Flat out!

Geez, what a week. I've been flat out and I'm still at it.

I have dance costumes to make, house cleaning to do, 1st birthday party to organise, more stuff to sell on Ebay and the normal day to day stuff as well.

This will only be a quickie update cos Caitlyn's due to wake up shortly and I want to get all the washing on the line before she wakes.

OK, weighin on Friday and the start of Paulene's new Challenge. Result - 300g loss down to 87.8kg. Not a lot but hey I was expecting a gain cos TOM was due on Tuesday and still hadn't shown up so I was happy. Last month I had a 1kg gain. Unfortunately TOM showed on Sunday so will probably have a gain this week although I'm working my darndest not to let it happen.

Am totally enjoying my evening walks now with daylight savings. I put Caitlyn down at 8pm and walk straight out the door. I still have a little light for about half of my walk and it is quiet and totally relaxing.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention last week that I am back in size 16! How could I forget that! I told Pete I had to buy new pants because the only ones I had had to be held up with safety pins at the sides and I can't fit into my old size 14s so I went into KMart and yep, back to 16. I love them so much I put another 2 pairs on layby.

Great, I can hear somebody calling me. Oh well there goes the washing til Pete gets home this afternoon. Better go and get her before she gets upset. I had a whole 5 mins to do this post. Woohoo!

Feeling Blah

Hiya guys. Sorry for the lack of updates but the last few days I have been feeling blah. Not miserable or anything, but not... enthusiastic, I suppose you could say.

So weighin yesterday was a 1kg loss, down to 88.1kg. However the last couple of days with this feeling I have taken my foot off the pedal. I haven't tracked and I haven't exercised. Maybe it could be that TOM is due on Tuesday (I remember I had a gain last month at this time) or maybe it could be that next Friday I am starting Paulene's Christmas Challenge and I just want to ease off for a week before hitting it hard again, I don't know.

I mean I haven't gone stupid. Yesterday up until dinner I had 7 points but last night we treated ourselves to takeaway pizza. Not the usual Dominos or Pizza Hut. We went to the little local shop around the corner that does traditional woodfired pizza, so hopefully a little less fattening and it was sooooo nice. And Thursday I had some chocolate biscuits and some of mum's hot chips at lunchtime but had lite fish and WW chips for tea for a total of 7 points. So not too crazy but I know the scales will be up from yesterday so it's time to put a holt to it and ease back to normal.

Although with the weather the way it is it has been a bit hard to get out for a walk the last couple of days. Thursday it was tropical humid and 30, yesterday rain and cold, today freezing, windy, rainy and 17. Goodness the weather is weird lately.

Tomorrow our Daylight savings starts so hopefully the weather will fine up and I will be able to get out for walks after Caitlyn has gone done at 8pm. I am looking forward to it as I feel that lately I am going too soon after dinner and it is affecting me (I get very lethargic if there isn't a decent 30min break in between).

Well better dash. A storm has just hit with sideways rain and hail. The animals are begging to be let in.

Catchup again soon

Getting refocused

Well, Paulene's 6 week challenge has come to an end. Final weighin on Friday for me was a 700g loss, down to 89.1kg. A total of 4.8kg in 6 weeks. Not too bad. Would like to have lost an extra 200g to get me down to the 88's but hey.

Since Friday I seem to have taken my foot off the pedal a little. I think because the challenge ended. On Saturday I had a total of 19 points for the day and went for my walk/jog. Friday I had a good dinner. missed breaky and ate 2 naughty things (some licorice and a cream cake) and didn't get out for a walk. Yesterday I had breaky (3points), lunch and dinner (15 points) but didn't get out for a walk again as Pete was working. So this morning I thought I had better check the damage and the scales are up, not as bad as they could be, but up still the same.

So today its back to basics and focusing on a new goal. It's 9 weeks to Christmas and I would like to be 85kg by then. That's 4.1kg in 9 weeks. Totally doable if I stay focused.

Onto my walking (when I have made it outside) I can now job for 4 mins non stop. Getting better! I have never jogged that long before at all. Even when I lost my weight last time, it was all by walking so I am quite proud. Hopefully soon I will be able to jog as long as you Paulene!

I know, big deal, but it is for me.

Well better shoot off. Dinner to be cooked, daughters to be bathed.

See you all soon

Have you ever??????

Have you ever seen a grown woman skipping around her house with so much joy at 6.45am in the morning?

If you had been in my house 10 minutes ago you would have seen me doing just that. I jumped on the scales today after seriously working my butt off for the last week and had a 1.8kg loss, down to 89.8kg. YES, I AM AN 80's GIRL AGAIN.

I had to check it 3 times. It is about 3 and a half years since I hit 89kg for the first time and it feels just as good today as it did then. And the best thing about it is I did it a week early. I had 89.9kg as my end goal for the 6 week challenge I am doing with Paulene and there is still a week to go. Woohoo.

