I wore a skirt to work last night - first time in YEARS I have worn a skirt.
My sister's cleaned out their wardrobes for me and my eldest sister had about 3 skirts that still had the tags on them (size 16) so I decided to wear one to work last night and I felt sooooooooo dressed up......LOL (I usually only wear black pants). It was a black knee length skirt and I wore it with a black and white blouse and a new pair of black high heels (I didn't own a pair so went to KMart and got a really comfy pair for about $25). There is also another black one, above the knee and a navy blue below the knee one.
I have my girlfriend and her kids arriving from Wellington today and I can't wait. It is only 9.20am and I have done all my housework (beds, bathrooms etc) in anticipation of their arrival, this way I don't have to do it over the weekend while they are here.
Unfortunately I have to go to work tonight but hubby and the kids are here and they will be totally entertained while I'm at work. I'm doing a huge Nacho's for dinner as young and old love Nacho's and there are something I can make beforehand and hubby can just 'put it together' when the time comes to eat.
I am also looking forward to a few bourbons and a good ole gas bag.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
Weigh in
Last week: 89.4kgs
This week: 89.4kgs
Loss: 0.0kgs
My scales were showing a small loss over the weekend but this morning - zip, narda, zilch..........oh well, I did have a very decent loss last week so I'm not complaining. I did eat out twice this week and had a couple of bourbons on the weekend, so all in all I had a very enjoyable week.
I'm told there will be a few plateau's along the way and I'm cool with that (suprisingly) and my clothes are getting smaller by the week and I am now getting much more comments about how good I look which is really weird as I think they might really mean it...........LOL.
I managed to get into not one but two pair of jeans that I bought from EZIBUY years ago and I just couldn't throw them away as they looked really nice on (when they fit). When I had one of the pairs on (the darker denim) everyone commented on how small my legs looked, so I don't think I'll be taking them off anytime soon....hahaha.
Work (own business only) has been really busy which is great (but exhausting for hubby) and still having to go to work of a night and manage a family has been quite challenging lately. I am taking all my required vitamins which I'm sure is helping me get through the days but I could really do with things a bit quieter. There are NEVER enough hours in a day.
I have my mate and her kids coming up from Wellington this coming weekend and I can't wait. Her mother passed away last week and she is the sibling that runs around and does everything as well as having the most active and busy family I know, so she will need a good rest. Her daughter has a basketball tournament on in Napier but apart from running to and from the basketball arena, we will be visiting wineries and going out to lunch quite a bit hopefully......(hubby will entertain the kids - oh and work...poor bugger).
Right, I must go and organise my kids rooms. We have been going to do it for nearly a week but THINGS keep getting in the way. We are going to seperate them into their own rooms again as being in the same room and getting them to go to sleep of a night just isn't working anymore, so seperate rooms it is! The elderest boy is as happy as larry as he is moving into the 'playroom' which has a tv on the wall and the little fella doesn't have one................mmmmm going to have to think about rules around that one I think or all hell will break loose.
See ya.
This week: 89.4kgs
Loss: 0.0kgs
My scales were showing a small loss over the weekend but this morning - zip, narda, zilch..........oh well, I did have a very decent loss last week so I'm not complaining. I did eat out twice this week and had a couple of bourbons on the weekend, so all in all I had a very enjoyable week.
I'm told there will be a few plateau's along the way and I'm cool with that (suprisingly) and my clothes are getting smaller by the week and I am now getting much more comments about how good I look which is really weird as I think they might really mean it...........LOL.
I managed to get into not one but two pair of jeans that I bought from EZIBUY years ago and I just couldn't throw them away as they looked really nice on (when they fit). When I had one of the pairs on (the darker denim) everyone commented on how small my legs looked, so I don't think I'll be taking them off anytime soon....hahaha.
Work (own business only) has been really busy which is great (but exhausting for hubby) and still having to go to work of a night and manage a family has been quite challenging lately. I am taking all my required vitamins which I'm sure is helping me get through the days but I could really do with things a bit quieter. There are NEVER enough hours in a day.
I have my mate and her kids coming up from Wellington this coming weekend and I can't wait. Her mother passed away last week and she is the sibling that runs around and does everything as well as having the most active and busy family I know, so she will need a good rest. Her daughter has a basketball tournament on in Napier but apart from running to and from the basketball arena, we will be visiting wineries and going out to lunch quite a bit hopefully......(hubby will entertain the kids - oh and work...poor bugger).
Right, I must go and organise my kids rooms. We have been going to do it for nearly a week but THINGS keep getting in the way. We are going to seperate them into their own rooms again as being in the same room and getting them to go to sleep of a night just isn't working anymore, so seperate rooms it is! The elderest boy is as happy as larry as he is moving into the 'playroom' which has a tv on the wall and the little fella doesn't have one................mmmmm going to have to think about rules around that one I think or all hell will break loose.
