Hmmmmmm

Trying to get back into 'it' once there has been a couple of weeks off ISN'T EASY.

I weighed in at 103.7kgs on Monday morning which was a lose off 200gms. I only managed 2 shakes last week and overindulged with too much wine, cheese and biscuits, takeaways etc.

We have had guests staying (which left yesterday) which makes cooking and eating a challenge plus the weather has been friggin amazing (going to be another 30+ today) and all we want to do is drink water (excellent!) then later in the evening drink wine (not excellent) and then eat late (not great when you go to bed at 8.30pm).

Our next lot of visitors don't arrive until 22nd Jan so that gives me 2 weeks to get back into a healthly routine of eating and drinking.
I must admit I really enjoyed the 'shakes' that 1st week and instantly felt better within a week (if only you could bottle that feeling eh?).

Plan for today is, take the kids to the local park and meet up with a friend and her kids. Then our cousin is coming over the pick up the goggles and shorts I managed to take from her house by mistake yesterday after we had finished having a swim in her pool (bliss!).
Then we have to meet up with the boss from Tip Top who is up from Wellington for our bi-annual catch-up (hopefully in a pub or cafe where it is cool) and then come home and crash. I just turned around from where I am sitting and looked at my treadmill which I will unhook and plugin today as well. Tonight I think is the best time once it cools down a bit.

My sister brought me a singlet top thing for Xmas and I baulked at it when I opened it because I NEVER EVER EVER wear a singlet top (my arms are massive) but she said it was so hot up here and all I had (that fits at the moment) are black t-shirt, polo shirts which are just plain stupid, so I put the thing on to please here and it was really cool so I took myself down to 'he Warehouse' and got a couple more.
The only thing I have to do now is get a tan on the upper arms as they are lilly white and look very weird.

Ok I'd better get these kids organised if I'm going to the park this morning,
hope everyone is still on holiday's having a fabulous time (not I).

2nd day into the New Year and I'm knackered!

Well I was a 'Nanna' and was in bed by 9pm on New Year's Eve. Unfortunately we are a 7 day a week business and don't get New Years off, so had to start work at 3am (as per normal) which means an early night.
I had my niece, nephew and great nephew still here which was nice and they said it was the best New Years Day (no hang over) they can remember ....... hahahaha

I made one New Year's resolution 3 years ago which I have kept which was "Never make another New Year's resolution again"......if I made anything different I wouldn't have stuck to it and only gotten myself depressed so why bother??

We have our house back today for a whole 2 days before the next lot of visitors arrive (sister, brother-in-law and nephew) for 3 days so we don't get much of a break PLUS Andrew hasn't had a day off in 5 weeks and I haven't had one off in 3 weeks.....blimey!

The high's and low's of owning your own business I guess.

My food has been a bit off but I'm not too concerned as there has been lots of water being drunk and salad's being eaten...mmmmm. Weigh in on Monday will tell.

The kids have been quite good but FOREVER want the neiboughs kids over here. They are generally good kids but I hate the responsibility of looking after kids constantly and mine never want to go there *sigh*. God I'm moaning today....sorry, I'll stop now!

Mum is visiting in February from Oz and I can't wait to get my 'Allure' perfume that she always gets me through Duty Free as mine is all but gone.

I'm still amazed that this time last year the kids and I were looking forward to visiting Mum and Andrew was staying back to work as he was 'the last on' at Tip Top (Sales Rep then) and had to work. We had NO INTENTION of moving (house or city) or changing career's, giving up my job (over 20 years at) and look at us now!!!

New city, new house, new schools (for the kids), new friends, new business and we are over the moon and just love it.

Right I'm going to end on that note and pop over to see what you gals have been up to.

Wanna - pls email me as I can't get on your blog (let the invite run out - sorry).

Cherrio

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

Weigh in

GAIN: 900g (oops)
Total loss: 22.8kgs
Current weight: 87.5kg

No suprise there unfortunately, I actually wasn't that upset because I have had HEAPS of social outings this week and have thoroughly enjoyed myself.

This week is going to be the kicker, I've GOT to make better choices than I did last week and tone down the alcohol consumption.

On the wife vs hubby challenge - I LOST! Grrrrrrrr. I am actually really happy for Andrew who is quite chuffed with himself.
Even though I only lost 500g over the whole challenge (hubby lost 1.3kg) it is still a loss and not a gain which is brilliant.

Got to admit I am really looking forward to having the next month off work, mainly because I will be spending it with my kids (quality time) but partly because I can get my house in order. I find trying to run the house, organising the kids and working full time just gets a bit too much sometimes and things slip and it is usually my house work (I cringe when I think about that because I love a clean house).
If you walked into my house today it would look tidy but it really needs a good clean (ie. floors washed, windows washed, sink scrubbed - ya know that sort of stuff), so I am going to use my first week for cleaning (top to bottom) and that includes cleaning out (again) the kids wardrobes, clothes and toys.
Once it is done I will be able to sit back and relax.

