Weight

Well I managed to put on 2kgs of the 2.7kgs I lost last week......shit shit shit.

Actually I can't really say I'm that upset, more disappointed in myself.
I decided to NOT DRINK A SHAKE at all last week as it was Xmas week and I wasn't going to miss out on any of the yummy food BUT I just needed to NOT eat the amount of yummy food I did (everything in moderation Rachel!!!!!).

So I've pulled my head back in and am 'back on the wagon' so to speak and (of course) feel much better for it.

I have my niece, her hubby and my great nephew staying with us for a few days and as much as I love the little fella (10 months old) I DON'T miss all the running around there is with a baby. I really don't think I would have the energy anymore. I know it has only been 5 years since Adam crashed into our lives (my little darling) but I feel so old and sluggish now (could also be the weight - ya think?).

My other niece (the one that's here - her younger sister) has also just been admitted to hospital 4 days early to have her first child and I must admit the first thing I thought when I heard this was "thank god its not me".........hehehe.

Right that's it from me at the moment (I have a backyard full of kids) best I go and sort things out (I hear nothing which is ALWAYS a bad sign).

A photo of Reece and Adam with their cousin Jordan.

Merry Christmas

What a full on day (no suprise there eh?) the boys have had a ball, loved the Playstation and have been on it most of the day between their new waterslide (off their Pop) and waterguns (in their santa sack).

I cooked my first Turkey today which I was really nervous about because my Mum always has that job but she now lives in Aussie and I am in Napier without my older sisters around to do it so it was up to me. Mum emailed me instructions as well as her cranberry stuffing recipe (yummo) and thankfully all went well and it was delish.

I got the ABBA Singstar which is fantastic because I LOVE ABBA but unfortunately I'm not the greatest singer in the world but have been practising on it.....hahaha. I can beat the old man so I'm happy about that.

Shooting up to Gisborne tomorrow to suprise Andrew's cousin for his 40th birthday party (he is also our boys godfather) which will be awesome as we didn't think we were going to make it but our relief driver came through for us in the end....yay!!
It will only be a very quick flying visit (up tomorrow after work and back Saturday afternoon) but it will be great to see everyone as there is going to be quite a crowd and heaps of family we haven't seen in years.

My eating has been quite good today, I haven't gone overboard but haven't really been too concerned about watching what I eat (it IS Christmas day) and I'm feeling great.
We had a cooked breakfast this morning and the big Xmas lunch about 2.30pm which means dinner will be leave overs.........yummmmmmmmmmm I love Xmas left overs.

Right I'd better get back to the family, here are some photo's. Bye.

Weigh in

101.9kgs
2.7kgs loss this week - bloody amazing if you ask me and hasn't been that hard.

I know I can't live on 2 shakes and 1 meal a day but I'm hopefully going to do it for at least another week. I'd like to get under 100kgs again rather quickly if possible.

Busy busy busy so I'm signing off for today.....bye.

Back again

Well I feel a bit like Oprah but without the celebrity status and money.....hahaha

My weight has gone up AGAIN and within a year I managed to put on 17.8kg....yep you read it right. This time last year Andrew and I had a challenge to see who could lose the most weight by Christmas and I managed to get to 86.8kgs. I weighed myself last week and I was 104.6kgs *cringe*.

Its been 5 months of hard work up here in Napier and I can count the number of days I've had off on one hand and it is very physical work (packing bread orders from 3am to 6am) so you'd think the weight would have fallen off me but NO!!

I've gone back to my shakes and I have also cut out other things like no sugar in my coffee and cutting my coffee from 8 cups to 3 cups a day. I'm not snacking during the day AT ALL and drinking my water (1.5 - 2 litres a day).

I weighed in on Monday so I have been doing it for nearly a week and must admit that I had massive headaches and hunger pains the first 2 days but now I'm fine and feeling really good all ready. It always amazes me how good I feel when I'm eating right and wish I could bottle the feelings so I don't 'fall off the wagon' so often.

After losing the weight last year I had bought some lovely clothes which now don't fit me. I am currently fitting into 1 pair of jeans and 2 or 3 tops which are all BLACK and it is very hot in Napier (30+ degrees) and I am melting at this weight.

I'm going to have 2 shakes a day for the first 2 weeks to try and get the bulk moving a bit quicker and then go back to doing 1 shake a day with cereal for breakfast and steak and salad (or something similar) for dinner.

