My Roses 2008

Aren't they beaut!!!!

5 November 2008 A couple of trucks

Here are a couple of photo's of one of our trucks, the first is at a weir on the back road from Middlemount to Black Water, and the second one is at the BP at Emerald on the way up.

5th November 2008

Hello Everyone, sorry it's been so long since I have been here! Too busy as usual.
Here are a couple of photo's from my little trip with Dave. One is me with my new hair, but it was windy and it's all blown everywhich way, but you will get the idea ;-))

24th August 2008

Well finally I've gotten around to adding some more to my blog.

Here is a photo from a couple of weeks ago.

15 July 2008

I'm still kicking along, doing my exercise and mostly being accountable for what I eat! Sometimes I get a bit slack. But it's all working and I had quite a good loss this week, I wasn't expecting it. I lost 1.3kg, so my CW is 100.8kg. YAY!

I was looking at the photo's I posted and there is a nicer one of Dave and I, so I will post that one.

13th July 2009

We went to a fancy dress engagement party last night and had a wonderful time. I went as a belly dancer?? Suprise suprise. Dave went as a Billy Connelly playing a pirate in his Jammies. LOL.

8 July 2008

Well here we are in the new financial year.
I have been doing WW for 18 weeks now, with a total loss so far of 14.3kg. That averages out to be about 800g per week. I am really happy with this. There have been so many changes in the 4 months. Not just my size, but my emotions, my mental image of myself, and my feeling of self worth. If anyone needs a reason to do this, the best and only real reason is to feel proud and good about ourselves. Weight loss is just a bonus. My fitness and exercise capabilities are so much improved that I can barely believe it.
In a nut shell;

IT'S ALL GOOD!!!!

I have just been adding up losses etc on my trusty WW calculator and I'm only 100g away from having lost 1/3 of the weight I am going to lose. Not bad, if I do say so myself.

Mini Goal

I have a wedding to go to in September, between now and the 27th Sep, there are 14 weigh ins. So I would like to be 10kg lighter. That would be 93.4kg. So here we go!!!

12 June 2008

Well, I've been struggling a bit this week. It all started on a downward spiral on Monday night. I was in the miseries as Dave had to go back to work, and sometimes I just get sick of being on my own. So after 3 days of being a tad indulgent, or maybe a bit more than a tad, I am getting heaps better, and over my gluten binge. I even managed an hour walk today.

On a brighter note, I have some photo's of my Kruger boy's babies. They are a week premmy, had to give the mum a caesar as she had a dead pup. But the remaining six are as cute as buttons and I am so glad they are not living with me. They have to be bottle fed as they are not strong enough to suck yet.

3 June 2008

I did my measurements again and am really pleased with the results.

Neck 35.5cm = +1cm (not sure about that one)

Arm 36.5cm = -3cm

Chest 109.5cm = -6.5cm

Waist 92cm = - 7cm

Hips 109cm = -20cm (!!! How good is that!!!)

Thigh 82cm = -3cm

Calf 47.5cm = - 2.5cm

I am finding it easier to stick to the whole new eating program if I just don't eat any gluten. When I eat it, I get such a bad attitude and I don't care about anything.

It's so good to see these results and to find my body using my fat stores up. I am not in a land of famine, so there is no need to store it up!!!

27 May 2008

Dave and I met up at Narrabri and had a lovely weekend, well one full day anyway.
We had a yum breakfast at a lovely cafe, then went bushwalking up to the Mt Kaputar Summit. It was a hard up hill walk and the ole legs knew about it. It felt like a real accomplishment to have made it up there. I amazed myself with being able to get up there without dying of lack of puff. We saw some lovely wildlife, kangaroos, wallabies and birdlife. We took some apples and mandarins and a few minties to munch on and then went for an early dinner.
As usual the better time we have together, the harder it is to be separated again. We are best mates and I miss him so much.
We always have good times together, so it's always hard. You'd think after 12 years I would be used to it?? LOL.

13 May 2008

Well today has been a day of suprises, I found out that my birds are both girls. I was convinced that Charly was a boy, but no, she is Charlee. So there you go.
I have done my measurements and have been suprised and wished that I had done them at the beginning. But now I will be able to watch the changes there too.
My jeans are starting to hang off me and my energy levels are much higher, but I still spend too much time on the WW boards and not doing my work, lol.
I have been getting fluid in my feet and ankles and this really frustrates me, as I always thought it was to do with my diet. It seems that this is not the case.
My measurements are;
Neck : 34.5cm
Chest : 116cm
Waist : 99cm
Tummy : 113.5cm
Hips : 129cm
Arm : 39.5cm
Thigh : 85cm
Calf : 50cm
Fancy my waist being almost 1m around, I am looking forward to that reducing!
and half a metre around my calf???? My goodness, there's a reality check for you!
That's all for the moment.

29th April 2008

Well everything is groovin' along pretty well.

I have been feeling pretty energetic and doing a reasonable amount of exercise and mostly being pretty good food wise.

I've had a few pretty stressful moments with our business. The good thing about this is that I haven't comfort eaten once!!!!

So you could say that I am pretty happy with that.

I have a new bird so the animals are all keeping me busy and occupied with thoughts other than food.

This is the latest addition.

Virtual Me, LOL

I had to try this, and it is a bit too real...


The now and the new, I hope this is reasonably close to reality.

April 10th 2008

Hi again, I have been deliberating whether or not to tell.
I have had a real struggle with eating my emotions in the past. As soon as I had anything go wrong or even just not my way, I used this as an excuse to eat, anything, anything that I wanted. Yesterday we had a bit of a hiccup with our business and it has put us in a place that we need to do a lot more running around and will cause a lot more emotional upheavel.
I am very pleased to be able to say, that I did not run to the fridge for the chocolate, or down the road for a chiko roll or some other revolting fatty takeaway. I went inside, prayed, read my bible and cooked myself a healthy dinner.
This is a huge difference, formerly I would be almost happy to have the justification to indulge. But not this new girl I have living in my skin.
I am quite pleased with myself, and a bit proud too.

Here are some picture of my babies,

Kruger , Lola and Charly (in that order)

April 8th 2008

Hi everyone, this is my first entry.
I thought this would be a good way to keep track of things.
I used to have an old blog but can't seem to access it,
this is the link if you'd like to have a look.
http://www.journey-begins.blogspot.com/

Rather than bother with doing all that again, you can have a sticky beak and I will just continue on.