Emotion's

Why is it that everytime all is going well, something will happen and upset everything. I am an emotional person and unfortunately still "emotional eat" , espesially when things go bad !! My sister phoned me yesterday and asked if she could stay here overnight as her hubby was ill and was bought up here to hospital. It sounds as though he may have had a minor stroke...he still having tests to see what has caused him to be so ill. Anyways, my sister and I are close so of course last night we drank and ate, talked and cried, drank some more, ate some more and talked and cried more. A very emotional night!! Now today I am shaking my head and going "there goes my 3 losses in a row", but really as long as Sis's hubby is ok I don't care if I have blown it, I was there for for Sis and thats what matters.

Hope I haven't...

Just hope I haven't done damage to my goal for 3 losses in a row...I am going to have to be super careful for the rest of the week. This weekend I have relaxed a bit too much, haven't tracked as I should have, eaten some foods I shouldn't have even looked at, and certainly haven't drank the water either. But I have excersised which I am happy about, my groin is heaps better, no soreness or tenderness and it felt good on my hour walk this morning, was great to really stride out after 15 minutes of work out and stretching the groin and finding no pain!!
Anyways its on for the rest of the week, tracking and portion sizes, drinking heaps of water and all the rest of the lessons I have been taught by ww....I am going to try to get those 3 losses...

I did it !!

Today was weigh in today and yes...I DID IT!! I lost 900grams today which gave me 2 losses in 2 weeks. Its a great feeling to know the plateau I was in has gone, as for the past 6 weeks or so all I had done was go up a few grams, go down a few, go up a few...was very frustrating. Now in 2 weeks I have lost 3 kilo's, am I happy, you bet !! Must thank all my online friends, (espesially Berrie and Rae), and the girls on our thread (Trish, Janinne, Cheryl)for all their support during the past few weeks too, mwahhhhhh girls. Anyways another week starting so lets see if I can get another loss making 3 weeks in a row.
This photo was taken today out at my youngest sons place where I fell in love with his gorgeous new kitten, isn't it a cutie.

Feeling "Bhah"

Am home from work after I fainted there...was feeling okay early this morning, got up and because I have had a sore groin, thought well won't walk this morning as the groin was a bit tender, so I just did some simple stretch excersises. Then off to work I drove, started at 7.30am as per usual and was happily grading away at the carrots when about 9am I went all hot and flushed..said to the girls I was working with "I feel sick" then fell down on my butt. Thankfully one of the girls was a nurse and helped me to the smoko room, took my pulse etc, and then rang my dr and drove me home. Hubby came home from his work and took me to the drs. After examing me he sent me to the "vampires" (pathology) and a whole series of blood tests later I was able to come home. Anyways the end result was low blood pressure caused throu anaemia, and that is most probaly throu all the hassles I have with ttom!!!

ANYWAYS, I feel better now, will go back to work tomorrow, to light duties only. Today after drs and blood tests, have sat at home in pj's with feet up and relaxed.

The week got better...

Wowwwwwwww the week only got better.....
Friday had the day off work, and drove up to Mandurah, just under an hours drive from here, and met the lovely Janinne,,,,as you can see in pic.
Love the sign we posed in front of ehhhhh??
Janinne , her hunky hubby and I sat and had coffee's and chatted for an hour or more and it was the greatest...thanks Janinne, loved catching up.

Then this morning went in to weigh in and to my delight lost 2.1 kilo's!!!
Woooooooohoooooooooooooo!!!!!!
I am now under 75 kilo's and also have lost over 20 kilo's. Think I am out of my plateau now, sure hope so!!!

What a week !!!

Phhhhhhewwwww what a week so far, and its not over yet.

The other day at work someone I have known for ages walked past and I said "hullo" but he just looked at me and kept on walking. You can imagine what I thought about that! Then 5 minutes later he comes back after talking to my boss and says sorry I didn't recognise you Jen....wowwwwwww had I really changed that much? Then I spoke to my son on the phone the other night and he says he nearly walked past me at the airport when I went up and picked him and his family up for my 50th....NOW HE TELLS ME!!!
And then yesterday out walking, I had to jog past a driveway where a car was coming out and I felt good so I kept on jogging. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaa ME JOGGING!!! I have not jogged for over 20 years...but it felt good. This morning I jogged again, longer and a few more times as I walked.

