good vs evil

Haven't heard anything from Fair Go yet. Cherie from Farmers is ringing on Thursday to find out what we want to do. Whether we want to go choose new stuff or get a refund on everything so hopefully Fair Go will contact us before then.

I didn't go out walking yesterday as planned. I didn't manage to get Jese down for a morning sleep so when Jordan went to kindy in the afternoon all I wanted to do was get Jese home to bed ... not waste time walking. Looking back on it I was just making excuses. Thought I was being realistic at the time lol.

Then when Bill didn't turn up at his usual hometime I was really annoyed and told myself "Great!! Can't go to the gym now either". But really there was no reason I couldn't go to the gym. He arrived home around 6pm and the gym didn't close till 7.50pm so there was still plenty of time. I was having major head issues for a few minutes. Telling myself I needed to go or I wouldn't forgive myself the next day, then switching over to say nahhh I've done enough exercise... lol. In the end I gave myself a slap on the hand and told myself to get my butt in that car and GO!! So with my tail between my legs I did as I was told.

And of course I was sooo glad I did. Felt great being there literally working that butt off!! It was a really hard workout and some of the ruitines I struggled to finish ... but I did it ... challenged myself to finish them!! Would much rather it be challenging than too easy and boring.

By the time I got home, showered, put the rubbish out and sat down for dinner it was 9pm ... so I was starving by that time ... but was soo worth it!

Stuck to my points exactly yesterday. I am really pumping at the moment!! Haven't been this motivated since way back when I started a year ago! I think it was the photos that Lynda took that did it for me. I saw I was actually getting somewhere. It's funny how we can look in the mirror every morning but not see the true image of what we look like until we see photos of ourselves. Wonder why that is? I'm really bad at taking photos ... still have a fear of the camera ... gotta get over that one! With time I guess I will come right.

Had a sneak preview on the gym scales last night ... and I'm not going to tell you what it said but put it this way ... IM REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO WEIGHIN TONIGHT!! If the ww scales are anywhere near what the gym ones are then the Wendie Plan is a proven winner for me! Considering on Saturday I had a 32pt day (planned) yet to have a loss ... wow!

There are positives and negatives to it tho. You have to be really strict on yourself. If you have your ultra hi point day and not the low ones then you will gain and if you don't have your high point day and only your low point ones you will slow your motabolism down too much. So it's a very fine balance. But if you can do it ... it's definately worth the effort. The positive is that you can plan on using your ultra high point day for a day you would normally struggle on. For me that is Saturdays when Bill is home. Means I can have a few drinks (and maybe a few more, lol) and still lose weight!

I've had some really cool comments from you guys the last couple of days!! Thankyou soooo much!! It honestly helps me soo much! I said to Bill yesterday morning that I never realised how much motivation this website would give me. It is truelly the reason I have come this far!! You guys are so supportive of me and it's fantastic!!! THANKYOU!!!

Here's my eating for yesterday ...

Tuesday 9th March

Breakfast - 2pts
Tasti cereal 1.5pts
Skim milk 0.5pt

Snack - 0.5pt
Apple 0.5pt

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

Snack - 0.5pt
Apple 0.5pt

Dinner - 12.5pts
boneless/skinless chicken 3pts
1.5c rice 6pts
veges 0pts
satay sauce 1.5pts
cashew nuts 2pts

Total Points used - 18pts
Allocated points - 18pts
Water - 1000mls
Exercise - 1hr15min gym workout
Bonus Points - 8pts
Total Bonus Points - 21pts
Points saved - 0pts
Total saved - 3.5pts

That's enough ramble from me today. Looks like the smilies are staying.

Catcha!
Lyn
SW 107.4kg
CW 76.3kg (weigh in tonight)
GW 65kg

My Boring Life ... NOT!

Wow for a lady who stays at home with 4 kids I have a pretty interesting life! Wanna hear another saga??

You know our furniture we were getting from Farmers that still hasn't arrived? ... well we got a call from the sales lady last night to say that 4 out of the 10 items we ordered have now been deleted and are no longer available!! Can you believe it? We ordered them over 4mths ago, paid a deposit, had them put aside on hold now they misteriously can't find them and can't supply us with them. That was the final straw for us ... we have now emailed Fair Go and see what they can do for us. It's gone beyond a joke. I'll keep you posted as to what Fair Go will do.

I had an incident a few years back with a parking ticket that wasn't mine. They were trying to make me go to court for it (to pay a fine for around $200 odd dollars) Even tho I could prove it wasn't my car they wouldn't listen to me. But after one call to Fair Go and a few hours later it was sorted. It was never used on tv but showed even their telephone calls have amazing power. I had spent weeks and weeks trying to sort it and absolutely no one would listen to me... gooo Fair Go! Hopefully they will have the same power in this incident.

My walking idea worked great yesterday. Will do it again today. Took me half an hour each way so a total of 1hrs walk and 4 bonus points.

I didn't use all my points yesterday. Makes up for the extra points I used the other day.

Bill told me this morning that I feel amazing!! That he's so proud of me with all my weightloss. Awww he's a sweety!

Not sure if the smiley faces are too distracting or not. Thought I would make my diary a bit more fun to read. Let me know below if they're annoying or if you like them. If too many people don't then I will take them off.

Should be able to get to the gym tonight. It's been over a week since I last went but Bill has been doing huge hours at work and I just haven't been able to get there. The walking has been fine but don't want to leave it too long before I get back there. Hopefully tonight.

My eating for yesterday ...

Monday 8th March

Breakfast - 2pts
Tasti cereal 1.5pts
Skim milk 0.5pt

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

Snack - 0.5pts
Apple 0.5pt

Dinner - 10pts
pizza base 4.5pts
tomato paste 0pt
veges 0pt
kumera/potato 1pt
cheese 4.5pts

Snack - 2.5pts
half mars bar 2.5pts

Total Points used - 17.5pts
Allocated points - 21pts
Water - 1500mls
Exercise - 60mins walking
Bonus Points - 4pts
Total Bonus Points - 13pts
Points saved - 3.5pts
Total saved - 3.5pts

That's all from me today ... weigh in tomorrow. Feeling good about this one.
Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 76.3kg
GW 65kg

neighbours ... ohhh boy!! :)

Had my first run in with a freak neighbour!! lol

We were standing outside talking with 2 of our neighbours, chatting about how the house prices had gone up in our street with a house down the end of the street selling for $450,000 when we all paid a lot less than that to build our houses. And this was the conversation that followed ... (I can't stop laughing about it now to think that someone would be so bluntly insecure) ...

