Am I back with it or what!!

Since Saturday I have been feeling better and better each day.

I don't normally do it but have been weighing myself everyday this week because I need to get back on track then I will go back to normal weighing but I am on track and I feel soooo much better. I have lost 1.2 since Saturday and feeling sooooooo happy about it. I am down to 119.6 kilos.

Been conversing with the yahoo group and another group that I have joined because I read back on my blog and I was doing better when I was chatting with people in the same situation and then I dwindled off and wasn't so... that is my aim to get back to it as it motivates me and keeps me going.

I have been tracking with hubby at home and it is going really well too..

I am going to do this.

40.4 kilos (1.2 kilos this week) down 19.7 kilos to get to my goal of double digits.

Was thinking this morning that my wrist is going to be full of charms he he he. I have the two charms so far and if I have to loose 19 kilos just to get to the double digits then I am going to have 19 more charms woohoooooo will just have to put on another bracelet and have two of them he he he.

I have to experience what it is like being 99 kilos... I just have to and I need to keep my motivation going. No more excuses and I am going to help me first!!! Encourage me FIRST and not put me second anymore.

Putting my exercise on the sidebar too and what I have done and what I have planned for the coming week. Working within my weigh in weeks and then start again for the next week.

Had a fanbloodytastic chat on the yahoo group with Libra last night and in the end we went on a chat line because we were going back and forth he he he... it was fantastic because there were soooo many things that we have done similar and books we have read and I felt really relaxed talking to her.. it was nice Libra thank you. I really appreciated it last night... believe me you have given me the get up and go to get off my backside and keep on this. Thank you... Thank you...

Chubbymum

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All is good...

Ok... first thank you all for your concern but I am not thinking about doing anything nasty to this guy... just got angry because of more shit that he is doing... and on my blog is a place to get it out so that I don't stew about it.

He is now going to her timeshare half way through the week that she is up there with the kids and he is taking his new family OMG what a gaul to do that...

I do understand that my friend has to deal with this and I am there for an ear but it is really hard when she doesn't have any family living ya know. I am not taking it to heart too much but I can't understand how a guy that I used to think I would go to if anything happened in my life and now find out how he is treating his family it just makes me double think about who I can trust.

I think my monthly is coming soon that is why I was a little grumpy.... plus having the whole day with kids and then had the night with the kids and hubby went out that it was just a bad night.

Went to the doctor this afternoon for a check up and my blood pressure was down from last time 120 over 80 (not sure what it was last time) but I think that is an ok blood pressure for a normal person. Doctor was pretty pleased with me and she is also really happy with the fact that I have lost 41 kilos since the first time we talked about my weight (2005). I couldn't believe that my blood pressure was down to tell you the truth because I was getting more and more worried about it in the waiting room he he he.

Got up this morning and took the kids to school and decided to go to the gym.... went on the treadmill for 10 minutes but didn't want to jog today and was going to give up and not go at all but for the 10 minutes I put the speed up from 5 to 5.8 and then thought.... why not go to a class I haven't been to before ARGGHHH talk about scary.

So I went to a step pump class woohooo and there wasn't that many people in it about 5 of us and they were all so nice and we laughed the whole time... it was hard trying to concentrate on the moves while she was teaching them and I wasn't the only one that was knew... I think I have a sore tummy from laughing.

I was sooooo sore afterwards because we did push up laying on our back with the dumbells and weights and lots of sit ups and up and down the steps... but I was pumped and now this afternoon I am feeling the pain. The tutor afterwards said that I did pretty good for a new person and thought I would have had more trouble then I did sooooo woohooo... but it is much harder work than kickboxing class. I thought it would have been easier but I was sweating like you wouldn't believe.

Took mum shopping and got some t shirts for the gym and I got birthday presents for birthdays that are coming up.

Kilo be away with you

Today has been a good day.

I refused, cake, muffin and quiche and OMG a V... went to my weekly afternoon tea with friends and I did well in saying no to all the yummy treats.

Breakfast

3 Weetbix

Milk

1 tsp sugar

Morning tea

Pretzels (small handful)

Lunch

4 CruskitsTuna (tomatoe and basil)

Cottage Cheese

Tomatoe

Avocado

Pepper

hmmmmmmm

Afternoon Tea

Mocha Frappe (with water no milk and no cream)Peach

Dinner

Chicken

Couscous

Beans

Carrots

Cauliflour

I have this kilo to get off before next week and I AM GOING TO DO THIS....

Felicity you are on!!

I am feeling so positive about it this week.... It is very hard for me to lose more than 500 grams a week but this week it feels right.

I don't have other things like my business to concentrate on and it will happen.

Spent the morning taking Quinn to the doctor as he had one of those ingrown boil thingy (like you had Janene) on his elbow (Corbin had it on his knee last month and I had it on my leg the month before grrr). The doctor said that when you have dry skin it doesn't help either because where the cracks are they get dry and then it can get infected and it is contagious... so we have this special cream so we can stop the cracks in our elbows etc (Luckily it has been months since I have had one but they are nasty B's). So he got antibiotics for that.

