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. 😴 

One week down

 My countdown to Christmas is going well. 

I’ve used my diary everyday, writing in every morning my goal for the day and then every evening what I have achieved during the day. 

I’m proud of myself. Also proud that on the weekend I travelled down to my home town to see a bestie and also spend the rest of the time with my sister. 

It was wonderful, I hadn’t seen her for a few months, what with her hubby being ill, me and hubby travelling then ourselves being ill… so we had a bit to catch up on. It was wonderful. We had a few drinks, a few nibbles…healthy ones of course…and a lovely meal. 

With travelling my goal was no snacking in car ✅ 

Sugar free alcohol drinks only ✅ 

Drink only water there and back ✅

SO I was happy I achieved those.

Something must have worked as I lost 600g this week. 

Today, I’m struggling a little but I’m trying hard to stick to my goal today. 

Right…time to put dinner in oven. 

Eeeeeek!!!

 I’ve had a horror week and it showed big time on the scales this morning….1.5 gain 🤦‍♀️ No one to blame except for myself. And I’ve got no excuse. Self sabotaging at its best. Don’t know why I do it to myself, but I do time and time again. 

I’m up early this morning, going for a walk with my jabberwalk bestie. Will get a good start to the day and hopefully keep up the effort all day. 

Was looking on my ww site for a countdown to Christmas challenge but I couldn’t find one so I’m going to challenge myself….I am sure Deb (my walking buddy) will join me too. I’ve found myself a diary and after my walk I’m going to rule it up and set myself a challenge a day all based on staying on track and not self indulging. I’ll start it on 1st November and keep it up till Christmas Eve. There will be occasional hiccups I know, like my granddaughters 21st which is a month away, overnight visit to my sister, speedway events but they will be marked in diary and we will work around them. Plus my health issues….knee and feet. 

It’s a big challenge to MYSELF. 

I’m back again….

 Gee another week has rolled on by. The older you get the quicker they roll on by I think. And I haven’t been doing anything much, just pottering around home doing bits and pieces. Still feeling the after effects from the dreaded “lurgy” but slowly I’m on the improve. I’ve had a few relapses but this week with a bit warmer weather I think I moving slowly forward. My jabberbuddy is back from a few weeks away and is keen to start walking again so I’m looking forward to getting moving again. Want to keep walking as long as I can while I still can 

I have Dupuytrens Contracture in my hands and some signs of it are showing up in my feet AND then there’s my knee to throw into the mix 😏

My hands are not effecting me too much as yet, it’s annoying,  but my Dr has booked me into a specialist and I see him in December so we’ll see what the out come is. We have been watching the progress of it for years and not much can be done till it gets to where we are at now. 

Right…weight in this week…..1.2 kilo off

Time to start organising dinner. See you next week. 😘

Ohhhh my……

 Another week has flown by…..and ohh my this one has been a disaster. Had a relapse with this lurgy and spent a couple of days feeling sick again. NOT sick enough to eat myself silly though …… those darn emotions. One day maybe I will STOP 🛑 eating my emotions. 

On top of the lurgy, I walked under a tree and managed to scrape my head on a sharp branch and give myself an egg on the head, as well as a cut plus a headache that lasted 2 days. Not impressed 😏

Anyways all the eating turned into a 2 kilo gain. One day I will learn that food may make me feel better at the time but constant eating doesn’t !! 

Another week…

 The last few days I have been feeling heaps better….thankfully…as it’s been 3 weeks of feeling horrid. I’ve still a bit of a cough but I’m starting to feel human again. Appetite the last few days has been nearly back to normal and the scales showed a 400g gain. I expected that after weeks of hardly eating then starting to eat “normally” again. Haven’t been doing the exercise to burn the calories have I? 

Today I drove down to Busselton to catch up with a cousin. When we went on holidays we took some of her Dad’s ashes with us as Billie-Jean wanted them released in her Dads (and ours) fishing spot. I made up a little scrapbook as a momento for her with some pics and descriptions of where it was and she loved it. Hopefully she will get there one day to see it herself and the remembrance plaque for Ray we put up. 

