We're starting this thread because we're interested in finding out what keeps you all motivated to continue your weightloss journeys through the colder months.

Is it knowing that the warmer months will be on us sooner than we think and you want to get into that lovely summer dress you've been looking at?

Does making yummy vegie soup out of the allowed vegies and being able to eat as much of it as you like make it easier to stick with the program during winter?

Tell us about why you've started the program in winter or what keeps you motivated to stay on the program during the colder months and what obsticles you feel you may experience or may already have experienced. Please talk about any ideas you have on what could make the winter weightloss journey a little easier.

 

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WoodyB

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Start Date: 02/05/08     Height: 1.57cm    Weight:75.9kg    Goal Weight: 65kg

DATE	WEEK	WEIGHT	WEEK      LOSS	TOTAL LOSS	WAIST
02/05/2008	Starting Weight	75.9kg			86cm
09/05/2008	Week 1	73.5kg	2.4kg	2.4kg	82cm
16/05/2008	Week 2	72.4kg	1.1kg	3.5kg	81cm
23/05/2008	Week 3	71.4kg	1.0kg	4.5kg	79.5cm
30/05/2008	Week 4	71.8kg	+400g	4.1kg	79cm
06/06/2008	Week 5	No weigh	Got  Flu
13/06/2008	Week 6	No weigh
20/06/2008	Week 7	70kg	1.8kg	5.9kg	77cm
04/07/2008	Week 8 & 9	67.5kg	2.5kg	8.4kg	77cm
17/07/2008	Week 10	66.5kg	1.0kg	9.4kg	76cm
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I started the program 3 weeks ago, just as it has been getting freezing cold at night! (lol i live in newcastle nsw so cold to me is 12 degrees overnight and still in the low 20s in the day!)

I work nights so have been having lots of homemade soups with veges, (decaf) coffees and my chocolate shakes warmed up! yum!!

plus the cookbook has been great, lots of nice winter meals (Sheppards pie, cassarole etc) in there that supprissingly i can cook (previously my cooking abilities have included toast and maggi noodles) so even my partner is loving me being on TF.

Walking the dog in the nice afternoon sun (before it goes down at 5pm!) has been good, but mostly its the thought that every winter i sit in front of the TV and eat and feel horrible when i know summers around the corner, and every spring i know its too late to loose weight before summer! Not this year- I will be at the beach every day in my bikini without worry what other people are thinking- and without worry about my clothes not fitting another year around!

Finally i think its easier without the smell of BBQ'S everywhere!

Take care and good luck to everyone else out there!!

Jill

I've started cooking things up in the slow cooker such as lamb shanks and chicken curry which feeds me for several days.

Also last nite cooked up some of the vege side dishes from the TF cookbook - the mushrooms were divine and also the tomatoes were wonderful.  Its just more time consuming to make warm food, but worth it.

I'm also having to plan my days so that I get up earlier to shop and walk the dog before the rain and cold hit in the afternoons.  I think my weight is staying the same, will have to check it on the weekend.

8/10 weighed      85.2  loss   .7

15/10 weighted    85    loss   .2

22/10 weighed     85    NO LOSS

29/10 weighed      83.2 loss 1.8  TOTAL LOSS SO FAR 3.8

3/11 weighed        82.4 loss  .8   TOTAL LOSS SO FAR 4.6

11/11 weighed       80.5 loss 1.9

10/11 weoghed      79.6 loss .9    TOTAL LOSS SO FAR 7.4

25/11 weighed       78.3 loss 1.3   TOTAL LOSS SO FAR 8.7

2/12 weighed         77.8 loss .5    TOTAL LOSS SO FAR 9.2

9/12                     77.8      NO LOSS PLATEAU AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAH

16/12 weighted       77         I'VE LOST 10 KILOS!!!!!!

24/12 weighted       76.2      TOTAL LOSS 10.8 KILOS

31/12 weighed         75.8      TOTAL 11.2    400 GRAMS

7/1/08                    75.3      TOTAL 11.7    500 GRAMS

13/1                       74.4      TOTAL 12.6    900 GRAMS

28/1                       73.9      TOTAL 13.1    500 GRAMS

3/2                         74.1      TOTAL 12.9    200 GRAMS GAIN WHAH!!!!!

10/2                       74.4       TOTAL 12.6    300 GRAMS GAIN

17/2                        73.6      TOTAL 13.4    800 GRAMS LOSS

22/2                        73.3      TOTAL 13.7    300 GRAMS LOSS

2/3                          72.5     TOTAL 14.5     800 GRAMS lOSS

9/3                          71.8      TOTAL 15.2   700 GRAMS LOSS

For me, a couple of things are keeping me motivated:

I have a cruise booked in September. (Want to have great pics)

I decided 2008 would be great. (Want to have a fit future)

Also, I have a precious darling who keeps threatening a wedding every couple of months and as I already have 1 set of fat ex-wedding photos, I will not have another set. So, getting trim for that future event too subliminally.

Also, my health is worth it and as I'm heading for 40, I feel like time is marching by and don't want to spend all my life this shape. I have the rest of my life organised - home, car, family, but my weight was an issue that just erupted out of control through just not caring what other people thought and no matter what the doctor said, I wasn't inspired to do it for myself before. The next size up was always available, but now I've hit 24 and bigger than that is hard to come across. I've also heard it's harder to lose excess weight after 40, so feel that I've realised just in time to do something about it for me and my own other reasons.

I love to travel and want to do more and aeroplane and bus seats aren't loving me much now, neither are the theme park ride seats which makes me really cranky as I love all the rollercoasters and rides.

As I check through the forum I usually sit with glasses of water, now it's salt reduced chicken stock and that helps get my water intake under control.

OK, so it's not a couple, it's a lot of reasons to be motivated! Life provides us all with a heap of reasons to do this program and when I put them all in one place it makes me wonder why I let myself get into this state in the first place, and then again glad that I'm here as I have tried other things that didn't work before. This does and I believe I can truly get to my goal with this program - Don't let me down TF!

So it's not just winter it seems, it's life that's my inspiration. Wanting to live a thinner, easier, and by consequence healthier life.

Sorry for the ramble.

~KarrieK~

Making life fine in 2009!

Onward and Inward...! 

Week 1: 14.10.07  Waist: 123cm  Weight: 147.2

Week 28: 29.06.08            107.5               126.1      Loss: 1.0 kg     Total: 21.1 kilos, 15.5cms @ waist

Big, Long break.....DNW for months......

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Adding it all up:

Summer salads are definitely awesome. Can't stand the thought of too much lettuce right now - am cold, cold,cold all the time. What I do love the thought of is how much better I will look and how healthy I will feel when it comes time to strip off the 50 layers of clothes I currently wear and wear some exciting new clothes come spring and summer when I reach my goal.

It's like a butterfly emerging from the drab, dull coccoon.

The analogy works big time for me. Kim.

e.g shepards pie with notatoes is the best and minestrone with meatballs, chicken casserole, irish stew and all the great soups that you can make at home and have unlimited are awesome.

I make a few on the weekends, when I have time and make large batches and freeze them in chinese containers I got from the catering shop.

It makes life so much easier then having to prepare salads and other things everyday.

I find this to be so cosy in winter.

The best thing of all is over winter you can hide your weightloss under layers and when you come to the warmer months, than you can reveal your new body.

I can't wait till that happens, what a surprise all my friends will get when they see the changes that are going to, and have already happened.

 Beauty under the layers