No self control

Not much to tell today ... TOM arrived yesterday morning so consequently today I'm grumpy and sore.

Did really badly eating yesterday. Cricket was rained out so we got takeaways and drinks for lunch and dinner (wasn't my choice but I was outvoted).

Felt really guilty last night but after pointing it out today I actually might scrape through. I had 13pts saved up (saved points and bonus points) so was able to use those. Leaving me with 0.5pt left saved up. Basically means I need to be good for the rest of the week. Hmmm ... TOM is not a good time to have to be good.

That's all from me today. Eating for yesterday ...

Saturday 28 February

Breakfast - 1pts
Apple - 1pt

Snack - 2 pts
2 bread - 2pts
Tomato - 0pts

Lunch - 11 pts
2 pieces Pizza Hut Pizza - 11pts

Snack - 2.5 pts
chips x10 - 2.5pts

Dinner - 7 pts
Seafood Chow Mein - 7pts

Snack - 9 pts
Rum and Diet cokes - 9pts

Total Points used - 32.5 pts
Water - nil
Exercise - nil
Bonus Points - nil
Total Bonus Points - 0 pts
Points saved - 0 pts
Total saved - 0.5pts

Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 76.4kg
GW 65kg

Different Way Of Looking At It :)

I've just finished working out how to do this cool mouseover thingy :) It's basically a virtual model of me when I was fat @ 107.4kg (without the mouseover) and now @ 76.4kg (with the mouseover). That really brings it home to me how much weight I have actually lost! (being the visual person that I am)

Bill and I are supposed to be going to the cricket tomorrow. He got corporate box tickets from work with everything provided (food, drinks, taxi) so we spent the week organising babysitters from 1pm till midnight for 4 kids. Do you know how hard that is, for that many kids, for that length of time??? And now they have forcasted storms tomorrow ... GREAT!!! (note sarcasm). I'm not a huge cricket fan but was really looking forward to a day out. Have to wait and see what happens I guess.

I did pretty well again today. Took Jese for a walk in the pushchair round to visit a friend who has just had a baby girl (1 week old) and he decided to throw tantrums from the moment we walked in the door till I gave up and brought him home. Geeesh I love that age ... can't wait for him to grow out of it. I'm really tearing my hair out with him at the moment!

Other than that I had a pretty good day. Finished it off by sitting down with a bowl of lite icecream and bawling my eyes out watching the last episode of "8 Simple Rules" where the dad died. The sad part was that the actor actually died in real life on the set so thats why they had to do a sudden dying episode. The actors were really crying in parts. I don't normally cry watching TV but this was a true tear jerker.

I'm glad I managed to get that virtual model mouseover working ... took me a bit to sort it but I think it was worth the effort.

Here's my eating for today ...

Breakfast - 2.5pts
WW cereal - 2pts
skim milk - 0.5pt

Snack - 1pt
Apple - 1pt

Lunch - 2.5pts
bread - 2pts
tomato - 0pt
Dressing - 0.5pt

Snack - 1pt
Apple - 1pt

Dinner - 7pts
home made chips - 6pts
lite tomato sauce - 1pt

Snack - 3pts
lite icecream - 3pts

Total Points used - 17pts
Water - 1.25litres
Exercise - 20mins moderate walking
Bonus Points - 1.5pts
Total Bonus Points - 6.5pts
Points saved - 3pts
Total saved - 6.5pts

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 76.4kg
GW 65kg

Another 'Moment' To Share

I have a 'moment' to share with you guys ...

Last night I was feeling tired after a housecleaning day of vacuuming, weeding the lawn, washing and just generally tidying up the house. Bill rang before he left work to ask if I wanted a bottle of wine and I told him "no that if I wanted anything there was a little rum here but that I didn't really need it."

He came home and when he realised there was no diet coke in the fridge asked me if I wanted him to go get some. Again I said "no it's okay". He then proceeded to say if he didn't go then I needed to. I assertively said "I didn't need any and that neither of us needed to go". But hobbling on his sore foot (he tore his ligament a week ago) he made me feel really bad by going down the road to get me some diet coke anyway. When he got back I said thanks and promptly put it in the fridge for another night.

