Goodbye Katrina

We sadly heard the news that Shawns first friend he ever made when we moved down here from the north-west passed away this week at the age of 24. Katrina was not only his first friend he ever made here, she was his first girlfriend, his best friend, his mate ......was always there for him through the good and bad. She spent as much time in this house as she did her own espesially when they were teenagers....if not with Shawn, was with Kylee....

Katrina Lee, today we say goodbye....we are sure gonna miss ya!!

Monthly ww weigh in

Missed my Monday evening weigh in last night as I had a work accident and squashed open my finger under a roller on the carrot grading table......yep OUCH!!!!! Spent 4 hours at the emergency in at the hospital waiting to be seen, then when I did get to be seen the Dr wasn't happy to stitch it without a surgeon seeing it ..... so another wait. Surgeon saw it, poked and prodded and thought I may have tendon damage so within the hour I was in a ward, weighed, gowned and put under anaesthetic (I hadn't eaten or drank since smoko luckily) and had surgery. No tendon damage thankfully but home with a very sore finger!!!
So went in and weighed this morning and I came in at 70.1 ..... 100 grams over the 2 kilo's I am allowed ... (BUGGER IT!!!!) ... but they let me off paying coz of the finger!! Must have been the surgery as I weighed in lighter on the scales at the hospital, but do know from previous weigh in at hospital their scales differ to mine by 1.5 kilo's.
Anyways off work for the rest of the week .
In the meantime its back to counting those points and keep on trying to lose this extra weight.....3 weeks to next ww weigh and I fly to Melbourne just after for At Home get together and visit daughter. Please don't let me get bored and raid the fridge and pantry while I home!!!
Ohhhhhhhh yeaaaaaaaa daughter flys in tomorrow for job interview.....be home for a quick visit before she flies back to Melbourne to wait for me to visit her...

Why can't he see.....

I am talking about my very troubled son....who else!! He is a huge big stress in my life...if he didn't have his lovely partner and my two gorgeous little grandaughters I wouldn't be there for him as much as I am. His moods swings so quickly and has drug induced mental problems and is often in a paranoid state. I was meant to be catching up with Rach today for a coffee and chat but she messaged me to say she had had a bad night and wouldn't be able to catch up. Rach has only a week or so before she has a bub!! So I rang son (and I hate ringing him coz I never know what kind of mood he is in) to say they could come visit earlier if they liked as I wouldn't be going out to meet Rach. He was fine on the phone and then I said something...heck really knows what I said but whatever it was it set him off!! He went on and on about how he is misunderstood and how its not the drugs that causes all his problems, then within 5 minutes he was back to normal, stopped his ranting 'n raving and said he'll see us in an hour. When they got here Hannah says he hasn't been too bad, but they are fighting and arguing a fair bit of late....she says he can be very aggressive and moody and very quickly misinterepts what people say, even her. I am scared...so scared that he is going to hurt someone. Talking to him today and I gingerly asked him if he needs help with his "moodiness" and maybe need medication and he says no...

We have travelled this route with him before, he even went to rehab....ohhhhhh that was a fantastic year with him, I had my son back....now we have to wait and live in hope...and pray he doesn't hurt anyone but himself. It's breaking my heart and sending me grey.....but unfortunately I can't do anything until he is ready to help himself.

Damn it.... coz without cannabis he is a bloody good kid !! Why can't he see what he is doing to himself, why can't he see the changes in himself....Why can't he see??

Time to act........

Another weigh in night and with the weeks I have been having of late I expected something shocking.....but it was only a 100 grams on. I have been trying to lose the holiday over indulgence, but with some stresses I have been having I haven't been able to get my head around counting points consistently. And then when I do...work becomes so physically demanding my body craves more food!! Anyways next week is a monthly ww weigh in so this week it is time to get me head in the right place and do something about it. I head to Melbourne in just over a month.....hopefully by then....nooooooooooo lets rephrase that....I WILL be back under my goal of 68.

ohhhhh the pic was taken at work during a smoko break at work .....note how rugged up we all are...its been so cold!!

Ohhhhhhh just wanted to say a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Rae and Duane on the birth of their son ..... Xavier Micheal....a little sunbeam for our little Rae of Sunshine........

Footy night....

