That's fantastic, lioness!!!

Looks like 65 is the fashion here for the moment!

haha .. so in fashion that I can't budge from it Still hovering around 65kg mark .. it flirts with the 64s but that's cool, while I'm not eating many 'bad' foods I am not as diligent as I have been and am eating around my maintaince calories. I've started the couch to 5k programme now too. I can walk fast for a long time but I find running hard so I'm doing this so push me that bit more.

Congrats Lioness! That's wonderful

How's everyone else?

Sounds like you've hit pretty much a good weight for you, Jill! What do you mean by 'the couch to 5k programme'? (or am I just being dim?).

I've put back on a little, and am just over 65kg again, but I'll soon get back on track.

64.5 kg today with shoes, so that brings me back to my weight on 22 April (which was without shoes). Roll on the next week or two to see a real loss again.

You all sticking to your plans, girls?

I'm trying. When we went to New Orleans, we ate a bunch but we also walked a lot. Now that we're back to routine I'm eating more sweets and not walking as much. I'll try harder now that it's actually gotten warm here.

Good on you, Rayven I got sick of it being so hot here I got a treadmill lol The weather isn't too bad at the moment that I'm getting out and about more but it's great to have it for early/late/hot/cold/mozzie kind of days that it's easier to stay in that go out!

The couch to five k is a programme that over 9 weeks will have you running 5kms, Toni. It's just gradually builds up your runs in intervals - the first week is running one minute with 1.5 minute walks in between. I've just finished week two and so far so good. I got a ipod app that breaks into your music to tell you when to run or walk and so on. Still somewhere between 64 and 65 kg but I'm really trying to to tone up so I'm hoping that I am burning fat but building muscle too. That's the plan anyway!! lmao

Sounds great, Jill! I think I'll Google that programme later on today and see if I can't do something similar!

I'm back hiking through the fields again, so am hoping to burn off another 2 kilos at least before the end of the month, when my family will be over. I'm still hovering around the 64kg, but have been having KFC and Mc Donald's a bit too often recently to expect any better.

Perseverance is the key, rayven! I'm sure you'll get back into the swing now that you're back to your usual routine!

If you have an iphone or similar there's heaps of apps you can get. Dare I say I actually enjoy the programme?? (whodathunkit? lol) Although in a couple of weeks it's starts being 25 minutes nonstop running which will be a challenge. :shock:

Scales are showing 63kg!! We've been shearing the last couple weeks and it's just full on so all that extra movement obvioulsy helped me plus I was the cook as well so kept it mostly healthy and still did my exercise every day. Not sure if I was my life to be that busy all the time but it helped.
SO am now under ten stone ... I remember being that big in first form at high school. That's crazy!!

You *enjoy* all that running and getting sweaty and dusty??? Hmmm, sometimes I wonder about you, really I do!

OK so I had a read up on the couch to 5K programme, and I'm tired just thinking about it, ... but it does have it's merits, and I think I may just do something about it. I'll do all the prep-reading up work for a week or two, just to get into the right mindset, then when I feel ready for the challenge I'll jump in! Do you do all yoru running on the treadmill, Jill? I'm half afraid that if I got one it'd just gather dust a lot of the time. As it is, I have to force myself to use my stationary bike (so I 'save it up' for bad weather days, hihi). The thoughts of getting the benefits of an hour long speed walk in just a half an hour of running is very tempting ... I'll let you know if I start!

In the meantime I'm still plugging away at maintaining my 63-64kg. It's not so easy having houseguests, but by the end of next week I should be back to my usual routine. Then there's just my son's birthday and a weekend away in Marseille ... I'll more than certainly indulge a bit for both occasions

I'm still around 9 and a half stone, which is fine at the moment. Once some holidays are out of the way, I shall try and get into diet-mode again. The main annoyance is that me and Mum don't attend a gym any more, which helped a lot with my weight loss, and I have no opportunity to do any gentle exercise.

As I celebrated when I lost a few inches I must be consistent and report the progress since. Ideally I'd have a 32 waist, whatever weight goes with it as I do weightlifting so have to include the muscle. But 10 stone is probably ideal. I got down to 34 and 10 1/2 or so but after maybe a year put the whole lot back and have now pretty well stuck at 11-3. Not ideal by any means but the steps required to lose the rest would be virtually banning any food between meals, and as I don't drink or smoke may hold out for a few months to drop maybe half a stone but could never keep it up for life and keep it off. The price to pay doesn't seem worth the result for the final amount to me.

And after a really good holiday, I only put on half a pound in two weeks, which makes me 9 stone and 8 pounds. Hopefully I will lose a few more pounds in the coming weeks!

