Hi Angie

Congratulations on choosing the healthiest way to lose weight.  I started my weight loss journey 18 months ago with one of the big companies which promote lots protein (3 times a day) & after losing 20kg got really sick!  Wasn't till I started eating raw that I got better again & lost another 15kg without even trying.  Weight has stayed off & I have stayed raw because of all the other benefits.  Will try to post before & after pictures that may inspire you but am a bot of a techno phob!  Keep up the good work & what a great example to your kids, good on you!

Hi Angie

Just want to congratulate you on becoming raw and telling us a bit about yourself.

Just wanted to wish you the very best and to assure you that the weight will start coming off no trouble.

I have plateaued at my weight of 87kg (I was 97kg) but, with a bit of willpower and determination I hope to continue to lose weight soon.

Take care of yourself.  I'll keep an eye on your journal to see how you are doing.

Trace

Hi Angie,

So thrilled about that message from your friend.  Yippeee!!!

If you can't get out to exercise, do you still have 2 old tins of soup in the cupboard?  One in each hand and do dumbbell exercises with them - anything you can think of - bicep curls, tricep kickbacks, overhead lifts - there are a heap of arm exercises you can do with 2 equal weight tins.  I've done them all using just that   It's an option anyway, if you feel like it, though I know from carting my grand-daughter on one hip, lifting babies/toddlers is no joke either!

I remember sleepless nights well and don't know how I survived them.  Deepest sympathy and understanding to you - but they're worth it in the end aren't they?

Lots of love
May

Raw Sensation Sorry Jen did I steal your journal name please forgive me  Thank you so much for the kind words it means the world to me that ppl here are here to support me.

Okay well I just finally got Pete to do my b4 photo's (please excuse the fact that I havnt got Makeup on and havnt done my hair and dont have the best clothes on but oh well Im not ment to look glamourouse (sp?) am I. So I am posting them on here so I can come back when I am feeling like crap and having a look and hopefully I can inspire at least one more person.

So here they are (im embarresed once again to post these but hay you wait till the 10week photo)



Oh and bugger it here is a photo of my two beautiful kids Connor is a lot bigger now cause it was taken about 2 months ago.

Thanks so much for being courageous enough to post your before shots with no makeup, soso clothes and everything else you said. I admire that. I only just posted my first 'unmade up' shot yesterday and am still unsure about it! You didn't steal the journal name! I love that you have the same title. It means we will get along well. There's another journal called Snoopy's raw adventure as well that's been dormant for awhile now but I got along with her like a house on fire! Don't worry about it and don't change it... it's an adventure for sure.

big hugs.

xoxoxo

Hi Angie

Thanks for posting your before photos.  Now we know what you look like!  I know you have a lot more weight to lose than me but you will find that the weight will drop off.

Good for you with the exercise - that and raw you will start to notice a real difference.

I've just joined a gym and my orientation session is tonight at 7pm and then I have a free session with a personal trainer tomorrow night at 5.30pm.  My weight has plateaued at the moment and I'm stuck at 87kg after having lost 10kg.  I've been told by many raw foodists that this plateau will pass and that I will start losing weight again soon but the exercise at the gym together with the raw food will certainly help this along.

Your children look gorgeous by the way.  I bet they keep you on your toes.  I stopped after 1 child - she's now 24.  She's getting married next year and assures me that my grandbabies will start arriving after that.  A bit scared really coz it's been such a long time since I've held or looked after a baby but I am looking forward to it.

Here's wishing you good luck on your raw journey.  Keep drinking those green smoothies!

Trace

TeddyB I know my kids are beautiful they look like their mum  hehehe. Bella looks like I did when I was her age but Connor is Pete to a T (except he has my eyes an nose).

May I dont have sore muscles today so maybe your trick worked for me even though I dont remember having a piece of fruit I did have my smoothy which has lots and lots of fruit in it.

Well today is a really hard day in our house hold Bella is really sick with a virus and kept waking up in the middle of the night with night terrors. So I gave her some more panodole then she finally slept without waking up for about 3 hours. The poor little thing is so sick she is fast asleep on the couch and has been there most of the day. Connor has a temp as well we dont know if it is because of his injections (I know some of you think they shouldnt have them but I do each to their own I say) or cause he has the same thing that Bella has. All I want to do is take their sickness for them Bella just keep looking at me with those big brown eyes and cries and it breaks my heart.

Anyway on some raw news. Pete offered me a tim tam and I didnt take it (normally I would have eaten the whole packet) I did give in a few hours later but they have been sitting on the bench all day and Bella's half is sitting here on the desk right beside me and I dont want it so I am definately getting stronger. Thats my problem I just cant have one I have to keep eating them till their all gone. If I eat something that is not raw I try to savour every bite but I am finding that I have one or two bites and I dont enjoy it anymore. But then my food demons come back and I have to eat the whole thing. Something I have to work on.

I made a GS this morning and I put Lentils in it with Bok Choy, english spinich, 2 oranges, banana, and a cup of water. I feel like today I am going through a detox but I am really hungry. My stomach is doing strange things that are really hard to explain is that because of the lentils? They were spouted so I dont know.

I didnt go for our walk today as I am sure you can understand that with the two kids sick. Cant go tomorrow morning cause we have physio for Connor and its 8am actually maybe when we come back depending on how the kids are.

Anyway we are off to the chiro for Connor this arvo and I am sure one of the babies are going to wake up soon so I better go.

Love to all and thanks for reading my journal