Then an hour later he got the glass out and poured me a very strong rum and diet coke (boy this guy doesn't give up). Talk about determination needed to resist this one. Deep down I really did want one but I had been so good all day and I knew this would put me over in points. And with an outing planned to the cricket on Saturday I knew I needed to save any extra points not waste them on alcohol. For a split moment I gave in and took a sip. Saying to myself that it was poured now, I had to drink it. Then some tiny amount of willpower came up within me to say that I actually didn't have to drink it and that if I didn't I would feel much better and prouder of myself for it. So guess what?? I tipped it down the sink!!! After taking one sip I was still able to throw it away!

That moment concluded a very successful day for me in every possible way ... came in under points but still ate 3 meals and 3 snacks, drank 1.6litres of water (wahoo!!), did 5pts of exercise and today I FEEL DAMN SEXY FOR IT!!! :))

Eating for yesterday ...

Breakfast - 2.5pts
WW cereal - 2pts
skim milk - 0.5pt

Snack - 1pt
Apple - 1pt

Lunch - 2pts
2 slices bread - 2pts
tomato - 0pt
cucumber - 0pt

Snack - 1pt
Apple - 1pt

Dinner - 9pts
Giant beef pattie - 6pts (owch)
Potato - 2pts
Salad - 0pts
Dressing - 0.5pt
Lite Tomato Sauce - 0.5pt

Snack - 1pt
Apple - 1pt

Total Points used - 16.5pts
Water - 1.6litres ... wahooo!!
Exercise - Vacuuming 1hr 2.5pts, Gardening 1hr 2.5pts

Bonus Points - 5pts
Total Bonus Points - 5pts
Points saved - 3.5pts
Total saved - 3.5pts

I am soooo motivated at the moment ... think I've started a new phase ... wahooo ... goal here I come!!!

Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 76.4kg
GW 65kg

Measurements taken

Measurements for today were ...

Week - 58 (6wks since I last took them)
Neck - 33.5cm (down 0.5cm)
Upper Arm - 32cm (down 1cm)
Chest - 99.5cm (down 1cm)
Waist - 80cm (down 4.5cm)
Abdomen - 102cm (down 2.5cm)
Hips - 104cm (down 0.5cm)
Upper Leg - 62cm (down 1cm)
Calf - 39.5cm (down 1cm)
Total cm lost - 137cm (down another 12cms total)

Really happy looking at that result ... Ive noticed my waist has gone down heaps this time and still good to see that my abdomen is again smaller than my hips (my abdomen has always been bigger than my hips)... another 12cms lost in the last 6wks ... yay! I knew in myself I was feeling slimmer. Funny how you just know :)

Had a cool comment put in my guestbook today from a lady that was disappointed with her 300g loss this week. She was about to tear apart the fridge when she checked up on my diary to see I was happy with a 100g loss (a loss is a loss is a loss). That really made my day that something I wrote could help someone else get over a hurdle and carry on ... yay!! Sometimes we just don't know how our actions can effect others (both good and bad)

I have officially gone back to formal tracking ... up until today I have still been doing it mentally but today I set up a wordpad file on the computer to record my actual food and points used. I really hated writing it on paper ... was just an annoying thing to have to do but I spend so much time on here that to do it on the computer seems the obvious way to go.

My leader from ww last night was talking about how we cheat by not writing it down and just doing it mentally. Until then I didn't think of myself as a cheater but then my conscience got the better of me and had to agree with her. So here's to a good day of tracking!! (I'll record my days eating on here under tomorrows entry)

Cheers!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 76.4kg
GW 65kg

A loss is a loss is a loss :)

Spent the whole day today changing my diary look and giving it a once over. I had so much fun! I can hear ya all sayin "Don'tcha have anything better to do?" well at the moment ... ummm ... no, not really lol. But hey I had fun and we're all allowed a day off every now and then.

Weighin gave me a loss of 100g tonight. Quite happy with that given my huge loss last week. Why is it that huge losses are always a fault of the scales? or the heavy clothing we were not wearing this time? Well that's what my mother claims anyway ... funny how it's never actually because of any hard work or effort :) As you can probably tell I've just been chatting with her... don't we love em?

Think she's warn me out ... might be time to get off to bed for some happy thoughts :)

SW 107.4kg
CW 76.4kg
GW 65kg

haven't eaten enough but been good other than that

Another successful weightloss day!! Yesterday I did very well with only consuming my 20 allocated points for the day.

