Day Ten - L Challenge

I must say that I am getting pretty worried that I can't keep up this intensity for 7 weeks (well 6 weeks left). I am glad I have a challenge and it is a fantastic one but I seem to fail on the secon week after losing a big amount on the first.

I am still going with it and I am still tracking and I have a buddy that is keeping track of my tracker but have been really worried this week that I am not going to lose anything. I have NEVER lost 6 kilos in 7 weeks not even 4 kilos in 6 weeks so it is doing my head it.. NO I am not going to give up but it feels really unreachable at the moment.

I have an email buddy and she has been keeping me down on earth and making me believe in myself so it has been great to be able to tell her what I am feeling and she is a bit of an email junkie to so it has been great.

My day has been great.

How beautiful was it today!!! The sun was shining and there wasn't hardly any wind and I walked the boys to school and did Quinn's class spelling test and then decided to go for a walk. I just took off and then got to Corbin's soccer practice field and decided I would run one side walk one side run one side and then kept on walking because it was just a beautiful day. I took my mp3 player that made me groove on my way. Got to a diary that was about 40 minutes away from home (walk distance) and had a V (yes I know but it was my reward for going further away). Then I walked back. So by the time I got home again it was 11.45 and I looked at my steps and I had managed 9,565 steps and was happy about the steps as it was such a beautiful day.

Made a lovely chicken salad for lunch and then walked down to the coffee shop for my weekly coffee with my friends and it was fun. Then got the kids from school and walked home again. When I got home I looked at my steps and it said 13,771 but I over did it!! I wasn't feeling good and went up to bed and the boys watched cartoons and didn't want to get up.... think too much exercise today.. GO FIGURE...

Mum has gone to bingo and hubby has gone out with friends and I am here alone (well kids are in bed) but loving it because I am just relaxing and spending time for me.... I don't have to talk and I don't have to answer anyone and just watching tv and playing solitaire on my computer.. So basically a great end to a great day.

Love Chubbymum

Day Three - LC Challenge

It felt like a lazy day but really it hasn't been.

Woke up this morning and it was blowing outside like it was going to rain but it didn't start when I was trying to take the kids to school so I got my tracksuit and sweatshirt and sneakers on and walked the kids to school and decided to go for a walk when they were at school...

Got to school and one of the mums said "are you going for a walk" I said yes and she said can I join you so we went on a walk and it didn't feel like we went very far but I had done 8,402 steps by 10.30 wohoooo and then we went for a coffee (well I had a frappe with water and no cream woohooo) and chatted for a while and then I walked home.

Took mum out shopping and went to get 6 light sabor's (star wars) for Corbin's birthday party and also got a lot of things for Quinn's birthday for his desk (that mum is buying him for his birthday). Quinn is a lot like me and is a stationery aholic he he he so I got pens and stapler, pads, colour paper, stickers and a diary etc there is heaps and heaps of things for him... it was great to get most of the birthday stuff all done.

Came back and had lunch then I was off again for my weekly coffee with some of the school mums OMG 2 times in one day going to a coffee shop. I had a english breakfast tea, but didn't drink it as I wasn't in the mood really and brought it because I thought i had to sit there with something.

And now I am home and my steps so far are....9,653 and I am happy with that as my average is usually 7,000 so that is all good for me today.

Got a gym appointment tomorrow morning for my new program so I am looking forward to that and Jeremy has his appointment at 12 on Saturday so we are going to be motivated and on to it woohooo.

So tonight is a relax and design Corbin's birthday party invites arghhhhh.

Might update later.
Feeling great today

The rest of the day was just cooking dinner for the family and then playing Jenga with Corbin and now wanting people to update on their blogs as I am bored bored bored... argghhhhhh wanting to read some positive things and wanting to have something to read and and and and OMG am I babbling or what??

P.S I am glad that ChrisH has updated because I have been worried about her all day. I phoned her place this avo to find out if everything was ok and her son said she was out and things were ok... can relax now.

Chubbymum

Excited

I was so proud Thursday... I went for a walk around the lake with my mum (which shocked the hell out of me as she never wants to walk anywhere ) and she managed to walk half way around the lake and I walked the other half and then went back to pick her up. So yesterday I did 10,023 steps Wohoooo me I broke the 10,000 steps a day woohooo.

Today I went for a walk around the lake again as it was a beautiful weather and also walked the boys to and from school.

I did 12,746 today am I on a high or what.

I am not going to update much this weekend because of the expo so I am sorry about that but I will hopefully get some photos.

Love ya all
Chubbymum

Steps are great

I am soooo pleased with my steps today... it is only 1.00 and I have done 8,731 steps woohoo me!!!

I got out before it pissed down with rain and it felt great.

Car is in the garage today to get it's warrant... which will fail I can tell you that now he he he we need two new tyres and then we have to pay for the registration... OMG all in one week... plus had my bosses on the phone today because they short paid me by a day and so they will pay it to me next week. I felt like saying and I hope it will be with interest you arse's because I have to wait an extra week for my money when it was your error GEESH... they only have one transfer a week and can't help it... bugs the hell out of me I can tell you.

