I broke them... ut oh!

I set myself a goal of only having 5 lollies in the shop today (counted them in my points of course) and drinking at least 1 litre ... And I did it!! It's only 2pm and I'm onto my 2nd litre bottle of water!

Isn't it funny how when TOM finishes we feel slim? Well I do anyway. I'm not sure if I'm in for a loss or not this week. It's been 2wks since official weighin (given last week was a public holiday) but I feel so slim today. My home scales are broken. I had a moment of frustration a couple of weeks ago where I thought I should have been lighter but my home scales were saying I had gained, and I'm embarrased to say I jumped on them and broke them! lol

Bill fixed them yesterday but I really don't know if they are saying the correct weight or not. So I guess I have to wait till tomorrow's weighin to find out.

I saved up enough points for a "Dream" icecream last night but after dinner my tooth started giving me grief and I ended up going to bed early instead. So saved my points instead.

I realised last night that I've been 8 days without alcohol now. I'm not really trying to stop altogether but with having my tooth done and now being on antibiotics has meant I haven't had a drink in over a week.

I'm feeling pumped today and it's all down to everyone else's journals. When I read journals of inspired people I find myself inspired too. So thanks guys!!

Rock on tomorrow!!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 73.8kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

Just do it!

Thanks for all your concern about Jordan. He's doing really well and not in too much pain.

I've had a great day today! My wisdom tooth (or lack of it) only gave me a little grief so after getting my boost of inspiration from all my online buddies I decided to chuck on my walking shoes and get out for a walk. Even tho the weather looked like it was going to pack in I decided to ignore all reasons not to walk and JUST DO IT!!

I originally planned to do a half hour stroll along the beach but reaching my finishline mark I remembered mum wanted me to look at a property for her which happened to be at the complete other end of the beach. So off I went, dodging the rain drops and it felt great! An hour and a quarter later I arrived home.

Made up a low point vege soup for lunch. (I'm on baby food while my mouth heals)

I was starting in the shop at 4pm and decided at 3pm I would take Lauren down to show her the new house (she hadn't seen it yet) and then walk back to the shop. Another 45min walk done ... yay!

Then it all went to custard! I walked into the shop, looked at the jar of chocolates staring at me and caved in. I'd done so well all day and ruined it with one stupid jar of chocs.

Good news is I managed to stop, give myself a shake up and get my act together again. I made the decision to walk home from work (instead of getting Bill to pick me up) ... drank a bottle of water instead of nibbling and ate a low point dinner ... and no dessert!

So all in all it was a positive day. We all stuff up, we're all human but just because we fail at one point doesn't make the whole day a disaster. I'm choosing to focus on all the good things I did today rather than the one failing.

Exercise: 14,500 steps / 7pts
Water: 1 litre (huge amount for me)
Points: Came in at 17pts even with the chocs... helped that I'd had a low point soup for breakfast and lunch.
Alcohol: NONE!! yay me!!

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 73.8kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

YEEEEOUWCH!!!!

The dentist visit went fine and I'm at home resting up today. Soup for me all day. It's not as painful as my ear infection a few weeks back (that's my benchmark for all pain now). I had two stitches put in but it all went well.

Now if our life was written as a soap opera the viewers would write in and complain that it was too far fetched!!!! Honestly I really wonder at our life sometimes ...

For the last 6 days Jordan (4) has had diareah and vomiting. I've taken him to the doctor to be told he has a viral infection, nothing we can do, just take him home and give him a pat on the back. Then got charged $10 for it!!

So for the last week he has been waking up each night (around 10pm) with a sore tummy and either throwing up or running to the toilet with diareah.

Last night was the same ... right on the dot we heard his cry and went up to help him to the toilet in time. And somehow (I still don't know how it happened) but he missed the toilet seat and fell off onto the floor. After finishing he started crying histerically saying his penis was sore. Bill looked down and yelled to me to CALL AN AMBULANCE!! I raced upstairs to find blood pouring from his penis!! At first I thought it was coming from inside but on a closer look we realised he had torn his penis!!! Yeowch!!!!