Neighbour ... "we paid far less than that ... $354,000 to be exact. What did you pay?"
Me ..."well yes we paid less too ... $342,000"
N ... "oh of course but yours is far smaller than OURS"
M ... "Yes it's slightly smaller by about 10sqmtrs"
N ... "And yours has less bedrooms than ours"
M ..."Well actually no, it has the same but yes it is smaller"
N ..."No ... yours only has 4 bedrooms where ours has 4 plus a loft"
M ... "hmmm ... ours has 4 bedrooms and a loft too, but yours does have an extra bathroom than ours"
N ..."No! Yours isnt a loft, it's a parent's retreat, ours has an actual loft! But yes youre right ours DOES have an extra bathroom!"
(whatever the hell the difference is between a parents retreat and a loft I don't know lol... they look exactly the same but ohhh well ... she wins ... I don't really care, I like our house lol)

OMG I could NOT believe someone could be so insecure about comparing their house to someone elses lol. It sounded like something you would hear in a 6yr old's playground not from a 50yr old... "my daddys stronger than your daddy ... naanana naa naaa"

I came home and told Bill about it and he couldn't believe it either! lol, she obviously needs a few more cuddles in her life.

I did really well sticking to my points yesterday that was until Bill brought a bottle of wine home ... hmmm ..... didn't do quite as well at resisting last night. Went over a couple of points in the day but I'm really not worried given the bonus points I'd earnt the previous day.

Eating for yesterday ...

Sunday 7th March

Breakfast - 2pts
Tasti cereal 1.5pts
Skim milk 0.5pt

Snack - 1pt
rice wheels 1pt

Lunch - 2.5pts
cup a soup 2.5pts

Snack - 5pts
5 glasses wine 5pts

Dinner - 7pts
macdonald foldover 5.5pts
small handful chips 1.5pts

Total Points used - 17.5pts
Allocated points - 15pts
Water - 750mls
Exercise - nil
Bonus Points - minus 2.5pts
Total Bonus Points - 9pts
Points saved - 0pts
Total saved - 0pts

I made the mistake of playing around with my website while under the influence of alcohol last night and made changes that I can't take back now ... whooops lol. Oh well, don't like it as much as I used to but would take too much work to get it back how it was before. Remind me next time not to do that! lol

Thought of a brain wave how I can get more walking in. Jordan goes to kindy 3 afternoons a week. I wanted to walk him there and back with Jese in the pushchair but didn't think Jordan could cope with the distance (or the speed). And suddenly I clicked today (takes me a while sometimes lol) that I could go up to kindy in the car, drop him off to kindy then walk home with Jese in the pushchair, leaving the car there. And then later in the day walk up to kindy to pick him up and drive home. That way he's not doing any walking and I am. And I get a walk back and a walk up again ... great!! Not quite sure how I will work Jese's sleeps around that one given he usually sleeps while Jordan's at kindy ... but I'm sure I'll work something out.

Suddenly got a whole lot of business work to get onto again... just the tail ends but it seems to all come at once. Wish I could click my fingers and it would all be done... guess I'm not a genie... bummer!

Catcha!

Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 76.3kg
GW 65kg

Great Day Out

Our weekend away went really well...

On Friday night Bill had a friend from work over for a few drinks and a BBQ. I said no to the alcohol and they decided they wanted sausages and chips ... hmmm ... not a good choice for me. So I grabbed some chicken kebabs out of the freezer, microwaved some potatoes for myself with lite sour cream and did up a lettuce salad and peas all while they ate their chips and bangers ... and I didn't miss it one bit!

Bill kept asking me if I wanted a wine or two. I continued to say no but he kept nagging. Had to be really strong on that one. On the way to dropping his friend home he wanted me to call by the supermarket and pick up a bottle of wine ... even tried to make me promise ... I had to be so persistant on not having it!! Males can be so persuasive at times!
But in the end I succeeded at sticking to my points for the day.

Then early yesterday morning we set off for the beach. My aunt has a batch at Pukehina (20mins away from Te Puke). It's just a concrete block batch but it sits right on the beach front. You walk off the deck onto the sand!! Really nice spot ... and the day was perfect weather.

On the way there Bill wanted to stop off at a bakery to get some breakfast for the kids as they'd only had a slice of toast before we left. I'd already had had cereal so didn't really need anything else just yet. But Bill parked the car and made me run in. I had to combat those early morning bakery aromas and all the scrummy cakes, muffins and lolly cakes ... boy oh boy!! The only low point food in there was a filled roll which was too much for that time of the morning. I resisted all the temptations AGAIN and walked out with pizza bread for Bill and the kids and a spotty soft (not particularly nice) banana and a Mizone drink for myself. I then had to break the pizza bread up and serve it out to the kids without slipping a piece into my drooling mouth. This definately deserved a bravo star for this week.

A few minutes later down the road we caught up with my sister and her husband (also going to the batch) and when we wound down the windows my Brother in law started throwing lollies at us through the window. Talk about temptation flying at me in the face. I secumed to having 1 of them but handed the rest out to Bill and the kids.

Just as we arrived at the batch my Uncle was pulling in a 7ft shark that got caught in the fishing net. I've never seen a shark up that close and it was quite a scary thought to think it was swimming where he had his net out only 20-30ft into the water!! By the time they pulled the net in it was dead so we all got to have a closer look. Their skin is quite amazing ... smooth in one direction and like sand paper in the oposite. Bill got a graze on his food (which bled) just from rubbing up against it try to help pull it in. After the novelty of the shark had warn off all the kids wanted to go straight back for a swim in the water ... obviously no comprehension of what had just come out of there!! lol ... I was a little hesitant as you could probably tell. It was such a nice day to not let them swim so told them to not go further than leg height (which was high enough given the big surf) They all had a blast burying eachother in the sand and running around.

My cousin, sister and I set off for a walk along the beach. The full beach is 10kms long from one end to the other and they live in the middle. We walked from the middle to the end and back to the middle again meaning a 10km walk lasting 1.5hrs and many tired muscles later!! (and 8 bonus points earnt!) Walking on sand is really hard going too ... I'm sure it's worth more than the 8pts lol.

I was on my super high points day of 32pts yesterday and I really struggled with it! Mostly head issues. I really couldn't get my head around eating so much! But I know if I don't have my hi points day I'd do more damage by slowing my motabolism down too much. Lucky quite a few of us there were also doing weight watchers so there was alot of point friendly food brought. I tried an absolutely delicious ww fruit cake that was only 2.5pts per piece.

