Finally.

 Weigh in day again.

This morning, the scales went down….finally!!!

After 3 weeks of staying the same, a 700g loss…woohoooo 😊😍😘

It’s been a quiet week for me, nothing much been happening. With daughter being on holidays I’ve had no babysitting duties. So all I’ve done is my work….and in my spare time I’ve been catching up on some scrapbooking of some of my photos. It actually has been a lot of fun. Ahhhh the memories, some tearful ones at times, but lots of happy ones too. I’ve heaps of photos so decided before I forget it’s best I get them organised or my kids will be left with a heap of photos and no idea who or what they are. Hubby’s mum left behind a big pile of albums and more than half of them we have no idea who or what they are. 

Another weekly check in….

 And another weigh in…..and another sts 🤷‍♀️

No loss in 2 weeks. No idea why. I’m tracking, I’ve followed my plan, I’ve not cheated so I just have to believe in the program and carry on. 

My weight has always yo-yo’ed. No one to blame but me 🤦‍♀️ 

I’m the problem, just can’t help myself. Go so well for weeks, then indulge, then indulge some more, gain weight then think ahhh well I’ll get that off again, will start again next week…so indulge more till “diet” day again. I sabotage myself time and time again. 

But I didn’t this time, my body must be playing catch up since I detoxed 2 weeks ago.

I went down to my sisters on Wednesday morning, and caught up with some friends and relatives and stayed the night at my sisters yakking and catching up with her and her hubby. One visit we did was to my Auntie Yvonne. She lives out on the family farm, the farm where my mum grew up. Two of mum’s brothers (one being Aunties husband) worked the farm till they retired and passed it on to Aunties only son.

You can see Aunties house above the waterslide in the 1st pic, 2nd pic is her sons house.

Many a happy time has been spent out the farm over the years. In 2024 it will a 100 years since my grandparents settled on this farm. Already plans are in place to celebrate the centenary.

Thursday after breakfast and lots more yakking we toured the op shops, caught up with more relatives before I had to turn the car north and head home. 

One of the 1st things I did on arriving home was check my “Lady of the Night” cactus (succulent). It had 18 flowers this flowering but I had missed most of them opening fully or all together. 

My sister had 14 on her plant which was my mum’s, mine is a cutting from it. Wednesday night the last 6 of hers flowered, the perfume on her patio was gorgeous. 

I had one flower left so I made sure I was there from bud to fully open. 

This flower only lasts the 1 night and when it opens fully it has a perfume that is out of this world.

Isn’t it just gorgeous?

Weigh in

 Weigh in day. A tad disappointed that I had a sts …. but ww works and I believe in the program sooooooo onto a new week.

This morning I took the kids up to Macca’s where we were meeting their Dad and his girlfriend. They have them for the next 10 days…..wooohoooooo. As much as I love them, they are noisy, messy and time consuming. Plus Summer is going through a phase of waking up at 2.30am for cuddles….and then she is awake and ready to start the day anywhere from 5am onwards. Very tiring.

Anyways Mum started 3 weeks holiday today too…so no kids for her for 10 days either. She gets to spend some time with Michael without having to worry about caring for them.

So…..all in all 3 weeks without kids. Still have Skye…maybe. She spends ALL her time driving around the countryside with her mates, sister or mum. Not impressed with her atm. She is 18, on a youth allowance from Centrelink, and meant to be looking for work. We are not charging her board atm but have asked she pays us something each fortnight towards the car we helped buy and in return she help out around the home. It’s NOT happening. She has been home 1 night in the last fortnight. And we are expected to look after her pets while she gone. Poor rats so neglected. 

Anyways I off to finish cooking dinner.

Will leave you with this…… cuddles with Poppy. 

 

And the journey continues….

 New year eve was very quiet….but on the 2nd we travelled down to Manjimup where I was finally able to visit Mum and Dads grave. Had a little chat, cleaned their stones and then headed off to visit my sister and brother in law and then we drove out to speedway ready for a good evenings racing. Sister came out too and we thoroughly enjoyed our evening.

We took the land cruiser down, so after the racing …. and a few drinks up at the bar with a few of the drivers …. we set up our camp and piled into bed.  Love our set up, 2 minutes to set up and pack up….plus super comfy. 