Now I am just leaving to head up to Mandurah to meet Janinne, a gorgeous lady who has been a wonderful online friend and has supported me on my ww journey on the forums. Our Janinne is a "megastar" and will soon be seen by all in the next ww magazine.....wowwwwwwwww how inspirational !!

And I still have weigh in on Saturday ........

Fashion parade

Went for a drive to Bussellton with hubby but before I went had to do a fashion parade with all the clothes I bought yesterday.....what do you think???

Small gain...

Well weighed in this morning and as I expected I did gain, 600 grams. But it is TTOM and I always have trouble, more so now than ever before. My leader did say she had the same problem with TTOM cravings and has recommended I go to a health shop and enquire about some tablets she took to help her...will do that!! Also she said it could be the dreaded plateau....as this last 6 weeks I have done virtually nothing..up a few, down a few (except for last week) so I will persist and see what happens. No way will I give up!!

After weigh in went to Mandurah and caught up with Minx...Cheryl and I spent a few delightful hours chatting, shopping and lunched. Bought some lovely clothes, (which Cheryl had to remind me to buy in size 12) some shoes and a new handbag all with helpful advice from Cheryl. (Mothers day tomorrow so will wear new clothes and get daughter in law to take pics) Never met before today, just online ww, and I felt as though I knew her forever. Thanks Cheryl, hope we can catch up again sometime...enjoyable day and a pleasure meeting you.

On the way down again

woohooooooo weighed in this morning and yessssssssss I lost 1.6 !!! I am so happy, at long last I am on the way down again. Was looking at my measurements and boy the difference is huge, I do have reason to be happy and proud of myself.

Date 23/9/05 ............................................Date 6/5/06

neck 37cms...............................................neck 34cm

upper arm 36cms.................................... upper arm 33cms

chest 110cms............................................ chest 95cms

waist 108cms........................................... waist 96cms

abdomen 128cms.................................... abdomen 104cms

hips 126cms.............................................hips 104cms

upper leg 69cms...................................... upper leg 58cms

calf 43cms................................................ calf 39cms

TOTAL cm's LOST = 94 cm's AND still over 8 kilo's to go

WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!

YES, Yes, Yes I am happy and proud of myself........

Hung up my helmet, very sadly!!

Very, very sadly have decided no more car racing.....my beloved racecar will be panelbeated, cleaned up and I will put it up for sale. Would love to do one more season on the track but due to insurance costs, regristration fees and all the travelling have decided no more. Have had some wonderful sponsors who have helped me fulfill my dream of driving, and a wonderful husband who has towed me from track to track( and raced himself, if you can't beat her, join her !!)....its been a fantastic lot of years. I never achieved my dream of being champ,,,,,but heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy did give those men a hard time out there...coming in runner up champ 5 years in a row!! Was always there, but not quite. I won some races, won a few major races, even beat the WA#1 a few times and was always in the top end of the field....so I go out smiling.

3 sleeps to go

3 sleeps to weigh in on Saturday, and I think I'm looking forward to it. Had a great week so far...been tracking, counting points, watching portion sizes and drinking lots of water. Not as much excersise as I normally do, its too dark in the morning to leave at 6am, so waiting till nearly 6.30am before I can get out walking, sooooooo only get 30 minutes, otherwise I would be late for work. But at least I'm going. I would miss my walks, not really looking forward to not walking and having to do dvd's/video's. Also doing situps before work, up to 50 now....hoping the tumtum shrinks a little. Not asking for a 6 pack, but a flattish tum would be heaven...something I haven't had for howwwwww many years ????? mmmmm not gonna go there.
Anyways....hoping for a good rest of the week and a result on the scales come Saturday....

Today is another day

Today is another day. After yesterday where I pondered, wondered and despaired about the 600 grams added and the 300 grams the week before I decided I have put too much time and effort in coming this far I WAS not going to give in. I want GOAL and life membership. I knew this journey was not going to be easy and I will be carrying on till I get there.
Today I awoke, after a sleep in, and went for an hours walk, and decided this week is going to be a good one...

I am devastated!!

I weighed in this morning and now I know the reason I had butterfly's in my tummy....I GAINED 600 grams and I can't understand why. I tracked and counted, excersised and even wrote down when I went over points and why. But 3 points in a week with all the excersise I do and the bonus points I had earned should not have made such a difference. I just cried, and I mean really cried when the scales went up!! My leader Deb did console me some, and I still went and had my hair done, but been home a few hours now and I am still very upset. Got to go and do my measurements yet, they are due to be done, but still too upset yet.....