Recipe is ...

1kg mixed dried fruit
2cups flour
2cups strong coffee
150g fruit and nut chocolate (broken into small pieces)

And thats it!!

Soak the fruit in coffee overnight, then add the other ingredients ... mix and cook!! That's it!! and it was really yummy!! Makes 25serves @ 2.5pts per serve

We came home late last night and on getting home I still had another 4 or so points to use. So Bill and I sat in bed eating a bowl of lite icecream and smarties ... yumm ... nice end to a great day!!

Today all the kids are tired, grumpy and sunburnt but nothing a good bath and sleep won't fix.

Eating for yesterday ...

Saturday 6th March

Breakfast - 2pts
Tasti cereal 1.5pts
Skim milk 0.5pt

Snack - 3pts
small banana 1pt
Mizone 0.5pt
miscellaneous 1.5pts

Lunch - 3.5pts
kumera fritata 2.5pts
carrot/celery/cucumber 0pts
tomato salsa dip 0pts
rhubarb pie 1pt

Snack - 11.5pts
ww fruit cake 5pts
rice crackers/dip 2.5pts
spinich feta roll 2pts
3 pineapple lumps 1pt
half ww muffin 1pt

Dinner - 8pts
salad 0pts
dressing 1pt
smoked fish 0.5pt
potato 2pts
kumera 1pt
pumpkin 0pt
coleslaw 1pt
potato salad 1.5pts
oil 1pt

Snack - 4pts
half packet smarties 1.5pts
lite icecream 2.5pts

Total Points used - 32pts
Allocated points - 32pts
Water - 2000mls
Exercise - 1.5hr (10km) beach walk (on sand)
Bonus Points - 8pts
Total Bonus Points - 11.5pts
Points saved - 0pts
Total saved - 0pts

My weight is down today on the scales so looks like this Wendie Plan thing might be working!! :)

Incase any of you hadn't realised I've done a new 'mouse-over' trick with my picture at the top. Go on ... drag your mouseover it and see what happens :))

Until tomorrow Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 76.3kg
GW 65kg

Finally met Lynda!! :)

Got an MSN message from Lynda this morning to see what I was doing today ... so I told her to come on over for a coffee.

Was so cool to meet her finally. We have been in contact for nearly a year now but never actually met ... until today. She is looking absolutely GEORGOUS!!! We had a great time and before we realised it 3hrs had passed.

While she was here she took some update photos so you can all see what I actually look like lately. The main one is on the front page (you may need to refresh the page to view it). There's a side view in my album and some ones she took of Jordan and Jese as well.

My eating has been good so far but have yet to have dinner. Should still be under points for the day.

Going away to an Aunt's batch tomorrow ... lucky it's my high points day. Won't be back to update until Sunday morning.

Eating for today ...

Friday 5th March

Breakfast - 3.5pts
Tasti cereal 3pts
Skim milk 0.5pt

Lunch - 3pts
bread 2.5pts
tomato/cucumber 0pts
dressing 0.5pt

Snack - 1pt
Rice wheels 1pt

Dinner - 5.5pts
chicken kebabs 4pts
potato 1pt
salad 0pt
dressing 0.5pt

Snack - 3pts
3pt snack ... not sure what yet

Total Points used - 16pts
Allocated points - 16pts
Water - 1000mls
Exercise - nil
Bonus Points - 0pts
Total Bonus Points - 3.5pts
Points saved - 0pts
Total saved - 0pts

Catch up with you again on Sunday!
Later
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 76.3kg
GW 65kg

"I've seen the light!" said Bill

I was standing infront of my new full length mirror last night looking and pushing in my tummy (as I'm sure we all do lol) when Bill said to me ... "Hey!! turn around!" "What??" I snapped, expecting some smart comment to come out of his mouth. "I've seen the light, no seriously I can see the light between your thighs even when they are together" LOL ... we both cracked up laughing!! But that was such a pleasant thing to know that my thighs no longer rub together (like they have done for nearly my whole life). I've noticed I no longer get chaiffing on my thighs and my clothes aren't wearing out in the legs so much now either. That's gotta be good... yay!!

I've got a surprise for you all ... okay Im no good at keeping secrets lol. I have organised for my friend (who's a Kodak Gold winning professional photographer) to do a photo shoot of me for my website so you can all see an updated pic of me. I've done it as a reward for myself. We've organised it for next week... yay can't wait! Huh? Me? can't wait to have a photo taken of myself?? wow things HAVE changed lol :)

Mowed the lawns this afternoon instead of going to the gym because Bill wanted to work late tonight. Borrowed a neighbours lawnmower as ours still hasn't arrived from Farmers yet. Only got two thirds done before I ran out of petrol but took me an hour to do that much. It was so long that I could only do 1.5 strips before I had to empty the catcher. At least the front and half the back looks good now and I got to earn myself some bonus points.

Eating for today ...

Thursday 4th March

Breakfast - 2pts
Tasti cereal 1.5pts
Skim milk 0.5pt

Snack - 0.5pt
Apple 0.5pt

Lunch - 2.5pts
bread 2pts
cucumber, tomato, lettuce 0pt
dressing 0.5pt

Snack - 2 pt
rice wheels 2pt

Dinner - 9.5pts
steak 3pts
potato 2pts
baked beans 2.5pts
sour cream 1.5pt
lettuce salad 0pt
dressing 0.5pt

Snack - 4.5pts
guilt free icecream 180g 4.5pts

Total Points used - 21pts
Allocated points - 21pts
Water - 1000mls
Exercise - mowing lawns 1hr
Bonus Points - 3.5pts
Total Bonus Points - 3.5pts
Points saved - 0pts
Total saved - 0pts

Think I did well with my eating today. I've decided to give the Wendie plan a try and see how it goes. Here's my point allowance for the week (I'm normally on 20pts per day)

Came in under points but no such luck for a loss

I did well with my eating yesterday. Coming in at the end of the day with 2.5pts in the black again. My weight is still up this morning so looks like I'm in for a gain tonight but I know within myself that I did the best I could and that my points were fine for the week. Sometimes our bodies gain even when our points are fine. I know I had that blowout at the start of the week but I earnt it back ... oh well can't be helped now I guess.

