Battling on....

 All is going well.

I am battling on with my weight, last week lost 500g, this week 100g. Seem to have lost my way a little but hopefully I can get myself back on track. I haven't fallen off the wagon, I just haven't been trying too hard. A few extra carbs have been added, haven't been watching the calories as much...but I am trying a bit harder this week.

Not much going on a home. Work hours have been reduced a bit and it hasn't been too busy at work. Still catching up on all the extra jobs that we were unable to do when we we only doing a few hours a day. Shopping centre is starting to look clean again!! 

William has starting playing footy this year (think they call it T-ball for kids his age).....and he is loving it!! Its his first time playing team sports and he is settling into a team quite well.  As yet I haven't managed to get up there and watch but I hope to before they finish up.  Here's a few pics I pinched off Kylee. 

Right, must get ready for work....hope to get a good update done here soon. 

Low Carb

 

Another week on Low Carb has gone by, 700 grams off this week. I also do some IF (intermittent fasting). Still slowly but surely dropping down.

Non scale victory this week was fitting back into a pair of black jeans. Its great, love my jeans. 

Snooping around on Facebook and I come across a page called lowcarbssosimple and found these dishes. Both were big hits with us all. Chicken broccoli pie I devoured. I also made one using cauliflower instead as half the house don't eat broccoli. The parmesan chicken wings were yummy. Have a look through the page...recipes are all so simple as the heading states.

Work will be a little slower this week thankfully...two new girls have started. My feet are used to it again, and new shoes are helping too 😃

BTW I work because I still have too. Yes, my husband has retired, but he is 8 years older than me. I don't qualify for a pension yet and unfortunately hubby did not have enough superannuation to support us both. Super didn't start for hubby till he was in his 40's, so unless he paid into it to increase it there was never going to be enough for us to survive without added income/pension. We did not have the extra dollars to add. I don't qualify for a pension for another couple of years...so off to work I must go. 

Still going strong

Yesterday I went to my Dr again for my monthly review. Scales were down again, and she was happy with how I was going. We sat down and worked out food strategies for the next month..and she encouraged me to try different foods and recipes. I am one of those that if it works I keep doing it/eating it till of course it tends to become boring.  So it’s onto another month and I’m ready for it. The saying above comes from her, she said it to me as we wrapped up my appointment. 

I am back at work just about full time again. After months of very few hours these past few days of  full time shifts have been really hard. Oh my feet are killing me....and the rest of my workmates. 

Anyways, just a quick one tonight, I’m tired, my feet are killing me so I’m off to bed. Another long day tomorrow, and then I come home to William and Summer. Kylee’s finishes days off and starts her next round of nights. 

Will try and update again soon.

Night night...

Going good.

It’s darn cold here....most of my spare time has been sitting by the fire reading and playing on my IPad. Been suffering with a wicked cough and sniffly nose for the past week. Had it the week before too, thought I had got rid of it...but Nahh it’s back. Cough is terrible...as soon as the cool air comes in I start...and very little seems to stop it. I’m over it bigtime.

And I’m missing my walking...been ages since I’ve been able to get out and have a jabber with my buddy. 

The full house of mine is ticking over ok.

Simon got his first wage from his new job and paid board. He still drinking and I think too much, but it’s his choice. He knows I don’t like it, my Dad was a alcoholic and I never been a fan of alcohol. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a drink or 2 or 3 now and then, but I can’t drink every night like he does. Thankfully Shawn is not following him, he has a few ports with him most nights, but not every night. 

Skye is causing no drama’s. Still a lazy teenager and needs prodding now and then to help out more.

Kylee is renovating...doing both kids rooms up.

She fulled up floor boards, and is now laying vinyl strips in their rooms. Bedroom suites are on order. 

Wouldn’t have been able to afford it....but a few months ago a pipe in the bathroom sprung a leak behind the tiles and between the walls causing damage to her floors. Insurance paid out so after fixing the leaking pipes she has enough left over to do the kids rooms. 

