Bad Attitude

Do you ever have those days when you should have just stayed in bed?
Well, turns out I'm having a week of them. Nothing is going right this week. So I thought, what better way to get my thoughts out there than to put them on my blog, which I'm sad to say has been somewhat neglected lately.

After looking at my last post, I have realised that since then I haven't really done anything special. I have been hovering around the same weight since that loss and haven't really got my head in the right space. I'm still trying but I'm really not trying hard enough. I know it in my head but I have to get my head and my body to cooperate.

Christmas is coming which makes it all the more difficult. Not even the fear of fitting into a wedding dress next year is enough to make me get out there and do it. I guess one day I will get there but until that time, well I'll just have to plod along and keep doing what I'm doing.

Hopefully, the next time I post, I will be somewhat more happier and have gotten rid of this bad attitude...

I think I really have got my groove back

I had a massive loss of 2.2kg this week. Very proud of myslef. It's so simple.
Basically, you follow the program and you're pretty much guaranteed to lose weight. I know it in my head but for some reason, I don't do it. And then when I do the right thing I get results. Well now I am ready to stick to the program for good.

After we got back from holidays I realised that if I wanted to be able to fit into my wedding dress, it was time to get serious and lose that last 15 kilos. Have been sticking to points, changed up my exercise routine and even managed to have hungry jacks on the weekend and still count it in my points.

Very pleased with myself. However, last night when it was raining I wanted to ride my exercise bike and found out that the cord is broken. So now I can't use it until I either try and get it fixed or buy a new cord. Would have liked to have gotten out and ridden my real push bike, but it was stormy and rainy, so that wasn't going to happen.

Oh well. We have decided on a wedding venue, but I won't post the location because it will spoil the surprise. Next job, finding a photographer.

It is so hot here at the moment. I wish it would storm every night and rain and fill up our tanks and water our garden. Josh is going to do yard work this weekend and I'm going to the last scrapbooking for the year. Have lots of great holiday snaps that I haven't done yet. Wedding ones too.

Sunday will be relaxing and catching up on housework. Doesn't matter how often I do it, It still seems to be dirty. Oh well, I guess that's old homes for you. Can't wait until we have a shiny new home to live in.

Listen to me, jabbering about the weekend when it's only Wednesday. Back to it, I guess...

Back to reality

Well, it is official. Holidays are over and it's back to reality. Second day back at work and was too busy yesterday to catch up. Had WW last night and only managed to gain 800 grams over my holidays. Which is a pretty good effort really considering I ate whatever I wanted and was really, really bad!

It's helped me get back into it though and I am so determined to lose these last 15 kilos. First aim is to get under 90kg. My motivation at the moment is seeing wedding pictures from a girl I went to school with and she was quite overweight in the pictures and I felt a bit sorry for her, because she hadn't been given the opportunity to lose weight and live a healthy lifestyle. I also have to be able to wear a bikini when we go on our honeymoon which is a cruise.

So have gone back to basics and am tracking, weighing and measuring for my life at the moment. Eating lots of fruit and drinking lots of water. Also getting back into the exercise. Going to try out water aerobics on Thursday night, so that should be interesting. Some of the ladies from my meeting have been going and are saying that they love it.

Wedding plans are still not finalised. I have narrowed the choice of venue down to three on the Sunshine Coast, but now we need to make a trip down there and check them out and meet with the coordinators. Fun! With Josh working most weekends and long hours up until Christmas it's gonna be difficult but hopefully it will all work out.

I'll post some holiday happy snaps, when I get a chance.

Yahooooooooo

Yahoooooooo, as of 4.30pm this afternoon. I am on holidays. This does however mean that I will be neglecting my blog for about 10 days. But don't stress, I will post all my holiday happy snaps when I get back.
The packing is going well. My thoughts on packing:
- It would be so much easier if you didn't have to pack the things that you use at home (toothbrush, hair dryer, straightener etc)
- It would also be easier if we could take our trailer but because three thousand people are taking boats there is not enough people to bring all the boats home and now we have to bring a boat home (it is a long story - not my idea!!)

Having my hair done tonight. Looking forward to it. When I used to have blonde hair I was at the salon every month and was spending around the 100 dollar mark every time. Now I have gone back to my natural brunette I only go to the salon every now and then when I have a special occasion I need hot hair for. Helps the pocket and helps with my time management. I do miss my hairdresser but. She's awesome.

Wedding plans have kinda hit a brick wall at the moment. I really just wanted to take my whole family out for dinner and not have all the hassle of a "Reception" but every place you go, as soon as you say wedding they see dollar signs and of all the places I have queried its added anywhere between 500.00 and 4000.00 bucks.

Maybe we should just all turn up at a bloody pub in our wedding gear and see how they like it ...

Pooh

Dammit, WI last night and only lost 200grams. Stupid foot that wouldn't let me exercise. Although I need to take some of the blame. I did overeat a little bit on the weekend. Stupid weekends ruining my hard work all week.
Nevermind the goal is to come back from holidays without a gain. I want to lose or atleast maintain where I am now. Going to a meeting while I'm away, also going to try and get in a gym session or two.
Gotta make up for all the yummy food we have packed. I think we should be ok but because we will do lots of walking and we are taking the push bikes so I'm sure there will be plenty to keep up my exercise.

It's my little Bro's birthday tomorrow and he is coming for dinner tonight. Chicken Stir Fry. Yummy Yum! Gotta give him the run down and what's gotta happen with the animals and house while we is away.