I have had a so-so week this week. It has been cold, wet and darn miserable most of the week...and work has been plenty full-on!! A lot of packing, lifting and stacking of 20 kilo bags of vege's...and a stint on the potato harvester, plus packing brocolli....all physical work, espesially the stacking. mmmmmmm who needs a gym when you have weeks like that. I have managed to walk a few days this week as well, didn't this morning as it was pelting down with rain.....and didn't yesterday either as I had to be at work 30 minutes earlier than normal. I know I could have put on a excersise dvd and do that, but nahhhhhhh I think I knew a footy blowout was a coming!! Tomorrow hopefully I won't be a lay in bed and will get my butt wriggling before Shawn and Hannah arrive to drop off Skye for a weekend sleep over with Jenna and Pop. Now food.....up to today it has been reasonable after my wagon fall off last week....but tonight my beloved West Coast Eagles are playing Collingwood.....if they lose they are out of the finals run.....if they win well they live to play another game. ohhhhhhh its a nailbiter and along with my cup of hot choccy I have been nibbling bikkies and a few other unmentionable sweeties most of the evening..... Yep definetly will have to get my butt wriggling tomorrow!!! I have joined a September challenge to see if I can lose this holiday over-indulgence weight I put on....but with one thing or another I just can't get myself together and keep myself together for a full week. Maybe I need to go back to weekly meetings...I don't know. Will wait and see what my scales say when I weigh myself on Monday evening.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkk the game has just gone into time on.....full time scores were a draw....now we have 2 five minute quarters of extra time, I don't think I can stand it!!

All over now, Collingwood has won ......the Eagles have had their wings clipped and the season for them is over....

Darn it !!

Tried to do a post last night....but for some reason blogger wasn't interested, now it won't even let me delete it (well whats left of it anyways!!) .....sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez!! Ohhhh well, thats the way its been with me this last week, it hasn't been a good week. Emotions all over the place, tired and just "over it" !! So of course me being an emotional eater I had a few days where I fell off the wagon.....but I did manage to climb back on. Had a few real hectic and busy days at work too so along with the excersise I managed during the week I did manage a loss of 200grams...bringing my weight to 69.4.




yayyyyyyyyyyy finally got blogger working properly.
Apparently they had an outage......

Weighed in tonight

Decided as we had a special dinner for Fathers Day tonight....and tomorrow night I have an appointment with my Dr at my usual weigh in time .... I would weigh in tonight rather than miss it altogether or weigh Tuesday. I have also joined in on a "At Goal" challenge and want to start off the week on a good foot!! I have had a bit of a bad week, had a few problems with Shawn and I have had the flu and had to take time off work to recover...felt really blahhhhh!! So not a lot of excersise has been done, I haven't made a lot of wise choices with my food, although I haven't over-indulged either. This week its back into it ... and I have decided to make a real effort for a month and lose the extra kilo's I gained on holiday plus even have a go at getting down to my personal goal. In just over 6 weeks I head off to Melbourne to see my darling daughter and I have a big get together with some of my dear friends on the "At Home" forum. Gotta look my bestest!!

Anyways weigh in tonight was 69.6......I stayed the same!!

Happy Fathers Day Poppy.....

The boys called around today to wish their Dad a Happy Day....and of course we got to spoil the grandies, bonus that is ehhh?? Little Ashlee turned 3 while we were up north on holidays so we were able to pamper her a bit extra today too, haven't been able to before now as she has been sick with the flu.

Also got some exciting news today as well.....Paul is to be a Daddy again, Luke, Caitlin and Ashlee will have a little brother or sister...so granchild #10 is on the way !!!

HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO MY BOYS.....

Back into routine again....

I have slipped right back into my usual routine again after my month away......went straight back to work, got back into my hill walking routine....and I went off maintenance points and started counting them for losing again. Not as strictly as I could have but enought to bring my weight down from my over indulgent holiday.

On the weekend I went up and visited my grandies as the weekend before we come home little Thomas turned a year old. Simon and Tracey had a little get together but as we were still enjoying the sunshine we did miss out. Anyways I took him up a Bob the Builder scooper....and ohhhhh he loved it. He is such a little cutie....and he so loves to be cuddled. Jessica proudly showed off two loose teeth, Zoe was her usual full on 100 mile an hour self till telly was turned on (then she disappeared) and Sheymus was stroppy that Thomas wouldn't share his scooper when he has to share his !!!

