http://weight-loss.co.nz/forum/ Free Easy Weight Loss » Topic: Intro for me (girlwhoclicked) en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:55:22 +0000 http://weight-loss.co.nz/forum/topic/intro-for-me-girlwhoclicked#post-204 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:50:06 +0000 Vanessa 204@http://weight-loss.co.nz/forum/ <p>Yay, so good to see you on here Kim &lt;img src=&quot;http://weight-loss.co.nz/forum/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://weight-loss.co.nz/forum/topic/intro-for-me-girlwhoclicked#post-203 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:18:05 +0000 Takotorau 203@http://weight-loss.co.nz/forum/ <p>Wow love your story.. Looking forward to your posts. &lt;img src=&quot;http://weight-loss.co.nz/forum/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_lol.gif&quot; title=&quot;:lol:&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://weight-loss.co.nz/forum/topic/intro-for-me-girlwhoclicked#post-189 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:11:20 +0000 Liz Quilty 189@http://weight-loss.co.nz/forum/ <p>Haha yeah i tell everyone that you only really need fitday.com for a while until you just &#39;know&#39; automatically what you need and are eating etc. Occasionally i use it to get back on track but generally im fine now.</p> <p>Its about re-education i reckon. Congrats on the 20kg! </p> http://weight-loss.co.nz/forum/topic/intro-for-me-girlwhoclicked#post-183 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:53:30 +0000 thegirlwhoclicked 183@http://weight-loss.co.nz/forum/ <p>Hi all. I am nearly one year in, to a journey to lose weight and not die early from some obesity related disease. My original weight was 128 kg and 11 months later I am now 101.8 kg, so 26.2kg lost. My goal is 75kg by next October 2010. That is a loss of about 500g a week, which is very do-able and sensible I believe. I decided to do this with no pills, no gimmicks, no surgery (again fear of dying on the table and fear of bankrupty for forking out $$ I dont have!). As Liz says, it is a simple equation energy in and energy out.</p> <p>I have been inspired by Liz&#39;s Utube video since I began and often refer people to it. I still go back and watch those legs just shrink! To that end, I have had pics taken of me, so that one day too, I can inspire people as Liz has inspired me.</p> <p>I have 2 blogs that go more deeply into how I have done this. one at blogger and one on livejournal, both called girlwhoclicked.</p> <p>However in summary / catch up mode. I &quot;clicked&quot; that I HAD to lose weight to live. I seriously thought I was going to drop instantly dead of a heart attck one day very soon. According to statisics I read, 1 in 4 women, do exactly that - no warning - just bang you&#39;re dead..(and it happened to a few people I knew). So I knew this was a real chance to happen to me and I even had some pain in the chest and arm one day. Doctor did an ECG and said it was only a panic attack (but I was not panicked?). I took these all as BIG signs, that I needed to get my act together. So I did. </p> <p>I started with walking and going to Les Mills Pump 2x a week at Hauraki Fitness centre in Ngatea, about 20 minutes from here in Thames as I enjoy group fitness to music. I also ate to basically the NZ guidelines for the food pyramid (which was a huge reduction in food and portions for me, I was eating way too much). I was just eating for the sake of eating and I loved my wine, too much of that..</p> <p>So now one year later, I eat very well, good clean healthy food, low GI, no processed food, no takeaway food, no junk food (look at all those people lining up at McD&#39;s to buy a heart attack - &quot;would you like thighs with that?&quot;. Arggh! - and feeding it to their kids..(better get off soap box now..)</p> <p>Last year I also digested every word on this site about losing weight and adopted the claorie counting at fitday.com as per Liz&#39;s suggestion. That worked too. now I kinda know what I can eat, after a year of it, so I dont use it anymore, but it was good for months when I was learning what to eat and how much, and when, to eat.</p> <p>I have started doing some cardio interval training, basically power walking up the hills here for 20 minutes or so a day. This is intense cardio and boy does it kick my butt. I have done it 3x a week for the last 3 weeks, ate well and done 2x a week of pump and lost nearly 3 kgs. So this is working very well for me.</p> <p>I am just about to start a new and exciting &#39;online&#39; challenge. I am in a six week program from gosleeveless.com, which will be personal training online with nutrition and workouts etc daily. It&#39;s a big committment, but I am ready for it! The blog at blogger, is to record my daily exercise, food and comments, so it will be blow by blow. </p> <p>So you can see I have been quite obsessed with losing the weight and have restructured my life around it and been fairly rigourous, becasue it felt like a life or death thing. Now I have learnt many many other reasons to lose weight, so I have multiple motivators, not just that fear one that started me off.</p> <p>All the best to everyone, you can do it, if you just do it..! </p>