JennyC's Diary - Page 14

km64 · #**261** 09-02-2009, 13:22

Hey Jenny - you sound much more relaxed and happy - great to hear scrapbook (and love the photos you put up by the way), talking and reading/listening is helping. Also glad to hear those pesky cramps went away. Wishing you an excellent result when you do hop back on the scales!!

cheers - Kay.

RosemaryFNQ · #**262** 09-02-2009, 13:57

Hi Jenny, Glad to hear you both caught up with Aunty Anne. She has been so supportive of me, especially on the first few days and on weigh in days. She ia a regular reader of our diaries ( I suppose she told you that). I think she is worried that I might catch up with her weight loss... I can only hope. Something to look forward to - Being a similar weight as BOTH my sisters... LOL

I can relate to the battle when you are home .... Although you won't get me mowing the lawn. I don't think my energy levels would allow me. (Thats what I tell Bob anyhow) Heehee... You would need a 4WD mower at the moment.

Catch you later, Aunty Rosemary

fiona.sutton · #**263** 10-02-2009, 21:54

Hi Jenny
I have been to the Brisbane clinic, as well as chats with them over the phone - it was pretty good to ask questions and meet other people on the plan there (I went for a Friday morning tea session in January). This friday is the lots to lose motivating session at 9am (I think). The venue is an old house with such a wonderful calm relaxed mood to it.

I am glad that you feel the fat burning may have kicked in again! Fingers crossed for a brilliant loss the next time you weigh in.

Oh, as for the GP and mental health. When you book an appointment with the GP, mention that you'd like to have a mental health plan arranged (otherwise you have to go back again to get the plan arranged). I did this in 2005, and I got 6 sessions heavily subsidised by the govt (I paid a bit extra because I went with a psych that didn't bulk bill - but there are plenty of good psychs that bulk bill for the mental health plan). I think you can get more sessions subsidised, but I am not sure of the number.

Vee's going to a specialist on emotional eating, i think, so maybe you should send her a private message to find out who she has gone to? From her posts it seems she has got something out of each session so far...

I meet my psych each fortnight to discuss my probs... and it has helped.

Good luck with it.
Fi

JennyC · #**264** 12-02-2009, 09:38

Hi all, Have been flat out busy this week. And looks as though tomorrow even though I have an RDO is going to be consumed with a bit of work stuff, so going to the clinic for there morning tea is out this week

My school based apprentice gets a $800 tool allowance from the government. Tomorrow I have to take her to our wholesalers to purchase all her goodies....scissors, combs, blowdryers you name it we have to buy it!!!! It will be a real thrill for her. I remember how excited I was to get my hands on some tools and think they were MINE!!!!!!! She is a very naturally talented 16yr old and picks up thing very quickly which is great. I love that she can finish school and start her appreticeship at the same time.

This week I have had my head in my book "the gabriel method" fasinating read. While some parts of his book especially about not needing to follow a diet I take with a grain of salt. I have found what he talks about in regard to filling our bodies with natural and good healthy food speaks volumes....also especially about that our bodies are prehistoric machines and were not made to process/disgest all the c$%p in the foods of today. I am also finding the evening visualisation great....it just relaxes you before you sleep and gets you visuallising who you want to be and that you are allowed to be thin....you deserve to have the body you have always dreamed of.

Apart from feeling a bit hungry before meals I am stil getting through a day without to much trouble. I am waiting for those refeed signs to kick in. I am going out to get some scales tomorrow and will weigh in on my old weigh day of sunday.....so I will see how I am going then. I have enjoyed the time away from the scales but I do need a new set for refeed anyway.

Have a great day everyone

JennyC

thenewvee · #**265** 12-02-2009, 09:45

Hi Jenny

Sounds like a holidy from the scales is doing you the world of good!
You may even be very pleasantly surprised when you get your new scales and you hop on them! Keeping fingers crossed that you do!
Getting to this stage of the journey is a real challenge, I've found.
I'm glad the book is helping you and that you are getting a lot out of it, as well as from the cd.

It sounds like you are doing everything right and that you are getting where you want to be!

Keep up the great work!