My exercise is non-existant at the moment but it always is when I'm this big (lazy) but have full intentions of blowing the dust off my treadmill and getting back into shape.
The kids schools are in walking distance and I managed to walk proberly 4 times (in the last 4 months) with them to and from school but this is going to change in the New Year. Adam finishes Kindergarten and starts school in July which means I can walk them both there and back with no excuses (at the moment it is a bit of a walk for Adam and his school is in the opposite direction to Reece's school).

Christmas is nearly apon me and I'm not organised. We got the kids a playstation for Xmas which hubby and I thought about long and hard as we don't want them being in front of it 24/7 so unfortunately for them, there are going to be rules to using it.
Also got some great games and an eye toy which should be fun. I have also got a few stocking presents but that's it, nothing for anyone else...........slack man!

My Mum and one of my sisters live in Australia and I usually have their presents sent off at the end of November but here it is 4 days before Xmas and I don't even know what to buy them.

Here is a couple of photo's (just because).
One of me, one of Andrew and Reece in front of the playstation we hired for Reece's 7th birthday and one what Adam gets up to at Kindy.

FAREWELL

Well the time has come, I'm not keeping up with this blog and I really don't feel like I want to.......not anytime in the near future anyway.

With me leaving work and moving cities I feel like it is a fresh start and I want to focus my energy somewhere else.

I will miss you all and the great support I have received on here and I do hope to pop into your blogs occasionally and catch up.

See ya *big waves*

Weigh in & Napier House

Weigh in - not so good GAIN 200 grams......oh well.

House in Napier - also not so good. They didn't accept our offer ($25,000 under what they wanted) mainly based on the house they wanted fell through so now they aren't in a hurry and are will to wait around for their asking price (unrealestic).
Oh well, we'll just have to find something else. As we are cash buyers now, it puts us in a much better position in the market.

Ummmmmm a million other things happening with packing, kids organised etc.
Example - just today Reece has a sausage sizzle, show and tell 'newe day' at school and going to a friends house after schhol while little Adam has a train trip to Masterton with his daycare, packed lunch (his favourite part of the whole day...LOL) and then we are all out for dinner at a friends house PLUS I have our business's G.S.T. return to do tonight and did I mention I still work full time? *big sigh* busy busy busy......never dull though.

Catch ya later

S.O.L.D.

We sold the house on Friday.....YAY!
At the 11th hour we had a guy walk in and give us a cash offer with only 2 days to sort his finances (which he did), I am still buzzing.

Resigned from my job about a minute or so later and then took off to Napier to celebrate and find a house to live in as our settlement date is only 4 weeks away.

We did find a house (the one we originally wanted) and are now waiting on the bank to tell us how much we can borrow before we put an offer in. Unfortunately we had to drop our house price about $50,000 to get a sale which isn't as bad as it seems since we are buying and selling in the same market. At the end of the day we just wanted to get up there and start our new life and $50,000 is only money and if we have to buy something a bit cheaper up there, so be it - at least we will all be together.

I had Andrew's cousin and nephew come down from Napier and stay the night which was great as she is one of my good friends and we hardly get time to just sit and relax. Managed to polish off a bottle of wine and I have a wee headache this morning (serves me right drinking on a Monday night!).

I've managed to grab a heap of boxes from work and over the next few weeks will be packing up bit by bit.

I have told the boys about the move and Adam thinks its "cool man" but he is only 3 and doesn't really understand. Reece (6 1/2 years old) thinks its cool one day and then cries the following day because he is leaving all his friends FOREVER.....LOL
Poor wee poppet, I'm trying to tell him that he'll make new friends etc but he has always been our emotional one and will eventually settle once we are up there.

My father who is also coming with us (lives in a self contained flat at the back of the property) is wrapped because the new house has a 2 bedroom granny flat which he loves. Oh - and there's a golf course close by so he's in heaven......hahaha.

Weight wise I have been a bit slack and have just been eating out of boredom which isn't great but I'm sure once I get to Napier and actual get back into exercising things will start moving in the right direction again. Don't get me wrong, I haven't 'fallen off the wagon' or anything like that and I'm sure the scales this week will see either 'no change' or a small gain but I have had a million things going on and aren't worried about it at the moment.

Ok, I think that's it at the moment. I'll let you know if I hear anything about the new house.

Weigh in

Lost 200g this week which isn't going to break any sort of record but I'm rapt that its a loss and not a gain. Got the eating under control until about 9pm and then I loose the plot........must work on that.

House hasn't sold YET but we do have a fella coming back for a 2nd look tonight so fingers crossed. If it hasn't sold in 2 weeks, we are renting!

