Better late than never

If I don't post about Sunday Phil will kill me! I am very slack!

On sunday, Mez (my sis in law and best friend) and I travelled across the city (in our new car WOOHOO!) to meet with Phil for an afternoon of scrapbooking bliss! I have never done it before.. scrapbooking virgin!

When we arived the yummy aroma of baked potatos wafted out of Phil and Dave's place. Phil has definately mastered the art of stuffing and baking a good spud! YUM! Sweetcorn and bacon! Good combo! She served it with a lovely green salad and we all sat at the tabe like very civilized people!

Our bodies fueled, we proceded into the "scrapbooking zone" (aka. Phil and Dave's spare room). I showed Phil some of my yet to be albumed wedding photos (it's only been a year! Give a girl some time!) and I chose a couple to begin scrapping with.

Phil's an expert... she has all the right gear! I felt so terrible for using her stuff that I wanted to pay her. Phil just said that when we go to a scrapbooking store with her, Mezz and I can buy her a pressie... sounds good to me..

We were shown some scrapbooking basics and I began on my first page.. I used a photo of John and I holding hands before we exchanged rings.. very cute.. Phil has these cool things called "rub ons" where you can rub letters onto a page (transfers) using a paddle pop stick.. We used those to write John & Ash along the bottom. This picture was fastened to a pink patterned background and just looked gorgeous. I did two other pages.. My favourite is a pink and green page with a picture of my bridesmaids also wearing pink and green!

Thanks for teaching me Phil!

Mezz did a cool page for her friend's 21st birthday using old funny pictures of shenanigans at school. She wants to learn to scrap so she can make a baby book for when her baby is born in March! Yay! Aunty Ash!

Food's going well this week.. Just joined "Diet Club" Online with my mum. Great site for counting calories and fat etc.. Check it out some time.. www.dietclub.com.au

I am going to weigh this weekend coming.. I decided to give myself another week to recover from my birthday!

Good week!

Okay! So! This is the week I have had!

I had to do a bit of damage control after my birthday (I ate a fair bit of cake... I planned to... you're only 21 once!) so I was particularly careful this week with my food. Pretty sure I stayed within my points every day except tuesday (had a bit too much cadbury light chocolate).

Heres the exercise I did this week..
(not crazy heart jumping out of my chest kind of stuff but regular fat burning stuff!!)

Monday: Low impact aerobics (which was actually not that low impact coz I jumped and ran and did everything hard and was very sweaty afterwards!)
Tuesday: 6am brisk 30min walk with John & Lunchtime 3.17km walk
Wednesday: Carmen Electra "Fit to Strip" DVD... surprisingly good! Sore body after!
Thursday: 2km brisk walk and 1km run with John in the evening
Friday: 3.17km very brisk walk at lunchtime & 40min brisk walk with John in evening

I think I have done quite well.. pretty sure all this would have made up for my weekend! If not, I'm well on the way to it!

I have had so much fun doing exercise with John!! He's so great! He took off his shirt tonight while we were walking and said that he'd have never done that in the past.. He's lost some weight and toned up too.. he's on the way to being "buffed"! Tee-hee! He'd kill me if he knew I was writing this!!

Yay! I feel so good tonight! I have spent some time reading other peoples blogs.. I never have time! Even though I don't comment a lot, I do come and visit and keep track of what's going on in people's lives..

Thanks to everyone who shares!

We get a new car tomorrow!!! AAARRGH!

I am ever so excited!

This isn't our particular car... our's is even newer!! But I just thought I'd post some pictures of one the same, coz I am so excited.. Ours is a 2004 Echo.. 19,000 kms on the odometer!!

We pick it up at 9am tomorrow!

Whoops, ours is auto!

Promise I'll write a post about weightloss soon! But there is just so many other exciting things happening!

AARRGH!

More party pics

John, Me, Phil & David

This is one of my best mates Byron (definately got into the pink thing) and John's very cute grandpa!

