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Current Weight - 99.5kgs 

Long Term Goal:

1. 70kg by 31/3/08
2. To stay within 5kgs of that weight
3. To develop and maintain healthy eating and exercise habits for life.
4. Break unhealthy eating and exercise habits.

Mid Term Goals: To progressively work back from

1. "Very Overweight" - Between 85-112kgs 
2. to "Overweight" - Between 72-84kgs
3. to "Normal Weight" - Between 58-71kgs             *Based on my height and age

Short Term Goals: To make and meet various short term goals along the way. Currently

1. 90.0 kgs by 12/5/08   "Back to Work"                          =     3.3 kgs in 3 weeks
2. 84.0 kgs by 28/7/08   "Overweight only"                       =     9.3 kgs in 14 weeks (from 93.3kgs on 17/4)
3. 76.3 kgs by 1/9/08     "30kgs lost"                              =     17.0 kgs in 34 weeks (from 90.2kgs on 17/4)

Ongoing methods to achieve goals

1. Drink plenty of water
2. Incorporate Salad as a side dish regularly through Summer and Green lightly cooked vegies regularly through colder months.
3. Smaller Portion Sizes
4. More low GI Carbs/Less Hi GI Carbs
5. Choose Healthy Snack options more often
6. Pleasure Eating in Moderation (a sometimes event)
7. Identify Unhealthy Eating Habits
8. Using the mirror to Say my Personal Pledge
9. Remember and Revisit the Benefits and Consequences for Weight Loss
10. Preserve my Will Power by removing Temptations from the Home (home of the slip-up)
11. Feed the wolf of joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.
12. Prepare for Risk Events
13. Offset high calorie eating & drinking by increased exercise
14. Develop an effective/efficient, regular and personally workable exercise solution that I find fun
15. Avoid feeding my sugar addiction
16. Develop Thin Thinking
17. Eat for Nutrition more often
18. Throw away leftovers rather than finishing it off to get it out of the house or because it cost money
19. Develop thinking and skills re: routine and control

 Well that's all for now and as with everything in life these will morph and change, but.....

Wish me Determination

BENEFITS

• Reduce/Fix Back Pain - Less Headaches - Less Tiredness
• Increase Stamina/Fitness - Increase Pleasure - Less Tiredness
• Be able to take part in Kids sports with kids in 5 years
• Control Addictive Tendancies
• Teach Kids good eating & exercise habits

THE CONSEQUENCES

• Tiredness, Lacking Energy, Headaches, Muddleheadedness
• Slower Metabolism
• Diarrhoea, Vomitting, Indigestion, Bloating, Gass 
• Increased Depressive Tendencies
• Yo-Yo Dieting
• Continued Sugar Addiction & Inbalance
• Kids being teased about FAT MUM
• Setting bad example for Kids
• Shorten life
• Cardiovascular disease, weakening of the heart and other organs, Diabetes, Cancer, Stroke
• Joint and Bone weakness
• Muscle Deterioration

I am an intelligent person.

I will control my eating and ensure it is nutritious and in moderation.  Every time I am tempted:

• to use food to stimulate my body or mind, or
• avoid exercise

I will remember:

The short-term pleasures have consequences and will prevent me reaping the benefits of weight loss.

• Indulgent:-  Lenient, Willing to Overlook
• Indulge:-     Treat, Be self-indulgent, GIVE IN to temptation, overdo it, overeat, SPOIL yourself, succumb, yield, concede, give in to,
• Will:-          Aim, Commitment, Desire, Determination, Intent, Purpose, Resolution, Resolve,
• vb: command, encourage, force, influence inspire, persuade, require
• Habit:-        Practice that is hard to give up, mental constitution or attitude
• Addiction:-  Dependant on a Drug as a Habit, Devoted to an Interest
• Drug:-         Stimulant

Note:  Its the Over/Excessing in a Stimulant or the choice of Negative/Unhealthy Stimulants that cause problems

• Reckless:-  Impetuous, incautious, rash, impulsive, acting or done on impulse
• Impulse:-    Without thought for the consequences or risks
• Gluttony:-   Eating far too much.
• Moderation:-  In moderate amounts, keeping within reasonable limits, not extreem or excessive.
• Hedonist:-   One who believes that pleasure is the chief good in life.

That's a great, indepth plan you have so far!

Ray

•  Drinks:
• Water - 3 x 600ml
• Diet Coke - 2 x 600ml, 1 x 375ml 

hey there Jo hello and welcome to FOH It looks like you have some great goals in place there so stick to it and you will soon see some results!

