Months of excuses, and now I am back on the Wagon!

Well, my first installment in months and months. Weeks of saying, yes I'll get back on the wagon. I'll count points, I'll track, I'll exercise... and when my jeans button didn't do up any more, and I had to pay for my Melbourne flights.. I said ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! So I walked into a meeting, paid the cash, and I said, ok weigh me! And well I had lost over 12kgs since January, and here I am, only 4.7kgs down from my start weight!

I am looking forward to starting my Journey again, and was going to get a new user name, and a new blog and a new start weight, but I can't forget where I have come, and being almost 5 kgs lighter than January still, isn't something to hide from, cause that first star was hard to earn! So I just continue on my way.

Dear husband, is happy to jump on the wagon with me, and I must find my scales to weigh him.. Thats the other thing I am going to try and do is NOT WEIGH myself... HAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah like I can do that!


Today is day one, and I tracked and I ate my points, and I feel good. (except for that head-ache from lack of caffeine!)..

I will see you on my journey dear Friends

Dee

Wedding Photos Finally!

I know I disappeared off the face of the Earth! But here is a sneak at the wedding photos! My excuse, is I moved house, and have been waiting for my broadband to be connected, and three weeks on have been told I can't get broadband, so dial up for me!

I wish I knew how to load the slide show... if my friend Em's helps me, I might fix it up!

Well here is just a few.

Hope you are all well.....

Dee

I have such wonderful friends!

Sorry for being absent lately! I have had such a lot on. YAY, 8 more sleeps and the wedding will be here! I am so looking forward to normal life....ummmmm.... is married life the same as normal life?

Well my wonderful, amazing and gorgeous friends! Em's, Berrie, Nicki, Shelley, Jen and Vegie! Thank-you for the lovely card you sent Simon and I for our wedding. Simon and I love it! And we were both speechless at the effort you had gone to to get it to us!

I have tried to take some photos of it, but they didn't turn out the best, but post them anyhow!

Thank-you so much again. I have had a reality check with receiving it in the mail. I have been gone for weeks with my pre-occupied little world and my friends were still thinking of me. You are all so special, and i can't wait to get back to the grind and start donating to those baby whales again.

I promise I will post pics of the wedding as soon as I can.

Saying good-bye for a few more days and sending you all lots of love.

Dee

Plodding Along!

Hi everyone, i haven't posted for two weeks. Life has just been so so busy. 32 days til the wedding, and I am amazed how much there is to do! I need to be working to pay the wedding off, and I seem to be having days off work organising! I love the flexibility in my job, but I only get paid if I show up! It will all work out I guess.

On the weight loss front, I lost 1.5kgs this week. Which takes me up to almost 12 kgs gone. I have 13 days til my next dress fitting, and the dressmaker has given me strict instructions not to loose after that (hmmm??). So with some hard work I am hoping to loose 2.3 kgs within 13 days! I know, it's my goal and if I meet it I will be very happy. If not, well such is life. My goal was always to be 85kgs for the wedding, and i am 3.3 away. so if I loose big in the next 2 weeks, am sure cranky dress maker wont notice if i loose another kilo along the way!

Again, I hope everyone elses journey is going in the right direction, and I am so sorry I haven't updated anyone, or been to visit your blogs. Soon I promise!

Love
Dee

A week of milestones!

A loss of 900 grams this week. And that means I made 10%, 10Kg's and now I am an 80's chick! I am soooooo excited! Next goal is 85kgs! I can do it, and I believe that without a doubt! Now I am just waiting for Em's to ring with my 80's song!

OH, and my wedding dress fitting was yesterday (I am so happy I made the 80's for this), and even though I want to describe my dress DH2B reads my blog, so I can't. My dress maker noticed I had lost as soon as I walked in the door. My last fitting was in week one WW, and she had to take in 6 INCHES off my bodice! YAY YAY YAY, that's a win! So now I know why I am paying them so much money for my dress, cause they now don't trust me, and I have 3 fittings in the 10 days before the wedding, cause they don't want to keep altering it!

