Losing Weight in the Land of Chocolate and Cheese!

Wee Hoo Joh! NOW you look preggers & won't feel fat any more! You look GREAT!

It's all good my friend- so happy for you & Dunc, xoxoxo Cate
 
you look lovely and happy!you r lucky for having lovingfriends!

is that your home the pic with the pretty dress?i adore that staircase!

you are doing fine and as your doctor said take care of your iron.

love the photo of beanies spine too!you r going 2 be a lovely mummy!
 
AWow!!! Check you out and your very obviously pregnant belly!!! That picture really made me smile, i know how desperate you are to look properly pregnant.....You definatly do now sweetie. :hurray:

Well done on keeping your weight to the perfect amount :) Trust you to be spot on lol and not even having scales to keep a check on it :hurray: Well done you :)

Loving Beanie's head stands :)
I'm so impatient for the post that has you squealing about feeling him moving, can't wait. Give him a prod and tell him to hurry up :)

Cheers for all your love and support sweetie, sorry for being grumpy and awol

Love and hugs Xxx
 
AYou are so BUMP-A-RIFFIC!!!!!!! :D

Beanie is desperate for his/hers sex to remain a secret as well, its no co-incidence that he/she has his/her bum in the air with the legs crossed! I have zoomed right in. But there is no way of telling! Humph.
 
Ahhh *squeals* look at you!! You're blooming!!! :hurray:

I'm so jealous right now!! I'm pretty damn broody but having to wait because of multiple things!

But eeee I'm still super excited for you!

I've had a bit of a close nosey at your scan pic to see if I can tell... But don't worry, even if I could I wouldn't breathe a word! (I couldn't by the way, I've seen quite a few scans where I can tell, but nada on the modest little boy or girl in your tummy!)
 
AHehehehe HI TEAM!!! :D You all make me smile soooo much! Beanie is so loved already, hehe. And look at all you nosey buggers out there trying to figure out if it's a Beano or a Beana ;) hehe.

Well here I am in Australia for Christmas, and I tell you what, this pregnancy thing is bloody good for the diet! Otherwise I'd be scoffing down oodles of smoked salmon goodies, blue cheese, brie, pepperoni pizzas, and drinking myself silly. Instead, it's all olives, veggie sticks, parmesan (which you can't have too much of anyway) fresh fruit and soda water with mashed up mangoes (yum!).

Just thought I'd drop in quickly while I'm here to say a big sunny and sand-covered HELLO from Beanie and I! It's Dunc and my 2 year wedding anniversry today and I'm making his favourite dinner - a ginger/soy/cinnamon/star anise braised chicken with boy choy and rice noodles. Then we will watch the sunset, crack open a crappy bottle of non-alcoholic bubbly and tell each other what we are most grateful for in each other. Can't wait for that part - I have so much to tell him about all the good things he does for me. :)

Here's my 19 weeks picture, taken by my lovely sister! :)

Love you guys, and I'll be back here and commenting on all your stuff in the not so distant future, when internet and free time are not so sporadically allocated ;) http://weight-loss.fitness.com/image/id/319215/width/346/height/700
 
OK missie. Time for an update!! Trip to Aus, beanie details, new photo etc. It's time :santa:xoxoxo Cate
 
AHeya sweetie (and Beanie) :)

Hope you had a lovely christmas and i wanted to wish you a Happy New Year!!!! I am so so excited for you for 2012!! It will be wonderful :) You are a truely awesome person who derserves all the love and happiness in the world :)

I also wanted to say a huge, great big Thank you for changing my life!!!! You have made such a massive difference in the creation of a new slimmer, confident, happier me. I will always be gratful for all your love, kindness, support and encouragement. You totally fucking rock!!! And i love you dearly :)

Lots of love to you all and extra hugs to you Xxx :)
 
