuse will do.

last weigh in last week and I was 110.9kg BMI = 39.3

DH goes overseas on Saturday - so I'm planning to take the two weeks to get myself into a routine - I'm scared BT on wed will put me out - esp if it's a BFN, but even a BFP and I could stay fallen off the wagon as I celebrate.
seriously need to get my headspace in the right place.

eating well just takes up so much time and it feels like IVF is taking all the time I SHOULD be spending on eating well, exercising and planning.

I do go to PT twice a week (although went on monday and personal trainer almost sent me home I was coughing so much), do a class on one of the days as well, and try to go to gym at least one other time... so I am doing some things right - most of the time.

so.... I'm going to sit down on monday and PLAN it all out for the next two weeks.... so kick me up the butt if I don't get back on here with a plan for you all by tuesday....

[minniemouse]

myturn: good for you, i haven't done ivf but i have had my share of problems & i have put on weight more & more over the years. fingers crossed you get bfp wednesday & it gives you the motivation to really try hard

afm: i have been good with my calories all this week, scales are looking good (although official weigh day isnt until monday), i have been to aqua tonight & im feeling pretty good

[kerbear]

Thought I would join in here as it might help me keep some motivation. I know all the reasons I need to lose weight but I am struggling with emotional eating with each month that passes and us still not getting pregnant.
Did any of you have to break through this barrier?
I lost 18kgs just before I met my husband and have put it all back on and a bit, even with the weight off we struggled to fall pregnant and as much as I know losing it has got to help I can't stay focused. It's like I sabotage myself so that I can blame myself if we can never have a baby and I don't understand it because I know deep down I want to be able to say I gave done everything I can.
Can anyone give me any advice on their mental battles with weight loss.

[JBM]

n2l:
when i fianlly got the BFP this time and i am 39.... almost 40 now.... i had lost about 5 kg. eating much better. more so than massive exercise thing.

anyway i also did acupuncture during egg growing time and on the day of transfer also. maybe this helped.

but i was way more relaxed this time and I think this was a big key ....... it's hard to relax but it was easier this time as i knew what to expect rather than first IVF round.

i am sending you the best of luck ............


hoping to hear about your BFP very soon. x o

[kerbear]

Congrats JBM on your bfp :-)

[myturn]

It's like I sabotage myself so that I can blame myself if we can never have a baby and I don't understand it because I know deep down I want to be able to say I gave done everything I can.
Can anyone give me any advice on their mental battles with weight loss.

that is exactly how I feel!! I know I sabotage myself! I just don't know why - i think it's because I'm scared that I won't be able to do it - so at least if I don't try, I can always say "well, I didn't really give it my best shot"... crappy excuse really...

I think the mental battles are the main contributers to weight loss to be honest - I'm a comfort and boredom eater, and i eat out of habit (i.e sitting in front of the telly etc).

I have always found the most helpful thing was recording my exercise - I have a chart that I put on the fridge, and I can actually see which days I am exercising and which ones I am not. I don't know if there is a way you can share documents in this place, but I'd be happy to share my proforma with others if they are interested.

I have planned menu's as well as had a food diary - and both have helped - it's something I need to get back into - it's also something that it unrealistic to do forever! So I've had a 6 month break from the last one - I guess it's now time to do it again for the next few months to kick start the weight loss again.

so I'll do a menu plan tomorrow night and weigh in monday morning to start again - hopefully it will work, and I can drop another ten.

good luck everyone :-)

[kerbear]

I think I need to do that to... Write it all down but even when I did weight watchers I struggled to keep a diary. I also know that what I do needs to be for life as I gain it back so easily and it seems like such a long term thing, I have been changing my eating and I think I am going to look at as a weekly thing then at the end of that week focus on the next instead of the forever part.
Thanks for sharing :-)
Good luck

[myturn]

do you have an iphone? There are a couple of good apps - I got my iphone in december 2010, and used the ShapeUpClub App, and lost about 8 - 10kg just by using that (of course I was obsessed with my iphone then - and have since stopped using it). I haven't put any of it back on this year - and really need to get back into the App - because it's on my phone I have no excuse not to record - I always have my phone with me so....

certainly the phone app worked much better than the pen and paper food diary.

[kerbear]

Thanks i will get that app cause I have am iPhone which is also always with me because of work. It's nice to have someone to chat to and get advice from, thanks :-)

[minniemouse]

hi everyone,

its pretty quiet in here, just an update from me, this week i lost 1.7kg which brings me to a total of 7.1kg in 6 weeks of calorie counting which im pretty happy with, how is everyone else going ?

[Maruschke]

Wow that's AWESOME! You should celebrate that, it's amazing.

I lost about 700 grams :/. But I was forced into two outings where it was sprung on me that the meal was fish n chips so I tried to eat as little as I could but oh man, talk about ruining the diet. Not sure how to accurately measure my weight now that I'm stimming, but I'll keep going and see what happens.