See ya.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Shopping and very cold
Shopping has unfortunately started happening, not that I don't like shopping but I wanted to wait until I was further down in weight than I am. Anyway, I am mainly buying thermals (still) or long sleeve skivy type clothes and I have quite a collection now but they are not wasted because I am layering like you wouldn't believe.
I also went out and got a pair of jeans and 2 more wastcoats to wear around home but I guess I am being somewhat good and getting most of my stuff from The Warehouse or Farmers etc.
I spoke with the surgeon about being so cold as it is driving me up the bloody wall and he assured me it was 'normal' at the part of the process as I have lost my 'insulation' quickly and my body wasn't adjusting fast enough. He reckoned next winter will be much better but I will never lose the feeling cold again......bugger!
I am killing everyone else at home and work because I am constantly rugged up and then have heaters on as well.
I am currently at home with our heatpump going plus a smaller electric heater, I'm thinking about also putting the fire on. I have on socks, slippers a waistcoat, 2 thermals and a skivy and I'm still a wee bit cold. Mind you it is raining and miserable outside which doesn't help.
After speaking with Cheryl in Hamilton on Monday about her eating (she is way ahead of me and has tried much more) I have been trying a few more things and all has gone well. Zola told me to wait for the weekends to have a piece of toast but this morning I decided to just see if it would go down OK, so I had half a piece of toast with a slice of edam cheese and tomato, heaps of salt and pepper and it was excellent. I felt full afterwards and enjoyed eating it and it is now something different I can add to my breakfast menu. I am going to have a poached egg on toast for the weekend which I am also looking forward to.
I have been slacking off with my meals a wee bit the last week or so, so must get back into it. I have been looking around for a really good pan that is large enough for a family meal but a good cast iron one or something like that so it cooks evenly and doesn't burn on the edges etc and the only one's I really like are over $200 and I just can't justify that for 1 pan. Hopefully someone will have a HUGE sale soon and I can grab one.
My water intake has been shocking and so has the exercise, so I have just walked to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water to drink and will also go and do some homework soon to get in some exercise..............vacuuming should do it....LOL.
Right off I go..............catch ya later.
I also went out and got a pair of jeans and 2 more wastcoats to wear around home but I guess I am being somewhat good and getting most of my stuff from The Warehouse or Farmers etc.
I spoke with the surgeon about being so cold as it is driving me up the bloody wall and he assured me it was 'normal' at the part of the process as I have lost my 'insulation' quickly and my body wasn't adjusting fast enough. He reckoned next winter will be much better but I will never lose the feeling cold again......bugger!
I am killing everyone else at home and work because I am constantly rugged up and then have heaters on as well.
I am currently at home with our heatpump going plus a smaller electric heater, I'm thinking about also putting the fire on. I have on socks, slippers a waistcoat, 2 thermals and a skivy and I'm still a wee bit cold. Mind you it is raining and miserable outside which doesn't help.
After speaking with Cheryl in Hamilton on Monday about her eating (she is way ahead of me and has tried much more) I have been trying a few more things and all has gone well. Zola told me to wait for the weekends to have a piece of toast but this morning I decided to just see if it would go down OK, so I had half a piece of toast with a slice of edam cheese and tomato, heaps of salt and pepper and it was excellent. I felt full afterwards and enjoyed eating it and it is now something different I can add to my breakfast menu. I am going to have a poached egg on toast for the weekend which I am also looking forward to.
I have been slacking off with my meals a wee bit the last week or so, so must get back into it. I have been looking around for a really good pan that is large enough for a family meal but a good cast iron one or something like that so it cooks evenly and doesn't burn on the edges etc and the only one's I really like are over $200 and I just can't justify that for 1 pan. Hopefully someone will have a HUGE sale soon and I can grab one.
My water intake has been shocking and so has the exercise, so I have just walked to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water to drink and will also go and do some homework soon to get in some exercise..............vacuuming should do it....LOL.
Right off I go..............catch ya later.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
80' GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last week: 92.3kgs
This week: 89.4kgs
Loss: 2.9kgs (total 20.7kgs)
3 major victories for me this week:
1. I'm an 80's girl and will NEVER go back to the 90's again
2. I hit over 20 kilos lost in 8 weeks
3. I went to Hamilton for my 6 week check up (it was actually 8 weeks) and all
is well and the team are really happy with my progress.
While in Hamilton, I went out with Mum (who came with me for my 6 week check up) for dinner on Sunday night and I had a chicken breast stuffed with cream cheese with a seeded mustard creamy sauce on a bed of potato mash with roast veges.........TO DIE FOR. We also had breakfast (1.5 eggs benedict without the bagel or bacon) and lunch (bacon, mushroom and potato stack) while we were away in Hamilton and all went down really well.
