This weeks going to be a big fat kilo!!

Thats my goal for the week, to hit the kilo mark this week, im having an alcohol free weekend, (except the one or two maybe at the footy grand final, but im designated driver so i have to!) and im drinking my new found vodka zeros, which are only a point each!! So ill only have two points on sugar/alcohol for the weekend. I have also budgeted for a couple of freddos to get me through TTOM this week, so im going to be well under my sugar points/alcohol for the week. putting in some decent exercise this week too and mixing up a few things to try and get to that kilo goal for the week! Feeling great today, done heaps of steps and its only lunch time! cant wait to get home and try on some of the new outfits i took home at lunch to try, just some summer tops and a nice white skirt... very different to the jet black that the fat me used to hide in!!

Anyway just thought id check in and run my goals by you... have a great day and rest of the week!

Broke the trend - 600grams down!

So I smashed that 400gram trend out of the water, and who would have known after the weekend i had. I just added up friday night drinks - didnt get home till after 1 - and with cocktails pizza and sugar full UDLs i consumed 70 points of the stuff! That and the fact that its TTOM this week, I was very prepared to gain a few hundred grams if not more this morning at weigh in. I jumped on the scales before jumping in the shower this morning and there it was 86.2 - I had lost 600grams! I was stoked! Im always stoked when i get off those things lately!!!

So this weeks the week, over a kilo this week, i know its TTOM but who cares!! Im not drinking more than one or two drinks at the footy grandfinal this weekend, designated driver! Im glad I offered now! Ill feel good for the christening we have sunday too!! So sensible eating all weekend and one or two drinks is going to get me over the kilo mark for sure! Exercise every night this week and pumping the water into me still, and im getting closer and closer to goal every week.

I realise that with such a busy social life the kilos are coming off slower, but they are coming off and thats the main thing. I have reassessed my goals for my birthday, and while getting to goal might be achievable, I have decided that my goal by december 13 (birthday) is to be under the 80s instead of 75kilos straight, that way anything extra is a bonus! Ive got about three months so ill be laughin!! and i will buy myself some new hot outfits for my birthday too!!

AND TO SHARE MY NEW PHILOSOPHY that i read about on the weekend -

MY BODY IS A CREDIT CARD - what ever crap i put on it (food and drink) I have to pay off the same amount or ill be in a lot of trouble when the bill comes out - (weigh in) think about it its pretty clever!

Have a great week xx

FIRST MEASUREMENTS SINCE THE START

Hi there,

Measured myself for the first time since I started weight watchers last night, and it was a pleasant surprise. I lost a total of 31.5 cms off my whole body (all the losses added together) the best was off my hips 9cms and waist 7cms. It was good to look at the weight loss from a different angle!

Hope everyone is well, keep up the great work!

400grams seems to be the trend!

Hi there,

Weighed in this morning - loss 400grams! was happy considering i had a no count weekend, weekend away was sensational, i was still good and still got plenty of exercise, but the chamgane and chocolate on arrival were too nice to say no too and tea was very yummy too!!

Down to 86.8 which was a goal by the weekend to be in the 86 range so that was great! netball trip in five week and hoping to be under 85 by then, which i think is really possible!

Hi to Cassie if your reading this!! I just rang chappy and he said that he thinks it might be cassie bruhn or brawn (he didnt know how to spell it) friends with tara nunn (he also said tara and paul just got engaged!) i hope your the right one he thinks - otherwise that would have meant nothing to you!! ha! WHAT A SMALL WORLD! that still spins me out! love to hear how your going with everything, are you still in the area?

And leesh cant wait to hear from you this week xx

GOALS THIS WEEK - to lose a kilo (have a big night planned friday - so will have to be good the rest of the week) and to exercise 6/7 days and incorporate more weights and exercises out of the herals sun tone up for summer blitz. did them last night and they were great!

Talk soon xx

ZARA & CHAPPY

I didnt want my before photos showing up when you go in - i know im silly. so i thought id put up zara and her dad instead xxx and she is a daddys girl thats for certain!

Okay beware - before photos

Okay beware - this part is all apart of the journey, showing the before pics... i havent got my worst here because mum has that.. she wouldnt know that its my worst but im going to snavel it one day to put on here.. i hate these pictures, but i guess its all apart of it hey...

The first one is from my 21st. my face looks enormous. this is with my best friends and two of my bridesmaids, emma (left) and katie (right) love them heaps!!

The other one in black - most of my photos are in black!! is from another friends 21st, with some more girls from school.















This one is of me and kelly (another of my best friends) with paul from big brother, we met and had drinks with him and his wife on our netball trip last year, this was one of my heaviest where i got very upset at night because i felt so big... as you can see i even look uncomfortable!








And the last one is me (far right) with my best friends from the netball club. all the girls were in their hot dresses, even rachel (middle) was 8 months pregnant!! and i had to wear top and pants.. not this year.. (see first photos) inset - kelly, sarah (bridesmaid) rach, trudi and me!















So there are some of my before photos that i could find on my computer, as i said i dont have many because i delete them normally..

PICS

This is me and chappy at our engagement party this year - june 23rd. bit pissy by the end of the night but it was good fun, all of our friends and family together, finished up at our house with the juke box in the kitchen at 6.30am... so big night!


