Gain: 400g
Total loss: 23.1kg
Current Weight: 87.2kg
Ummmmmmm welllllllll that was last night, lets move on.
Wife vs Hubby Challenge posted much better results with me losing 700g and hubby losing 500g......WIN:WIN.
We were both suprised with a decent loss (in our eyes) after our over indulgent weekend. Onward and upward (or downwards in our case).
Another b - u - tiful day in Wellington which is lovely as I'm having to go out at lunch and TRY and find Reece a Lime Green T-shirt for his Hip Hop production on th 15th December (proving to be impossible). I am going to a material place today hoping they have a lime green dye or material. I'm hoping for the dye as it will be easier for me to dye a white t-shirt than try and find a seamstress to make a t-shirt in 2 weeks time.
Nothing else exciting happening here today, so I'm off to read some of you....bye
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Another boozey weekend
Weightloss is not happening and I think I've figured out why (apart from the usual no exercise) ALCOHOL! I drank quite a bit on the weekend with the gorgeous weather while sitting out on the deck watching the kids play (most of the alcohole was drank AFTER the kids were in bed by the way....LOL).
Sunday night after feeding, bathing and putting the kids to bed hubby and I decided it was such a nice night we would (again) have a few drinks on the back deck since the weather was still very warm. Started my first glass at 7.30pm after saying to hubby that I wasn't hungry yet and would make something soon for dinner (he also wasn't hungry), at 10pm we were quite sossilled and starving and LAZY so we ordered pizza which arrived at 10.30pm and was scoffed down in about 5 minutes. This was then followed by us going to bed about 20 minutes later (bad idea on my part) and me up within an hour throwing up plus having wicked reflux (due to eating so late). I managed to down half a packet of 'quickeze' to help the refulx and then drank a litre of water. During the night I managed to wake up 6 times and either drank HUGE amounts of water or tended to Reece who has quite bad nose bleeds with the heat (my poor little fell).
Alarm went off at 5.50am and I was wide awake thinking about how stupid I can be sometimes. The more I seem to drink the worse my choices get (food wise that is...haha) and I think to myself "I'll worry about it tomorrow" which isn't a great idea because then I just beat myself up for being so mindless.
Oh yeah - plus I have made 6 christmas cakes and 4 dozen mini christmas mince pies (I give them away as presents, its just my 'thing') and I have managed to eat about half a dozen mince pies and quarter christmas cake.....yummm
So I have decided to put our remaining cake and mince pies out of sight (on top of my pantry where its a hassle to get to) until christmas day.
Needless to say I'm not expecting a loss this week but I'm fronting up to weight watchers to find out the damage I've done PLUS my little challenge with hubby isn't going to have a great first weigh in (Wed morning) and even he commented that its a challenge to see how much weight we can LOSE not PUT ON.......LOL
MINI challenge this week - NO ALCOHOL - NO CAKE OR XMAS PIES.
Paint samples.
I want to repaint the whole interior of our house (hubby doesn't but know's better than to argue with me.......LOL) so I choose the colour I want and he choose a different colour (typical) and we put them up on the weekend and have been walking past them looking, looking and the verdict is WE HATE BOTH COLOURS.
Back to the drawing board.
Took the kids to the park on the weekend which they just love, they have every bike, toy, sandpit, playhouse, scooter, waterslide etc at home but still have to go to the park at every opportunity. I've taken some photo's which I'd like to put into digital scrapbook pages but haven't had the chance as yet.
In the midst of organising 'stuff' to be done around the house (DVS system, new bed, carpet, woodburner, fences) and its all go. I just love organising for thing to be done, I reckon I should have a job as an event organiser or something - I'd be brilliant!
Sunday night after feeding, bathing and putting the kids to bed hubby and I decided it was such a nice night we would (again) have a few drinks on the back deck since the weather was still very warm. Started my first glass at 7.30pm after saying to hubby that I wasn't hungry yet and would make something soon for dinner (he also wasn't hungry), at 10pm we were quite sossilled and starving and LAZY so we ordered pizza which arrived at 10.30pm and was scoffed down in about 5 minutes. This was then followed by us going to bed about 20 minutes later (bad idea on my part) and me up within an hour throwing up plus having wicked reflux (due to eating so late). I managed to down half a packet of 'quickeze' to help the refulx and then drank a litre of water. During the night I managed to wake up 6 times and either drank HUGE amounts of water or tended to Reece who has quite bad nose bleeds with the heat (my poor little fell).
