Must go to ww ... don't wanna!!

Well I'm definately in for a gain tonight ... hopefully minimal. Totally deserved tho! I guess we're all allowed bad weeks like this. I've had brief thoughts of not going but I know I need to go to keep myself ontrack. As long as it's below a 1kg gain I'll be happy enough.

Jackie came into the shop on Saturday to say hi. Although I wasn't there, but she gave all her contact details to Bill for me to catch up with her so looking forward to that. She's here for 5 days so hoping to catch up with her in the next day or so. I absolutely love meeting readers/writers of other journals.

I've had 2 weeks to think about my decision of taking on the leadership role for ww. I'm still undecided about it. Most of me wants to say yes I'd love to do it but a small part says that I may be over committing myself. With two shops to run in the next few months, 4 kids to keep an eye on, running a ww meeting might put me over the edge. Hmmm ...just really don't know on this one. Might have another talk to my leader tonight and see what she says.

Well as always I'll let you know later on tonight what the weighin results are.

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 69.1kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65-68kg

L-L-Loser!! Not!

Thanks everyone for all your well wishes! Awesome!!

I'd love to say that with everything going so well that my eating/weight is going well too. But my self control has packed it's bags and gone on holiday this week. I haven't gone crazy but just lost that control edge that's so important for keeping weight off.

I was saying to a friend of mine who was struggling weightlosswise while going through stress that it's really hard to deal with other issues and weightloss at the same time.

The words of encouragement and advice rolled off my tongue so easily. Like yeah, yeah I've been there done that, don't worry you'll be fine. But in reality it's a lot harder to do than say.

I told her that weightloss needs to be my priority and if other things come along that take away the number one focus my weightloss slips. This week has been one of those weeks for me. GST week for a start!! Trying to get it all to balance, finding missing dollars, preparing accounts, graphs and profit and loss reports for the bank to secure finance. The whole waiting game for both the lease and finance. It's all turned out great but sheesh what a week of stress in the meantime!!

It's ok, I know what I need to do. Now that things are starting to settle again (before the next big wave of life hits us) I can start focusing alittle more on weightloss.

I have TOM due next week and this week is always hard in the self control department, without the extra stresses to top it off.

I just want today and tommorrow to get over with so I can get to weighin Monday, record the gain and get onto another week with a new start.

Roll on Monday!
Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 69.1kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65-68kg

Bring on the sun

I couldn't say anything before now because I didn't want my brother finding out via here about the surprise .... but now that he knows ... guess what????

We're going to Fiji!!!!! My parents have shouted our whole family as well as my sister, her husband, my brother and his family and my younger brother fully paid holiday to Fiji!!!! Wahoooo!! So the whole lot of us including mum and dad are all going in August!!! yay I'm so excited!!

They presented this wonderful gift to us at a dinner we had a couple of weeks ago. I was in tears!! It is such a cool gift, especially since we missed out on going in August last year. And going this year means I can lie on the beach in my bikini ... at goal!! Yay!!

I'm so glad I can finally tell you guys, I've bursting for the last few weeks! lol A nice finish to two and a half years of hard work! :)

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 69.1kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65-68kg

yay!!

You're all waiting to hear if I had a loss ... right? ... yay I did!! a 200g loss!!! I was sus as to whether it would come back as a loss earlier today but was plesantly surprised to have the weigher say it was good news!!

Think I might agree with the Leptin theory tonight.

Last night i managed in a 30min run and 100 crunchies. Maybe that helped :)

Not much else to tell!

Catcha
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 69.1kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65-68kg

Leptin ... interesting

Well shoot me down and gag me with a spoon!! My weight is down today, yeah like not just less of a gain after my blowouts on Monday, Tuesday but looking like an actual LOSS this week!

I'm agasp at this ... Monday had a blowout (planned, so ok)
... Tuesday had another blowout (unplanned, bad, bad, bad, didn't track)
... Wednesday ate reasonable good, made good food choices, did huge amounts of exercise, but still didn't count points
... Thursday, Friday, Saturday ... was a perfect angel, tracked points, ate wisely, saved 2-3pts each day and did exercise...

Now today, Sunday morning, the scales are down. Theoretically they should be up because I am actually over points for the week, well I don't actually know because I didn't track on those bad days, but I'm sure I would be over.