Kids are fabulous, Reece has a school performance on in a couple of weeks and the whole school is practising for it and he is having so much fun but can't give me details because its a suprise.....LOL

Adam is his devilish self. He is going to break lots of hearts when he gets older, that boy.....very cheeky, very cute.

Hubby is also fantastic and we are going to be celebrating our 7th wedding anniversary in 2.5 weeks (which is really 17 as we were together 10 years before we got married). Going out for dinner to our favourite restaurant with NO KIDS ahhhh bliss!

NAPIER

Spent the weekend in Napier and it was glorious.

Wasn't able to watch the All Blacks (our Rugby team) win but heard all about it and also heard the weather here in Wellington was HORRIBLE while in Napier it was clear blue skies and nice and warm during the days.......ahhhhhh nice!.

The boys absolutely love it up there and when we are up there we stay in the Holiday park (2 bedroom cabin) which is lovely and it has a duck pond and park where the kids feed the ducks and play until their hearts are content.


Did I tell you about the house?
We have found a house up there and even put an offer in but they wouldn't accept it because our offer was conditional (we still have our house to sell) which seems silly to me because we offered them their asking price (very rare here in NZ at the moment to actually get your asking price), so I am hoping against all hope that we can sell our house quickly (hahahaha) and buy this before it goes. We did the 'drive by' on the weekend and I still love it, its in a really good suburb and street and the owner was putting up a new front fence.........*big sigh*.

My open home seen 2 groups come through but both weren't interested, even with the second REDUCED price. Our real estate agent told us all their open homes were unsuccessful and there seemed to be people around but no serious buyers, people 'just looking around'......so frustrating.

They have another 2 weeks and if it hasn't sold we are going to rent it and go to Napier or we will still be here this time next year.

Back to work today and it looks like the Wellington weather is fining up after a ripper of a frost this morning. Still chilly though.

Weigh In

Lost 200 grams this week which I'm stoked about as we have just had a long weekend here and I sort of 'relaxed' a bit with my food and we also had one or two social occasions which I sort of 'relaxed' with the ole wine (and a few shooters....LOL).

We got an offer on our house..............don't go getting all excited - we rejected it! It was $40,000 under what we were asking (and we have reduced our price) so we came down another $20,000 and they only came up $5,000 so NO GO there.
Roll on this weeks OPEN HOME I say.

We are popping up to Napier this weekend to visit a few open homes and get a better idea of which area we want to live in. In the last few months we have changed our minds 3 or 4 times and we really need to make a decision and stick to it so I can then investigate schools.

Sorry to say thats all my exciting news........hahaha

I tried taking photo's of my car, my hair and Reece's hair (his had wacky hair day today at school - looked awesome!) but the batteries in my camera were dead so I have them on charge today.

Weigh in

I think all my yummy soups and stir fry's are paying off as I had a 900g loss this week (now 94.6kg) thank you very much.

I have been experimenting with different soups this week and must say pumpkin, kumera and celery is my all time favourite. I keep getting the kids to try my homemade soups and they hate them (I whizz them smooth so they don't see the vege's) but they will eat (packet)chicken noodle soup only which is better than nothing but I WILL convert them.....hahaha.

I really must drag my camera out and take a photo of my car as well as my hair which I cut much shorter a few weeks ago. I'm still not 100% sure of whether I like it or not as I think it makes me look older (can't have that) but the general concensus is that everyone likes it (are they going to say they hate it? NO!), maybe a different style *shrug* I dunno. I'll live with it for another 6 weeks and then decided when I go back for another colour and cut.

We have a busy weekend coming up - friends house to watch the rugby Saturday night, Sunday both boys go to a friends 6th birthday party at ten pin bowling (I'll have to stay...grrr) and Sunday is also our 7th Wedding Anniversary so I'm hoping to spend a few quality hours with my hubby minus the kids. Monday is a public holiday here so the whole family are going to have a 'family' day and go for a picnic or something like that.

Righto back to work I go, bye *waves*

Open Home

We actually had 5 groups of people through our open home yesterday which is more than we have ever had (even our first week on the market) and we have one couple coming back for a 2nd viewing on Wednesday night......yay! (fingers crossed). I knew as soon as I made the decision to rent the bloody thing I'd get some good results, as I would MUCH rather sell it than rent it.