I’m on a roll with my new health regime...Dr is happy, I’m happy, my scales are happy and going down. Over 5 kilos down and feeling good. Long may it last. 

I am still here...

Yes, so true.
I had got myself into such a sad state with my weight...it was just going up and up. The more upset I got about the gain of course the more I ate. 
When I could only fit into "my fat clothes" I said to myself enough is enough....I need help before I start getting myself into a state of depression. 
A good talk to my doctor, a change in my reflux medication...and I have been on a roll since. I am following a plan given to me by my Dr and I visit her once a month for a weigh in and check up.

A lot has been going on in the background here that wasn't helping. Kylee has ongoing stuff going on with her lawyer trying to sort out stuff with Bozo and the kids. He fought tooth and nail to get unsupervised access to them, the court agreed and worked out times and dates. Kylee had 1 condition and that was to have carseats fitted to his car properly and a compliance certificate. Huh...you know what...he has missed 3 visits as he hasn't supplied a compliance certificate to Kylee's lawyer yet. What does that tell you? 
William is having a real hard time of it, he misses his Dad. We are having a lot of behaviour problems with him, and they are at school too. Kylee saw her doctor and demanded that the referral to counselling be bought forward, he needs it now more than ever. I also asked Kylee to get a referral to a paediatrician as I think he may have some form of Autism. 
Anyways stamping her foot got attention and William is booked in for the 3rd of August for a counselling session.

Also have had eldest son move back home. His relationship went kaput in a big way. He was very heartbroken and drowning his sorrows in drinking. Simon has always enjoyed a few beers, too many to my way of thinking but until it effects this household I will keep my mouth shut. 
Thankfully since moving here he has found a job. We’ve been keeping him but come payday he can pay for his upkeep, I can’t afford too. Love him dearly but.....
I am though worried that Shawn may start drinking more too. Him and Simon enjoy a drink of an evening together. Shawn with his troublesome past doesn’t need that. It’s something I am keeping a close eye on and this mum will not hesitate to tell Simon to go drink elsewhere. 

I also have Shawn’s eldest living with us. Her foster mother and her had a falling out, and I was asked to respite care. Of course we did, we love Skye dearly. A few weeks ago she asked if she could stay here forever as she didn’t want to move in with strangers again. 
She has settled in well. She loves the little ones and even babysat one night for me. She is well be 17 in November, but is a very immature young lady. Hopefully with time we can help her to grow up to be more mature. She has come along in leaps and bounds since she moved in. Just have to get her to help out more....she is a lazybones. Typical teenager!!

Anyways  think I have caught up with everything.
Time to prepare dinner....

I am tired, I am weary....

This post I can just about write word for word what your post said MaryFran. (MaryFran is a blogger friend of mine I follow).
I am so tired and weary....tired of being fat, and looking fat...and unwell....makes me weary. Bone tired weary. Some days I just can't be bothered doing anything, its an effort to get up and move. Its really dragging me down...and its not fair on the kids, my hubby....or for that myself.
I have been fighting my weight for years now, but these past few months especially since I have been diagnosed with GERD my weight has blown out of control. I am not managing it...and I feel horrid. I look terrible. We had a funeral on Friday, the father of a close friend of over 38 years, and I really didn't want to go as nothing fits me. I felt ashamed of myself that my weight had gotten out of control and just wanted to hide away.

I am off to my Doctor this morning, I need a few prescriptions so I plan on having a good talk with her. I'm lost and I need to find my way again.

Still battling...

I've not been travelling well.
2 weeks ago I took a big mouthful of Pepsi Max and gagged before I swallowed it. On finally swallowing it intense spasms started in my chest....ohh the pain was horrid!!  All sorts of things were going through my mind as to what was happening coz this pain continued for a couple of days. I booked a Drs appointment the day after I gagged but couldn't get in straight away so had to wait.
Stressed.

Anyways Dr ordered exrays for a swallow test, exrays on my back and the outcome is these chest pains are oesophagus spasms. 

