A hard few days

 Gee the weeks are flashing by…another week has flown by. 

Been a bit of a topsy turvy week for me….and it showed on the scales…with luckily a sts for me. Could have been worse believe me. Still struggling a little but I’ll get there. 

The other day it was the anniversary of my cousins death. He died doing his job protecting the community he loved. His workmates in the Shire, DFES, and the Volunteer Fire Brigade all turned up to honour Rays memory with his wife and her family at the site where he lost his life. 

Ray and I were very close and I really miss him. 

Another week…

 And another week bites the dust. Time is flying by. Can’t believe how quick it going by. 

Nothing exciting happened this week, no parties, no grandies to babysit. Have caught up on some long overdue jobs that needed doing. Hubby has been preserving fruit and vegetables that we grow here, so that has kept him busy. 

My jabberbuddy and I have walked everyday, except Tuesday as I work. This week we have even gone up to the pool and walked in the water…my knee loves that. 

Been a good weigh in this week, lost 1.6 of the HUGE gain from last week which I’m  happy about 😃  Had a lot of seafood this week. A couple of lunches this week have been a mango salad…

And  I also got the Annette Syms cookbook out and made the Garlic prawns with spinach and tomato which we both love.

Anyhow, as I said not much been happening here. 

Got a leg of lamb cooking in the slow cooker so I best go check on that then go bring in the washing off the line. 

Catch you next week. 

Monday again…

 It’s been such a hectic week. 

I had William and Summer every day as Mum was working and I had enrolled them in vacation swimming. Kylee has so many adventures planned this summer now that she has her 4x4 kitted out and a roof top camper. Roof rack on it too for the kayak as well…..so it’s very important that both kids know how to swim properly. Summer is a real water baby, loves it. William is too now that he has overcome his fear of having his face under water. His father dunked him when he was 4 and it quite traumatised him.  Anyways he is now getting to be quite confident in the water. I think though Missy is going to be the more confident of the two of them.

Anyways…lessons were all afternoon, Summer at 1.20, then William at 3.20. All afternoons were spent up at the pool. I took snacks but chips, nuggets and ice creams were bought….and yep I indulged. 

On the weekend we celebrated my son’s 50th birthday. More food, drinks but ohh what a good time we had. I had Simon at 17 and it’s been great to grow up with him. 

Love this pic. Me and hubby, son and his 2 sons, daughter, granddaughter and her partner. 

And this one too…. I count my blessings. 

And today I am counting points. Thank heavens I walked every morning last week as my weigh in could have been worse. I had a 2.5 gain… 😟🤔☹️ But no one else to blame but myself. 

 I enjoyed the time with the grandies and watching them learn and enjoy the water and seeing their joy when they received their certificates was the best.  And then the fantastic time celebrating my son’s milestone. 

Moving on….

Weigh in Day

 Gee the weeks come around fast. Seems like yesterday I was on here recording my gain from Christmas. Eeeeek it was 2 gains actually…week before Christmas then the week after…

Anyways that’s done and dusted, this past week I’ve been so good, totally on track……well nearly totally, I had one small lapse…..but the scales showed me a 1.8 loss. 

So so happy. I hopped on and off the scales 3 times to make sure. 

My friend and I have been good with the exercise, been walking 45 to 50 minutes everyday, except Tuesday as I work from 7am to 10am.  Nothing better than starting off the day with a walk and a talk. We drink our water bottles and set a mini goal each for the day, it sure helps us up to have good days. Deb, my friend, is a big planner and does a menu planner up every week. Shops for the week on Tuesdays then cooks meals and freezes them. Wish I could be more organised. I’d rather sit and read a book. I’m not a lover of cooking, but I do plan my day out and stick to my plan. I tend to fail if I don’t. 

I was reading a fellow bloggers blog today. She was celebrating beginning of her 19th year of blogging. Made me think about when I started… I looked, December 26th 2005 I wrote my 1st post…so MaryFran I’m 19 years too. 

Right talking of books, I received a new book in the mail today that I’m itching to start. Anyone read Lucinda Riley’s 7 Sisters series?They are really worth the read. My granddaughter and her boyfriend got me book 1 and 2 for Christmas and I couldn’t put them down. I’ve been waiting for book 3 which has arrived today.

Right, off to organise meal prep for tonight then it’s book time. 

Happy New Year

 Happy New Year 

I slept the New Year…. woke up at my usual time..weighed in….I gained more weight….made my coffee, read the news on my iPad before donning my joggers and going walking with my jabberbuddy. 

