Good morning all!
Joysey: good to hear from you. Are you finding it easy to maintain your weight? And have you felt free or restricted after finishing? It has been a while now, hasn’t it? Anyways, good to have you pop in.
rjm: You must be finished now!! Real normality must be feeling good – so enjoy for all of us!! And we will join you when we can.
fornight: you are doing a great job both at losing weight and encouraging others – good for you. You will be there in no time and it must feel so good!
Eendjie: you are about half way, and will there before you know it. Great isn’t it?
reb: You should find that you don’t need to be all the way there at goal before you see some significant changes. You will start to include yourself more in maybe a shorter time than you think. I hope so, because it sounds like there is a fun person inside who is just dying to get out! You go for it!
Tasm82: Having a family and the life that you and your husband have together are great goals! It will be something that gives you both that extra health to enjoy a family. I wish you both well. AND I hope you finish your program before getting pregnant, cos that would be the best in helping you to achieve your goals. Enjoy the time it takes to really explore your new lease of well being.
sunshine: Sounds like motherhood possibilities are great motivators. Also good that you want your children to have good healthy eating habits. That will be a great gift to them and already put them ahead of so many children who are going to have to struggle because of poor nutrition.
blondebomb: You have started well, and yea we all have those days where we are raging hungry, but they pass – and the rest of the time goes well. As for not sleeping? Happens sometime but not because of the diet I don’t think. Work on balancing it out the next couple of nights and going to bed earlier so you have long sleeps. Sleeping helps weight loss. Also, I asked the question about eating after 9pm and was told that you can eat the biscuits and fruit at any time. It is the digestion of the protein at the meals that must be over early. Also drinking is fine – the only issue in drinking is getting up in the night.
Jasmine: I understand where you are coming from and resonate too with what you are saying about positive and negative goal setting – and thanks sunshine for your original comments. Interestingly, I am moving to very positive goals and that is working for me, but a big motivator was to put aside half a lifetime of struggling with weight and health. It was a determined choice ‘not to be …’ that has held me firm. It has been like: If I can’t do this now, then I will always struggle with it and I don’t want to anymore. I want to be seen on the outside for who I am on the inside and I want to get out of life all that it has for me .. I don’t want to be held back anymore, so here is the tool, and nothing is going to stop me from getting there!! Finally, a solution that should work (and for me, the slowness of the improvement has been an indication of how hard it has been to find a solution!). Now, I feel like I am seen by others with more normal eyes, and the rest of it I am really doing as my bonus!!
reensabeens: Hi and welcome. Ring the clinic at Geelong. Many of us don’t have clinics near us, and we do the program by phone and internet. It works well that way, so just give them a ring. I think there is a plan to have a clinic in Melbourne ASAP and when that happens, you could transfer if you wanted to – they are all linked.
mumbine: Good to hear from you. 3 days is good. Nearly through the hard first week back on it. Look forward to seeing you achieve your results.
L-Jay: How you doing? Are things any better for you? I remembered yesterday that I was going to tell you about my course I did that helped with being around food, etc – will try and do that really soon.
Have a good day everyone!
Joysey: good to hear from you. Are you finding it easy to maintain your weight? And have you felt free or restricted after finishing? It has been a while now, hasn’t it? Anyways, good to have you pop in.
rjm: You must be finished now!! Real normality must be feeling good – so enjoy for all of us!! And we will join you when we can.
fornight: you are doing a great job both at losing weight and encouraging others – good for you. You will be there in no time and it must feel so good!
Eendjie: you are about half way, and will there before you know it. Great isn’t it?
reb: You should find that you don’t need to be all the way there at goal before you see some significant changes. You will start to include yourself more in maybe a shorter time than you think. I hope so, because it sounds like there is a fun person inside who is just dying to get out! You go for it!
Tasm82: Having a family and the life that you and your husband have together are great goals! It will be something that gives you both that extra health to enjoy a family. I wish you both well. AND I hope you finish your program before getting pregnant, cos that would be the best in helping you to achieve your goals. Enjoy the time it takes to really explore your new lease of well being.
sunshine: Sounds like motherhood possibilities are great motivators. Also good that you want your children to have good healthy eating habits. That will be a great gift to them and already put them ahead of so many children who are going to have to struggle because of poor nutrition.
blondebomb: You have started well, and yea we all have those days where we are raging hungry, but they pass – and the rest of the time goes well. As for not sleeping? Happens sometime but not because of the diet I don’t think. Work on balancing it out the next couple of nights and going to bed earlier so you have long sleeps. Sleeping helps weight loss. Also, I asked the question about eating after 9pm and was told that you can eat the biscuits and fruit at any time. It is the digestion of the protein at the meals that must be over early. Also drinking is fine – the only issue in drinking is getting up in the night.
Jasmine: I understand where you are coming from and resonate too with what you are saying about positive and negative goal setting – and thanks sunshine for your original comments. Interestingly, I am moving to very positive goals and that is working for me, but a big motivator was to put aside half a lifetime of struggling with weight and health. It was a determined choice ‘not to be …’ that has held me firm. It has been like: If I can’t do this now, then I will always struggle with it and I don’t want to anymore. I want to be seen on the outside for who I am on the inside and I want to get out of life all that it has for me .. I don’t want to be held back anymore, so here is the tool, and nothing is going to stop me from getting there!! Finally, a solution that should work (and for me, the slowness of the improvement has been an indication of how hard it has been to find a solution!). Now, I feel like I am seen by others with more normal eyes, and the rest of it I am really doing as my bonus!!
reensabeens: Hi and welcome. Ring the clinic at Geelong. Many of us don’t have clinics near us, and we do the program by phone and internet. It works well that way, so just give them a ring. I think there is a plan to have a clinic in Melbourne ASAP and when that happens, you could transfer if you wanted to – they are all linked.
mumbine: Good to hear from you. 3 days is good. Nearly through the hard first week back on it. Look forward to seeing you achieve your results.
L-Jay: How you doing? Are things any better for you? I remembered yesterday that I was going to tell you about my course I did that helped with being around food, etc – will try and do that really soon.
Have a good day everyone!
Began 9th July 2005 … To end 20th October, 2006
lizzi . . . 99 days to go! … 14 weeks 2 days
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