Merry Christmas!

I give up, It's insane to think i can be healthy over the Christmas season [Hopefully next year will be different] So i'm canning all deliberate efforts until after new years. That doesn't mean i'm giving myself licence to be a stagnant pig. Just not worrying about it too much and planning on a fresh start in January.
And besides, i saw my doctor again yesterday and i argued with him about how he said my weight was responsibility for my continuing failing health [catching one virus after another] and he showed me how it's true. So apparently, if i ever want to feel well again, i BETTER lose weight!
So until 2010, have a great Christmas and a safe new year people :o)

Dodgy Sweaty Doctors

I didn't weigh in this week coz i have a funny fluey thing [i'll get to that in a minute] that is making me a bit too disoriented to drive. But the number wouldn't have been good coz i went to a few Christmas parties.
I'll have to work around that. I don't want to miss out on the parties so i'll have to conciously be extra good on the between days.

We have a new chanel on Austar [cable TV] called 'You' and there are two awesome shows called Diet Doctors , And Diet Doctors Inside & Out.
I really love these shows and i wish they ran all day, coz i feel SOOOOO motivated after watching them!

I haven't been exercising. I'm so naughty! My treadmill is dead and we can't find the part to fix it. and it's too hot to walk outside. I could walk at night, but night's really busy in our house so it turns into a drama.
Another [huge] de-motivator for me is, i hate sweating. As soon as i start sweating, i feel dirty and a little closed in by it [weird i know]. So i'm going to try and work on that because it's a serious hindrance to my efforts to live better. I'm going to start my own little therapy program called "Sweat is my friend" lol

Now back to that flu thing. Would you believe that since mid- Winter [June] there hasn't been one week gone by when i haven't been sick with some bloody thing! I have spent so much time at the doctor, who blames it on me being fat. He says my body just can't fix itself because of the weight. I say that's a load of shit. If i was a smoker, he'd blame it on that!
I personaly think that when i had that string of knock-you-on-your-ass flus in June, my immune system took a big blow and it hasn't had a chance to build up enough since then, to keep me from getting sick and it's just had one knock after another. Nothing to do with being fat!
Shame i live in a remote town and there is no other doctor >:o/

Zombie Loss

My sleeping habits have totally gone in the crapper! I got sick with that cough that only affected me when i lay down. So any sleep i had, had to be either sitting up on the couch, or after absolute exhaustion at 3-4am. It's getting better, but slowly. I have to try very hard not to have a quick nap during the day. If i sit down with John, and he starts stroking my back or hair, that's it. I'm out to it! So until my routine works itself out, i'm a bit zombyish.
I ate overall this week, quite well. I did drink over the weekend too, but i still managed to lose .2 of a kilo [half a pound] Gee it's getting worse! It's a loss but only just!
The drastic state of sleep wouldn't have helped this week, but hopefully i can clean up a bit better @ next weigh in!

Fruity Nightmares

At our Slimmers club we have a few incentives. When we weigh in, there are 3 containers to pay into. $1 to weigh in, 50c mini slim container. If we gain weight, $1 in the gain container. And if we gained the most that week, we have to pay whats called "The humpty $1". And whoever loses the most that week gets the contents of the 50c mini slim container.
Once a month we have a fruit night. We each bring a bit of fruit, and who ever lost the most that month gets the bunch of fruit.
Then every 12 weeks we have a major weigh in. Who ever lost the most in the past 12 weeks gets all the "Humpty" money.
If we all lose weight at weigh in one week, we go out to dinner [Courtesy of the Slimmers club from all the $1 weekly weigh ins] You guys keeping up? lol
This week i won the spoils of fruit. I don't really eat fruit. [I'm a vege person] I eat bananas and sometimes a bit of watermelon, green grapes or a blood plum. So when i win it, I kinda think "Awwww Man!" but on the outside i'm grateful. Then i bring it home and put it in my kid's lunches lol
This week it was mostly oranges. Some came from the bottom of peoples fruit bowls, but overall they were ok. So this morning i had oranges for breakfast. They were nice so i might do it again sometime :o)

I've planted some veges in the garden: Pumpkin, Zucchini and cherry tomatoes. I've got some capsicum to plant too, but i haven't prepared the area. I'll do that this evening. I should have planted everything earlier in the season, but we've just had a yucky heat wave. I didn't want the baby plants cooking out there in the sun! So, better late than never. There's nothing like home grown veges. I can't wait!