A:D Hi lovelies! Thanks for your gorgeous comments.... Ijustwanna - thanks! That certainly was a happy day right there :) And it was so nice to be able to cook my Asian dinners without having to do special trips to the Asian supermarket, because everything is just at the local. How it should be ;) Cate - well here I am, lovely. Yes, it's time for an update. Life has been crazy, and life without internet makes me crazier... hope your chrissy was a delight! Kate - SMOOSHY HUG! You make me feel so warm and fuzzified! Don't forget that, no matter how much inspiration and motivation you get from those around you, it is YOU that did it! YOU have grown and made that decision to change! I am so proud of you :)
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Back home from Aus. PHEW!!! That's all I can say. As much as seeing my family was lovely, and seeing my friends, of course, it was three weeks of being stressed, feeling like I didn't really fit in, not feeling like my true self, and just a bit out of control. I have been really calm and centred for the most part of this pregnancy (okay... so looking back at my diary here you may say otherwise, but I've felt pretty calm actually) but being in Australia and dealing with so much stuff just made all the crazy in me come out. I was crying nearly every day at some point, I was getting really angry at Dunc atl the time for pretty much no reason (at one point he exasperatedly said that he had tried so hard that night not to make me angry at him.... wifey fail :( ), and I was always so worried about Beanie. Beanie wasn't showing any signs of moving when everything I was reading said that I'd definitely be feeling it... I got hit in the belly with a tennis ball... I got two bouts of bad food poisoning... I got sick from the plane and now have been coughing all night for over two months, which isn't good for beanie.... I had very little control over my food, when I really need to be careful about it right now... I saw photos of my in my bathers and wanted to take a hack-saw to my legs... I was not seeing a lot of my friends because I didn't have time, and they were all getting mad at me... And all the time, I was aware that being unhappy and stressed was really bad for Beanie, which of course made me more stressed.... seeing as Beanie wasn't moving (even my very very large friend had felt their baby move by that time...)

Though, of course, when someone says, 'How was your holiday to Australia?', I say it was great. Externally it was. Internally, I was a fucking mess. I wished I was back in Zurich (ahh... here I am now) where the thing I worry about most is whether I should use the wool mix or the sensitive detergent for the washing, and what colour scarf I should wear. Where my days consist of me relaxing and doing things that are good for my soul - writing, researching, yoga, reading, singing, playing guitar, cooking, spending time with my husband... Yes, I know my life is blessed.

The hilarious thing? I felt Beanie kick my belly three times in quick succession on the plane ride back here. :)

Now I am back and I am relaxed again. I can live life at my own pace.

Week 21 - time to wash my hair :)
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FOOD

I need to get back on here again.

I am feeling better physically, and can now (technically) deal with making nutritious meals, but I can't be bothered. If you know what I mean. And I need to be. I have a book about pregnancy nutrition and I am going to use that to help me out.

Today my food has been dreadful, but I figure this is technically the last day of my holidays. Routine returns tomorrow and I will get my arse into gear. I need to start doing some more walking too (if I can brave the cold) to try and keep at least a little bit fit, as I have been so sick for pretty much all of this pregnancy now (firstly, major fatigue and nausea, then actual sickness x 2, then food poisoning, etc), and I am finally feeling better.

Food diary returns tomorrow.
WARNING: I will not be counting calories or anything, just trying to be healthy. I am insatiably hungry right now and I will give into that hunger, because when I don't I get faint and feel terrible. But I will make healthy choices.
 
AHere are some pics of me from our trip. I came so close to posting the horror-inducing one of me in my bathers so you'd all understand, but changed my mind. The first is in my parent's backyard, heading to a wedding, then there is us chilling at the beach (finally a relaxing day!) and then on our last day, me at the barbie. That is the real Australia right there ;)
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A:hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: Yay Joh's back!!! :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray:

Aww sweetie i have missed you sooooooooooo much. :grouphug:
Sorry you had such a stressy time in oz. I totally understand the feelings you were struggling with. Being out of your comfort zone with all those (yep, first post after you get back and i'm gonna use that bloody word!!!) hormones rushing around. Don't beat yourself up sweetie, it's totally normal.

That is so funny that Beanie waited til you were on your way home to make his presence felt. I bet he was thinking 'mummy's stressed, i am gonna snuggle all quite til she is happy again' I bet you haven't felt him because you are so fit and have awesome stomach muscles. Your very very large friend probably has no stomach muscles! You will feel him loads now. I love it when you get to notice different noises and music affect their movement. The 'oooh, mummy is sleeping, time to start learning those dance moves' ain't so fun though lol.

You look sooooooooo adorable in your photo's. proper up the duff now!! Loving the belly poking out the bottom of your t-shirt at the BBQ that is gorgeous!!!. I would have loved to be able to have my belly showing when i was pregnant but at over 200lb there was no way i was gonna inflict the world with that one. Actually i only have one photo of me pregnant and that was right at the end, Mark insisted on taking it. I look fucking terrible, not pregnant, just horendously fat!!!!
Unlike you my dear, you look postivily radiant!!!!

Don't worry that you haven't gained 'as much weight as you should have'. Everyone is different. I know people who didn't gain at all till the last 2-3 month and then it was only like 10lbs (total bitches lol) and i'm looking forward to you back with a food diary :hurray: :hurray: That means you have to come on here every day!!!

So glad you're back my lovely. Missed you lots.

Love and hugs Xxx
 
:iagree: with everything Kate said. Missed you so much. Your food diary can set a good example through good nutrition, which is really what good health is all about, along with exercise. It's not a competition that's for sure. Maybe just skip the calorie count. Who cares? We love you & we are so glad that you're back!! xoxoxo Cate
 
A:D ah, my lovelies, it's nice to have your support back here too!