Wasn’t surprised with the gain…I ran out of my my thyroid medication and the last week I have not been planning or tracking, I’ve been eating too much, indulging in chocolates and very rarely walking. Today a new year and I’m going to continue onwards to finishing off what I started last year. Last year I averaged a 300g a week loss so if I can keep that up I will be happy. 

Now it’s onwards, lose this weight I’ve gained and get those scales moving down again. 

Blessings to you all for 2024. 

Merry Christmas 2023

 What a lovely day today was. 

All 3 kids here today….Kylee with her 2 little ones. Shawn with his 2nd daughter (Skye his eldest was in Busselton with her boyfriend family arrived late afternoon) and Simon and his partner Tammy. Simon and Tammy left at lunchtime to go to Tammy’s daughter’s place for lunch. 

Nothing heard from Paul’s partner. I’ve left messaging them till now in the hope……but nahhh. Wonder if message is acknowledged. 

Such a chilled out day with lots of yummy food.

p.s. weighed in this morning, a 1.2 gain. Knew it was coming, I’ve over indulged all week. Will get back into it tomorrow. 

Hope you’ve had a wonderful day. 

I’ve done it

I’ve finally reached 15 kilos off.

It’s taken 13 months, lots of up and downs but I am so happy that I’ve stuck to ww and persevered. 

Wasn’t easy, what with 2 close family deaths, a few trips away and a few health issues. 

 

Santa pics yesterday. This was just taken using my phone camera. William is 10 just 2 days after Christmas and I think this will be the last Christmas he “believes” in Santa. A few things he is questioning now so next year I think the pretending to believe will begin so Summer can still believe in the magic.

Right I’m out of here. A Christmas get together today with one of my friends so best get moving. 

Another week done….

 …..And I’m very happy to report another loss.

I’m getting very close to the grand total of 15kg gone. I’m not going to jinx myself by saying I’ll get there next weigh in because we all know anything can happen EVEN when you have the best of weeks.

I’m back walking with Deb and still doing the water aerobic classes when we can.  It’s nearly the end of school term and Christmas holidays. There’s no vacation care till January so I’m looking after the kids whilst Mum works. 

I’m also having kids for first 2 weeks of January as I’ve enrolled them in swimming lessons. Kylee planning on getting out fishing and camping a lot next year and with William getting a kayak for Christmas we want the kids water savvy.  As yet the kids father hasn’t decided when he can have the kids…really!! 

Cant believe the year is nearly over and that I have completed a full year plus on WW and lost nearly 15 kilos. It’s hard enough to lose weight at any time but when you have a thyroid that’s under active it’s very hard. Medication and regular blood tests has been me for over half my life. 

My highlight of this week was William being given the Academic Award for year 4. He has shone this year and achieved some fantastic results academically and also in his sports. He loves to learn….and loves his Soccer. 

Time to get myself organised. Water aerobics in the morning so better find my bathers. 

Till next week. 

I’m back…

 Last weigh in I’d had a goddamn awful week. I either ate everything in sight or just couldn’t be bothered eating properly then would eat crap which is just part of living with hypothyroidism. 

A big gain was shown on the demon scales. I was disgusted and very disappointed in myself. 

A lot was going on. My best friend Dad had a bad fall then past away. I had babysitting as William graduated from stage 1 of Children’s University. Skye got a 2nd job with more hours. Son found himself a girlfriend. Hubby got shingles. Drs appointments. And the list goes on…

Fast forward to today, weigh in again…a 2.1 loss. Now that was after a lot of hard work. I’ve kept busy, exercised and taking my medication (thyroid tabs)

Will leave with a collage of Williams Children’s University graduation. I babysat Summer while Kylee drove his teacher and William up. The headmistress was also representing the school. William was the ONLY graduate in the whole of the South West of WA. To say we were proud would be an understatement. 

Sick of it….

 

This darn body of mine thinks it’s a goddamn yo-yo !!! My demon scales just won’t go down and stay down. Whether  I have a really good week or a mostly good one it doesn’t seem to make an ounce of difference. 

I’m up 500g this week and I’m not liking it. But it’s up to me, and only me can change it….

Onwards ……

Here I am…..

 Another week down and here I am again…..not that anyone follows me or comments. It’s a record of my progress for me….

Above is when I did WW and got to goal way back 2006/7 

And above is then to now….

How have I aged?? I reckon I’ve done all right ehh 😘

My motive to get to goal then was so I wasn’t fat and fifty. I wasn’t at goal, but I was only a few kilo’s off 😊

Right, wet and miserable looking day here, so I’m out of here. Might be a day for comfy chair and book.

Ohhhh weigh in….another 300g gone. 

Got over my sulks

 Yes, eventually I got over my sulks, pulled my socks up and blitzed the rest of the week and recorded a 300g loss.