Vee

JennyC · #**266** 13-02-2009, 08:31

Well what happens in 24hrs....lately I have been mentioning getting hungry before meals. Well yesterday before brekky and lunch I was getting a very vocal tummy letting me know it's hungry and this would be easily 2hrs before my meal is due. This prompted me to go and get my new scales on the way home from work...thank goodness for latenight shopping

I thought I would weigh myself this morning and just see where I am at the moment.
Last night was horrendous, I ate my dinner at 8pm earlier than normal finished work earlier stayed up till 10.30 and went to bed.....but could not sleep at all, normally I am a good sleeper. I started to get sooooo hungry I was tossing and turning till I decided to go out to watch TV so I didn't wake hubby up. I was up till 1.30 this morning and awake at 6am still hungry. What the??? Along with a headache on Wednesday and a sore neck......I don't know what to think of it all........because I weighed myself this morning after sometime away from the scales and I am 76.1kg. I am happy that at least my ticker has moved down but I thought I would be closer to goal if I am feeling this way.
I got on the forum round midnight last night looking for answers....I found a post from Asy a long while back about being this far out from goal and after losing 55+kgs that maybe a few kg is actually the excess skin not fat?????
I am going to ring the clinic just to see about refeed....I think I can hang out but it took all of my strength at 1am this morning not to go and raid my saladas and fruit bowl.
What do you all think? Obviously my weight loss has slowed considerably but I did have a great run and maybe my head needed to catch up and I am feeling really good about things lately....I am worried the desire to eat from the hunger is not real hunger...is it my brain. But when you hear the loud grumble and someone else hears sitting next to you...it can't be in my head....can it?

Have a great day everyone.
JennyC

thenewvee · #**267** 13-02-2009, 09:32

Morning Jenny!

Yep, sounds like you are ready for refeed. Your symptons are different to mine, but they sound pretty much like your body is beginning to want more food. I'm glad you are going to ring the clinic, as you will find that they will probably agree with you!
Looks like we may be refeed buddies after all!

I got the newsletter from the clinic last night, and well done on the incognito congratulations you received in it!

Keep working on the emotional stuff as well as on the "accepting that you deserve to have reached refeed". You have achieved such an awesome amount in both terms of weightloss and self knowledge!

Vee

fiona.sutton · #**268** 13-02-2009, 13:38

Hi Jenny
It is strange isn't it? I don't think mind cravings would put on the tummy grumbles. Any back ache yet? Grumpiness?

Just on the numbers, I would have thought you needed to lose a few more kg - but Vee is in the same boat, being over the goal number (just a number)...

When I saw you at Just Hooked, I thought you looked BLOODY FANTASTIC... You are tall, you looked balanced (you know what i mean, like your body is naturally fitting to you, not holding fat, not gaunt) to me you didn't have excess even then - not to mention beautiful - but, as Koh pointed out in a discussion, a centimetre loss in circumference to an outside person is not a visible difference.

So, as Vee said, listen to the body (or perhaps see how many people can hear your body

), chat to the consultants, keep strong to the deviation free so that if you need refeed, then you can get straight into it when it comes...

Since you ARE hungry, it will be interesting to see if it corresponds to big losses as well.

EXCITING TIMES!!!!! just hope you don't curl up in hunger...

HUGS!!! Fi

JennyC · #**269** 13-02-2009, 18:46

Thanks Vee & Fi for your input on my dilema....and thats what it feels like. Today I did have the hunger again, but was really busy and that helped me ignore it. But I have to admit it comes and goes sometimes with the growls and just a persistant hunger pang. I am totally exhausted from not sleeping last night and hope that sees me through tonight....I would hate to see my haircutting skills tomorrow if I have another night like last night

I rang the clinic and left a message early this arvo and haven't heard back, maybe they have an early mark on a Friday.

I'm not really sure how I feel about starting refeed....one hand says yay start then finally maintenance begins....the other says no you need to lose that magic number 60+kg. I am in two minds and I was saying to my hubby I just don't feel myself at the moment....can't quite put my finger on it. I am going to try and perservere for another week as we have a music festival next Sat and I think it will be easy to stay cohen friendly but a little hard to do refeed. If the clinic thinks I need it then at least it can be ordered and ready to go if I need it to be.

Fingers crossed for tonight

JennyC

I am very comfortable with my new body (all round size 12's

), just some toning would be nice. That can wait till exercise is incorporated. I do have excess skin on my tummy and arms but nothing that I can complain about for losing what I have in such a short time.

I didn't realise they were talking about me in that newsletter Vee. I haven't really kept in contact with the clinic.....do they have a spy or something...LOL If they have I am most gracious for the compliment!!!!!

princess_sunbeam · #**270** 13-02-2009, 20:46

Hi Jen
I thought of you when Ir ead the article too. You have achieved amazing results in such a short time- good on you! I went through the "mind catching up with the body thing" recently, and weight didnt move for about 3 weeks. It has now started to drop again, so maybe you just need to give yourself some time. Then others have found that they lose weight once they get on to refeed, so it is a difficult call

I am sure that whatever you do, it will be the right choice for you. I do agree with Fiona, when I saw you at Get Hooked, you look great! I bet your hubby is thinking he has a new wife!!

Jen

RosemaryFNQ · #**271** 13-02-2009, 21:40

Hi Jenny, Sounds like you are battling at the moment. Hope it sorts itself out. The body does amazing things. I will have to get my newsletter and read it. sounds like you are the star. WELL DONE.

