26012010 - I love thee sausage or four ....

Happy Australia Day ... gawd I really truly feel like a meat pie or snag on a roll. I really really want to fry up all the meats in the world today. (Apologises to any vegetarians who may be reading). Who the hell invented the sausage anyway??? Probably some skinny twirp who didn't have a weight problem!!! I looooooove sausages. Yes, I know I can 'just have one' but seriously ... WHO STOPS AT ONE SAUSAGE???? Its like portion serves on Weight Watchers. Yes, you can still eat steak, chicken etc but ... there's always a but ain't there .... you can only eat a portion thats the size of half your hand. Cruel, cruel world .... LOL

Today's bad news is .... I gained a kilo. I wouldn't mind so much if I binged out on a Seafood Buffet and Wine bar, but sadly I did not :0( Sunday I was 124.7, Tuesday I was 125.7. Go Figure. And yes the weigh in reading upsetted me. I hadn't touched a meat pie or dare I say it ... SAUSAGE ... I just had a 'sloppy' weekend. My breakfasts were the same but I spent Friday & Saturday catering for a party of 12, but I supplied food for a party of 120!!! Nibblies, cheerios, lollies ... I didn't even serve half the food because I over-catered. So from Saturday arvo onwards we had a fridge full of leftovers. So I admit I picked, didn't binge, but picked at the healthy mexican dip, at the lamb meatballs. So when lunch time comes around, I'm full from grazing.

The good news though ... the ends of my tape measure join happily together - yay to the tape measure!! Three weeks ago my hips measured in at 156cm, the tape measure couldn't even fit around me!!! This morning, I wrap the tape around my hips and the two ends meet and touch. Such a good feeling ....

So from this Aussie to you, have a lovely Australia Day. We could at least throw a shrimp/prawn on the BBQ ... prawns are very WW friendly :0) Still feel like a sausage though .... LOL

22012010 - The Life of a Robot

I tried so hard to write up an entry here every day, but it just didn't happen yesterday. For the past couple of days my aggro levels have been sky-high and I can't blame alcohol usage from the night before. Believe it or not, I've had 4 dry nights!! I am just sick to death of doing the same thing every ruddy day with no adult conversation at all. These two are mentally wearing me out and how I'm staying on the WW track, I do not know!!!

The good news though, my weight has FINALLY budged from the 125kgs!!!! This morning I weighed in at 124.7kg and boy, it was a relief. I know I tell people 'don't sweat on what the scales tell you'. But when you stick by the WW rules and exercise your bum off and them scales don't move at all in 5 days ... you forget what you preach to others - LOL!!! So, since the night of 3.01.2010, I have lost a total six kilos .... high five everyone!!!

Tomorrow I have yet another challenge ... my son's birthday party. If I can ignore alcohol like I have the past couple of nights when i feel like a volcano ready to explode .... I can ignore a sugary sweet birthday cake too. :0)

20012010 - Flat as a Tack

No, I haven't got a flat tyre and no, my breasts haven't disappeared. I simply feel flat today. I feel horrible, teary, so tired of the same ol' routine. It's 'Groundhog Day' here almost, without the groundhog!

I'm sick of the whining, whinging and wrestling rugrats that are my children. Maybe its because we are on the final stretch of the school holidays, I don't know. Its just I have two shadows every where I go. I sit at computer, they are here, inches away from me ... wanting to check "Farm-ruddy-ville" on Facebook every two seconds!!!! I want to go for a good hard walk, but can't with these two here making my hard walk into a senior citizen's waddle stroll with an occasional temper tantrum thrown in for the blood pressure levels!

I'm supposed to go and order a birthday cake today, I don't want to. I just want something different, something new to do. I need a break really, my doctor told me that last April, but we all know that ain't going to happen.

So I go now and hang out the washing ... joy! Oh and the weight hasn't changed, I seemed to be stuck on 125.5kg at the moment. I suppose it could have gone up .....

19012010 - Here's another first!

Another 100grams gone, yes small I know but I'm claiming it, another tiny bit of energy discovered!!! On the side of our house are five hedges. Until 7am this morning they were five very feral overgrown hedges. The best trimming they get these days is a quick whipper-snip by my hubby ... "If it green, it goes!!". If I don't tend to them before 10am, they don't get seen too at all as the sun blares down on that side of the house and I don't feel like being fried right now.

