Blogger lunch

Just arrived home from my blogger lunch out at Whitemans Valley and it was FAB!

Was really lovely to finally meet CM, Sue, Ann and Janene and catch up with Karen, Helena and Jo.

Took the kids - MAJOR MISTAKE - I really didn't get to sit down and have a good ole natter because my darling children (can you hear the sarcasim) either ran around the table screaming or decided that jumping in puddles in the carpark while it was pooring with rain was much better than sitting down like good little men..............Oh well, know for next time :)

Janene, CM and Jo also took their kids which was good and the cafe we went to were really child friendly which was also great.

Went out last night and got myself a top which I thought was nice and really different from what I usually wear but once Andrew seen it, he told me it was the same as my other one......RUBBISH I SAID...... but when I checked, he was right - same style, different colour.

Righto, I have another girlfriend due to arrive with her kids and then I'm off to Helena's birthday dinner. I will post some pictures from today and hopefully have some of tonight posted on Monday.

WOK Creations

Yep WOK Creations are my favourite at the moment. I usually have 1 pkt of Undo noodles, small portion (200g) of either beef strips or chicken and 1 whole packet of WOK vegetables with a WOK creation sauce and it usually works out at about 7 or 8 points for the whole meal and it is really filling. Last night however I just felt like it but I didn't have any meat defrosted (and couldn't wait around to defrost some) so I just had the vege's and noodles and it was beautiful and only worked out at 4.5 points............gotta love that!

Can't remember if I told you but I have decided to go back to our gym at work even though it is outdated because it has a bike, a rower and all the weight equipment and its FREE.
I was speaking to our industrial nurse (who runs the gym) and I said I would love a treadmill and she said she was in the process of purchasing one for our gym ... YAY!

I have a top for Saturday night (Helena's birthday dinner) and I tried it on last night and even though it fits, I just don't want to wear it. So after some young thing puts wax on my eyebrows and rips it out, I am going shopping for a new top.............last minute I know but better late than never I say. I will have HEAPS of photos are I put the ole digital camera batteries on CHARGE this morning all ready for the weekend.

Righto better get working as I have to leave early to pick the kids up today as Dad has a late golf game and won't be back in time to pick them up (how rude...............LOL).

Weigh in

+.800grams.................bugger!
Bringing me back to 103.5kgs (total loss 6.8kgs), I know everyone is saying "don't sweat it, look at your total loss" and I know your right but.......................I was on a roll bugger it!
Anyway I will just have to work harder.

My boss (also a personal friend) was sitting at my desk yesterday and the other lady in the Lab mentioned I was losing weight again and his comment was "When you use to go to the gym, it just dropped off you and you looked amazing".................righto back to the gym I say...hahaha.

I also went to Jo's for a coffee afterward's (she is looking amazing by the way) and she showed me how to upload a photo to my site but unfortunately when I checked it this morning and it has only uploaded it to my Dashboard (or if you view my profile) when I actually wanted it on the page next to the 'About Me' bit. This of course will be my mistake and not explaining it to Jo Jo properly but Sue said she would give me a few tips on Saturday.

Anyway I went home and had a WW meal (Seafood Risotto) as I usually get Subway (as a treat) but didn't this week for obvious reasons and I really enjoyed it.

Adam was grissly last night and just wanted to sit on my lap and wriggly half the night and then ended up sleeping with me and was fine so hopefully it is nothing because I have a HUGE weekend planned and don't want to leave him with Dad if he's sick (but I will..........hehehe).

Not much else to rabbit on about today so I will say ta ta for now.

P.S. Hope your enjoying your day off Karen :)

Not confident

I jumped on my scales this morning and I was 1.9kgs heavier than my last weigh in at WW but my scales are 300grams lower so that is still a 1.6kgs UP...gggggrrrrrrrrr!
I have drank that much water yesterday that I have been sloshing around and my points have been a little under (only by 1 or 2 points) which I thought was helping but...........

I know I'm stressing but I have had 6 loss's in a row and don't want to break the cycle but it is my own fault if I gain *major sigh*. I will just have to wait and see what happens at weigh in tonight but I hope I don't have a major gain (well - a gain at all really).

OK I'm going to stop stressing.

I forgot to tell you that I managed to get on my bike at the weekend for about 10 or 15 minutes before I was having a major heartattack.........LOL The boys were sitting on their little trikes watching me and were quite concerned when I finished because I was panting so much plus I don't think they have ever seen me exercise before .... Hehehehehe.
Felt great though and I am so getting back on that sucker on a regular basis!