I also got to catch up with Cheryl who had her op on the same day as me and she looks amazing, fantastic, happy and everything else positive I can think of.
She has lost an impressive 37+ kilos and is just beeming. It was so nice to talk to someone (even though we didn't nearly have enough time to gas bag) who is at the exact same point in their journey.
Thanks for all the birthday wishes, I really don't celebrate my birthday but I had some wonderful friends over from Bangkok and it was lovely to spend time with them, which just happened to fall on my birthday.
Last weekend I also had a wee get together at home (which I didn't want to do but got talked into it) so mother, father, other friends and family got to celebrate with me.
I have been asked by a few people to put some progress photo's up BUT I don't want to yet. I figured every 3 months will be good as it should be noticable then. I have the dreaded 'before' photo's and will put them up with the 3 months ones (in 4 weeks).
Right, since I'm at work and want to get home, I'd better sign off. I'll update my ticker later.
This week: 89.4kgs
Loss: 2.9kgs (total 20.7kgs)
3 major victories for me this week:
1. I'm an 80's girl and will NEVER go back to the 90's again
2. I hit over 20 kilos lost in 8 weeks
3. I went to Hamilton for my 6 week check up (it was actually 8 weeks) and all
is well and the team are really happy with my progress.
While in Hamilton, I went out with Mum (who came with me for my 6 week check up) for dinner on Sunday night and I had a chicken breast stuffed with cream cheese with a seeded mustard creamy sauce on a bed of potato mash with roast veges.........TO DIE FOR. We also had breakfast (1.5 eggs benedict without the bagel or bacon) and lunch (bacon, mushroom and potato stack) while we were away in Hamilton and all went down really well.
I also got to catch up with Cheryl who had her op on the same day as me and she looks amazing, fantastic, happy and everything else positive I can think of.
She has lost an impressive 37+ kilos and is just beeming. It was so nice to talk to someone (even though we didn't nearly have enough time to gas bag) who is at the exact same point in their journey.
Thanks for all the birthday wishes, I really don't celebrate my birthday but I had some wonderful friends over from Bangkok and it was lovely to spend time with them, which just happened to fall on my birthday.
Last weekend I also had a wee get together at home (which I didn't want to do but got talked into it) so mother, father, other friends and family got to celebrate with me.
I have been asked by a few people to put some progress photo's up BUT I don't want to yet. I figured every 3 months will be good as it should be noticable then. I have the dreaded 'before' photo's and will put them up with the 3 months ones (in 4 weeks).
Right, since I'm at work and want to get home, I'd better sign off. I'll update my ticker later.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Weigh in
Last week: 92.6kg
This week: 92.3kg
Loss: .300g (total 17.8kg)
Well........................I am still suprised I lost 300grams with all the DRINKING and EATING I did, well not huge amounts of eating but definately eating the wrong things.
I am back to basic's (and the rules) now our visitors have left and my 2 seperate birthday 'parties' are over.
Yep - I turned the big 40 !!!!
This week: 92.3kg
Loss: .300g (total 17.8kg)
Well........................I am still suprised I lost 300grams with all the DRINKING and EATING I did, well not huge amounts of eating but definately eating the wrong things.
I am back to basic's (and the rules) now our visitors have left and my 2 seperate birthday 'parties' are over.
Yep - I turned the big 40 !!!!
Monday, July 05, 2010
Weigh in
Last week: 95.1kg
This week 92.6kg
Loss: -2.5 (total -17.5kg)
Pretty happy with that considering I have my 'mate' this week and from years gone by, I have ALWAYS put on about a kilo this particular week of the month....so pretty blinkin happy.
I have been super busy this week with work (first week of the month is alway really hectic) and it was the kids last week of school so we had 'fun day's' with mother having to make 'plates' of food which my kids insist we have to make rather than buy from the shops.....hahaha.
I also spend about 3 hours shopping as I look at every damn label on everything now.
I have however gotten some really cool stuff that I didn't even know exsisted (ie. Japanese Panko Crumbs etc). I always loved supermarket shopping but now I love it even more....LOL. I am still making some really nice meals and I am aloud salad's now so I have been having lots of these with HEAPS of coriander (my favourite herb). I seem to be eating much more fish than ever before and I think it is because it is 'safe' to eat and I have found quite a few recipe's for fish.
Oh yeah, I also had my baby's 6th birthday on Thursday and of course we all had to be up at 5am before Dad went to work so we could open presents.
He then had a 'party' of sorts on the Saturday afternoon (after Rugby) where he invited 2 mates and they played rugby down at the reserve Dad and brother, they all had a great time and ran off SOME of the lollies they had eaten. They then watched the 'This is It' Michael Jackson movie that his grandparents got him for his birthday, played more games, had pizza for dinner (I tried one piece but ate it too quick and it ended up in the toilet) and then pirate ice cream cake and then I dropped the boys home................phew..........................