When the ambulance turned up it was the same officers as last time (with Malachi). I felt like some hypercondriac, overobsessive mother!! But they were understanding and said we did the right thing. I have only ever called an ambulance 3 times in our lives and the last two have been in the last month!!

They took him and Bill to Tauranga hospital to have it checked out. He ended up having it "glued". He had torn the skin 80% of the way around his penis. To this day I still don't know how. This new way of "glueing" is like stitches but is tidyer and means the stitches don't need to come out. Fantastic idea!

Bill and Jordan arrived home at 4am this morning. He's currently tucked up asleep in our bed now (9.30am). I'm very proud of him ... he was a brave boy. I can only imagine how painful that would have been. Kinda puts it into perspective my pathetic wisdom tooth pain.

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 73.8kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

nail biting stuff

I'm so glad you found the link to my site again Amy ... yeah my last webhost deleted my old website!

I had a pretty stressful night the other night when we found out the news about the house. The same day I came down with a throat infection, but over it now thank goodness.

I absolutely lost it foodwise. I ate so many lollies in the dairy that day and finished it off with a "Dream" icecream! I've been horrid ... I guess one good thing tho I haven't had much alcohol this week. Getting sick helped with that.

I'm feeling pretty good about it now (the whole house issue). We've signed up for the new house and have a moving date in 3wks. They've given us the keys already and the house is empty so we can start moving things in straight away. Mum and dad are lending us their trailer so we just have to find someone with a towbar on their car and we'll start taking loads over when we get the chance.

Bit bummed we don't have a sea view. Even tho we are only meters from the beach there is a row of big trees that block the view ... ahhh well can't have everything I guess.

Wish me luck today ... I'm off to the dentist to get my wisdom tooth pulled out and 5 fillings done. I'm getting knocked out this time. Bit nervous about it as I've never been knocked out before. K .. I'm going to stop talking bout this now before I get my stomach in knots!!!

I'm outa here,
Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 73.8kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

NOT AGAIN???

Our life has been pretty ordinary the last few months with not many dramas so I guess the man upstairs thought he would throw another spanner in the works ... only He knows why???

We have to move ... AGAIN!!!

We were given six weeks notice today to get out of our house!

We have found another house but it's tiny ... same number of rooms (4 plus a sleepout) but each room is only a single (if that). Haven't got any choice but to take it as there's absolutely nothing else for rent on the beach.

It's the same distance to the shop as this house but quite away from the school (2 or 3 kms) ... the good point is it is across the road from the beach, so that will be nice.

Kinda in shock at the moment ... I'm certainly SICK OF PACKING AND SHIFTING!!!

That's enough news for one day!
Catcha
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 73.8kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

Partytime at the beach

The holiday weekend is over and everyone has gone back home. The town has gone back to it's sleepy self again and today I can finally have my day off.

We had a fantastic weekend in the shop. It was party mode for most of it with market days and holiday shoppers giving off positive vibes at every turn. I ended up doing 3 14hr days because Bill and Jordan got sick. But I really didn't mind ... I loved the atmosphere at the shop. But today I'm tired.

The last two days I couldn't be bothered thinking about my eating and I realised why last night ... TTOM turned up. I always get like that a day or so before.

But I'm not too concerned with my food intake. It wasn't excessive and I made relatively good choices and to be honest I didn't get much time to misbehave. We were running (me and the other staffmember) from 9am till close at 8pm. My bonus buddy told me I walked 5.5kms every day behind that counter!!!

So it's a lazy day off for me today. Have a few erins to run but other than that .. not much.

No weighin last night with the public holiday, probably just as well with being TTOM.

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 73.8kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

Bad hair day

Roz and Linda you are exactly right!!

I've had a couple of days to mull this over now and I'm feeling a lot better about it. I had a few moments of pity where I declared to Bill I was no longer working in the shop. But we are bigger than this. Bill and I have not been happier in any job we have ever done. I have to focus on the positives, not the small handful of people that want/need to make negative comments.