My theory on this is the Leptin article that I read about via Kimba's journal yesterday (thankyou Kimba!!). And Lynda has also mentioned it previously too. I kinda knew what it was about and my common sence worked it out to be that way but to actually have it explained properly is fantastic. I really recommend you having a read of it. The article kinda gets very scientific and analytical into the process of burning fat but overall it's some helpful info.

Basically, to summerise ... (and Kimba and Lynda correct me if I'm wrong here) ... if your food intake is too low your Leptin levels drop which effects alot of other things in your body (metabolism, thyroid levels etc) to tell them hard times are ahead and to conserve energy. But if you have what they call a "refeeding" day your Leptin levels will suddenly rise, and positively effecting metabolism. Of course if you kept eating higher and higher all the time, you would have gains but by having 1 or 2 high point days it raises your Leptin levels and tells your body to increase motabolism.

Don't everyone suddenly go eating heaps and not counting points because of this theory ... you'll all get me in trouble!! lol

But basically it solidifies the Wendie Plan theory in my head and shows why when I had a big calorie intake this week then went back to eating my proper points I am actually (at this stage... might all change by tomorrow) showing a loss.

Food for thought huh? What's everyone else's thoughts on this?

Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 69.3kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65-68kg

for the record

Ok I'm over it now ... I'm officially back ontrack again ... finished my whole day yesterday ontrack and saved a couple of points ... yay me!!

Ummmm ... lol ... got nothing else to tell yas about today. Just wanted it to be onrecord that I'm done with my blowout and back doin my trackin thang again :)

Off to find out what everyone else is upto ...

Catch!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 69.3kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65-68kg

I need a clean slate, this one's getting messy!

Yeah I know what I need to do ... sometimes when we're in the midst of it all, it all seems so hard. Like so much effort is needed just to stay slim.

As usual after a good nights sleep everything gets put back into perspective and life goes on.

I made the decision on Wednesday to work off my points that I went over on Tuesday night. Normally this is good for me but this week it just didn't work. I think it started with not quite knowing how many points I went over. Kinda like I need to save but who knows how much?? So yesterday I started out with a healthy breaky, a good walk down the beach, then filled roll for lunch, another 1hr walk down by the Waikato River (we were in Hamilton overnight getting stock) then Bill spontaniously decided to take me out for dinner. I hadn't planned any point saving for that?? I walked up and down the main street twice!! to find the most point friendly restaurant. We settled on one that seemed good. I ordered my dressing on the side of my salad but the stupid people went and poured olive oil over everything. Sure had the dressing on the side but olive oil ... what a waste???? Then I figured I may as well have dessert since I blew the mains! Of course choosing something light ... mango and guava pulp in filo pastry with icecream, but I forgot to ask for no icecream! Grrrrr ... and of course I wasn't in any state of mind to not eat it by that stage!!! I tell ya this week is going down hill!!!

I have decided today to not save points back but to just start with a clean slate!! I'd have to eat nothing all week to save enough points for these blowouts!! LOL I started today off with a good grocery shop!! That always gets me motivated to carry on!!

I had a wonderful smoked salmon salad for lunch ... yum, yum!! (and only 2.5pts!!) And I have lots of wonderful lowpoint options to choose for dinner.

You are all right ... this was just a blimp in the road, but I needed my day to sulk about it all!! lol

Weighin is going to be an absolute shocker on Monday but that's ok ... we're all allowed some of those :)

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 69.3kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65-68kg

why? why? why?

