MonkeyFlower Member

Hi feel free to add me, i love having more mummy friends! I'm a 32 year old mum to 3 active boys aged 10, 4 and 2 :smile:

put on a groovy song (l like You never can tell by Chuck Berry) see if you can do the twist to the whole song without stopping....you have to really go for it and look like a loon but its gauranteed to cheer you up! :happy: great work by the way!!

oh and as Jaytee79 says i also put on my work out gear as soon as i get home from work, firstly because it reminds me that i cant just slob out and i have to do my workout after kids are asleep but i find it also makes me run after the kids more and we play more active games than if i stay in work gear!

It is super hard fitting everything around husbands and kids and im definitely not perfect and as my diary will show fall into the trap of eating the kids party foods…but most of the time I try and do something like this.. I have 3 boys, work 4 days a week and have a husband who gets home at the kids bedtime so it a busy…

also when i log a peice of chocolate cake it has a heck of a lot more cals than my protein bars so maybe look at getting a lower cal bar as a snack?

have the pie! if your being healthy and working out 99% of the time then i think its fine to have a day off and eat pie, drink soda do whatever you need to do to get it out of your system...obviously it woule be rubbish to do every day but if your going to be living a healthy lifestly for the rest of your life the…

Hi! im a 33 year old mum of 3 boys...happy to support you if you want to add me :happy: love having supportive friends on here helping to get back pre-baby bodies!

OMG i never even thought of tracking my vits...darn it more calories to add! :grumble:

He could try starting with some straight leg deadlights (you can look on YouTube) which require less coordination, also he can do some bench press…push ups / chin ups and pull ups will be great body weight exercises that he can start doing as well with no worries about coordination - good luck!

Its almost impossible not to treat people differently based on the way they look and make assumptions…if someone is rocking a super fit, toned body (not overweight but not underweight either) you can assume that they are working dam hard for that body so must have a certain amount of self discipline and motivation to eat…

Always great to have more motivating friends :happy: im a mum to two boys (aged 3 and 2) and step-mummy to a 10 year old boy!

you can add strength training under Cardio exercise to get MFP to give you some cals...not many though unfortunetly! i always wear my HRM doing the weights to get a more acurate number :happy:

Thank you so much - i guess its just scary since trying to loose weight to enter a number into MFP that MFP says i need to be on to GAIN weight! am going to be brave and take the plunge though...just looked at the book and recalculated so from today will be on 1650 for a 300cal deficit on non workout days - scarey stuff!!

Hi everyone, I have just bought NROLFW and am hoping to finish reading this weekend and start on Monday! Am so excited! I used to do more weights before i had the kids which seems like a lifetime ago but am feeling reasonably happy about going in and tackling the exercises…but im really nervous about the calories,…

if your 16% BF thats already super impressive and if you have reached your goal weight i would go the way some others have suggested and have some fitness goals to keep you motivated. You said you love running so maybe a 1/2 marathon or a tri...or challenge yourself with something new...aim to become a black belt in…

make as many healthy choices each day as you can, cut out rubbish food when you can and move/exercise when you get the time! but have patience and take it slowly and be kind to your body after everything its just been through :) and remember if your breast feeding not to cut your cals too much! good luck :smile:

i think you look fantastic and if you want to go bigger personally i say go for it....but then i LOVE big arms :love:

he can be...but he wouldnt get stressed at me if i was slowing him down :smile:

apparently they are holding one in Brisbane next year which would be great if i can get fit enough!

if ive gotten into a slump i find it so hard to get motivated again but if I can suck it up and make myself exercise and/or eat healthly two days in a row im back to finding it ok again!! also have made some really amazingly fit/gorgeous/inspirational friends on here and i feel so guilty when im being slack and i log on…

what are the ones like you find hard to believe? all the ones ive seen have either been cartoon stuff or i always thought a real pic of the person...your telling me all those 6 packs i'v been checking out might not have been real :noway: wow silkandsugar have to say normally its the guys abs im looking at but in a totally…

haha, saw this thread just after i finished putting my hair into piggys for bed...and rocking my oh so sexy flannelet pj's! lol ***sorry its so massive!

I’m currently at 24% BF and 129lb, - pre kids I was at 17% BF and 120lb but that was such hard work to maintain so now am thinking somewhere between then and now :happy:

hey im 5'4" and am at 128lb - my goals are set to 1350 a day and i eat back exercise cals, dont seem to be moving on the scale for the last few weeks though so am not much help as now i cant decide weather i should up my cals or lower them :ohwell:

my goal too! ok here is me pre kids (i miss this body!!) sorry about the stupid outfit we were heading out to a costume party...weight was about 120lb this is me last halloween that started this whole thing...i think my weight was 150lb and this is me today...need a heap of tonning but feeling sooo much happier! weight…

If your someone who likes measuring your success and think you will miss seeing the weight change on the scale you could you find someone (a local trainer at a gym?) or do it yourself, who will measure your body fat %? That way you can stay at the same weight but still get that sense of achievement from seeing the numbers…

ok i need to find someone who sells these in Brisbane!!

I have a really sweet tooth as well and would hate to never eat anything sweet, if it fits inside your calories why not? Saying that I try and modify my sweet things like having dark chocolate coated goji berries or caramel flavoured rice cakes instead of eating huge chocolate bars…but then again I never have enough…

ohh the more eye candy available on this site the better!

i get up at 5am for work each morning and am starving before i even open my eyes! LOVE breakfast - yum! but that is me eating when im hungry...but i do try and not go longer that 3 hours during the day without having at least soemthing small to keep my energy up