Alarm went off at 5.50am and I was wide awake thinking about how stupid I can be sometimes. The more I seem to drink the worse my choices get (food wise that is...haha) and I think to myself "I'll worry about it tomorrow" which isn't a great idea because then I just beat myself up for being so mindless.
Oh yeah - plus I have made 6 christmas cakes and 4 dozen mini christmas mince pies (I give them away as presents, its just my 'thing') and I have managed to eat about half a dozen mince pies and quarter christmas cake.....yummm
So I have decided to put our remaining cake and mince pies out of sight (on top of my pantry where its a hassle to get to) until christmas day.
Needless to say I'm not expecting a loss this week but I'm fronting up to weight watchers to find out the damage I've done PLUS my little challenge with hubby isn't going to have a great first weigh in (Wed morning) and even he commented that its a challenge to see how much weight we can LOSE not PUT ON.......LOL
MINI challenge this week - NO ALCOHOL - NO CAKE OR XMAS PIES.
Paint samples.
I want to repaint the whole interior of our house (hubby doesn't but know's better than to argue with me.......LOL) so I choose the colour I want and he choose a different colour (typical) and we put them up on the weekend and have been walking past them looking, looking and the verdict is WE HATE BOTH COLOURS.
Back to the drawing board.
Took the kids to the park on the weekend which they just love, they have every bike, toy, sandpit, playhouse, scooter, waterslide etc at home but still have to go to the park at every opportunity. I've taken some photo's which I'd like to put into digital scrapbook pages but haven't had the chance as yet.
In the midst of organising 'stuff' to be done around the house (DVS system, new bed, carpet, woodburner, fences) and its all go. I just love organising for thing to be done, I reckon I should have a job as an event organiser or something - I'd be brilliant!
Thursday, November 22, 2007
A good day
After waking up yesterday morning feeling horrible and bloated etc and then weighin in with Hubby and the challenge begining, I feel ON FIRE again.
I counted my points, I exercised, I made an effort because those 3 little words kept sounding off in my head - Decisions determine destiny - and I actually stopped and thought about every decision I made and it worked.
I got off my butt after dinner and did stuff (ie. ironing, washing, lunches etc) rather than scrolling through the 40+ channels on the TV to find nothing on but a couple of hours wasted. I felt fantastic getting up this morning and I had a clean house, clothes and lunches were organised for the boys and I spent a little longer on myself (painted my finger and toe nails and took more notice of what I was wearing). The other thing I did last night was bundle up all my clothes I don't wear now and ended up with a pile for trademe (god knows when I'm going to get time to list everything but *sigh*) and some of my really good expensive stuff for a very good friend (which I must get her address and send off hopefully today).
Today I'm wearing a pretty blue business shirt whil little buttons down the front, a scoop v neckline which sits just on my hips. When I looked in the mirror after getting dressed I thought I look HOT (even though it is business attire).
One thing that crossed my mind this morning was that the smaller I get the less clothes I wear..........LOL. What I mean is, I am wearing 3/4 black pants today which I never use to wear (even in the middle of summer) because of my HUGE calf's but they aren't so HUGE now. I have really nice high heel sandles style shoes because I have pretty painted toe nail which I never use to do. I have a little blue business blouse/top on and not a long sleeve sack that come down nearly to my knees to cover absolutely EVERYTHING......ahhh the little things.
I also think the 'at home' challenge which started yesterday is going to really help me focus again because I feel accountable to weight watchers once a week (which I won't stop) but with hubby, I feel accountable everyday which is quite a different feeling. I think so far it is keeping me more focussed.
I'm off for lunch today with two of my mates at 'The Spieghts Ale House' where I have full intention of having a wine with lunch (looking forward to THAT) which I'll count of course and because it is such a lovely day, I'll be walking down which is about a 10-15 minute walk each way (every little bit counts).
Just finished my breakfast (ww cereal and yoghurt) and am about to refill my water bottle. I hope everyone is having a fabulous day!
I counted my points, I exercised, I made an effort because those 3 little words kept sounding off in my head - Decisions determine destiny - and I actually stopped and thought about every decision I made and it worked.
I got off my butt after dinner and did stuff (ie. ironing, washing, lunches etc) rather than scrolling through the 40+ channels on the TV to find nothing on but a couple of hours wasted. I felt fantastic getting up this morning and I had a clean house, clothes and lunches were organised for the boys and I spent a little longer on myself (painted my finger and toe nails and took more notice of what I was wearing). The other thing I did last night was bundle up all my clothes I don't wear now and ended up with a pile for trademe (god knows when I'm going to get time to list everything but *sigh*) and some of my really good expensive stuff for a very good friend (which I must get her address and send off hopefully today).
