Karen_can_do_this Member

It's a great thing losing :smiley:

Easy peasy chicken casserole - One hot chook from woollies deboned and chopped up - diced bacon and onion - lite sour cream - a can of condensed cream of chicken soup - 2 handfuls of crushed jatz biscuits.

I started out with stronglifts 5x5. It starts very light and builds your lifts up slowly each session. The app has videos explaining form and how to do them.

I can pull my jeans off without doing up the button!!!! In December I couldn't even get them up my thighs

That is such a massive milestone!!!! Well done!!!!!

I never really left, although my motivation did. I am now down a chunk of weight, back into weight lifting again and using mfp as my muse.

You can do this. Log your good every day. Move your body every day. You are worth it. Your body has supported you for 43 years. Give it some love and it'll do amazing things with you

I'm Karen, I'm from Australia.

Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia :) Welcome back to the awesomeness that is mfp

This right here...

Love this thread...

My eyesight has improved drastically. Never knew that was a side effect. But yay!!!!

Refill my water bottle 3 times during my shift at work.

Love it!!

Added you 😊

Every morning after I pee. It helps me learn about ups and downs, what to expect after certain meals, health issues etc

Yep adding to the great smile group. But also omg!!! Look at those guns!!! You look incredible! I'm so glad you found a solution to a longstanding back injury.

I had a sore hip that had been playing up on and off for a few months. Finally I went to see my doctor. He wasn't there, so I saw a locum. He told me my sore hip was a direct result of my being overweight. That day I went home and my husband had bought himself his 3rd carton of Jack Daniels for $90 that week. I thought to…

Accidentally wearing my 12 year old daughter's jeans. Not realising it until I took them off at the end of the day and saw the label.

Me!! I’m in Australia Username thingie is mrsfitzyv8@gmail.com

Thanks to my insane workday, I don’t get to eat until dinner time. Because I have done this for so long, on days when I’m not working, I don’t get hungry until about 4pm. By then, I’m preparing dinner and nobody is allowed to eat after 4pm in my house until dinner - I have hungry children who want to graze and then are too…

Hey there. My name is Karen. I’m am a very new white belt. I am learning Shotokan Karate. I do two classes a week. I’m feeling my age (35) however the fitness side isn’t my main issue lol. It’s my uncoordinated legs and hands. Plus trying to remember the katas. I’m loving what I’ve seen so far.

My doctor prescribed them to me many years ago. I had been taking them for a week when my boss kindly explained to me that I was as jittery as a cat on a hot tin roof with the energy of the energiser bunny. Then she asked me what drugs I was taking as she suspected I was using speed lol. Oops I think at the time I didn’t…

My car is a shocker lol. Every so often I clean it out. Then it gets trashed again. I also won’t eat through the day so I can have a great big steak for dinner with buttery mashed potato, yummy corn and other veggies then a big chunk of chocolate self saucing pudding with custard for dessert. My diary is terrible to look…

I’ve got three kids, work full time and my husband works away. Do not a single mum but by geez it feels like it some days. I get up at 4.30 to smash out either a walk or a weight lifting sesh before getting the kids up for school and before I leave for work. In the afternoons I try to get the kids outside for some kind of…

Hey guys and gals. My name is Karen. I’m a mum to three pretty awesome kids, I work full time as a nurse in a high care nursing home- very full on. I lift relatively heavy weights three times a week (StrongLifts 5x5) I’m a daily logger and I have an open diary to my friends. Feel free to add me if you want to :smile:…

Good thinking. Just the fact that you’ve thought about it and have a plan is incredible. You’ve got this!! :smile:

For sure

^^^ Wowee that’s an awesome comparison pic!!!

Laugh, buy him a beer and help him find a hot chick to pick up