My eating has been at little crappy the last 2 days! My little brother (21) has got himself in a bit of trouble with the police - so the whole family has been kinda stressed...waiting to find out what is going to happen!
I have really noticed today that I have been mindless eating - luckly I don't have much junk food around - but I have been eating way to much!
I am really proud of myself in the fact that while I was driving home yesterday afternoon (feeling really stressed out) I talked myself out of stopping to pick up a family block of chocolate! I must be starting to think like a normal thin person:)
I have got my food for tommorrow all planned out so I will be strating afresh. I start work at 9am...I can't wait!!!

Thank you all for crossing your fingers for me...it worked!!!
The interview went really well, I am doing a trial on thursday to see if I like it, and if I do the job is pretty much mine:)
It is a little coffeeshop/cafe, I will be learning to use a coffee machine aswell as making light meals. They also sell a few gift items as well! I can't wait till thursday!!!
...the only bummer is I won't be able to weigh in this week (officially) but I will weigh in at home:)
I am not sure of exact days I will be working - the shop is closed on Mondays. The boss, Stella said I should be working at least 30hrs per week.
So if I end up having to work on Thursday's I will transfer to a night time group to weigh in - which will be a tuesday!
Well off to cook dinner:)

So excited!!

I spent most of today at my sisters house - she had a Le Reve party, so I have brought a few oils that I had run out of!
When I got home there was a message on the machine from another traineeship that I applied for a while back for a cafe in Romsey (5 mins from home) I rang her back and talked for a while, and it really sounds like a great job and the owner sounds really nice too - I have to go in for an interview tommorrow afternoon...so I am really excited, this would be even better than the one I went for the other day, so much closer to home! The other one was in Sunbury which is a 40 min drive!
I also changed my photo again - this one looks more like me I think. I was starting to hate the other one...lol
Keep your fingers crossed for my interview tommorrow!! Will post to let you know how it went:)

Sorry about the lack of updates, the boys are on holidays so we have been out and about since the weather has been nice!
I weighed in this morning and lost .4, my eating has been really good this week!
I went for my first interview in years this morning. It was for a hospitality traineeship, I was really nervous - but I think it went ok. If the company is interested they will call me for another interview, so fingers crossed I will be called again:)
If I don't get it the lady said that my details are kept for 6 months and they will call me if any other traineeships turn up. So I just have to wait!!
Well better go get dinner ready - hope everyone is having a great week:)

Have been busy the last few days, but I am doing OK!
We had the school concert on Wednesday night (photo's below) which was a really great night, Jason really loves to preform, and judging by this year, Luke seems to love it too!
The boys got to sleep in on Thursday morning (with permission by the principal), so I missed my weigh in this week. I weighed my self this morning and I gained 1.4 - not very happy with that, but I really deserved it, and I am lucky that it was not more than that:)

Yesterday I brought a sample pot of the colour that the boys chose to have their room painted, so today I painted some area in their rooms to see how it looks(it's a light bluey grey) - if they (and Vic) like it I will buy the big tin next week and get painting. I could even start the 'cutting in' bits on the weekend, as the sample pot has quite a bit in it!

Well must go get ready to pick the boys up from school, they finish at 2pm today as it is the end of term!
Hope everyone has a great weekend:)

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Here is Lukes class, they sang "Baby Face" and "Born to be alive". He did very well, as it was his first time on stage in front of a big audience!

Here is Jasons class, they sang "Happy Days" and "Friday on my mind".
(Jason is 4th from the right)

Here is my very proud son showing off the green belt he earnt tonight. He did very well in his grading exam!!

much better!!

I feel alot better today - have not really been good eating wise, but my head is in a better space (if that makes sense!)
Thankyou all for your comments - I didn't really want to blog it, but I knew if I didn't, that it would get worse and worse and I would just give up...But I don't wanna give up - so thankyou all for the support:)
I have so much on this week - I think I just stressed out BIG time.
Jason is going for his green belt in karate tonight.
Wednesday I am working at school all day - then we have the school concert at night - I have been madly sewing the last few days...lol
And on Thursday another AGM! So my week is chock full!

NOTE:At the AGM I went to on saturday the last line of the pledge was officially taken off!

I feel like crap!
I have been eating crap for the last few days and just can't seem to stop! I hate feeling like this!
to make things worse my car is not going, so I had to stay home today - and maybe tommorrow if the part does not turn up, so have been in a real grumpy mood and have been mindlessly snacking.It has been pouring all day - so can't even go out for a walk!
I don't really have much else to say, so I will leave it at that.
Sorry so negative today,I am planning on going to bed early tonight ~ and hopefully will wake up on the right side tommorrow:)

Weigh in today and I lost .4 - which means I have exactly 17 kilo's to go till christmas!!
I now have to go email paulene my loss for the Who challenge:)

About our town pledge - we have had dicussions at management level that some want to lose that last line - while others want to keep it, at my last meeting, most groups want it gone. The big AGM is this saturday and the final vote will be done!

Weigh in group was great this morning - we did a mini circuit of exercises, and finished with a relaxation cd... I left really energised!!

Hope everyone is having a great day!

This is a picture of Vic's "beloved" fountain. This is out the front too!

This is a view of half of our front yard

Things are going great at the moment with my eating and exercise!! I am wanting to do really well on my spring goal that I set myself in the post below, So I have joined Paulene's Who challenge to keep me going:)
Not much else to say tonight so I thought I would share the town pledge that we say to open our weight loss meeting every week;

I am an intelligent person.
I will control my emotions and not let my emotions control me.
Everytime I am tempted to use food to satisfy my frustrated desires,
build up my ego or dull my senses.
I will remember
Even though I overeat in private,
my excess weight is there
for all the world to see.
What a fool I've been!

Hope everyone is having a great week!!

Just a quick post;
Have been doing really well foodwise the last few days~and I am still having 3 litres of water and exercising everyday:)
We spent a quiet day at home today - Vic's father lives in Tassie, so we spoke to him this morning. My dad is travelling around the middle of Australia at the moment - his mobile was out of range so we have left a sms for him.
The boy's and I took Vic to his favorite pizza resturant for tea, I had 2 slices of pizza~and was not even guilty as I had allowed for it for the day:)
Well I will leave it at that, hope everyone had a great weekend!

Happy Fathers Day to all the dad's out there:)

AGR~ The photo of the boys was taken on the front porch looking out on the front garden, my husband works for a nursery, so spends alot of time in the garden - we have a fountain too that hubby really loves~ will have to take a pic:)

First day of Spring!

I weighed in officially today - and lost .1
Which means I actually lost 2.7 this week~so I am extreamly happy:)

Have been having a look at my weight loss stats; I started at 98 kilo's, am down to 82.4 (15.6 kilo's lost) and my goal weight for now is 65 ( when I started town, I had to get a doctors cert saying what weight he would like me to get down to, when I reach that weight I have the option to go back to the doc and get a new cert with a new weight) - which is 17.4 kilo's to go which means I am very close to my half way mark:)

At the moment my goal is to get back to at least 70 kilo's before christmas - that was my weight in october '04, before Nan died!
That means I need to lose 12.4 kilo's in 17 weeks, which equals to about . 7 a week~I think that is really achievable!
So that is my Spring to Christmas goal!! Now I will have to think of something really cool as a reward, any ideas welcome:)


Here is a pic that suzy had on her blog - I have printed it out and put it on the fridge.