Whilst in Busselton I asked my brother to join us. I didn’t know if he would, I was hoping he was having a good day and could. Rod has early onset dementia and luckily today was a good day. It’s so bloody hard watching him slowly deteriorate. Thankfully, so far, the horrid disease is slow moving….pray it stays that way. 

Been a big day, think I might have over done it….so it’s goodnight from me. 

Another week

 Slowly getting back to normal….

All tests show NOT Covid, just a horrid virus.  Just about back to normal other than a cough…but even that is better than what it was. Food has some taste again, atm eating what we feel like but watching portions. Hopefully in the next day or so I can start tracking and counting points again. Weigh in this morning…..a sts. 

A face change pic ….. over 3 years difference. 

Sick…

 Most of last week I was sick with a horrid virus. 

It was terrible, killer headache, chills and temps, a cough, lethargy, my body ached right down to the bones and just had no appetite. Food had no taste anyway. 

This week it’s still lingering on…but thankfully I’m moving around now. Still not much of an appetite but I can at least taste it now. 

Anyways a 1.5 k loss

And being sick helped the scales move downwards again. 

Not much else happening really. I’m babysitting William and Summer all morning this week whilst Mum works. Kids are on school holidays atm. 

Dinner to cook, best move. 

No loss…..

 But no gain either……a sts said those demon scales of mine this morning, better than a gain I guess 😏

I haven’t been over indulging, but I haven’t been 100% committed either. AND I haven’t been exercising a lot either, my knee has been giving me a bit of grief so I’ve  not been walking as much. Stayed off it over the weekend and walked this morning and it wasn’t too bad. 

Not much been happening, been a quiet week really. The weather has been glorious so I’ve managed to get out in the garden a bit. Spring has sprung I think. Plants are budding or in flower…and a walk around our block showed that all the native orchids are out.

I love this time of the year 🤩😍

Update

 Ok…Blogger working for me today, tried earlier on in the week and it was having a hissy fit….

Weigh in was Monday….a stay the same on the scales. I nearly had one of those hissy fits myself as I had stuck to the plan. But I didn’t as the previous 2 weeks I’d had good losses….so hopefully this week if I stick to plan I’ll have another good loss…or at least a loss.

Today I think spring has finally sprung here. The sun is shining, the sky is blue. I’ve just had a good walk around my garden and saw some of my succulents are budding, my petticoat daffodils are budding and some of my orchids have flowered ☺️

Little Miss Summers class hosted the last school assembly, they did an awesome job and their little song was just beautiful. She was also awarded a merit certificate for her hard work in the classroom. 

And speaking of her….i must away and have some lunch as I’m due at the school in 45 minutes to pick her and her brother up. 

Another week begins

Another week begins.

Another loss this week of 900g so I’m slowly losing the weight I gained while we were travelling. Still a few more kilos to go yet. I’m back at work a few hours a week again plus I’m jabberwalking with my bestie when I can. Trying to keep motivated but I’m struggling with “jet lag”. Still coming down from the high from our trip. Some days it’s hard to find the motivation to just do ordinary everyday things but each day I’m pushing myself to get out of “holiday mode” and get on with things. 

It’s great to see and be near the grandies again. Soccer was on the weekend so went and watched my boy strut his stuff on the soccer pitch. He’s a great player, love watching him. 

I’ll leave you with some gorgeous scenery…the ranges in the Northern Territory are incredible to drive through.

 

Another week….

Every road we travelled on our 8 weeks away there was something to see. 16,700 kilometres we travelled and we saw so much. I loved it all and would do it all again. 

But since being back I am so lacking energy, some days I can hardly get out of my own way…I keep telling hubby I’m suffering from jet lag…that’s what it feels like. We did go through a few time zones but not that quickly.……

Anyways this week I have managed 4 jabberwalks with my girlfriend. The weather hasn’t been the best, we’ve missed the rain most days, only had to cancel one walk. 