Lynda ... yeah I know I should change the vertual model! I did that back 5kgs ago and I set the scale to "big boned" because I didn't truelly believe I looked as slim as the model looked to me. But you're right I think I do need to adjust it a little now.
Confession time ...
I wasn't going to update today, I really didn't want to face you guys, well not you as readers but the fact that I feel like an utter hypocrit!!
We found out yesterday that the new pizza place opening across the road is going to be selling novelty icecreams, iceblocks, rolled icecreams, slushies and drinks along with their pizzas. Is there anything we sell that they're NOT copying?? Not much!! I was soooo wild when I found out!! It's great having new businesses open up here but for pete's sake ... they're a pizza/chicken/burger bar!!! Not an icecream parlour as well!!! Fine to have drinks, but rolled icecreams?? Anyway I was so angry when I heard and I was at the shop by myself. And I cringe to say it ... but there was a bottle of bourben there ... I know, I know ... I said I would never have bourben at the shop after last time... but it was just left there from the night before when I left it behind by accident after our dinner out.
So I poured myself a strong drink to chill myself out ... ouchy ... please don't slap me (my face is literally cringed up right now as I type for the complete shame I feel) ... here I am supposing to be the inspiration ... the 60's girl ... the potential new ww leader ... the one who has made it ... and I totally blow it!!! One glass turned into many, many. My blow out once a week on Monday nights is planned and I have no guilt about that because it is just once a week ... but two nights in a row??? It's not good!!
I guess the only tiny positive thing I can say is there was half a block of chocolate open at the shop (don't know how it got there, wasn't me) as well as a free sample of a new white chocolate & smarties bar coming out. I considered eating all the chocolate there!! (white chocolate is my favourite) I had one piece of the open block and decided it wasn't actually that nice so went against the idea of eating it all and left it at that one piece ... but it wasn't that long after that it all went downhill with the bourben bottle.
I went waaaaaaay over points ... wouldn't have a clue how many. My 23pt allowance finished before the drinks started!
I feel a tiny bit better for getting all that out ... thankyou for all your tags, it means a huge bunch, but I kinda killed it all today with my bad example ... kids, don't do this at home!!!
Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 69.3kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65-68kg

I'm a disco queen!!

I'm doing the disco dance today!!! Cuz I'm a 60's girl!!!! 69.3kg ... Ohhhh yeahhh baby!!!! lol

900g lighter and doin the disco thang!!! LOL Nailed that one in the butt!! This brings my total lost to 38.1kg wahoooo!! And it also takes my BMI down one more number to 24 ... now I'm not just one the borderline of being fat. Feels fantastic! Now that I'm nearly 2kg under my goal weight I feel like I'm not going to accidently slip over the line again.

And I just realised that I have now lost 6 stone ... yay! I've put two little icon thingys in my achievements section on the left ... a 6 stone gem and a little 60's girl hippie :)

Sorry I didn't update my "wahooo news" last night but Bill ended up taking me out for dinner ... awww yeah ok he is a romantic lol (after all my complaining yesterday) Ok, ok ... I was wrong!! (I don't often admit that lol)

We went to a local restaurant and I had it in my brain that I wanted to order whatever I wanted ... no points counting tonight. I had deep fried cambenbergh for starters .... yummmoo (sokay it was only 3 little pieces) then seafood platter for mains (skipped on the chips and asked for double salad) but I just couldn't get through it and Bill laughed at me because I had taken all the batter off everything and eaten the insides lol ... I just could help myself!!! lol ... And even tho I promised myself dessert, had even chosen out the one I wanted ... the most decatant point filled thing ... when it came to ordering it ... I WAS TOO FULL!! So gave up and went home! lol ... even when I purposely want to have a night off weightloss food I end up eating light anyway lol. Probably just as well, meaning no guilts today :)

Some other exciting news ... After my ww meeting last night my leader asked me if I would become a ww leader ... wow talk about out of the blue!! I have such admiration for my leader, she is such an inspiration!! and filled with so many wise things to say! So to fill those shoes seems a little overwelming and impossible task, but she is retiring soon and wants someone to take over her role. I feel totally honoured at being asked but ... oh my gosh ... I really don't know ... my head is filled with all sorts of questions and doubts. Can I do it? What will I say? Will everyone leave? Can I be responsible and inspiring enough? I have to really think about this one.

There's a few other issues to consider too ... like I want to enter slimmer of the year and I can't if I'm a leader (well I can enter the staff section but that's not really quite the same) and can I fit it into our busy life with the shop? It's not just the meeting but all the prep work. But I don't work fulltime so maybe it will give me an interest/hobby. After all I do live/breathe weightwatchers lol. I have a couple of weeks to think about it ... I really need some feedback (both negative and positive) from you guys on this one ...

Well better go get this house tidy!! After all I have a cleaner coming this afternoon!!! hehehe

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 69.3kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65-68kg

That's not what I ordered

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!