We've had literally hundreds of comments from customers and suppliers alike about how awesome the shop is looking. As for the counter coming out we're going to keep it like this ... our grocery sales (which is where we make most of our profit) have grown increadably since the removal of the counter that a few till/counter space restrictions over midsummer is worth the risk.

I also went and spoke to the other dairyowner, Zane, in the town (which is where everyone has supposed to be going now that they have stopped shopping with us) and he said he hasn't had any negative comments from customers about us. Now if his story was true the first thing they would do would be complain about us to the other dairy. Which according to Zane hasn't happened.

It would be too good to be true to not have any hurdles in this new venture. So I'll just look on it as something to grow on and get stronger.

This weekend is huge for us. Labour weekend is officially the start of warmer weather in New Zealand and the weekend everyone goes away to their batches ... meaning wahoooo turnovers for us ... heheh!

We had a huge day yesterday and expecting another good one today too.

So I'm outa here ... got a busy day ahead!

Oh ... one other little story before I go ...

I had a guy come in yesterday who asked me if I was having a bad hair day! He said it had looked like I had been out in a storm!! lol He then asked Bill if he wears glasses in the morning, hoping he didn't because he would hate to think what I look like when I got out of bed first thing! LMAO Can you believe this guy???? lol ... Now that's insults for ya and from a complete stranger??? lol what is this world coming to?

But a few customers later I had another male ask me what all my hardware on my belt was. One was my phone and the other my bonus buddy. Asking for an explaination for the bonus buddy, I said it counted my steps to see what weight I could lose. Lose weight? he said ... you don't need to lose weight! You're gorgeous!!! I blushed and told him that was a much nicer comment than the last guy (I repeated to him what the guy had said) and he replied "He's just an asshole! Don't listen to him!" Two extremes in a matter of minutes ... all in a day at the dairy! lol

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 73.8kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

All in a days worries

I'm rather pissed off to say the least ... and yet again I've sucuume to emotional eating! Haven't tracked ... don't give a sh** today!! Okay let me backtrack a little to explain ...

This morning we had the owner of the Katikati Four Square tell us how he had been told how well we were doing and how good our shop looked. He just raved about the changes we had made and how good we were doing.

Then the milk truck told us that we were selling 3 times the amount of milk that the four square across the road was selling. To get this in perspective the four square across the road is 7 times bigger than our shop!!! We're selling around 3 crates a day and he is only getting in one crate a day.

Now I hear you asking ... why are you so pissed off then???

Well ...

We had a visit from the previous owner of the dairy this afternoon. He sat down and said "I hate to say this ... but you're losing customers!!!" Apparently (according to him) people are so annoyed that they are waiting for service that they are going elsewhere. Apparently (according to him) they are shopping at the four square across the road for their milk or the bakery down the street.

At first I was aghasted at this ... I couldn't understand why. We serve people straight away. I can only think of one occasion where people have had to wait inline to be served.

He reckoned he has had 7 people say they don't shop with us anymore because of the lack of service. He also said that we won't cope in the summer with the counter we have taken out.

Now to get the background on this ... when we first took over the shop there was a full length counter running the full length of the shop. Customers had to ask for their products across the counter!!! LIke in the old days or in an Open All Hours episode!! We removed the counter when we first took over and have nothing but positive feedback about how open the shop looks now.

Anyway after a few hours of digesting this gossip we have come to the conclusion that taking the counter out has increased our grocery sales hugely and that maybe we have lost a small handful of customers due to lack of speed of service (although I still find this hard to believe) but these sales would have been for milk only (on which we only make 15c per bottle) but our grocery sales have increased triple fold!

According to him (the previous owner) we won't cope over the summer months without this counter ... but hell ... I'm willing to take the gamble to prove him wrong!! lol

The other point he made was that customers were going across the road to the four square for their milk because they were having to wait too long to be served ... but infact we know from this mornings conversation to the milk man that his sales have gone down in milk!!

We also spoke to our staff member who used to work for the previous owners, who said that it's a load of sh** ... that she can't think of anyone who used to shop here that doesn't shop now.

So I really don't know where that came from or why he would say such a thing ... I'm appauled, dumb founded. I guess that's what happens in such a small community ... people have nothing else to do but to gossip and spread vicious rumours!!