I have such a busy weekend coming up, bloggers lunch on Saturday then Helena's birthday bash on Saturday night and then Karen's baby shower on Sunday.......can't wait, can't wait!!!
I went through my wardrobe last night looking for something to wear on Saturday night as it has been FOREVER since I have gone into Wellington (on the town) and have no pants to wear apart from my work pants (NOT!) but remembered that my sister bought me some a while back (black boot legs) but they were in a size 16 and I am usually 18 - 20 (more 20 than 18) but I tried them on anyway and THEY FIT - Wahoo!!!
As I am only 5 foot 2 (and a half - which is important) they were WAY too long so I had hubby pinning the hem for me last night and he has dropped them off to get hemmed today.

That's about all the excitment in my life at the moment...........hehehehe

Another weekend bites the dust.........

Monday morning again..........YUK!

Had a lovely day on Friday as I had annual leave. Reece had his first school visit that went really well and hated me having to take him home........hehehe, teacher is really pleased - good o!
Got all my grocery shopping done which meant healthly food back in the house.
Spent the afternoon with Reece just doing stuff.

Saturday was a great day and me and the boys spent all day outside playing, didn't get much done around the house but *shrug* oh well.
Andrew got home from golf in the afternoon and we moved our shed to the end of the garden and then moved the boys playhouse up that end as well and it has really made the backyard look heaps bigger.
Didn't get anymore of the deck done as hubby still hasn't gotten around to getting the rest of the decking.
Made lasagne for dinner and ate some (first mistake) which just gave me heartburn all night (I know better!!!) then ate a chocolate or two after that???? Only made me feel guilty and I didn't really enjoy it, so I am wondering why I did it.

Sunday wasn't so nice weather wise and I had planned to take the kids to the park but since the rain stopped that idea, I took them to Lollypop's instead and sat there for 2.5 hours with a trim latte and a good book (Dan Brown's Digital Fortress) until my sister turned up with her son and we chatted away.
Home from there, little one in bed, Reece on the computer and I managed to get dinner out of the way for Andrew and the boys (chops, kumera bake, brocolli and carrots) while I had some of the vege's and a WW meal (Seafood Rissotto - my favourite).
Then managed to eat 3 mini chocolate chip biscuits with a coffee - bad, bad!

So today is back to tracking, tracking, tracking and drinking my water.
Only tomorrow will tell what the scale gods will dish up...........LOL

Weigh in........

UPDATED POST:

I have an excel spreadsheet that I put my weight results into and it creates a graph and has my mini goals in it etc and when I put my weight in for this week it told me I had lost 1.1kgs not 900grams................well OBVIOUSLY I checked it straight away and YES I have lost 1.1kgs - how didn't I pick that up...............LMAO.

Just thought I'd better update this wee finding in case there are some accountants out there that think I'm thick...hehehe.
What a nice little boost that was :)


ORIGINAL POST:

Down another 900grams which brings me to 102.7kgs (total loss 7.4kgs)!!!!!!!!!

I am really amazed at myself, I have usually gone right off the rails by now (usually around week 5) but I am now starting week 7 and still going strong. Another 9.2kgs to get to my virgin weight........bring it on!!!!
I am fitting into so much more in my wardrobe which is a bonus with summer just around the corner and my rings are sliding around my fingers getting quite lose...........love that!

Have been eating really well at work (as per usual) and I think having a good eating weekend really helped with this weeks weigh in. I have really been concerntrating on my water intake as well which MUST have helped as I have spent quite a bit of time on the loo :)

I have been quite busy at work so haven't managed to get out for a lunchtime walk which is really peeving me off because the weather has been lovely (apart from yesterday) and I feel like I'm missing out.

I watched 'Downsize Me' last night again and was quite impressed with there swiss ball exercises which seemed to do quite a bit for them and it was something they could do at home.
The mother in the program was really focused and did well but the daughter (23 year old) just couldn't keep up with the exercise and the diet even with her Mum's help and I really felt for her. She still did excellent with about a 7kg loss which is great but I thought they could have given her a bit more help when they new she was struggling.

Cupboards are a bit bare at the moment (shopping on Friday) so I have been a bit inventive with our meals for the last couple of nights and the boys are loving it. I didn't realise that I cook the same things over and over until I break out and cook something completely different and the boys (kids included) have been eating it. Last night made a potato, spring onions, leak, mushroom, bacon and egg pie with just one bit of pastry on the top (that's all I had left) and the boys just loved it. I usually make bacon and egg pie with just bacon and egg......boring aye?
So I am going to re-stock my cupboards on Friday and put lots of different stuff in there that I usually don't and then see what I can make with it.