So at 7am I drop hubby at train station and return home to see very feral hedges growing another inch or three!!! I have no idea where my hedge clippers are, nor where the hubby stores the electic clippers, so I clip the entire overgrown bushes with a tiny pair of garden scissors. Yes, it took a while, LOL, but not only did the feral bushes finally get trimmed back, I also found three toys and two baby dragon lizards!!! Alas ... no money though ;0)

This was all achieved because I have this new level of energy, all because I lost 5kilos! What will it be like when I lose 10kg, 20kg and heavens forbid 65kg!!! I also noticed my clothes a little baggier on me this morning too :0)

Another goal I should set is for my birthday, that is in 13wks time at the end of April. I'd love to be under 120kg and I can do this if I lose half a kilo per week. At the most I could get down to 112kg maybe if I'm ultra good in WW. I hope to go and see 80s pop group "Spandau Ballet" play in that last week of April in my home town. Did you know its only 48wks until Christmas time??? Bwaa ha ha ha!!! I heard you all groan very loudly!!! So, if I stay on track and lose half a kilo a week I will be 101kg ... tee hee, if I lose a kilo each week ... and I tell you that won't happen every week boys and girls ... I'll be 77kg!!!!! LOL. Ahhh, one can dream can't one :0)

18012010 - Is it Winter Time yet???

I really shouldn't whinge, but is it hot or is it hot??? The home town here is set to hit 35c, I think we are almost there!! Really shouldn't complain when the likes of other Aussie cities have had 40+ temps of late. But I'm normally a 'winter dieter', love exercising in the chill! Ahhh, another five months to go LOL.

Drum roll time .... two weeks down, 5.1kg gaaaaawnski!! And it's a great feeling and would you believe I feel I 'under achieved' this morning. On the weekend I purchased the exercise DVD from the Oz version of "The Biggest Loser". With my P!nk DVDs, I'm always moving with marching, jogging or moving fast. This "T.B.L." DVD had about 5mins of really fast exercises and the rest slowed down with push ups, stretches etc. I am so used to moving fast to the constant rapid pace of the music DVDs, I was a little disappointed with the new DVD this morn!! I have such high expectations now I'm losing weight!!! LOL.

As well as weight loss, I have also been achieving centimetre loss around my body bits. Waist = minus 4cms. Hips = minus 3cms, Bust = minus 4cms, Arms = minus 1cm and Thighs = minus 3cm. I'M SHRRRRRINKKKING ....

Motherhood calls .....

17012010 - 5 down ... 65 to go - LOL

Sorry, that's the best heading I can think of this morning! Forgive me, its Sunday, 5yr son woke me up at 5.20am to tell me the time. Ahhh children.

As per usual I start the day with a weigh-in. And I am the same as yesterday at 125.6kg. So this means ... drum roll please Mr Somers ... I have lost 5.1kg in two weeks. YOU LITTLE BEAUUUUUDY. I have such a very long way to go but I feel good. I have a new level of energy. Its all good :0) I achieved another 'P!nk workout' yesterday arvo, sweat poured off me and I jogged a little more within that 45minute stomp-a-thon too.

Time to go and achieve another workout of some sorts.

16012010 - Don't be afraid to say well done :0)

I have a hell of a job in front of me. I have roughly 60-70kgs to lose off me. Huuuuge job but we take little steps and one day at a time. We don't look at the monsterous mountain of weight loss that we 'have to climb'. We look at the tiny hills that we can achieve. Sooooo, when you see someone shrinking before your eyes, that same someone who resembled Stars Wars own 'Jabba the Hut' on Christmas Day, SAY SOMETHING. Say "hey, you're losing weight aren't you??" Not the most hardest thing to say in the scheme of things.