Also visiting my adopted sister and her two cute as monkeys. Won't see them while we are away so better get in a visit. Won't be long and they'll both be having birthdays and it will be christmas. Only like 9 more weeks. FREAKS ME OUT!
I am starting to think its a bit overated anyway just an excuse for people to waste there money. Wonder what I'll be getting this year LOL...

Holidays... at last

Well I am very happy to report that my foot seems to be better. Managed to go to Body Pump on Satuday morning. Either that or the soreness in the rest of my body has hidden the pain in my foot.
I am trying to wear in a new pair of shoes today so that probably won't help either. I need to be able to wear them on Saturday for my Sister in Laws wedding. We are having 2 weeks at the beach after she gets married so that should be wonderful.
Have started packing and getting things organised. I made my own dress, well I kinda sewed some of it and my Mum helped sew the rest. It turned out really good considering we didn't use a pattern and when I brought the material I had no idea what I was doing. All in all the dress cost about $40 to make and I probably would have spent around $100+ to buy one. It feels even better knowing it was something we created.
I'm going to miss my bogan animals while we are away. Hopefully they will be ok with my Brother. I don't know if I should be worrying about them or the house. Hopefully it will still be in a reasonable state when we get home.
On our last day of holidays we are going to check out a potential location for our wedding and I'm pretty close to getting the rest of the details organised. This wedding organising is hard work. I thought it would be pretty simple, but the hardest part is when you say "wedding" you can almost see the dollar signs flash in peoples eyes. No wonder they add up to more than 20,000 sometimes.
Ours should come in at a reasonable 7,000 so hopefully we can put the rest into the house were building, maybe, one day eventually...

My sore foot

Bit peed off at the moment, because I have managed to do an injury to my left foot (not even sure how) and that means that I can't really exercise.

I went to Aqua Aerobics this morning thinking that my foot was Ok (It has been sore since Saturday) but that only made it worse. So now I am going to have to rest it, or it will get really bad. Stupid polished wood floors. So now I can't go to my usual Body Step class tonight and I really miss Body Step when I don't get to go. It is such a heart pumping workout. Gets the blood flowing and the endorphins up.

Atleast I can still kinda ride the exercise bike. I look a bit spasmo but it's only Josh that sees me and he only laughs. I have been going better with the food thing. Am pleased to report that I am now 3 days lolly free. Yahooooooooo!! Sounds easy but when your used to an afternoon sugar hit, the body goes into withdrawals and it is all I can do not to head to the corner store and pick up a bag of sweetness.

On a positive front, I have picked out another wedding location. Now just to chat to Josh about it and if he gives it the go ahead, then it will be a matter of meeting them and getting it organised. Wish me Luck!!

Beautiful Flowers from the Beautiful Ladies at my Weight Watchers Meeting!

Slacko

Ok, So I know I only just started this blog and so far I am really slack and haven't really written anything or uploaded any photos.

I am changing that today. Last night at Weight Watchers the ladies in my meeting gave me the most beautiful bunch of flowers to celebrate the fact that I have lost 20 kilos. Kinda made me pretty proud of myself. I hadn't really stopped to think about it and now that they have brought it up, I am sorta like "WOW, I have lost 20 kilos" Thats Awesome.

I still have another 15 kilos to go and at the rate I lost that 20 it will probably take me over a year to get to goal weight. Not that I'm worried, as someone once said, "Its not the destination it's the journey"

Had a pretty crap weekend because I was unwell and we are both so lethargic at the moment, come on HOLIDAYS! Can't wait to lase around by the beach and sleep, read a book, sleep, maybe go for a walk, sleep, cook up a feed and did I mention SLEEP!

Well, I better get back to studying. My exams were supposed to be straight after holidays in November but they have been moved to February next year. Which is good for me, because I was totally not ready. Now that I have been given the shake up, I will study a bit harder.

It was so cold here this morning! Didn't want to drag my butt out of bed but managed to go for a 30 minute walk. Only because I knew my walking pal, Bev was going to be standing on the corner waiting to meet me.

Only 13 days now until we go on our camping holiday. Can't wait. We are spending tomorrow putting all our camping gear up and making sure that we haven't lost anything or got holes in anything. Getting pretty excited now. My sister in law is getting married while we are on holidays so that should be nice. It will be a whole family get together.

I have asked my brother to look after the house for the 10 days we are away. He needs to feed the animals, fish and water the vege garden and make sure the place is still standing when we get home. Good Luck to me.

Our wedding is coming up really quickly and we are having real difficulties with venues. People that tell you a price and then change their minds later. I don't understand how it can blow out of proportion so quickly. Stupid wedding providers that are exploiting the industry.

Moving on ...

Happy its Friday and looking forward to going to body pump in the morning and doing some scrapbooking and sewing tomorrow afternoon.

I Have a Blog

Howdy

I have been looking at a lot of other peoples blogs and find them totally awesome. Time to start my own blog.

Here it is ...

The low down on me:
I am a 25 year old female from Queensland. I'm into craft, fitness, reading, cooking, camping and going anywhere that involves good friends and good times.
I am engaged to a wonderful future husband, Josh and mum to two bogan cats, Sheeba and Pepper.
I'm currently training as a student audiometrist (ears and hearing) and do this three days a week and adminstrative roles two days a week.

Can't wait to get posting!