Rabbitting on now so I will sign off for another day......ta ta for now :-)

Sunny days

What a lovely sunny weekend we had here in Wellington, just lifts your spirits.

Saturday morning myself and the kids went to my sisters for a catch-up and the kids played outside, then we went to Mitre 10 to price some more decking and they played in the play area.
This was very short lived as Adam (toilet training 2 year old) decided he wanted to do 'wee's' and pulled his pants down and went right there on the little bridge in the play area.........luckily I was there (but outside the gate) and nearly died of embarrassment and quickly grabbed every tissue I had in my bag and cleaned up. There was only 1 other little girl there with her Dad and he thought it was hilarious. I don't understand why he did that at all, little bugger!

Home we went for some lunch and Adam went to bed for a sleep while Reece and I played outside for a while. Saturday night was quiet, had a few wines and was in bed by 9.30pm (nanna aye?). Sunday was just as sunny and beautiful (except for the wind - good old Wellington) so we were outside by 8.30am and didn't come back inside until 3.30pm. I had a girlfriend and her 4 kids come around and they all ran each other ragged!

Food was excellent until Sunday dinner, I did have a chook out for dinner but it was still a bit frozen and it was getting late so we opted for takeaways.........bad!!!! I then sat there for the rest of the night kicking myself ........ argh!

Didn't get much done around the house but Reece decided to 'clean out' his playhouse by sweeping the floors, washing the windows and the blackboard and lining all the toys up outside on the grass - hahaha - my mate reckons he is far to young to be so clean and tidy......hahahaha.

I also went to Westfields on Sunday afternoon to get an appointment at OPSM for my contacts and I wasn't able to get one until the 2nd October and it is going to cost $200.00 for 4 appointments to get them plus a trial pack - WTF!!!
I don't care because I'm getting them anyway but still????

While I was there I also had a look around for a top for myself and do you think I could find anything??? NOPE! I tried on about 8 different tops in different designs but nothing looked right so I didn't get anything.........I will just wait until I find something I like.

Well that was about all the excitment I had on the weekend. I can't wait for summer - bring it on! BBQ weather - can't wait.

Walkies

Don't ya just love nice weather?
I have even managed a few lunch time walks which has been wonderful.

My eating has been so good this week and I am making sure I have most of my weekend food sorted because it is Friday night through to Sunday lunch that I fall over.

Tonight for dinner it is beef stir fry with LOADS of vege's.
2 x Vogels toast for brekkie with strawberry jam
Lunch will be a chicken or ham wrap (just love those)
Saturday dinner will be WW meal
Sunday breakkie is a mushroom and spring onion omlette
Sunday lunch a cheese and onion toastie
Sunday dinner - roast chicken with roast potato's (I very rarely eat them now) pumpkim and vege's........yum!

I have had my WW cereal this morning and 1 cup of coffee (I am trying to cut down from 12 a day to about 4 - with equal!) and I am going out with a couple of friends for a long lunch at the Speights Ale house in Petone which I am really looking forward to. I have also saved a few points so I can have 1 or 2 glasses of wine (should help with my performance review at 3pm ...LOL) and then gallons of water to finish of the afternoon.

I don't have much planned for the weekend but my little man is finally back at Kohanga today with his conjunctivitis and rotavirus GONE.......yee ha! It is suppose to be nice on Saturday so I think the park is in order and as it is suppose to rain on Sunday, we might do a bit of shopping as we are still looking our for a sofa bed for our spare room *shug* dunno?

Hope everyone has a good weekend :)

Weigh in

Lost another 1.4kgs...............cool aye?
Bringing me down to 103.8kgs, pretty happy with that considering I wasn't 100% this week or even 95% if the truth be told.
The only good thing to come out of being sick for a day and half is weight loss.........LOL

My original goal when I started this blog was to of course get to my goal weight which is 62kgs but I wanted to get to my mini goal of under 100kgs before Reece started school. I now have another 3.9kgs to loss in 6 weeks which equates to 0.65kgs a week which I am sure I can do if I stay focused.

Did anyone (in NZ) watch 'Downsize Me' last night? I was quite disappointed with a couple of them as they just hadn't stuck to the program which was a real shame. The mother and daughter at the end were awesome and I really take my hat off to them and the amount of weight they have lost in a year. Can't wait to watch next week and see how everyone else has done.