Anyway our figures are increasing and I know we are doing a good job ... so stuff him and his evil rumour throwers!! lol

We're off to dinner now ... to forget the days worries!
Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 73.8kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

Makes you think ...

I read something in the latest ww mag that really inspired me. I thought I would put it on here for you guys (hope ww doesn't mind)

"Stop picking and save yourself up to 12.5pts! Yes, all that nibbling at leftovers really ads up. Without even knowing it, you could be eating around an extra two-thirds of your daily intake. We asked a Member, a mum with three kids, to let us take a look at her tracker for one day. This is what we found:

POINTS VALUE TRACKER


8am:

Half slice of toast left by toddler at breakfast, 0.5pt

Corner that fell off a block of cheese while making school lunches, 1pt
10am:

Lick of biscuit mixture from bowl, 1pt
10.30am:

Piece of leftover chocolate biscuit, 0.5pt
12.30pm:

Lick of peanut butter from knife after making sandwiches, 0.5pt

End of iced finger bun left by toddler 1pt

Lick of foil lid from full-fat creamy yoghurt, 0.5pt
3pm:3 broken biscuit peices while unpacking groceries, 1pt
3.30pm:

Handful of potato chips, left in a bowl by son, 1.5pts
5.30pm:

Few crumbs of cheese clinging to the grater, 0.5pt
6pm:

Dollop of leftover macaroni cheese, 1.5pts
6.30pm:

Lick of teaspoon dipped in golden syrup and small spoonful of crumble mixture, 1pt
8pm:

Glass of wine, 1.5pts

Total:

12pts!!

Reading this really hit home to me. I don't think it is exagerated and so often we wonder why we didn't have a loss. I am guilty of a few of the above things almost on a daily basis ... especially the cheese one!

Makes me realise how honest we have to be with ourselves, if we really want to get to goal!

Well that's my inspiration for the day... not much else to tell.

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 73.8kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

Awesome!!

We're back and we had an absolutely wonderful time!!! It was go, go, go, from dawn till we crashed at night! We fitted so much into the five days we were there.

To give a rough guideline of what we did ...

Wednesday morning we arrived at 9am to scorching heat!! I couldn't believe it could be so hot in Sydney in OCTOBER!! 38 degrees!! The highest temp on record in October for Sydney. Even tho it was so hot it was such a nice change from the continuous wet and cold weather we've been having here.

The rest of wednesday we spent catching up with my sister in law ... just chatting and relaxing.

Then Thursday morning the kids woke up rearing to go .... at 3.30am!!!! Poor things, according to their body clocks it was 6.30am, time for breakfast!! At 5am, after 1.5hrs of trying to gety them back to sleep I gave up and took Jese (the noisiest) for a walk in the stroller. An hour and 5pts later I arrived home to the rest of the household getting out of bed. (staying at my brothers house) So that was a good start to the day and a great way to set the tone for the holiday.

I decided when we first arrived that I wasn't going to record my food but I was going to track on my points calculator. And I would wear my bonus buddy everywhere, measure my bonus points and eat them all!!

After breakfast we headed out to Toronga zoo. Chris (sister-in-law) gave us really good train instructions how to get there) But we thought we would short cut and walk from Central station round to the ferry. On the map it only looked a short walk, except we lost our direction at the start and walked the wrong way!! lol ... We ended up at Darling harbour and had to walk all the way round the waterfront, under the bridge to the ferry ... a 1.5hr walk!! lol

We made it to the zoo by midday and the kids just loved it!! I got this really cool close up of the tiger (my favourite animal!)

Isn't he adorable??? (well behind the glass he is lol) And my camera pushes everything back further so you can imagine how close we actually were to him.

By 4pm we were ready to come home (to SIL place that is) so we got on the train and then met up with my brother and his family at Hornsby Mall .. wahooo ... I was in heaven!!! lol ... so we spent the rest of the evening shop, shop, shopping!!!
My new top, hard to see but it has white embroidery and beading all over the front

All up at the end of that very tiring day I had walked 19kms!!! and earnt 15 bonus points! (of course I only ate my 4 bonus points allowed each day) I was tired!!!