Today I'm wearing a pretty blue business shirt whil little buttons down the front, a scoop v neckline which sits just on my hips. When I looked in the mirror after getting dressed I thought I look HOT (even though it is business attire).
One thing that crossed my mind this morning was that the smaller I get the less clothes I wear..........LOL. What I mean is, I am wearing 3/4 black pants today which I never use to wear (even in the middle of summer) because of my HUGE calf's but they aren't so HUGE now. I have really nice high heel sandles style shoes because I have pretty painted toe nail which I never use to do. I have a little blue business blouse/top on and not a long sleeve sack that come down nearly to my knees to cover absolutely EVERYTHING......ahhh the little things.
I also think the 'at home' challenge which started yesterday is going to really help me focus again because I feel accountable to weight watchers once a week (which I won't stop) but with hubby, I feel accountable everyday which is quite a different feeling. I think so far it is keeping me more focussed.
I'm off for lunch today with two of my mates at 'The Spieghts Ale House' where I have full intention of having a wine with lunch (looking forward to THAT) which I'll count of course and because it is such a lovely day, I'll be walking down which is about a 10-15 minute walk each way (every little bit counts).
Just finished my breakfast (ww cereal and yoghurt) and am about to refill my water bottle. I hope everyone is having a fabulous day!
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
No weigh in
Yep that's right boys and girls.............I chickened out of weigh in.
I had a fabulous start to the week and that lasted about 2 days and it was all down hill from there. I think this is the 1st time I've chickened out since I (re:)started WW again back in August 2006 which isn't bad I reckon.
I woke up this morning with a huge headache, feeling bloated and horrible and wondered what I could do to make this 'down' period end and get back on track.
I had mentioned to hubby (who is also trying to lose a bit of weight at the moment) last night after dinner while sitting in front of the TV eating cereal and yoghurt (I know but it was better than chocolate right?) about Lyn and her hubby who are close in weight and are doing a challenge to see who can get to a certain weight first and asked him if it was something he and I should do? I knew we were similar in weight but didn't know exactly so we jumped on the scales this morning (my home ones) and I was 87.3kgs (would have put on 800g if I'd gone to ww as my scales are 300g lower than there's) and he was 83.4kgs which is a difference of 3.9kgs. We decided not to aim for a goal weight but rather go for gold and the winner will be whoever has lost the most weight by Christmas (5 weeks away). We are both competitive (he more than me) and the challenge is now set.
I am hoping this will give me some of my mojo back and will keep me more focussed as I will be looking at eating healthly for myself as well as him (as I do most of the cooking). Last night I had sushi (homemade I might add) for dinner and he and the boys had fish and chips...........not anymore sunshine!
There aren't any rules apart from eat healthly meals and exercise (whatever that may be), we wrote our weight down and will weigh in every Wednesday morning which will be great for me because it will stop me pigging out after weigh in on a Tuesday night.
Right in other news - We are waiting on the bank to approve and give us some extra money so we can get 'stuff' done around the house (listed in a previous post) and have all but about 1 or 2 quotes to come in. I'm very excited because everything will hopefully be done by February rather than us having to save and wait for years.
The best thing is the carpet in the lounge as all of us are floor lounges and lying on a wooden floor with a rug on it just isn't the same as carpet....*contented sigh*.
Oh yeah, we have also decided to bite the bullet and get a treadmill (god there's expensive).
Weather has been perfect (touch wood) for the last couple of days and as soon as we get home from work we have been setting up the waterslide for the kids and playing outside....bliss!
Haven't had any time or energy to do more scrapbooking which is a shame because I have heaps of idea's in my head. Roll on the Christmas holiday's so I have lots of time to do it.
Over and out.
I had a fabulous start to the week and that lasted about 2 days and it was all down hill from there. I think this is the 1st time I've chickened out since I (re:)started WW again back in August 2006 which isn't bad I reckon.
I woke up this morning with a huge headache, feeling bloated and horrible and wondered what I could do to make this 'down' period end and get back on track.
I had mentioned to hubby (who is also trying to lose a bit of weight at the moment) last night after dinner while sitting in front of the TV eating cereal and yoghurt (I know but it was better than chocolate right?) about Lyn and her hubby who are close in weight and are doing a challenge to see who can get to a certain weight first and asked him if it was something he and I should do? I knew we were similar in weight but didn't know exactly so we jumped on the scales this morning (my home ones) and I was 87.3kgs (would have put on 800g if I'd gone to ww as my scales are 300g lower than there's) and he was 83.4kgs which is a difference of 3.9kgs. We decided not to aim for a goal weight but rather go for gold and the winner will be whoever has lost the most weight by Christmas (5 weeks away). We are both competitive (he more than me) and the challenge is now set.