Will update later....

Chubbymum

So...

So yesterday was my lazy lazy day and decided I would have a day that if I don't do exercise then that is fine.

I didn't want to do anything actually... he he he

I didn't want to spend time doing the kids spelling in Quinn's class and I didn't want to take my mum anywhere and I didn't want to do anything to do with weight loss.

So I didn't actively do exercise or steps and my steps for the whole day were 2587 but I wasn't unhappy about that.

I got up took the boys to school, told the teacher I couldn't do the spelling today and she was ok with that. I didn't give her an excuse because I got roped in to do the spelling anyway so one week off isn't going to hurt.

I then took my lazy arse he he he and went to starbucks and sat there for an hour reading my Her Business Magazine and pad and pen and had a croissant (naughty I know) and a coffee. It was a nice relaxing time.

Later that morning I went to my friends shop and talked about the table setting with invites and wine bottle etc that I am doing for her window dress up wohooo...

Then came back and had a cup of tea with a friend and my mum at the coffee shop and picked up the boys from school.

That night was Quinn's production at school with the 5 new entrant classes. We went really early so we could get a good seat and we got the front middle and it was soooo cool to have that seat so we could see Quinn and all the others. I was sooo proud of him and he had this higher than though look on his face. So that was a late night for the boys but I got lots of photos.

Today (Friday)

Corbin woke up and was coughing and coughing and coughing so I said he could stay home as long as he wasn't watching tv all day and had to spend some time in his bed to get rid of this cold (the only reason I said that was because I was afraid he would take advantage of not being at school) this is his first day ever in the 3 years that he has been at school that he has taken a sick day so I am quite proud of him for that.

I did a couple of invitations and I left Corbin with mum and went for a walk around the lake. It used to take 55 minutes to walk around it but today I took 35 minutes and I jogged about 7 time around it (4 km) and it was 5787 steps so that was a fantastic effort on my part. I was really happy about that.

After that I came home and managed to do some more on my invites and then took off for my friends shop again to show her the wine bottle and name plates I did but the colour of them wasn't quite right so I am going to do it a lighter colour and try again. Went there to support her as there was a nasty person put in a complaint to the authorities about her advertisement on the radio about child abuse and she didn't even do the ad the radio station did and they are going to sort it out... something about it sounding like a kid was being hit OMG some people aye. They could have gone to the radio station first but no had to get lawyers in on it. My friend was beside herself and I kept telling her that she knows that she isn't that sort of person and that it will get sorted and the radio station is going to sort it out.. apparently they have to prove that it isn't a child being hit on the advertisement OMG sometimes it can go overboard as if a child would have been hurt in an ad for flowers GEESH.

I went to Davidz Emporium to get my backdrop material for my site at the wedding expo today as they had a huge sale on so I got black calico for $6 for 5 metres and I would have paid more than that at other places I was sooo happy about that and I brought some ribbon for some invitations as well... it was a good price.

Went to Rock'n Roll tonight with the boys and Corbin is getting quite good at it and with a little more practice he can go to the next step of learning the turns etc and Quinn was doing ok... he was a little silly at the start and wasn't listening. When they had a free for all this little girl (maybe a year older than Quinn) came and asked him to dance and so he did and it was sooooo cute I wanted to go over and take a photo but didn't take my camera so I didn't embarrass them he he he mean mummy I am.

So anyway that is it for me.

My steps for today are 8776 so I am happy with those steps.
Have a great weekend everyone
I am not sure if I can update as it is a full on weekend this weekend.

Love ya all
Chubbymum

Weigh In results - 13 June 07

Weigh in day at home today:

Lost: 500g

Current weight: 121 kgs

Total loss: 33.7 kgs

Small challenge: 119 kgs

How much to go: 2 kgs

I am happy with that. I didn't think I would lose weight this week but stay the same even though I have been trying this week.

I have a little challenge with a work mate. We go for walks at morning tea usually to get a coffee up the road (even though we could have one here at work) and so we have decided we won't go for the coffee but go for a walk instead on the nice days. It makes us get out and we have a little excel sheet of the steps we start with and how many we do and we are going to try and improve on that. We only have 15 minutes for morning tea and so at least it is 15 minutes of exercise that we are getting and not sitting on our butts aye.

It was great as we did 1500 steps in 15 minutes so that was a great effort.

Feeling more and more positive this week and how my weight loss is going. Maybe due to the fact that I lost but also I think I am finally happy with my decision to not go back to WW... as hubby said the only reason that I want to go back to WW is that I miss the like minded people and people that are trying to lose weight and it inspires me to keep going but it doesn't justify the money spent.

I know I can do this but I have to start believing I can because in reality I am only weighing in at WW aren't I... and the rest is all me.

Anyway going now..

Love ya all

Chubbymum