Got butterfly's in tummy

I have had a really good week I think. I have tracked and counted points and thou I have just gone over by a point a couple of nights I am reallyyyy wondering "am I going to lose this week" ?? Last night it was dear hubby's birthday and I indulged a little but that was one of the nights I went over by a point....ohhhhhhhhh I so want to lose this week, and more than a few hundred grams, wellllll more than 300 anyways!!! I have been up and down like a yoyo lately it is starting to worry me, thus the butterflys in tummy!! Wish it was Saturday and this suspense was no longer!!!

Brrrrrrrrrrr mornings too cold !!!

This morning at 6am as we usually do, Deb and I took off for our morning walk. But we spent most of the walk trying to keep warm, it was 5 degree's !!! (The day didn't get much warmer either) And you should have seen the smoke, and the smellllll (Deb and I nearly choked) from everyone starting up their fires. Anyways we decided, the walks are going on the backburner for awhile, we still will walk weekends, but every morning now I will be cranking up the stereo and dancing, or doing my dvd's or video's. I can't not excersise, I don't lose weight unless I do and I enjoy it.
Still going well this week....no major upsets or spurges, (welllllllll had a few drinkies with dear hubby, it's his birthday today) geeeeeee really hoping for a loss this week.

Am going great!!

Had a great day today, had a sleep in seeing as there was no work. Was going to go for a long walk before breakfast but it was PELTING down with rain so I instead turned on the cd player and put a real upbeat cd on and danced as I vacuumed the house. Felt real good !!

Had grilled tomato on 2 pieces of toast for breakfast.
Tuna, tomato and cheese grilled on toast for lunch .
Chicken Fettucinne and vege's will be for tea.

Had a visitor this arvo, a girlfriend I hadn't seen for ages, ran into her in town on Saturday while getting my eyes checked and told her to come out for coffee seeing as today was a public holiday. Ohhhhh forgot to mention that ehhhh, need NEW glasses, my eyes have weakened. Have chosen some new frames, with the help of my friend Ros, very different to the ones I wear now but I like them. Will have to put a new pic up when I get them, won't I?

Been up to see the mother in law and had a catch up, because of work I don't get to see her as often as I should. She fell and broke her hip in October and it has set her back some. For an 80 year old she is very independent and still does all her own gardening, housework etc, and she hates not being able to do things the way she used to as the hip is not healing as fast as she would like it to be. Anyways she is getting there and thats the main thing.

So yes, I am going great, achieved something and had a catch up....and still tracked and planned too. Resisted some temptations(Ros had some lovely carrot cake, and mum had some homemade bikkies) and only gave in to some licorice (mmm must look that up too, haven't yet) but I think I have done well. Am still on track to a loss this week, I really need one to give me a boost after my few bad weeks...come on Saturday.....

Happy Birthday Hannah

This is my #3 son's partner Hannah cutting her cake at her family 21st we had on Saturday night. a lovely night was had by us all. The cake was yummm, I had a small piece, plus a lovely non weight watchers dinner, even a few vodka's. But this morning I headed down to Manjimup to catch up with my mum, bro and sis and had a lovely day with them all. I counted every bite and drink that entered my mouth today, and ended the day with a point in reserve, so heading in the right direction for a great week. I hope so!!

A small gain.....

Well as I thought after that shocker of a week over Easter, I gained 300 grams. Last week even though I did get back on track (thou not to Monday) I didn't quite do enough to lose what I gained that horror week. Geeeeeeee it makes me wonder what I did gain that week, sure makes me glad I have hid my scales !!!
Never mind, I am in a real positive frame of mind, have my #3 son's partners 21st dinner tonight, where I am going to have a few drinks and eat well, but on Sunday I will be back into ww mode. Going to my mum's, on Sunday, a good hour and half drive, but thats ok, mum knows I am doing ww and will be kind to me.

A great day

I had the best today today....I feel soooooo good!!

This morning I got up, after I had a small sleep in, put on my shoes, put on my walkman, picked up my bottle of water and headed off. I did a solid hour of walking which included the "mega killer hill".
I have tracked, drank my water and eaten points within my allowance. I even cooked a weigh watchers recipe which was very yummmmm.

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaa I feel good, ready to tackle the week

Easter with the WA grandies

Had one lot of grandies around this morning and this arvo had the other......and had these gorgeous pics taken.