A happy Tuesday for me. Again I hope every ones journey is sailing along splendid!

Love Dee

P.S: Here's my 80's present from Em's! (Thanks Sweetie)

lyrics - Kenny Loggins Lyrics

Weigh In

I had a loss of 700 grams this week. I am a little surprised, but happy all the same. 9.5kgs realeased to the baby whales and 500 grams to 10kgs and 10%! Yeah yeah yeah! 1 week to my wedding dress fitting and all along my goal was that I wanted to be an 80's girl by then. Another 700 grams to go! I tell you what, I will be hitting the gym hard this week!

I again have had a hectic week, and hopefully I can try and slow down in the next few days.... I think I need to relax a little. Might hibernate on the weekend...hide from the world and sneak into bed with a good book.....

Again, I see that there have been some great losses by you girls this week, and a couple of hiccups... Have a fabulous week.. and I will see you all soon.

Love Dee

Wedding Stress

58 days until the wedding and I thought it was all under control! Why didn't anyone tell me that the few months of nothing to do ends and you have a flurry of things to do around about now! Not to mention, all these months and months of planning, and you thought that everything was so smooth, and why do people complain its stressful! Well haven't I learnt some lessons in the last few weeks! Arguments with in laws, bridesmaids, guests.....seriously people forget who is getting married! Why stress the bride out... I have planned every morsel so far, and when it comes to the crunch they tell me they aren't happy... I ASKED FOR HELP BEFORE AND YOU DIDN:T COME TO THE PARTY, and now you want to have your say and argue with me!

Yes I am over it, and can't wait til the honeymoon.. All this stress will be over then!

WW update, I have been finding it difficult to get on the boards and chat to my lovely friends, but have been sticking reasonably well to my points and exercise. I lost 300 grams this week, so 8.8kgs in 10 weeks makes me happy. So close to an 80's girl and 10%. My next dress fitting is on April 2nd (thankfully they would have only made some of the dress and just the lining by then, cause my last fitting was the week I started WW!). I would love to be an 80's girl by the next fitting!

Enough of my ramblings... hope everyone is having a good time at the moment, and you are having great releases! A new baby whale is born every week!

Lots a love
Dee

Jumping Bilby!

I went shopping tonight and this bilby jumped into my hand... I tried to put him back, and he jumped in again! So I have brought him home with me, because I think he was scared and hungry... so I have put him in my fridge so he can eat what ever he likes... I'll check in the morning to see if he is ok, and he might have even put some weight on! Ohh and big fat chocolate bilby in my fridge!!!!!

It's working!

Weigh day today... and lost 1.5kgs. That's the biggest loss I have had since week one. 9 weeks gone and 8.5 Kgs..... 10% and the 80's here I come!

I think there is something to be said for my blurgh week last week.. (It worked some how Em's!). I think it's all clicking well, and becoming easy easy easy!! I increased my healthy snacking two weeks in a row, and stayed in points so am sure my metabolism has gotten better... Oh and going over points by 5-10 on Saturday night and staying in points for the week... is working amazingly... I love the Wendie Plan!

Good luck everyone on a successful week! Hope fully I can make 10% in the next few week... I love the 80's!

New Clothes

Well 8 1/2 weeks in, and unnofficially 8 kgs down (sneaking a look at the scales for the last three days says over 8 kgs lost!), my clothes are getting loose! When I started on 9th January 07, I was struggling to do my size 18 clothes up, and had snuck a few size 20's in the wardrobe... Today I went shopping and grabbed my fear, and a size 16 off the rack, and well here we are with a new pair of SIZE 16 shorts on! Yeeaaahhhhh Yeaahhhh!

I've been tagged!

I have been TAGGED! Thanks so so much Emma! So now I am obliged by the unwritten blogger code of ethics to disclose all these weird and wonderful facts about myself, no matter how embarrassed I might be! The only bonus I see is that I get to TAG someone else at the conclusion of my public humiliation session!