After reading Kimbas journal yesterday (http://geocities.com/shrinkinkimba) she mentioned about trying on her wedding dress again and I remembered I hadn't tried mine on for quite a while. Every other time I still hadn't been able to get the zip up... but last night it went on perfectly!! The first time since we were married over 9yrs ago that I have been able to fit it! I know I'm still a bit heavier now than when we got married but my weight now is mostly on my hips and thighs which doesn't effect getting my dress on. So I'm going to concentrate on this positive rather than any gain I may have tonight.

We've heard from Farmers that our furniture should start arriving from Thursday ... finally!! Won't start celebrating this one until it's all arrived tho.

Eating for yesterday ...

Tuesday 2nd March

Breakfast - 2pts
weetbix 1.5pts
skim milk 0.5pts

Snack - 1pt
Rice crackers (10) 1pt

Lunch - 2.5pts
bread 2pts
dressing 0.5pt
cucumber/tomato 0pts

Snack - 0.5pt
Apple 0.5pt

Dinner - 9.5pts
Salmon 1pt
Lite Coconut Cream 4.5pts (not very lite in my standards)
stirfry veges 0pts
Rice 4pts

Total Points used - 15.5pts
Water - 500mls
Exercise - nil
Bonus Points - 0pt
Total Bonus Points - 0pts
Points saved - 4pts
Total saved - 2.5pts

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

It's Good To Be Back In The Gym Seat Again :)

LOL ohhh Lynda I had to laugh at your comment ... thankyou!! :D Made me realise how hard I am being on myself lately. I am so desperate to get to goal that I feel any splurge will kill my weightloss. Here I am telling others that we have to be real, to live life and have the occasional treats yet at the same time I am whipping myself for doing just that! Good wake up call for me here!

As much as I was dreading going to my gym assessment last night I am now so glad I went!! Once I got there and starting doing it I absolutley loved it!! The look on the Personal Trainer's face when she saw my weight, was unforgettable!! She knew I hadn't been to the gym in over 6mths and I said that my exercise was very minimal during that time. And when I hoped on the scales it recorded a 15kg loss since my last assessment (9mths ago)... Her eyes popped out of her head and she was stunned for words ... "sssoooo? what the heck have you been doing then for the last six months to have a huge loss like that!!???" I just laughed. I told her that I have been doing weight watchers for the whole time and that while I haven't been doing gym stuff I was still eating healthy. "Wow, it's obviously working then" she said.

I told her I thought my fitness would have gone down tho (= blood pressure up and resting heart rate up) but to my surprise they were both down on last time too.

For the first six months at the gym I did 100% cardio with no weights because I didn't want to build muscle but just wanted to lose fat. Now I am finding I have flabby bits that need toning as well as lose more fat. So she's put me on a program of 50% cardio / 50% weights. It's been over 10yrs since I've done a weights workout and once I started the memories started flooding back!! The feelings of pushing myself till my muscles wouldn't work anymore. I just love that addrenaline feeling ... wow!!!

Just over 10yrs ago (before I met Bill when I was single and had all the time in the world) I was doing 6 days a week (2hrs a day) body building. This was when I was at goal the first time. I was building up to enter a body building competition. That was my 100% focus but of course I met Bill part way through and then the gym work went out the window. Suddenly I didn't have the time or commitment to my workouts anymore.. so I just stopped. I got so close to entering the competition but hey I figured if I couldn't give it 100% focus then there was no point. And I've never done weights since ... until last night that was ... and I LOVED IT!!! Was so good to be back again. This might be just the thing I needed to inspire me back into exercise.

Today I can feel those butt muscles again ... like I actually have some form to my body. I know one nights workout won't show on the outside yet but I can feel it from the inside ... wahooo!!

Let's hope I'm not too stiff for my next workout. I tried to stretch properly but with such a hard workout (I nearly couldn't finish all my reps) there's bound to be some muscles I've missed.

Jordan had his first day at kindy yesterday and loved it!! When I went to pick him up he was sitting at the very front of the mat 100% focused on the story the teacher was reading, there he was with his bag and hat, legs crossed, and arms folded ... tooo cute!!! This morning when I came out to the lounge here he was all dressed with his hat and bag ready to go again. Disapointment came when I told him he wasn't going till after lunch. I went to get him breakfast and he said "no!! I don't want breakfast ... I WANT LUNCH!!" LOL!! He is soooo cute some days!!

Here's my eating for yesterday before this post gets too long.

Monday 1st March

Breakfast - 1pt
Apple 1pt

Lunch - 4 pts
bread 4pts
Tomato/cucumber 0pts

Dinner - 7 pts
potato bake 7pts

Snack - 7.5pts
rum and diet coke 2pts
surimi 2pts
low cal dip 0.5pt
rice crackers 3pts

Total Points used - 19.5pts
Water - 1500mls
Exercise - 1hr 15min gym workout (50% weights/50% cardio)
Bonus Points - 8pts
Total Bonus Points - 0 pts
Points saved - 0.5pts
Total saved - minus 1.5pts

In yesterdays post I had only a minus 3pts balance at the end of the day but I changed that to minus 10 after remembering some food I forgot to record. So after the gym workout and my days eating I'm now back to minus 1.5pts ... not too bad. Although my scales are showing a gain today (I had a sneak preview) I'm hoping this is because of TOM and will disappear before weighin tomorrow ... here's hoping!!

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

Laying It All On The Table

Really didn't feel like updating today given my bad eating yesterday again!! But thought I needed to be honest with you guys and myself... so here I am, laying everything on the table.

Ended up going to the cricket yesterday afternoon. And while I had a great time and ate pretty good I went over far too many points again with the wine I consumed.

So here's the gory details ...

Sunday 29th February

Breakfast - 2pts
WW cereal - 1.5pts
Skim milk - 0.5pt

Snack - 1 pt
Apple 1pt

Lunch - 2 pts
bread 2pts
Tomato/cucumber 0pts

Snack - 2 pts
rum and diet cokes 2pts

Dinner - 7 pts
roasted beans/capsicum 0.5pt
chicken 2pts
potato 0.5pt
prawn salad 3pts
lettuce salad 0pt
dressing 1pt

Snack - 11 pts
wine 6pts
pizza 5pts

Total Points used - 25 pts
Water - 250mls
Exercise - walking 15mins
Bonus Points - 1pt
Total Bonus Points - 0 pts
Points saved - minus 3.5 pts
Total saved - minus 3.5 pts

Hmmm ... doesn't look too good. Probably won't effect weighin this week but might show up on next weeks results.

