Monday again.

 Monday again…..but no weigh in. You know what that means ehhh 😘.      Yep, I have been indulging. Not counting points or calories, just been eating. Yep, the scales will be up…..BUT at this point in time I just don’t care. I will deal with the consequences after Christmas. 

Kids are back from their Dads and we are counting down to Christmas Day, the kids especially Summer are getting excited.  

I’m ready, gifts are all wrapped, most are under the tree. Most of the food has been bought. Just fruit and some veg, whipping cream and a few bits and pieces to buy and I’m done. I’m working in the morning so I will get them then. I’ve got the kids after work while Kylee does a shift and planning to take them to the movies to see Moana 2. 

Anyways till next time…..

Weigh in day

Right….first up my grandies and why you mostly only see the little ones. 

I have a blended family. Both hubby and I had been married before, and been together now nearly 44 years. He had a son Paul and a daughter Rosemary, and I had Simon ( they were 10, 7 and 6 when we got together) and then we had Shawn and Kylee. They all grew up together and were very close.

Anyhow Paul’s kids, after he passed away we don’t see a lot of them at all. Busy with their mother’s side of the family, work and friends. They have grown so much since Paul died. Caitlin is 22, Ashlee 20 and Matthew 16. His eldest Luke is 28 and lives in Perth. 

Simons kids since the very nasty breakdown of his marriage we don’t see much of at all either.  The eldest 2 girls sided with their mother after their breakup and they don’t have anything to do with their Dad, but the 2 boys do. They stay in touch with us too and visit occasionally. Boys are 18 and 19. Girls 21 and 22. 

Shawn lives with us as does his eldest daughter Skye. I see the others except the youngest who still lives with his foster mother. Jaydene, Shawn’s 2nd born has just graduated high school and is the mother of my only great grandchild Jahzara. Shayden (3rd child) is still at school and lives with his mum. 

And Kylee as you know has the 2 little ones. 

Yeah…..the Waltons we are not!! 

Families can be complicated. 

Saw my surgeon re my hands and the Dupuyten’s Contracture. He’s going to my left hand which is the worst on April 29th next year, the earliest I can be done. It’s a day surgery. 

Weigh in day. 400g loss.

I’m happy with that after the horror week I had a fortnight ago. This last week I’ve stuck to plan and I feel better for it. 

Below is William after they came runner up in the soccer grand final. It was a hard fought battle but unfortunately there can only be 1 winning team. 

Sunday today…

 Tomorrow SHOULD be my weigh in day but I’ve had a horror week and I think…no I know that if I weigh in the number would do my head in. So…tomorrow is a no weigh.

Also tomorrow morning I’m off to see specialist about my Dupuytren Contracture in my hands. The last few weeks they have got worse. Be very interesting to see what he is going to say and do. I’ll keep you informed. 

School finishes for the year on Thursday. The kids had their last assembly and awards presentation on Friday. Speaking to Williams teacher after the awards and she said he was so close to getting the academic award for his year but his writing let him down,  he knows that too….  He knows he has done well over the year, he has had his work acknowledged with merit certificates plus all his Children’s University acknowledgements. 

For the past 8 or 9 weeks William has been playing evening soccer. After a try out he was selected from a bunch of Under 11 girls and boys from various teams in the league he plays for.  His team has done really well considering all but 2 of them had never played together before. Last week I went and watched and I’ll be going this week too as his team is in the Grand Final. It’s an awesome achievement by the boys and girls. Well done to the coaches too who have all donated their time to the kids who just want to play soccer all year round.

The local news station heard about it and took some footage. William is in the footage, yellow and blue shirt, #17 

Let’s hope this works, 😊😊

Dragging my feet ….

 Dragging my feet this week with my weigh in result. 

Another 400g gain…why I don’t know as looking through my diary I was on track. But it is what it is…. 😘

BUT it did my head in and this Monday, Tuesday and today I am floundering. Heck with all the years I have been “dieting” you’d think I would be able to deal with the scale results. All it does is cause me overindulge for half the week and pull my head in the rest of the week and eat a calorie controlled diet…and hopefully no damage caused on the scale come the next weigh in 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

One thing I have done consistently is write in my diary. It’s day 38 today…and I have done a jabberwalk. Didn’t want to as my feet were sooooooo sore but I did. Worked yesterday morning, even did overtime….then worked again last night setting up the Christmas trees for the centre. 15,200 steps…ughhhh no wonder my tootsies ached. 