I am hoping this will give me some of my mojo back and will keep me more focussed as I will be looking at eating healthly for myself as well as him (as I do most of the cooking). Last night I had sushi (homemade I might add) for dinner and he and the boys had fish and chips...........not anymore sunshine!
There aren't any rules apart from eat healthly meals and exercise (whatever that may be), we wrote our weight down and will weigh in every Wednesday morning which will be great for me because it will stop me pigging out after weigh in on a Tuesday night.
Right in other news - We are waiting on the bank to approve and give us some extra money so we can get 'stuff' done around the house (listed in a previous post) and have all but about 1 or 2 quotes to come in. I'm very excited because everything will hopefully be done by February rather than us having to save and wait for years.
The best thing is the carpet in the lounge as all of us are floor lounges and lying on a wooden floor with a rug on it just isn't the same as carpet....*contented sigh*.
Oh yeah, we have also decided to bite the bullet and get a treadmill (god there's expensive).
Weather has been perfect (touch wood) for the last couple of days and as soon as we get home from work we have been setting up the waterslide for the kids and playing outside....bliss!
Haven't had any time or energy to do more scrapbooking which is a shame because I have heaps of idea's in my head. Roll on the Christmas holiday's so I have lots of time to do it.
Over and out.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Still here
Karen came to visit (with Rachel) on the weekend and mentioned I hadn't updated since last Wednesday....wow I didn't realise it was that long but I've been really busy at work and haven't had time.
Right what have I been up to since last Wednesday????? Bugger all actually, boring tart that I am.
Managed to take the kids to the park on the weekend and it was such a nice day yesterday we set the kid's sprinkler up and had a ball in the backyard most of the day.
Managed to 'pop' into the Warehouse yesterday to get a card for a friend and walked out $225.00 broker but I have now officially started my Christmas shopping....yay!
Went out to friends for a BBQ on Saturday night and had an absolute blast, I can honestly say I can't remember the last time I had such fun. There were 3 couples and 8 kids and the weather was perfect so we sat outside most of the night and the kids played outside. I got VERY drunk (and laughed at because I was slurring my words) and thought I'd eaten really well with a bit of meat and salad but I am now having flash backs of evil Mini Eclairs..................dumb dee do, silly girl..hehehe
That's about it.
Work is really busy at the moment which is normal leading up to Christmas.
I'm really looking forward to the 'last night' Christmas shopping in the malls because I get home and feed and bath the boys, put them to bed while hubby happily watches whatever dribble is on TV and I SHOP!!!!
Right what have I been up to since last Wednesday????? Bugger all actually, boring tart that I am.
Managed to take the kids to the park on the weekend and it was such a nice day yesterday we set the kid's sprinkler up and had a ball in the backyard most of the day.
Managed to 'pop' into the Warehouse yesterday to get a card for a friend and walked out $225.00 broker but I have now officially started my Christmas shopping....yay!
Went out to friends for a BBQ on Saturday night and had an absolute blast, I can honestly say I can't remember the last time I had such fun. There were 3 couples and 8 kids and the weather was perfect so we sat outside most of the night and the kids played outside. I got VERY drunk (and laughed at because I was slurring my words) and thought I'd eaten really well with a bit of meat and salad but I am now having flash backs of evil Mini Eclairs..................dumb dee do, silly girl..hehehe
That's about it.
Work is really busy at the moment which is normal leading up to Christmas.
I'm really looking forward to the 'last night' Christmas shopping in the malls because I get home and feed and bath the boys, put them to bed while hubby happily watches whatever dribble is on TV and I SHOP!!!!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
2nd post of the day
Hello again my lovlies, I got tagged by Lee-Anne and thought I'd do it straight away and post it BUT I'm not going to tag anyone else because most people have been done.