Shawn and Hannah came down on the weekend too. He is his usual contrary moody self....the demon weed still very much a part of his life. Little Jaydene learned to crawl properly, and sit up while we were away as well as push up 2 little teeth. Skye says she is noisy!! ohhhh these babies grow up all too quickly.

I saw Caitlin and Ashlee earlier in the week as they live just down the road...poor little mites are sick with a nasty flu. Luke is due to come down and visit his Dad soon, so will look forward to catching up with him then.

Anyways I weighed in tonight at ww (my official monthly meet) and yay am happy to report I came in under 70 kilo's so was in the 2 kilo's over my goal that I am allowed before I have to pay for meeting. I was 69.6 so counting points and getting back into routine I was able to lose 1.9 since I have been home.

I'm back, holiday is over....

And its back to work for me tomorrow......

I had the most relaxing holiday, it was so great we ended up extending it by another 8 days. Most every day hubby and I spent it either fishing, crabbing, crayfishing, walking on the beach or just sitting back at our camp reading and relaxing or catching up with friends. We used to live in Onslow and some friends of ours still live there so it was good catching up with them. A couple of them ran the caravan park restaruant at the park where we camped and we spent many a night there sitting around eating and catching up on all the years...

Anyways will catch up with you all soon.....but before I go I have just weighed myself....am 71.5 ... A gain of nearly 4 kilo's but hopefully with routine restored tomorrow it will soon gone.

Another monthly ww weigh in

Another week has flown by.....I thought this week would go soooooooo slow but I have been so busy at work and home the days have gone quickly. I received a bonus and had Friday off work, some foam cartons that we pack our iced broccolli into arrived with no lids...so yayyyyyyyy no work!!

Saturday morning I braved the dreadful weather and went down town and had a haircut and colour before Simon bought his awesome foursome down to spend time with Jenna and Pop while he and Tracey went and laybyed some chrissy presents while they were on special. Sunday Shawn came down with his little girls and I got to play out in the puddles with Skye, vrooom vrooooom !!! Shawn is happy and loving his new job....it keeps him occupied and hopefully off the cannabis. I can breathe easy for a little while, espesially as we head off up North on Thursday morning looking for some sun, sand, fishing and relaxing.

Weigh watchers monthly weigh in tonight....weight 67.8 ....up 500grams from last week and 300grams from last month ww weigh...... but I still under goal so really happy about that. Hopefully I can keep myself under reasonable control while on hols...

Another week has floated by.....work at the "funny farm" has been full on as per usual....doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to get it all done. I spend more than enough time there now, I leave home here just after 7am and finish when the work is done....usually at about 5pm but quite often later.

Kids are all fine....I may have my daughter home for a little while....welllllllll in WA anyways. She has applied for a fly in, fly out job up in the mines in the Pilbara. Her and her b/f both have reasonable jobs but just can't seem to get ahead and save or put money in the bank. But they want to buy a house, get married and have a family and hopefully if Kylee gets the job the good wages offered will finally see them saving something towards their goals.

Shawn, my problem child....has started work again, just at the right time I think too. He was starting to get moody and agitatated again and when he gets like that he begins using cannabis too much and all the family then suffer. His baby is just gorgeous...she is starting to crawl, or slugging as I call it as thats what she looks like as she moves along... but she gets around quicker by rolling to where she wants and ohhh she has just got her first 2 teeth.

Little Thomas is running.....just about bypassed the crawling and walking...did those all very briefly!!! He turns 1 the weekend after I get back from holidays...

All the others are driving mums crazy whilst on school holidays.....

On the home front hubby and I spent some time getting things ready for our trip away. We leave for Onslow and 2 weeks of sun, fishing, friends and relaxing sometime next week. I finish work next Tuesday 24th(as does hubby), Wednesday 25th we will load the boat and 4x4 up and hopefully Thursday 26th we will be cruising up the highway.

On the weight front, I weighed in tonight at home and surprise surprise I only gained a 100grams from last week....am now 67.3. Am happy with that ,,,, Next week is my ww weigh in.

Well here we are again, another week gone by...