What I am trying to say is ... I received my very first compliment this morning, in a roundabout sort of way. Very close relative says "Hey, are you losing weight, I only ask because 'such n such' noticed the other day and she reckons you lost weight..." Yay me!! My very first compliment for this round of 'weight war' however why didn't this person say something to me days ago when she noticed??? NO!! A compliment means EVERYTHING to a weight-watcher. That compliment makes us go faster, makes us ignore the chocolate longer and makes us smile!!! So when you see a person you know who looks a little smaller, a little lighter, don't bite your tongue. Oh and don't compliment someone if she is whinging away on her blog either - LOL!!!

I wasn't going to weigh-in this morning. I had a couple of wines last night and was scared that 'the damage' may show on the scales this morning. I was wrong. Today I am 125.6kg, a weekly lose of 1.5kg, a total loss of 5.1kg - very happy indeed. This time last year I was around 121kg.

Must go and clean up toys ... yet again LOL. I can't wait for the day "Weight Watchers" starts listing "Toy Picking Upping" on their Exercise Chart!!! LOL

15012010 - Where's the Fat Girls exercise designer wear, huh?

One of my pet hates is finding clothes to exercise in. Everything is fine if you have a waist line of a Barbie Doll. Barbie can go to the likes of "Lorna Jane" or "Rebel Sport" to purchase her groovy sports bras and teeny weeny running shorts. HOWEVER, what exactly is out there to where if you are over Size 18???

Every day I hear how obesity is bad, and obese people should get off the big bums and exercise. Good, great, yep we hear what you are saying but what the hell would you like us to wear whilst we exercise??? Au Natural and go nude???? I can't even purchase a decent sports bra in my size, yet I'm suppose to try jogging with 'my gals' bouncing up, down and here and there! I have noticed the likes of BigW sell an exercise brand, but long tracksuit pants in this hot and humid Queensland tropical weather??? Go Figure I guess!!

So due to lack of gym wearing gear, I exercise at home ... in my teeny weeny size 26 shorts and normal wire bra. {I'm dreadfully sorry for putting that vision into your brain on this Friday. LOL.} Today I once again exercised in our eating area, facing the kitchen. I do this by listening to talkback radio and reading Michelle Bridge's book. She also says to her 'weight watchers' to purchase a good sports bra. I wish I could Michelle, I wish I could!!! I also jogged in the one spot for a longer period of time and I'm happy with that achievement :0)

Tonight I am thinking about having a wine or two as I watch the movie "Ghost". So love that movie and I am an emotional wreck at the end of it every time!!

14Jan2010 - Am I still alive??? I just jogged ...

Yep, I jogged for more than 10 seconds!!! YAY ME - lol! I was coming up to the end of my exercise session with P!nk yet again (she's such a hard task master!) and there's one song that gets my legs going faster, "Leave me alone, I'm lonely". Every time that song comes on, I go into some sort of higher gear. I go faster and suddenly I'm jogging in one spot ... PRAISE THE LORD WE HAVE A MIRACLE!!! Off I go, jog jog jog and off my 'girls' go, bounce bounce bounce. Bwaaaa ha ha ha. Cathy Freeman has absolutely nothing to worry about!! LOL.

Somehow I got an exercise session in today. However I had to compete with two Mac Trucks. My almost 3yo decided that Mummy needed obstacles whilst she marches, moves and jogs. There he sat, with two toy Mac trucks, just a metre or so away from my stomping feet. Its all a challenge, isn't it?? LOL. Yesterday I couldn't be bothered in kicking the boys off the big tele, so I went to the next room to the kitchen/eating area and marched and moved in one spot for 40mins. I also started to read Michelle Bridge's book "Crunch Time". Only took me 11 months! Last February I went to a book signing of one of the trainers off "The Biggest Loser". That book has been sitting untouched in my book shelf for almost a year! Yesterday I pulled it out and started reading. Another tool to help me along with this 'journey'.

Today's weigh-in came in at 126.6 - a gain of 500grams in 24hrs. I'm not 'upset' or kicking myself. I'm actually enjoying watching my weight go up and down, I find it a little fascinating. However, I may not find it so enjoying if I keep going up and down in the 126ers in a couple of weeks time LOL. The good news is I can hold my head up high and say "I've lost 4kgs in 10days". NO MORE 130kgs!!!!!!!! I am now at the same weight I was this time three years ago. I was weighed just days before my son's birth in 2007 and I was 126kg. A month after that birth I was 112kg as I suffered a serious post-birth infection. I was seriously ill, I didn't eat for days, breast feeding stopped and suddenly I was 112kg. That whole infection 'chapter' in my life is one of many reasons why I turned to emotional eating/drinking. Every time I heard the 'breastfeeders' tell us all that bottle feeding is evil, I'd turn to the wine cask. Every time I shower and clean the huge pothole that is above my pubic line, I beat myself up internally. I've wasted three years of my life 'hurting' over that chapter in my life ... time to 'move on' I think.