Four dishes I like to cook
1. Any sort of Indian dish on rice
2. Chicken breasts wrapped in bacon and stuffed with apricot stuffing with a light brown gravy
3. Vegetable stir-fry with udon noodles and a thai sauce
4. Ambrosia (Thickened cream with strawberry yoghurt, strawberry’s, softened marshmallows left in the fridge to thicken and then decorated with more marshmallows and flake chocolate broken up)
Four qualities I love in people
1. Honesty
2. Kindness
3. Sense of humour
4. Compassion
Four places I have been
1. Queenstown (NZ)
2. Gisborne (NZ)
3. Auckland (NZ)
4. Gold Coast (Aust)
God I’m boring – I need to get out more…..hahaha
Four things in my bedroom
1. Photo’s of my kids (all over the walls)
2. A King size bed (that never gets made as hubby is last out – one of my urks)
3. Lots of different presents for peoples birthdays (in my closet)
4. About 15 different bags (I love bags but unfortunately only really use the same one)
Four dirty words I like to use
Buggar
For feck sake
Oh Shit
Bloody nora
Not much of a potty mouth (only a wee bit)
Four dishes I like to cook
1. Any sort of Indian dish on rice
2. Chicken breasts wrapped in bacon and stuffed with apricot stuffing with a light brown gravy
3. Vegetable stir-fry with udon noodles and a thai sauce
4. Ambrosia (Thickened cream with strawberry yoghurt, strawberry’s, softened marshmallows left in the fridge to thicken and then decorated with more marshmallows and flake chocolate broken up)
Four qualities I love in people
1. Honesty
2. Kindness
3. Sense of humour
4. Compassion
Four places I have been
1. Queenstown (NZ)
2. Gisborne (NZ)
3. Auckland (NZ)
4. Gold Coast (Aust)
God I’m boring – I need to get out more…..hahaha
Four things in my bedroom
1. Photo’s of my kids (all over the walls)
2. A King size bed (that never gets made as hubby is last out – one of my urks)
3. Lots of different presents for peoples birthdays (in my closet)
4. About 15 different bags (I love bags but unfortunately only really use the same one)
Four dirty words I like to use
Buggar
For feck sake
Oh Shit
Bloody nora
Not much of a potty mouth (only a wee bit)
Weigh in
Lost: 300g
Total loss: 23.5kgs
Current Weight: 86.8kg (again and again and again)
Can anyone say YO-YO?
Here is my weigh in's for the last 8 weeks......
86.8
86.9
87
87
87.2
86.8
87.1
86.8
Which means in the last 8 weeks (2 bloody months) I've lost N O T H I N G !
BUT
I've pulled my head in once again and am determined to get under 86.8kgs (my lowest weight to date) next week. Yes, I can see a few of you out there saying "it's only a number" but it's a number that has haunted me for 2 months and I want it to be a distant memory.
Jo put up 3 words on a post recently which I printed out and now have stuck on my wall at work which were DECISIONS DETERMINE DESTINY.........think about that for a minute, I'll wait.
You can use this for almost anything that is going on in your life but of course I'm relating it to my weightloss journey and how friggin appropriate are those 3 words?
Monday I managed to get 3 scrapbook pages done (2 from Kiwi chick's scrap - thanks girls) but my system was sooooooooooooo slow at home, I tried twice to attach it to Hotmail and send it here to work (so I could post it) but Hotmail was being difficult so I gave up. I might try again tonight.
Last night after weigh in, I had to shot back to Reece's school for another Numeracy meeting where they reported on the school's results compared to 2006 as well as the National average and I must admit we are doing really well for only being into our second year of this program.
OK I'm rambling now so I'll sign off.
Total loss: 23.5kgs
Current Weight: 86.8kg (again and again and again)
Can anyone say YO-YO?
Here is my weigh in's for the last 8 weeks......
86.8
86.9
87
87
87.2
86.8
87.1
86.8
Which means in the last 8 weeks (2 bloody months) I've lost N O T H I N G !
BUT
I've pulled my head in once again and am determined to get under 86.8kgs (my lowest weight to date) next week. Yes, I can see a few of you out there saying "it's only a number" but it's a number that has haunted me for 2 months and I want it to be a distant memory.
Jo put up 3 words on a post recently which I printed out and now have stuck on my wall at work which were DECISIONS DETERMINE DESTINY.........think about that for a minute, I'll wait.
You can use this for almost anything that is going on in your life but of course I'm relating it to my weightloss journey and how friggin appropriate are those 3 words?
Monday I managed to get 3 scrapbook pages done (2 from Kiwi chick's scrap - thanks girls) but my system was sooooooooooooo slow at home, I tried twice to attach it to Hotmail and send it here to work (so I could post it) but Hotmail was being difficult so I gave up. I might try again tonight.
Last night after weigh in, I had to shot back to Reece's school for another Numeracy meeting where they reported on the school's results compared to 2006 as well as the National average and I must admit we are doing really well for only being into our second year of this program.
OK I'm rambling now so I'll sign off.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Girls, girls, girls
I had quite a weekend with little girls.
Saturday was spent swimming with Adam and the other 'girls' in the class who are so little and petite compared to my boy.