It must have been a really good holiday, Jane SOunds like you had a great time.
Sorry for being absent lately Sitting around 62kg here and feeling great.
I've kept up with the running programme and finish it off next week. At the moment I'm on 28mins of running (plus warm up cool down walks) and I won't say it's easy but I get through it pretty well. I'ev alredy found another app that will cover me for afterwards .. it's a 10k one. *eeek* Haven't been doing any other exercise the last coupel weeks. We've had the floors done in the house so had to move the furiture out and then back in .. that will do for my weights I think!!

OK so it's been well over a month since I posted here. The best I can say for that month is that I didn't gain any weight, then again I only lost 100g, so nothing much to be proud of there. I am fully aware that it's because I was less stringent about 'treat' foods like wine and snacks, and did practically no exercise, so I didn't expect any better.

The next few weeks here are pretty calm, no more visitors, parties or invitations, so I should get back into the swing of things.

I'm back walking, and have integrated day 1 of the couch to 5K programme into my routine this morning. I hope I'll have the stamina to get to the end of the programme and build up to a half an hour, even if it takes a little longer than the programme suggests it will. Motivation is high as a result of a potentially fatal incident recently which really brought home to me just how much I want to face my future in the best of shape possible and in good health! Now doesn't that sound all high-fallutin and noble??? hehe ...

Hope you are all keeping on target!!!

Cool, how's the programme going, Santanna? I finished mine but haven't started on the 10k one yet. The last month has been so out of whack that it's been hard to keep a regular routine happening.

I had a bout of kidney stones this week which didn't do me any favours. When they say it's more painful than childbirth they aren't kidding. SO having three days in hospital and on a clear fluid diet (I will never eat beef broth again .. seriously, 3 lunch and dinner I could handle but when they served it up for brekkie I was nearly sick) I thought would show up nicely but there was no change on the scales. How does that work?? lol

I'm afraid to say that I didn't get far into the C25K programme, I got hit with a dose of hip bursitis (inflammation), which flares up every time I run for longer than 3 or 4 minutes (x 3 or 4 repetitions) during the session. I've also been having trouble with my feet (verrucas, ugh), and as a result I spend one week out of two barely able to hobble along ...

So sorry to read that you've had kidney stones! What a horrible experience! When my husband went through the same thing I was in a muck-sweat just seeing the agony he was going through!

Shame it didn't knock off a kilo or so for you, though, isn't it? At least then you would have had some benefit from the crisis! I reckon you must be pretty much at an ideal weight, though, if even that didn't have an impact on your total.

Me? I've finally hit -20kg exactly, leaving me at 63.7 kg. Another 4.7kg to go and I can 'stabilise'. I'm really looking forward to being 'off' the diet, but fully intend to stick to my new habits and definitely continue to be lots more active. I'm certain that it was the 'couch potato' lifestyle which contributed mostly to my weight gain in the first place.

I really should post in this thread more I'm around the nine and a half stone mark, I'm not sticking to the "diet" as much as I used to, but still content with my weight. I'd love to lose half a stone or so for the heavy Christmas period though!
Today is always a special day for me. All of the members of Funtrivia have watched my weight loss over the past eight years. Today marks the eighth anniversary of my "reasonably healthy living" regime. I'm about 4 stone lighter than I was eight years ago - slow and steady wins the race

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Jane well done in maintaining your weight loss. I saw the 'fat' photo on Facebook and was hoping that it was your before photo and not a massive weight gain since I met you last year.

Such a great change, Jane. You were one of my inspirations when I started this so a big thank you to you.

Nothing has changed here . .still the same. Had a week or so away and didn't always make the healthiest food choices but was back to normal when I got home.
On the trip I did go to a boot camp with my brother early one morning where you just go through exercises with a group and a trainer egging you on. I thought I was pretty much half fit these days and I did well and kept up no worries. But my god I could hardly move the next day ... must have been muscles I haven't gotten around to touching!! lol

You still discovering those type of muscles, Jill? Me too, when I do stuff like kayaking for several hours I suddenly realise just how many muscle groups I blithely ignore ...

Jane, like Jill you were one of my primary inspirations to get on a sensible eating plan, and thanks to you I did it the right way: no fad diet, or unrealistic goals, just a slow and steady pace making changes that are easy(ish) to assimilate into every day life, and getting more active. Your continued maintenance of the 'new you' is equally motivating as it proves that with a little self-control I too can avoid the yo-yo dieting syndrome. I'm glad to see you keep posting updates here from time to time, it reminds me to remain always vigilant and to get back on the straight and narrow after I let things slip for a bit.