Dilema

It's my 6th wedding anniversary tomorrow and I've just remembered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now let me tell you that I NEVER forget dates, especially my own anniversary so I am in big trouble because I don't have a card or anything. Now that I am into making cards (which he loves) he is going to expect a homemade one eh?......Oh bugger!

I won't have an opportunity to make one tonight and he will be sniffing around for something in the morning so I am just going to have to go to the shops after work and buy one. We usually get each other a wee present as well but with money these days, that's not going to happen so I will just book a nice restaurant for dinner and get Dad arranged to mind the kids and that will be just dandy.

Now let me think *index finger tapping my chin* where do I feel like going (if I'm booking we're going where I want...LOL).

I also just sold my Kirby vacuum cleaner on Trademe and the person took the 'buy now' option within 5 minutes of me listing it (REALLY!), Andrew reckons I didn't ask for enough but anything was going to be a bonus as it has been sitting in our wardrobe for a couple of years because we use Dad's little vacuum now as we have polished floors and only have carpet in the bedrooms. I don't care, the money is going to pay for our dinner out tomorrow night so it was worth every cent.

Until tomorrow...............................

Yukky Eye photo's

If you don't like looking at yuk eye's, please scroll down to my weigh in post below.

Friday




Saturday & most of Sunday




Sunday and up until now (got totally blood red on Monday but eased off a bit today)








I just love gross things like that (weird I know), I always wanted to be a surgeon or something like that (grades at school squashed THAT idea....LOL) so sorry if I have freaked anyone out but I think it looks cool (didn't feel cool though).

Right I'm happy now that I have shared my grossness with you, there is a post below from last nights weigh in.

Weigh in

Loss: 1.4kgs
Total loss:17.4kgs
Current weight: 92.9kgs

Right I'm very happy with that as I thought I was going to lose about 500 grams - Bonus!
So I am nearly (100g to go) back to where I was 2 weeks ago but I still have 3kgs to go to get to my birthday challenge (80's girl) which means I have to get my butt into gear which I should be able to do now that I am over my illness's and injuries.

5 weeks to lose 3kg = 600g per week - I CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!

I went straight home after weigh in as I wasn't going to hydro with my eye's being in the state they were but I have FULL INTENTIONS of getting back there on Thursday.
I'm amazed at how much I miss it and I seem to be craving the water.

No devil red bloodshot eye photo's (bugger!)

Well I sent some photo's of the state I am in currently (conjunctivites) but they haven't come through (work's firewalls I guess?) but if they do come through I will post them because they are yukko!

Friday night I picked Reece up from his mates house and was suppose to stop for a chat but I felt horrible so I didn't, just went home and blobbed infront of the TV (very unusual for me).

Saturday I took Reece to soccer and he decided that being goalie was a good idea as the other team was getting too many goals....hahaha this lasted all of 10 minutes because he was missing out on the action being goalie.



Saturday afternoon and night was blobbing infront of the TV again, its no wonder I don't watch TV because there is nothing on and we have about 20+ (sky TV) channels and STILL there was nothing on.

Sunday I had a 5th birthday party that both boys were invited to (an old neighbour) and I had to stay as well (2.5 hours......argh!). I had my dark sunglasses on but when I was inside, people wanted to know why I had glasses on and when I showed them they freaked out because my eye's looked REALLY bad......hahaha kinda enjoyed that part!

Jo (my girlfriend - mother of the birthday boy) does face painting so here are my boys as a little devil (Reece) and Adam as spiderman (to match his shirt and undies...LOL). They have been little angels all weekend because they have been worried about me (isn't that sweet).




Back at work yesterday (Monday) and again I freaked everyone out with my devil eye's, everyone kept telling me to go home and rest but what's the point in that??? I only get 6 sick days a year and I can't afford to use them on myself as I have 2 kids...sad but true.

One bonus to this whole 'being sick' exercise is that I have not eaten anything I shouldn't as I just haven't felt like it. I have been moping around the house so have not been too busy to make decent meals and I have drank more coffee than water but still put in the effort this week.
I had planned to go back to Hydro tonight as my back is now back to 100% but with my raw red eye's, the last thing I want to do is get clorinated water near them, definately Thursday!!!!

