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LOL kaz, yes, that was pretty easy on the eye - Man that guy has muscles on the muscles on his muscles!!!!I'd still choose a training session from Bob any day, though!!!!!

Still can't kick this bug,.....feeling sooo tired today. Minor drama this am. Youngest boy left his bag inside, so I sent oldest to get it, but he couldn't  open the front door . I went to try, and I couldn't either! So, we just had to leave, as it was already 9am, and oldest was getting his Junior School Council badge @ assembly, which of course, I missed, b/c I had to go back to get #3's bag, and I didn't know how long that would take! As it turned out, I had to push a fly screen in, and open the window with the winder, then climb in!!!! (Lucky I lost that 1.7kg!!!!!!!!) Oh, then I had to go back to school to deliver the bloody bag! Just what I needed - NOT! Anyway, I think I might go have a lttle nap...otherwise I might start eating rubbish. I still can't taste anything, which is sooo frustrating......maybe not so bad, come to think of it, b/c last night I ate a little Easter egg, but I couldn't taste it, so I didn't bother eating any more! Alison

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

Hiya Choc ,sorry you're not feeling well! :(

WTG on the 1.7kg loss!! Awesome

 I agree with CG on Commando's wet scene the other night! I'd love to have been his towel

Had a giggle at al the girl's giggling behind him with their tongues hanging out. Made their day LOL...though the boy's esp Cosi were trying to pretend they weren't impressed ;)

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SW-104.3 (April 06)
CW- TBA
GW-65 kgs

~*It's not rocket science...eat less,move more!!*

*If you do what you always do, you'll get what you always got*

Thanks LaLa. Feeling quite a bit better today - still sound horrible - nasal and coughing, but I do feel much better in myself! Yesterday PD FINALLY gave us a start day for our house, so maybe that contributed to my recovery!!! I have been stressed and ANNOYED at their lack of communication and other stalling techniques over the last 6 wks! Anyway, cut & fill starts next Fri, slab poured 13 days later, so it's all happening - YAY! Hubby has offered to take kids to Phillip Island for the long w/end so I can just get better!!! Yes, girls, he's pretty good!! I don't know if I will take him up o the offer, though, as I'd probably just stay here and clean! At least there I can have a nap while he takes the kids to the beach. And it's just a really nice place to get away to. Hmmmm....not sure what to do  - the idea of my own head space for 3 days IS very, very appealing!LOL! Went to the gym and walked for 25mins, at a not very rapid pace, either! Didn't want to  start coughing and spluttering all over everyone, though. I'll be back into it next week, hopefully!  Alison

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AAAARGHHH - I just tyoed an entire post and tried to add a smiley, and it closed the whole thing down, so abbreviated form is : decided to stay here, but used that as an excuse to eat chocolate & toast late last night - grrrr. Slept till 11 this am!!!!!! Still coughing my lungs out, sick of that, and annoyed at my lack of self control. Big, huge Grrrr......:( Alison 

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Ok, so my weekend of self indulgence has ended. Went for a walk yesterday, which ended up being really quite a long walk. I have no idea how far - I'm not good at guessing! Maybe 7 or 8km? I decided not to run didn't think my lungs would cope! Unfortunately, I undid that good work by eating lots of rubbish. So, after losing 1.7kg last week, I've put .5kg back ON this week. Started 2 wks ago at 68.8, went down to 67.1, now back up to 67.6 - bummer, but self inflicted, so I have to cop it, don't I?!!!

Even though I was rather out of control on the w/end, I did have a bit of an epiphany! I think I'm scared of failing - scared I can't do it again. I'm also sick of losing the weight and then putting it back on, which happens as a result of pure eating laziness. But, I KNOW that I CAN do it. Watching Michelle on BL, one thing she learned from Jillian is that she is stronger than she thinks she is, and I think I need to be thinking that way - that I CAN do it, not "what if I can't...?"  So, I'm feeling quite a bit more positive , which is always a good thing!

Family still away ( back this afternoon) so I went to the gym and did a Pump class. The instructor told me I look really fit - like a Tri athlete!!!!!! I was so shocked - I really feel fat, out of shape and not so fit, having been sick and not having done much for the last 10 days!!! Anyway, that was nice of him!  I think it may have been b/c I was wearing black pants, and a black top with quite a high round neck  and a bit of siver contrast stitching- all black's always good, isn't it girls?!!!! Also, when I put on weight, I carry it everywhere, not just in one place (altough this time I reckon I've got a pretty decent sized spare tyre!!!) and I think I look butch when I'm overweight, as I'm quite broad in the shoulders. Anyway, I was feeling ok, so I decided to go into the gym, which I did, and did 10mins intervals on the bike, 20mins intervals on X-trainer, 5mins on that arm bike type thing with water as resistance, and 10 mins speed intervals on the treadmill. So, I was pretty happy with that - def a luxury I can't do every day!!!!

Lunch time - and oooh, there's a weight special  on Oprah - LOL!!! I'm outta here! Alison 

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

This is actually a response to your post in LL's journal! I drove along the highway the other day and the Coach & whatever is still there. The women in my mothers' group have spoken well of it too, and said it's very child-friendly.

I was wondering, what's your ob's last name? Mine was named Stephen too.....