And today I’ve mostly stuck to plan and not done what I usually do and use up my bonus points. 

This has helped. 

Ist pic taken in August, the other yesterday. Believe it or not  between the 2 pics there is only just over a kilo difference. Told you I’m just plod plod plodding along. This plateau does get to me. My WW was due to run out in a couple of weeks but yesterday I noticed a 60% off deal was ending today so I cancelled my membership and rejoined for 12 months. Let’s see what I can do. I’m still trying to get to my 15 kilo off goal but with this darn plateau and yo yo pattern it has eluded me. 

Not giving in…… 

Great week…

 I had a great week….walked 4 days, water aerobics for an hour Friday morning. I tracked, kept to my points all but one day……result 👎👎👎👎👎

I gained 700g. Was so upset I cried.

I’m so over it all, I’ve resorted to my usual pattern of eating my emotions. I’m hating myself. BUT I will be back on track tomorrow, I’m just sooking. I don’t want to undo all the hard work I have done this past 11 months.

Look at these happy faces. K has always wanted to do a fun run but she either hasn’t been allowed to, couldn’t go or was never fit enough to participate. The other day a lady advertised on our local community page that she had 2 tickets to give away for the local colour fun run. I messaged her, tickets were still available so I went and picked them up. No cost…she couldn’t participate as she’d hurt her knee.  Anyways I took them to K and she was so happy. She so wanted to go and take the kids but couldn’t afford the $90 for tickets. As you can see they had a ball, had so much fun thanks to that generous lady “paying it forward” her tickets. 

Right, off to get swimming things ready for water aerobics tomorrow morning. I’ll be over my sulks and ready to get back on track then. 

Another week done…

 

My mum used to make these many years ago when we were kids. It came up on one of my pages on Facebook and bought back so many memories. I’m going to make some next week and enjoy one as a treat next week after my weigh in.

Very happy to report I lost 1.1 this week. Still not back to my lowest weight yet BUT I will get there. I indulged again after weigh in yesterday but not badly. Was fine till after dinner then I had a drink and some nibblies 😋😋

End of next month it will be a year since I started WW and began this particular journey. I’m hoping I can reach my next goal of 15 kilos off by then. I will be rejoining again, hope they have a good deal going then so I can continue. 

Blahhhhh

 Title tells the story.  I gained a whole kilo and I’m really peeved about it. Right I know I didn’t have the best start to the week BUT I did have a really good rest of the week. I had points leftover, I exercised 5 days of the week….so a kilo !!!  I had school reunion to go to Saturday night but I didn’t drink any alcohol (I had to drive) and I chose wisely from the menu.

Yesterday after weigh in we went walking and of course jabbering. I said this week would stay 💯% on track. Mmmmmm I lied.  I went out Christmas shopping with Kylee and wellllll we indulged. BUT I did count all the points and track them AND I now have no weeklies left 😘  This weight loss journey of mine is slow and starting to get hard. Yes I’m self sabotaging again and IT HAS TO STOP

Me…just before I left for reunion. I looked in the mirror and I was so happy at how I looked. Long time since that has happened. Another reason to stop the sabotaging. 

Not the best week

 Well I finally got rid of the fish bone on Wednesday night. But ohh boy I can’t tell you how many pieces of bread and butter and or bread and milk I ate before it dislodged. Then it was play catch up the rest of the week to try and undo all the damage…😒😟☹️😫

Uncle Shawn took the kids and their mum (his sister) fishing on the weekend. The kids loved it, both catching some fish….some of the blowfish, but they didn’t care. They had the best time and asked him if he would pick them up after school today and take them fishing again. 

It was back to jabberwalking this morning, missed Deb last week as she took her grandies away. Was hoping a walk would help me stay on track today….but I’ve blown it. A friend made cookies and cream cheesecake….shall say no more other than there is none left. It was yummy 😋 

Ohh a 400g gain. Let’s hope I can lose that this week, haven’t made a good start have I? 

I remembered

 

On Friday night I cooked some fish that we caught on our last getaway up at Shark Bay. Whiting which is a sweet white flesh fish but it has a lot of small bones. Well I got a darn bone caught in my throat somewhere and of today it is still there. It’s luckily not real painful, it’s more annoying. Today it’s Monday and it’s still there. It’s not hurting all day, it must move every now and then and it’s only then I can feel it and then it hurts. I’ve over indulged today on bread and toast trying to get the darn thing to shift. 

