DETERMINED!!

People keep saying to me about how much smaller I am, and how I'm there already and looking great etc, but I am not there, and I am determined to get there! And even though over the last few months my weight has stayed around the same (or gone up slightly), my measurements are going down still, so I keep getting these comments.

But I am going to ignore them, and I'm going to make GOOD headway on my get to goal plan!
I filled out the weekly card from this week on my journey to goal, and it's stuck on the wall. I'm planning to get back into walking again this week, especially as I am going to be in Canberra for a bit and not able to get to Curves.

Speaking of which, I AM SO TIRED! I got a call on Thursday arvo for an interview in Canberra on Friday, so drove down in the morning, had the interview, where I was for about 4-5 hours, and then drove back in the evening, then saw friends for a very late dinner. It was really good, and I'd LOVE the job, I had a fantastic time, but as I had to get up and be at the WW meeting at 7:30 this morning to set up, I am just exhausted. I still went to curves though too... So I feel good and positive, but am tired!

Anyway, I hear about the job on tues, and it's immediate start, so I might have to go down sooner than expected if I get it!
Oh such a hectic life I have!
:)

At least I get to see people at our birthday/farewell party next weekend, I'm so excited about that! Right now though, I think it is time for a nap! :)

A Beautiful Wedding Day for Our Gorgeous friends

We have been really busy over the last few weeks, and with packing and everything it's only getting busier! One of the highlights of the last little while was the wedding of some dear friends of ours, on the 15th. And it was just so beautiful, that I felt like sharing :)
Hubby and I had a fabulous time, though it was a pity I couldn't dance because of my toe. It was all good though, cos it meant I got to watch my Hubby boogie instead, ad that's very entertaining (I LOVE HIM!! :)

I'm BACK!!!! :)

The computer is fixed, and it's wonderful!! YAY!!!

For those that were not aware, my computer died. REALLY died. But luckily I have a computer GENIUS for a friend, and she got new part and reformatted and everything, and now not only is it working again, but it's upgraded!! :)
It's very exciting, now I have all these programs to play with, like adobe acrobat... Never got that to work before.... :P

So much to catch up on!

Firstly, a HUGE thank you for all the birthday wishes, I had a lovely day, and even got to go shopping and got 2 (count them TWO!) new dresses!!!! I'll put pics of one, but the other you'll have to wait cos it's for our big birthday/farewell bash that we are having before we ship out. :) So under wraps til then.... *grin*

oh, and questions....
Jessie, I made my top pics on paint and just pasted into the HTML code, after being inspired by BeeBeeJayBee (go have a look, very good!)

and yes Lisa, I suddenly seem so much closer to goal. This reason being as I got heighted again at doctors and once again was completely different, so I decided to conduct an experiment. I heighted myself all throughout the day, and found to my utter horror that I shrink around 7 cms EVERY DAY!! ARGH! So I decided to take my original height at WW (and is what is still on my card anyway) of 161cm, giving me a goal of 65kilos. Actually, when I first wake up and my spine (I have scholiosos) is all stretched out, I'm 162.5cms, so am actually heaps taller than I thought I am! By the end of the day though I am around 155.5... not good at all. Then if my hubby cracks/stretches my back I grow another cm...

ok, so that's the rant about my height... Hope no one fell asleep! :) the very fact I shrink 3cms in the first 3hours after I get up, is just plain depressing! ARGH! Anyway, my point somewhere in here is that I was just writing about it and changing everything when the computer died, so that's why things just changed with no explanation. :)

Oh, and as for my studying, that is going on hold, however I'm looking into attending Uni in Canberra next year. Right now, for our family, and for my Hubby's sake, we need to move, and so my priorities are on health and relationships first, getting the degree finished, not so important. :)
I am actually really excited at the prospect of just working for a while, it is really appealing right now! :)

Anyway, enough for now... Though I'll try and put more pics up over the next few days! cos I love pics!

La de dar de dar...

What day is it today?
Oh that's right, it's Thursday!

Got a case of the brain fog monster at the moment, that and a case of Kermit the frog throat... :)

Anyway, I have a few days and a lot of stuff to catch up on! Some days I feel I have nothing interesting to write, and today is not one of them!

The stamp party on Sunday was great fun, if you get a chance to go to one, GO!! So much fun! It only ended up being small, but the people who came were absolute beginners, so it was good cos they got lots of attention. By the way, my Mum was the demonstrator, and she is loving it, the company is "stampin' Up!" and I positively drooled over all the stamp sets, and they are such good prices! Anyway, enough drooling, I put a pic of the card I made on here, what do you think?


The rest of Sunday was nice too, Mum and Dad stayed around a bit and it was great to catch up. Dad was really keen I think to do a bit of recon, cos we have some news...

WE ARE MOVING!

We have put in notice on our lease, and started looking for jobs in Canberra. I am not really keen to go, I have a thing about Canberra and how STUPIDLY COLD it is, and there is no beaches... But it's the best thing for our little family at the moment. My husband has been out of work for a few months now, and there is just no jobs (and ridiculously high unemployment) here in Wollongong, and there are a bizillion jobs in Canberra. So off we go!
I am treating it all as a grand adventure, oh and Donna, I am sorry we aren't moving to Melbourne! It's our second choice, so if Canberra doesn't pan I'm sure you will see us! :)
anyway, so I have been applying for jobs over the net to get a feel for what's going, and I have already done an initial interview for 3 jobs and I only started applying on Monday! ARGH!

Enough about moving, as it will probably come up a lot over the next few weeks!