Friday morning kids were up bright and early again so we headed off for Paddy's market via the monorail. At 11.30am Chris took our kids home and left Bill and I for a wonderful few hours alone together. We went to Chinatown and we found a Yum Cha restaurant. I'd always wanted to try it ... it's really good too, given almost everything is steamed not fried... but I still ate too much!! lol

Then we finished off our shopping and headed home ...another exhausting day and another 6 or 7 bonus points earnt! That night we went round to friend's for a BBQ. A wonderful night catching up (it had been 8yrs since we'd seen them) and we had yummy salad and steak! But I ate a few too many chips and dip ... oh and the alcohol was a little on the high side but still ok if I caught up a little on the bonus points.

Saturday Bill and I went for another early morning walk before the household got up. Then it was off to Darling Harbour and the Powerhouse (an interactive museum). What an amazing place!! The kids had a blast!! so did us adults too! lol

By the time we got home we were all too tired to cook dinner so we got takeaways. Chinese, the lesser of all evils but I ate a little too much ... oh well I was on holiday

Sunday Bill and I went off to do some final shopping at the mall and I got my nails done! wahoo!!! Also bought myself a gourgeous solid silver bracelet :D

Then we got some groceries for lunch (salad and chicken wraps) fed our faces and then it was off to the airport. We left at 3pm and got there finally at 4.45pm ... wow Sydney is so big!! Checked in, had a quick look through duty free, grabbed a bottle of perfume and couple of bottles of wine and raced through to the boarding lounge. Grabbed some chips on the way through (our flight didn't include meals)... it cost $15 for 3 measly plates of chips. I put them on the table, grabbed the tomato sauce and covered all three plates in sauce. The kids got stuck in and then they all started coughing, complaining they were sour! I tried one and my eyes popped out of my head!! I had just covered all three plates in CHILLI SAUCE!!!! LOL I have to laugh now, at the time I was so stressed I nearly exploded!! Meanwhile they were doing the final call for our flight! So we left the chips and ran. Of course Jese then started to throw a trantrum because he couldn't finish his chips! I tell ya, talk about stress ... if I lost 1gram for every second of stress that night I would be a skinny woman now lol.

We made it on the plane in time (actually we weren't the last, second to last, but not last! lol)

Then it was a 3hr flight home but given the time difference meant it was 1am NZ time. Grabbed our bags, did the 10min journey to mums to pick up our cat, to be told at mum's that Chino (the cat) was stuck in the roof and wouldn't come down. He had been there all 5 days we were away. So at 1.30am we were calling, yelling, coaxing him. Finally he gave in and came down.

Then it was off for the 1.5hr drive home ... home at 3am and finally in bed by 3.30am!! What a day!!! what a week!!! AWESOME!!!

Now for the great news!! I went on holiday, had a blast, ate yummy food, had a few eating splurges ... but watched what I ate, did loads of walking (around 40kms all up) .... and ....

Weighin Result 18th October, 2004 ... 300g LOSS!!! I'm so excited and I just can't hide it (na naa na naa ...)

Couldn't finish off my week any better!!!

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 73.8kg (finally below 74kg)
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

Burying my head in the sand

Sorry Lynda you were wrong ... oh if I wish you were right!!! lol

I had a 100g gain tonight!!! Really wasn't expecting that one! AS in the words of the weigher tonight .. need a pee? maybe it's the time of the month? To which i agreed just to keep her quiet and sneak out of the room without any suspiction.

I don't know why ... well I have some suspicions ... I think I ate too little ... I came under points this week by 13pts and my sugar points were probably too high.

But for tonight I am buring my head in the sand. I'm rather pissed off!! Drank my sorrows away ... had myself a double scoop, chocolate dipped icecream (first in my time in the dairy) to make myself feel better. Haven't counted my points today. Don't really care for now.

I know it was only a 100g gain but as we always say when it's a loss ... a loss is a loss is a loss ... well tonight ... a gain is a gain is a gain!!!