I have my gym assessment tonight. To be honest I'm not really looking forward to it. Not sure why. My plans of going to the gym when Jordan starts kindy (he starts today) has gone out the window because the creche at the gym only runs till 1pm (was going to put Jese in the creche while Jordan was at kindy so I could do my workout) and Jordan doesnt start kindy till 12.30pm. So looks like I'll be going in the evenings which doesn't really work out either with Bill's irregular hours at work. Kinda feel like I'm swimming against the tide on this one. I really think just walking with Jese in the pushchair on Jordan's kindy days will work out much better. But I have 5mths left on my gym membership so would hate to see it go to waste.

That's all from me today ... I'll let you know how my gym assessment goes tonight ... I'm so unfit now.

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

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

such a simple solution

What a horrible morning I have had!! Firstly, some background info ... I have a space invaders type game on my computer that I allow my kids to play every now and then. But when they play it sometimes it stuffs up my computer and everything goes big and sideways!!! lol ... really funny and hard to explain and everyone I have asked about it has never heard of it before. I always thought it was something to do with not being compatible with windows XP.

Anyhow up until now everytime it happened I have done a 'system restore'and taken the computer back 24hrs which fixes it.... but ... last night I got sent a virus via email and to get rid of it I had to turn off system restore and forgot to turn it back on again after I had finished ... which meant (you still with me here?) ... when the kids played the game this morning and it went sideways again I didn't have a system restore point to turn the computer back to .... grrrr ... I spent the whole morning trying to fix it ... uninstalling and reinstalling programmes ...

Eventually I went onto Google and did a search for "sideways screen'' and came across a forum with a message posted by someone who had exactly the same thing happen ... such a simple problem to fix once I knew what had happened! The kids must have pressed Ctrl + Alt + the side arrow all at the same time which apparently is a 'hotkeys'command for 'turn the screen sideways!! lol ... so when I pressed Ctrl + Alt and the up arrow it reverted it back to normal ... what a relief!!!

So in a much happier place now lol

On with my eating .... no bad habits creeping back in today. I always feel so slim when TOM has finished. Should have some sort of loss at Mondays weighin ... not sure how much. Gotta make up for the gain at last weighin.

Spent yesterday going to the Mount with mum and dad and the kids. Rained the whole way there, stopped raining for 10mins while we ate our picnic lunch by the water, then rained the whole way back again ... oh well it was a good day out even with the rain. And I was pleased mum decided to pack sandwiches and fruit instead of buying BK or MacDees.

Aparently the front garden has been done on our house. Bill says it looks good but as for details ... umm ... he said they have leaves on the plants and the garden's a sort of half kidney shape or old fireman's hat shape ... whatever that is lol. Typical male!! lol Guess I'll have to wait till later next week when we go up again.

Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 79.6kg
GW 65kg

1 job done ... 5 to go

Still a little stressed today although coping okay. Managed to get 1 job finished ... 5 to go. Mum and Dad took the three older kids for an outing to the zoo today so that has given me a little peace and quiet to get work done.

House is a mess at the moment with trying to get so much business work done. It really gets me down when there is clutter. But I'm not going to stress about that ... when my work is all done then I will focus on the housework.

Ended up having a whole bottle of wine to myself last night. Way more than I usually have and I felt the after effects this morning. Serves me right lol. But I enjoyed it and was able to stay within my points even after the wine.

Feeling pretty good weightwise although have been too scared to jump on the scales. I'll wait till weighin on Monday to see how I have gone. Haven't had any blowouts this week although with TOM here the scales do funny things.

Thanks to all of you who sent congrats about our house deposit. It's funny ... I got a better reaction from you guys (whom I've never met in real life) than from family around us. But that's my family ... Indifference is their middle name. I'm still excited tho ... at least I have you guys to share my news with :)

Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 79.6kg
GW 65kg

WE'VE MADE IT!!!!

Wow ... we have OFFICIALLY saved our house deposit!!!! Yahoooooo!! All $34,000 of it!!! ($17,000 was paid to the builders at the start and $17,000 we have been saving over the last 5.5mths). I can't believe we actually made it and ahead of time too (by 2 weeks). It means we have to live on baked beans and spagetti this week lol but hey who cares ... we have a new house!!!!!

Can you tell I'm excited?? Toooo right I am!!! Bill set the alarm for midnight lastnight, so we could get up and transfer the funds to our savings account as soon as his pay went in, then we would celebrate with a bottle of wine (which we had set up on the bench ready to go). The alarm went off ... and as expected got turned off again and we went back to sleep! lol ... all with good intentions.

But this morning first thing we got up and transfered it over. Took us 23 weeks all together and what a hard 23 weeks it was too but all makes the house even sweeter :). Not out of the woods quite yet with some big bills to pay over the next couple of weeks but at least the important one is done!

Had a freak session yesterday when I got a virus sent through via email. I managed to stop it and delete it with my Nortons but it scared me. They've had on the news the last few days about a virus that gets into your bank account and strips all funds via internet banking. I rang the bank and asked for extra security to be put on our savings account with a 'NO WITHDRAWALS' policy, but they assured me it would be safe and no extra precautions would be needed. Besides he said if it did get stolen then the bank would cover us and return the funds. Still a scarey thought.

Virus creators really P*** me off. Just for entertainment they like to annoy as many people as possible. Let's get off that subject before I get myself worked up lol.

On the eating note ... I was really good all day yesterday but when it came to dinner I only had a roast mutton to cook so roast mutton it was. I cooked it with no oil but it still turned out pretty fatty. Still probably kept within points for the day but hard to tell with fatty meat like that.

CONGRATS LEIGH!!! on a fantastic weighin!!!! 1.6kg loss!!!! absolutely stunning effort!

On that positive note I'll sign off for the day :)
See ya!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 79.6kg
GW 65kg

My tantrum!!

I came on here this morning to do an update saying how depressed and stressed I was with this whole moving thing and with all the workload I have on with the business. Even tho I have officially stopped the business and not taking any more bookings I still have the tail end of work to complete. Six sets of stationery in two weeks to be exact ... too much!!

And as far as shifting ... I don't want to shift anymore! Ohh I want to be in my new house ... but I want to be able to click my fingers and be there with all my furniture. We can't afford to get movers in to do it for us and all the people we were relying on to help us have piked out at the last minute!! Typical! And mum is refusing to look after Jesurun. Can you imagine packing and shifting with a 18mth old running round!! It's really falling to custard! I just want it over with and I haven't even started!