Wasn't very nice weather yesterday so I couldn't kick the kids outside while I cleaned the house (extra clean for open home) and they usually follow me from room to room and mess up what I've just cleaned so I bribed them with a movie, rouring fire and lollies (naughty I know) while I got it done. I then went to my sisters while the open home was on and the lollies kicked in so my little darlings (monsters) were a handful.......will I ever learn????

Had a lovely lunch on Saturday with Helena and then we stopped for another coffee after another couple of hours of shopping and I decided I was getting the delicious looking American Fudge brownie while Leenie got us a seat but in the end I didn't as I have been so on track this week I didn't want to ruin it and I didn't even miss it (so did I really want it????).

My exercise sux at the moment but my food intake has been brilliant, I have been having a protein shake every other day for lunch or breakfast and I reckon this helps.

Right best I get to work

3 months to the day

Who's a slack blogger then *waves arm straight up in the air* sorry bout that.

Well where do I start?????

Our house has been on the market for nearly 3 months now and no bites, we even reduced the price (to lower than what our minimum was but???) and changed the ad, changed the main photo but still nothing.......bugger.

We have the agent coming over tonight as his contract is up and we are going to resign for 1 more month and if it doesn't go then we are going to rent it and get up to Napier as it where we really want to be.

Ummmmm what else? Oh yeah weight - up to 95.5kgs this morning which isn't the worst it got, I did go up over 10kg gain before I decided to stop being lazy and get back to it. I had reverted to old ways (easily done eh?) and started making more convenience food (spaghetti on toast, 2 minute noodles, pizza etc) which wasn't doing myself or my family any favours so as of Monday (on day 3 only) I have gone back to my stir fry's and soups and am really enjoying them. Cut the bread down to a minimum which has always been my biggest downfall (don't know when to stop) and started drinking my water again.

My clothes aren't fitting me anymore and I have gone back into the very few items I had left in my closet which are very boring and frumpy.

I bought a new car, (2nd hand actually) a Toyota Camry Station Wagon (its burgandy).
I had one years ago and I just loved it but it didn't have any air conditioning and the kids and I suffered in the summer with the heat so I have got another one WITH air conditioning and it is awesome driving a camry again.

Treadmill - IN STORAGE. BIG mistake but we hired a storage container and de-cluttered the house and got rid of everything we didn't need or took up space and thinking we would sell in house in a few weeks (ha!) I packed the treadmill away and now I'm suffering because I haven't done any other source of exercise.
I was going to get it back out but have now made the decision to leave it there as we are only going to have the house on the market for another month and then we will be moving anyway and I don't want to junk the house up for the last month.

Hubby and the kids are great and just trucking along. Reece is really improving at school with his teacher this year (MR Frith) and Adam's independence is really showing and he has even moved into his 'own' room because he is a 'big boy' now.......very cute.

Work is work - nothing exciting there, I am actually REALLY looking forward to moving so my head really isn't here anymore - very challenging.

Hope everyone is fine, I have managed to pop in and have a quick read of some of your blogs but haven't always left comments (sorry).

No appetite

Mmmmmm interesting, I have been organising everything for the move to Napier and have had no appetite.............brilliant!!!! LOL.

Hubby currently works for Tip Top as a Territory Manager and has taken on the contract (owner/driver - Distribution partner) for distribution of Tip Top products in Napier.
Fortunately for me, I will have the choice to work part time which will be brilliant as it will allow me to spend more time with my boys as they won't be shuffled off to daycare/after school care everyday.
I'm also looking at getting my heavy trade license so I can be a relief driver for hubby *grunt grunt*. I reckon it can't be THAT hard to drive a big ass truck - right?


Everyone at work knows now which is good as I don't have to leave the room if I make a phone call etc. Everyone is really happy for us and reckon it is a beautiful part of the country to live.

My boss is in a bit of a panic as I have been here nearly 20 years and practically run the place with a huge amount of skills (sorry - blowing my own trumpet) for years of experience and long time contact with our clients/customers/suppliers.
BUT I was a good girl and have given him heaps of notice as I haven't offically resigned as I can't do that until we sell the house (going on the market next week).

Lots of stuff going on and I am having so much fun organising everything.

De-cluttered the kitchen which took me two nights and I ended up with 9 boxes and that's with me throwing stuff out. I just have the bare essential left in the cupboards and will be doing that with the rest of the house between now and next Thursday (when the house goes on the market).

Still haven't been back to WW since 22nd January and I don't think I'll go back anytime soon. I'll wait and see how things go, will definately wait until we move.

Okey Dokey best I be getting back to work *groan*.