Jason was sick all last week with a phlegmy, tickly cough that kept him awake each night. He's mostly over it, but now i've got it. Last night, every time i lay down, i'll start madly coughing. I finally collapsed after 4am this morning, sitting up on the couch. Then i had to get up at 8am to get the kids ready for school. I feel like a zombie [Braaaaaaiiiins]
And now, as i've been typing this, i've just watched Nightmare on Elm St on Austar [cable] so i'm too scared to go and try to have a Nana nap lol

Sexy Bits

I've been doing kinda ok with the eating this week. I did better with the groceries than i thought i would, and that's awesome!
I did go to a party on the weekend where everything to eat was as high in fat as possible, i swear! It's been rediculously hot here down under, for this time of year. So i've been drinking HEAPS of water.

I lost .6 of a kilo [1.3lb] this week [what i gained last week]. I coulda done better, but it's all good.
Rose and i went and saw New Moon, as i mentioned in the last post.

Here is us while we were waiting between Twilight And New Moon

The book is really emotional, and i think they translated that to the movie quite well, considering. The next movie, Eclipse, is only 6 months away. Untill then, It's been over a week since we saw the movie, and i still can't get over the hottness of this shot!! YOOOWWWWW!!

Dam that is sexy!!

The Optimistic Diet

...Yea that's pretty much what my jiggly belly was saying! I gained .6 of a kilo [1.3lbs] at this weeks weigh in. That's not tooooooo bad i spose. Any gain is "bad" but the weekend gone was pretty much one big, long party. So i'm grateful for .6.
My friend Glenda took me out to a Chinese restaurant today for my birthday [we were going to go on Friday but didn't] So that isn't going to help much either!

My booze ticker fell off the sidebar [I must have accidentally deleted it when moving stuff around over there] but i was doing pretty good till my birthday. So i'll add a new one, dating to the day after my birthday.

I'm up for a new challenge for the next few weeks. We are financially a bit in the crapper. We have ridiculously large bills coming out of our ears and seen as my seasonal work at Chrisco dried up way sooner than expected, we are back to one income. If we are not very careful, Christmas dinner will be hotdogs!
We can do it [i think], but here is the challenge:
I buy stuff for the rest of the family, and separate stuff for me. IE: they like white bread and refuse to eat anything slightly brown, and i need grainy [and much more expensive] bread in order to eat healthily & lose weight. So i have to basically buy two separate lots of foods. That = extra money.
I like to add lots of extra veges where i can [the rest of the family can't stand that, so it's only for me], but extra veges = extra money.
My family eat reasonably healthy, for their weight and exercise level [except John who's just in denial] but i have to eat differently to lose weight.
One can only eat so much rice, so I'm going to have to get VERY clever if I'm going to eat right and lose weight AND still pay the bills!
Stay tuned for a progress report on that.....

I CAN'T WAIT till this opens at midnight tomorrow!!!! Rose and i are going to the showing of Twilight at 9:30pm before seeing New Moon. Coz we didn't see it at the pictures when it first came out [Wasn't even interested then]. I bought the tickets weeks ago and i'm so glad i did, coz Glenda bought tickets for her daughters birthday for this Saturday, and whole sessions were sold out! I just can't wait..CANT WAIT!

Happy Birthday To Me....

I'm 39 today. Yaaay nearly naughty 40! I got a little spoilt and it was great :o)
We get to pick what we want cooked/bought for our birthday dinner. And this year i opted for pancakes. I planned on pigging out but i could only actually eat 3 pancakes [as opposed to usually eating much more]. I made an awesome [ginger cream] Birthday cake, but i didn't even eat a bit. It's funny that on the one day i permit myself to eat whatever i darn well please without feeling guilty, i don't really want it. How interesting.

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