Wow, I went 'deep' then didn't I???? Its like Michelle says in her book, if you don't tackle the emotional side that's made you fat, you won't succeed long term. As P!nk says "SHAKE IT AWAY ........" Believe me P!nk, I shook it away, here, there, every ruddy where ...... LOL

13012010 - Wanted: A sleep-in!

So very tired today. I WANT TO GO BACK TO BED! Yesterday I ran around like the silly ol' chook with its head cut off, and how many exercise WW points did I gather ... zilch! I can achieve exercise points for cycling, walking, gardening, but not rushing about here there and everywhere inbetween caring for children and mothers!!! I was exhausted last night and I didn't even fit in a workout yesterday!

My mother is doing okay, unfortunately they didn't take out her 'whinge button'. LOL. If she says one more time that "I'm not going to be their guinea pig one more time...." I'll scream very very annoyingly loudly. Fingers crossed her kidneys are back to normal and we can stay away from over crowded hospitals and rip-off carparks!!!

Back to my weight wars .... according to my wonderful scales, I am another kilo lesser today. I weighed in this morning at 126.1kg after two days of 127.1kg. Yay me again. I still have to find a successful way to exercise to my concert DVDs. My 5yo is easily amused, he is addicted to playing Soliatre on my computer. Its my almost 3yo who doesn't understand that Mummy is occupied for 45mins with something other than him!!! He does tantrums very well at my feet whilst I march in one spot.

Today we are off to a park for a picnic with some of my friends although I won't be picnicing much. It will be the usual chasing the boys and making sure they aren't getting up to mischief. I wonder how many Exercise points are in that?? LOL

As my adorable mother would say "Better days ahead ....."

11Jan2010 - I had victory, against wine ;0)

Well, this volcano exploded, many many times today. It has just been 'one of them days' when my two little boys decided together they would destroy the world. Ok, a bedroom, but it felt like the world to me. It was a day full of them misbehaving and me yelling and exploding and I shed tears ... and eagerly awaited 7.30pm, their bed time, for me to break open a wine and drink away my stress.

It is almost 10pm, and the wine remains untouched. The best I could do was a "Diet Choc Mousse" ... all 2pts of it LOL. Oh I wanted a drink, I really wanted a drink .... but I really want to get rid of this tummy overhang and everything to do with obesity as well. For once I ignored my cravings for wine and I feel a tad proud of myself.

As my Mom would say "tomorrow is another day" and tomorrow I have to spend the day with her at a hospital. Back in October we almost lost her, but she sprung back and now has to have certain things taken out of her ... so I'm being chauffeur and interepter. Yes, she is english speaking but really has troubles understanding medical 'talk' and she turns off, so I'm there to be her ears.

I forecast a huuuuuuuuuuuuge wine craving 7.30pm Tuesday night ....

11Jan2010 - Feeling very blaaaaaaa

Okay, let's not make this a fully negative blog post but truly, I feel like a volcano ready to erupt. The hubby has returned to work after a 3+wk break and I'm home alone with my two boys ... who are driving me INSANNNNNE! They have decided today is the day to fight over everything. My 5yo is stalking me, he wants my computer to play card games ... never ends. And me? This week is 'that week of the month' and emotionally ... well I'm a volcano ready to go boooom.

Well the good news??? I had my official weekly weigh-in this morning = 127.1kg. A first week total loss of 3.6kg. Big round of applause for me LOL. However the bad news is I gained 600grms from yesterday morning. The gain could be one of many things eg. 'that time of the month' or the couple of glasses of wine I had Friday & Saturday nights. Don't worry, I kept within my WW Points range and by last night I had 40 spare points 'banked'. But I must keep thinking positive, think of that 3.6kg, the weight of a newborn baby, evaporated ... (or evilly express posted to Jennifer Hawkins LOL).