All going well. Scales were very good this week, I lost 900g. Need to keep that up, I’m wanting to get back to where I was before we went away asap so I can continue the journey down. I think my ww contract runs out in November so I’ll have to keep an eye out for deals as I’m going to continue doing what I’m doing. 

100 grams

 A 100g loss this week. Sadly it could have been more BUT I over indulged ALL weekend. The weather was wet, constant continuous rain all weekend. Kids soccer matches were cancelled due to the pitches being under water. I went out with Kylee and kids Saturday morning to a science fair but on arriving home sat in my chair in front of fire and read….and ate….    Grrrrrrr I’m really kicking myself as I had been so good till then, even back to my jabberwalking. Makes me wonder how much I could have lost if I hadn’t had an attack of the munchies. 

Wildflowers are out in abundance atm…

Snack Attack

Mmmmmm weigh in day…another gain. Too much takeaway and salty snacks over the weekend and the scales didn’t like me.

Ive got the grandkids today while mum works, it’s a school development day. It’s cold, wet and miserable today but will try and get out and do something with them. 

I was going through my camera and discovered these awesome pics of brolgas dancing in outback Queensland. It was amazing, the 1st time I’d ever seen them do this dance so I’m happy my pics turned out.

Right…best get organised, kids will be here soon.

See you next week, hopefully lighter than I am now. 

I’m back

 I’m back.

The trip was fantastic. The 16,000+ kilometres and nearly 8 weeks of it. Hubby and I loved catching up with some friends on our travels. We had the best time 😊

I’d do it all again tomorrow……mmmm maybe not tomorrow, next week though as I need a few more cuddles with my grandies first 😘

Travelling across the Nullarbor 

The water, the trees and the hills

There she blows…

Sunset on a river bank 

Love the rivers and flowing water 

Another river bank 

Camp on the beach 

Fishing 

Another sunset

And now I’m home the ww start again. I gained 4.5k while away, I did think it would be more as I did drink wine or beer most nights 🥂🍻

Right…it’s time to get up and moving.

Still some unpacking to do and catching up on things. 

Last weigh in

 

This weekend we hit the road…across the Nullarbor we will go. Planning on 3 long days of driving to get us across and into places we haven’t travelled.  Bring it on ☺️

We are 95% packed. I’ve a few things ready in the house to go pack into vehicle. Doctor visit tomorrow to get my thyroid meds and some painkillers just in case knee plays up. 

Then it’s wait till Shawn and Skye get home. Thursday he pulls out of Shark Bay, and will be calling into Kalbarri to go do some crabbing if he can. A lot of rain there so whether he will be able to without getting bogged…who knows. 

Anyway, last weigh yesterday, 400g down. Hopefully I don’t have anymore days like today where I’ve eaten way way too much. 

Feeling very emotional. One of Kylee’s good friends lost her dear little boy in an accidental drowning. They are a beautiful family and are feeling for them all. 

Also today I was given some of my cousins ashes to take with us, so on the way home in August we can stop at his, and our, favourite fishing spot and sprinkle them into the water. I’m also placing a plaque up there too in memory of him. Heck I miss that man.

Right…I’ll be back eventually. 

Don’t think I’ll be posting whilst on the road. I might just so I can record some favourite places…but we’ll see. 

Bad weather

 The last few weeks we have had some awful weather on and off. Huge storm on Saturday night where Bunbury, which is 20k’s from my location, had ANOTHER tornado. Just a few weeks ago in Bunbury during another storm they had one form and wreck havoc. Scary thing was that first tornado William was meant to be training for Country Week trials in Soccer. Coaches canceled the training due to lightning being forecast. That tornado went across the pitch where they would have been training. 

Anyways we been lucky here, no damage, a few branches off trees is all. 