To top it off TOM arrived this morning!! Grrrr!!

But in saying that ... I got three wonderful emails from three fantastic people this morning!! Thankyou Clare, Rachel and Lauren!!!! Three wonderful ladies who took the time to email and tell me how my website has helped them in different ways. This has cheered me on to keep going, head up and forget about all the stress around me!!

This website has been the best tool I could have ever had! So many times I have wanted to stop and I know without this I would have. But because I can come here and have a vent out (even a tantrum if I want lol) then I feel so much better. Then I read others journals which greatly inspires me and with feedback I receive from you guys (even if it's just a comment in the tagboard below) I makes me so excited! At the start I did this website to help others but I didn't realise how much it would actually help me!!

SO A HUGE THANKYOU TO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU THAT READ THIS!!! Geez sounds like it's me getting the Golden Globe!! (yay gooooooo Lord of the Rings!!!)

Anyway I feel much better now ... thanks for listening to my vent! ;-)

Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 79.6kg
GW 65kg

Im sooo in seventh heaven!!!

I am in seventh heaven!!! We just got back from looking at the house. And the builder was right!! The colours are stunning ... especially the carpet. Some of you may remember way back when we chose our colours (last year)that I had some worries about the colour of the carpet. Originally we thought it was a real deep blue but after getting a larger sample it looked more grey. After a lot of twoing and froing we decided to go with it anyway ... well ... guess what??

IT'S BLUE!!!! Yay!!! A deep rich navy blue ... it looks far better down than any sample looked! I love it!!! Everything looks great. Only two small glitches ... the whole they drilled for the deadbolt on one ranchslider is in the wrong place meaning we can't lock the door and the deadbolt at the same time. And they forgot to put a phone plug in that I specifically asked for (for internet connection ... that's for you guys so I can keep up my diary! lol)

But both problems are fixable and not a major. I'll get them a call on Monday to sort it.

Everything is practically finished. The lawn seed is laid ... just a small garden to be planted in the front and the letterbox put in. A railing to go up on the stairs, pantry doors to go on, fridge to arrive, that's about it ... it's all done!!! Our house is finished!!!! I wanna move in NOWWWWWW ... WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! lol

I was so well behaved today!! Bill got pies from the bakery for lunch and they smelt soooo goood!! Nothing smells as good as a hot pie! But I resisted and went with a filled roll instead. Not only that ... he bought me two rolls and I only had one (even if it means throwing the other one away ... wow once upon a time I would have eaten it even if it made me ill rather than throw any food away!!)

Then went to friends for dinner and had home made burgers ... pretty low fat too. Wanted a second but opted for more salad (0 points) Yay I'm sooo gooooood!! :)

Off to bed now ... it's been a long day considering it's after midnight now... way past my bedtime (for an old fart like me anyhow lol)

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 79.6kg
GW 65kg

New pics

I have the pics through of the house ... yay!! I've put them in the photo album for you all to see.

Found out from the builders today that even tho settlement date is set for the 11th February, we won't get the keys till after 4pm (till the paperwork comes through from our soliciter). I would have been happy to shift in the next day but Bill is addiment he wants to shift on that day, regardless of how late it is!! lol

Problem with that is ... dad is driving the truck and he needs to be back in Hamilton by 5pm (at the latest) to milk cows. Hmmm ... not sure how we are going to work this one. And neither will budge (typical males lol). All in all ... it's a minor detail and everything will work out in the end. yay!! I'm so excited!!

My eating was really good up till this afternoon when mum brought home doughnuts!! Grrrr ... and I just couldn't say no could I? I worked it out at 4pts which isn't too bad but will put me over points (of which I don't have any saved). Think I'll have a light dinner to make up for it.

Was really proud of myself last night ... PMT time hitting at the moment and I wanted CHOCOLATE or Icecream ... hey I wasn't fussy ... just something BAD that I wasn't allowed!! But I resisted ... told myself that it was only my hormones being greedy. Beat them into submission! :) yay me!!

Bill noticed last night that our dinners were getting rather large. Funny how portion sizes creep up on you when you are watching it. I've stopped weighing and measuring everything and without me noticing I was starting to cook bigger and bigger meals. Gave me a reality check.

Going up to see the house again tommorow. Michelle from the builders said the photos don't do it justice so will be nice to see it in real life!! Wahooo!!

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 79.6kg
GW 65kg

Carpet is down!! :))

I've been very well behaved today. All except for having a piece of cake mum had made. But she made it with Walnuts (which I don't like) so that helped in resisting a second piece.

Having a vegetarian dinner to save on more points.

Poor Leigh wrote about only having a 100g loss this week after a huge amount of exercise. As hard as it is to accept ... muscle building causes losses to slow down or stop. but this doesn't mean to say it is a bad thing ... quite the opposite! After the body has finished building all the muscle it needs to sustain the exercise demands it will burn fat at a much faster rate, hence speed up the weightloss even more later on. So gooo Leigh!!!

Got an email from the builders this morning to say that the carpet has been laid in our house ... and in her words ''It looks stunning!!" So lets hope she is right. We've gone with a dark charcoal grey/blue with woven lines. I really can't wait to see it. She's supposed to be sending some photos through so I'll post them up as soon as I have them ... yay!! Carpet down ... that's like ... nearly finished!!!

As of this morning we only have $1900 to go to save our $17000 house deposit!! Yay!! I feel like we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel now ... really not long to go!

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 79.6kg
GW 65kg

Not good I'm afraid

Had a 600g gain this week ... grrrr!! Taking me back to 79.6kg. I just can't seem to get below the 79kg mark for some reason. Oh well in 3 weeks time I will be back in Auckland and able to spend more on groceries to get a proper shop and better food to stay on track.

I've had a really itchy back lately. Right in one exact spot in the middle of my back behind where my bra strap sits. So I got mum to check it today and she said there's a mole there that has a red ring around it... SCARY STUFF!! I wanted to jump in the car there and then to go get it checked but couldn't with all the kids here at the moment. Will have to wait till tomorrow or the next day. If it is a problem one I didn't think it would be itchy. Hmmm ... not sure whether to freak out or put it out of my mind. I will go get it checked as soon as I possibly can. It's not like I spend much time in the sun either. I get really bad head stroke if I spend too much time in the sun so I tend to just watch from the shade. But in saying that I got burnt a few weeks back when we went to the beach for a few days. But surely I wouldn't get a malenoma from one sitting in the sun (and honestly that is the first time in quite a few years I have been sunbathing)

Kids are driving me barmy!!! Lauren has a friend over to stay today and tommorow ... so there are kids galore here!! Only 3wks to go before the older two head back to school and Jordan starts kindy!! yay!!! Geez I sound so mean don't I? lol ... I just hate the fighting and the MESS!! That also means for 3hrs a day I will only have Jese at home and I can go walking and to the gym!!