Yesterday I listened to a personal fitness trainer on Talkback Radio. He made many great points about 'weigh-ins' & myths of weight loss. One of those points was 'never sweat on what the scales tell you, go on what your energy levels tell you'. He rubbished "W.W." a little because they rely on one weigh-in per week and when that one weigh-in a week doesn't go to the WeightWatcher's plan, they quickly retreat to emotional eating, making them gain more weight. And he is right, and thats why I personally weigh myself almost daily to see how my weight is going. He also rubbished 'shake diets' and so-called 'low fat' branded foods and made alot of sense too. Here's his link if anyone is interested in what he has to say: www.lookgoodfitness.com.au

Have I chatted enough so I don't see 'those' photos everytime I log on here?!?! LOL. Thanks for listening, this 'volcano' has calmed down now ;0)

10Jan2010 - Part Two - Warning, Another scary image

And here I am the next day on Boxing Day at my Mother's house. As per usual, I am standing because if I sit in her sunken lounge chairs, it takes me five hours to get out of them!!!

Yes, look at my hidious belly, fat stumpy legs ... ewwww.

And that's all the pictures you are going to see me at 130.7kg. ;0)

10Jan2010 WARNING: Posting has scary images that may frighten you and the littlies

Okay, I have my 'Learners' plates on, so forgive me. I am about to attempt to post photos of myself from Christmas Time 2009 ... hang in there people ...

Well, there I am, to the left, in the purple tent! Thats me, and no thats not my walker, I can still walk thank you very much LOL. Here I am on Christmas Day at my hubby's family's house and don't I look simply hidious. I bought that dress from BigW and looked great at the time in the dressing room!!! Come Xmas Day, I loathed it. I looked 100 times my size, more like a big fat Fijian Mumma cooking a feast for her hoards!!! Seemed such a good idea at the time to buy that tent ... dress.

10Jan2010 Which way to the Pool Bar???

Happy Sunday everyone. I am feeling a tad weary today. After an exhausting week I would love to venture down to the pool, slide into the pool, glide under the cool waters and pop my head up at the pool bar for a freshly squeezed orange juice ... but I suddenly remember that I am at home, I have no pool, or pool bar and I am nowhere near a hotel or an Island resort. Ahhh, one can dream can we? LOL!

Well shoe shopping was a success, an expensive success, but the 'emperor' has new shoes ... mens shoes would you believe. I went to "Athletes Foot", found a wonderful assistant, she tested my feet. Apparently I have a size 10 foot and a size 9&half other foot and they are both flat. Once upon a time I would wear size8 court shoes to the discos (what a look that was!) but after motherhood I now have oddly sized feet and they are flat as a tack LOL. And yes, my new shoes are mens runners which is apparently okay according to sales girl. As long as my fat, flat, oddly sized hoofers don't complain ... I'm fine by that!

Well the 'official' weigh-in is just 24hrs away, turn up dramatic music as I prep myself for the big moment. This morning I weighed in at 126.5kg, another 400grms gone, a total of 4.2kg for the week. Personally I believe my increased level in exercise has assisted me in losing this 4kg. I mean, HELLO, before last Monday I was a gianormous sack of lard barely moving. A week later I have achieved daily aerobic sessions with my good friend P!nk - LOL - and the occasional walks around my streets here. This coming week is a new challenge though as the hubby returns to work, I have kids full time and I have a mother to present to hospital on Tuesday ... and that last point alone will be interesting. I love my mother but after a day with her at a hospital, I wish to present myself to the nearest all-you-can-eat-and-drink buffet bar which I hoped would be chockers with chocolates and wine. Draining is a good word to describe my day with Mum, but like I say .... its just another challenge in my 'weight wars' that I must conquer ... LOL

Well, I have another hot dancing date with P!nk, must go ... before the terror tots 'invade my space' yet again ;0)

09Jan2010 Shoe Shopping is like pulling out teeth ...