In the morning hubby made the coffee while I used the facilities. Then went to say see ya 👋 to sister and a promise to come down again real soon. Monday is usually a work day for me but I took the day off.

Meandered off home slowly enjoying our time together. Called in at a little cafe and bought a coffee and a pie which was super tasty and filling.

Sooooooo from that you can tell I didn’t restart my ww on Boxing Day….but I can tell you that Tuesday morning I started a 3 day detox. 

I weighed myself when I started and I found I had gained 3.8. After the detox I lost 1.8 so I was off to the start I wanted. Detox I found easy and I must say I feel good. Tummy bloat gone and clothes not tight. 

New Year Eve these little cuties hatched. Aren’t they the cutest?  Indian Runner ducks are usually not the best parents but  mum“Baby Huey” is doing a not too bad of a job. “Baby Huey” because she is the clumsiest duck ever…how she hasn’t squashed her babies I don’t know, she’s tripped over them so many times. 

Kids are on school holidays and that means no daycare for Summer or William. I have them atm and they are driving me ratty!! They fighting, squabbling and just so “into everything naughty”. 

Look at little Miss…..told not to go out of my sight…..but she did and found a puddle down near the shed where Poppy trying to grow lawn…..she came back like this….

And that for now is that ☺️

Happy New Year

No New Year resolution for me this year. I read a blog this morning and she said this year she was going to “choose”. I thought it was appropriate for me too. So this coming year everything I do in 2022 will be because I choose too, not because of expectations or want….it will because I choose to do so. 

Happy New Year.  

I slept it in. I welcomed it in with a coffee this morning. 

Merry Christmas

 Merry Christmas 🤶🎅

May it be a happy day filled with blessings to you all.

Mine will be quiet…Kylee is with Micheal family this Christmas, but we will see the Santa joy on their faces when they return.

I am all ready for the big day. Presents all bought, food organised.

Weigh in day but we won’t go there as I haven’t weighed. Last 2 weeks I’ve binged. 

Boxing Day I restart. Why I do this to myself. Lost nearly 7 kilo’s on ww and I’m sure I’ve piled half it back on the last 2 weeks. 

It is what it is.

Be safe. Have the best day.

MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄🎅 🤶 

Blah blah blah..

 Weigh in last week I managed a sts and I was hoping this week I could maintain that as all the usual Christmas Festivities have begun. Unfortunately I am horribly off track and I can’t seem to stop myself. Each day I try, each day I fail. Hopefully tomorrow, I have to dig deep and find the strength. 

Below a couple of pictures of a fire, 2 blocks away from us. The fire got away after it wasn’t put out properly the night before. Strong winds stirred up a few hot embers and away it went.

It burnt right down to our back boundary. 

We  are on a 2.5 acre bush block and hubby is very fire vigilant and keeps the block clean of debris, has firebreaks and sprinklers set up all around our block and on the house 

I’m back….

 I haven’t been anywhere much….but I did forget to post last week.

So….last week I had a stay the same which I deserved. I had an “off” weekend and there wasn’t a lot weight watching involved. I was left -15 for the beginning of this week so delighted with a 500g loss today. 

It’s been a busy couple of weeks. We’ve had Skye’s 18th birthday, her year 12 graduation and today Williams 1st trampoline comp.  So proud of these grandee’s of mine.

Jaydene was there for Skye’s graduation as was Jahzara with her carer so Grumps and I got to have cuddles 

Work is getting super busy what with Christmas just a few weeks away now.  The new company I’m finding ok. Loved our supervisor so was very surprised and saddened to hear yesterday that she has resigned. Wonder what will happen now. I’m counting down to retirement next year. 

Weigh in again…

 Gee it’s Saturday again, this last week has flown by. Nothing exciting has happened, I lead a very boring life obviously.

Yesterday I went gift shopping. My granddaughter turns 18 tomorrow…..can’t believe how quickly that time has gone. Seems like last week I was giving her cuddles after I watched her mother give birth to her. Skye also graduated from high school yesterday…..though her “official” graduation is on Thursday evening.  She is off with her “besties” getting things ready for her 18th birthday party that her mum is giving her for her 🥳 🎂  🎉  Well I hope her mum is paying for it and not Skye. Her friends were going to give her a 🎊 party but that fell through thus her mum stepping up. We were planning to give her a party but Skye’s friends wanted to do it so we backed down. Guess we’ll have cake on Sunday when she comes home.