One the way home I was craving a drink (alcoholic type) so I went to the bottle-o and grabed a bottle of Jim Beam Bourbon (I already had coke zero in my fridge) and got home and poured myself a drink (weak) and sat down and drank it........bliss!
I then had another one...........again............bliss!
Hubby wanted to know if I felt tipsy as I was told alcohol would be more potenent (sp?) but I felt fine, not even tipsy......but relaxed. I didn't want to push my luck so I left it at that.
We then had a visitor for dinner last night and I again had 2 x bourbon's and felt fine but left it at that. I made a big Chicken roast dinner with lemon stuffed chicken, roast potatoes, pumpkin, kumera, carrots and a vege bake with mushrooms, capsicum, brocolli, cauliflower, onions and leek, topped with a cheese sauce and a sprinkle of edam cheese on top................devine. I had about 2 spoonfulls of each and felt satisfied and 'normal'.
As the weeks go on, I am eating more normal foods and eating with the family and not feeling like such an outcast now. Getting on the treadmill still isn't any easier and I have to convince myself everytime to get on there as I have always hated exercise and an operation hasn't changed that.
Hubby in his misguided compliments has been telling me that I am gettin flappy now (which means in his words - your losing more weight) so I am looking forward to going back to Hamilton and meeting with Advanced Physio who will set me an exercise program which will include TONING.
Rambling now...............
I'd better get my house in tip top order as I have 10 people (4 adults, 6 kids) arriving sometime today for the first week of the school holidays...........can't wait!!!!
I won't get another opportunity to update until they go, so I'll catch ya all next week.
This week 92.6kg
Loss: -2.5 (total -17.5kg)
Pretty happy with that considering I have my 'mate' this week and from years gone by, I have ALWAYS put on about a kilo this particular week of the month....so pretty blinkin happy.
I have been super busy this week with work (first week of the month is alway really hectic) and it was the kids last week of school so we had 'fun day's' with mother having to make 'plates' of food which my kids insist we have to make rather than buy from the shops.....hahaha.
I also spend about 3 hours shopping as I look at every damn label on everything now.
I have however gotten some really cool stuff that I didn't even know exsisted (ie. Japanese Panko Crumbs etc). I always loved supermarket shopping but now I love it even more....LOL. I am still making some really nice meals and I am aloud salad's now so I have been having lots of these with HEAPS of coriander (my favourite herb). I seem to be eating much more fish than ever before and I think it is because it is 'safe' to eat and I have found quite a few recipe's for fish.
Oh yeah, I also had my baby's 6th birthday on Thursday and of course we all had to be up at 5am before Dad went to work so we could open presents.
He then had a 'party' of sorts on the Saturday afternoon (after Rugby) where he invited 2 mates and they played rugby down at the reserve Dad and brother, they all had a great time and ran off SOME of the lollies they had eaten. They then watched the 'This is It' Michael Jackson movie that his grandparents got him for his birthday, played more games, had pizza for dinner (I tried one piece but ate it too quick and it ended up in the toilet) and then pirate ice cream cake and then I dropped the boys home................phew..........................
One the way home I was craving a drink (alcoholic type) so I went to the bottle-o and grabed a bottle of Jim Beam Bourbon (I already had coke zero in my fridge) and got home and poured myself a drink (weak) and sat down and drank it........bliss!
I then had another one...........again............bliss!
Hubby wanted to know if I felt tipsy as I was told alcohol would be more potenent (sp?) but I felt fine, not even tipsy......but relaxed. I didn't want to push my luck so I left it at that.
We then had a visitor for dinner last night and I again had 2 x bourbon's and felt fine but left it at that. I made a big Chicken roast dinner with lemon stuffed chicken, roast potatoes, pumpkin, kumera, carrots and a vege bake with mushrooms, capsicum, brocolli, cauliflower, onions and leek, topped with a cheese sauce and a sprinkle of edam cheese on top................devine. I had about 2 spoonfulls of each and felt satisfied and 'normal'.
As the weeks go on, I am eating more normal foods and eating with the family and not feeling like such an outcast now. Getting on the treadmill still isn't any easier and I have to convince myself everytime to get on there as I have always hated exercise and an operation hasn't changed that.
Hubby in his misguided compliments has been telling me that I am gettin flappy now (which means in his words - your losing more weight) so I am looking forward to going back to Hamilton and meeting with Advanced Physio who will set me an exercise program which will include TONING.
Rambling now...............
I'd better get my house in tip top order as I have 10 people (4 adults, 6 kids) arriving sometime today for the first week of the school holidays...........can't wait!!!!
I won't get another opportunity to update until they go, so I'll catch ya all next week.
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