Yep, my plan this morn is to go walking shoe shopping. Ewwwww. See when I was born, someone forgot to insert the 'shopping gene' into me. This means I am not one of these persons who practically live at the likes of Westfield. I go Woolies, Dan Murphys (miss you Dan - LOL) and Big W. Thats it. End of story. But for me to keep my feet happy, one must enter ... wait for it ... a specialized shoe shop. My last shoe purchase was a "A-Mart All Sports" and my feet have hated me since. So I shall see what the "Athletics Foot" has for my fat feet. I have never ever stepped foot into this shop as my wallet steers me away from their door for some reason. LOL. But the After Xmas Sales are coming to an end, and other WeightWatchers highly recommend their expertise, so let's go and have a looksie anyway.

Last night I 'relaxed' my strict WW ways. I had two glasses of wine and truly, they weren't that special. I wanted more but realised after just two glasses and a freddo frog (how did he sneak in my mouth?!?) I had reached my daily limit. And yes I braved the scales yet again this morning. I didn't expect a fall after my drinkees but I am now ... wait for it ... 126.9kg, a loss of 500grms from yesterday and a total loss from 6days = 3.8kg!! YAY ME!

Is this where I do the "Biggest Loser" thing and blubber like a baby on the scales and tell everyone my life story and go "I can't believe this..." a 1000 times??? Bwaaaa ha ha ha .... and yes I love that show yet take the mickey out of it. LOL

08Jan2010 Craving KilKennys

I realllly truly wanted a drink last night. Not the usual wine fix, but a relaxing sip or three of the Irish Cream "Kilkenny". There's nothing more relaxing than sipping on some Irish Cream chilled on ice. Not a tiny weeny shot glass but a 200ml balloon. So thankfully I checked out 'the damage' I may do on WW if I consumed one brandy balloon ... and my heart shattered. TEN FRIGGIN' POINTS?????? What do you mean TEN POINTS???

Yep, according to the WW Points System 200ml of Kilkenny is 10pts, a teeny weeny shot glass is 2pts. For those not familiar with WW Points System, 10pts would normally give me 2 x Chicken & Salad Sandwiches or 5 x pieces of bread. A glass of wine is 2pts. And just to make it sound even more shocking, if I did consume a small brandy glass of Kilkenny that would be almost half my daily allowance gaaaawnski! Farewell Kilkenny ... you've been a good friend :0)

But there is good news ... I jumped on the scales this morning, fully expecting a nothing result after a loss of 2.7kg ... but I got another sweet surprise, another loss of 600grms. The scales registered 127.4kg. Since Sunday night I have supposedly lost ... wait for it .... 3.3kg. Unbelievable! I'm starting to feel like one of them "Biggest Loser" guinea pigs with their massive losses each week (which we all know is a crop of crap and very good editing by CH10!).

As each gram evaporates from my barge bum, I get a little more optimistic and energetic however I know I am a day away from a 'let down'. I know that day is close where I will throw my scales again a solid brick wall but today we 'celebrate' my very small success.

I'm still craving a Kilkenny though .....

07Jan2010 Tah tah to that kilo too!

8am - Have you seen where my 2.7kg have gone??? Don't want them back, just wondering how in just 3 days, 2.7kg has shifted from my bum & tum and evaporated into fat air. Yes, I snuck on them beautiful scales again (nb. they are evil when they tell me what I don't want to hear!), and this morning I am 128kg, one kilo less than what I was this time yesterday. Yay me! I know it won't be this fantastic every day but hey, celebrate small successes LOL. Oh by the way, my 5yo is 21.5kg. He caught me out this morning at 'weigh-in'. And just thinking, I am carrying around almost three times his weight. My ultimate goal is to lose three times his weight. Have you picked up a 21kg 5yr old of late??? My 14kg 2yo is bad enough (weight and attitude wise!). Unbelievable ... shaking my head on the fact I am double the weight I really should be ... 'upper cut' time to me!!!

Today will probably be the same as yesterday. In the morning I've been whacking on a P!nk concert DVD, grabbing the hand weights and just marching and moving to her intense yet wonderful music. There's nothing like someone taking the piss out of Britney Spears when you are sweating your butt off. Then this arvo I may go for a walk around the block with my 5yo. Of course this exercise plan will end on Monday as my hubby returns to work and its just me and the little lads. Have you ever tried power waddling with a 2yr old tagging along, its no walk, its a shuffle.

