I have worked my normal week of hours in just 3 days and have to work tomorrow morning a half day, then I am off work for 4 and a half days. I HAVE to garden plan on spending ONE entire day in the garden should knock out the last of it to be done. ONE garden HEINOUS, 1 small, but fully in sun and 2 in complete shade. SO early morning start on friday, so we can hang at the lake sat/sun/mon I dont need to work on my tan I am one of those ridiculous persons whom sit in the sun and go OLIVE brown immediately people pay exorbetant prices to get my skin colour and I SIT in the SHADE where possible, (thats if we can get across the darn road!!!! SH1 not pretty into Taupo ANY busy week/weekend), have only walked once so far this week but will get a few in over the next 5 days.
Have managed to walk upstairs and downstairs one foot at a time instead of DOUBLE stepping on one step so that is encouraging, in saying that though I did take pain relief tonight first time in over a week, so instead of every night and morning pain relief I am down too just mornings with the odd night thrown in, WHEN I need too, and only little swelling visible on outside right ankle when DAY has been long and tiring, like today did a 10 hour day.
So people stay safe, and will check on in next week around Monday if I havent fallen into the gardens and become a garden ornament, or fallen asleep at the lake like Rip Van Winkle!!! or got the walking bug so bad I am walking the length of the North Island!!!! (inserts Tui Ad here).
Ciao
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Walking in the rain..
why I love and hate it, keeps you focussed (not to slip and make an ass of yourself infront of incoming traffic), need to wear a light parka which makes you sweat in all the wrong/right places!!! then add to that my glasses fog up I must look red in the cheeks wet matted hair and fogged up glasses YIP exactly what people need to see on their Sunday drives!!! and huffing and blowing.
A point I forgot to add in the last post THE PHYSIO stressed I wont be doing the MAY half marathon better to aim for the August one and unless a small miracle happens the may half marathon wont be happening (although as I said there is a 10 km option).
Have been doing more driving lessons this time IN a carpark (with no cars), and out at our local rugby fields WIDE open spaces and AGAIN no cars!!!! is all coming along nicely, hilarious at times but coming along, and the key is PATIENCE and no giggling cause then my son gets the giggles and well no concentration.
Last few days and nights have been unbearably hot and sticky and no sleep before midnight then waking at 6.00am after tossing all night trying to lay on A COOL place in bed (not ready at that hour to be up and or awake), rained heavy here last night and awoke to cool temperatures and must have had a better sleep.
Am pleased to be walking (well in my case dawdling and meandering along), have managed 3 walks so better than none and have been on the exercycle 3 times inbetween days so its a start in the right direction.
Am working huge hours this week so will have to time walks around everything else and MAY even do some night walking after dinner when it cools down (around town as we have some CCTV cameras and good lighting), and around our small CBD it is a 4.5km round trip walk also if and when it rains you can stay halfway dry by being undercover, have used that circuit more than once when I was training in earnest because 14km walks in the rain ARENT pleasant well not in DRIVING southerly Taupo rain anyhow.
Hope everyone has a better week.
Ciao
A point I forgot to add in the last post THE PHYSIO stressed I wont be doing the MAY half marathon better to aim for the August one and unless a small miracle happens the may half marathon wont be happening (although as I said there is a 10 km option).
Have been doing more driving lessons this time IN a carpark (with no cars), and out at our local rugby fields WIDE open spaces and AGAIN no cars!!!! is all coming along nicely, hilarious at times but coming along, and the key is PATIENCE and no giggling cause then my son gets the giggles and well no concentration.
Last few days and nights have been unbearably hot and sticky and no sleep before midnight then waking at 6.00am after tossing all night trying to lay on A COOL place in bed (not ready at that hour to be up and or awake), rained heavy here last night and awoke to cool temperatures and must have had a better sleep.
Am pleased to be walking (well in my case dawdling and meandering along), have managed 3 walks so better than none and have been on the exercycle 3 times inbetween days so its a start in the right direction.
Am working huge hours this week so will have to time walks around everything else and MAY even do some night walking after dinner when it cools down (around town as we have some CCTV cameras and good lighting), and around our small CBD it is a 4.5km round trip walk also if and when it rains you can stay halfway dry by being undercover, have used that circuit more than once when I was training in earnest because 14km walks in the rain ARENT pleasant well not in DRIVING southerly Taupo rain anyhow.
Hope everyone has a better week.
Ciao
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
WHAT NOT TO DO.........