So I am quite looking forward to weigh in tonight as I know I am going to have a loss, maybe not the 1.5kgs I put on last week but I'm hoping for around 500g - 600g.

Sick

Well it had to happen right?

I have now got a cold compliments of Adam and conjunctivities compliments of Reece.
Boy do I look 'special' today, I am at work because the other lady is still off (3rd day) with her cold and there has to be someone here......aren't I lucky?
So I am just staying away from everyone and hope that no-one else gets it.

Helena text me last night to see if I was going to Hydro and I was tempted but after Tuesday pathetic attempt, I thought I'd better not risk it as my back feels about 90% now which is great!

I am going to a friends house after work for a wine originally but it will now be a coffee.
Tomorrow we have soccer in the morning and then a 21st but I'm guessing that I am not going to feel up to a 21st, so it may be a quite night at home curled up on the couch with my 'blankie'.
Sunday is a 5th birhtday that both boys are going to and it is at a friends house, so I can't even drop them off and run......LOL

Right I'd better get on with it as I'm a busy girl.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend :)

Oops

Andrew's fault totally...........hahahahaha!

Andrew rang me at 4pm and said that one of the other reps couldn't go to a comedy night last night and did I want to go......oh yeah!!

We went into Wellington and had Indian for dinner (spinach dish - yum!) and Andrew had some lamb creamy dish (I only had a taste as it was too creamy for me) with rice and raita (yoghurt, cucumber etc.) and 2 glasses of wine (within a day THAT weekely goal went out the window). We then went to the Bathhouse and watched the Ben Hurley Choice show which consisted of Ben Hurley (MC) who was hilarious and two of his comedic choices (Alan Pitchard and someone else) who were both very good. The show went for 2 hours and I had another glass of wine in that time......not too bad really.

Got home and both kids were a little off colour (I HATE WINTER MONTHS), Adam has quite a bad cold and Reece's conjunctivities is back. I think with Reece we should have continued the drops even after it had cleared up (or so we thought). The other lady I work with is also off (2nd day today) with a bad cold so I HAD to come to work which means Andrew is home with the boys......hehehehe. I shouldn't laugh really because he is brilliant with them but he does have a short fuse and I have already had 2 phone calls off them and it is only 9.02am.

So a brilliant night out but not so good with the sick kids (poor little mites).

Back I go to no drinking for the rest of the week - OK?

My back is feeling brilliant today but I won't risk going to hydro tonight but will go for a walk at lunchtime as the weather looks great.

Weigh in

GAIN: 1.5kgs (Oh yes you read it right!)
Current weight: 94.3kgs
Total loss: 16kgs

I'd love to moan about that gain but I can't and I'll tell you why:

1. I was NOT good the week before last and had a loss which blew me away but I new it would eventually catch up with me.

2. This week has also not been good as I had my night out on Friday where I went totally overboard with food and drink plus I was slack on other days.

3. I had only done 1 hydro session compared to the 3 I had been doing in previous weeks.

3. I had a wee upset tummy last week and decided not to go to Hydro but if I'm honest with myself, I could have gone.

4. Yes I have hurt my back (more on that to follow) but rather than sitting on my butt and complaining about it, I should have done something about it and I know that the more I keep moving (walking) the better it feels.

5. This isn't an excuse, I just thought I'd mention it. As I was changing into my togs (Cossie for the Australian's) I noticed that TOM had arrived which was quite suprising because I am usually in huge amounts of pain the day before and first day of TOM.

Right, there are 5 reason why I put on that weight.