Is okay ... i'll get over it ... I'm just wallowing ... I'm allowed tonight ... I'll get over myself and back onto plan tomorrow.

For now I'm wallowing!!! lol ... I'm allowed a moment to wallow!!

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 74.1kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

Nearly holiday time!!!

Yay only one more day of work before we fly out!!! Yippeeee!! Spent today doing all the washing to get everything ready before we leave tommorow night. I'm finally starting to get excited!

I got so busy in the shop yesterday (yes I'm well enough to get back to work again) that I forgot to eat! whoops lol.

My brother and brother-in-law came over for the day to do some fishing (unlucky not to catch anything tho) and they shouted us dinner. I opted for chinese, the lesser of evils, so lucky I had points saved up to use.

I was showing my brother the gap I talked about yesterday and he laughed that even he doesn't have a gap (he's tall and skinny). He reckoned I was just bow legged ... lol ... I don't mind either way ... I still have a gap!!! lol

Weigh in tonight and I'm hoping for another loss being my third loss in a row! Fingers crossed!

I had a lady in the shop comment today how slim I was getting and that she noticed I had lost more weight since being here at the beach ... big yay there!

The fridge man came to fix up the fridge and we need to totally defrost it (including the freezer part) before he can fix it. So it's a big vege soup/boilup for dinner. Problem being I always eat light before weighin and there's not much points in vege soup so might have to have a splurge out in a fancy dessert!! lol oh well! heheh!

I'll be back later on with weigh in results ... wish me luck!!

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 74.0kg
WWGW 65kg

Measurements and BMI drop down

Thanks for your well wishes ... I'm feeling alittle better this morning, although my nagging cough is still there.

I ended up soaking in a hot bath and went to bed for an early night, sure was needed!

I only ate 12.5pts yesterday. I just couldn't face the thought of eating the remainder points after dinner.

I finally took my measurements last night ... first time in nearly 6mths!! Well overdue! And I was pleasantly surprised to see the numbers go down again. Only by a small amount but considering I have been yo-yoing so much over the last 6mths I'm pretty happy with the figures.

Oh and I had another feel good moment yesterday afternoon ... Before I lost weight there was no way I could push my thighs together and have them touch all the way from my knees to my upper thighs. The only part that would touch would be the hugh mound of fat halfway between my knee and thigh leaving my knees apart with around a 5 or so cm gap. Am I making sence here?? lol

Anyway yesterday I put my knees together and get this ... there was a gap in the middle of my thighs big enough to put my hand through ... that's with pushing my thighs together as much as I could I still had a gap .... wahoooo!!! This time the gap was in the right place ... heheh!

Ok ... I've just taken a pic to show you guys what I mean ...


See the gap?????? lol

I also realised last night that I have dropped down another BMI number ... down to 26. I now only have one more number to drop before I'm in the 'healthy range' and officially not overweight anymore. Hard to believe I am nearly there.

It's funny because I still see myself as fat and I think that will be the case until I hit the magical goal weight. I'm also considering going below 71kg as my ww goal weight. This is the top of my healthy weight range but I still feel I have areas to work on. I always said I would wait till I got to goal before I finally decided on my exact goal weight I wanted to be. And given I am only 3kgs away I think I have alot more than 3kgs of fat to lose yet.

Wait and see I guess.
Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 74.0kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

I've caught the bug too

I've woken up this morning with the dreaded bug!! My chest is all constricted and I haven't felt like doing anything. Think it's going to be a lazy day for me doing not much.
A friend of ours said that at his son's school there were 150 kids out of 700 away on Monday so looks like there's a flu epidemic going round everywhere.
Done a quick tidyup this morning and then I'm just going to blob all day. Really not good timing with us all flying out on holiday to Sydney on Wednesday. Hopefully if I rest up enough I will be over it by then.
I filled up the fridge with fresh fruit and veges on Thursday and yesterday our fridge decided to pack a wobbly. It's only 10mths old so it's really annoying. I've rung Fisher & Pykel and it's still under warranty but the annoying thing is it will be Monday before the guy can get here to look at it ... so in the meantime our food is rotting in a fridge that's 18-20 degrees! (should be 0-10 degrees) ... oh well not much I can do about it.
Got the munchies late last night and Bill got out the smoked chicken. The whole time I was telling him not to, that we could save it for dinner tomorrow ... all the while he smiled and kept eating ... so I gave in and joined him!! lol Probably not good to be eating that late at night but hey I had the points saved to use it.
Haven't had any breakfast this morning ... just don't feel like eating. I'll try and get something in by lunchtime.
Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 74.0kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

Couldnt stop eating!