My Doc said this what I have.... Nutcracker esophagus refers to having strong spasms of your esophagus. It’s also known as jackhammer esophagus or hypercontractile esophagus. It belongs to a group of conditions related to abnormal movement and function of the esophagus, known as motility disorders. When you swallow, your esophagus contracts, which helps to move food into your stomach. If you have nutcracker esophagus, these contractions are much stronger, causing chest pain and pain when you swallow. It’s closely related to diffuse esophageal spasms. The main difference between the two conditions is that nutcracker esophagus usually doesn’t cause you to regurgitate food or liquids, and diffuse esophageal spasms often do.

It’s closely related to diffuse esophageal spasms. The main difference between the two conditions is that nutcracker esophagus usually doesn’t cause you to regurgitate food or liquids, and diffuse esophageal spasms often do.

So this is what I am dealing with atm... I have a scared oesophagus, suffering some reflux and have a hiatus hernia.  I can tell you when I got these results it was scary, all I could think of was Paul and what he went through. 

Thankfully the pain has eased and I only suffer when I eat something I shouldn't.

Im learning what temp I can have food and drink and what foods are going to set off the spasms. 

Over it already but what can I do but deal with and move on....

Where am I at

Thats me ^^^^^

I just can't get my head together. 
I am overeating, eating junk....and I know I am doing it....
BUT do I stop...nope, I just keep on doing it.
I am watching the scales go up daily and still can't get my head into gear.
My body aches, I"m sore and struggle each day to do things. 

I try daily to get myself together...pray with me that one of these days I will wake up to myself. 

The virus

This darn virus is getting to me....people just don't care!!
I'm still working, I am classed as an essential worker. Someone has to clean and sanitise the shopping centres that I work in and thats me and my workmates. So many people seem to think its "just another flu" ...don't know how many times I have heard that in the last few weeks. But the shopping centre is becoming quieter and people are slowly starting to obey the rules. They can't shop or browse anymore anyways, 95% of the shops are shut. 
I am also still looking after the 2 little grandies.They have been pulled out of school and daycare, not that Kylee wanted them to be, but because they both got a cold and had coughs and runny noses. Both saw the Drs so all good, definitely NOT the virus.  Kylee is a baker at Woolworths so she is an essential worker too, but she reduced her hours so she could isolate for a few days with the kids to get them over the colds. Plus..she now home schools William...shes a great Miss Mum 😊

Me and my weight....blah...but I am trying to get myself back on track. Im turning into a whale 🐳 out of water...I have some good days, but not many, got to find that mojo again.
Days off now...not that we can do much or go anywhere. I have a few things to get from the shop in the morning, I'll do that early then I can catch up on some housework here. 

Where I'm at...

I am slowly but surely getting myself back on track. A Dr visit and a change in thyroid meds has seen me improve. I am not following any "diet" as such, its a bit "hit and miss" at the moment BUT the scales are coming down. 
A lot is going on...what with this coronavirus outbreak there is a lot of panic buying, a lot of new school guidelines I have to follow with the kids when I drop them off to daycare and school. Work is the same, we are doing everything we can possibly do to protect ourselves and the shopping malls we clean.
I haven't panic bought, I only get paid fortnightly so have just been doing my normal shop. I will admit to using my pension card and going in at the new 7am to 8am opening where only those with a card can shop and buy a few extras that are not on the shelves come my normal shop time. 

I'm back...

And fatter than I have been in a long time.....I feel yuk!!! 
Just looking at myself makes me want to cry.
Looking at the scales does.
I have gained 14 kilo's since January 11th to now....
A doctor visit today....then its time to get rid of this fat again!!! 

 I loved the cruise...had the best time with my sister...met some fantastic people...6 nights just wasn't long enough!!!  

Getting there...