And today I was good except I didn't manage to get in breakfast (I know... bad, bad... slap on the hand) Just got too busy. And we don't have any fruit or snacks in the house until I go do some shopping (yeah yeah I know usual story) Consequently its 4.30pm and I've only had 2.5pts ... yeowch sounds bad when you put it like that. Better go eat something!

Did another half an hour of weeding today so another 2pts to score up on my bonus tally.

Chino seems to be behaving himself lately ... no wandering.

Glad to see both Leigh and Lynda have swapped over to Diary-X for their daily journals. I have never found anything as good as this site for updating. In the 10mths I have been using it ... it has NEVER been offline! And it's so quick and easy to use.

The only problem I find is I can't put photos on here, unless I upgrade to a paid version and I'm too scroogy for that ... maybe when I get my digital camera I might. I read another online journal where she takes photos almost every day and posts them on her journal and it makes for much more interesting reading. Would really love to do that at some time ... as I said once I get my camera.

I'm saving up for a really good camera and I'm going to get back into photography for a hobby now that I don't have my business to do anymore. I did it when I was at art school 10yrs ago and absolutely loved it!! But was always too busy and too broke to spend any decent time photographing. I'm going digital so I can take photos and upload them straight away rather than having to take films to the lab and wait for them. The one I'm getting is a Canon Rebel EOS 300D ... not that that means alot to any of you. But if anyone has used this camera or knows anyone that has it let me know what it's like. I've heard it's really good. Can't wait!! But will have to be a few months away tho ... it's quite pricey.

Anyway that's enough rambling for today ... I'm off to get something to eat.

Yesterday's points tally

Points used - 20
Bonus points earnt - 0
Points saved - 0
Total bonus points - 17
Total saved points - 1
Water - 300mls

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 76.5kg
GW 65kg

Weak with temptations

I did really well eating all day yesterday. Then a friend came over for a surprise visit and offered me a magnum. I absolutely love magnums and couldn't say no. Wasn't her fault because if I had of said no she would have respected that I know. I just wasn't strong enough .... I annoy myself like that sometimes. I'm really good and only having good food in the house but as soon as I come face to face with some temptation so evil voice takes over and tells me to have it!! lol

Bill is away for the weekend so it's just me and the kids. He's running the round the lake run in Taupo. 200 and something kms!! But he's doing it in a team of which is part is 12kms but he ran it at 2am this morning!! What a time to be running lol ... glad it's him and not me ... I need my sleep! He'll be home again tommorow morning so will be interesting to see how he went as he did absolutely no training for it. Crazy!!!

Chino was meowing to go out again late last night so let him out and left the door slightly open for him to come back in but he didn't arrive back again .... grrrrr!! I'm not upset this time ... just MAD!! Stupid cat!! He'll probably turn up sometime today. This roaming thing is really starting to annoy me. If anyone knows a magic trick to stop a cat roaming please let me know. Bout ready to chain him up lol.

Furniture still hasn't arrived from Farmers ... starting to get really annoyed about that too. They just keep fobbing me off each time I ring. Tried to speak to the manager yesterday but was told she wasn't in that day. What store doesn't have a manager on?? even a stand in one?? Bill's store always has someone who is in charge even on his days off. I'm starting to get really pissed with this one. I've been told they will ring me to let me know what's going on today ... but who knows ... if they get round to it!!

For those of you trying to get into Lynda's site ... she is having a few problems updating. Geocities looks like it's handing out stress again lol. She'll update as soon as she can.

Not much else happening today ... boring life that I live!



Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 76.5kg
GW 65kg

He's back

My prayers have been answered. Chino turned up this morning at 1.30am!! Who knows where he got to but just happy he's home.

I think I freaked because 4yrs ago I had a cat disappear and he never turned up again... just vanashed

happy to say he is soundly asleep on my lap

So back to another focussed eating day. Even with all my stress yesterday I didn't do too badly ... just had 2 hot cross buns over the day but nothing else bad.

Catcha
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg

My baby has gone :((

I'm typing this with tears in my eyes. My darling little Chino has gone missing, my 8mth old Seal Burmese (theres a picture of him in my photo album). The last time I saw him was last night an hour before I went to bed. Gave him a big cuddle while he went to sleep on my lap. Then he must have gone outside and I haven't seen him since. It's not like him to be away for this long. He's normally under my feel all day long... my shadow companion following me round all day like a puppy dog. I can't believe he's not here. I keep looking out the window expecting him to walk around the corner ... but nothing. I'm so upset I just can't stop crying. Keep telling myself to pull it together ... he's just a cat but he is such a part of the family ... he's my baby!!