She is relying on friends for transport. She did take over her Dads old car but that is off the road and she is looking for a more reliable one. We did warn her that Shawns car was “passed it used by date” but she so wanted it and the independence. Anyways hopefully we’ll find something within our budget for her….something that she can afford to pay us back for. 

Hope tonight is a great night for her. 

Lunch time.

I’m having the laziest of days. Only hubby and I here today and tonight so making the most of it. 

Ohhh the scales were nice, 400g down. Little by little I’m going down.

Saturday again.

Another week has flown by.

Nothing exciting has happened. It’s just been work and home. 

Have William and Summer all weekend, Mum has work today then has taken tomorrow off as she has her partners Christmas Party to go to tonight. She is so excited as it a cocktail party up in Perth. She has bought a dress and some new make up from a beauty specialist who showed her how to “ make herself up”. Kylee is like me and very rarely wears make up or dresses so she has been practicing her makeup daily and wearing her new high heels around the house. 

Micheal, her partner, is not going to know her, he has never seen her “dressed up to the nines”. 

Today of course is weigh in day. Pleased to see a loss of 700grams.

It’s McHappy Day today, so took the kids up to Macca’s for breakfast. Later on going to a few Christmas fairs, hopefully they will find a few little gifts for their parents that I can put away for them.

Yesterday

 Was weigh in day……and a 200g loss. Could have been more but I had a couple of days where I wasn’t drinking enough. And last night, even though I had the points to spare I ate way too much.

I took the kids down the park early yesterday, it’s just down the road and very popular. The kids love it and love that I get them down there before everyone else (except a few other early birds) so they can enjoy all swings, flying foxes and climbs to themselves. After a few hours playing it was time for home, get their bags packed ready for when Mum arrived to pick them up and take them to Mandurah and hand them over to their Dad for an overnight visitation.

Then it was work for me….. and that is where I fell off the wagon. Darn self sabotage. Once I started I couldn’t stop BUT today I’m on the wagon, drinking my water and being a good weight watcher. 

Doing ok

I am doing ok, except my knee.

It is really giving me some pain. Doesn’t help that although it is November now and we still still getting winter weather. I am so over the cold, wet and dreary weather. 

I’m just getting ready to go to work, but thought I’d better record Saturday’s weigh in. 400g down.

WW changed their program, not too sure about it it, but I’ll keep to it and believe it’s going to keep working. 

I managed…..

 Another loss…700g down. I’m happy with that, especially as last Saturday I ate as though eating was going out of fashion. 

I’ve had my 1st week of work with the new company that took over. Wonderful friendly people so far, very professional but not over the top. Not a real fan of the uniform…..mainly coz I think I look like a policeman 👮‍♂️….but because I have to have the shirt tucked in (which shows off my belly apron 😳) wear a belt and also because I have to iron the dratted  thing!! I do not iron!! Going to have to dig deep and find the darn thing. I’ll get a pic of me in uniform soonish. My supervisor is a lovely lady and has given me the hours I require. That was made hard for her because centre management has cut down our cleaning time in the centre by over 2 hours. They not too happy about those changes 😚

 

I’m nearly at my first weight loss mini goal, and I do have to admit though sometimes I feel I’m not getting there fast enough BUT I am FEELING  a heck of a lot better within myself. 

A loss, then…….

Weighed in (lost 500g) Friday morning as that afternoon Shawn was hosting his friends and workmates to his birthday BBQ at ours. 

I worked at not over indulging and I didn’t, well not much, but come Saturday I could NOT stop eating, I made short work of the leftovers 😳

 I counted everything and believe me the damage was BIG. I was so peeved off at myself. 

We were so proud of our son. He handled hosting his party with ease and enjoying showing off us and his home to his friends. 

It’s been 5 years of him being drug free and out of trouble. In that 5 years, he has paid off all his fines, bought himself a car and a 4x4. He has had part time work which led him to the permanent position he has now. 

His friends and work mates that came to his bbq spoke very highly of him to us and kept on telling us what a great person he is. So so proud. 

Anyways Sunday I got my act together and I’m very firmly back on track. 

