Old thread is here.
Girls, as I mentioned in the old thread, please PM me with your current results on Wednesday 4th March (tomorrow) and I will post results on Thursday evening.
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Old thread is here.
Girls, as I mentioned in the old thread, please PM me with your current results on Wednesday 4th March (tomorrow) and I will post results on Thursday evening.
Lucy- Sorry to hear you mum is so unwell. :hugs: i hope things improve and bummer about the computor issues. Thanks for all your hard work on the challenge so far :)
Well things here are going well i am almost at my goal. Only 3.4kg to go. Hoping to be there by the 12wks mark then i can just try and maintain it. DH seems to think i should keep going and try to get to pre pg weight but seriously i think i was too small then and if i lose too much i think i will just look bler. I am sitting comfortably in my size 12's now and could prob get away with a size 10 in some things but would rather stick with the comfort for now rather than squeezing into something smaller iykwim.
Hoody
** sneaks in quietly **
Hello all... some may remember me when I started the challenge and then found out we had achieved our much wanted BFP so stopped. I just wanted to say a quick hello and hope that everyone is getting what they want out of the challenge!
Hoody - hey challenge buddy (gee I wasn't very good at that role!) it seems you are doing really well. I am so happy for you. Keep up the good work!
** sneaks back out **
Hi all,
Lucy I'm sorry to hear about your mum. :hug:
Well, AF is due any minute and I have put on that pesky kilo I just can't seem to get past. I've been between 82.4 and 83.4 for weeks now! I have a mega headache and huge sugar and junk cravings. As well as some stress from home, sleepless nights of about 4hrs broken sleep and still trying to sort myself out with time management from starting work a few weeks ago. I hate this time of month (af) and it's so much worse after having DS! So just want to eat a big fat disgusting burger and chips and caramel sundae...I have so little will power now, as well as huge mood swings...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi!!!
Lucy, sorry about your mum, hope things get better soon.... Do'nt worry about the other stuff we understand.
Well I'm with you Lilias and queenbee, I have been stuck on the same weight up a kilo down a kilo for weeks now, my own fault no motivation. I really needed this challenge and the motivation it inspired, without the constant input I have really struggled, also with the fires etc, I have been left flat. I keep trying to get started again, but I seem to have a good day, half a day then...damn I fall off the wagon again. I have been keeping up the excerise though, so one good thing out of it.
Hoody, good on you. I wish it was me!!!!! Your DH sounds a bit harsh, I think stay where you are comfortable, if you get to your goal weight and think you could lose more then do it.;) I got nearly back to prebabies weight after last bubs and looked too drawn in the face, not a good look.
Hope the rest of you girls have been going well, sorry have'nt read the last 2 pages of posts.:rolleyes:
Thanks to those that have sent me stats. I will get onto it and have the results up by tonight.
ANYONE ELSE WHO HASN'T SENT ME STATS FOR THIS WEEK.....you have till about 7pm to PM me with them.....thanks.
If you are struggling with motivation, (as I am TBH!) go back to what you know works. What inpsired you and worked right at the start? Go back to that.
And keep it simple. If nothing else, do these things:
~ Drink more water
~ Eat less
~ Move more
~ Sleep
If you can just do those things, you are in the right spot.
And results are in, and are bloody amazing!
% Weight Change CM's lost
Hoody 9.46% 25.00
Ali 3.54% 34.00
AmandaJ 3.00% 19.50
Laranna 1.26% 18.00
i haven't had a chance to come online lately, so i missed the deadline to pm lucy my results. My original starting weight was wrong!.(Sorry lucy i was underestimating coz i lost the piece me paper with the orginal figure!) To date, i have lost 5.4kg, just 200g off my personal mini goal! 9.2kg seems so much more achievable now its only a single figure!
I'm back on the wagon now - been occupied for the last two weeks and haven't lost any weight but haven't gained any either
Well I have had an atrocious few weeks. Too ashamed to post results :( Back at it today. I really need to lose this weight. I feel so uncomfortable in myself, why is it soooo hard!!!????
Congratulations to those of you who are doing so well!!! Great job girls :clap:
woo hoo! Another 600g loss! Personal mini goal reached! 100g off 5% goal!