I have decided to buy myself 1 new item per pay just for me :) I went and got my hair cut and coloured on Saturday and popped into Ballentines in Upper Hutt which I haven't been to before as I always go to the Lower Hutt or Petone one and WOW what a huge selection. I couldn't believe how much more they had in variety compared to the other stores. I only had limited time but I had worked out that I could of at least of come out of there with about 5 or 6 tops and a skirt or 3 so I am going back come pay day to give myself a treat.
I was getting worried over winter that the only summer clothes I have were from last year when I was less weight but have tried a couple of things on over the last few days and I can actually fit into some..............major relieve as I think people at work are getting sick of me wearing the same old boring stuff.

Rotavirus.......ggggrrrrrrrrrrr!

Adam has rotavirus AGAIN, he had this last year as well poor little bugger. Reece also had it 2 years in a row when he was 1 and 2 years old. Andrew asked the Doc how they keep getting it, was is hygene or touching stuff or sharing glasses etc and the doc said it was an airborne virus and anyone can get it but my little fella's are just lucky (well - not lucky).
And of course there isn't anything you can give him, it just has to run its course and give him Pamol if he gets grotty. Luckily he is a box of birds but is going 'number 2's' quite badly.

Managed a good lunch and dinner last night without it coming back to haunt me.....yay!

Weigh in tonight, I am hoping for a small loss but won't be too disappointed if I stay the same or have a wee gain as I was naughty on Friday/Saturday but hoping being sick on Sunday/Monday has gotten me out of a big gain........LOL

I really have to get a photo up on my profile thing aye? I have looked at it a couple of time but can't work it out, I know how to put a photo into my post but not on my profile.
I currently wear classes, I have done since I was 13 or 14 but am SO OVER THEM now with a little boy who constantly peels them off my face and puts dirty little fingers over them plus when I exercise they slip down my nose blah blah blah so I have been thinking of contacts. I know a few people who wear them and they love them so I am going to go in next week and see if I can trial some before I actually get them full time. I just think the freedom of not having them on my face all the time will be a nice change *shug* who knows?

Right back to work....ta ta for now.

Sick.........

Well my little fella who I thought was over his bug ISN'T, he has been power spewing and power pooing all weekend and has been kind enough to give it to his Mummy (OH JOY!).

I have managed to keep it together but only managed a piece of toast yesterday and a very small bowl of cereal this morning......yes I am at work because the other lady from the Lab text me at 9.30pm last night to let me know she is ill and wouldn't be in today and because work has only two of us in the Lab (should be 3 or 4) I just couldn't stay home (mad aye?).
So I am taking things very easy and not pushing myself too much, Andrew had to take the day off with Adam and get him to the doctor with a poo sample (sorry) to see why this bug hasn't moved on after nearly a week. We are lucky that he is still running around and playing with no temperature but when he goes - he goes!!

Needless to say, I did sweet bugger all on the weekend which was nice and sat in front of the TV and watched absolute rubbish.
Andrew brother Robert (from Gisborne) was in Wellington for a course so he popped in last night for a visit and dinner but I was in no state to cook so Andrew cooked him and himself up a big fry up (the smell made me worse and I had to sit in another room....LOL).

I was very naughty on Friday night and had takeaways but with me being sick for the last 2 days, hopefully this will balance out and not give me a gain tomorrow night. This is now week 5 for me and it is the time I start to faulter so I am going to make an extra effort to plan my meals for the coming week.

One thing I did do on Saturday was take Reece out to get his school books etc for school, he was so excited. Our first school visit is on 22nd September and he is counting the days down. I can't believe my baby is going to school *sniff*.

Righto since I am the only one here today, best I get back to it.

Work & Weather

End of month completed..............Hip hip hoorah!!!
I just hate end of month stuff but it is finally over and can get back to the new months stuff (JOY!).

Adam is back to 100% which is great, it seems there is a 24 hour bug going around which I think is what he had? Anyway, he was a happy little vegemite when I got home from work yesterday and running around playing with his brother which was good to see.

Weather is dreamy, it is my 2nd day in a row I have worn short sleeves and not had to put a jacket on to go out.

Getting my hair dyed and cut this weekend (Sat), can't wait as it always makes me feel better.

I'm hoping the weather stays nice (its suppose to be rain...grrr) so I can take the kids back to the maidstone park as they just loved it.

Andrew is golfing Saturday (Club Champs) and then is playing golf with his new boss and his wife on Sunday (nice!) so he will be missing in action most of the weekend, I might get to catch up with a few friends.

Weigh day

700 grams gone.................AMAZING HA!

I was resigned to the fact I was going to put on after my 'Spring Festival' weekend and chinese meal so was very suprised and delighted to see I had lost 700 grams which also gave me my 5kg (5.1kg in total) bookmark which was presented to me at the meeting :)
I reckon drinking gallons and gallons of water since Sunday helped majorly!

