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I know we all know its a simple formula but for some reason its all too complex to actually do.  Its all the mind thing, once we can get over that hurdle perhaps it becomes a little easier.  I think we all "inhale" our food (note to self; must eat slowly) and we inhale too much food and sometimes too much of the wrong foods.  All I can say is don't be angry with yourself.  Try to make one weekly goal with food such as I will weigh my food this week, I wont eat past xx:xx time.  Try writing down how much food you consume daily and count those calories cuz sometimes we all have a tendency to slip up and think we're eating okay until we calculate every bit and think wowee what the hell; how does that add up to that?   

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SW: 96.1
CW: 81
GW: 61

Task this week: To get drink more water and try new healthy foods ... !!!

Thanks JDC

i think i have head in the sand type food disorder. I mean i have all the books, the calorie counters, the software, the journals and i even have Fitness Online, but i bury my head in the sand and dont look at any of the above because it will show me a reality that feels too hard to change.

Just glad some one heard it I guess and knows what its like. Oh and look at you JDC, down to 85 kilos? the weight thingy has disappeared so i am going by memory. WELL DONE

thanks again

Mel

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Melonhead:

Thanks JDC

i think i have head in the sand type food disorder.

OMG - you have finally put a name to my disease!!! LOL

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Overall: height 174cm cw114.3 gw80kg

Its a New week and its a New year

I turned 41 and altho i was disappointed that i hadnt lost ANY weight in that year i had to refocus and look atthe fact that i had refrained from picking up a cigarette from one borthday to the next. all up 16 months. thats 2 birthdays i havent smoked 2 packs of smokes a day.

the previous year was a great year. many personal wins in every aspect of my life. i started volunteering for 2 different places 2 daysa  week and met the most brilliant people and I improved my overall "self" in that time and although I am far from perfect, i am much more well adjusted than i was. I overcame injuries cause by stupidity and lack of information and i went from totally incapacitated for months to "look at me now, i can run on the treadmill for 29 seconds" lol

SO where to from here?

i dont know who will read this and who will relate to it but i wonder how many are like me.

im bloody lazy

i didnt used to be, but i didnt used to be fat.

dont know how or why i got lazy, who knows? divorce? stress? pain? children?poverty? financial freedom? all of these things happen to us all and every one reacts differently. I have decided not to care about why but i want to change it

i dont want to be bloody lazy any more

BUT

i want to learn to relax

being lazy doesnt mean you are relaxed

i can sit all day shellshocked after dealing with the horrors that fighting with child suport agencies etc etc can bring and although i have acheived nothing but futile sitting in avoidance, i am far from relaxed , far from coping, just lazy

time management and organisation and the will to darn well do it all

if  i was to clean instead of moan about the mess my ENTIRE family makes i would surely lose a kilo a week.instead I sit and moan too much!!!

im going to change that this year. last year was about my smoking and abstainence and recovering from injuries

this year is about time management and acheiving the most i can possibly acheive whilst allowing myself enough time to sit and relax and enjoy the fruits of my labor.

i want to have a cleaner house and the positive side of futile housecleaning is exercise.

i want my renovations finished - these alone would burn off more calories than i can imagine if i was to get stuck into them. sdont see them as stress, see them as free weight training.

i want my garden finished - well theres a few hundred cardio sessions right there

i want to use my treadmill  - i finally have one that i wished for so stop wishing and use it. 3 times a week for 35 mins. pick the days and stick to it.

i dont want to eat junk food anymore, its making me old and fat - i have had a terrific upbringing with food as my mum was a vegetarian and altho i suffer anaemia i have learnt portions , ways of cooking and varieties of food from all over the world so i have no excuse- time t pass it all on to my daughter.

i want to do more with my kids, theyre getting older, my last one goes to school next year and thats it for me, jobs done. - i am clever at devising kids games and adventures, i will make an effort to do this so that the last year i have as a full time mum is a happy one and i dont regret it like i will if i sit and be lazy. scavenger hunts are our favourite and they involve tonnes of walking.

i want to be 67 kilos. - if i do all of the above i can acheive this by my next birthday, garunteed. i know i can do it. i gave up smoking after 23 yrs, i had 4 kids whencs said i couldnt have any, i lived and survived thru infidelity and divorce, poverty and abject humiliation, and all the other things life throws in between. this is my time - i want to be thinner and feel fantastic so i can enjoy fully how far i have come and how brilliant my life and the world really is. i will deal with whats in the future.i will live now. i can do this.

And so it will be

 

wow - i normally write my birthday summary in a journal for no one to see but geeeze i kinda blurted it here.

 

 

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Hey Mel,
Thanks for being so honest and open and sharing!

The one thing I'd really like to note here is that don't use the word 'want.'  Want means you not sure if you can achieve it, I think using the 'will' means you will be actively trying to achieve that goal and it's something that is achievable...one thing is trying to mentally prepare our bodies and mind.  Actually I noticed the 'and so it will be' on the end...so you sort of had.

Happy 41st btw!  Hope you had a great one.

oh and there are some great vegetarian nutrition books out there and if you want some titles, yell out but seeing your mum was vego, you are probably an expert yourself at it anyway! 

Great work here once again and I look forward to hearing how your new year and new you journeys go!