I am still away so can't weigh myself til I get back to my usual scales. Have kept up jogging (did 18klms last week) but eating not going great and feel a bit thicker around the waist. Also have AF though so who knows. Did seem like I may have dropped one cm around the tummy but hard to tell. My tummy is by far my worst bit so am really concentrating on that. I will post once I get home in about a week.
I know I have been MIA from this thread for a while but I have still be exercising and trying to eat well.
The last time I posted I was 72.2kgs.... Now I am......
68.9!!!!!!!!!! :clap:
People are starting to comment that I have lost weight - especially in my face which I am wrapped about! 60kgs is my goal so I'm not far away!!
That is awesome! I only have single figures to get to my goal now! :):
First mini goal reached! Next mini goal is 3.6kg away! I worked out, that if i lose 500g a week until i get to goal, it'll be the last week of June!! What a great way to start a new "year"!
Aponi it sounds like you are doing really well.
Rhianon sound like you have a great plan, good on you.
DH has finally brought me a Wii fit and it's been great, last week I had a gain, but this week I lost that and a little more so that is good news. It's heaps better now as DH has decided finally that he is ready to lose his extra weight, so he has started the Biggest Loser shakes. This has kept me motivated as it started to wane a little.
hugs xoxo
I've lost 400grams in the last week which is nice! I've got about 4.5kg to lose to get to my pre-preg weight and then would like to lose another 2-3. I haven't really had much weight loss over this challenge but I have lost about 18cms so that's a good thing (I think!?!).
Haven't done any formal exercise this week but have been doing some heavy work in the garden on top of all the usual housework stuff so it's kept me moving. My eating is a lot better and I'm not craving chocolate anymore :)
Woot, well I am back down to 82.4, which was what I was before I went on my little binge....:rolleyes: . I haven'e really been concerntrating on losing weight or exercising, just not eating or buying extra food. Now I'm working it is easier not to eat too much. Well, more often anyway, lol. I want to start the couch to 5km run. But I just have no motivation to do it. I do have goals and I'm so uncomfortable with myself, in my clothes everything! I have goals
LOL, sorry about the drop out, my puter just had a small heart attack....and it was witching hour and DH came home, so dinner, baths and bed for the kidlets. Ahhh, glad it is all over for now.
As I was saying I do have goals written out and rewrds and stuff, trying to motivate myself, but I jsut can't seem to muster the motivation. I think I will just have to persevere and keep trying until it becomes habbit. I really am so uncomfy with myself.
very little, if any, exersise this week! lets see what the scales have to say tomorrow... Fingers crossed!
Some one was saying they dont crave choc anymore. Me too, but still i have weakness for liquorice and marshmallows. Mainly liquorice allsorts. Is there SOME sort of sweet treat thats worth nothing in WW pts?
:hiding: hello girls can I come and play
I started my 'new life style' almost 2 weeks ago and have successfully so far. Ive got alot of weight to lose but have decided I would like to lose my weight in blocks....so my first goal is to get to 100kg.
Do I need to put in any number ect? Id love to share my journey with you all and help each other when the going gets tuff
Maz your more then welcome to join us, I think that we only have 2 offical weeks left of the transformation, but then we are just going to monitor our own weights. Try and PM Lucy your starting weight and your weight now and if you have been measuring send your bust, waist and hip measurements to her.
Good luck and we're all here to support you and each other :).
hugs xoxo
Well I am back into training and feeling more confident that I can reach my goals. I went back to my GP yesterday to vent my frustrations at how I am struggling to loose kgs (bearing in mind I had been on a 12 month plateu before now, and no matter what I did I couldnt stop yoyoing up and down a couple of kgs), and between us we have decided that now I have a better attitude to food, and am doing substantial regular excercise that it was time to try something else. So I have started on reductil, it has taken me a long time and a lot of research to decide to go down the diet pill route, so please no negative comments, I NEED to do this. I feel really confident now that by the end of this year I will be at least aother 15-20kgs lighter.
Thanks girls :)
Will PM measurements through andhey maybe we can keep going with a thread about this..life after the challenge lol
Ali - I hear you....Ive been in the same boat and I dont know why but this is workignfor me. Can I ask you what reductil is? Ive been on duromine in the past and hated it...it gave me the worst mood swings and i never lost any weight on it.