My hubby has bought me the most romantic pressie out!!! ... NOT!!! I was thinking jewellery ... romantic picnic dinner on the beach ... nice new outfit ... nup ... a cleaner!! lol Don't get me wrong it will be a big help having someone come in and clean one day a week but hey ... for valentines day?????? lol

We went out for a lovely dinner with mum and dad and the rest of the family last night, to celebrate them selling the farm. Was a really nice night! My younger brother is shifting down to Christchurch (from Auckland) so was a good chance to catch up with him a last time for probably quite a while.

We went to Cafe Alma in Hamilton where Bill and I had gone a few months back. Last time I really enjoyed their food but was a little dissapointed with my meal last night. I had scoured the menu for the best choice and was happy with my choice of Grilled Snapper on a bed of bean sprouts, noodles and seasonal veges.

But when it arrived, sure it was grilled but it was DROWNED IN BUTTER!! Both the fish, sprouts and veges were dripping so much that there was a puddle a foot deep of butter left on my plate when I'd finished!! It makes me soooo wild when I think I've made a good choice, you know ... sacrificed all the really yummy things you would LOVE to have but know would be too high in points and compromise on something that sounds ok and low point ... only to find out its NOT LOW POINT!!! Grrrrrr!!!

Guess I have to be happy that we had a great night catching up with everyone. One thing I am proud of ... I drank water all night, no alcohol and NO DESSERT!! I actually got talked into having dessert so I chose fruit salad with passionfruit sorbet, but I was really too full. I didn't want to be the only one not ordering. Then the waiter came out to say that the two people who had ordered the apple crumble had to rechoose because they had run out. So we decided to all not have any dessert ... yay good choice!!

We went back to mum and dad's for a coffee instead and I tried a blackberry and apple tea that mum had. I'm not normally a tea drinker but this was really nice!! Might have to add that to my pantry.

I had dreams all night that this morning the scales would take me back up to 75kg with the heavy meal I'd just had. But was relieved this morning to see the scales being nice to me!! Not going to reveal exactly what they said because I don't want to jinx weighin tonight ... lol ... but should hopefully be good news ;)

Lynda .. LOL your comment about not losing any more weight .... hmmm ... I hear you but not sure I can do that just yet! lol ... I still have a few little areas to tweak. The week before I dropped down from maintenance points of 24, down to 20pts because of the magazine story/photos being done, but this week I have gone back up to 23pts. Basically how they work maintenance is that for 6wks you adjust your points up and down by 1pt depending on whether you lose/gain or stay the same. Well the week I'd done 24pts I stayed the same, that was a little close to the line for me. This week I've dropped them down to 23pts instead. So I'll see how tonights weighin goes as to whether I stick to 23pts.

I have decided tho that with my tweaking I'm going to do some muscle work rather than weightloss. I'll keep on maintenance points now and get out the video workouts. The photographer from the magazine really recommended the Windsor Pilates DVD saying her model friends had amazing fast results with it. For now I only have the ww exercise DVD so I'll start on that anyway.

Tonight I'm hoping to get to my next goal ... to be a 60's girl!! I only have 300g to go ... here's hoping!!!

I'll be back tonight with weighin results.

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 70.2kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65-68kg

I love that tapemeasure

The photo shoot was the coolest!! (for those who don't know yet I'm having a magazine article written about my weightloss (sorry can't disclose which magazine it is yet).

I was REALLY NERVOUS!! I don't normally get nervous for much but I sure was for this. I spent the day before getting my hair coloured (funky red with blonde streaks) then yesterday morning getting my nails and makeup.

They arrived (deputy editor and photographer) around 2.30pm and I was SOOOO RELIEVED to see they were everyday, down-to-earth people just like me!!! We got on really well and everything flowed perfectly!! I really can't say too much more than that, other than it went really well and you'll all have to wait and see when it comes out for any details ... heheh .... meanie huh?

Angie and Kimba ... no sorry it's a NZ mag but they're giving me an online version that I can put up on my website when it's published so you can all read it and see the pics. Not sure when that will be yet but I'll keep you posted!

Bizarrely enough I've had 2 different people comment in the last week how they have noticed I have suddenly lost a lot more weight in the last couple of weeks. Yet my actual weightchart hasn't done any big leaps downwards in that time. Yes I have losses constantly lately but not big ones. And then this morning I put on some jeans that I hadn't warn in the last month. They're size 12 jeans that when I bought them 2mths ago were snug ... fitted but with no room for weightgain lol. Well today they are hanging off me. Shoulda seen the shock on my face!