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did great today

i reread my summary and it seems to ommit the bit where my mum nearly killed me by havingme on a vegetarian diet hehe. i nearly died and had to have a blood transfusion when we discovered i couldnt absorb non haem iron:)  so anyhow, i am good with portions on meat, i just forget to eat it and then by the time im so exhausted from the symptoms , i go straight for garbage coz meats just sooooooooooo time consuming and it takes weeks to be absorbed and feels like it takes half as long for me to run out of iron hehe

anyhow

i had red meat tonite and will continute to go back on my carefully controlled red meat consumption (yuck) so as to avoid this. its so boring. vegies such as spinach which are high in iron can t actually be absorbed coz theyre high in something else tha prohibits absorbtion. calcium stops a percentage of absorption bla bla bla and coke and coffee and bla bla bla. its all science. bleh

tastes like crap and to cover the taste can be very fattening lol

im not whingeing, i sound like i am but im not, just REMINDING myself to eat meat. i have vegetarian mentality and can totally overlook meat altogether due to upbringing..

fabulous start tho

i stuck to my good food choices and was right on with intake and managed 527 calories burned with gardening and treadmill and vigourous sweeping.

YAY me

 

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it sounds like you have some terrific goals there.. what i like about reading that is they are all realistic goals that you can achieve with a good routine.. anytime you feel as if you are losing focus come back to this page and read what you have promised yourself to do..  good luck and well done for being so positive!!

That is a great start, and you have good goals, too!!! Excellent work!

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Caution: Sarcastic and Cynical!!!

have been doin great

no sugar no wheat no carb........ i have been chanting this since i restarted and whilst i havent removed them completely i am certainly more aware of my intake of all 3.

i have reduced the amount of food i inhale significantly and i CANT WAIT till biggest loser 3. maybe 3rd time lucky and i will lose the weight this time round hehe oh well, one can only hope

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Blew out my again some time between last post and this but have recovered enough to start walking.

Im really into it this time

portion sizes are much smaller and i have made it a challenge to follow my speciallists order by walking 20 000 steps 3 days aweek.

ok this is so hard

i do 30 mins on the treadmill , i clean, i walk to bunnings and ive only clocked 6500

my feet and knees are hurting but my doc and specialist say 20000 a day 3 days a week so thats what im gonna do.

i found a fat persons bike seat, it was 59 bucks and i dont have that coz my husbands illness is taking ALL of our funds and when i asked if i could layby it the store guy spoke to me as if i was a peice of sh*t because i didnt have 60 bucks.

so i didnt make a fuss. i said thank you for your help and i walked home and i will try to find one else where.

i need one of those fat bike seats with springs. i will post elsewhere , maybe in general to get more traffic and maybe a response.

 

im doin it this time. seriously!!!!

 

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Hey,

Was just going thru your journal cuz I haven't read it in some time.  Just curious how this is going .. "this year is about time management and acheiving the most i can possibly acheive whilst allowing myself enough time to sit and relax and enjoy the fruits of my labor." 

As for the idiot sales assistant; clearly you were the bigger person here (and I don't mean size missy!) to actually say thanks and move on.  Great work for not letting it irritate the sh*t out of you.  At the end of the day; its just not worth it.  I would still layby it cuz in the end it means a happier, healthier life for you - just disregard his/her attitude (perhaps they're just having a bad day -  i had so many when I worked in retail - far too many cuz i was a supervisor and had to deal with all the abuse; but I could shell it out too when they became very rude - but must admit; I have come a long way from that angry person i once was and that was cuz i didn't like where i worked).

Anyway, YOU ARE DOING THIS AND YOU WILL ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL.  REMEMBER BABY STEPS TO GOAL!!!!

Take care

Jen

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SW: 96.1
CW: 81
GW: 61

Task this week: To get drink more water and try new healthy foods ... !!!

Thanks for dropping in Jen

I am doing great. I have to now. My husband has developed a debilitating illness that has yet to be diagnosed and now my health is more important than ever. I have tried to source another bike seat and found one for 19 bucks however it is 3 cm skinnier. It does have springs though. I still like the other seat better and because i am so motivated I might just buy that seat from the rude man anyhow. At the end of the day I will have my seat and i wont have to see him again. I need to be fit and healthy so that i can face whatever it is i might have to face physically and emotionally and exercise stops me from dwelling or getting upset or depressed and being depressed wouldnt help my husband or my kids right now. Thanks again for checking in

lifes a bit of a *** sometimes but thats life

 

 

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Hey there MH,

Just popped in to get you to check your thread on BIG BIKE SEATS.

Good luck Lovey and hang in there.

Hugs,

Ruby

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SW 116 kilos
CW 108.5 kilos
GW 95 kilos

I CAN DO THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Mel,

Wanted to stop by and see how things are going.  Hope you are getting some answers regarding hubby's illness, and that you are coping ok.  It can be really hard when you feel like you're trying to get your own s**t together and holding everyone elses life together at the same time.

I've been searching for a super-sized bike seat too - found one that seemed ok on ebay, but it was pick up only near Melbourne, no postage......... oh well, I will find another.  It shall be mine... oh yes, it shall......

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Overall: height 174cm cw114.3 gw80kg

i got the bike seat from gold crass and made sure i looked in the shop to see if that man was there so he didnt get the sale. i walk past there frequently so this was easy and I was served by a nice young man. This seat is so fat. Its MASSIVE and its got springs everywhere. I havent been able to do anything yet. I have infact gained weight and i am NOT going to get depressed about it. My husbands condition got worse and now it is getting slightly better but it took weeks/months of testing. I thought my life as i knew it was over and i ate and ate and ate. im sorry. none of that though. i can do this. I want to wear my clothes i had on 2 yrs ago. enough talking about it lol ill do it. life just threw me a hurdle, as it does. i never thought i could get so fat........ sh*t happens, now i gotta make it unhappen. YAY for big fat bike seats.!!!!!!!

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