The only other thing I want to achieve before we fly off to Australia is getting the hallway and lounge undercoated with all skirting boards, doors and ceilings painted - not a big ask eh?.......LOL

I am also going to have to be SUPER organised because I am a 'pantry swinger' when I am at home on the weekends and that isn't good so I will have to keep myself occupied and plan my meals (even snacks) as best I can.

I'm still here

Well where do I start?

Last Friday the lady who I work with didn't arrive for work which was strange because she is ALWAYS here before me. Then her hubby rang to say she had been admitted to hospital the night before with a suspected heart attack.....scary.
Anyway the poor women is still in hospital today (5 days later) and they are 99% sure it isn't a heart attack (she's 57 years old) but a blood clot somewhere so she got transferred to Wellington hospital this morning for an angiogram (sp?).

Unfortunately it is our busiest couple of weeks of the year and I've been totally snowed under. I am actually sitting here typing this on my lunch break because I just don't have any other time.

So this explains the absence.

Sunday 9th was my company's Kids Xmas party which was a total blast and the boys had so much fun it wasn't funny.
They had 'BJ Bear', 'Charlie Chicken', an air castle and of course SANTA.
Both my kids has always been very wary of Santa and I have never gotten a photo of them with Santa but this year I told them that Santa had rung me and said he was sad because they hadn't gone to see him or say hello so they were 'sweet as' at both the Xmas parties they have been to.



The theme was cowboys and indians.




Then last Friday night was Adam's daycare's Christmas party which was a really hoot, again they had the ole air castle and Santa made another appearance.



Saturday was 2 x hip hop concerts which Dad and Andrew attended as I had Adam's swimming and other things on my agenda.




Dad said the first show was brilliant and he really got into it and new all the moves and just shone :)
Andrew said the night show was only OK as he spent most of the time looking for his Daddy but did most of the dance.

Saturday night was my Work's Xmas party and I had the best time out I've had in YEARS. The theme was cowboy, indians and saloon girls and I decided a saloon girl it was going to be!
They had taxi's pick us up at 5pm and take us all the work where we had a couple of drinks (I had a few bourbons) then a bus took us on a 30 minute trip to a beautiful location where we had dinner and spent the night (I started on bourbons and then after dinner decided wine was a great idea *groan*).
The bus came back at midnight to take us back to work where the taxi's were waiting to take us home (I have no memory of this at all - apparently I slept most of the way). Unfortunately for me I was on the taxi ride home with the Company Director and one of the Senior Managers (and their wives) and they didn't know where I lived and it took them 20 minutes to get it out of me (again, no memory of this at all!).
After finally arriving home then Senior Manager had to carry me from the taxi to my front gate as I couldn't walk where I then told him I was fine and watched them drive away (unfortunately I have vivid memories of this) and once they'd gone I proceeded to drop to my hands and knees and throw up for about 10 minutes (didn't make it to the loo like Leenie).
Hence I was the sickest I've been in years - no wait - EVER!!!!
Andrew had to get up the next morning and clean up after me and then entertain the kids for the morning while I tried to not pass out or vomit when I moved.
Anyway - here is a photo of me at the start of the night with my sisters and brother-in-laws.




Here is me with about an hour or so left of memory (look at the size of those glasses).




I then got to go to both the hip hop concerts on Sunday. The 2pm one is a bit of a blur but Reece spotted me and was a happy camper even though he only danced through some of their song. But when I went back for the 6pm session (where I got to sit next to Leenie and giggle about what old lush's we are) I felt heaps better and really enjoyed the show. When Reece's group came out I was really excited but that soon fell away when he didn't do any of the dance (apart from 1 or 2 moves) as he was too interested in looking for me or looking at the pretty disco ball on the ceiling or just at the other's dancing.............hence there will be no more hip hop next term!
Here's one last photo of my little rapper:



Last night was another night out at friends for hotdog and drinks and I was definately the DRIVER......no alcohol passing these lips until Xmas day.

So as you can all imagine the good work I've done on the BEAST (ie. treadmill) and eating has all gone out the window with my night out.

Be back soon

Wow I have HEAPS to tell you about with Kids Xmas parties, my work xmas party, hip hop concerts and much more but I have no energy at the moment and the photo's are still on my digital camera so I'll save this post until I get them.

Watch this space............

Weigh in

Loss: 200g
Total Loss: 23.7kg
Current weight: 86.6kg (new lowest weight - FINALLY!)

Well I am very pleased with this result as I haven't really held back on the numerous social events over the December period (weekends).

I am a bit confused with my Wife vs Hubby Challenge weight this morning which was 86.8kg which is a gain of 300g from last week and I was naked and it was first thing this morning (TMI???? sorry).
Andrew weighed in at 82.8kg which is a loss of 200g which is fantastic, so he is the winner for this week.