This is a pic that someone took of the tornado. They are scary, I know as 6 years ago in the middle of the night we had a tornado that went through 200 hundreds meters from our house. The noise it made woke us up. It was a sound I can tell you I never want to hear again, so eerie. Hubby and I hid in our walk in robe, the safest place with no windows. Next morning our yard was covered with debri, twisted off branches, guttering from houses, roofing, just so much debris. Quite a few houses destroyed including our neighbours at the back of us 300 metres away. 

Anyways, weather has cleared up a bit today but more bad weather due Wednesday night/Thursday morning.

In under 2 weeks we hit the road, can’t wait. I’m mostly packed and ready to roll. One of my friends in NSW is our first stop, so excited to see her. 

Right, work in morning, early start to I’m out of here.

Baby sat this munchkin today while mummy worked for a few hours. We had a great day. William was at his best friends, it was his friends birthday today. 

Ohhhh, weigh in today, 400 gram gone, I’m finally back to my lowest weight from 5 or 6 weeks ago. 

Another week down..

 Another week down and an another week closer to our trekking across the Nullarbor. 600g lost this week….and only 2 more weigh ins to go. I’m 400g off my lowest weight which was 5 weeks ago. Soooooo maybe I’ll get lower than that before I go…But I don’t think I’ll reach my 20 kilo off. I may, if I really give it a go..but to be honest I’m not going to push myself to the extreme. 

That’s it for this week….short and sweet. Only for my record anyway. 

Another week gone..

 

Thankfully I’ve had a better week this week. Just about 100% on track. 

The scales showed a sts, and considering I never weighed in last week after my horror week I am happy 😊 

My jabberbuddy will be back from holidays tonight so we’ll be back to walking on Wednesday. That will help me as I’ve been very lazy since Deb went away. 

The kids both played soccer on Saturday. Both teams won. Summer is improving weekly, running a lot more now.

William, wow what a game he played. Every now and then he throws in a blinder of a game and Saturday was one of them.

He’s trying out for under 11’s Countryweek team. Going to be a tough decision for the coaches as there 35 boys training and they all as keen as William. He has another few weeks of training yet then it’ll be fingers crossed. William is hoping to be in the squad but says it won’t matter if he’s not because he’s loving the experience of trials to get there. 

Nothing much going on. 

Counting downs the weeks before we hit the road, but before we go Shawn and Skye are having 2 weeks away. As soon as they are back we will hit the road. 

Lunches to pack, till next week. 

Weigh in day tomorrow…

 But I’m not weighing in tomorrow. It will be a big fat gain. 

Every time I set myself a goal I fail. I’m not going to set a weight loss goal again. My goal was to get to my 20 kilo loss before we take off trekking. Don’t know why but if I set goals I self sabotage myself. EVERY SINGLE BLOODY TIME!!!

I’ve just gone on an all out binge and literally gorged myself with everything and anything. 

Hasn’t helped that my daughter had to call me and hubby down to hers to get the kids. Her boyfriend over indulged with alcohol and got abusive scaring the kids. She asked him to pack up his shit and leave. He was refusing too until Hubby arrived. 

Anyways that’s not the point…I’d started the binging before all the above went down. Apparently they had a big argument last week and K told him it was his last chance. He didn’t like the fact that she and her best friend of over 25 years were not including him in some plans they were making. He had been drinking heavy. 

I liked him, but I was concerned about his drinking. He came around home one day at lunch time and had a can in his hand. Apparently when he moved in with her how much he drank became obvious as his mood changed.

Anyways he left last night, and his mum bought him back to pick up his gear this morning. As K told him in front of her Dad, her kids come first and no way should they be made to feel scared in their own house.

My girl does not seem to have much luck with men. I hope one day she does find some forever lasting love

Mother’s Day today.

I miss these Mum’s, my mum and my mother in law so much. I think the older I get the more I miss them…more so my mum. 

Love them so. xx