KateHotBoobs - hahahaa you and those hormones. :) You are totally right though... it sure is a bit of a bugger though, especially for my poor hubby. But I'm much more stable now that I'm back in Z-town. Phew! Was it bad that I said 'my very very large friend'? It's just that I was so excited to be solidly inside a healthy BMI when I got pregnant, and when my friend (who weighs over 180kg) told me that she could feel it much earlier, it made me sad - like there was no benefit to losing in the first place. Which is of course entirely stupid. HORMONES!!! Thanks for saying I look gorgeous :) Starting to feel a little whalesque... so glad that my lovely friend back home lent me a bunch of her maternity clothes though, so now I can wear some things! And guess what, little miss 'I weighed over 200 pounds' - I, no doubt, weigh 200 pounds right now. I bet you were bloody gorgeous, no matter what you say. ;)

Cate - Hi lovely!!! Thanks for the nice welcome back :) You are right that it's not a competition, but I don't want to make all you other not-growing-another-person people feel bad by reading my food diary and seeing how much I'm eating. I've been recommended around 2500 - 2700 cal a day, so that's kind of mean to you folk! But too bad! hahaha. I'm not going to count calories right now, and don't think I will, but will just listen to by body and eat when I'm hungry, but try to make good decisions. xxx

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Today has been such a beautiful day! The sun was shining, it was about six degrees, no wind and the mountains were so enormous and clear... a gorgeous day to be in Switzerland! I've been very productive and am feeling rather chuffed with myself. Meanwhile, I am buggered and will go have a bath after I finish this.

I've been thinking that I really need to try and do some more gentle exercise, because just walking fast to the shops is making me really really tired, which is no good. I'd love to do swimming, but I just can't bring myself to do it in this weather... and my skin is getting very eczema-y lately too, so I might just hold off for a little. I'm just thinking of going on long walks. I mean, I hear that giving birth is the greatest marathon of all, so I want to be prepared for it! So today I got up with dunc at 8am (early for me!) and caught the 8.30 train into town, then spent 2 and a half hours writing, which felt great! I love being back into the swing of it... then I went for a long walk around the city, wasting time before heading to yoga. YOGA! Oh how I missed you! The people are so lovely, and it is an hour of real connection with my little bean in there. I just love it. Then more walking, then lunch, then more walking, then buying a yoga mat so I can do some exercises at home (look at my motivation!) then more walking, then train back home, then more walking.... now bath time. I probably did at least 10 times more exercise that I have done in the past week!

FOOD so far today (again, the warning that I am hungry all the time, so eating, but trying to remain reasonably healthy and balanced. Trying to avoid junk!)
- oatmeal with dried cranberries with a skim decaf latte
- slice of zucchini, herb and cheese bread (ohmygod nomnom) with herbal tea
- chicken veggie stir fry (satay sauce) with rice
- tub of lemon quark (191 calories but SO tasty! Like a cheesecake!)
- slice of cheddar with 8 green olives

EXERCISE
- 3 hours of walking (estimate)
- 1 hour of yoga

edit - just had some chips. This house is a disaster zone at the moment - so many leftover goodies from our housewarming and from new years... oops.
 
I like the positive vibe on your thread, Good luck with the bun in the oven. Cherish the time. It seems like just yesterday me and Mrs Brawny were staring at that pregnancy test stick and now I have a 16 yr old, a 13 year old and an 11 year old! But its been great!
 
AHeya hotstuff & Beanie

I saw on facebook that you are feeling shit :( Hope you are ok now and it isn't anything icky.

Your day (yesterday) sounds wonderful. Get you and all your walking and writing. I bet it feels good to get back to it.
Don't feel bad about saying 'very very large friend' That was me, no stomach muscles so felt baby really early. It's not your fault that you are super fit :) (totally hate you for it, but its not your fault lol, you know i'm only joking there right!! :) )

You feel 'whalesque' (nice wordage there by the way) now :smilielol5: You wait. The first time you have to get out of the sofa belly first or roll out of it, think of how un-whalesque you did feel.....It will make you laugh or curse me lol :)

I wish i had done yoga when i was pregnant. It will make labour sooooooo but easier.
And your food looks so freaking healthy.....All i can remember eating when i was pregnant (when i could eat) was BBQ beef hola hoop crisps and maltesers, hmmm not so healthy. You are a model mum to be :)

Love and hugs Xxx
 
ABrawny - Hi! Thanks for dropping by! It made me laugh that you think my thread is so positive - I feel like I'm always positive in real life, and here is where I come to let out the whinger inside of me. haha. Glad it doesn't always come across that way though! :)

Eerika - Well hello there! Thanks lovely girl. :)

Kate - Yeah, feeling a little like a truck hit me. Waking up about 8 times a night (preparation?) to either go to the loo, have another coughing fit or thrash around my five pillows in frustration. I'm just so so achey and headachey and all other kinds of achey. I did that thing again where I decide it's time for me to do some exercise, so I try to get fit in one day... and instead I get sore. Hmm. I hope it's just that, and that I'm not fighting yet another killer cold. Meanwhile, I feel like I could easily be rolling out of the sofa now! haha. I actually can't wait to be huge. :) You are such a sweetheart for saying I'm a model mum to be... but I'm not exercising, I'm getting stressed, not eating organic, and I ate lots of crap yesterday...