I am completely confident you can lose your weight - I've seen your determination in your running! But it's good that you've had an epiphany about it - it should make it so much easier for you to tackle now that you know what's going on. I'm like you in that I know it can be done but I'm worried about the maintenance - the maintenance is what seems to be the killer for everyone! I think the rule really is just to, literally, maintain what you're doing - keep up the exercise, keep up the consciousness of what you're eating.... but easier said than done for most of us LOL!!

Which gym do you go to? I go to one all the way down in Wheelers Hill and I've been thinking I might prefer one closer to home - but the gym I go to is close to the childcare centre, so I can zip over to collect the kids after working out... oh I can't make a decision it's all too hard!! I was thinking that maybe FF in Syndal might be a good compromise....

Did you get any insights from Oprah?!

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Hi coops - last name Cohn. Very lovely man, and now my neighbour 3 doors down !!!!!!!!!!(well actually not atm 'c os we're re building)

Yes, the maintnance is hard. As I've said, exercise isn't a problem - I enjoy it & do enough. It's all about the food choices, and amount of food I consume for me.

Yeah, Oprah was good. A number of absolutely incredible transformations - people who've lost 2 of me!!!!!!!

I did take something away, though, which is that it's a lifestyle choice, something that you choose to do from here on, and not go back to where you've come from - the antithesis of "dieting" really. I need to see it as a lifestyle, long term thing, b/c I know I'm always looking for a quick fix - I have very litle patience, esp where my weight is concerned. Actually a couple of tareas, really. I have been planning to learn the piano for the last year or so (I've wanted to since I was a little girl) and I keep putting off calling anyone about it, I think, because I'm impatient, and I'm scared I'll be no good, and I'm scared it will take me forever to learn, and I want to be able to play like Mozart (or, even better, Chris Martin!!!!!) after a week.   

So, I am going to take control of my eating, and I'm going to book into piano lessons!

Oh, and I was also reminded of what I know, but choose to totally ignore (until TODAY!)  - you shoul STOP eating at least 2hrs before bed. This is a big one for me - that's when I normally do a lot of damage. And, when I don't eat at night, I feel so much better going to bed, as well as when I wake up in the morning.

I go to Nunawading Aqualink - not that I ever swim, I'm not a big fan of swimming! It's VERY hard to get into the creche, though, if you need that....actually prob not as you're working....anyway, I like it there! Alison  

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

Exercise going well, so WAS food....

Today - good exercise day, good food morning/ afternoon......bad food evening!!!!!

Ho-hum...tomorrow's another day.....:(   Alison 

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

Ah, not the same ob. I didn't think it was, cos mine only moved back to Melbourne a couple of years ago - I was one of his first patients back here - but thought I'd check. I've seen Stephen Cohn's name though don't know where I'm pleased that you were happy with him.

My DH takes the kids swimming at Nunawading Aqualink because it's walking distance from where we live; I've checked out the gym there but wasn't thrilled just because of the glass walls - people can see me exercising - yuk! I don't like the thought of that at all!!

Re the eating before bed thing, a few months ago I started to have a cup of tea at about 9pm - that's my signal that there's no more eating for the day. (We usually don't eat dinner until about 8pm, so 9pm isn't late for me.) That's been REALLY effective. Is there something similar that you could do, where you can have something low/no cal and that just becomes the "end of day" thing?

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So I take it you've got over your winking illness/obsession?

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It's an old world out there and I'm glad I was part of it!

Weighed in this am - very depressing, 68.1kg. I did more exercise than usual last week, so that just proves to me YET again that it's all about what I eat!!! Just walked in the door from my 2nd lot of major dental surgery. Last lot was in December, next lot in 3mths. The anaesthetic seems to have worn off, so I'm off to take some Nurofen Plus and lie down!!!! Hopefully that will prevent me from eating.....pretty much anything for a while!!!!!! Alison 

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

Well, I've woken up this am looking like something from The Muppets - the whole right side of my face is really swollen, and the inside on top is all bruised - it looks DISGUSTING.......quite funny to gross out the kids though!LOL! Hubby got Thai noodles for dinner, which was quite easy to eat.....rather oily , and not such a fabulous choice, nutrition-wise, I suspect! Anyway, I cannot go out in public looking like this, so no gym, but might just go for a walk, with sunnys on, and keeping my head down!!!!!! Oh, the FUNNIEST thing was that the periodontist asked if I'd ever had Botox in my lips (very seriously!) I told him if I was ever going to bother, I wouldn't do the lips, I'd get rid of the crows feet!!! Anyway, he said I had lips like they aimed for with Botox (...you're kidding?!) and they were very hard to stretch  - hence the bruising!!! So, there you go.....I didn't know wheteher to take it as a complement, or be offended!!!! Alison_     

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

Oh Alison, your poor face!!!!!!! I am sorry! I really hope that it settles down for you, and soon! I remember having my wisdoms out, and it was awful!!!!! So, hugs!

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Oooooooooooh dear............Easter was sooooooooo bad, eating-wise....I can't even bear to go into details[:'(].......Tomorrow is my Monday, start of a new week, start of eating well (today didn't count...it was a public holiday, so it was a 'no day', not a real Monday...ok,ok, enough excuses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Alison

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

Choclate and Easter and Alison..................... Here is to a GREAT new week!

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