I also had to see her about a couple of things for me too and I had my blood pressure taken OMG she did it twice with an electronic one and it wouldn't read so by the third one I was imagining that it was up... when I was bigger it was usually really bad at 160 over 90 but today (even after three times) it was 145/80 so I was really happy with the change. Still not good but better than it was before.

She also took my weight and her scales said 122 (grrr told her I wasn't happy with her scales) but mind you her scales said I weighed 160.4 when I first started this journey yet the WW scales said 154.7. It is a great loss though from her scales as they said a 38.3 kilo loss wohooo me. But I have only lost 34 kilos as far as I am concerned so it put me on a little bit of a high.

Hubby sat at his laptop last night for 2 hours and afterwards printed out a list of things I am to eat this week... so it will be interesting how this week goes with the food list. He wrote what is for breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks. So as you can see by the food above that is what he has told me that I am eating and I must say I have not felt hungry at all and by the end of dinner I am as full as a pig he he he.

Hubby gone out tonight to a school thing for our youngest where the teacher is explaining the school interenet and how to get in to the class forum and pages... and they are talking about wiki's ???? and then he is off to Trivial Pursuit with his friends to win more bar tabs he he he so I am going to put the boys to bed and do some digital scrapbook pages... I miss creating just normal things and not to sell... it is a great week for relaxing and doing what I want.

I am getting my hair cut tomorrow... really not knowing what I want done.... thinking maybe I will just get a trim as I need it. I asked hubby if he thought I should get it cut short again and he said that he likes it this length but wouldn't want it shorter at the moment... so hey I think I might go with that at the moment until it bothers me anyway.

I brought the Harry Potter book today.... I haven't read the Half-blood Prince yet and I am half way through that at the moment. We have the 4 dvd's and when the next one comes out I will get it. I do like watching them and the boys and I have watched them heaps of times so it isn't like we wouldn't. The books are just getting bigger and bigger that it take forever to read for people like me who are slower at reading.

I can't wait to hit the teens... it is soooo close that I can taste it! I know I have been saying it for months but I just want to get there. I have been getting so many compliments lately about how great I am looking and I want to say... I have not lost anything in ages... it has only been 1 kilo in 6 weeks but apparently hubby said that my shape has changed so hey I will take it aye.

Ok... so off to do some digital scrapbooking

Love Chubbymum

18 years Anniversary

As you can tell from the lack of updates I have been busy..... I am terrible at multi tasking. I am working on things for the expo and doing a fair bit of wine bottle labels and getting creative with those at the moment.

My friend Tania came over on Friday afternoon to show me the colours she has chosen for her half of the site and I was sooo pleased as I thought she would have gone for the pinks she has for her shop colours but she has gone with chocolate brown, champagne and a lovely green soooo nice and so it doesn't clash with my orange black and white either. She is also doing a bouquet to go with my colours for around my stuff as well. I am doing some table name plates and a bottle with a bottle label to go with her colours so we can mix and match it is going to be great. You should hear what she is doing for the table setting hmmmmmm can't wait but you will have to wait for the photos of the weekend to show you.

So that is what I have been concentrating on. I have also been doing ok with my food and thinking about what is going in my mouth too. Hubby and I have been taking note about the foods I am wanting at different times and we are trying to adjust to that.

Took hubby to my PT session on friday with Joy and OMG she worked us hard.... I get that every week but I don't think he realised what I did till he did it on Friday and he was sweating like a pig... IT WAS FANTASTIC and she showed us some sparring stuff we can do so we might do some at home too. Also lots to do with the thighs and the tummies and it was great to work out with hubby I enjoyed it a lot.

We came home and got a shower and tidyed up our bedroom (which doesn't happen often as the kids annoy us in the middle of it) so we did that and then went and brought a new vacuum cleaner. It was so nice to have him home on a week day and to be able to take and pick up the boys together...

Today is our anniversary (of sorts) we met each other 18 years ago today OMG has it gone fast or what. Hubby took me out to lunch at the cock and bull and we had a couple of wines and our dinner and talked and he said to me "so what ya doing for he next 18 years?" I said "Why who wants to know" he said "a scruffy man" and I looked in to the distance and said "who point him out" we laughed... I am more in love with my hubby now than I thought it could be... I wouldn't like to lose him at all... he is my SOUL MATE. We have been married 11 years (almost 12) but 18 years being together seems like it was only yesterday that we met.

Not many people are still together after this long and I know I am truly bleased to be with him. We hardly fight (but a good fight now and then keeps ya on your toes aye) and we have 2 great children...

The only 2 things that would make my life complete would be for my invite business to take off (or have a little shop doing it) and for my weight loss to still keep going down.

I have been calmer since not being with Weight Watchers... Hubby and I have gone back to working out our meals and trying to make them out of he WW books and really really trying to have more veges. I know I am not losing a heap of weight but I am not gaining it either and so we have to tweak things aye.

