Hard Work!

Man! this delivering catalogues is hard work! When I signed up to do them I forgot about one thing. Rolling them all. So basically my last week has comprised of this. Friday catalogues delivered. Spend Friday rolling them. Walking Saturday and Sunday to deliver them. Sunday mid week catalogues arrive. Spend Sunday afternoon and Monday rolling them. Walking Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday day off. Friday starts all over again.

A lot harder than I thought it was going to be. I was really unorganised last week. This week mum and I rolled them yesterday and so far this morning (it is 11am) I have done 1hour and 46mins worth of walking so far and I still have 128 houses to go to. I am trying to get them all done today because I have visitors coming on Monday and want to spend tomorrow cleaning and getting all of tomorrows delivery rolled.

Actually I have decided for the money I am getting, it is a little too much work. All in all I did about 5 hours worth of rolling and 6 hours worth of walking all for $80 and Bethany is starting to get upset that I am not doing anything with her anymore which makes me sad.

So I am only going to do it for another 2 weeks and by then I should have earned enough to pay for our Christmas layby.

Now on to week 3 of Paulene's challenge. Yesterday I weighed in at 90.6kg, a loss of 1.2kg. I think the catalogue delivering had a lot to do with that because TOM is due and usually I am bloated but hey, I'll gladly take it.

That means another 2 goals crossed off my list on the left. I have now lost over 5% of my body weight and lost 5.3kg since August 3 when I started. I am also within 700g of my goal for Paulene's challenge. I had set myself to get to 89.9kg, a loss of 4kg in 6 weeks and I am almost there. Woohoo!

Other than that, Bethany is now on school holidays so the next 2 weeks will be quite caotic between trying to keep her entertained, doing catalogues and keeping up with Caitlyn. She is always on the go and just today stole half of my Vegemite sandwich. The end result was quite funny though as I put a lot more on my sandwiches than I do when I make them for her.

Well I hope everyone has a great weekend. Think of me pounding the pavement.

Bye

Week 2

Sorry for lack of updates over the last week. No real reason, just flat out with day to day stuff.

Weighin this morning for week 2 of the challenge. A loss of 600gms, down to 91.8kg. Woohoo. Only 700gms to go to my next goal. Finished the week on 145.5/154 points (including points for unplanned takeaway on Wednesday) with 9 bonus points from exercise. The only negative to report is that my water intake dropped significantly.

Now call me a glutton for punishment or what but to try and help my exercise rate, yesterday I signed up to do letterbox distributions. I got a phone call last night saying that they needed me right away and this morning I got my first lot of catalogues. I am supposed to do 405 houses but only got enough to do 349 and I start tomorrow. I have Saturday and Sunday to deliver them. Then I get another lot to do Tues/Wed. I was lucky enough to get my street (which is one big circle) and the surrounding street so what I can do is set off on the big circle. Finished that and come back to the house to stock up for my street instead of having to take them all with me at once. Even if I do one lot tomorrow and the other lot on Sunday. The money isn't that crash hot ($36 twice a week) but like I said to Pete, I walk past all of these houses so why not make some money from it. It will be enough to get all of our Christmas pressies and some bills taken care of, even if I only do it to Christmas. The only thing I didn't think of was folding them all. DOH! but hey it only took me 2 hours.

Well must shoot off, Caitlyn is narky and I have to pick Bethany up in 15 minutes.

Hope everyone has a great weekendd.

Week 1 over and done

Well the first week of the challenge has come to an end. I finished the week on 123/154 points and a 1.5kg LOSS. Very happy with that. That is the biggest lost I have had in quite a while and it also bring me down to 92.4kg, so I have completed the first goal on my list to the left. I am now the lightest I have been this year. And going back through my old entries I have lost a total of 4.5kg since June 29. Geez it feels great.

I also had 2 non-scale victories this week. The first is on Tuesday I surrendered to temptation and bought a bag of licorice (one of my worst vices along with chocolate). I worked out the whole 400g bag was 20 points. Now in past months I have been able to eat a whole bag in 10 minutes but this time I sat down, counted out every piece (there were 60 pieces in the bag) and worked out I could have 15 bits for 5 points. So that was my treat for the day and I locked the rest of the bag in the car. Wednesday turned into a bit of a high pressure day for me and late in the afternoon I found myself driving along when I remembered the licorice. I told myself I would only have 5 points worth but this time couldn't stop myself and got up to 8 points. Very disappoined in myself I locked the bag back up. All night I kept beating myself up about it. There was still 7 points worth sitting in the car so the next morning when I picked mum up for shopping I gave the bag to her. All gone and very happy with myself.

My other victory was yesterday I wore one of my old size 16 tops. Woohoo. I came out of the bedroom in the morning and Bethany looked at me and said "Mum, you look nice". I felt great. Isn't it amazing that if your kids say something like that you feel great all day but if they say something negative (think back to the innocent baby in the tummy comment) it can bring you down so quickly.