I then spent Saturday night at Karen's looking after little Rachel who is the best well behaved baby (well she's actually 1 year old but seemed like a baby to me) I've ever looked after.
I got to do the night time routine (food, bath, bottle) but unfortunately I didn't get much time to play with her as she fell asleep over an hour earlier than expected as she had had a big day, which meant I got to sit and watch mindless TV for a few hours.......bliss!
Sunday was a 3 year old girl's birthday party with one other boy apart from Adam and heaps of little girls........very cute.
Apart from Rachel on Saturday night, I noticed that all the little girls were quite clingy with their parents while my little fella was as happy as larry doing his own thing. I think I much prefer that than having a clingy little girl.
Reece also had a mate over for the day on Saturday who then ended up staying the night. I took them to the park and I have to admit I am a over protective Mum because they were going on the 'big kids' playground (Adam included) and climbing things that were really high etc and I was so scared and panicky but they were more than capable and confident on what they were doing.
Only downfall to the night was that while I was out at Karen's, Reece and his mate thought shooting hotwheel cars out of their racing launcher was a good idea and managed to smash a couple of window's in Reece's room. Adam who had been asleep for over 2 hours got the blame which Andrew said was soooooooo funny (not at the time).
So its ringing the insurance company today to get that sorted.
Had a lovely BBQ last night and was still sitting outside at 8.45pm with the sun still out.....beauty mate!.
Eating and exercise was not good but as always (being Monday) I'm back on track today.
Saturday was spent swimming with Adam and the other 'girls' in the class who are so little and petite compared to my boy.
I then spent Saturday night at Karen's looking after little Rachel who is the best well behaved baby (well she's actually 1 year old but seemed like a baby to me) I've ever looked after.
I got to do the night time routine (food, bath, bottle) but unfortunately I didn't get much time to play with her as she fell asleep over an hour earlier than expected as she had had a big day, which meant I got to sit and watch mindless TV for a few hours.......bliss!
Sunday was a 3 year old girl's birthday party with one other boy apart from Adam and heaps of little girls........very cute.
Apart from Rachel on Saturday night, I noticed that all the little girls were quite clingy with their parents while my little fella was as happy as larry doing his own thing. I think I much prefer that than having a clingy little girl.
Reece also had a mate over for the day on Saturday who then ended up staying the night. I took them to the park and I have to admit I am a over protective Mum because they were going on the 'big kids' playground (Adam included) and climbing things that were really high etc and I was so scared and panicky but they were more than capable and confident on what they were doing.
Only downfall to the night was that while I was out at Karen's, Reece and his mate thought shooting hotwheel cars out of their racing launcher was a good idea and managed to smash a couple of window's in Reece's room. Adam who had been asleep for over 2 hours got the blame which Andrew said was soooooooo funny (not at the time).
So its ringing the insurance company today to get that sorted.
Had a lovely BBQ last night and was still sitting outside at 8.45pm with the sun still out.....beauty mate!.
Eating and exercise was not good but as always (being Monday) I'm back on track today.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Counting points & Exercise
For those of you on Weight Watchers who count points, you will know where I'm coming from when I say "I can work out in my head how many points I've had today" right?
Yesterday I decided to eat what I class as 'healthy' and at set times (which is easy as I only stop for set breaks), I wrote everything down and added it up this morning thinking I was either on points or maybe even 1 or 2 under - NOPE - 5 1/2 points over .... oh man how did THAT happen?
So as of today my trusty little tracker and points guide went back into my handbag.
Exercise:
I really wanted to get on my bike and stepper last night but didn't manage it BUT Reece is practising for a Jump Off which is a skipping competition the Heart Foundation is holding and schools can participate (which his is) so he wanted me to practise with him. I was an excellent skipper at school so was looking forward to getting behind a skipping rope again - oh my god! - I only did about 10 minutes (this was properly less but it felt longer) and I was having major heart attacks, the kids where you have to learn against something bent over and gasping for breath.
Reece carried on skipping until I had caught my breath and then we were back into it but in much shorter bursts. I reckon I huffed and buffed twice as much as riding that bike or walking on that stepper.....phew hard work alright!.
Yesterday I decided to eat what I class as 'healthy' and at set times (which is easy as I only stop for set breaks), I wrote everything down and added it up this morning thinking I was either on points or maybe even 1 or 2 under - NOPE - 5 1/2 points over .... oh man how did THAT happen?
So as of today my trusty little tracker and points guide went back into my handbag.