Found out yesterday that I only have one more Weight Watchers meeting before we shift! Next Monday is a holiday and the following will be my last. Monday 9th Feb I will be packing.

Not much other news to tell ... lets hope next weigh in will be better than this weeks!

Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 79.6kg
GW 65kg

Only 3wks to go!!! ahhhhh!!

I have weigh in this morning ... and to tell you the truth I blew it last night. Not majorly but maybe enough to through the scales to the + side.

We had Malachi's birthday party ... icecream cake with fruit salad (which was okay in points) but then went to friends house and I had a couple of drinks and chinese takeaways. We chose a low point version but when we got it you could see the oil everywhere!! But I still ate it although not a huge plateful. Could have been worse but I so desperately want to get to my 30kg loss mark and I'm only a couple of kilos away. oh well can't mope about it ... gotta go face the music.

But Malachi's birthday was a hit!! We did a BBQ dinner for him on Saturday night with American Hotdogs and chips. Then on Sunday we took him to Candyland where they showed how they made chocolates and lollies. And he got to make his own lollypop! Then we went out to a park for lunch and home for icecream cake and fruitsalad. Malachi never really says much but I could tell by the smile on his face that he was loving it all!!

It suddenly dawned on me yesterday that we only have just over 3wks to go before we move!! I haven't started packing yet!! And infact have so much work on that doesn't look like I can start packing for a while. Every other move we have done I have started packing quite a few weeks out and done it slow when I have the time. But I think I will do it differently this time ... all in one bang. Think we will all go stay at mums for 2days before and I will spend 2 days hard out packing all in one go. That way I can get it all done at one time and not have to leave things out that we still need to use.

I'll try and pop back later on this evening to let you know how weigh in went ... wish me luck!! lol

Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 79.0kg
GW 65kg

Fighting the temptations

I feel like a naughty little girl at the moment! I went to town and bought myself a 3ft teddybear. It was reduced down to half price from Farmers because he had a Santa hat (which I took off when I got it home) After showing mum my proud purchase her reply was Öhhh Lynette!! How silly! Don't you know teddy bears are out of fashion now?" So consequently I am feeling rather bitchy!! Mothers, dontcha love em??!!

I have a 2ltr container of icecream staring at me in the freezer that I so want to consume!!! But doing everything in my might not to.

On top of that Bill rang to say he wont be home till late AGAIN! (around 9pm) He is working such long hours at the moment and with travel time it is exagerated even more.

And this morning we found out the company that leases me my computer has just gone into RECEIVERSHIP!! I really don't know what this means for us but may mean we lose our computer and have to start again putting everything back on and just after I have got it running perfectly ... grrrrr!!

It's hot and I WANT ICECREAM!! But I won't allow myself even one bit because if I start with one scoop I won't stop.

On a cheerier note ... FANTASTIC GOING LEIGH!!! She had such a good weigh in result this week ... 4.3kg!!! Simply amazing!!

Don't worry about going over your points each day Lynda ... at least you are still counting. I would start to worry if you hadn't been counting points and not updating your journal. That's when it's easy to slide back into old habits. Besides with all the exercise you are doing you deserve a few treats here and there!

Everyone else is doing fantastically too from what I've been reading ... well done!!!

Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 79.0kg
GW 65kg

Best day ever!

Bill and I had the most wonderful day yesterday! We celebrated our 9th Wedding Anniversary. Mum looked after the kids from 10am till 3pm while we went up to Auckland to look at our house. They are getting very near completion and I'm starting to get really excited. 27 days to go before move in day! Then we had lunch (at subway) and off to play a game of mini golf together. Bill whipped my butt ... seems I've lost my touch for mini golf lol. We used to play all the time while we were dating and had a trophy plate that we handed back and forth depending on who won. But he well and truelly won yesterday.

Then had a magnum icecream before heading back to Hamilton to pick up the kids. Relaxed for a bit at home then dressed up for dinner while mum came over again to look after the kids. Went to a restaurant where you get your meat/veges that you want, put the marinate you want and give it to someone who cooks it up for you infront of everyone. Was a great idea in that you got exactly what you wanted and knew there was nothing bad in there (like fat)

Then for dessert they cooked pancakes on another hotplate while you watched and you got to put your chosen syrup and icecream on top.

It meant I didn't go too high in points yet had a really enjoyable dinner.

Then we went for a stroll down by the river and headed off to a friends place who was house sitting a mansion for coffee!! Really nice house ... wow!! 6 bedrooms and amazing gardens! Then headed home. Huge day but a fantastic one!!

This Saturday is Malachi's 6th birthday and we're taking him to Candyland then out to lunch. He mentioned 6mths ago that he would love to go there so we're going to surprise him.

The month after Christmas is filled with celebrations with New Years, my birthday, wedding anniversary, malachi's birthday. Fun but have to be so careful with the overeating. Got through the first 3 without too much damage on the scales ... let's hope the last one is just as good. Luckily I'm not too much of a sweet tooth. Tend to be tempted more by the savory things.

I've started sorting out our stored boxes in the garage and have been chucking things out. I've filled up a trailer load already. Can't believe I shifted all that stuff down here from Auckland in the first place lol. But as a friend pointed out I am obviously ready to part with those things now that I wasn't able to when we moved here 6mths ago. Funny how priorities change when you don't use something for that long.

Busy day ahead with work, work, work.
Catcha all
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 79.0
GW 65kg

wahoo!!!

Recorded a 1.2kg loss today at weighin ... yay!! :))

Felt slim but didn't think it would be that good!

Big congrats to Lynda for her wonderful loss this week! 1.3kg!! Way to go Lynda! She mentioned about someone noticing her weightloss on a day she felt fat. lol life is like that sometimes. Shows that how we feel about ourselves is not necesarily how it actually is. But I agree ... she does look hot now!! :))

And Leigh is still doing fantastically too. She has reinspired me to keep going.

That's it from me today
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 79.0kg (lowest weight in over 9yrs)
GW 65kg

Huge success

Started off my birthday day with breakfast in bed thanks to Lauren (my 8yr daughter). Tomato on toast (without butter) isn't she good?

