Time to get my pre-baby body back

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Day 1 - Lets start the journey, hope it is more successful then my previous attempts.
I am 34 and mum to 2 young girls. Before I had kids my weight fluctuated between 55-65kg. But since pregnancy struck my body I have exploded to 88kg, I weigh 10kg more now then I did when I was full term pregnant with my second daughter a year ago.
My biggest problem is that I eat when I am bored, and I also find that now I am home alot it is alot easier to just eat throughout the day, when I was working I found it easy to eat well, being a SAHM definitely doesn't agree with my body.
After unsuccessfully trying all sorts of different weight loss methods from pills to Weight Watchers, I decided I would give it one last shot by trying the Kiwi Diet.
Surprisingly I made it through my first day not feeling too hungry at all, I even dragged myself off the couch and went to the gym. So I am ending my first day full of hope that the next weeks and months will continue this well.
My goal is to lose at least 20kg by the end of September as I am moving to Australia and don't want to move to a new place feeling and looking the way I do at the moment.
Fingers crossed I can stay motivated and in 6 months time I will be out happily shopping for my new Australian wardrobe.

Starting measurements:
Thighs 73cm
Butt: 119cm
Hips: 114cm
Waist: 93cm
Chest: 93cm
Arms: 33cm

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Day 4 - Well I have to say I am very impressed with myself, this is the first time in a very long time that I have managed to stick to a diet for a whole 4 days.
It has been alot easier then I thought it would be, and am actually enjoying the eating plan. I love having it all set out for me and I don't have to think about what to eat each day.
I weighed myself this morning and have lost 4.2kg already so that is an excellent start. Here's hoping I can stick to this change of lifestyle for the long term.
I have been very good with excerise this week, have been to the gym twice and have been walking daily as well has doing sit ups daily.
Can't wait for my official end of week weigh in to see how much I have lost, I find it very motivating when I see a good number on the scales.
Can't wait til I get back into the 70's, I am hoping it will only be a few weeks away.
Already I am feeling alot healthier and happier and have more energy to spend with my kids.

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Day 7 - Well I was a bit nervous about my weigh in this morning as I hadn't stuck properly to the diet over the weekend, but to my surprise I weighed in at 83.9kg which was a loss for the week of 4.4kg so I am pretty happy with that.
My goal for this next week is to stick to the diet, drink more water and do more exercise.
I am really determined that this is going to be the time that I actually make it to my goal.

Measurements:
Thighs: 71cm (2cm loss)
Butt: 115cm (4cm loss)
Hips: 113cm (1cm loss)
Waist: 89cm (4cm loss)
Chest: 92cm (1cm loss)
Arms: 33cm (no change)

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Day 10 - yay I have made it to day 10 and have only had a couple of slip ups along the way. I weighed myself this morning and have lost another kilo so am now down to 82.9kg, am very excited to be getting closer to the 70's, hopefully I will get there in the next couple of weeks.
I am definitely noticing that my weakness for food escalates when I am bored, last night I didn't have anything to do and just watched TV, the whole time I was thinking about eating. I was very impressed with myself though and instead of eating the usual packet of biscuits or icecream I just had a youghurt.
I really hope that I can keep up this motivation and get to my goal weight by September

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Day 11 - well today hasn't gone so well, I woke up this morning feeling really sore from all the exercise I have been doing so decided I would have a day off, but unfortunately my motivation for eating well also disappeared and I have spent the day eating lots of stuff I shouldn't have. I keep trying to stop but once I get started I just can't stop, it definitely is an addiction.
I just really hope I wake up feeling better tomorrow and can get back on track. I hate it when this happens because I just start feeling down and the only way to make myself feel better is to eat more, which then makes the problem even worse. It is a viscious cycle.

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I am feeling very annoyed with myself at the moment as I had done so well for the first 10 days but then my normal lack of motivation and love of eating kicked back in. I haven't weighed myself this week as I know I would have put back on most of the weight that I worked so hard to lose.
I really wish I knew how to deal better with my eating while bored addiction but my biggest problem is that I am a real emotional eater, everytime something goes wrong I want to eat to make myself feel better, everytime something good happens I want to eat to celebrate. I spend nearly every waking hour thinking about food, it is a serious obsession.
Next week I am going to start afresh and go back to the week 1 diet as I found this easier to follow and hopefully this time I can stick to it for more then 10 days.