Back again

Please excuse the absence. Have been putting all efforts into getting better. Now I can actually do our washing without having a minor asthma attack so I think I am finally over it. I even managed to vac and wash the floors this morning so fingers crossed.

I feel that I am ready now to get back to wear I was before I fell ill. I even weighed myself this morning (haven't been near the scales since I got sick) and am still down from the 96.9kg I weighed in at on the 6th July but am up from the 95.5kg I weighed in at the week later. This morning I managed some situps, push ups and squats and so far today have used 3 points on breakfast with no mid morning snacking. Got to be happy with that.

Not much going on lately, had our family portraits done and I love them. Please excuse the quality but after scanning them discovered our scanner needs cleaning and also with them being professional pics, they scan a lot darker and I can master our photo editing program enough to get them to lighten up properly.

Cute Family

My big girl

My little girl (eveyone tells me she looks like a cabbage patch doll)

My beautiful girls

I feel so lucky and so blessed.

Bump in the road

Hi-de-ho everyone. I'm back again. All my plans for getting back on track hit a big bump in the road last Sunday, (not the one just gone) when I woke up with a massive pain in my chest, difficulty breathing and feeling totally crap. Went to the docs on Monday and was diagnosed with Bronchial Asthma. Put on anitbiotics and my asthma inhaler (haven't had to use that since April last year!). It hit me real bad too. Even today, I am still rather breathless and just getting the girls up in the morning, fed and dressed leaves me exhausted.

Then Monday afternoon, Caitlyn's eye that I am always having problems with started getting all mucky again. Tuesday she had full blown conjunctivitis (again!?!) but couldn't get back to the docs til Wednesday where she was given the usual drops and thankfully now the course of antibiotics is finished and she is back to normal.

THEN, Tuesday afternoon, Bethany started getting a bad fever. 39 degrees. Gave her panadol and after an hour seemed to ease. 6 hours later it was back again. This pattern continued. Mentioned it to my crappy doctor who practically ignored it as she was more interested in Caitlyn. By Wednesday afternoon, I was in full panick mode as we had recently had three children die in Western Australia from a combination of the flu and a bactirial virus, one of which was from our suburb. Rang our Healthdirect line who advised me to keep going until Thursday and if she was no better to take her to the doctor. Thursday morning came and she was fine. It was gone, over, done.

So not a lot of rest for me, which may be why I am still hacking like a steam train. So weightloss has taken a back seat for these last couple of weeks but as soon as I can breathe properly will be back to it.

And just before I go, a new pic of Caitlyn, taken in her walker on the weekend. We are having our updated family portraits taken on Saturday and I have been trying to work out what to do with her hair.

Week 1, over and done

Well my first week back on track didn't exactly go to plan. I didn't get any of the exercise I had planned, did manage to drink a little water (very little but still I had some) and just tried my best to control my eating.

TOM arrived Sunday so had to battle that, had some stresses pop up over a friend I had made with one of Bethany's friends mum. We became really good friends and last weekend at her daughter's birthday party discovered that she is an alcoholic and she had a couple of shots at me in front of her family and other mother's from our school and then on Monday couldn't even remember what she had said to me to upset me so had her on the phone for three days and now she barely speaks to me so that has been a little stressful (having first had experience with a relative who is an alcoholic, it is really painful to be exposed to it yet again).

Also had 2 of the big Christmas toy sales this week so planned out what the girls would be getting, organising mum and sister to help grab everything and get it all on layby (all done successfully by the way) Also grabbed Caitlyn's birthday presents as her birthday is a month before Christmas I could put them on layby too and just pick them up earlier. So Christmas for the kids is pretty much done.

Anyhow, with all of this going on I still managed a 1.4kg loss, down to 95.5kg (TOM probably helped out with that but I'll still take the loss LOL). So it's a start. All I can do is try to improve a little more this week with the exercise and the eating and I may managed another one. Once I get to 92 I'll be happy because I be in the low 90's and not far from the 80's again.

Well, best sign off for now. Bethany is on holidays now so I should be able to manage more updates as I won't be dashing off to school twice a day and trying to get everything done in between.

Hope you all have a great weekend.