When I was a young girl pre teen 12 IN FACT I was driving albeit in a prefect (my friends parents car) and only up to 3rd gear BUT none the less driving when Iw as 13 I used to drive my dad down to the shops and back for practice by 14 I was driving everywhere with my parents in the car and at night MY dad said only way to learn and be CONFIDENT on the road by the time you get your licence!!!! and yip you guessed it FLEW through the practical and theory and have had MY FULL driving licence for 25 years now!!!!!
So I figured well my son is 12 and a half I will start him off too (note to self PLESE GET FAMILIAR with A:road code B: leagal requirements pertaining to AGE!!!!to be driving on a road!!!)
we have spent a few days in the garage no KEYS in car just him adjusting to seat mirrors pedals etc and "dry run" changing of gears, and talking through scenarios etc.
WELL this morning I thought why not take him to the new subdivision no CARS around and just drive in a straight line HE DID VERY well and only bunny hopped once until SOME PLONKER on a T intersection in a MOWER CONTRACTOR vehicle pulled straight out in front of us and scared the BEJESUS out of me and my son, HE SLAMMED the car brakes on and the clutch and MOTHER YELLED at MAN in truck, one shakey son ME AGED by 10 years, and THEN I thought RING THE POLICE and get the exact AGE of WHEN DRIVING lessons can occur, (because I do realise things have changed), only to find out that YOU HAVE to have your learners licence TO EVEN be on the road learning to drive DUH,(bearing in mind I had just ONE actual professional driving lesson before my licence THE INSTRUCTOR knew previously I had been driving he knew my dad well, and he was an ex policeman and knew dad had been letting me drive).
I can now sympathise with some of the groups who are calling for more education, I mean DO they expect 15 year olds to just get in a car and learn all this and be confident on the road at the same time, WHEN I LEARNT our car wasnt fast, and there weren't alot of cars around then a few BUT NOT like today and they certainly WERENT FAST PACED!!!! Is the reason for high road crashes lack of confidence, (NOTE to self get all material associated with laws and ages FOR anything to do with BOYS!! and BOYS doing anything!!!! not just driving).
And will ring Taupo Track (car club) to see what they do out there, in fact I was driving tractors at 13 and 14 too and motorbikes(scooters only 50cc), we are ONLY going to practice going up and down the driveway so he can get the feel of the car and gears (it is a manual), and actually he blimmin DROVE up to the heart pulpatation point VERY WELL.
AND considering in just a little over 2 years he will be driving it is all going too fast, next there is the can I drink, WHEN can I drink, the voting, PLEASE make all these things one AGE LIMIT then dumbarssssssseeee parents like me can at least remember things.
I think IF I HAD to sit my licence again I may not pass, given todays lessons....... ( I have however reitirated the clutch brake scenario in a hurry when you have to STOP!!!! well before it was needed today)
Normally i am a well informed person and look at all avenues before heading down the path of DOING anything, (am having a blonde day and IT was a full MOON last night)......
ENOUGH rambling about DRIVING (or lack thereof after today). I went to physio and we discussed the position I am in wanting to increase exercise and walking again, and was told to bike for a couple of weeks to move ankle joints and in different directions, and then I can start slow walking and a few km's at a time 1 or bloody 2 km FFS, and then I have to access it. Enough ramble for now.
Ciao
Ok to digress on physio appointment I am pissed because NO ONE asked me or suggested that I should get on a bike and I could have been doing that for the last 4 weeks, ( I have had 4 different physio as my one is on holiday and I had to take appointments available...), he has said EVEN though I have been doing all the right things resting, anti inflammatory rub (herbal totally organic), pills, pressure bandage and exercising IT still could take 6 - 12 months and NOT TO AIM for HUNTLY 1/2 marathon but the TAUPO one INSTEAD in Aug, so alot of 2 km walks I can feel coming for at least 1 month then I will ease it from there to up the anti!!!! Although nothing stopping me from doing a 10km walk in MAY to see how the distance holds up I guess.
Spoke to someone else who said their kids had been having driving lessons and they are 13 eeekkkkkkk guess I am not the only brainless person around.........
Oh well I am done for the day and am going to my neighbours for a cuppa of tea.
Ciao
So I figured well my son is 12 and a half I will start him off too (note to self PLESE GET FAMILIAR with A:road code B: leagal requirements pertaining to AGE!!!!to be driving on a road!!!)
we have spent a few days in the garage no KEYS in car just him adjusting to seat mirrors pedals etc and "dry run" changing of gears, and talking through scenarios etc.