Ohhhh my grandies had their Santa pics done on Saturday. Wonder how much longer Master nearly 11year old will want to keep this tradition up?? 

Anyways will leave you with their cuteness 😘

Back again…

 Gee sometimes the weeks go by so quick, before I know it I’m standing on those demon scales of mine for my weekly weigh in. Had a heck of a week, what with sabotaging myself, Skye’s 21st, and a babysitting gig among that as well.  Anyways, weigh in wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, just a 400g gain….I expected a lot more. 

Today I’ve been babysitting so a few treats have passed those lips of mine….but I’ve not been too bad. One thing that has saved me is that I do not eat after 7pm. I started doing it in my personal challenge, I set it as a goal….and that’s one goal I have mostly achieved. Only times I haven’t has been Skye’s 21st dinner and when I overnighted with my sister.

I am counting down to my specialist appointments. First one thankfully is in a couple of weeks and that’s for my Dupuytrens Contracture in my fingers. I can’t tell you how many times I have dropped things because my fingers aren’t gripping. Or I can’t grip to open jars or bottles. I’ve also had to taken my wedding rings off that finger is starting to contract too 😕😕

I can tell you I’m not liking it at all. But not long now as we will see what’s to be done. 

Eyes, meaning cataracts, will be next after the fingers. Hopefully all my ducks will line up in a row 🪿🦆🪿🦆🪿🦆 and appointments will go smoothly and I can both hands and eyes done and recover before we hit the road come winter. 

One little treat….

 One little treat won’t hurt I said to myself…..but it did 😏😏

That one little treat led to another, then another …… and then onto the next day 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

It didn’t help that I forgot my thyroid medication for those 2 days…..but I’m not blaming that. ONLY MYSELF to blame. 

Now it’s Wednesday, and yes I’m back on track but I feel like shit and so disappointed in myself. It’s Skye’s 21st birthday tomorrow and she had asked if we could all go out for Chinese on her birthday so I’d booked us in to a restaurant. I WAS going to treat myself then….but ohhh Lordy…😮😮 Why do I do this to myself??

Anyways what’s done is done and moving on now. I’ll keep on writing in my diary, I’ll keep on tracking and enjoy tomorrow night and move on and see what the rest of the week brings. 

Weigh in was a 200g loss. It could have been more off but I had a couple of higher calorie meals during the week. BUT I was happy with the loss. 

I’ll keep on plodding away. My kids have said to me many times not to worry about my weight so much, just go and enjoy life. But my knee and my feet won’t let me, my weight effects them so the more weight I get off the less pressure I put on them ehhh….

Weigh in day

 

After my weigh in last week I went a little bit……well more than a bit overboard and ate too much. AND that was despite writing in my diary that I WOULD NOT do that. So I owned up and wrote I failed my goals that day. 

Come Tuesday I went to work and was offered breakfast by the cafe. Ughhhh need I say I accepted although I had written my goals in my diary AND a cafe breakfast was not included. Anyways…..my day went pear shaped from there. I was not happy with myself at all!!!

Wednesday morning I wrote down my goals for the day and set about trying to reset myself. And I’m very happy and proud of myself because I did. And the rest of the week followed according to plan.

Weigh in today was a 700g loss.

What it could have been if I hadn’t of detoured for those 2 days. 

It hasn’t been an easy week….lots going on. My brother in law had a minor stroke and is in hospital, my granddaughter injured herself and needed a Doctors visit and time off work. 

I got my Specialist appointment for my Dupuytren’s contracture in early December. Be interesting to see what he has to say. Also got an eye specialist appointment in early January. A eye test I recently had showed I didn’t need new glasses but that I needed surgery to get rid of a cataract that was causing problems. My optician had been keeping a close eye on it.

Anyways that’s it, I start work early in the morning so it’s time I moved and got myself organised and ready for bed. 

Goodnight. 😴