Me getting ready to kill someone!! Or devour all the cake... one or the other

This is me and Tony... Tony won the "pink prize"! What an effort.. He is actually a very conservative person

Big thanks to Phil for taking all these great pics!

Strange

How come some days I feel like this?

And other days I feel like this??

It is so confusing! Today I feel like wonderwoman... a week ago.. I defiantely felt like the lady in the top picture! I don't know why it happens but I am sure you'll agree with me when I say that I think most women have experienced this at some point or another.

What is it about women that makes us like this?

I don't think my husband John ever feels like this.. although he's never been really overweight..

Hmm.. just pondering life as you can tell...

How do you feel today?

Have a lovely day!

Me with the PJs Philippa and David got me!


I have had the best birthday weekend ever!! 1st of all, John bought me bundles of pressies including a hair straightener, a Lano and Woodley DVD, Missy Higgins CD and a bobble headed George Bush figurine (to punch). After all that specialness (is that a word?), he took me out for dinner at TGI Fridays in Chapel St and took me to see this AWESOME flick called RIZE.. Seriously go see it.. it’s a doco about kids in LA who get into street dancing instead of gangs.. great flick!

So after the movie, we were heading back to the station to go home and John suddenly veered off to the right and started playing with a pin code thingy.. I said “John! You’ll set off an alarm or something!”…. DUH! He’d booked us a room at the Clairmont Guest House in Toorak Road!! We had a gorgeous night.. the room was sooo cute! John was sooo cute!! Everything was FAB!

Full of surprises!

So my pink party was on Saturday night and we all had such a great time! I was very impressed with the effort people put into their outfits! So much pink everywhere!!

The food was brilliant although in all the excitement I wasn’t that hungry! Shame, as it all looked so yummy! Especially the meatballs and the gyozas.. YUM! (Should I mention my feast once everyone left?…. nah…)

My gorgeous hubby and my best friend Mezz (sis in law) made lovely speeches and embarrassed me.. I never knew I was such an indecisive person! That seemed to be the general theme.. also that I have so many things I want to do in my life.. Mezz reeled off about 20 different professions I have at one point or another said I wanted to do! The funny thing is, I still want to do most of them… I hope I do!

Overall, it was sooo lovely to be around so many people who I love and who love me.. Everyone together in one place.

Thanks to everyone who has helped make my 21st birthday so special!


Kisses!

Sweeeeet rewards!

Oh yeah!!

Had my massage!! I promised it to myself for when I hit 85kgs... I love being good to myself! I feel it is so important to reward yourself for hard work! Why not?!!

I had a massage at the Australian College of Natural Medicine in the city at 8:30 last night.. only $28! That's pretty good for 45 minutes!! And while I was in the city (before the massage) I got my hair cut.. feelin' very pampered right about now!!

Ended up not having the Maccas thingy for dinner last night, instead I tried Subway's new beef teriaki and all I can say is YUMMMMMMM!

Went to the IR rally this morning.. I think we made history..

Check this out!

Today's report

Monday 14/11/05
B- 2 slices grainy bread (2.5)
1 tbs jam low joule (1)
S-1 apple (0.5)
1/2 cup packet soup + rice crackers (1)
L- Wholemeal long roll with salad no butter (2)
apple and black currant juice (1.5)
S- rice crackers (2)
D- McDonalds deli roll (6.5)
S- Diet Yoghurt and Diet mousse (2)

Total: 18.5
Saved: 3.5
Exercise: 3.17 km brisk walk @ lunchtime Bonus: 2.5

Blah blah

I didn't mention that as well as getting weighed the other day, I was measured too.. This month I lost 6cms round my abdomen and 4cms round my waist!

The funny thing about it is that my arms, legs and bust all stayed fairly much the same! Isn't that weird!?

Anywhoo! I don't have much to report really except that it is my 21st birthday on Friday and I am having a party @ mum's place on Saturday night.. It's a pink party!! I have been doing a lot of gardening to get ready for it- I think active weekends like this are really helping my weight loss! Mum also found a catering company that specialise in healthy finger food.. there will be almost nothing fried at my party! Yay!