WELL this morning I thought why not take him to the new subdivision no CARS around and just drive in a straight line HE DID VERY well and only bunny hopped once until SOME PLONKER on a T intersection in a MOWER CONTRACTOR vehicle pulled straight out in front of us and scared the BEJESUS out of me and my son, HE SLAMMED the car brakes on and the clutch and MOTHER YELLED at MAN in truck, one shakey son ME AGED by 10 years, and THEN I thought RING THE POLICE and get the exact AGE of WHEN DRIVING lessons can occur, (because I do realise things have changed), only to find out that YOU HAVE to have your learners licence TO EVEN be on the road learning to drive DUH,(bearing in mind I had just ONE actual professional driving lesson before my licence THE INSTRUCTOR knew previously I had been driving he knew my dad well, and he was an ex policeman and knew dad had been letting me drive).
I can now sympathise with some of the groups who are calling for more education, I mean DO they expect 15 year olds to just get in a car and learn all this and be confident on the road at the same time, WHEN I LEARNT our car wasnt fast, and there weren't alot of cars around then a few BUT NOT like today and they certainly WERENT FAST PACED!!!! Is the reason for high road crashes lack of confidence, (NOTE to self get all material associated with laws and ages FOR anything to do with BOYS!! and BOYS doing anything!!!! not just driving).
And will ring Taupo Track (car club) to see what they do out there, in fact I was driving tractors at 13 and 14 too and motorbikes(scooters only 50cc), we are ONLY going to practice going up and down the driveway so he can get the feel of the car and gears (it is a manual), and actually he blimmin DROVE up to the heart pulpatation point VERY WELL.
AND considering in just a little over 2 years he will be driving it is all going too fast, next there is the can I drink, WHEN can I drink, the voting, PLEASE make all these things one AGE LIMIT then dumbarssssssseeee parents like me can at least remember things.
I think IF I HAD to sit my licence again I may not pass, given todays lessons....... ( I have however reitirated the clutch brake scenario in a hurry when you have to STOP!!!! well before it was needed today)
Normally i am a well informed person and look at all avenues before heading down the path of DOING anything, (am having a blonde day and IT was a full MOON last night)......
ENOUGH rambling about DRIVING (or lack thereof after today). I went to physio and we discussed the position I am in wanting to increase exercise and walking again, and was told to bike for a couple of weeks to move ankle joints and in different directions, and then I can start slow walking and a few km's at a time 1 or bloody 2 km FFS, and then I have to access it. Enough ramble for now.
Ciao
Ok to digress on physio appointment I am pissed because NO ONE asked me or suggested that I should get on a bike and I could have been doing that for the last 4 weeks, ( I have had 4 different physio as my one is on holiday and I had to take appointments available...), he has said EVEN though I have been doing all the right things resting, anti inflammatory rub (herbal totally organic), pills, pressure bandage and exercising IT still could take 6 - 12 months and NOT TO AIM for HUNTLY 1/2 marathon but the TAUPO one INSTEAD in Aug, so alot of 2 km walks I can feel coming for at least 1 month then I will ease it from there to up the anti!!!! Although nothing stopping me from doing a 10km walk in MAY to see how the distance holds up I guess.
Spoke to someone else who said their kids had been having driving lessons and they are 13 eeekkkkkkk guess I am not the only brainless person around.........
Oh well I am done for the day and am going to my neighbours for a cuppa of tea.
Ciao
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Slack I know...
havent posted in like 3 days oh well, not much happening. Have been working, and by the end of my day I am tired, SORE foot (from my accident), dinner gets sorted have eaten out every night(at my best friends MY NEXT door neighbour ) so just a waddle down the drive we had a half ham so have shared it all around HAD ham and potatoes and salad, ham potatoe salad and salad, ham steaks eggs and chips ham steaks pnieapple rings and salad, tomorrow having ham and egg pie!!!! tonight we had mixed grill WE pool all ingredients and feed approx 7 people most nights 3 families combined.It works out loads cheaper and well we eat together as an extended family approx 4-5 nights
BUT today I read LeanJanene blog about the dumping and Productive Burping and thought ok, well I had 2 chip sandwiches for lunch (I know not good choices) and BOY about 40 mins later I YAWNED and had watery eyes and it didnt stop for at least an hour and I WAS MAJORALLY sleepy (dumping episode?) So I read up about it and was sure thats what happened, the last 5 days I have been great with food fruit nuts proper snacks good breakfasts etc loads of water BUT TODAY no fruit and no water!!!!! and no exercise I had a very quiet feet up day I worked most of yesterday and after working 6 days I was pretty knackered today not much motiovation happening AND I hate that part I know I have worked all week but HOW come I cant just bounce out of BED HELL I AM ONLY 40!!!What am I going to be like at friggin 60!!!!