Fingers crossed  I haven’t done too much damage 🤞  

I’ve got till Saturday to rectify the damage. 

And onwards

 This cat of mine….just look at it. A real little lady she is….NOT!!

Actually she is a real menace. Spoilt rotten she is too. Thinks she is a dog and is constantly chewing/ripping up paper. Has a “you beaut” scratching house/poles and what does it do….scratch and claw my near new dining chairs….one is just wrecked 😢 

Another thing she does is sleep in our room, has her own blanket in the corner, but if we move any time after dawn she is “kangaroo hopping” over us to wake us up so she can be fed. Persists till we get up. Last few mornings I have had no work and no grandkids so when she started at 5.45 am I grabbed her and put her in the other bathroom with her cat kibbles and shut the door!!  I made sure she then had to wait till I was up and ready to feed her in my time.

I love her dearly, quirks and all.

Other news. The cleaning company I work for, and have done so for over 10 years has been told. Boss man is retiring due to illness.

So new bosses, new rules coming up. Met the new lady boss Tuesday and signed up to work. Will see how it goes. 

Little ones are with Dad this week. Skye has been out staying with friends and family….all enjoying last week of school holidays. 

Weigh in this morning…..I hopped on the scales, read it, read it again…..moved them and read it and read it again, must have done that about 10 times. I lost 1.6. Yep 1.6!!!

I was over the moon. 

After our trip away I came back with swollen ankles…a lot of water retention so I’m thinking that was a lot of my gain.

Anyways…ww is working for me. I’m happy, I’m not denying myself anything, I just make sure if I eat it, I track it 😊. The day before yesterday I craved bread. I ate way more than I usually eat, but I tracked it…and then made sure the next day I had none. Balance ehhh.. 

I’m back….

 We had the best 6 nights away. So relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. Just me and hubby enjoying the great outdoors. 

My weight was down 700g before I left and I hoped to be able to maintain that loss whilst away. BUT, even though I did beach walk almost every day and eat fresh fish I did indulge. Came home to a 1.4 gain and fluid retention. My ankles for some reason were 3 sizes bigger than normal 😳  Anyways I got straight back on the wagon, followed all my ww rules and have been planning and tracking.    Shhhhhh…a sneak look at my scales has shown I am quickly losing the gain. 

Some pics…

Before we left Skye my foster daughter (and my granddaughter) passed her driving test on her first attempt, so proud of her 😍

Our first night camp was with our best friends who live 7 hours away from us, great to catch up with them. We stayed there on way back too 

Our destination…rugged but beautiful coastline

Some mighty big blowholes. Too calm for any big “blows”

Most beautiful sunsets and sunrises 

Our camp on wheels. So easy to unpack, set up and boil the kettle and cook a meal. 

Busy week..

 Spring has sprung.

All the wild ducks are hatching out their babies. Miss Bobby below 👇 has hatched hers and is heading off to the river with them. Bob and Bobby Duck have been coming here to our place and hatching out their babies for a lot of years now.  

The weather has been glorious for a few days, but today it turned and we had rain again.

It’s been busy, I have the little grandkids for the 5 night stint, onto #4 tonight. Summer has decided that anytime between 4.20 and 5.20am is a good time to wake up 🙇‍♀️, that what we’ve had the past 3 nights. 

Meant to be daycare tomorrow but it’s back up to Drs tomorrow, think she has yet another bout of foot and mouth. That’s about the 6th or 7th time this year. Received a email from them last week to say that they had a case confirmed and to keep our eyes on Summer as they know she is susceptible to it. Not impressed with the daycare, lovely educators and great set up and Summer loves the place BUT something is not right. Why is there so many bouts of these foot and mouth and school sores happening there? Is it the daycare or the parents not following health guidelines.

I’m off to work tomorrow and the next day. Before work I’m taking Summer to Drs for a check up to be 100% sure she has foot and mouth. If she has Kylee will have to leave work early to care for her. 

Friday we are heading off for 6 nights to go camping. I’m going to do my best to keep as much to WW as I can. Have already precooked a few things and froze them ready to pack to keep me focused. I don’t want to fall off the wagon while I’m doing well. Plan to do some beach walking, some fishing…so fresh fish on the bbq is on the menu. 