I have had a quite a good week, excersised every day...sometimes only 30 minutes mainly due to the cold and wet days we have been having. Have noticed thou at 6am when I walk the weather is at it best, its not as cold then, the cold seems to come in later when the sun rises ... (at about 7 to 7.30am) ...if it does rise that is !!

Not much been happening in my little world....mainly work, and more work. My brother (thats him in the pic with me) bought my mum up to Bunbury on Saturday to buy her birthday pressie from him.....but he ended up getting a phone call and had to go to Perth...so yep Jen was left to take mum home, another trip down to Manjimup. This time it wasn't raining, blowing a gale and storming and I got to see my sister....only for an hour or so .... but that was better than not at all.

It's my weeekly weigh in night....and yayyyyyyyyyy I had a good week....the scales were down, 67.2.....thats 600grams down from last week. Have one more home weigh then go for another monthly ww weigh....then I am off on holiday....off to find some sunshine, sand, sea, fishing and relaxing....yeaaaaaaa heading north for a couple of weeks....

Did I say??

Did I say I seemed to be finding maintenance easy?? Yeahhhhh I did last week and you know what?? I think I used that to self-sabotage myself coz I have spend most of the week over-indulging myself. Don't know if it was the cold and wet days, or work where it has been real physical hard yakka. Whatever it was for most of the week I overate. I was just so hungry after work, that it seemed if it was in sight and not tied down, I ate it!! And because I was so tired, and it was wet, I didn't excersise as much as I usually do either.
But with the help of my hubby, the forums, my friends I did manage to finish the week back on track. The result being now that I have just weighed in (at home) and had a small gain of 300 grams (am 67.8 now)......so hey I got out of that better than I thought I would.


A picture of my mum this week to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM!!! My dear Mum turned 78 yesterday. I risked the shocking weather forecasted yesterday to travel the 1 1/2 hours to spend a few hours with her before the wind picked up and it started raining. I had to leave Mum and race the storm home but ohhhh it was worth it to see Mum so happy....and I made it home before the storm set in.

2nd official weigh in

Last night I went to my 2nd weigh in since I achieved LTM.....its great I only have to weigh officially once a calender month now. I am happy maintaining, I seem to be finding it easy. I would like to eventually get to my personal goal of 65kilo's but I am in no hurry. I am happy doing what I am at the moment....and not ready to get into lose mode again yet. I spent over 18 months losing weight, and have enjoyed these last 3 months maintaining !! I have had so much encouragement from all my friends and family since I made goal and LTM espesially from my online friends...and that includes all you lovely blogger friends!! THANK YOU !!! How can I fail with all that support?? It's really great as I thought once I got to goal and LTM people would think I don't need the support anymore.....but believe me I do, it helps soooooo much !!!

Anyways last night I weighed in at 67.5 which was 800grams down from last month weigh in ..........and 100grams down from my scales.....

I met Fiona

On the weekend Fi (FIONADWYER) from the At Home forum travelled down to Australind to spend a week with her sister, she flew in from sunny Brisbane on Thursday. It was great that she took time out to spend an hour or so with me having a coffee and chatting. What a absolutely delightful friendly lady she was....thanks Fi...it was great, hope I have the pleasure of catching up with you again sometime in the future.

I went to see my Dr last week and found that I had a all clear with my colonscopy, other than a bowel proplapse (which I knew I had, who wouldn't know ya had one of those!! ) does need to be surgically repaired sooner than later. My Dr is making an appointment with the gynaecologist for that and is also going to recommend they do a hysterectomy at the same time as I still have my unwelcome visitor!! Anyways will see what happens when I have the appointment. Four years ago I had the exact same ops, or was meant to but they considered a repair to be done instead of a hysterectomy....so after a chat with the gynaeno WHEN I get the appointment I will know more and when !!

Next week is my next official weigh in....tonight I weighed in on my scales and am 67.6 which is 300 grams up on last week. This doesn't worry me, since LTM I have been up and down and all over the place, but heyyyyyy that doesn't worry me either, as long as I stay at 68k's (goal weight) or under I will be happy.

More pics....

Okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy girls........here is some more pics....

This is the one Vegie wanted me to share....THEM pants with me and 3.5 year old Skye in them....and still have some room left over....

I know, I know......I'm showing off......but love those jeans....