Have my fruit and snacks sorted for tomorrow when I am at work I am generally ok with food and water and fruit, as I look after young children we all eat fruit at morning and afternoon dinner times and drink loads of water throughout the day.I get most of my food sorted at night so I am not rushing in the mornings.Have got some scrummy white flesh nectarines and peaches they are soooooo nice apples oranges etc, I have snacks at the moment like cherry tomatoes baby carrots and lebanese cucumbers(mini ones) sweeter and juicer than big ole icky cucumbers,rice crackers nuts and raisins too and about 4 litres of water for my son and I. I freeze 3/4 of our water and as it thaws we have ICE COLD water which I can drink loads more of than tepid water, I have a water filter unit (new filter is $190)bench top unit wont be replacing filter just yet,I purchased a brita filter jug and filters with some shoppiong vouchers I won ages ago and have the Brita just waiting to be used YAY and can have fresh filtered water for approx 18 months once present filter putters out.
Have another long week of work ahead of me and am not sure when I will get in exercise, if not wont stress, am heading to Physio next week down to one appointment per week, (as a result of Oct 11 th accident where I was going 3 times a week), BUT as I am wanting to retrain towrds half marathon, WANT to ensure they will see me on a need to basis should my ankle flairs up (as it is swollen by end of day anyhoo just by normal walking and general daily activity).Which worries me a little BECAUSE when I get up in the mornings some days since the accident I feel stiff AS in the right ankle like a bloody arthritic 90 year old getting out of bed and trying to get circulation into injured joint!!!I know they have told me it will take awhile but gawd I do my exercises for strengthening I keep it elevated pressure bandage it I have done all the right things and continued physio appointments all the way through and doctors appointments SO WANT to see some sort of forward motion and indication of WHEN I CAN start in earnest my training(have I mentioned patience is not MY MIDDLE NAME!!) I am still on anti inflammatory medication BUT only in the mornings and VERY rarely do I take a night time anti inflammatory pill now.THROW on top of that the sinus and snoring SHYTE I am the catch of the century!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL have a good week everyone.
Ciao
BUT today I read LeanJanene blog about the dumping and Productive Burping and thought ok, well I had 2 chip sandwiches for lunch (I know not good choices) and BOY about 40 mins later I YAWNED and had watery eyes and it didnt stop for at least an hour and I WAS MAJORALLY sleepy (dumping episode?) So I read up about it and was sure thats what happened, the last 5 days I have been great with food fruit nuts proper snacks good breakfasts etc loads of water BUT TODAY no fruit and no water!!!!! and no exercise I had a very quiet feet up day I worked most of yesterday and after working 6 days I was pretty knackered today not much motiovation happening AND I hate that part I know I have worked all week but HOW come I cant just bounce out of BED HELL I AM ONLY 40!!!What am I going to be like at friggin 60!!!!
Have my fruit and snacks sorted for tomorrow when I am at work I am generally ok with food and water and fruit, as I look after young children we all eat fruit at morning and afternoon dinner times and drink loads of water throughout the day.I get most of my food sorted at night so I am not rushing in the mornings.Have got some scrummy white flesh nectarines and peaches they are soooooo nice apples oranges etc, I have snacks at the moment like cherry tomatoes baby carrots and lebanese cucumbers(mini ones) sweeter and juicer than big ole icky cucumbers,rice crackers nuts and raisins too and about 4 litres of water for my son and I. I freeze 3/4 of our water and as it thaws we have ICE COLD water which I can drink loads more of than tepid water, I have a water filter unit (new filter is $190)bench top unit wont be replacing filter just yet,I purchased a brita filter jug and filters with some shoppiong vouchers I won ages ago and have the Brita just waiting to be used YAY and can have fresh filtered water for approx 18 months once present filter putters out.
