13072010 - My ankle is a brick

One day down, thousands to go ;0) And yes, a blog entry two days in a row!! I'm doing well. This morning I nervously bounced on my scales and my vomits did me well, I'm 'only' 118.6kg!!! I was expecting some figure over 120kg, but I'm happy to settle with 118.6kg. But then I found my tape measure and the figures weren't siding with my happiness. Most measurements up by a centimetre but hey, no one to blame but myself!!

This morning I got in a walk up the hill to take my son to school. I wasn't breathless but my right foot & ankle hates me. As well as putting up with my chest virus, gastro bug and two fighting boys at school holiday time, I also have some sort of pinched nerve ahappening. Mid-last week, of all places I got a pain in my bum, above my right thigh and since then my right foot has suffered pins and needles. Basically when I walk or use my foot, it feels a big fat brick is tied to it. After almost a week the nerve pain is going down but my foot still feels like a big fat brick, so that made for interesting walking up the hill this morning!!! Bloody limping like I've walked 50km instead of 500metres!

Right now I'm awaiting a radio interview that will feature Chris Gibson, Mel Gibson's brother and no, I am not interested at all about what Mel is yelling at his Russian other half!!! Apparently Mel's brother Chris has written a book, not about his brother, but about his weight loss. Apparently he gained a fair bit of weight and the book is all about his 'journey'. I'm interested to hear what he has to say, not sure if I'll buy his book ... I only have a library full of weight loss books here gathering dust piles!!

Must go, 3yo keeps hovering around ESC keyboard button.....

Keep on Moving
Janelle xxxx

P.S. Edited to say that the Chris Gibson 4BC interview was excellent. His book is titled "Memoirs of a Fat Bastard" and I am very tempted in buying it. Apparently he reached a weight of 150kg and was a very angry person inside, sounds familiar. He felt 'small' by others around him, once again sounds very familiar and felt ashamed and angry and stayed in his 150kg frame. He ate and drank lots and after another boozy night he has 'that wake up call'. Anyways here is his website if anyone out there is interested, doesn't look like his brother Mel but sure sounds like him!!! www.chrisgibson.tv

12072010 - One step at a time ....

Hello ... remember me? ;0) It has been a while hasn't it??? I'm not even sure if anyone is reading my blogs anymore but I'm used to talking to myself anyway LOL

I've been missing in action, mostly due to health reasons. Around two months ago I contracted a coughing virus, nasty little thing it is, yes I still have the bastardly vicious thing. It wasn't just a 'simple' chunky cough but it's a cough that has made me either vomit or completely stop breathing and what did the doctors say "Its viral not bacterial, come back in a couple of days if it doesn't go away". And you guessed it, I never went back and I coughed and coughed and coughed alot more and never got back on the Weight Watchers track again. Then came school holidays and trips to, eeeeek, "McDonalds" and then lots of wine to get me thru the long winded school holidays. Did I mention the gastro bug that has drifted into our home last Wednesday night and is still lurking about?? I am just well and truly over alot of things right now and its time to get back on track.

I have no idea what I weigh now, too scared to hop on them scales but then again after imitating a volcano the past 24 hours, surely I could have lost at least 5kg ;0) And its a good time to recommence 'the journey' as son No.1 goes back to school tomorrow and my walking routine is put back on track. I need to get better, I am so sick of being sick, I'm sick of the tears. Time to find happiness again and its certainly not in a box of McNuggets!

Well I'm done talking to myself, wish me well :0)