I look forward to seeing you around the board. All the best

Rossy

Hi Rossy, Here's hopeing I can actually put all this information in my head into actions and get the weight back down to healthy.

This forum is awesome!!!

I had my weekly weigh-in tonight and had a 0.8kg loss.  yippee... more off.  The goal of the Take Off Weight Naturally club is averaging 500g per week, and also no gains.  Clearly everything more than that is great too but we like to recognise the important thing is getting smaller consistantly.

THIS time round I started focusing on my weight again, my first meeting back at the club was on 10.9.07 and I weighed in at 106.6 so I'm pretty happy with how things are going so far I have achieved another of my short term goals as of today.  The second one was my Start of Summer goal - 98.5 by 30th November... yeah I'm 100g off but I've still got a few days. I won't get on the scales again until the 3rd so I'm claiming it :-)

My next short term goal is my Christmas goal - 96.5kgs by 24th December.  I've made a pledge to 'go without' during Christmas parties and such, and I've also started walking more regularly (Make sure I keep it up, pick on me if I haven't written anything about exercise for a few days) so this should be fairly straight forward if I dont sabotage the plan.

Yeah me, Keep up the good work Jo you're doing great!!!!

A great set of goals you have there Jo..... You remember to be "persistant"..

 Take 5 minutes out everynight and visualise your goals. Just think about how you want to be...

Food: 

Breakfast: 2 x serves Porridge sprinkled with fruit seeds & nut mix with skim milk and honey

                  2 x ¼ jam bread 

Snack:       Nothing

Lunch:      Apple, Banana

                 Slice of Cake (sponge with apple I think)

Snack:       Nothing 

Dinner:       Home-made Ham & Pineapple Pizza (Lavash Bread base)

                  Half a plate of Garden Salad

Snack:       No Fat Yoghurt Medium Bowl

Drinks:     Water - 1 x 600ml, 4 x 500ml

   Diet Coke - 3 x 600ml

Exercise:  30 min walk including 5 mins gutter stepping

30 min Mainly Music with Caitlyn lots of Jumping, Marching, Hopping, Tapping of Toes  

etc. More energetic than an aerobics class with a bunch of 3yo girls!!!

Wow, 2 days in a row.  Thanks Ethan.  It wasn’t my intention to miss lunch today.  I was doing lots of chores this morning and then got into checking and writing some other posts and simply ran out of time before Mainly Music at 1.30pm.  It’s not what I want to start doing because I think it usually backfires but luckily I don’t feel too hungry tonight that I’ll lose track.

I really was still working out how to do the exercise program from the Training Diary today.  I realise now that rather than do Push-ups, then break, and do more Push-ups, and break and then the final lot of exercises, I should do them more like a circuit class at the gym.  Obvious now I've seen the daily summary, dahhhh.  Anyway, Ethan being sick took up most of my day with a trip to the doctors, chemist, then medicare, more sleep, then picking up the rest of the family from work and daycare. 

Anyone got any good ideas for back strengthening exercises at home to exchange for reverse pull-ups as I dont have any equipment at all so nothing to pull up on??

Food: 

Breakfast: 3 x Wheatbix with skim milk and honey (extra one due to Caitlyn not eating hers)

Snack:       Low Fat Yoghurt plus 2 x Kiwi Fruits

Lunch:      Leftover Chile Con Carne with Cabbage and mashed pumpkin/zucchini

Snack:       Nothing 

Dinner:       Ham & Tomato Sandwich

                  2 x Kiwi Fruits

Snack:       2 x No Fat Yoghurt

Drinks:     Water - 4 x 500ml

   Diet Coke – 3 x 375ml

I am exercise sore today.  It’s funny how back and neck pain is different when its from sensible exercise than when its from bad posture.  I’m also feeling pretty tired.  I was up again with the kids last night but not for as long so things are improving.  I’m also feeling much hungrier today, probably the last few days of missing meals.   It’s been a high risk day so I’m happy I haven’t given in to something unhealthy.  

I guess I should be grateful that I am the only one who has not got whatever it is that is plaguing the family just now, but Lochie is crook now too. Fair dinkum… I just want to go for a walk in the cool evening air.

Hi Jo!

Looks like you are having a great week, big pat on the back for you! Have you noticed your quantities seem to be shrinking too, or is it just the way I am reading your foods? What are the ":crumbs" you had with the Weetbix???

Hope you have a fab weekend!