On February the 1st the online weigh in group started another new 3 month round. The last round was my all time worst round ever!! I went from my lowest weight in a long time to my highest weight in a long time. Some of it I will admit to cheap shonky scales...but the rest there is no one to blame but me. Lost focus, self sabotage, whichever way you like it all boils down to me losing the lot plot! 
Food is my go to when I am down, I'm an emotional eater and you would think I would have THAT learnt my lesson by now, heck I am nearly 64. I have been battling my weight for most of my life. I wasn't overweight as a child, but once I left school, married and started having children the weight slowly started going on. More so when I was diagnosed with an inactive thyroid...and that was after my daughter was born in 1985. So from then to now I have played the yoyo game....lowest being 64 kilo's to highest 114kilo's. I have lost weight with Jenny Craig...kept that off for 3 years, done Easy Slim and lost weight but the group folded and the weight went back on.  Weight Watchers was my biggest success. I started that in late 2004 got to goal weight of 68 kilo's in March 2006. I kept that off for over 5 years though I settled on around 74/5 kilo's. But then life got in the way and I ate my through them. I have managed not to get up into the 3 numbers again...and hope I never do again. 
I tried ww again last year, but what with work and looking after grandies I couldn't get them to gel...even online. I haven't been able to get into ww since I became a lifer. 
I am doing lazy kept now....and I love it. 
Yes, I do fall off the wagon and eat what I shouldn't but I am back to it again..and hope to get my starting weight down before I go cruising on the 19th. (First weigh in since starting this round is tomorrow morning so I will do a edit in the morning)

EDIT :- I lost 1.4 

I know I am not going to be able to resist while on the boat but I am hoping on my return to slide back into kept mode. 

Where am I at....

I'm lost...

So much going on...I've lost focus...BUT I am slowly working my way back in the right direction.
Weight is up...it only takes a few days of poor eating and those demon scales tell me off...but I have promised myself after this long weekend away I will be back fully on track. Will need to be...I won't fit into my clothes I have packed away for my cruise which is only 4 weeks away!!!

Paul 50th

Paul...as we like to remember him...beer and a smoke down the beach fishing....

Paul a few weeks before he passed..

Having a bit of a hard time today.
If Paul had lived he would have been celebrating his 50th birthday.....
......well actually we are going to celebrate later tonight. His partner Tanya and his 3 kids with her are putting on a small party so we can raise our glasses and say cheers....

Slowly getting back on track.

First up, to each of you all

Happy New Year
I wish you all the very best of everything for 2020

Ahhhh how true is this....to those that know me they would agree. I am forever losing my keys, my phone, my iPad... I put them down and then later on walk around in circles looking for them....

Anyways an update...
It was weigh in day today and since the 21st of December to today I have lost 1.2 kilo's.
I'm not 100% on track, but I have stopped the constant eating of junk and thinking a bit more about what I am eating.
Its a battle, a constant one...but I am getting myself back on track.
Its 6 weeks till we cruise, we being my sister and myself. Can't wait!! Its only 6 nights from Sydney to Hobart to Melbourne to Sydney but we counting down to it.
My sister hasn't done any travelling at all so its going to huge for her. 

My aim from now to then is to lose at least 4 kilo's. Hope I can myself together enough to do that. Have my nieces marriage vow renewal tonight...then I can work hard till the 24th when my brother gets married and a long weekend away. After that is only 3 weeks till we fly to Sydney.
Eeeeeeeeeek putting it like that its not long at all!!!

Been Missing....

And yep that means that....

I been feeling and looking like crap.

So what doI do, I eat crap...and then MORE crap...then feel guilty about that and so begins that vicious circle all over again.

Didn't help that my scales went haywire, so I bought new ones....and they were a lot higher than the old ones.

Anyways...as I have been so down and out about myself and my weight, I have given myself to Christmas Day off...then Boxing Day I jump back on the Lazy Keto way of eating. 

William turns 6 just after Christmas...so as he has been to so many parties of his pre school friends this year we gave him an early birthday party so his friends could come. It was a super hot day, so the slippery slide was bought out, the sprinklers were turned on, the  the water pistols and guns were bought out.....and the kids had a blast!!!  