Top left in the dress - is the ball in July or August this year.. i had lost 10 at the engagement and 13 i think by the ball - ha chappy has the same top!!

And last but not least.. my little girl zara xx

Zara has trouble believeing that she is actually a dog... here she is with her poppy, dad. We even say wanna go to poppys, and she bounces around the house!! very cute!!

THE HAPPIEST IVE EVER BEEN

Hello there!

I just thought id share my day with you since its a friday and im hangin out for lunch..

I have been listening through a few songs today that we were thinking of having for the wedding, and they just made me ponder a few things. I dont think that I have ever been this happy. Like really happy, for no reason in particular, im just so happy with life! I have never been so in love, and i know that that gets more and more every day. I am so excited about so many things.

I am so excited about getting married next year, but not just the weddding itself, dont get me wrong though thats very very exciting, but im so so so terribly excited about the marraige that comes after that! I know it wont be too much different to what we have now, Its just very exciting to think about the future especially when your sharing it with someone who excuse me but has to be one of the most wonderful caring and special people on this earth. I havent met many like it anyway!! So thats very exciting.. Who knows i might just be bias but i think hes pretty wonderful. And the thought of having a family and a life together is an incredible feeling.

I also accredit a lot of my 'love of life and feeling great' to my weight loss journey. I have found myself again and to be honest im loving it. I used to be so down and depressed numerous days in the week and now i dont remember the last time (and i try not to anyway) that i felt like that!!! feeling great is helping me enjoy every day things, work, and taking care of my house and myself more importantly! I never thought i could feel like this and im only three quarters of the way through, imagine how great im going to feel by christmas.

And im still doing everything socially that iw as before, its not like i had to cut that part of my life out or down, ive just changed healthier habbits. and thats the secret i think! I love spending time with my family and friends so much its all very exciting... see how i said i get excited about little things.

I will have to read this post if im every having a dull day i think!! just to put things back in perspective!

Some highlights coming up in my life - this weekend, chappy and i are going away - barooga, our engagement present from footy club friends, will fill you in.

Grandfinals, always a very festive time with friends, our leagues then the AFL will both be fun weekends!!

THE NETBALL TRIP - always a year highlight, but last year i became quite depressed on the trip, no one else that went would know otherwise, but i was crying myself to sleep, i was probably at my heaviest then and just hated myself everytime i seen myself in a window or mirror, and we walked quite a bit and i felt useless and out of breath the whole time the eating and drinking didnt help but it was horrible, this year im going to be light as a bird so to speak, im really looking forward to enjoying everything out of the weekend!

And then rolls on christmas really.. the year is flying, but so am I!!!

Anyway time for some lunch, Ill check in after the weekend, Thank god its friday!

Thanks for listening! xx - im going to try and get some photos up this arvo xx

WHAT A WEEK - whats going on??

Hi there,

What a week, this week was my toughest in 19 weeks being on the program. After being bedridden last week for a few days with the flu and trying to get myself back on track - which was my first priority, I then had a few days of turmoil. Pizza, chicken and gravy burger, big bbq and chocolate was my sunday, and seven days of NO exercise - I was in for a big shock this morning. I weighed in expecting 2-3 kilos gain, but to my Massive surprise i had lost 600grams.

87.2 - so nearly at my next mini goal of 86kilos. I couldnt believe my eyes, but then i worked out that after not eating much tuesday and wednesday when i was sick, and losing a lot of fluid with the flu, i guess things counterbalanced once again?? it was wierd though and im going to make a concerted effort to push myself this week so that it doesnt show up a week later on the scales!

Me and Chappy set up our own little challenge last night too. - Septembers challenge, were going to do our own biggest loser, we weighed in this morning and will again at the end of the month, and who ever has lost the highest percentage wins! the prize - the other person buys the winner a present, something nice and something as a bit of a treat, so what a great idea! My goal is 3-4 kilos in the month, and im cutting back on drinking and bumping up my protein this month as well as exercising every day!

Well its time to head home, the day has flown and im in a much better frame of mind than last night, i was a bit of a mess after a splurge weekend. heading home for a walk and some meat and vegies for tea!! will check in later in the week

Have a good one -
note to self - its amazing how much support can change how your feeling, thanks chappy and leesh, love you both x

My week off with the Flu

Hi there, So im back at work today! havent got much done but im here. Have been in bed for three days now with the dreaded flu. Tried my best to keep the fluids up, and I didnt get much food into me, until my yummy chicken risotto which i had out for lunch today!! I didnt worry about the points since i have been well under all week, I think it was magic risotto because i feel ten times better than what i did this morning thats for sure! and worse the last few days! So heading out for netball break up drinks and tea tonight at a friends house, will be pretty casual but good to catch up with the girls, another busy weekend with a friends engagment tomorrow night, footy tomorrow and then fathers day on sunday! have to get down the street and shopping for that as well, will have to do that tomorrow. got on the scales yesterday and had lost two kilos in the couple of days i was sick, so trying to get back to eating properly, hoping to be normal if not a bit of a gain this week with no exercise and being sick, that might not make sense but well find out monday anyway!

Enjoying the meltdown marathon challenge on the ww community site, hope to see some good results, its great the support thats available there. Elisha is kicking her chip habbit right to the curb, one day she'll hate the taste!!

Better get back to it, almost time for home!! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!