I also made homemade pita pizza's which were soooooooo tasty.
I made 2 for myself and couldn't eat them all which was a bonus. I didn't have any tomato paste so put tomato salsa and tomato sauce together which was devine, then added capsicum, mushrooms, spring onion and a wee bit of chicken and then a sprinkling of tasty cheese (bugger all really).

Stayed home from work yesterday and Adam (my youngest) wasn't well. He started up during the night with a high temperature and crying and just wanting me and was still the same in the morning, so I stayed home. Of course as soon as Dad and brother left Adam perked up 100% (little monkey) so we went grocery shopping and I managed to get home and get him into bed for a sleep. He woke after 3 hours really grumpy again but not as bad as the night before, so out came the Pamol and by the time we were ready to pick up Reece from Kohanga he wasn't as bad BUT as soon as we got home he threw up ALL OVER ME and him. I have NEVER seen that much spew come out of one person little own a child which destressed him no end.
After cleaning that up he was fine and running around with him brother and today he seems as good as gold so I have no idea what THAT was about????

I have bit the bullet and gone back to having Equal in my coffee (I like the equal but hate the sediment in the bottom of my cup - gag!) as I added up my sugar points for last week and instead of the 14 I am allocated, I had had 42..................mmmmmmmmm not good.

Spring Festival

Upper Hutt had there Spring Festival on Saturday and we (Andrew, Reece and I) went along for a looksie. We arrived at about 1pm and went and got tickets for the 'storybook circus' for Andrew and Reece for 2pm and then had a quick wander around. 2pm off they went and I then had a good look around and managed to only buy a couple of things for the kids and 2 Kia Kaha t-shirts for Dad and Andrew for Fathers Day (2 for 1 price - bargin).

My girlfriend Sue had passed me at one stage with her sister (that I also know) and said they would text me when they went for a coffee. So about 2.40pm she range and I meet up with them for a well deserved trim latte and a gas bag. As we had all finished our shopping, we managed to sit there laughing and talking for about an hour and a half which was really cool.

I then toddled back to the car to wait for the boys to arrive which they did about 15mins later and Reece was super hyped up after the circus as he loved it so much.

I bought some Danish Donuts from the festival as they are sort of like 'fry breads' and Andrew loves them but I managed to eat way to many of them myself and then ended the day with Chinese takeaway that I again ate too much...............gggggrrrrrrr!
I then felt so guilty that I drank enough water to fill a river (hoping to flush everything away.....yeah right!) and ended up half the night peeing.

Sunday was another day where we actually got things done and started out going to pick up the remaining fence pailings and then into Bunnings for some conduet (spelling?) so Andrew could finish off the electrical stuff on the deck (lights). Once that was done he started putting on the deck boards and managed to get a third done before the rain started.

Jo and Rhian also popped in for a quick coffee and then I managed to get a nice dinner done for Andrew and my Dad for father's day which consisted of chicken done with an apricot sauce in the crock pot and roast veges with cauliflower, corn and broccoli............mmmmmmmmm.

All in all a great weekend and I am also drowning myself again with water and walking today to try and work off my Saturday naughty food............here's hoping!

On fire!

G'Day everyone, feeling especially good today because it isn't suppose to be a nice day but it IS!

Went for my walk on Wednesday and even though I was out for only 30 minutes, I managed to work up quite a sweat.

Had an awesome dinner of lemon fish and salad last night, there was so much I couldn't eat it all. I also gave Andrew a huge plate and he then moaned that he was still starving and ate 5 bits of toast after it????

I have just finished a really yummy omelette from our canteen here at work with a wee bit of bacon, mushrooms, onion and tomato. The new canteen lady knows I am doing WW and said she would do me a treat and she worked it out that it was only 3 points (used trim milk as well) which is all good. I have bought a massive salad for lunch which I got from Pak N Save and I am really looking forward to that as I had one the other day and it was divine.

We toddled off to Titahi Bay (Porirua) last night and picked up the fence pailings we bought off Trademe and there were hundreds of them. We new there were heaps but didn't know exactly how much, we took our big trailer with a cage on it (sides) but we only got on 2/3's of them and will have to go back on the weekend. Now there are no excuses why the fence can't get started...........apart from he now doesn't have a nail gun and the deck isn't finished.......LOL.

Work is good and I stayed back and wrote my performance review out which makes me sound like GOD (yeah baby!!!). I am hoping my boss agree's with everything and just signs it which will give me a good increase for the year (our year finishes in October).

Must go and have a read of everyone's blogs, I have been waiting for Jodie to post some pictures of her new addition Zoe :)