Exercise:
I really wanted to get on my bike and stepper last night but didn't manage it BUT Reece is practising for a Jump Off which is a skipping competition the Heart Foundation is holding and schools can participate (which his is) so he wanted me to practise with him. I was an excellent skipper at school so was looking forward to getting behind a skipping rope again - oh my god! - I only did about 10 minutes (this was properly less but it felt longer) and I was having major heart attacks, the kids where you have to learn against something bent over and gasping for breath.
Reece carried on skipping until I had caught my breath and then we were back into it but in much shorter bursts. I reckon I huffed and buffed twice as much as riding that bike or walking on that stepper.....phew hard work alright!.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Weigh in
Gain: 300g
Total loss: 23.2kgs
Current Weight: 87.1kgs
Man what is it with this hovering around the 87kgs mark - up then down, up then down, gotta stop this and get moving.
Thought it would be much worse even with my 3 days of exercise so I'm not going to dwell on it, just carry on with my good week that I'm having.
I am going into the Australian High Commission in Wellington to renew my passport which is taking me months because Australia don't recognise New Zealand Marriage Certificates which means I had to get a "Change of Name" Certifificate from the NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages and then my passport photo's were too far away and I had cut them too small AND lastly I had to have a bill with my name and address on it as part of my identification and everything is in Andrew's name.....DOH!
I did manage to get my rates with my name on it so that's now sorted. I have my change of name certificate, my current passport (in my maiden name) and my photo's which have been taken again and cut larger so they'd better not mess with me today.
The kids and I are going over to OZ in January so there can't be anymore mucking around because Australia requires your passport to be a minimum of 2 months old before you can enter the country - COME ON PEOPLE - I'M AN AUSTRALIAN TRYING TO GET BACK INTO MY OWN COUNTRY !!!!!!!
If I'd booked my tickets in my maiden name, none of this would have mattered - live and learn.
Total loss: 23.2kgs
Current Weight: 87.1kgs
Man what is it with this hovering around the 87kgs mark - up then down, up then down, gotta stop this and get moving.
Thought it would be much worse even with my 3 days of exercise so I'm not going to dwell on it, just carry on with my good week that I'm having.
I am going into the Australian High Commission in Wellington to renew my passport which is taking me months because Australia don't recognise New Zealand Marriage Certificates which means I had to get a "Change of Name" Certifificate from the NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages and then my passport photo's were too far away and I had cut them too small AND lastly I had to have a bill with my name and address on it as part of my identification and everything is in Andrew's name.....DOH!
I did manage to get my rates with my name on it so that's now sorted. I have my change of name certificate, my current passport (in my maiden name) and my photo's which have been taken again and cut larger so they'd better not mess with me today.
The kids and I are going over to OZ in January so there can't be anymore mucking around because Australia requires your passport to be a minimum of 2 months old before you can enter the country - COME ON PEOPLE - I'M AN AUSTRALIAN TRYING TO GET BACK INTO MY OWN COUNTRY !!!!!!!
If I'd booked my tickets in my maiden name, none of this would have mattered - live and learn.
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Scrapbooking
YAY I finally got a night to myself (hubby was again neglected) for some scrapbooking.
I did 5 pages but I'm not 100% happy with all of them, see what you think.
Bath time (not very happy with this - dunno why?)
I went through all my digital photo's to find ones of Adam and Andrew for a page for Adam's scrapbook (I'll also be doing one for Reece).
Adam - my little helper. Adam just loves to bake and when I seen this quickpage I just couldn't resist.
I was really amazed at how many photo's I had taken with the boys - NEXT TO NOTHING - seems I'm always the one with the camera. I love this page.
Last but not least, Reece's 6th birthday from a couple of weeks ago.
I have been seriously thinking about not weighing in tonight because I know it going to be nasty. I don't usually shy away from the ww scales even when I know I am going to have a gain but I really don't want the negative feeling that follows after a gain because I'm trying to be positive at the moment and get back on track - I'll decide tonight.
I did drink 3 litre's of water yesterday, had my cereal for breakie, vitaweats for lunch (I could live on these - yumm!) and a ww meal for dinner (I tried the Thai one 'panang chicken' and it was delish but quite hot), so a great eating and drinking day and I ended it with the bike and stepper before I started my scrapbooking.
I did 5 pages but I'm not 100% happy with all of them, see what you think.
Bath time (not very happy with this - dunno why?)
I went through all my digital photo's to find ones of Adam and Andrew for a page for Adam's scrapbook (I'll also be doing one for Reece).
Adam - my little helper. Adam just loves to bake and when I seen this quickpage I just couldn't resist.