Other than that, things are good. Bethany is still bored eventhough in the last week she has been to the beach, been to the Royal show, done cutting and glueing, done cooking. Today we are painting, Sunday is swimming lessons and a drive to her Grandparents for a BBQ (must be good) and Monday to the zoo. Then Tuesday she is back to school and I won't know what to do with myself.

And also, thanks very much to Kate, I have finally learned to do digital scrapbooking. I have been a mad scrapper since the beginning of 2004, but digital scrapbooking was something I had never tried. Back in May, I made personal invitations for Bethany's birthday party using Powerpoint. They looked OK, I mean other mums wanted me to make theirs, but to me they still seemed a bit rough. After Kate launched her scrap page a couple of weeks ago, I was looking at it thinking, I could do that and I could make the invites for Caitlyn's first birthday. So after following the links Kate had for doing tutorials I made my first ever digital scrapbook layout.




and I also did the invite



the I put adhesive magnetic strips on the back so people could stick them to their fridges. Quite proud.

Well must shoot now, Bethany has just woken up and I need to get her some breakfast. Caitlyn has already had hers after waking up and 6.30am (typical one sleeps in, the other doesn't).

See you soon.

PS Oh, by the way, yesterday I jogged for a whole 2 mins non stop. Yet another woohoo.

As expected

Well, as expected, I had a gain on Friday. I was so lucky that it was only a 1kg gain, taking me back to 91.6kg, it could have been a lot worse.

Since Friday I have been religiously tracking, even overtracking (if it is worth 2.5 points I put down 3, just to make sure) and been walking everyday. In fact yesterday I even got myself out of bed at 6.30am (on a Sunday!) so I could walk before Pete left for work because he wouldn't be home in time for me to walk in the afternoon before tea.

And salad. Due to our lovely weather we have had salad for the last 3 days. Love it! I can already feel the TOM bloat has gone and I feel normal again.

And I am really enjoying my walking again. After reading Paulene's blog about going back to jogging I thought back to when I used to jog. I was about 10-15kg lighter than I am now when I started adding jogging to my workout but yesterday morning I thought "what the ..." and did it. Just a little bit but I felt so good after doing it, eventhough I could feel every bit of blubber bouncing (especially around the hips, buttocks and thighs).

The last few days has been a strain with Bethany constantly "what can I do" or "what do I do now" or "can I do this now". So today after watching her Hi-5 christmas DVD she asked if she could make some of the decorations that they made, so out came the glitter, glue and cardboard and we have started making the chains that they made. Since then she has been constantly talking about Christmas. "When can I see Santa", "how many sleeps to Christmas", "can I put the star on top of the tree when we decorate it" and so on. It's all too close. It's 6 weeks today until Caitlyn's first birthday and then 5 weeks to the day after that until Christmas Eve. OMG, 11 weeks today until Christmas!

Well. better sign off. Caitlyn is cutting another tooth, so is in a foul mood. Doesn't want to be held, doesn't want to be put down, doesn't want to play. And Bethany is bored again.

See you soon

Not good

I must say I have just had the worst week weight-wise that I have had in a long time.

All my own fault of course.

Monday we had a party for Pete's birthday which involved cake and drinky drinks (have had any drinks in so long that I kind of had a couple too many)

Tuesday we went out for chinese for Pete's birthday (his birthday was actually Tuesday but because Monday was a public holiday we celebrated with friends on Monday and just us and the girls on Tuesday). But trying to be good only had one serving (no seconds) and no dessert but did have a soup entree. Also finally got TOM so am rather bloated.

Yesterday was our trip to the Annual Perth Royal Show. Tried to be good there too. Bought absolutely no showbags for myself. Had a choc milk (couldn't find the drinks van with the water and diet coke). Bought a chicken roll and chips for lunch but chips were disgusting so didn't eat them and then had our traditional hot donut in the car on the way home. Also bought myself the traditional toffee apple to eat after dinner. Not the best but could have been a lot worse. Usually there are lollies, chippies, chocolate, licorice and icecream so a vast improvement.

And since Sunday there has been absolutely no tracking but did do my walking right up until and including yesterday but am still expecting my first gain in quite some time. I just hope it's not too large. Have been very good today to try and ease it abit but with everything I have done, am expecting at least 1kg - 1.5kg but fingers crossed the gods will look down on me tonight and make it all go away. Yeah right LOL.

So will now leave you with a few pics from yesterday.

Bethany high atop the kiddie ferris wheel.

Finally having a nap after trying some free sample cookies.

My 2 girls at lunch time (not the best photo but it is so hard now to get a good pic of them at the same time!)

The 3 of us having a ride.

A fairy landed on her face!!!!

A tuckered out little bub at the end of the day with her new Dora doll.

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