400grams lost on my weigh in Saturday. 👏👌

Go me 😊

Weigh in day ...

A month in with WW.

I changed my weigh in day with them to coincide with my online group so I wasn’t weighing in twice. Really didn’t want to weigh Saturday’s  as I didn’t want to fall into the trap of “giving myself a free day”. 

With WW that’s hard to do if you track everything which I am doing.

Right…..after my bad Saturday last week,  and changing weigh in I had a week to right my wrong.

Result….300g loss 😚😙

I was so excited to weigh in, I was 100% on track and was expecting a good result. I was a little disappointed with the small loss but hey a loss is a loss and all these little numbers will add up to bigger ones….right??

I didn’t know how I would go yesterday, was nearly tempted to weigh in then instead of today. It was the 6th anniversary of our Paul’s passing. Boy, we miss him so, our hearts are still all broken 💔💔

Paul was a devoted partner, the best Dad, a loving son. He had the biggest wicked laugh, a cheeky nature and other than his family he loved the big outdoors. 

 

3weeks in…

 Yesterday was my online weight loss group weigh in. 

A stay the same this week…..not 100% sure why, I followed the plan, tracked and only used 6 bonus points. Maybe too much bread…💁 

Anyway, after weigh in and breakfast I took the kids down the park. They got to burn some energy and I managed a few thousand steps keeping up with them. Summer is a real little dare devil and has no fear.  I got them home for lunch and their mum got home from work and I took off for my afternoon shift, it was a busy one.

Got home and realised I hadn’t taken anything out for dinner. Only hubby and son to cook for and they requested a steak sandwich….easy peasy 😋

But I fell in a hole. Instead of having what I planned I hit a roadblock and indulged big time. I used up 52 points…left 6 bonus ones for the week. 

I got onto my ww app this morning and changed my weigh in to Saturday as well….that way I’m not weighing in twice a week.  Plus it gives me a chance to get over my “blow out”

Today, taken the kids down the park again, managed 6000 steps running around after them, well the little dare devil anyway.  Food has been good. Been online and researched recipes for 0 and low point meals for me for the rest of the week. Not going to blow this, not when I’m enjoying it so much. 

Another week down

 Another week down, 100% on track (after I sorted out 2 glitches in app…and adjusted my points) But hey I got there, and enjoyed the feeling of seeing the numbers on my scales move on down. 600g down this week. I’m loving the program. 

All well on home front. Had my first COVID jab last week and for a couple of days my arm hurt right down to the bone. But after day 2 I had a shower as hot as I could take it and let it run on my arm for a good 10 minutes. Pain disappeared thankfully. Being the AstraZeneca, next jab is not till November. Ted had his first jab a few days before me with no side effects at all. 

Update

I had a foster’s carer’s meeting the other day and I met the lovely couple that are looking after Jahzara. I asked her if there was any chance we could pop in on Sunday when Jaydene had her 2 hour visit with her. Told her I was still waiting to hear back from DCP regards visits. Anyway she invited us around, she only lives just down the road and round the corner, just on a kilometre away.

So lovely to get cuddles and see Jaydene interactive with her bubba. The love and pride shines out of her. 

Shawn was able to have his first ever cuddles, he never got to have cuddles before she was taken into care.

We only stayed long enough for cuddles and a quick chat as we didn’t want to take time away from Jaydene.

WW is going well, a kilo down on Saturdays weigh in. 

 W

Where am I?

 

I’m still here. 

Been floundering big time since last post. My weight was going up and up and getting very close to a three figured number. A number I promised myself many years ago I would NEVER reach again. I tried calorie counting, I tried pre packaged meals, even 5.2 and intermittent fasting…but it never lasted more than a day or so. 

I then saw a promotional ad on the net about ww and I was seriously thinking about it and thought just do it !!  A friend saw it the same day as me and said she was looking into it too. Snap I told her…me too. 

Anyways both of us did sign up and we will be a week in tomorrow. I am doing digital, Robyn is doing meetings. I would like to do meetings but no coaches down in my location. Ironically my friend Robyn and I met in 2004/5 on a online ww forum when we both joined. We had a meet up get together and have been best friends since. Actually from that forum way back then I am still very close friends with most of them. 

So here I go again….