Have another long week of work ahead of me and am not sure when I will get in exercise, if not wont stress, am heading to Physio next week down to one appointment per week, (as a result of Oct 11 th accident where I was going 3 times a week), BUT as I am wanting to retrain towrds half marathon, WANT to ensure they will see me on a need to basis should my ankle flairs up (as it is swollen by end of day anyhoo just by normal walking and general daily activity).Which worries me a little BECAUSE when I get up in the mornings some days since the accident I feel stiff AS in the right ankle like a bloody arthritic 90 year old getting out of bed and trying to get circulation into injured joint!!!I know they have told me it will take awhile but gawd I do my exercises for strengthening I keep it elevated pressure bandage it I have done all the right things and continued physio appointments all the way through and doctors appointments SO WANT to see some sort of forward motion and indication of WHEN I CAN start in earnest my training(have I mentioned patience is not MY MIDDLE NAME!!) I am still on anti inflammatory medication BUT only in the mornings and VERY rarely do I take a night time anti inflammatory pill now.THROW on top of that the sinus and snoring SHYTE I am the catch of the century!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL have a good week everyone.
Ciao
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Exercise Exercise Exercise
NOT NOT NOT happening in this heat I go to bed DAM HOT wake up stinkin HOT, and just get hotter all day, I have however been eating really well and DRINKING like a dehydrated CAMEL!!!!! I have a banana, 2 pieces toast with marmite and garlic and tomatoe on it, then fruit for morning tea, then tuna/salmon salad sandwich, snacks of more fruit and nuts in the afternoon, then tonight boiled potatoe, salad and HAM (the 2nd xmas ham we were given we have now opened) VERY NICE, finished with with fruit and icecream, FEEL bloated though and know its the water too, I have drunk about 3 litres today. Had a better sleep (as son went onto nebuliser before bed and it settled him down to a quieter sleep), have to work most of tomorrow and ALL WEEKEND sat and sun, need the money BUT will be tired, and then into a 5 day week so 12 days straight (however I dont work full days at a minimum 5 hours maximum 9 - 10 hours now and then though) THIS week is just one of those LONG WEEKS and LONG DAYS, Jaxx will tell yall I HAVE A PROBLEM saying NO!!!!! Oh well a sleep in tomorrow is on the cards for me YAY!!! Oh and should any burglars come to my house THEY WILL be sorry for the last 3 nights and tonight I expect nude sleeping on top of all the blankets WOULD SCARE anyone OFF FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!
Ciao
Ciao
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
NO SLEEP.......
AND they say that sleep deprivation is a BIG cause in obese and weight issues NO SHIT!! I know that being sleep deprived makes the following day crappy YOU make crap food decisions, crap exercise decisions (or not), and have a generally crappy day, AND thats how today is starting out I had wicked cramp in my right leg at 3am, the leg I injured SO IT FELT 10x worse!!!!) then I had to go to the loo (toilet), then at 5am some NICE person rang my cellphone and asked for Lisa I said "thanks for ringing the wrong number and waking me you dim shit!!!" and inbetween all that MY SON who suffers with asthma HAS COUGHED all night long and kept me awake. NOW those of you who don't have asthmatics in the family may HAVE A SNORER, and it is the same thing YOU LIE there wishing they would SHUT THE HELLUP, needless to say he has been on the nebuliser already (AND I dont know why in the hell HE DOESNT get up and use IT!!!) this morning. THE heat affects him here in Taupo we can go from 26 degrees down to 3 degrees and it is those temperature spikes that throw him alot!!! MAYBE I should go on the nebuliser... ME thinks a trip to my naturopath for HERBAL or organic sleeping tablets today I am now 4 nights crap sleep and AM feeling it...For those of you reading I am into naturopathic and organic lifestyle where possible and where finances allow (mostly skincare haircare and cleaning products), I used to buy all organic including FOODS when childless and single!!! and have been for about 18 years......
Well have been in the sun for over an hour gardening I find it kind of calming and I feel alot better, finished for the morning and will attempt some more gardening tonight in the cool or tomorrow morning before the heat comes, I have been watching Biggest Loser on channel 3 and find it frustrating they dont talk much about the FOOD side of things, and really focus on the exercise AND BOY do they do it tough!!! Wonder if it would ever come to New Zealand I WOULD audition and give it a whirl for sure.....
Well have been in the sun for over an hour gardening I find it kind of calming and I feel alot better, finished for the morning and will attempt some more gardening tonight in the cool or tomorrow morning before the heat comes, I have been watching Biggest Loser on channel 3 and find it frustrating they dont talk much about the FOOD side of things, and really focus on the exercise AND BOY do they do it tough!!! Wonder if it would ever come to New Zealand I WOULD audition and give it a whirl for sure.....
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Why when we exercise.....