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FOOD yesterday was not good. Maybe that contributed to why I was feeling so shite. But... I think it's more like I was already feeling shite, so I ended up eating badly...
- tinned pears with a crumble topping (wholemeal flour, 2 types of oats, butter and brown sugar)
- grilled cheddar cheese on wholemeal bread
- chicken Pad Thai with salad
- 5 milk bottle lollies and 5 mini chocolates (GAH!) and 50g packet of chips (GAH!)
- tuna and tomato risotto (yum! I made this alllll the time when we were on our big cycling tour. It's a one-pot wonder. Onion, garlic, arborio rice, olive oil, capers, olives, capsicum, zucchini, tomatoes, chicken stock, tuna)

EXERCISE
Well.. I felt like I got hit by a truck.... I did go for about a 20minute walk though, to the shops and the long way home around the lake.

IN OTHER NEWS
BIG ultrasound tomorrow. EEK! I am trying to be POSITIVE about it, but I am scared shitless. All this sickness, all that food poisoning, being hit in the belly with a tennis ball, going on such long flights, being so bloody stressed when I was in Oz... well I'm internalising. I don't even talk to my man about the fact that I am so worried... I'm just waiting waiting waiting until tomorrow when I can know for sure that things are okay. Or not.

Anyhow, sticking with the BEING POSITIVE vibe, we bought something CUTE yesterday! It's in our living room and every time I see it I do a double take. Like - HOLY COW there is going to be a baby in there. :) It's the first real baby thing we've bought. :) :) :)
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AHeya hot stuff

You soooo know i am gonna shout at you!!!!!! Don't ya :cuss: :cuss: So lets just bloody get it over with shall we!!!!!

You ARE doing awesome and being the perfect mum to be.....OK!!!!!!!
'I'm not exercising'..........90% of pregnant woman don't exercise, you are uber fit already and you look after yourself really well!! Most woman use it as an excuse for being super lazy and to eat what ever they like!! i know i did :)
'I'm getting stressed'..........Hormones lovey!! I was the same. I worried about bloody everything and anything. And i was such a grumpy cow one minute and squealy excited the next, You will get use to the mood swings and so will Dunc. Just be honest with him and when you are having a good day tell him lots of sorries in preperation for when you are gonna have a demon, bitch from hell day (i found that worked lots lol)
'I'm not eating organic'..........I never did and the majority of pregnant woman dont either. Honestly sweetie, try not to stress too much about what 'they' say you should and shouldn't eat. You eat what you like, Beanie with take what he needs.

I really wish you would talk to Dunc about being scared shitless, sharing the fear and getting his input will help you sooooo much. If you are anything like me, your brain will have come up with so many awful things because you have given it free rein. Don't worry about the sickness. I was so so voiently sick for months and months that i actually thought 'how the hell can baby cope with this' i thought i was gonna actually puke him up with the amount of dry retching i did (that's an awesome picture aint it, do you want me to do the sound effects too?? :) ) It was so so painful. I was convinced that it was doing him harm but no, they are so well cushioned in there. And seriously don't worry about the tennis ball. trust me, he wont have even felt it. The day before i was due i slipped in the bathroom and went flying (proper slapstick moment) and landed flat on my back,, really hard. I freaked and rang the midwife and she was like 'oh don't worry, baby would have barely noticed' She came round to check me but only cos i was freaking. They are tough little buggers in there sweetie. Please please dont stress.
AND......... Tomorrow will be amazing. Beanie will be fine!!!! And you will be sooooooo blown away with how much he has changed.

Ok telling off over. :blush5:

You doing too much exercise in one day sounds very familiar lol that's something i do. Well done on just doing 20 mins today :)

:hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: oooooooh, love the baby thingy. It's so so cute. How exciting. I know what you mean about walking past it and it making it real.....Scary stuff huh.

Please don't beat yourselsf up too much about doing everything perfectly. Woman have been have babies forever. The body just does it. Please try and chill and.....bloody enjoy it!!!!!

Sending you lots of love and cant wait to read your post after your scan, we had better get another photo. :) Xxx
 
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