Weigh in day today, 400g down. Getting closer to my next goal….well I was till I pigged out today. Hopefully I can get rid of this bone so I can move on. Want to get to my next goal so I can move onto the following one….that’s the one I’m hanging out to get too 😘😘😘

Nothing much happening. Had some lovely weather this week. Even managed 5 walks with my jabberwalking buddy. Meant to be walking today but over the weekend the weather turned crappy and it’s still wet and windy today. My buddy is going away for a few days with her grandies while they still on school holidays so I’m going to try and get out there on my own. I’m very unmotivated of late, I need a pick me up I think. Housework needs doing, I really need do get in and do a spring clean and do a declutter and throw out but all I can do is manage to do the essentials. 

Right, best get off this lazy butt of mine and get to and start dinner. 

Ooops missed last week…..

 I’m back.

I had a very disappointing sts last week, I’d tried so hard too but those dratted scales would not move. Believe me I tried, I stood on one foot, moved the scales and even put them on different surface !!! Nope….they weren’t moving…so a sts it was!! 

This week I had a 500g loss. 

I didn’t change my eating pattern, I just did what I usually do. It’s been a veryyyyyyy verrrryyyyyyyy slow journey this time around. But the weight is coming off and as you can see by pic above. First is just before I started, 2nd was in late August. I’m slowly getting closer to my next goal, just another 1.2 kilo to go. Heck knows how long that will take me but I’ll plod along…..

I’ve started walking with my walking buddy again, hoping we can get 3 or 4 walks a week in. Have done 2 so far this week, another planned for tomorrow and Thursday. Mmmmmm wonder if that will help the scales…..wait and see I guess. 

Dinner time….chicken sausages and salad tonight. Best move, the tum is rumbling a bit. 

Till next time…. 👋👋

Been a busy week…

 After the very disappointing weight loss last week (and week before that) l spoke online to a ww consultant. She advised me to eat filling meals 3 times a day. So that’s what I did this week. I usually have a late breakfast, snack for lunch and a filling dinner sooooooo I gave her way a try AND yay I’m happy to say it was goodbye 600g 😍🤩

Kylee got back late Wednesday evening from Adelaide. She is so happy she went to Grans funeral, her ex in laws were delighted to see her and made her very welcome. 

Anyways it was straight back to Mum duties Thursday morning as she came and picked up kids for school drop off before going off to work. 

Friday, it was school assembly which Williams class hosted. They performed a story called  “The Wrong Book” by Nick Bland. They did it so well. 

As he really likes to learn William is doing this…..

On his passport he has 30 hours of “learning” to collect by the beginning of October. He collected 10 hours by participating in team sport with his soccer team and Kylee has taken him to Zoo, Sci-tech and Maritime museum. His Dad took him to Fremantle Goal and a prehistoric museum and he collected more hours there as well 

On the weekend we took kids to our local Dolphin Discovery Centre where he scored another 2 hours. 

William loved the microscope and looking at the sea shells, sponges and coral. Was really fascinated.

On Sunday we decided, as the wet weather that was predicted hadn’t come in, to go down to Busselton Jetty and look at the Underwater Observatory. Another 2 hours to add to his tally.

We took the train out there, as it’s 1.8k out there and that back which would be way too far for Summer. 

William was absolutely fascinated by all the growth on pylons.

And they both loved the train ride.

Expensive outing but so worth it. Going to do it again in summer when the weather is warmer and the sun shining so we can see more underwater. 

Waiting for the train. Little Miss was starving hungry so had to feed her my bag of snack popcorn.

Ooops, nearly forgot this one. William spotted an octopus on the pylon. He spoke to the guide and they found out what sort it was…..and he was told it was the first one spotted this year. 🤩😍

On repeat….

 Once again after a really good on track week another loss, this time a 100 grams. So darn frustrating!!! What’s worse is I did a midweek weigh and the scales were showing a good loss.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr so darn grumpy. I ate Rocky Road dear daughter made for the kidlets. Talking about them two, they are staying here for the next few nights as Mum has done a quick dash over to Adelaide for a funeral. Her ex husbands Gran has passed away at 96. Since her and Stephen split and divorced she has remained in contact with Gran. She debated with her yourself about going, she really could not afford too but she needed to pay her respects to the wonderful lady and say that last goodbye. 

The kids are a little unsettled, neither of them are asleep. It’s been awhile since they have had a sleep over here. They missing mum..and they really testing my patience tonight. 

Dear Gran with a little William. The last time Kylee saw her. Unfortunately they never made it back to visit again so she never got to meet Summer. But Kylee had the pleasure of telling her she was pregnant again at that visit. 

Well it seems to have FINALLY all gone quiet. Hopefully the pair of them have a bit of a sleep in. I have a shift in the morning but I have permission from the Boss to come home after I open the centre and get these two fed, dressed and to school before going back to finish my shift. 

Anyways time to get my grumpy ass self organised and prepare for tomorrow.