I was really amazed at how many photo's I had taken with the boys - NEXT TO NOTHING - seems I'm always the one with the camera. I love this page.
Last but not least, Reece's 6th birthday from a couple of weeks ago.
I have been seriously thinking about not weighing in tonight because I know it going to be nasty. I don't usually shy away from the ww scales even when I know I am going to have a gain but I really don't want the negative feeling that follows after a gain because I'm trying to be positive at the moment and get back on track - I'll decide tonight.
I did drink 3 litre's of water yesterday, had my cereal for breakie, vitaweats for lunch (I could live on these - yumm!) and a ww meal for dinner (I tried the Thai one 'panang chicken' and it was delish but quite hot), so a great eating and drinking day and I ended it with the bike and stepper before I started my scrapbooking.
Monday, November 05, 2007
Palmy weekend
Had a fabulous Saturday - picked Helena and Jo up Saturday morning and headed up to Palmy to suprise the girls at their morning get together.
All were very suprised to see us which was fun and took a couple of photo's.
I love this one of me, Jo and Anne.
Gotta say, Janene looked awesome and had lost heaps of weight since I seen her last.
Anne also looks much smaller and very 'stylish'.
Chris D and Chris H were there usual happy go lucky selves and it was great to catch up with them.
We then ventured out to Ezibuy and all managed to get some great things and then popped next door to Mitre 10 Mega and had lunch which was very average, not half as nice as our Mitre 10 Mega in Petone (no chicken salad - tut tut).
The rest of the weekend was quite boring, got home from Palmy and drank near on 2 bottles of wine (DOH!) and ate dinner about 10.30pm.
Sunday's weather was horrible but me and the kids ventured out and visited my sister who has had an op on her knee and then I took them to the Warehouse but they were so badly behaved I left with not one thing in my trolley......very unusual for me.
Had chinese for dinner and ate like I was a women possessed and I'm pretty sure not one drop of water passed my lips all day *major sigh*.
Feeling bloated and yuk this morning but its Monday so BACK TO IT!
Looking forward to getting on my stepper and bike tonight.
All were very suprised to see us which was fun and took a couple of photo's.
I love this one of me, Jo and Anne.
Gotta say, Janene looked awesome and had lost heaps of weight since I seen her last.
Anne also looks much smaller and very 'stylish'.
Chris D and Chris H were there usual happy go lucky selves and it was great to catch up with them.
We then ventured out to Ezibuy and all managed to get some great things and then popped next door to Mitre 10 Mega and had lunch which was very average, not half as nice as our Mitre 10 Mega in Petone (no chicken salad - tut tut).
The rest of the weekend was quite boring, got home from Palmy and drank near on 2 bottles of wine (DOH!) and ate dinner about 10.30pm.
Sunday's weather was horrible but me and the kids ventured out and visited my sister who has had an op on her knee and then I took them to the Warehouse but they were so badly behaved I left with not one thing in my trolley......very unusual for me.
Had chinese for dinner and ate like I was a women possessed and I'm pretty sure not one drop of water passed my lips all day *major sigh*.
Feeling bloated and yuk this morning but its Monday so BACK TO IT!
Looking forward to getting on my stepper and bike tonight.
Friday, November 02, 2007
Back into it
As the title suggests, I am 100% back into it after a few weeks of - whatever it is I went through, off the rails, unhealthy living - call it what you will.
So anyway, I couldn't wait any longer for hubby to put up my stepper thing so I did it myself and it was really easy to put together.
Here is my new toy:
Last night I did 10 minutes of hard out biking and then jumped on the stepper and did 2km on this which took me 7.40 minutes and I RAN more than I walked - yeah baby!
I did all of this after hubby cooked a wicked Indian meal for Dad's 68th birthday.
This is my darling Dad who is just wonderful with the boys and they love him to pieces.
I'm out for lunch with some workmates today which I'm looking forward to and then catching up with another friend after work - social butterfly that I am -
Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend, catch ya on Monday.
So anyway, I couldn't wait any longer for hubby to put up my stepper thing so I did it myself and it was really easy to put together.
Here is my new toy:
Last night I did 10 minutes of hard out biking and then jumped on the stepper and did 2km on this which took me 7.40 minutes and I RAN more than I walked - yeah baby!
I did all of this after hubby cooked a wicked Indian meal for Dad's 68th birthday.
This is my darling Dad who is just wonderful with the boys and they love him to pieces.
I'm out for lunch with some workmates today which I'm looking forward to and then catching up with another friend after work - social butterfly that I am -
Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend, catch ya on Monday.
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