If you do have to start re feed I am sure that it will be for the best. You have come a long way and I am really proud of you.

Take it easy and I will look forward to your progress.

Aunty Rosemary

JennyC · #**272** 14-02-2009, 14:33

Was down 100g this morning, I guess it was still a loss and I did get good sleep last night. Geez I would want to after little sleep the night before. Was at work this morning and the grumbly tummy was kicking in again at 10am

I had only had brekky at 7am!!!
I will chat to the clinic on Monday hopefully see what they recommend. Hopefully the scales will give me a decent drop tomorrow and I get a decent sleep tonight.

Have a great Valentines Day everyone!!!!

JennyC

RosemaryFNQ · #**273** 14-02-2009, 15:07

Hi Jenny, I hope Greg didn't get you any chocolates ?? I bought Uncle Bob a chocolate bar that I don't like - so there was no temptation at all. LOL Then he was upset that he didn't get me anything but he is spending today at home with me so I told him that his presence is my present.

Hope the clinic has some answers for you.
Cheers Aunty Rosemary

JennyC · #**274** 15-02-2009, 07:26

Scales are the same today. Had an okay sleep last night but am up with the sparrows again today

Was spoilt yesterday with a dozen red roses

and a beautiful card from my hubby....he's a dark horse my boy. So no Aunty Rosemary no choc's here.....he knows to well to kept them out of the house.We went out last night after dinner at home to the local hotel. No luck with Keno or the pokies!!!!! Got H to take a pic of me all dressed up last night...it's so nice to put a dress on actually and feel pretty when you go out.

We are actively looking to buy a house at the moment and drove by one we saw on the internet yesterday. We have sent an email of interest to the sales guy and with any luck we could look through it today

We are so glad we waited when many of our friends jumped in...in fear of rising interest and house prices....we hung in there cause we knew we would striggle if we jumped in on the crest of the wave. But now all things are on our side...first home buyers, interest rates all time low and houses prices are more negotiable. We'll see how we go.

Hope I hear from the clinic tomorrow.
Have a great Sunday, I hope to get around to some diaries today.

JennyC

thenewvee · #**275** 15-02-2009, 09:10

Wow, Jenny, looking FABULOUS!!!

Bet you were feeling fabulous too!

Hope you are coping ok with the hunger etc and that it is not getting too much!

Sounds like a great plan getting into the housing market now, especially since you qualify for the first home owners grant! You certainly timed it rather well. Good luck finding the perfect new home for you guys!

Hope your Sunday is a good one!

Vee

Mette · #**276** 15-02-2009, 17:02

*Wolf whistles* You look absolutely stunning, Jenny! Things are really coming together for you! Beautiful, slim new body and getting a house with your hubby! Hope evertything falls in to place the way you hope! You deserve it!

JennyC · #**277** 16-02-2009, 17:30

Hi all, Have still been battling the hunger and super early morning wake ups...I haven't had a night like last Thursday again so thats a bonus.

Scales are up 100g today so whether I'm now plateauing I don't know.

My consultant rang me back today and she seems to think that my hunger, early rising, leg cramps, skin break out, etc are indicating my body is lacking in something.....FOOD

So refeed has been ordered and I am going to play this week out as per usual. I have a music festival on Saturday and it will be to hard to plan refeed around it. I will be able to stick to my original plan as I know it back to front. By then the scales and my body will give me a true indication to maybe start refeed on Sunday.

My consultant asked how I feel with my new bod....and I had to say that I am extremely happy with it considering the speed of my loss. With some exercise and toning I think I will be a very happy vegemite!!!!!

I personally would like to start refeed around 74kg but as my consultant said I will definately know when to start, that is why she is ordering it for me now as I already am indicating it's very close to time.

So will see how this week goes. Have a good one everyone

JennyC

thenewvee · #**278** 16-02-2009, 18:46

Wooooo hoooooooo!!
Another person to commence refeed!

Congrats on having it ordered!

Definitely sounds like you are ready for it!

Great news, Jenny!

Vee

Mette · #**279** 16-02-2009, 20:17

You so deserve it pretty lady! Congratulations! You are such an inspiration!

RosemaryFNQ · #**280** 16-02-2009, 21:15

Hi Jenny,

Great news to get refeed ordered. Hope all turns out well.

Pleased to hear that you are out looking at houses, it is the right time to make that move. Good on you both.

You look lovely in the photo and glad Greg got you some roses. You should be one happy lady.

I have given these cute little boys a big hug from you and they are still as lively as ever. No wonder Majella stays so skinny....

Well take it easy and I hope the week turns out good for you.

Cheers, Aunty Rosemary