So here are my 5 Weird and Wonderful facts!

FACT ONE: I am twin. My twin brother and I were born two days after my eldest brothers 20th birthday, and I am the youngest one of eight children. Even weirder, my next closest sibling is 13 years older than me, and she has 5 children, four of whom are twins! She has 5 children under 5 years old… Oh, my grandmothers are both twins! My extra large family loves TWINS!

FACT TWO:This fact is related to the last fact, but deserves a special fact of it’s own! All of my brother’s and sisters we all have French names… we are not even French! The names are: Dionne; Andre; Odette; Marcelle; Bridget; Yves; Jeanette; Michel.

The most wonderful fact is that, when my twin brother and I were born, my mother said to my father, I am tired of naming our children, you name them. So dear father in his 70’s wisdom, decided that Andre and Dionne was perfect… you see our last name starts with a “C”…. father had named us after his favourite band of the time….AC/DC!

FACT THREE: I graduated from university over 9 years ago with a Bachelor of Social Work. I have worked as a social worker doing everything from youth work, to disability services, domestic violence, child protection and aged care over the last 9 years, in 3 different countries. The weirder fact is that last year I had a serious breakdown, and suffered major depression because of the stress of my job. So I left my highly stressful job as a Senior Social Worker at a Hospital, and NOW… I work for my fiancé and Father-in-law to be. They own a timber yard… yep, I sell timber for a living! I do the accounts, answer the phone all that stuff, but I deliver, sell and lift timber sleepers and koppers logs everyday!

FACT FOUR: I have a shoe fetish…. I over the past 12 months have curbed my addiction… I am not allowed to go shopping on my own! I have only bought 6 pairs of shoes in the last 12 months. I have no idea how many pairs I own now, because I gave quiet a few pairs away to friends and family and Vinnies. Last year before I was put on a shoe-aholic-program by fiancé, I had over 100 pairs in my cupboard… actually maybe more???

FACT FIVE: The least said about the next the better… except to say I am working on changing this one, and cross fingers it works! (WW please help me!) My current bra size is a 16 I . Yep that’s like the 3rd vowel of the alphabet!
(A, E, I, O, U)

I hope you enjoyed my 5 weird and wonderful facts! …. I am about to TAG Nicki!

Just Keep Tracking...................

Well been having a difficult time getting back on the WW Wagon the last few days. I heard on one of the WW boards a saying that I have been using to keep me motivated it's "Just keep Tracking, Just keep tracking". It's my version from Dory from Finding Nemo "Just keep swimming, Just keep Swimming".

My lovely friend sent me this picture today to keep my spirits up, and though I would share it with you all. thanks Em's!

"...Just keep tracking tracking tracking...
What do we do we track, track, track..."

Success... but not on the scales...

Well a very interesting week for me this week. Weigh in Tuesday morning, but I already now the scales may be likely to move up and not down (a sneak peak told me so this morning). I over indulged in the good bubbly stuff at a wedding on the weekend, and I think all my hard work was undone. Thinking my 6.1kgs, might be back to a 5.?kgs this week... arrghhh

So this week I exercised everyday except Sunday (hang-over prevented me from seeing daylight). And I have seen such an improvement in my fitness. I am getting so much healthier. I have been walking, going to the gym, and spending quality time with my new friend Leslie Sansone (I love her walk away the pounds DVD!). Wednesday I went to the gym, worked hard and got home feeling like, I could do more, and did my DVD. I just want to keep moving!!!!!

So no movement on the scales to report (never know, I may be surprised tomorrow).. but feeling like I am taking control of my life again.

Until next week...

Everything is not always as it seems

42 Days gone, and my has time flown. Things have been tough, I am now getting into my new lifestyle and all those HABITS! But 6 weeks ago, on day one, it surely didn't seem possible that I could make it this far. 6 kgs and 6 weeks seemed for far away. As I say everything is not always as it seems. 6kgs is just my first few steps, and my goal, be it a long way away, it actually seems much much closer..... I will make IT!