WE GOT IT

We are off to Napier........YAY!

There are now a millions things to do:
buy a house
sell a house
find decent schools
buy another car (no more company car)
finalise business loan
get business registered (plus IRD, GST argh!!!)
buy business software (and learn how to use it)
find a part time job

and the list goes on............very scary but very exciting.

That's it for now, I have to go and arrange a storage unit to put all my excess crap from the house so it doesn't look 'cluttered' when we sell it.

Helloooooooooooooooooooo

Yes I'm still here.

Sorry for the absense but I have seriously been snowed under at work and home and haven't had 5 minutes to myself.

I managed to pick up a stomach bug last Thursday and only just made it back to work today and still don't feel 100% but managed to lose 2.5kgs in 5 days....nice! LOL

I'm still totally 'off the rails' with my weight and have not been back to weight watchers in 3 weeks and don't feel like going at the moment so I won't.
My current weight in around 92kgs at the moment and that's after losing 2.5kgs in the last few days so ..... not great.

I currently have my mum in hospital (nothing major) in Australia which I'm worried about just because I can't be there for her PLUS we may be moving to Napier (3.5 hours north of where we are currently for anyone not from NZ) for Andrew's job which I'm also stressing about but trying not too until it happens. I'm snowed under at work and totally miserable with my current job but don't see a light at the end of the tunnel (unless we get the Napier thing) plus the general unmotivated feeling - so all in all I'm OK but just have a thousand things on my mind and unfortunately I'm not putting myself first as I just don't see how I can.

Anyway enough of that palava, how is everyone????
Apart from not updating, I also haven't had a chance to read anyone's blog for a few weeks and feel like a very slack blog friend but I promise I will make some time as soon as I can.

Right I'd better get back to work (ewwww yuk!).

Weigh in

Gain: 4kgs
Total loss: 18.8kgs
Current weight: 91.5kgs

Mmmmmmmmmmmm can't say I'm suprised but still a bummer all the same.

Not going to dwell on it, I'm just going to get on with it and get back to the somewhat healthlier lifestyle I was living BEFORE I went on holiday.

Nothing very exciting planned for today, work, work and work.

We do have some friends coming for a BBQ on Friday.
These particular friends we met when we attended our first antenatel class when we were having Reece and they were really nice, we ended up good friends but they then moved to Napier (about 4 hours north of where we live) about 4 years ago and it wasn't until a few months ago we got back in contact (contact slowly faded when they left - so sad) so we are really looking forward to meeting up again as they haven't met Adam and we haven't met their little girl Maddison. Let's hope for good weather.

Right I'm rambling now so I'll sign off..........

Another quickie

I have a couple of photo's to share,

The boys with their Papa in the pool where they spent most of their time.



This one in particular I wanted to share with you all which is the one of me in my cossy (togs, bathers etc) and lava lava (sarong etc) which I loved because this is basically what I wore for 7 days...........it was hot man!



The others are of the boys at Dreamworld where Spongebob and Patrick were the highlight and the Dora (plane ride) and blue's clues ride were also a big hit.







I'm still running solo at work and I'm just snowed under and have only been able to read one or two blogs but I will get around and see what everyone did over the Xmas period.

Weigh in tonight and my home scales are saying I've put on 5kgs but I'm hoping the WW scales will be kinder but whatever will be will be. I've had a fantastic break and not worried about the weekly weigh in's and now I am ready to get back to it.

I'm BACK

Hellooooooooooo possums

Well I'm back at work (started yesterday actually) early as I got called in the day after I arrived back from Australia, no suprise really as the other lady who works in the Lab is still off on sick leave and won't be back until 1st Feb.
This of course means I am totally run off my feet and I haven't even gone in and seen what anyone else in blogland is up to *big sigh*.

Anyway I have HEAPS to tell you about but that will have to wait until later as this is just a quick post to say 'HI' and let you know that I have had a fabulous Christmas, New Year and holiday in Australia (even though I PAID $40 for a spray tan - couldn't be the only whit Aussie there eh?) and the boys just had a great time.

I do have photo's which I have downloaded off my camera but still haven't sent them here to work - I'll get onto that.

I hope everyone is well and I'll catch up soon.

Oh by the way I decided NOT to get on any scales while on holiday(mainly because my broke) but I did get on them yesterday morning and no suprise they read 92kgs mmmmmmmmm not great but I am back into my water, cereal and salad's now I am back and into my old routine. Roll on weigh in....ggrrrrrr