Thankyou all for you words of encouragement and support! Malachi is nearly back to his normal self again. Last day home from school for him today (still has a bit of a nagging cough) then it's back to school again Monday.

Over the past couple of days all the kids have caught Malachi's bug but luckily none of them have surcome to Croup... just meant a few sleepless nights for Bill and I while we have kids come into our bed for midnight cuddles while they are feeling so miserable.

Lauren has gone back to school today after having yesterday off and the others just have a runny nose now. So looks like we're nearly all back to normal again.

I worked most of yesterday in the shop and I don't know what came over me but I just couldn't get enough to eat. I kept wanting to eat lollies! So after a while I opened a packet of rice crackers so I could nibble away on them instead. Once that packet was finished I was looking around for something else. I haven't had the munchies like that for a very long time. I think it was a combination of being overtired and the fact that it was a slow day in the shop (pouring with rain all day) so I was bored.

I got home to a wonderful cooked dinner by Bill!! Scrambled eggs with the new chicken bacon, a wonderful new potato and some fresh steamed asparagas with cheese ontop (low fat of course). It just tasted wonderful, probably because I didn't have to cook it :)

I was really stressed out by my nibbling all day. I had tracked everything and worked out I was 6pts over for the day. But this morning on writing up my nibbling page I remembered I had 7pts saved up anyway so my stress was for nothing.

Then this morning my tummy was not happy, not sure why. Probably overload in sugar maybe. So I didn't have any breakfast or morning snack. I've come right now at lunchtime so had myself a devine salad, lite tuna, cottage cheese meal. I've really come to enjoy my salads. It helps by having flash stuff in it, not just lettuce, tomato and cucumber. I bought some sesame seed, pinenut, pumkin seed sprinkle at only 0.5pt per serve and have a whole array of different dressings I can use and Bill bought me a whole tray (about 15 cans) of lite sundried tomato tuna at 1pt per can to put on top ... yum, yum, yum!! I've never been a salad person but I think thats because a salad used to be so boring but with adding all the little extras makes it so nice!

Anyway I'm starting to babble on so I'll sign off here
Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 74.0kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

What a night!!!

We have just arrived home from HOSPITAL!! Malachi (6) came home from school yesterday with a really bad 'bark' cough. The teacher had rung from school to say he wasn't well. So I kept my eye on him and he seemed to be okay (other than the continual coughing).

Then at around 6pm he started coughing fits and couldn't stop. He couldn't catch his breath in between coughing and started to panic. His wheezing became really bad also, so I put him in the bathroom and turned the hot water on, gave him some ventalin and called my sister to ask for advice (she's a paramedic).

She said call 111 straight away!!! I don't know why but I just hate calling an ambulance for anything unless it is life/death situation, but Trish assured me that it could be if he was left like that. So I did as I was told.

The ambulance arrived and he seemed to calm down and get better with the oxygen they gave him. They decided to take him to the local doctor to get his chest checked out and 20mins later they were back at the doorstep saying the doctor wanted him taken to Tauranga hospital.

We got there around 9pm and they admitted him overnight. He has apparently got Croup which is an viral infection of the main airways to the lungs, causing swelling and hense the breathing difficulty. Quite scary for a little 6yr old to go through. They gave him oxygen and predisone (sp) and went off to sleep while I bunked down on a mattress beside him.

This morning arrived and he was a different boy!! The medication did wonders!! He was no longer wheezing and his cough has gone back to a regular cough (not a bark). The doctor said it was really rare to see Croup in a 6yr old. Normally it effects 1-3yr olds.