I had to laugh yesterday. Ive been buying ultraslim premade shakes at coles for the last few weeks andthoguht..woo hoo how cheap $2.99 fora six pack so have been buying up. GEt there yesterday and quiet obviously who ever has been stocking the shelves in the past stuffed up...its ment to be $2.99 for ONE drink not 6...hahahhahaha
Maz- Congrats on starting your weight loss journey, dont yia think it is kinda liberating to admit to yourself that you need to loose weight, and then do something about it. For the first time ever I am not daunted or depressed about the amount of weight I have to loose, I am excited that I have finally made a whole hearted commitment to do something about it.
As for reductil it is an appetite suppresent, in that it allows you to feel fuller quicker, thus reducing your food intake. It also works to keep your metabolic rate up as you loose weight. It does have some side affects (none of which I have experienced yet) but from everything I have read, they are no where near as severe as duromine. I am hoping for me it will allow me to a) stop obsessing about food, b) get my calorie controlled eating habits going and regular and c) help me to maintain a weight loosing metabolic rate, as this is where I usually fall down.
ALi I couldnt have wirtten you rfirst paqragraph any better myself. I think you just need to find that light bulb moment that allows you to go, thats it..no more fat suit!
Now im peeved at my doctor...ive gone to him in the past for help about my obesity and he offered duromine of a gastric band (no yet thanks). I declinded both and said ive gotta try this the natural way first. Im going to research abit on this reductil......i might end up getting somehelp then when I think Im platoing. And ALi its better to ask for help rather then try and try and get no were
imo - It's so much more satisfying to be able to lose the weight on your own than with intervention iykwim :):
Girls, if anyone has weights and measures to send me, please do so asap!
I have Amanda's and Maz I got yours too......
Anyone else?
AND DON'T FORGET, MARCH 25TH IS THE FINAL OFFICIAL DAY OF THIS CHALLENGE!
So, everyone who wants to be counted, good bad or ugly, lol, you will need to do a weigh and measure on Weds 25th March and PM mw with your stats.
I will then do a final results post, and then you will be left to your own devices, with an ongoing chatter thread to keep you motivated!
I feel like I've been gone forever off this thread - had a few bad weeks, just generally not looking after myself.
I severly bruised one of my toes a couple of weeks ago and had no hope of getting a shoe on that foot, so abandoned exercise, but that's all fixed and I'm back into it.
Gave myself a pep talk and have climbed back on the wagon.
Glad it was dark this morning when I went for my walk - I somehow managed to jog - not far - but I jogged. Couldn't have looked very pretty, and I felt like my lungs and heart were tearing apart, but it's all downhill from here. Maybe tomorrow I can jog just that little bit further.
Jumped on the scales after my shower and I'm back to my lowest weight that I have been in this challenge, so now my goals are back in focus.
I CAN DO THIS. I CAN DO THIS.. (I have a bridesmaid dress to fit into) I CAN DO THIS.
lucy, if it helps, i.ve lost 6.3kg since the start of the challenge. Let me know if you need an exact figure.
Oh no! I think ive hit the plateau! Motivate me!
Afternoon ladies, im a bit of a newbie on here been poking around as my doctor suggested i lose some weight, it may make the whole TTC process a little easier. So i think im in the right place, if not please point me in the right direction :D!! Ideally i'd love to lose 40-50kg but really have no idea where to start!! I know everyone says eat healthy and exercise...i guess i just need snack options for work and stuff that arent terribly bad for me!! I have 2 dogs so me and DP walk them as often as we can, usually for about an hour or so!! By the sounds of things ladies you're all doing so well! Congrats! Hopefully i'll be on the wagon soon hehe
I keep bouncing between 6 and 7kg for the last week though I have started measuring myself and have found taht ive lost cm's already.:
My motivation atm is to fit into a scrummy brown dress that I want to wear to the BB meet up in Melbourne this June. bring it on I say.
I tried on a pair of my jeans that Ih ad really bad muffin top and camle toe in, that I also couldnt do up...they fit like a glove now and their a 20!!!! :cheer: yay!!!