Look at me now....

This was me a couple of years ago, out having a few drinks at a big speedway windup.....and I thought I looked good, as I had just lost 10 kilo's........

















And this is me now with those same jeans I was wearing....ohhhhhhhhhhh what a feeling!!!

I weighed in tonight on my own scales, and was 67.3....thats .7 up on last week, but that is to be expected with me recovering from my 24 hour fast for the colonscopy and ohhhhhhhhhhh and the most dddddddddeliciousssssssssssssss meal out on Friday night where I ate my all time favourite dessert Pavola for the first time since I started my ww journey....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yum!!!

There was 3 in the bed....

Another week has gone by, and despite all it has gone by rather quickly. TTOM is still with me, had now have them since 13th May with only one day and a nights respite. Couldn't get into my Dr last week but saw the clinic sister at the surgery and she seems to think it could be going on and on as it may be my last. Ohhhhh joy......can I live in hope???? I do have to go to the Dr at the end of this week as I had a colonscopy (YUK!) on Thursday, thankfully no biopsies were taken but still have to go in to get results. If I still have my unwelcome visitor he can sort that out too!!! I had to fast for 24 hours before the colonscopy procedure which made me feel rather ill but I recovered from the procedure quite well. Hubby took the afternoon off work to stay with me to make sure I had no side effects, but I slept all arvo anyway. I went back to work on Friday to light duties only thou. Have had an attack of the hungries on and off since the procedure, but haven't indulged in too much junk! Excersise has been good except for the Thursday and Friday. Been doing 30 to 45 minutes on work days before work and on the weekends I do anywhere from 45 to 60 minutes plus.

Had Simon and Tracey's 3 eldest on the Saturday and for the night. Won't be long and I'll be able to have little Thomas too, he is nearly walking. (See pic) Geeeeeeeee it only seems like yesterday I was watching him being born, where does time go??

Jessica, Zoe and Sheymus were a delight to have. On the Saturday we shopped for dinner ingredients as we decided to have make pizza's using English muffins as the bases. (thanks for the idea Berrie) We had mess from one end of the kitchen to the other but it was heaps of fun and the pizza's were so yummy. They all went to bed very tired, happy and with full tummy's!

At 4am little Sheymus (2.5 years) came wandering into our bedroom and said I can't find my mummy. I just held out my arms and said will I do, come into Jenna and Pop's bed for cuddles. He was in and cuddled up before he finished saying yeaaaaaaaaaaah. Boy, 3 in the bed and the little one said........ Remember that song? I do now! I'd forgotten how much room a little body can take up, and how much they wriggle and squirm. But it was so sweet having him all cuddled up to me. Everytime I moved his little hand would come out and hang on to me.

I couldn't move over too far as hubby was sick with a flu virus and was so feverish, achy and sore....didn't want to disturb him too much.

Enough rambling...but I did have a very enjoyable weekend with the grandies. I love every minute I spend with them, but ohhhhhhhh I so love to hand them back.

Just weighed in on my scales this evening.....Weight ... 66.6. Thats 1.7 down from last week.

First official weigh in

Tonight I weighed in at my meeting for the first time since achieving lifetime membership. Wasn't meant to weigh in but next week Monday is a public holiday, plus being the end of the month I now have most of June to go throu before next weigh in...as I now only have to weigh in once a calender month. Anyways...I weighed in at 68.3...a gain of 300grams from last ww weigh in and a gain of a kilo since last week from my scales!!! TTOM is giving me a real hard time, I have now been going for over 2 weeks....and it has been quite draining.

Its been a long week, work has been so busy and its going to get busier. Had an engagement party in Geraldton to go too in a few weeks, even went out and bought a nice pair of black trousers and jacket...but now we find we can't go. Hubby has eye specialist appointment on the day we were going to be coming back, he has a growth growing over the pupil of his eye and needs to have surgery. Well we could go, but the drive is 6 hours there and 6 hours back, and with hubby's eye the way it is, we decided to sends our apologies. We will be heading up north on a fishing trip in late July/early August, if eye surgery doesn't postpone that, so we will call in and spent time with the happy couple then.

Received in the mail my lifetime card and an official letter from Weigh Watchers congratulating me on my achievement. It was great to be acknowledged.