After weigh in I met up with my sister (the one in the photo from my last post) who comes to Hydro with me and we went to a Turkish Kebab house for dinner (rather than our usual subway) and had a kebab which was really tasty. We then headed to Hydro and met up with a friends who occasionally comes with us and after 10 minutes of chatting we jumped in the water. I was slightly worried about my back but it had been feeling much better that day so I figured it would be OK for Hydro - - - WRONG! I lasted all of 10 minutes in the water and had to get out as I was in agony. I started out at a lighter pace but even that was hurting so I stepped it down even further (waste of time really as it wasn't doing anything for my fitness) but even that didn't help, so out I hopped. The instructor came over and spoke to me to find out what was going on and told me not to come back for at least a week (oh man!) which bummed me out.

Plan for this week:

1. Count my bloody points as I have let that go (again) and watch portion sizes

2. Drink my water (I have only been managing about 1.5 litres a day)

3. NO DRINKING ALCOHOL (just for this week as it is getting to be a bad habit - looks like I'll be the driver at a 21st we are going to on Saturday)

4. No Lollies (forgot to mention this further up but Andrew bought home heaps of lollies for the 21st and I ate HEAPS while getting them bagged up the other night)

5. WALK!!! If I can't go to hydro that doesn't mean I do nothing, I am going to go walking at lunch time's like I was doing a few weeks ago (I have no idea why I stopped?)

If you can recall I wanted to lose 500g a week to get to my goal of being an 80's girl by my birthday and this week has put me back 3 weeks...argghhh! So I have 6 weeks to get my butt back into it and lose 4.3kgs (.716 grams a week) which is a big ask with my history (200g - 600g average a week) but I'm gonna give it everything I've got.

WOW this is the most I've written about weightloss since I've had this blog.....hahaha.

Photo's

Post below explains these photo's.

Not too bad in the first,



pretty pathetic (and trying to focus) in the 2nd.




Maria (birthday girl) is on the left in both photo's and in the first photo my sister Kim is in the middle and in the second photo, it is another lady we work with.

Just in case anyone was wondering - NO I definately hadn't saved enough points for that night..........LOL

Great weekend

What a great weekend I've had, one of those weekends that I really feel I've done something but am still relaxed at the end of it.

Friday:
After work I went home with my sister and we got changed and she straightened my hair (loved that!) and we cracked a bottle of wine. I had only had a banana for lunch thinking that I would 'save myself' for dinner as I new we were going to have dinner at the Working Mens club so the wine went straight to my head and I was the life of the party before the party started.........LOL
My sister eventually dragged me upstairs for something to eat and I vaugely remember going back for a second plate of food (loved their fried rice) and then a small plate of dessert (a little fudge cake and pav). I won a meat pack so I was extra happy (if that was possible) and then danced the night away. Remember I said I would proberly be home by 9.30pm.......nope it was 10pm hahahaha god I'm sad!

Saturday:
Even after Jules comment that I would have more sense and not get paraletic as I had to sit through a hair appointment - nope - got paraletic and sat through my hair appointment with LOTS of panadols in my system. My hair dresser laughed because the last 3 times I have been I have been hungover which led me to believe I got out on average every 6 weeks (not too bad).
Got home from my hair appointment (got about 4 inches cut off - ooohhhh I will take a photo soon) and made a chocolate cake with the kids and then we went outside to play cricket for a while. Had one or two drinks that night with hubby but came to my senses and moved onto coffee.

Sunday:
Rang a girlfriend I have been trying to catch up with for weeks and we met at Lollipop at 10.30am so the kids (my 2 boys and her 2 girls - all the same age) could run around and left about 1pm.
Got home and dragged some furniture of my Mum's which we have been looking after for her into the boys room as they have been sharing a tall boy and it just isn't big enough now. Made a yummy chicken dinner (with my meat pack stuff) and then got everything sorted for today (lunches, bags packed etc) and then went and had an hour long bath (fell asleep) and was in bed by 9.30pm .... noice!

Reece unfortunately came home on Friday with a MASSIVE dose of conjunctivitis and his eyes were swollen shut and gunked up (poor kids) but we dosed him with Bleph-10 eyedrops and by this morning it was cleared up........brilliant stuff!

The only thing to spoil my 'happy' feeling this morning was dropping Reece off at school and twisting my back when I got out of my Patrol (big 4x4)......ouch!
So I am sitting here in a bit of pain but I'm tuff and will just get on with it (as you do!).