I walked into town today also...4km there and 4km's back. I thought Id be knacked by it but surprisingly I feel fantastic.
Gotta stay positive and keep thinking healthy thoughts. I toldf Jed last night its even harder for me (he's doing it too) cause I have to make the kids meals which is so easy to pick at but no..Im standing strong. I havent gotten this far for nothing!
I've been going good, just plodding along, still eating right and getting some exercise. It's heaps better now DH has been to the Drs today and was told that if he doesn't do something he will end up with Type 2 diabetes, so has to lose some weigh.
hugs xoxo
Hi everyone. Its been a while since I have been here as I have been on holidays for three weeks. Lost 0.5kg over that time so I am happy as had sooo much bad food to pick at during that time. But kept up the jogging which has obviously helped. No soccer this week which is a downer - extra jogs to make up for it - boring!
But in all I have lost 6.5kgs which is almost 8% of my original weight so I am happy with that. Especially as I still feel really motivated and feel so much healthier at the moment then I did 3 months ago. Dont expect the rest of come off quickly but I have some exercise goals in mind which should help keep up my motivation.
I think my main reason for feeling so proud of myself is that I am actually still here. I half expected to slink away halfway through but I didnt. Woo hoo!
And yay to everyone else. We are all awesome. Good going girls.
:clap: Woohoo, you go girls!!! Youre all doing SOOOO well!! :cheer:
Me, not so great but I may have found a new burst of energy. Hopefully this one is here to stay. I haven't put any weight on, but haven't lost any either. Haven't been eating great, and no exercise either....I just have no time! But I need to make it and make myself do it!!
You girls are great motivation too! Good job everyone :D
I just hopped on the scales and I have lost 1 kg...........woohoo, it is my biggest lose in one go for ages and ages- my cms and still melting away so I am feeling really excited and motivated. I have decided I am not going to buy any new winter clothes until I am at least 1 clothing size smaller.
Good to see that people are still feeling driven and motivated, I think this is the longest time I have ever stuck to loosing weight and improving my health in one go.
I've lost the motivation to exersize!
But somehow, no idea how (spesh since AF turned up today), I've lost 1kg this week! I was only hoping I lost 400g, 700g would have been awesome (400g would have brought me in to the next kg bracket, 700g would have been a total of 5kg loss so far...)
My sister is doing Weight Watchers too, and she's reached her goal, and DH says I'll be as skinny as her soon ! :) Thats a good motivator, but she's still 16kg lighter than me. I don't want to be that weight, I think I'd look odd, even though it's in the BMI bracket for my height.
I've been trying to get my dh to eat better, hopefully follow the WW points deal, but he eats the WW dinner I cook and then what ever he wants. Thats ok. I don't mind. If he doesn't want to follow it, that's up to him. However, he had take away food the other day for lunch and he felt ILL! All that oil and fat, I can imagine! He'll think before he eats now! :)
Keep up the good work!
I just have to have a little woohoo, I am going to a Hawaiin 21st party tonight, so I went to figure out what I was wearing and got out my boardshorts and they are WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY to big for me, I have had to pin them at the front where the buton and fly are and there is an over lap of 14cms, and then they still gap at the back. It is so exciting to put something on that is miles too big!!
I know that feeling. It is SO SO good!
Get thee to a cheap clothes shop for some interim sizes!
(I am currently suviving on 2 pairs of shorts and 3 t-shirts and 1 frock, no joke!)
Just popping in to say well done ladies. I know I started the challenge, but I backed out due to have a break from the forum and other things. Anyway I did keep on going with improving my lifestyle etc. I have had my ups and downs, but so far I have lost over 8kg!! So I feeling pretty good and have bought my first size 14 pair of jeans in aaaggggeeesss. They do feel tight, but apparently that is the way they are meant to be worn, my style is still back in the early 90's super loose era :redface: I find I try to get by with what I have, then it just gets too lose, so I have to go out and buy a few pieces. I am still quite lumpy, so it is still loose tops for now, I have about 17kg to go, even though just another 5 would be nice.
Once again great work ladies, you should all be so proud :clap:
Astrid, WELL DONE! That is wonderful wonderful work!