I shall come to that bridge on Monday until then, I'll keep annoying my neighbours with my taste in music and P!nk's colourful language. Bwaaaa ha ha ha ....

06Jan2010 - Those Scales called me over!

I did a sneaky this morn ... I got on the scales, 5 days early.

And I'm 1.7kg lighter ... :0)

Hello 120's!!!!!!! Goodbye 130s!!!!!

Truly, what would a Professor know???

Here I am Day.2. of 'my comeback' ....bwaaa ha ha ha, eat ya heart out Tiger Woods, I'm going to have the biggest comeback of 2010 not you sonny jim!!! LOL ...

Sorry, where was I? Yes, anyways I'm listening to talkback radio and the host is interviewing a 'well respected' Professor of exercise, dietary of the University of Blaa Blaa in QLD. She states that "if you are already overweight, half an hour of walking really does not do a thing for weight loss at all..."

W H A T H E ?????

A big round of applause to the Professor, huh??? So, me walking for 30minutes does as much as me sitting here at a computer for 30minutes. Trust me Professor ... YOU ARE WRONG WRONG WRONG! I've been sitting on my date for a wee while now = no weight loss, just a bigger bum and tum! I've been exercising for, wait for it, two days and already feel a difference. So give up on your snide giggles and pathetic words of wisdom and go and interview some 'weight watchers' who will tell you that any form of exercise does work. Now, where can I shove your diploma huh??

All aboard ... it's time to go Barge-Bum!!

Wow, this is a tad scary. My very first blog. Here I am tipping my toes into the cold waters of "Blog-World" - LOL! Be scared ... be very scared :0)


Okay ... back to business, I'm here to share my thoughts and feelings about what is about to happen to me. No, I won't be 'self-destructing in 5 seconds' ... I have already achieved that! Yep, I 'self-destructed' and ended up at a whooping 131kg. Seriously 131kg! This is where I am supposed to irresponsibly say "How the hell did I get to 131kg??" or "Damn you McDonalds!!"

Wrong, I know how I got to 131kg. I've been stupid, lazy, irresponsible, jealous, angry ... I'm sure I can find more adjectives under my expanding 'overhang' if I bothered to look ;0) After too many 'signs' knocking me on the head to tell me that I was a tad overweight, I let my fingers do the walking on the keyboard (at least they are getting a good workout of late!) and I have enrolled with "Weight Watchers On-Line" for at least three months. Cost me $75, then $24 per month after that, but at least I made that first step ... FINALLY.


I had many 'diet' options to take up on. There's the 'milk shake' diet companies where you spend $100s of dollars on powders and only eat one decent meal a day. I'm sorry, if I lived on powder shakes alone my hubby would rid of me with my escalating moods and it would send us to the nearest divorce courts. There's the ever so popular surgery of gastric banding where I would have to go under the knife and hope like hell I didn't contract an infection like I did with my last operation. (An infection that still emotionally affects me, one of many excuses how I got to 131kg). And I'm a little 'iffy' about eating mush for a couple of months after that operation. I'm going to see AC/DC in February, I can't visualize me eating mush that night with meat pies & hotdogs surrounding me, LOL. And finally there is also your "Jenny Craigs" in the world, goodbye $130 per week!!! Unfortunately I am not Magda Szubanski who got the 'golden deal' of a lifetime from Jenny Craig as well as assistance from super trainer Donna somethingorrater.

Anyways, here I go yet again. Been here, done that many many times. Honestly I don't think I have ever been in a 'healthy weight range', I've always been five or fifty or seventy kilos over that ;0) I've never clothes shopped in proper dress or jeans shops. Its always been BigW or Target for my fat clothes, oh, except for my wedding outfit ... department stores don't sell them ... yet ;0)

So, here I am, staring down a very long road ahead of me. It will be full of twists and bends and many many pot holes. Did I tell you that I'm very good at getting stuck in pot holes??? Fingers crossed I'll travel nicely down the 'healthy highway' with the support of my nearest and dearest here at home and inside the computer. I sure know by know there is no 'support' coming out of a tub of ice cream or wine cask flagon ... LOL