Im just hoping and praying he turns up but I'm not getting my hopes up. In the week we have been here he hasn't wandered at all, choosing to stay near me. So I can't imagine that he's gone exploring ... just not like him. He's such an indoors cat.

I really can't concentrate on anything today.
I'll keep you posted but it doesn't look good

Lyn
SW 107.4kg
CW 76.5kg
GW 65kg

shock horror!!!

I'm very embarrased to say I had a 2.4kg loss at weighin tonight!! After all my 'woe is me' carry on earlier today ... lol

I really wasn't expecting that sort of loss. (over a two week period tho) I jumped on my home scales just before I left and thought it was playing horrible tricks on me when it showed a few kilos loss, but this was confirmed at ww weighin. WOW!!

This brings me to a huge goal of 30kg loss now. Boy it seems so long since I've reached any mini goals. 30.9kg total loss in all. Yay!!

This afternoon a mother of a girl that goes to school with my daughter made a comment on how much weight I had lost. She said I looked really good. Love moments like that! :))

Then tonight I walked into my ww meeting and my leader came running up to me to say how absolutely wonderful I looked. Both her and the other weigher said they noticed a real difference (especially in my face) since I left in August last year. I really didn't think I had changed that much but just goes to show that we don't always see ourselves accurately.

Bill and I are celebrating tonight with KFC. I know it's not good to celebrate with food but it's been so long since I've had KFC and I think I deserve it.

I've put this loss down to all the physical energy exherted with the shift. I know I felt stuffed afterwards and it took me a few days to recover. I know I said I had been bad but after looking back at my week the only times I slipped up was on my night of drinking (which probably only totalled 4 or 5 drinks ... cheap drunk I know), a few wines a couple of nights ago and the cheese on toast last night... overall not actually not alot of points over considering the exercise I have done. Funny how when we stuff up we think that's it I'm in for a gain even if the rest of the time we are really good. Leigh had a classic example of this scenario last week when she had one slip up but the rest of the time she was really good (with lots of exercise) and she had a great loss too!! Weigh to go girl!!!

Anyway that's enough chat ... I'm off to eat my KFC (don't worry I won't go overboard) and then it's into my next successful week!! wahooo!! This is just the boost I needed to kickstart my motivation again.

Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 76.5kg
GW 65kg
11.5kg to go to goal

weighin tonight ... uh oh

Weigh in tonight!! Can't say I'm looking forward to the news the scales have for me but can't wait to see all my old ww'er friends!!

I'm ready to get 100% back on track tho. Did a shop today and am glad to report I did really good! All healthy low fat options with lots of fruit and veges. yay roll on next weeks weigh in!

Got really hungry last night (think TOM is nearly upon me again) and gave in to Camenbergh (sp) on toast (all 3 pieces). This was after dinner so can't say I really needed it ... nice as it was.

Haven't managed to get back to the gym yet. I'm waiting till Jordan starts kindy on the 1st March. Then it's just Jese to put in the creche (much cheaper) so I can concentrate on my workout.

Still loving our new home. Haven't found anything I don't like yet. Still waiting on our furniture from Farmers to arrive! Grrrrr ... their delivery times are shocking!!!

I'll update first thing tomorrow with my weigh in results. Hope it's not too bad. But with TOM nearly here and the fact that I'm going from morning weighins to evening weighin I can't expect any losses.

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 78.9kg
GW 65kg

Getting bored ... trying not to eat

Not much more to tell today. I've been quite wicked on my eating. Too much celebrating! lol. Guess I'll have to wait for weighin on Wednesday to see the damage.

Finding I've been getting quite bored without business work to do. Think I'll have to take up some sort of hobby to keep my fingers out of the fridge. I did some photography at art school some 10yrs ago and really loved it. But have never had the time to get into it ... maybe nows my chance.

Ringing the curtain place today to find out some prices for curtains. That should be exciting.

Catcha
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 78.9kg
GW 65kg

We're here!!!

*NEW PHOTO OF THE FINISHED HOUSE IN THE PHOTO ALBUM*

(I'll try and get some one's done of the furniture inside too)

We are here!!! And I'm absolutely KNACKERED!!!! My feet hurt, my back hurts but hey who cares ... because we are in our very own house!!!! Wahoooo!!!

