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I LOVE seeing the kilos drop off! YAY!

keep up the great work.

think i'll add the home circuits too -i'm doing 2 different types at gym now.

xxx

Thanks for checking in with me, peoples.  I appreciate the goodwill.

My goal is to be 92kgs at the week 8 weigh-in and I'm well on track to get that.  I just gotta keep doing what I've been doing. 

I'm having a bit of a hankering for fish n chips and I know I can't order what I used to (steak sandwich, heaps chips, potato cake, coke).  I also know that I should be allowed to have a bit of this without blowing it.  I'm thinking a piece of fish grilled, a handful of chips, and I can whip up a quick salad.  I can eat at the dinner table and they can sit at the coffee table and scoff their faces.

We haven't had our homework posted for this week yet, but I suspect this is the topic, so I await that one eagerly.  I feel a bit anxious that I'm opening the door to old habits and a lifestyle I just can't do anyore.

Still managing the 1500 cals okay, and exercise today was the home circuit twice and walk with the kiddlies and dog to the park, and bit of garden tidying (the dog pulled his bedding apart and scattered the stuffing every which way so I picked that all up)

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SW: Aug08 - 103.8kgs
CW: 95.8kgs (lost 8kgs)
GW: 79kgs by Mar09

sounds like a good alternative...my parents sometimes order fish and chips and I grab a couple of chips to fix my craving of the smell and I'm right after that...so good choice! :D

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Sounds like a good choice, LL!Everything in moderation, as they say!I feel like now if I let myself have something I won't feel like I'm being "bad", and I tend to not scoff myself, because I know it's ok! I think ,from memory, about 5 chips is approx "one serve " of carbs.Do you have Diet Coke, or Coke Zero instead of the Coke, now too?*lol*!  Alison

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Nothing tastes as good as feeling slim & healthy.....not even chocolate!!!

ooh naughty puppy!!

homework is up by the look of it! don't blow your excellent progress with some fish & chips - I definitely like the salad & handful of chips option as you don't feel like you're missing out, and your balancing it nicely. Do you eat fish? perhaps some grilled fish could go with it too???

luv kaz x

Mmmmm...good suggestions guys.  The hankering's gone away for the time being!  Aren't I lucky!?! 

Since I've been working on the New Me, I haven't had coffee or any fat/calorie rich drinks - it's all water, herbal tea and diet drinks.  You know Zero?  apparently it was marketed for men, but it's women that like it I find!  Don't know what the difference from diet coke is, there's a slighter more 'Coke' taste to it.

Walked 45min today and I'm really getting my heart rate up now, picking the route with the most hillwork, picking my hands up and pumping on the flat and downhills to keep my heartrate up, and I give myself little hurry-ups when I feel like slowing down.  Tonight I did my home circuit twice through and that makes it 3 times this week.

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SW: Aug08 - 103.8kgs
CW: 95.8kgs (lost 8kgs)
GW: 79kgs by Mar09

a little more calories and a lot more sodium I think, but you're right it tastes more like a non-fakesweetened soft drink - I much prefer it over diet coke now!

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i definitely prefer zero to diet coke - it does taste more like the real thing.

great work on the walk & heart rate! and yay on 3 circuits this week! you are taking nice big leaps to where you want to be!

luv kaz x

Thanks guys.

Thought I'd better check in before going to bed, I'm weary.  Baby gets up about 5.30-6am and he doesn't have a snooze button - doesn't cry, just argles away to himself really noisily.

I'm still doing 1500 cals and exercising opportunistically ie. whenever I get free to head out for a walk.  I still breastfeed in the morning but that's it, and it's not much but he's happy with that little bit and I just use that time to get the fuzziness out of my head and wake up enough to go make a bottle!

I lost 1.7 last week which was unexpected - we had a roast at BIL's on Sat night and they had yorkshire puddings and gravy, and I had a little choc chip icecream so I thought I wouldn't get much of aloss today - well there you go!

So 1.4kgs to go to get to my eight week goal of 92kgs.

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.....

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SW: Aug08 - 103.8kgs
CW: 95.8kgs (lost 8kgs)
GW: 79kgs by Mar09

hi there LL just read your diary...