Then got ready for the drive out to Raglan for my flight...

The gliding was a huge success ... I loved every minute of it!! I actually got to fly the glider for 10mins of the 30min flight ... doing circles, going up and down. It was so much fun. We managed to find an updraft while up there and climbed a further 800ft. Could be very addictive lol... but would be too expensive to be a permanent hobby ... here's dreaming lol.

We all went for a swim after my flight. The kids just loved splashing around with their dad. Then came home for a surprise dinner put on by mum and my sister. Everyone in the family was there (except my brother who lives in Sydney) Trish (my sister), her husband, Richard (my younger brother), mum, dad, and of course Bill and the kids. Mum got me a huge birthday sponge cake (with all the trimmings) from the cheesecake shop ... yum!! But hopefully wasn't too high in points being it was mostly sponge.

I did really well points wise (had a few saved up) but went over a little on the second piece of birthday cake ...ahhh well lol.

Mum got me a funky gardening book... really nice and Trish got me an outdoor sail ... how cool is that? To go over our BBQ area in our new house. And of course Bill and the kids bought me the glider flight.

Had lots of fun and don't feel any older today ... hehe

Thanks so much for all your comments ... such a nice surprise when I logged on tonight .... yay!!

Weigh in tommorow and really don't know what to expect... wait and see I guess.

Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 80.2kg
GW 65kg

No longer a kid :)

It's 10.41pm and the last day of me officially being a young person (in my mind anyway). In just over 1.5hrs I turn 30yrs old. I'm excited and disappointed at the same time. Imagine 30 years old??? lol

But honestly I'm not too worried. Turning 30 was one of the reasons I decided to start WW last year... I wanted to be slim for the rest of my life. I was sick of being on the verge of obesity or gross obesity lol. Even tho I haven't made it to goal before I turn the big 3...0... I'm still happy where I am and where I am headed.

Bill has shouted me a flight on a glider tomorrow ... something I have always wanted to do. So we are off to Raglan for the big event after lunch. The kids are so excited about my birthday. They have been making me cards and pictures all week and hiding them so I don't find out their surprise... so sweet!! Times like that I love being a mum!

Eating has been good. Haven't had any bad food in the house to be bad. Desperately wanted icecream tonight but lucky we are 15mins drive from the nearest dairy ... too far to be bothered driving all that way lol.

Just wanted to take this opportunity to say how proud I am of Leigh ... she is doing so well and has that spark of enthusiasm that is really contagous. Really looking forward to her weighin day. It's great to have a bunch of people on here sharing their ups and downs with everyone. Motivates us all so much!! Goooo Leigh!!!

Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 80.2kg
GW 65kg

back breaking work but worth it

I spent today helping dad plant out 500+ sweetcorn seedlings into a paddock... backbreaking work but good for earning those bonus points!!! :)

I looooove sweetcorn so was willing to help out all I could to get a good crop in.

Been very well behaved points wise the last couple of days. Determed to get a loss back on the record.

Huge apologies to everyone who has had problems getting onto my website. The traffic has gone above what a freebie site will allow so basically i will need to upgrade to a paid site to stop it going down all the time which will cost $140 a year. For now while I sort it out either come straight to this page or view it after 8pm at night to be able to get in.

I have put up 2 new photos in my photo album of the house. One was taken on 22 Dec of the outside and one just a few days ago of the tiling at our front entrance. Really not long to go now ... just under 5weeks!! 34 days infact!! and counting down. We have almost $13,000 saved of our $17,000 so on track there too.

dinner is burning so better get back to it.

Cheers,
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 80.2kg
GW 65kg

Something to celebrate!!

The scales were not nice to me this week with another gain of 500g. This time I didn't deserve it!! I know it was down to all the exercise last week (including a 3hr tramp up a mountain) but still doesn't look nice on my records. I'm not going to focus on the gain but on the huge achievements I have gained this last year.

As you can see from my front page I am celebrating one whole year on Weight Watchers. This time last year I was FAT!!! lol and now I consider myself slim ... that's gotta be something to celebrate!!

Here are some of the changes I have noticed ...

1. I am no longer a hermit hiding inside my hole choosing now to go out and socialise rather that sit at home where no one can see me.

2. When I go out I walk with my shoulders back and posture straight ... not because I want to change my posture but because I am proud of who I am and proud of my body!! 1yr ago I had such bad posture purely because I was continually trying to hide.

3. I enjoy shopping and dressing up now. 1 year ago it was my pet hate ... I HATED SHOPPING ~ I could never find clothes that fitted and looked nice on.

4. I can easily sit cross legged on the ground and crossing my legs while sitting is no problem either. 1yr ago I couldn't cross my legs unless I used my arms to hold them together... just too much fat between them thighs! :)

5. This Saturday for my birthday I am going Gliding. Yay cant wait!! 1 yr ago I wouldn't have even suggested such a thing, knowing I wouldn't fit in the seat of the plane.

6. I no longer worry what people are thinking of me. If they don't like me that's their problem and nothing I can do will change that. 1 yr ago I thought EVERYONE hated me unless I did something to impress them.

7. I now LOVE SUMMER!! An excuse to show off my new body, new tan and new clothes. 1 yr ago summer was the worst season of the year because I couldn't hide behind my baggy jerseys.

These are just a few ways my life and attitudes have changed. There are far more ways than I could ever put on here but I guess this gives you the picture that I love what is happening ... love feeling in control again ... love my body ... and can't wait to get to goal!!

Yay me!!!

Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 80.2kg
GW 65kg

I'm on a roll now

I've been for 3 walks since I last wrote a few days ago. Went for 2 yesterday, 1 stroll with a cousin along the river and one in the afternoon totalling 1.5hrs that day.

Then this morning dad asked me if I wanted to go with him up Mt Pirongia. It was real fun and I worked my butt off for 3hrs of tramping. Getting excited about exercise again which always makes me stick to my points better too.

I gave Bill a BBQ for christmas so we've been making lots of use of that along with healthy salads. I've always enjoyed summer in that way... so much easier to stick to it.

New Years Eve was a bit of a dead loss last night lol. We were watching a movie on sky while we waited for the hours to tick by then before we knew it ... it was midnight and we'd missed the turn of the calender lol. So we went to bed ... that was it lol ... no hooray, no celebrations! lol. Next year we plan to have a street BBQ in our new home for new years.

Not much else to tell
Happy New Year to everyone!!!!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 79.7kg
GW 65kg