Tuesday was my hubby's birthday, and he had to put up with me spoiling him! I made him a bacon and egg english muffin breakfast, and followed it up with a muffin with candles!
I was able to take the morning off work, so we watched a DVD, then went out to lunch at a gorgeous restaurant called the harbourfront, overlooking the wollongong harbour, it was gorgeous, and the food was FABULOUS! I had a grilled dory thing which was to die for!
That night I baked him a butterscotch surprise cake cos I knew something he didn't, I had invited some friends over for a dessert things, and he was so surprised and thought it was great, it was wonderful! We are going to have a big birthdays/farewell thing in a few weeks, so he wasn't expecting anyone, it was great :)

Only down side for Tuesday? Silly silly RaeRae broke her toe!

I know, I know, you are all thinking I'm the little attention seeker, breaking my toe on my Husbands birthday, but I didn't mean to honestly! *grin*
Anyway, luckily the doctors where the quickest I have ever seen, so it hardly took any time out of the day, except for the fact my limping is slowing me down a whole heap! :)

So I am more than a little annoyed, as this means I have to be good with my food and get results that way, as I don't have the exercise to back me up... And I don't have a good track record with no exercise, cos I love it too much! *sigh*

So all in all, it has been an eventful week! I was rather down yesterday, from pain in toe, little sleep cos of said pain, and also both my hubby and I haw come down with rotten colds, and my throat is feeling much more like an infection with every swallow... At least I'm not eating... It's too difficult! Ok, I'll be good and go try eat some breakfast. :)
I did get a little sleep last night, so that was good, and I'm feeling positive and motivated. Especially since we have been cleaning, culling and packing, and I came across a photo I thought had been lost or destroyed forever... I think I had better put it up so I never feel inclined to "feed my pain" *grin*

My secret weightloss strategy?

Lots of yummy treats!

:)

This week, despite very tight purse-strings, I bought fresh dates and strawberries (actually they were $1.99 a punnet so wasn't too bad), as well as a packet of Choc Crisp bars - which I never buy, but have been having chocolate cravings so needed something- and I proceeded to lose:

1.6kgs!

So that's a big hurrah for No Count, as I really didn't go drastic or anything, I just stayed real.
Isn't WW wonderful?

So my big gain is almost gone, I am heading back to the nice small numbers that I was... And I am loving the fact that people are telling me I'm looking smaller, clothes are fitting better, all in spite of the numbers. Centimetre/size wise, I am only getting smaller, so I glad I'm not listening to just the yo-yoing scales.

My only gripe at the moment is that the "new" bras that I bought only recently (ok, so maybe its a couple of months ago...) are getting towards ridiculously small... Very frustrating. Can't afford new ones either, so might be time for another undercoverwear party to get some more for free!

Last night I had an AWESOME time at my friend's Hen's night, we went to a TepanJapanese place, where they cook the food in front of you and throw things at you etc... Very cool!
And this afternoon I'm having a stamping (craft, scrapbooking) party, so that should be fun, but I had better go clean up the house!
Don't you just love weekends?!?!
:)

My second Curves month!

Doesn't time fly! I feel like I only just reported my first month and I've just measured in for my second month! Maybe I am feeling like this as I have been sick for half the month... Oh gosh, this means my birthday is almost here too! ARGH!!

Anyway, I really didn't want to go weigh and measure today, as I really didn't want to see those scales go up (which they did but it's not like I would have lost that 1.8 in two days...), but I went anyway.

and I've lost another 7 cms!

I feel very happy with that, and actually the weight wasn't that bad either... Over the month I still think I've lost. And the cm's go to show much better anyway, and explain why I haven't felt like I have gained.

So it's all good.

It felt so good to be back into Curves and exercising today, oh so good. I haven't had to use my puffer at all today, and that's an achievement in itself!

Emotionally though I really want comfort food right now... My best friend has now officially moved to New Zealand, and I am going to miss her so much! We have been flat out over the last week, with traveling up and down and moving stuff and cleaning, and yesterday was the farewell, and dedication (see picture, and the white dress stayed white!), and I think I am just going to have to get better about writing and replying to emails, as I don't think our phone can even do international calls!

I have had such a busy, hectic, full day, so this post is really all over the place.

I got a whole heap of compliments of how much I have lost tonight though, from people I haven't seen in a while. Actually was rather interesting, cos it was work related, and then they announced that they are going to run a biggest loser competition with everyone... I want to know if I can back-date mine, cos I'm close to the smallest now! tehehe :)
Narh, I still have my kilos to lose, have to get to goal!!

I'm going to stop rambling and take myself to bed, goodnight! Sleep tight! *grin*

Brand new week! YAY!

Today, I have started well! I have drunk lots of water, and am thinking positive and organizing my week to create a good, positive lifestyle. AND I'm feeling a lot better, though tired, as I had a busy day yesterday helping my best friend clean and pack up their house - actually, my job was mainly keeping their 10 month old gorgeous baby daughter out of the way! But I am sure that helped heaps too!
Anyway, yesterday was also not so good food-wise, we had fish and chips for lunch and Macca's for dinner, and I unashamedly ate the chips and fish, though made good choices at Macca's. So coupled with being sick, and the before mentioned eating earlier this week, I put on 1.9kgs.

And I am owning the whole 1900grams, and am not ashamed. :)

Really, I don't mind. It's quite fine to have a week or so in life where everything goes a little haywire, and so I am quite fine with this. I don't feel any tightness in my clothes, and I'm back into mostly normal patterns after tomorrow. Tomorrow is the farewell for my friend and hubby, as well as their daughter's dedication. I am really going to miss them, and I do have to admit that I am sad and stressed at the thought of them being overseas, but we will be fine!

So this afternoon I think I will cook up the vegies I have ready for soup, and get my costume ready for a birthday party tonight, and will generally enjoy this fine weekend!

Also, to all my dear internet friends who are feeling hurt, betrayed or distressed this weekend, I wish you all the best, and many hugs from me to you! Please don't hesitate to email if you need a listening ear! ***HUGS***