For the first two days I kept pinching myself. It felt like I was in a ''flash as'' motel but what was really cool ... we didn't have to check out in the morning!!! :)

Now for the details of the past few days ... we got a call on Monday last week from the valuer to say he hadn't done the final inspection for the valuation yet. I gave him a sturn hurry along given that the bank needed that done before they would pay out the money and the builders wouldnt give us keys until they had been paid. And we only had a window of 4 or 5 hours that we had the truck and dad to drive it. So it all had to go smoothly or we would be up the poo.

But our stress was for nothing because settlement went through at 11.30am (we planned for 1pm) ... plenty of time. We packed the truck up, did a final vacuum of the old house and we were off. I drove one car up (loaded to the top with stuff). I said a little prayer before I left ''God, please don't let there be any cops on my way today''. Because I had misplaced my drivers licence at the solicitors the day before, my car was overloaded, I couldn't see out the back window or the left side mirror, I had a tyre that was almost flat while I drove to the nearest service station to pump it up and my warrent of fitness had expired a few weeks ago and I hadn't managed to get it done yet. So off I went .... then came around a corner and stumbled on a road block!! Ohhh nooo!!! Had brief thoughts of doing a runner but figured my car didn't go fast enough to outrun any cops lol. So wound down my window and faced the music. ''Excuse me maam, we're just doing some WOF and licence checks today'' DAMN!!! lol At least he was nice enough to me ... gave me a $200 fine for the WOF which would be disregarded if I got it within 14 days and let me off for not having my drivers licence on me. To be honest ... I really didn't care what he gave me ... I just bought a HOUSE!!! lol

So we got to Auckland ... finally ... felt like the longest trip I have ever made! We had to have the truck unloaded in just over an hour so dad could get it back to Hamilton and milk cows. So we ran for the next while as quick as we could. We decided to start unpacking boxes there and then too. My younger brother came by later after work to give us a hand too ... armed with pizza!!! I really wasn't in any state of mind to refuse pizza lol. Got the beds set up, kids in bed and sat down for a few drinks which turned into many!! lol

We both decided to set up the computer desk and computer which became quite hilarious in our drunken state!! lol ... Ever tried setting up computers while out of your brains lol? Can be quite funny.

At 1am in the morning Bill and I decided to go for a walk around the naubourhood, so blotto we couldn't walk a straight line lol. We were just so relieved to finally be here!! We have never worked so hard for anything!

We had a great time and finally tucked ourselves into bed around 2am. Problem with that was we both woke up with terrible hangovers yet with so much work still to do lol. Silly people lol. But we persevered on yesterday and got 95% of it done. And I finished the last of it off this morning. So we are all unpacked except for a few boxes in the garage but not worrying too much about that. Our garage is full to the brim of empty banana boxes that we need to get rid of.

The best thing I have noticed about this house is the sence of relief with keeping an eye on the younger two kids. It's totally fenced in so they can go in or out and I don't need to worry. Huge burden gone. The other major thing I've noticed, the kids can be playing in their room with the door shut and I can be at the other end of the house and not hear them one bit. We've never had that before ... there was always some sort of noise.

Our extra furniture from Farmers hasn't arrived yet so that's annoying. Aparantly our sofa bed is on backorder!! Can you believe it? We ordered it over 3mths ago yet they still couldnt get their butts in order to get it sorted in time. They decided not to deliver anything because they couldn't get one item. So we gave them a hurry along and told them we wanted everything else to be delivered anyway. We're still waiting on that one.

One little thing that's really cool ... my internet connection is 50.6kbps here ... in Hamilton it was only 31kbps ... I hated the connection there!! Small things/small minds huh? lol

My eating has been absolutely terrible. And I didn't manage to get to weighin on Wednesday night ... just too busy! I'll go and face the music next Wednesday.

Well I'm off to read what everyone else has been up to.

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 78.9kg
GW 65kg

busy two days!!