Obviously next week will be better once we have had a full week on THE BEAST (our new treadmill), looking forward to that.

Reece had his first full dress rehearsal for his Hip Hop concert and he looked very cool in his Lime green top and black 3/4 hip hop pants and black hip hop shoes with gelled hair (they are doing a Shrek thing - hence the green top). The shows are on Saturday and Sunday so I will make sure I take a photo or two.

Catch up

Busy busy busy, don't ya just love December .......... NOT!

I'm simply amazed at how many things I have to try and fit in for this month.
Trying to catch up with friends before Xmas is nearly impossible.

There have been so many things on since last week I don't know where to start, I think I'll cheat and just list things rather than write about them:

1. Underfloor insulation installed
2. Reece's Athletic day
3. Adam's daycare afternoon tea
4. Adam's swimming
5. Lunch with a friend and her kids
6. Coffee and a little shop with Helena
7. My work's kids Christmas party
8. Hip Hop dress rehersal's
9. Reece's school 'Christmas Carol's' night
10. Andrew's golf closing day (3 bottles of wine won - yaa ha!)

Still to come in the next 2 weeks:

1. Another full dress rehersal for Reece's Hip Hop
2. 4 Hip Hop shows on the weekend (2pm and 6pm both Sat & Sun)
3. DVS (condensation unit thingie) installation on Friday
4. Adam's daycare's Xmas party
5. Take Jetski in for repairs
6. Get tree chipper guy in to chop up trees
7. Arange bulldozer and nephew (who is a bulldozer driver) to take out stumps and roots and skim an extra carpad.
8. Get woodburner installed as soon as permit turns up from Council
9. Last session for the year for Adam's swimming
10. My work 'do' Christmas party
11. BBQ at friends house
12. 2 x birthday parties for Reece's friends to attend
13. Go and buy materials for fence (50 metres long - last one left to do)
14. Help BUILD fence (I think I'll do the sandwiches and coffee)
15. Buy paint for interior
16. sand down skirtings and doors in hallway before we go away
17. Undercoat hallway and lounge and top coat skirtings
18. Lay carpet in hallway and lounge and lino in bathroom and toilet
19. Oh yeah - lift existing tiles in bathroom and toilet before installers arrive
20. Work Xmas lunch (for our department)
21. Family Xmas lunch (23rd)

I'm sure there is more but I just can't remember at the moment (no bloody wonder!).

I also need to fit in Xmas day and on Boxing day we always go to Andrew's cousins because it is his birthday, New year's at a friends house and off to Oz the first week in January.

Andrew and I also went and bought ourselves a couple of treats which will also be our Xmas presents to each other.

Andrew got a 42" tv with an ambi light behind it (a light glows from behind which is suppose to be good for your eye's) and I got a HUGE treadmill - here it is.




I have been on it a few times and I just love it but the hardest thing now it trying to get time to get on it because hubby is always on it.........LOL.
With the TV purchase we also got a free MP3 player with headphones and another headphone set thing with bluetooth so we can download music on the MP3 player and both listen to it at the same time while we work out........oh how romantic.

I'm still struggling with my weekend eating and drinking but I think I've been lucky to pull it back with my strict routine during the week (fingers crossed).
Weigh in tonight and I'm not sure how that will go - maybe maintain? but I'm feeling less stressed about it (ie. scales) because I'm having a ball with this very social time of the year and even though I'm having a few things I shouldn't, I'm not going crazy and then beating myself up about it.

Catch ya tomorrow with the results.

Weigh in

Loss: 400g
Total Weight: 23.5kgs
Current Weight: 86.8kg (again)

Off goes the 400g (again) that I put on last week.....hahaha, that 400 grams just keeps comin' and a goin'. Happy that the scales went down rather than up.

DIDN'T do the 'no alcohol' last week but managed to half my consumption (only drank 2 bottles rather than 4 on the weekend). This weeks booklet tells me that a bottle of wine is worth 7 points which is actually less than what I had thought so I think I will allow for that each weekend because now I have the taste for wine, I'm pretty sure I don't want to give it up again and I'm useless at having just one.......LOL

Had a fabulous weekend, can't remember exactly what I did but it was fab and the weather was sunny and I had lots of BBQ's and time with the kids (oh yeah we did the park and a picnic) and just a nice relaxing couple of days.......noice!!

Wife vs Hubby challenge seen me win week 2 *evil snigger*.

Weigh in

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

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!

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!

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.

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!!!!

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)

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.

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.

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!.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Weigh in

Loss: 400g
Total Weight: 86.8kg
Total loss: 23.5kg

Thank heaven's I lost 400g as that was what I was going to have to lose before I could buy anymore clothes and I did just that last night (bought more clothes that is). Apart from the 3 new pair of casual shoes I got, I also grabbed 2 simply fabulous tops from Ballentynes......Oh oh, I'll take a photo now..........hang on.