Drinkies anyone

It is 2.40pm and I am counting down the time until I go out to the Working Mens Club for drinkies with my mate who turned 40 on Wednesday as well as my sister and about 12 girls from work. I haven't looked this forward to something for a long time, just me and the girls out for dinner and having drinks (I have been saving a few points everyday to let loose a wee bit tonight).

My taxi (ie. husband) will pick us (me and another girlfriend) up when I ring him and it starts at 6pm so I reckon I will ring him about 9pm ..........hahaha I can't 'party' like I use to 15 years ago (my liver sighs in relief), I was quite the little party girl in my day.

I have a hair appointment tomorrow morning (thankfully) which always makes me feel heaps better. I don't really have much else planned for the weekend but I'm not banking on a quiet weekend as it NEVER turns out like that.

My food and water has been fantastic this week plus hydro exercise, so I am really pleased with myself. The weekend is now upon me and I am going to keep myself busy and away from the pantry and if it is nice weather it will help with me drinking my water (I don't even think about it on the weekends as I am out and about).

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend, catch ya next week.

Weigh in

Lost: 600g
Total loss: 17.5kgs
Current Weight: 92.8kg

Can you believe that??????? I have stopped trying to work out how this weightloss works, when I think I have had a bad week I end up losing more than when I think I have had a good week - go figure?

I can't believe I am now into the 92's, 80's is just a sniff away - I can just FEEL it. This week has also gone over goal to getting to the 80's by my birthday as I needed to lose just under 500g a week.....oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah yeah yeah :)

Met my sister at subway after weigh in and then we went to Hydro which was like coming home after not being there for nearly 2 weeks.
Oh that's right, I also went and got my eyebrow's waxed after work which was my VIRGIN WEIGHT reward and I look much more 'normal' now the mono brow has gone...LOL

I also confirmed my tickets yesterday for Australia (going 8th Jan with the boys) which is really exciting because I am hoping to be a 70's girl by then.

Also booked my Auckland tickets with my mate this morning, so I can't wait to ring my friend up there and let her know we are actually coming after soooooo long.

Owww I sound like such a 'jet setter' eh? but this is my 2 trips for about the next 5 years......hahaha and both without my husband which I feel really guilty about but he is quite happy to stay home.
I have a long term goal for us to get to some nice tropical island for our 10th wedding anniversary (been married 6 years) which sounds years away (oh it is years away...LOL) but it will take me 4 years to save for the blinkin thing because I want to surprise him with the trip and not have to watch every penny while we are away.

A crappy Week

Crikey, I didn't realise I hadn't done an update for nearly a week (thanks Anne for the reminder) which isn't like me.

I haven't really been up to much actually, just plodding along.

Friday:
Picked up Reece after work from his mates house and had a few wines with the Mum (Pam) who is a lovely lady and we are becoming fast friends.

Saturday:
Reece had soccer in the morning (so cute, I just love watching him play) and then it was home to get him changed and off to his cousins house for a birthday party. Left after having a coffee with my sister and then Adam and I went firstly to Mitre 10 Mega (no not for chicken salad - letter box numbers....LOL) and then I still had nearly 2 hours to kill before going back to collect Reece so I took Adam to Lollipop's. This I think was the best part of my weekend because I walked in the door, Adam took off, I sat down with a coffee and magazine and I didn't move again for 1.5 hours. Went to Pak N Save on the way back to my sisters to get her a nice bottle of wine and some flowers for that night (after having 8 kids all day she deserved it) and back to get Reece. Didn't do anything exciting on Saturday night I don't think, I really can't remember.