So I was huffed up to the computer room, and decided, bugger it, I can do the timer, and I did, so I sent in my photo.  I look after everybody elses needs and have to seek permission to do my own thing.  I can't just drop everything and leave everyone to fend for themselves.  I hardly have time to get on the computer and at night just want to veg out.  So Argh!  I really do deserve my time - I just want to go for a walk and not return to a screaming baby and a 5yo doing headstands on the couch.  Sometimes I feel unsupported with the responsibility of caring for us all but he doesn't get that.  Then I realsied that for this goal of mine, even if support is misdirected at home, there's support here on this forum.  People with the same goal as me, and it gave me the little push I needed to go in the new me competition.  I doubt I'll win, I just want to participate consistently for the 8weeks, and achieve something.  Don't want to quit, or find that I don't have time.

I know this is from page 2 but wow you just totally summed up how i feel!! Im constantly arguing with my husband about the lack of support and help i get! Until i realised recently that bugger it im going to take "me time" i deserve it too..

you are doing really well and your journal gave me a good giggle.. i love little kids and the things they come out with.. Good luck!

Rossy

WOW LL congrats on the 1.7 loss last week! And with some focus this week I bet you can knock off that 1.4 kilos!! Sensational work.

Awww i must say, i miss breastfeeding... it's such a lovely feeling of closeness with the little one. Enjoy it while it lasts... My baby is 10& half now, and she stopped feeding when she was 15 months old. I so miss it! Anyhoo!

Sounds like the roast was delicious! I love roast vegies & gravy *sigh*... not something we have a lot of anymore, mainly because I am a roast potato & gravy addict and that's not such a good thing for me to be having a lot of!!

Luv Kaz x

Not so sure about the 1.4kgs this week, I'm afraid, CowGirl!  I've had the hungry's this week and my portion sizes have gotten a bit oversized.  I've got it in check now.  Nothing major, just cold and hungry so having a bit too much pasta at lunchtime, you know...

I'm hanging on to this baby!  I had to change his carseat from rear-facing to forward last weekend, and he's flipping over when he gets  his nappy changes, no teeth yet though - all those milstones are zooming by too quickly!  I'm hanging onto the breastfeeds....

Big fun tomorrow because 5yo has a pirate birthday party to go to, and Spotlight had sold out of the cheap pirate costumes, so I only got a hat and a piece of black material to use a waistsash.  I have some turned up jeans for him, and I'm thinking a bit of mascara to create a 5'o'clock shadow.  I looked for some stuffed birds to sew onto his shoulder but no luck.  If I can get the courage up, maybe I'll chop up a tshirt in tatters. I don't have an eyepatch but if we dig about we might find a toy telescope thingy to look through, or make a toy sword from cardboard wrapped in foil.

Not bad for someone without a art/crafty bone in her body!

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SW: Aug08 - 103.8kgs
CW: 95.8kgs (lost 8kgs)
GW: 79kgs by Mar09

it might be too late.. but the warehouse sell cheap costumes..

im sure your son would have more fun making it though.. you could always colour in a piece of cardboard black and use string to make a patch.. good luck i hope it goes well..

 

ARGHH! how did the pirate party go matey?!! heheheh

xxx

Hey hey!  The pirate party was pretty good.  He wouldn't let me touch him with make-up (wise, probably), and I made a very cool sword with cardboard, foil and black tape.  He fitted in with everyone just fine.  I went for a walk while he was there, around Lilydale Lake, and got drenched, so went home and changed, then picked him up.  They'd had a good time.

Sunday, confession time, went to a playcentre for 3 hours and we (3 mums, four 5yo's) had two lots of nachos and chips, and I had a muggachino.  So skipped lunch, then for dinner (coz I'd forgotten to defrost something) we had fish n chips.  NOW, the deal I'd made with myself was grilled fish only, yet I placed the order and said flake, and I knew what I meant when I said flake - battered - and I didn't change it, so then I ate handfuls of chips, and the extra potato cake they always throw in.  And to wash it all down, I had two full fat milk strawberry Quik's, which were yum.  Good goin' Lorna, the night before weigh-in!

At least I've walked each day, hence no gain.  I'm back to eating properly again, basically out of habit - but why do we do this to ourselves? I sabotaged myself! My self-imposed homework will be to write down 10 reasons why I'm losing this weight - just to make sure I'm focussing on the right goals and not getting side-tracked!!! By tomorrow night!  I'll take a few Hail Mary's too!  gees that makes me want alcohol for some reason?...

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SW: Aug08 - 103.8kgs
CW: 95.8kgs (lost 8kgs)
GW: 79kgs by Mar09