Here they are, cool eh?








I am also at home with Adam today as he was up most of the night with a wicked temperature (38.6) but after whacking that Pamol into him it is now down to 36.8 which is much better and he keeps telling me he's all better. I'm not exactly sure what caused it but he has had a weepy eye for the last two days and a bit gunky this morning, so I'm hoping it isn't conjunctivitis AGAIN.

Here's a photo I took of the boys on the weekend at my sisters. My brother-in-law has a big red ducati motorbike and my boys (Adam especially) just LOVE motorbikes (ay Leenie?) so their Uncle took a photo of them sitting on it. Take note of Adam's face, he's in motorbike heaven......LOL

Exercise - FINALLY

It always amazes me why it takes me so long to get back into exercise because I feel so good after I've done it.

Last night I got home from work, got changed into my 'gym gear' and jumped on my bike. I did 10 minutes on the bike but it was a HARD 10 minutes and my legs were like jelly once I got off........loved it.
The boys sat on the floor next to my bike and watched and couldn't understand why I didn't have my bike helmet on....hahaha.
After my 10 minutes on the bike I got off and me and my boys got on the floor and did sit-up's, push-up's, lunges and squats and my legs are feeling it today (such a satisfying pain).

I had WW Seafood Risotto for dinner (my favourite) and a gallon of water (tick that box) and there was no picking or nibbling after dinner which is a terrible habit I have gotten into lately. I ironed instead......whoa is me, hehehe.

Weigh in tonight and I'm not 100% confident on a loss but I'm feeling heaps better and more in control and next week will definately show my efforts.

Be back tomorrow with my weigh in results......bye *waves*

Birthday weekend

Well my eldest turned 6 years old and he had a fantastic weekend.

They went 10 pin bowling, pizza for dinner, rugby with his mates and dad in the backyard, played with his remote control hummer and 4 wheeler (biggest hit), watched the fireworks (from our house) out the window, watched 2 DVD's (one was 3D...funny) and finished off with McDonald's for breakfast the following morning.

I also made him a 'soccer field' cake which he loved.

All they boys were very well behaved, full on but well behaved and Andrew and I had just as much fun with them.

Okey Dokey - photo's.









I ate really well, didn't drink all my water but felt great by the end of the weekend that I had eaten well and didn't consume a loaf of bread.
I've had my ww cereal for breakfast this morning and have sushi for lunch...mmmmmyum.

I also (finally) lugged my bike back into the house and have the hubby setting up the stepper tonight (fingers crossed). Feeling much more in control.

My Family

Well my 'plan' which consisted of 4 things has NOT gone to plan, I do have the eating under control but that's about it. Must try harder to get myself motivated, I know I go through this every couple of months so I'm not stressing about it as I know I'll get my mojo back.

Here are the family portraits I got taken a couple of weeks ago.

Aren't my boys just gorgeous!







Reece turns 6 tomorrow so I am having 2 of his friends for a 'sleepover' and there just happens to be a firework display on at the park which is 1 street away (convenient) and of course he thinks it for him.......LOL

He is at the 'cool dude' stage at the moment, notice in the photo's the spiked hair, ripped jeans and open shirt showing his singlet.

Adam just goes with the flow but did want his hair spiked after seeing his brothers.

Weigh in

GAIN: 200g
Total loss 23.1kgs
Current weight: 87.2kgs

Not good!
In the last 5 weeks I have managed to put on 400g which doesn't sound that much but when I'm trying to LOSE weight, it isn't great.

What happened to my plan? I was all gung hoe and then...........nothing.
I even bought that new stepper thing that is still sitting in the hallway waiting to be put together.

I've said it before and I'll say it again............BACK INTO IT RACHEL, STOP MUCKING AROUND.

This weeks plan:

1. Put stepper thing together tonight.
2. Get bike back inside so I will use it.
3. Get back to my points and stop guessing.
4. Stop buying clothes until you have lost the 400g you have put on (oh man....stink).

OK 4 things, I can handle that.

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Right enough about that.

I went to Farmers on my way home from work yesterday looking for a birthday card for a friend (I have no idea why I walked into Farmers for that) and managed to get a really nice 'knee high' black pants and a gorgeous black top with a black and white strippy thing over it, looks great on (I have it on today) and even Andrew said "Aren't you a bit dressed up for work" which believe me, is a MAJOR compliment coming from him....LOL.

The only thing I can't work out is branding in Farmers, I tried on 6 different tops and 2 fit me in a size 16, 1 fit me in a size 20 and 3 were a size 18......go figure!

Still haven't downloaded any photo's but I'll get to them sometime this week.

Bye bye for now.