We are reading two books and incorporating them in our lives at the moment and that is Leenies Bible and also Downsize me book (by the trainer in the Downsize me show). She makes a lot of sense and we have started her training program today too and it isn't that hard. It is a little confusing to do a lot of different exercises but it isn't that bad.

I am trying out different breakfasts this week because if I had my way I would have 2 toast with either Jam or Peanut butter every day and that would be me and on the weekends I would have eggs and toast. So this week I am trying out Pear on toast (sounds strange to me but hey) and also Scrambled eggs with fetta and mushrooms (all out of the WW books), Muesli, Yoghurt and fruit (which I must say sounds really weird as I can't think of the worst combination) but I am trying my hardest to stop my mind from stopping me from not eating good things.

We went to the flea market in Hamilton on Saturday morning and it was nice to walk around and look at all the things. I only took $5 and as usual it was spent on the kids and brought them some socks for winter. The kids took $5 each from their pocket money and brought themselves a tamagotchi toy and some fake tattoos as well so they were happy. There were sooo many things they wanted but luckly they didn't take all their spending money.

Went to Tania's flower shop afterwards to help her with her computer OMG if anything happened to her hubby she wouldn't know a thing about what to do with their computer etc.... they both were soooo bad with knowing what password went with which program etc and he was the only one that sort of knew and he lives most of the time in Hokitika with his business GEESH having a business and not really being organised it is really bad.

I have been thinking about my friend Pam a lot lately and not sleeping that well really. I don't want what is happening to her and her ex to ever happen to me... dreaming about it too much I think... the arse wants half the food in the cupboards now (and to think he was our friend before knowing her) I didn't think he would ever do such a nasty thing.... she used her inheritance from her parents (they both died) to buy their house and a whole lot of things and now he wants half of everything he is an arse!!! without her he wouldn't have achieved anything and for 3 years she put him through University and she supported him and now this is what he does to her.

I told her that if there was anything she wanted out of the house so he didn't get then she is to put it at our place because he is slime and doesn't deserve anything.... his kids are beside themselves and poor Pam has no family whatsoever to lean on... well she has me as far as I am concerned.

Anyway enough babbling he he he... I should update more GEESH I am a slack person.

Love you all and thank you for your comments... I love ya all.

Chubbymum

Ahhhh Italy!!

The day went really fast today... we got up had breakfast and then went to our yukkky grocery shopping, home and out to the library to get books and spend some time with the kids.. It was nice sitting in the kids section on the couches and reading. I got some kids books out on Italy as I SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO want to go there and I wanted to read about it.

I must admit I always thought that if I didn't read about it then it won't mean it won't happen. I have been putting off reading about Italy, Tuscany, Venice because they are my dream places and I want to go there but I know that we can't really afford it right now and really can we ever afford it hmmmm.... if we win lotto maybe but not unless we do.

How do people do it? I have a HUGE mortgage and can't really afford to go or maybe it is because I have a HUGE mortgage I can't... it is all priorities isn't it. Mine is to have a good house over my head. I suppose I see a holiday as LOTS of money spent in such a short time and what do you have to show for it. At least with a house I can make money on it and have it every day ya know... I know I know we still have to have experiences but my priorities is my home.

Anyway.... been ok with food. I haven't gone overboard like last weekend but still wanting to eat my arm off with this TOM.... I don't remember ever having that much of an appetite with my TOM when I was bigger? Or maybe it was because I didn't take much notice of it... did anyone else ever have that? Do you remember?

I spent tonight doing a 10 year olds birthday invitations and it was fun. Hubby and I up to our necks in glitter and pink and purple and fairies he he he it was sooo much fun. I did only 3 of them as they are going ice skating.

Also before we went and did the invites hubby coloured my hair.... I must say I thought it was bright when I first saw it but I am getting to like it he he he... feel bright and happy.

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Update Monday Morning

Well Helena is here today woohooooo she is going Kickboxing with me tonight (hopefully as it depends on if she can get out of work quick enough he he) but I am sooo excited as I really like Helena.

I feel on top of the world today.... I am at work and I have my new hair colour and I feel like a million dollars. I love the richness... it is sort of a chocolate colour with reddy highlights and it looks fab (well I think so anyway). I have been unpacking my new computer for work and I have lots of new goodies here in my office... nothing can bring me down he he he.

Gave the invitations to the 10 year olds mum this morning at school andher daughter gave them to her friends and they adored it and then there were about 10 other girls hanging around them so I felt chuffed when they did that as I am not really a girly girl with glitter and pink etc so I did well I reckon.

And a work lady came in today to see if I was still doing a bottle for her hubby so... money is rolling on in woohooooo.

Now I just need to sort out an accountant to help me do a spreadsheet of some kind so I can keep up with the money etc and I will be fine.

OMG... but the weigh in isn't going to be good this week as I have my TTOM and I ALWAYS weigh heavier... but I know that the week later will be good because I have been good.

Anyway better get on with my work he he he.

Love ya all
Chubbymum