Sunday: Mother's Day
Worst Mother's Day I have ever had! We celebrate all those sorts of things (Valentines, Mother's and Father's Day, Halloween, Easter etc) but after getting out of bed just before 8am because all I could hear was Andrew yelling at the kids, he cooked me an omlette (which he usually does on the weekend) and then went outside to work on the fence after saying "Oh yeah, I didn't get you a card or anything".........right, fine!
I then took both boys to a birthday party and the McDonald's down the road and they did nothing but play up (embarrassing!), they wouldn't eat their lunch, they swore repeatedly (hopefully a faze) and Adam kept making running bids for freedom out the front of the place.........argh!!!! I did manage not to lose the plot completely but boy did they get a talking to when we got in the car (we left as soon as the cake was cut). I got home and was told that the boys weren't to go outside as his lordship was working and there were powertools etc laying around and they would get in his lordship's way (can you see steam coming out of my ears!).
They decided to give me the worst day by fighting with each other, throwing there toys at each other, totally ignoring me or doing the exact opposite to what I would ask. Instead of 'thinking' and taking them out, I constantly had little cries throughout the day but still managed to cook them and their father a lovely dinner and I sat down and ate 6 pieces of toast with cheese and tomato sauce!!!!WTF????
Needless to say the little angels were in bed by 6.20pm and I (after cleaning up from dinner and making lunches etc) got to bed by about 8.45pm feeling very sorry for myself.

Monday:
Just got on with it because what else is there to do.
I spoke to Andrew during the day and told him me and a girlfriend are going to book some tickets to go and visit a friend who we haven't seen for ages. We have been waiting for the fares to come up on 'grab a seat' but it has been months, so I just booked them and waited for him to moan at me about us not being able to afford it (he wouldn't have been wrong) and what about the kids etc but it didn't happen.
Andrew then rang late afternoon and asked if I could pick up Adam on the way home and he was already home working and didn't want to go out again (steam's a starting to rise again) which I did and got home about 5.30pm to a beautiful marinaded chicken breast with curry roasted potato's and salad with my favourite bottle of wine waiting for me (Hmm didn't see THAT one coming) and a HUGE apology about what a brat he had been the day before. He then went on to tell me what a brilliant mother (and wife) I am and none of them could function without me (he was a bit over the top but who am I to stop him while he was on a roll.....LOL).

Tuesday:
Got on my scales this morning and I weighed 93.4kgs which was exactly what I weighed last week at WW in the evening while fully clothed and also 300g heavier than my scales.............(not totally naked at 6.15am) so I'm expecting a small gain but I deserve it after my emotional eating on the weekend. Frustrating because I know better but when your head is in that space it is really hard to see reason.

Be back tomorrow with my official WW result.

Comedy Night

Went to a lovely little restaurant in town called Satay Kampong which is a Malaysian restaurant we have been to before. Started with the mini samosas and quid rings and then for main I had a small bowl of garlic rice and steamed chicken (yum) and Andrew had a seafood curry laksa. Washed that down with 2 glass's of wine and felt just right (not over full or bloated).

Carried on to the Bath house where Brendan Lovegrove was performing and got in and seated and then had a tiff with Andrew over something he said to me (totally his fault of course!!!) and then had the shits for the rest of the night. Brendan Lovegrove was funny but I just wasn't in the mood and was soooooooooo angry at Andrew for spoiling my night that I didn't speak to him for the rest of the evening and when we got home, I went straight to bed (childish - who me?).

It could have been such an excellent night - grrrr MEN!
Anyway that was my night.

Must say that I put extra effort into drinking my water yesterday (managed 1.5 litres) and did drink more than I have in the last few weeks but just finding it really hard to get anymore down. Summer was easy and I was drinking a minimum of 2 - 2.5 litres no worries.....must try harder because I really feel so much better when I have drunk lots of water.

I'm finding that my portion sizes are starting to creep back up which I must keep an eye on. Yesterday I poured my cereal and then went and got the 1/1 cup of milk to put on it and it got sucked up that quick that my cereal was quite dry, after thinking about it I realised that it was because instead of 30g cereal, I was eating about 50g which doesn't sound like that much more but when you are still having the same amount of milk......
Lunch yesterday was sushi and I am finding that my usual 1 packet just isn't enough and I was digging into Andrew's pack as well.
So I am taking extra care when serving food and making a concious effort to get my portion sizes back to what they should be.