I'm sitting here in an echoey house with a computer, table and a tv in it ... that's it!!! No furniture ... nothing!! We've spent the last two days clearing everything out to the garage and cleaning, cleaning, cleaning!!! I know it's a little early with moving day not till Wednesday but Monday Bill's at work and I have another set of stationery to finish, Tuesday we are in Auckland all day doing all the paperwork stuff (solicitors etc) and then Wednesday is upon us. So it was now or never. Feels great to have it all done (well the packing up side of it anyhow). I was going to leave the cleaning till after we moved in and come back and do it. But after thinking this through I realised the last thing I would feel like doing after moving in would be to come back here and work my butt off cleaning and scrubbing!!! So got it over and done with early .... yay!!! My wonderful parents never helped one single bit!! (but that was expected!) But in saying that they have put us up for a couple of days before we move (even with a few jibes but oh well)... just makes me very homesick for my new house (and it's not even my home yet lol)

There's no real way of keeping an eye on my food the next few days with not being in my own house but doing the best I can. Won't be going to weighin tomorrow but from now on will be changing my weighin day to a Wednesday (back to my old meeting in Manurewa!!! Yay oh yay!!!) I miss them all so much!!!

One small bummer ... changing my weighin time from midday to evening so will mean a probable gain the first week back ... grrrr ... can't be helped so get over it Lynette!!! Easier said than done lol.

Wow I only have one more job to get done before we move and that one is all printed ... just needs putting together. Can't believe I got them all done!! Talk about stressful!! I said way back in July when we first moved down here that I would keep this week in February free with no work and look what I do??? I have the busiest week of the whole year!!! Duhh!!!! My normal busy time is November ... hmmm ... so this is very strange. Just glad it's all over.

Kids are at mum's tonight (all except Jese who's sleeping in a portacot in his room) and of course we are in our bed. Probably won't sleep too well with all the furniture gone. Funny that how I can sence a change even tho I'm asleep. I'm like that when we shift too. Takes me a good couple of weeks to be able to sleep properly.

Not sure if I'll be able to get back online in the next few days ... pretty hectec... of course I'll try my best :)

Oh well ... off to catch up with all your journals.
Catcha!!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 78.9kg
GW 65kg

Weight gain nightmares

Another day gone ... another job done ... another day closer to our moving day. Yay!!

2 jobs left to go and I'm having a few printer problems still so things could be going a little smoother ...ohh well.

I didn't finish the set of placecards and order of service sheets (for a wedding held today) till around 7pm last night. So at 7.30pm here we were driving to drop off the job to the client. Kids hadn't had dinner and I'm surprised they lasted so well. With finances being so tight the only option (in my head anyway) was to get hot chips on the way home. Not the best choice in healthy food I know. But considering the time and money aspect it was the only choice. Am I trying to justify myself here? Sounds like it lol.

I felt so bad about the plate of chips that I had nightmares about gaining weight all night. Serves me right! Good thing is I had it, enjoyed it and getting right back ontrack today. I'm not going to let it haunt me and make me stumble for the rest of the week.

Hmmm ... not much else to tell. Boring day here working again (no rest for the wicked lol)

Catcha
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 78.9kg
GW 65kg

What a day!!!

Hit an all time stress high yesterday.

Spent 3hrs on the phone organising the power, phone, gas, final valuations, lawyers, bank managers, hiring truck, getting house and contents insurance, organising cover letters from insurance company to soliciter, change of address forms, setting up appointments with builders and the list goes on!! I hate that part of moving.

Talking to the solicitor makes the process seem so impersonal ... like its some business transaction not like moving into our dream home that we have been saving our butts off for the last 6mths. lol oh well .. guess they have to be like that.

Found out that we have over a $1000 lawyers fees to pay ($899 fees and a couple of hundred Rates and ARC rates to pay) next Tuesday when we sign all the papers for the house. I knew it was coming up but the bank said they would put $500 towards it. I've since found out that we have to pay it first and they reinburse it back (who knows when).

We really needed some duvet inners and new pillows for the whole family so had planned on using that money for that ... there goes that idea!

Then my printer went on the blink dropping blobs of ink on every page I printed. And when I suddenly realised I needed another Majenta ink cartridge for over the long weekend my ink supplier said he was all out of stock and the next shipment wouldnt be in till next week ... I NEED IT NOW THO!!! (funny the guy didn't seem to understand that)

Then to top it off ... Bill ate the last of the cheese I had planned to use for dinner ... so he got a BLAST call from me ripping his head off, pulling it to pieces and throwing it all over the floor!!! He replied .. ''Is it safe for me to come home? or do I find somewhere else to sleep?'' At which I laughed and realised it was nothing to do with the cheese and nothing to do with anything Bill had done. Aww poor guy lol. So at that stage I quite doing business work for the night and sat down to watch Shortland Street instead. Bill walked in from work very sheepishly, came up to me and gave me a big hug ... just what I needed! Awww I love my man ... he's the best!