I tried on the Japanese dress that I bought in Sydney in October ... you know the one that the stupid sales lady told me to buy a size 16 in and I almost didn't buy because of the matchstick sizing. Well that's hanging off me too.

So I got suspicious with these details and decided to investigate further by getting the tapemeasure out. I usually do my measurements every 6-8wks and it's only been 5wks since I last did them but hey I wanted to know if indeed I had lost more cms like the evidence suggested. According to the scales I've only lost 2kgs in the last 5wks ...which I'm not complaining about but wouldn't think it would be enough to match the results the wonderful tapemeasure told me!!!

My actual measurements and graphs are here if you want to check them out, but before you do ... here some things I noticed!!

1. For the very first time in this whole journey MY ABDOMEN IS SMALLER THAN MY CHEST!! That means that I am finally a spunky woman ... you know like a "chest exclamation mark", not a "yeah she's got a chest but also a big BUTT!!!" This whole journey my abdomen and hips have been fighting for first place with my chest being well behind in definate third place ... but now my chest is coming up from behind (LOL that didn't sound right!) ... is passing the abdomen and into second place behind my hips. Very happy with my proportions now :)

2. I've lost 12.5cms in the last 5wks!! This blows my mind!!! Normal is around 5 - 8.5cm in 6 WEEKS! It's so weird ... because wieghtwise I haven't suddenly jumped down ... just plodding as always. But ya know what? I reckon it's the cutting out carbs for dinner thing I started a month ago or so. I'm not normally a huge supporter of "low-carb/no carb" diets but for me this has really made a difference. I still eat carbs for breakfast and lunch, just not in my dinner meal (meaning I cut out all pasta/rice and potatoes) Ok to get the hugeness of this sacrifice ... my favourite food in the whole world is pasta!! If I go to a restaurant, I always get pasta ... ask my mum ... I'M A PASTA FREAK!!! lol ... But I decided about a month ago I really wanted to get to goal and kick this final fat in the butt and if I had to sacrifice pasta I was in a headspace willing to do it! Now I know I told you last time that anything I couldn't do for life I wouldn't do for weightloss ... I still agree ... I've cut out pasta as a regular/normal food and put it in the "special once in a while treat" catagory.

3. I have lost a grand total of 150.5cms of my whole body since I started!! That's like over a metre and a half!!! That blew my mind! 36cms of it has come off my abdomen!! I've gone from having an abdomen measuring 127cms to 91cms now. And I lost 5cms of that in the last 5wks! That's my worst part of my body (well WAS my worst part lol) I had the classic apron tummy ... you know the overhang between the belly button and thighs ... like a huge tire that ran around. Even at 9mths pregnant with all 4 kids I still had the spare tire thing. I absolutely hated it!! As a teenager I used to dare myself to cut it off!! lol Of course I was too scared to do that! But for once my spare tire has nearly gone... it's not totally flat (yet) but very nearly there. I now have a nice hourglass figure without any deformity of a spare tire that shouldn't be there.

4. I have lost 5cms of fat off my NECK!! Can you believe that? 5cms worth of fat that used to be layered around my neck!! It's gone from being 36.5cms to 31.5cms.

There's a few of the cool moments I had this morning. I tell ya that tapemeasure is a really neat tool, shows the real picture that the scales don't always show. I dare ya ... go on get the tapemeasure out, you might find something that makes your day!

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 70.2kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65-68kg

Nothing to say

Ok my life has entered boring mode! But I'm not really complaining, I had too much drama last year!! lol

I'm feeling well again. Really don't know what was up with that. My only thought was that I had a drink from a sipper bottle on Monday, that I'd had while I was sick last week, so maybe I got recontaminated ... hmmm ... but then I thought once you had a bug your body built immunity against it ... lol ... who knows?? but hey I'm better now so who cares??