So in summary, feeling very good and looking forward to the next 5 weeks of the challenge. I know I may not lose as much every week but I only aimed to lose just under half a kilo a week anyhow so todays weighin covers what I had planned to lose for the first 3 weeks.

Must shoot of now and do some cleaning while Caitlyn is still asleep.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Week 1, Day 4

Still plodding along. Ended up finishing yesterday on 17/22 points (including exercise points) and 1.3litres of water. Today was tougher. Spent this morning rushing around trying to get everything organised for Bethany's Sports Carnival. Didn't end up having breakfast so bought a sausage in a bun from the fundraising stall at the school. A 6.5pt start to the day is pretty high for me. However I watched everything else that I ate for the rest of the day and finished on 21/22 points and 800ml of water but unfortunately didn't manage to go for a walk. I did do my situps, push ups, squats and 60 steps on my aerobic step (30 each leg with weights).

So in tally for the first 4 days of the challenge I have had 71.5/88 points. Not too bad and I think I have even saved enough to cover those few chips I had yesterday.

Now onto the more important event of the day, Bethany's carnival.

Here she is waiting to race, she is the smallest of them all, second from the left, posed and ready to go.

and the end result ....

How cool is that. She won!!!

And the first thing she said to me was "I told you I could win, are you proud of me mum?"

Of course I was. I have never been so proud or happy for her.

Cruising along

Well here I am. Am on to day 3 of Paulene's new challenge and believe it or not, I'm surviving. I tried to help myself in the lead up by going for walks on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. They weren't continuous power walks or anything, just gentle walks over to the shops to pick up a loaf of bread or walking to school to pick Bethany up and then walking home. Friday dawned and I climbed those dread scales again. Weight: 93.9kg, so a 500g loss since last week and a good weight to start a 6 week challenge. I have set myself a goal of hitting 89.9kg by the end of the challenge and finally out of the 90's.

I also discovered yet another goal to add to my list on the side. My very first goal has changed to reaching 92.9kg. I have read every single entry I have done this year and that is the lowest weight I have been in 2007, way back in January. So once I get past that, I should be very happy with myself, and now I am not very far from reaching it at all.

On reading all those old entries, I noticed how many times I said I was "starting seriously" to try and lose weight and failed. But this time really does feel different. I don't know if because I have had several small losses in a row makes me feel more in control or because now I am lower than I have been since almost the beginning of the year I feel more confident in myself or what, I just feel like I can do it this time. Maybe I have just had enough and I know deep down that I have done it before and I can do it again.

Whatever the reason, I feel good. Good with myself and good with everything that is going on at the moment. Maybe that's another reason, I am not stressed about anything at the moment. This last week has actually been the lest stressful in a long, long time. I actually feel relaxed.

Anyhoo, onto some stats. Friday I had 16.5/22 points (including exercise points) and 750ml of water. Saturday I had 17/22 points (including exercise points) and 750ml of water. Today has been tough. Sundays Bethany does swimming lessons and we always have hot chips afterwards. Today I told mum we weren't getting any but she got a box anyhow. I allowed myself to indulge, and had a whole 8 chips. I don't know how many points that is but if I keep some spare by the end of today it should cover them. I was just so happy that I could actually restrain myself and stop myself from eating any more. I just didn't want to, I didn't want to ruin the good work I have done the last few days.

Well must sign off now, Caitlyn is due for her afternoon nap. The only thing I need to do now is improve my blog updating and things will be good. I have read everyone else's just slack with the whole commenting thing.

Catch up again soon.

Getting excited

I am actually really looking forward to starting Paulene's new challenge this week. My weight is still down (100g loss on Friday, not much but at least it's not a gain and quite good considering I also got TOM Friday morning), so have been right out of the 96's for a while and out of the 95's for a good couple of weeks. Hopefully starting this challenge will put an extra bit of omph into things and I can finally get out of the 90's for the first time this year.


The last week has been a bit hectic. Got a phone call last weekend inviting us to the in-law's 40th wedding anniversary party on Saturday so spent the week using my scrapbooking skills to make them a quite nice pressie.



Put it in a lovely scrapbook frame and they loved it.


Other than that, life is just blobbing along. Bethany has her first sports carnival this Friday so that is going to be quite interesting. They have been practising at school and she clearly takes after me, better with her brain than with her sports, but she laughs the whole time so that's the important thing.


And just today Caitlyn has started pulling herself up. She did it this morning, trying to reach the video player but then when she woke from her afternoon nap, I went in to get her and she was up and leaning over the top of her cot so as soon as Pete got home, the base was dropped. And tonight on doing it some more, she managed to lose her balance and fall a couple of times, so here comes the bumps and lumps.

Well must go now, dishes to do and cleaning to be done before bed. Will catch up with all of your blogs tomorrow.

Bye