Right, I'm rambling on now so I will say goodbye.

Weigh in

V.I.R.G.I.N. W.E.I.G.H.T.

I DID IT!!!!!!!! Wow that seemed to take forever but I did it.

Lost: 400 grams
Current weight: 93.4kgs (93.6kgs was my lowest weight that I can remember)
Total loss: 16.9kgs

I was really excited after weigh in and got home to tell Andrew but he was busy getting ready for Dancing with the Stars (with clients this time) so I just got the kids ready and we took off to my girlfriends house.
I did tell her and she congratulated me which was nice but I was a bit deflated by then...............anyway I woke up this morning and started buzzing again...LOL

8 weeks until my birthday, so I have decided that my next goal is to be in the 80's by then and if I do, I'm going to book myself a flight to Whangarei to see my mate as a reward. That's just under 500g a week and I know I haven't been very consistant of late but I am pulling on all my energy to do this one!!!! Watch this space!

Off to the Comedy Gala tonight in town which I am really looking forward to.

Who's a busy girl then???

Boy have I been busy the last few days.

Friday I had the day off as Reece had the 'teacher only' day and I wanted to watch him and keep him out from under his father's feet while Andrew and Dad got onto the fence. Andrew's mother was still staying with us so we had a great day chatting and catching up on the family gossip.

Saturday was another busy day with Reece's 1st game of soccer and then getting all the post and railings for the fence and of course keeping the kids out of Andrew's hair while he cemented the posts in and put the railing up. He had actually gotten rid of the wood with nail sticking out of it and turned all the power tools off, so the kids got a bit of a play around. (Reece scored 5 goals....a natural!). I also managed about 5 loads of washing......mostly the kids stuff, how do they go through so many clothes?????
Saturday night we had a beautiful lamb roast (haven't had one for months) and then I polished off 1 and a half bottles of wine *hiccup* while watching Dancing with the Stars...............god we must have smiled nice because we were on HEAPS....LOL

Sunday Andrew's mother left just after lunch which was sad as she is just lovely. Adam cried because he decided to go home to Gisborne with Nanny and tried and tried to get into that car and then holding on for dear life when we tried to get him out......bless his heart. He had also woken up with conjunctivites and was a bit miserable with that. Plus with Dad helping Andrew I managed to get 2 loads of his washing washed, hung out, dried, folded and put away.

Monday Andrew had leave from work to get the rest of the pailings up, so I took Reece to school, popped into work for 2 hours and then went home to watch Adam (still had conjunctivites). Adam and I ended up going shopping and getting 4 out of the 5 presents I needed for birthday's this month.
Also did 4 loads of washing which amazed me as I had gotten everything up to date on Saturday.

Tonight I had weigh in but will miss Hydro as me and the kids are going to a friends house to give out one of the birthday presents and tonight is the only night we can both fit it in.
Tomorrow night I have the 'comedy night' in Wellington which should be fun and then Thursday night I am hopefully going to fit in Hydro.
Friday night I am picking Reece up on my way home from work at his friends house and will stay for a drink and then we have friends coming around that night for dinner.
Saturday is soccer again, drop Reece off at another birthday party and we are hoping that we have a free night at home.
Sunday is mother's day and I am EXPECTING a sleep in until at least 8am (my sleep ins pre kids use to be 1pm.....how life changes...LOL), then a coffee and an omelette would be perfect. Then taking both boys to Rhian's birthday party and then either 1 or both sisters are coming around in the afternoon...*big sigh*.

I'm tired just re-reading that.

The lady who works with me in the Lab has been away for the last 2 days so I'd better go and I have a mountain of work and our GC machine has just blown a powerboard......bye *waves madly*.

Weigh in

Lost 200 grams........don't know how I managed that with Mother-in-law cooking.
Current weight: 93.8kgs (300g to go to virgin weight)
Total loss: 16.5kgs

After whipping into weight watchers for my weigh in, I grabbed a subway on the way home and ate that, got dressed and headed off to Avalon Studio's for Dancing with the Stars............got Paul Holmes cracks me up.
We had the best night we have had in years, it was THAT good! We laughed and booed and had tears running down our faces (after Paul's dance) and then met up with some of the other Cadbury's people who went for a coffee afterwards. One really entertaining night. A few people have mentioned they seen me and there is an encore show on Saturday night so we are going to watch it (we were at the right of the stage, up the band end).