Ok I've decided since I've "been there/done that" with this weightloss thing that I need to start being more inspirational ... like come up with all this wonderful inspirational advice on how to do it!! Trouble is I can't think of anything!! lol

But seriously I have always said this and it's the best thing I can possibly say ... WEIGHT WATCHERS WORKS ... IF you follow it!!! So many people say they did all the diets and nothing worked!! You know the wonderful miracle diets that advertise "NOTHING ELSE WORKED EXCEPT FOR THIS!!" That's a load of crock in my mind. As soon as I read anything like that I immediately think it's a sham, a money maker!!

There is no miracle cure for obesity!! Any "diet" you do for long enough, as long as you properly do it, will make you lose weight. Problem being can you do it forever?? If not, you may lose but you won't keep it off.

I also hear of so many people that go hard out on Weight Watchers ... telling themselves they can't have anything, can't have chocolate, can't have alcohol, have to run 10miles a day. Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with doing this ... but is it real? Can it be done for life? If not then IT'S A WASTE OF TIME!! That weight will go back on as quick as it came off!! We have to be real about weightloss. We have to be real with ourselves. I'd love to be a superhuman that could say no to anything above 10pts, and have the motivation to go for a 10km run everyday ... but shock horror I'm not superhuman (yeah I know you all thought I was!! lol)

We have to be able to live with ourselves for having our chocolate and our alcohol and our slack days. I'm also not saying that it's ok to eat whatever we want and never exercise... far from it! What I am saying is that everything has to be planned and budgeted for.

Every Monday night (incase you didn't realise it before now) I have a blow out!! But it's a planned blow out. I save my points for the week, I eat lightly on weighin day ... then come Monday night after weightwatchers I have my special treats. During the day I dream about what I'm going to have. I usually have a list a mile long in my head ... Magnums, triple scoop icecreams, KFC, Burger King, Bourben, chips, dip!! The works!!! But when it comes to deciding what I actually want I usually choose something realitivily low point. It's more the thought that I CAN HAVE IT IF I WANT IT ... that is the nice part. My weightwatchers brainwashed brain (just kidding) can't think any differently. I still have something nice but it's pulled back into reality .. like a 70cent kiddy cone icecream, not a triple scoop, and seafood chowmein, not KFC, and a ww icecream, not a magnum, rice crackers, not chips, salsa, not dip.

The point is we have to reward ourselves, give ourselves the important treats! Otherwise we rebell against ourselves, we rebell against what we are doing ... but my most important point in this entry ... IT MUST BE PLANNED!!! Continual unplanned eating will lead to weightgain!!

Wow that was pretty inspirational huh? lol ... considering I didn't think I had anything to say today! lol

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 70.2kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65-68kg

It's back

Thankyou Barb and Deanne for your nice words on my tagboard!

Life is pretty eneventful the last few days. I've managed to come down with the same bug I had last week ... AGAIN!! My horrible throat infection is back! I didn't know you could get sick twice in two weeks with the same bug! Grrrr!! With it being so hard to swallow it's making eating a bit of a mission, guess that's good for the weightloss. But I absolutely hate being sick. I'm such a bad patient! lol

In answer to your question Lynda about whether or not I'll list my website in the article of course it's up to the editor but I would like my website listed. I did this website firstly for myself but equally to help others see that weightloss is a process with lots of ups and downs. So I'd like to help as many people as I possibly can.

I won't however be listing anyone else's website in the article as it's a personal decision for each person, not my decision. Now I have a list of websites I recommend on my "cool links" page. If you have a website listed on there but don't want it to be listed after this article comes out, let me know now, so I can take it off.

Sheesh that was a bit serious huh? lol ... ya never know they might come and take my photos and realise they've made a horrible mistake! hehehe

Anyway I'm off to take some more pills and rest up to get rid of this thing.

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 70.2kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65 - 68kg

Had myself worried!!!

Weigh in tonight brought me down another 400g. Secretly damn relieved with that one. The magazine is coming on Friday to do photos and their interview and I was dead scared I'd put on heaps of weight and put myself above goal again!! lol ... but all that worry was for nothing. Lucky!!!

Yay only 300g to go and I'm a 60's girl!!!!! Whoop Whoop!!! Can't wait for that day to arrive!!

Sorry nothing else exciting to share tonight ... a 400g loss is good enough news for one day ... I'm celebrating!!!

Ohhh BTW ... incase any of you missed it... it did a little play around with my photo pic above and the mouseover pic at the top... got bored and thought it was about time I changed it.