I will work really hard this week and save up my points because I have requested a white chocolate mud cake and I plan on eating some! MMMM!

This week I have done 2 30min run/walk sessions at the gym, one spin class, 2 45 min lunchtime walks and some rowing machine. Add to that weekend gardening and I'm going very well! No wonder I've been dropping the weight off recently!

I am now aiming for 80kgs! Not too far away now.. about 4 weeks I think! or 5!.. My new years goal of 79kgs will help me to stay on track over the Christmas period..

PRE CHRISTMAS PREPARATION

(I think everyone should do this kind of a plan because it will sneak up on you otherwise!)

• Inform all family members and friends that I will not be accepting any chocolaty gifts this year
• Write down what food is allowed over Christmas and what is off limits (including treats) and give the list to John (to keep me accountable)
• Avoid all "frankenstein foods" in the next 5 weeks leading up to Christmas (damage control)
• Ask whoever is cooking lunch/dinner what they are planning on serving and if there are no healthy alternatives ask if I can bring some skinfree chicken and light ham
• Ask if I can bring a salad and if they say no bring one anyway
• Make special light berry ice cream from fernwood's fabulous food cookbook (I bet everyone will want it so I'd better make a double quantity)
• Buy pretzels and air-popped popcorn to have as snacks on the day (closer to the day of course!)

I love Christmas!!

Yesterday

Thursday
10/11/05
BF- 2 wbix with low fat milk 2.5
& skinny latte no sugar 0.5
S- 5 cashews 1
2 strawberries and 2 segments mandarine 0.5
6 waferthins 0.5
L- Chicken and salad wholemeal roll no butter & 1 apple 4
S- Ultraslim cherry bar 2.5
1 banana 1
D- Souvlaki- beef- (no sauce) 9 ?
S- cake (carrot) 2

Total food pts 23.5
Saved 0
Exercise Bonus 45 min walk 2.5
Total weekly bonus/saved 4.5

Not too bad.. not really sure how many pts the souvlaki was.. the beef was very lean but I think they udes oil to cook it... what a huge yummy meal!!

OH MY GOODNESS!!!

I weighed at the gym tonight.. after a spin class and after drinking heaps of water and I weighed in at.............................wait for it..................... drum roll please!!.................

84.3 kilograms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAARRRRGHHH!!!


YAY YAY!!!

That's 2.3 in 2 weeks I think! Maybe 3 weeks!!.. hmm... I don't care!! Coz I have achieved my november goal of being 85!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHH!

Sick again!

Okay...

This time I wasn't coughing.. I was spewing!! It all happened on Wednesday.. well, actually it happened on Tuesday night when John got sick.. he was sick during the night but felt better by the morning. I got sick Wed morning..

I had the BEST weekend ever.. it was so relaxing (see Philippa's blog for a very detailed report of our Sunday together).. Tuesday was warm and we had an awesome bbq at mum's house where we sat at a big long table in the back yard and ate loads of colouful salads and yummy marinated meats.. My nan made gorgeous fruit salad and we all sat around chatting well into the evening.. It was even raining for a little while but no one cared because it was warm and the rain came down in big fat droplets, cooling our skin. I didn't even get one mozzie bite!

John didn't eat anything because he was feeling so ill but I scoffed everything in sight... It was great!! Until the next morning when I saw it all again... It looked gorgeous on the table the night before... eeew!!

I threw up a total of 5 times.. well, only 3 really but I'm counting the 1st one as a triple coz it was so HUUGE! YUK! You were'nt expecting to be hearing such graphic details of my illness now were you?!

I passed out in the loo in the afternoon and then threw up everywhere again!

YUK!!

So the next day I woke up and I was totally better!! Admittedly feeling a little malnourished but all in all, feeling pretty good!

Anyway.. I ate next to nothing and threw up everything I did eat.. I had to have lost some weight! Weighing tomorrow!

Going to Philippa's for yoga and dinner tomorrow- Can't wait!