Soooo tired

I am so tired. 
Fallen into a hole and really struggling to dig myself out....but I will.
I need to. I don't want to go back to where I was.
Keto/low carb is working for me, makes me feel good.
But things are happening here...and I am emotionally eating.
Remember the granddaughter we were looking after, the one that kept getting suspended at school, the one that wanted to go live with her mum....well she is the problem. Won't go into details but she is well out of control, the situation has gone from bad to worse!!  
Miss Summer is the reason I am so tired...(and that doesn't help with the emotional eating either).
She has struggled for months now with sinusitis and it isn't improving at all despite courses of antibiotics. The last few weeks she has struggled with sleeping (when Miss doesn't sleep, no one sleeps!!) because of her breathing so an appointment is being made to see a ENT specialist. The Dr told us it may come to this as her nasal passages are narrow. Thankfully Kylee does have private cover so hopefully she will get in sooner rather than later. 

My scales have been going down up to Friday....
BUT I am worried that my scales are wrong.
My ww ones died a while back and I bought some cheap K Mart ones. The battery has already been replaced 3 times since my buying them as it just kept reading Lo or the numbers would jump all over the place. It was doing my head in PLUS making me wonder how true my readings were!!! 
So bought ww ones again...but too scared to unpack them yet...but I will. 

A week of ups and downs

 William and Summer both saw there Dad last Sunday. William was stoked....and I must admit his behaviour has been a little better since. Since the separation his self esteem has hit rock bottom....he thinks it was because he was naughty that Daddy told lies and got kicked out!!  Anyways we can only hope that the issues he has will in time stop!! Waiting to get into to see a counsellor now for months. Even the school is trying to get him into see someone. Till then, praise, love and lots of attention.

Court was on Tuesday....he lost!! The magistrate gave him grief.
So what does he do...he goes home, writes a letter to Kylee's lawyer stating a revised list of what he wants out of Kylee's house. Would you believe that this "loving Dad" wants to take Summer's cot and change table because it was given to them from his brother!! 
And out of spite...he wants Kylee to sell her house to pay for their debts!!  Now this ever so "loving Dad" wants to take the roof from over their heads!!!
He has no hope of that I believe...Kylee bought the house before he came on the scene....and he has never in the 6 years they were together made a payment on it or tried to increase its value in any way. 

 Look at these two gorgeous lil ones....breakfast time and my house is already trashed. Mornings that I have to get myself ready for work, William for school and Summer for daycare are madness.

Yesterday was very very hot. Hubby turned the sprinklers on and little Miss was scared for awhile then...clothes and all she discovered how fun they were...love these pics I caught of her. 

Well that was my week, the high and lows. Through it all I managed to stay on track most days.  

Weigh in yesterday and I recorded a 500g loss.  Went off track yesterday...but today will pull my head in and behave, tummy not the best...too much ice-cream does that!! 

New round...

The online weight loss group I am has rounds of 3 months. Friday the 1st of November was the last weigh in for the round (I lost 300g)and the 1st weigh in for the next 3 months. I lost 3.5 for the 3 months, could have been better if I hadn't "lost the plot" a few times....but slow and steady wins the race. 

Tomorrow Kylee's kids see their Dad for the 1st time since the beginning of March. The visit will be for 2 hours and at Anglicare fully supervised. 
Hoping it helps William as he really has missed his Dad. Was hoping by now his counselling would have started....the wait list is so long. 

Court for the vro is on Tuesday. Kylee is requesting the vro stays in place for her because sure as eggs he will start harassing her again. She is requesting it stays in place for the kids too (other than the supervised visits). He is not to be trusted.  
For a loving father that he says he is, he has done so much damage to William especially. 

Anyways, I off to bed....a very early morning work start for me tomorrow. Hope its not raining...nothing worse than having to get up in the dark and drive to work in the rain!!  

On Track

Last weigh in was Friday where I lost 400grams...next one will be this Friday coming.
That will be the end of the 3 month round of my weight loss group. We have to take body pics...I will do a comparison of the beginning of round and the end. I sure hope to see SOME difference.