10am this morning we finally got let out and have just got home. I'm keeping him home from school for the rest of the week but he's well on the way to a good recovery already.

Foodwise ... I did well all day with points (check out my daily nibbling page) and after Malachi was finally asleep at the hospital I went for a walk to chill out. I came across an evil vending machine!! lol ... for a minute or so I contemplated giving in to it's wicked ways and getting myself a chocolate bar. Then I remembered I had a ww crisp bar in my bag. I came back with the thought of getting a V but they only had regular V in the machine (not sugarfree) and for another few minutes I argued the pro's and con's of giving in to it, after all the stress I went through tonight surely I deserve something with lots of points in it! lol But I quickly scolded myself and realised I had half a bottle of Mizone in my bag which is just as nice and noway near the points.

So I think I coped pretty well under the circumstances. Isn't it funny tho how when we go through stress that means we are suddenly allowed to eat bad things in someway to compensate and 'make it even' ... but in reality the scales don't care what stress you have had to endure ... they just read what fat you have.

One more hurdle overcome!
Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 74.0kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

I'm finally getting there!

Wonderful result!! Another 800g gone!! Yeah baby! This is the first time in a very long time I have have 2 good losses in a row (and been ontrack for over 3wks without any ummm ... waywardness lol)

Not alot to say other than that ... that really says it all!! Only 3kg to goal ... wahooOo!!!

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 74.0kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

Planning pays off

For some reason last night I felt FAT!!!! Really don't know why ... infact this morning on the scales my weight is down again from yesterday and will probably (I say probably because nothing is 100% gauranteed with ww scales lol) be in for a loss tonight.

I hadn't drunk any excess water (any more than usual) and my dinner was a light one (stirfry veges, chicken and salad), it's not TTOM for me ... hmm ... so don't know what was going on there. It actually put me in a really bad mood and I ended up commisorating with a drink or two. I still kept within my weekly points but there was no reason for it really.

Isn't it funny how sometimes we feel fat for no reason and other times we feel skinny? Our bodies are strange things :)

One thing I've done this week, which is a huge achievement for me, is cut down on my carbs. I'm a major carb-addict!! Infact I've always said I could never do the low-carb diet because I just love my pasta, rice, potatos and bread toooooo much!!! But I've started having no bread for lunch and replacing it with salad and either tuna, salmon or ham. And I actually haven't missed the bread.

Then last night I even skipped on the pasta for dinner!! This is a major achievement!!! I ALWAYS have either pasta, rice or potatoes with dinner!! But last night I cooked a stirfry with veges and chicken ... boiled up pasta but only gave that to Bill and the kids and put a big salad on my plate instead. It really cut my points down for the meal. I only used 2pts (for the chicken) instead of the normal 7 or 8pts (if I had of included the pasta). I was also going to add a stirfry sauce (2.5pts per serve) but instead I just used a little garlic, soy sauce and spices and it tasted just great!! Imagine??? A meal for only 2pts and I was satisfied!!

I also cooked up some rhubarb and used sucral (sp) to sweeten it ... meaning 0pts!!! Amazing what a bit of creative planning does!

Looking forward to weighin tonight! Not going to guess what it will be (learnt my lesson on that one). Just have to wait and see!

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 74.8kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg

Tiring day

We had planned for me to have today off but Bill starting feeling unwell around 10am so i sent him home and held the fort on the shop. We had staff coming in to help at 12pm so it wasn't all that bad. We did an awesome turnover today!!! $500 more than our previous best day! Amazing what some sunshine will do.

I've been really good with my eating. My weight was way down the other day but was back up a little this morning (still a loss tho) so not sure what will happen by Monday.

Bill and I took the kids for a walk along the gorge yesterday. I took some photos but won't be able to get them up till tomorrow, sorry too tired to do it right now.

On the way home we got held up with a huge line of cars. Turns out there was an accident, car vs. truck and trailer ... yeowch!! The road was closed for an hour. We thought it would been longer than that. There were ambulances there but we heard no one was killed.

Ummm ... not much else to say today. Thanks for all your kind words below ... every single one is cherished!!!

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 74.8kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65kg