By the time we got home it was 11.30pm and then we talked to Andrew's mum for over an hour (with another coffee) and managed to get to bed by about 12.40am this morning. It is now 1.44pm and I am really starting to feel it. Andrew's Mum is out for dinner tonight (a cousins house) so Andrew and I are going to have something quick and easy for dinner and then have an early night *yawn*.

Valentines

Andrew and I decided it would be nice to take his mother out for dinner with the kids, thought about where we could go that starting serving early (6pm) and was child friendly etc and decided on Valentines.............BIG MISTAKE!!!!
We got the kids dressed in their 'going out' clothes and they were all excited to be going to a restaurant for dinner (we have only done it 2 or 3 times in the past) and gave them the big 'be on your best behaviour' speech and off we went.
They wouldn't sit at the table and eat anything and kept jumping off their chairs and playing under the table ....... who were these children???? They DO NOT act like that at home and their father was beside himself. They wanted to go to the playroom and we told them they had to eat their dinner first (yeah right).
So after 30 minutes they eventually ate most of their dinner and off they went to the playroom (peace for us..yay!). They were back within 2 minutes to tell us (at the tops of their voices) how 'stink' the playroom was because there was nothing in it, so off I went to investigate and they were right. There was a TV on the wall that didn't work, a chalkboard up one end of the room with no chalk and NOTHING else in the room - an empty playroom. Off I went to ask what was going on and was told by a ditzy waitress that "no there isn't any toys and that TV hasn't worked for ages", I let them know how unhappy I was and told them that a 'family resturant' with a playroom should have had at least 1 toy in it????? to which she just smiled and giggled ..... grrrrrrr!
Took them back and tried to invent some games they could do (while my tasteless dinner was getting cold) and left them to it. The room was suppose to be soundproof..........HA not soundproof when MY kids were in there. They decided running from one end of the room to the other and jumping up and crashing into the wall while screaming was fun..............LOL.
If it wasn't for the other 'diners' I would have let them go just to teach Valentines a lesson (hahaha) but I had used up more steps walking back and forth telling them to keep it down then walking a marathon so we decided to go home (after gobbling down some dessert). Got there at 6pm, left 7.05pm just made an hour.

NEVER AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!

The kids got a right telling off in the car about their behaviour and their response was "oh sorry Dad, can we go again tomorrow".

So I ate too much (which was tasteless) and even had a dessert of cheesecake and peacan pie (matchbox size pieces) with my coffee and Andrew and MIL also didn't enjoy it (oysters were tasteless and roast was dry) and it cost us $108.00 for an hour.............*shakes head* NEVER AGAIN!!!

I just re-read what I wrote, God I go on...hahaha sorry about that.

So I went home and beat myself up about the crap I just consumed (with weigh in today) and then thought "hang on Rachel, it was only 1 meal and I wasn't that bad".

I thought about how I feel now and this is what came to me:

I fit my clothes now, not just squeeze into them and then feel uncomfortable all day - they actually FIT and are comfortable.

I feel 100% better than this time last year and am enjoying being more active.

I am over 16kgs lighter and can actually notice it when I look in the mirror.

Other people are giving me compliment now which feels fantastic.

I am excited about my progress and know by this time next year I will not only be at goal but be maintaining.

My skin feels and looks good.

I'm NEVER sick anymore (touch wood *knock, knock*).

I can play with my kids for more than a few minutes and still have energy.

I feel more attractive and confident.
Yep bugger having a bit too much food last night, its not the end of the world.

Roll on weigh in and those scales I've learnt to love (rather than dread).

Right I'm off to do some work and will give you all a BIG WAVE if your watching Dancing with the Stars tonight (I'll hopefully get a seat at the front).