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 70.2kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65 - 68kg

Party animals

Thanks for all your suggestions! I think the triathalon idea is a good one that I can combine different sports to finally decide what I want to specialise in. Although one big issue is TIME ... story of my life ... there is never enough time to fit everything in.

Thursday morning I started to come right regarding my throat infection. Although my belly button piercing was starting to look a bit yucky ... a horrible infection had got in there. Think it was a sign of my body being run down. I went off to the doctor to get some antibiotics and only a day later it was looking much better. I really don't like taking antibiotics and only when I absolutely have to. But the thought of having to take my navel piercing out motivated me enough to get medical intervention. Lucky I did ... it's back to normal now.

Wednesday night Bill suprised me with the news of a two day getaway to Rotorua. Almost said I couldn't go because I was feeling so yuck. But Thursday morning (day of our departure) arrived and I was feeling well enough to go. We got away around lunchtime after giving endless instructions to our friend who was bravely looking after 4 kids for the time we're away.

We stopped off at a roadside cafe just out of Tauranga for lunch. Set in a beautiful garden surrounding with secada tunes filling the air. I ordered a grilled chicken salad with avacado and cajun dressing. Proud to say I asked for the dressing on the side and to be prepared as low fat as possible. Unfortunately they obviously don't know that pouring olive oil over the whole dish is NOT LOW FAT!! I compensated by only using the minute amount of dressing and giving half my avocado and some chicken to Bill. Devine meal but very hard to point.

Then it was off to Rotorua. We arrived around 3pm, booked into our hotel room.... wahoo I was spoilt ... Royal Lakeside Novotel!!! We then did a spot of shopping for a couple of hours. Picked myself up a pair of size 10 (wahoo!!!) pinstrip three quarter pants and suede slippons at half price (gotta love a bargain!!).

Went back to the Hotel to freshen up for dinner. An hour later I was finally ready (ok, ok I had a bad hair day alright? lol) We walked all the restaurant streets looking for the healthiest choice and finally settled on the Fat Dog and I chose the most devine meal I have ever tasted!!! The Venison Medallions ~ Tender venison served with a kumara mash plump green beans and balsamic marinated field mushrooms with a blueberry & red wine jus. YUM YUM YUMMMY!!! And I think a pretty healthy choice too!! Had one glass of white wine and I was quite within points for the day.

We walked past a few bars on the way back to see if anything exciting was happening ... not much. Figuring it was only 8.30pm by this time we stopped off for a game of pool. A couple of games later I was tired and tummy full ... I just wanted to head back to the room to bed!! Party pooper I know! lol ... Bill told me that ... all the way back to the room!! lol He convinced me to go down to the hotel bar for a couple of drinks first. Then somehow (not sure how) he coersed me into going back out on the town. Dragging my feet and yawning the whole way (old fart aren't I? lol) we jumped into a taxi and asked him to take us to the best nightlife in Rotorua. He dropped us off at the Pig and Whistle

We could hear good music coming out so off we went. There were a few people round but nothing major happening. I was sick of walking so told Bill I was planting myself there and NOT MOVING, too bad if it wasn't going off lol. Rotoruanites must be late night owls because come 11pm suddenly it went off!!! People came in and started dancing ... and after quite a few drinks I was finally ready to dance. lol ... okay, takes a while for me to get the courage up ... or should I say takes quite a bit of alcohol. Then we danced for the next hour and a half till they closed at 1am.

A group of us decided to go find somewhere else and there was a mention of the name Lava Bar ... wow that place just rocked!!!! It's been a few years since I felt that young ... and get this!!! I hugged the bouncer and told him I loved him on the way in because he wanted to see my ID!!! How cool is that!! lol ... the first time in like 10yrs that I've been asked for ID. I didn't have any on me so showed him my line of stretch marks on my belly ... this is four kids later and no one that young could have had four kids and this many stretch marks!!! He smiled and told me to go on in ... ya gotta love that!!!

By this stage I had counted up 40pts for the day!! whoops a little over (and yes I was still counting them lol) So figured I needed to do a little more dancing and a little less drinking. So that's what we did till 4am in the morning ... danced the night away and it was a night to remember!!!!