Hence I didn't finish the job I had planned to yesterday but not to worry ... the important thing was I didn't turn to food ... a few cigerettes maybe lol ... but not food ... yay me!!

So I'm back to the grindstone today trying to sort everything again. But at least I'm in a much better mood to face it today :)

Have a great holiday Lynda!!! I'm gonna miss your updates but I'm sure that will be the last thing on your brain while you are sunbathing on the beach with that georgous bod of yours :) We want lots of pics when you get back!!!

Had some more really cool emails from people the last few days. I tell ya ... you guys really don't know how much that means when I'm having a chit day to come online and hear people say such kind words! Kinda stops me in my tracks and helps me see the big picture again and forget about my daily stresses. I try to reply to every one of the emails I get but somedays I'm worried some might slip through that I don't get a chance to reply to ... so if you have sent me an email with no reply then take these words especially for you ..."It has been a huge support to me the last few months and means so much to me ... so THANKYOU!!

Funny how even writing this journal clears my head and helps me get started so focussed each day. Enough head spin talk ... on with work!!

Catcha
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 78.9kg
GW 65kg

1 week to go! :)

Firstly, primo loss this week for Leigh!! 1.1kg ... way to go Leigh! And my sister lost 1kg too this week ...wahooo!!

Secondly, only 7 days to go before the big move!! That's only 1 week!!! Can't believe it but still seems so far away. Still have so much to do before we move. 3 more sets of stationery (feeling good about that one) and a whole house to pack (not to mention the washing do wash, fold and put away). To be honest all the work has taken away the excitement of moving a tad. I'm still excited but I just have to focus on getting everything done then when everythings done I can get excited.

Eating was okay yesterday. By okay I mean I had 2 pieces of cake at mums (not good) and I didn't take the skin off the chicken pieces I cooked for dinner (bad). But ... I resisted having a frozen icecream after dinner.

Bet Lynda must be getting excited about her holiday ... not long to go now.

Hopefully should have another job finished today leaving only 2 sets to go before we shift ... looks like I may actually get it all done :)

I'm outa here
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 78.9kg
GW 65kg

lowest ever in 9yrs

yay 700g loss!!! That takes me down to the lowest I have been in over 9yrs. Still trying to balance everything on my plate right now ... shifting, business work, kids, Bill, housework, and weightloss!! Phew ... hard work!! Usually my weightloss takes a high priority in my day but I am finding I am just running out of time and energy to keep up the motivation. Don't worry ... I'm not losing the plot or giving up I'm just happy that I can still lose and more importantly not gain during such a stressful time.

If you take a look at my weightchart you'll see my weight has been bouncing around alot lately ... I seem to be losing and gaining the same 600g for quite a few weeks but overall I am still going downwards and I am still well ahead of my original goal dates I set for myself a year ago. So I've got to be happy with myself for that. Big picture syndrome has to take control ... not whipping myself over a few gains here and there.

Bill and I took the kids out for a walk along the river yesterday afternoon and on the way home we decided to call in to the supermarket to buy some ingredience for home made pizzas. (far better choice than the takeaway ones I was tempted in getting). Trouble was they were so yummy I had 3 pieces!!! Writing that down here doesn't make it seem so bad but I was really bloated!! I should have stopped at two. Lucky it didn't effect my weighin today too much.

I'm really looking forward to getting back to Auckland so I can get back to the gym again. Did I mention that already? I forget lol. I put my gym membership on hold when I moved down here so it's sitting there waiting for me to come back.

Have another house pic in the photo album ... this time it's of the front garden. The house is pretty much finished ... just a fence needs to go up on the side of the house to the boundary fence. We go up for our official tour through the house by the builders so they can explain how everything works sometime this week.

I need to get all my work done by Monday 9th so I can start packing on that day. That's 5 sets in 7 days!! Wow !! But in saying that I have 3 of the jobs half done. Better stop yacking and get onto all this work I keep talking about then huh? lol

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 78.9kg
GW 65kg