I was actually suprised to wake up without a hangover, mind you think the dancing and water drinking helped with that. 11am we finally checked out of the room and headed off to find the greasiest breakfast Bill could find!! lol (yes he was hungover) We ate another devine meal at Capers And I ordered the Buttermilk Pancakes with 2 Rashers of Bacon, Roasted Bananas and Maple Syrup served with Fresh Seasonal Fruit (maple syrup on the side and I left 1 of the 2 pancakes, deciding I'd had enough ... yay me!!)

Then it was off to get some exercise in ... after all I had 40pts to burn off!! lol ... well no ... had 7.5pts saved up and with the dancing/exercise I worked out it was actually only 4 or 5pts I needed to work off. Still I'm always in for a nice walk.

We started driving as the rain fell down. It got heavier and heavier and we almost changed our minds. 20mins drive south of Rotorua we found the Waimangu Volcanic Valley ... wow what a place!! Fascinating!! I'm glad we still decided to go because as we got there the rain cleared up and the sun even came out!

We went on a 2hr hike through all the volcanic areas ... amazing scenery!! Bill took this pic of me infront of an artificial looking but totally natural blue water pond ...

As we got back to the car the rain came down!! Talk about pefect timing! I well and truelly earnt my 4 or 5pts needed. After grabbing a quick salad roll for lunch we headed back home, more tired than when we left! lol but we had an absolute blast!!!

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 70.6kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65 - 68kg

for life??

Thought is was bout time I did another update. Life is on standstill at the moment ... I'M SICK! I have a horrible throat infection that has had me up all night for the last two nights and not able to do anything but lie on the couch all day. I feel so lazy when I'm like this but my body just can't cope with doing anything else.

I feel a little more energised today so hopefully that's a sign I'm coming out of it.

I had an email from a dear friend of mine that really made me look closely at the reality of keeping this weight off. We can become so flippent with the phrase of "yeah this is for life" ... but the reality of this is such a scarey thing!!

It means that I have to count points FOR LIFE!!! I have to weigh myself FOR LIFE!!! I have to go to ww meetings FOR LIFE!!! I have to update my journal FOR LIFE!!! The alternative is not an alternative.

It's alot easier to stay motivated when you see the numbers dropping ... but seeing the numbers stay the same week in week out ... there's no motivation in that. I know I have to stay positive and motivated but wow this part of the journey is going to be soooo hard!!

I read something in my maintenance book 2 this week that struck a chord ... I have to find another goal to go for now ... another sport, or exercise activity ... hmmm ... not sure what. I would love to get back into bodybuilding again like I did 10yrs ago. But there's no gym facilities here and time is limited. I could take up running. After seeing Kimba achieve so much in her running challenges it's got me thinking. I've never been a runner, my lungs could never get enough air into them to keep me going. But I've heard that's just a time thing, that as you get fitter, it gets easier. The downside to running is the joint injuries, not into that.

Tramping ... that sounds exciting. Although again the tracks round here are limiting. We've done all the tracks possible in the near vacinity.

Tennis?? ... I was always unco when it came to anything involving balls. Maybe it was my weight ... maybe it was the lack of confidence I had. Now would be a good time to take up a sport like that ... but it's just so scarey!!!

Hmmm ... I might have to think a bit longer on this one ... I know I've gotta do something, have to set myself another goal to aim for ... It's just sorting out which one.

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 70.6kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65 - 68kg

No gain ... no shame!

Stayed the same .... yay!!! So ww's points do actually work ... lol. In the comment from Lynda (see "wasup yesterday?" below) under comments ... she mentioned about me staying on the lower points to get below the 70's and I definately want to do that. It would just be the coolest to say I am sixty something ... has a special ring about it dont you think? lol

For the next few weeks I'm going to continue doing the maintenance plan (goes for 6wks) so I can feel like I've done the full cycle of ww, got to goal then to lifetime. Then I will look at going a little lower. I've set myself a goal in my head that I'd like to be at my personal goal (65 - 68kg) by the time my bellybutton peircing is ready to change over to Bill's one ... 3mths ... being the 30th April ... let's see if I can do it!!!

Yeeeehawwww ... I stayed the same!!!!!

BTW - I did an earlier update today for those of you that missed it go to "wasup yesterday?" below.

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 70.6kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65-68kg