WELL me anyways I feel worse for it, yesterday had an ok day, tired earlier yawning NEEDED to hit the pit!!! AND I DID, BUT here in lies the problem did I sleep OH NO, I tossed and turned and hrmmmmpppfffd(maoned), blankets on blankets off, slept miserably HOT AGAIN, and when I awoke this morning was dragging mt feet terribly, into town earlyHOLIDAY MAKERS in Taupo make town and going anywhere a nightmare sometimes and the TRAFFIC chaos (for a small town anyhoo), GOT back from town AND I hit the wall I went to bed for 40 mins and slept DONT know why and FELT much better afterwards, lunch then I had to work.... got home around 6pm and then dinner NOW I have no ENERGY to do anything which peeves me off ALOT, I see people walking int eh cool of the evening and I just can't drag my sorry arrrrsssse up to do that, I really need to do it in the mornings OR ELSE it doesn't get down at all. Water ok food ok exercise not ok, I am feeling that back to the gym WHERE I started my incredible JOURNEY through the Green Prescription whilst training for my first half marathon, (applying to the doctors for 3 months free membership under the guidance of gym people and doctor monitoring my progress, ACCOUNTABILITY to others), might see how appealing it is after another cruddy sleep (I used to go to the gym from 8 - 10.30am 4 - 5 times a week (thats showering included) and LOVED it whilst also WALKING huge kilometres on top of the gym.....
No ephiany's today but no doubt when I am out in the garden early tomorrow morning I will think of thoughts aplenty.
HOPE everyone else is sleeping ok, and if YOU ARE well boo har har to you. (tongue in cheek).
Ciao
No ephiany's today but no doubt when I am out in the garden early tomorrow morning I will think of thoughts aplenty.
HOPE everyone else is sleeping ok, and if YOU ARE well boo har har to you. (tongue in cheek).
Ciao
Monday, January 05, 2009
Well a midday update
Sorry Jaxx THE 1/2 marathon i was thinking was huntly in MAY, quite doable even at a dawdle!!! went for a 20 min walk didnt check distance just walked slowly and was ok, not pleasant but ok. DID 2 hours gardening instead of weights, and now am off to work start 1pm I keep funny hours so thats it BUT AS per usual whilst gardenign the mind works overtime. HERE are some ponderings, WE ALL know what we have to do, and WHAT has to be done BUT NO ONE likes being told what to do. LIKE .......... YOU HAVE to drink 8 glasses, YOU HAVE to exercise 30 - 40 mins per day, YOU HAVE to loose weight,YOU have to cut down on the following FAT,SUGAR,ALCOHOL,SMOKES, CARBS SO why don't we? I mean how hard can it be? HARD who are we kidding. I awoke at 6.15am thought might as well get started and what did I do, I went back to sleep, awoke 7.15am and then started (and NO JAXX dont ring me when you get up cause I wont be responsible for the responses out of my mouth lol).
Have drunk water as it is hot work gardening, but lets face it ONCE you remember drink water, cut out foods, dont snack, eat right, do your exercises,take the supplements, get up early, THE MIND is already bombarded and frankly my feet hadnt even hit the floor before I had mental lists whizzing through the brain. I JUST get tired reading some of your guys posts !!!
Enough from me I am off to town and then work.
Back from work and general fluffing around: Jaxx I jumped on the scales STILL the same weight NOW she and I both know I AM IN maintainence TRULY I AM I have been the same weight for over 8 months I NEVER GO up or down, I stay the blardy same WHICH leads me to the point of my ramble I belive it is ALL ABOUT EXERCISE ........ and I know from past experience if my weight isnt going up then I must be eating the right amount? And also if it isnt going down, I am fuelling my self just enough to stay consistent. Will try and sort photos to,morrow believe it or not i am tired and I am heading off to nae nae's (bed), and I will probably toss and turn until 10.45pm BY normal bedtime!!!(in this heat too I sooo hate that).
Ciao
Have drunk water as it is hot work gardening, but lets face it ONCE you remember drink water, cut out foods, dont snack, eat right, do your exercises,take the supplements, get up early, THE MIND is already bombarded and frankly my feet hadnt even hit the floor before I had mental lists whizzing through the brain. I JUST get tired reading some of your guys posts !!!
Enough from me I am off to town and then work.
Back from work and general fluffing around: Jaxx I jumped on the scales STILL the same weight NOW she and I both know I AM IN maintainence TRULY I AM I have been the same weight for over 8 months I NEVER GO up or down, I stay the blardy same WHICH leads me to the point of my ramble I belive it is ALL ABOUT EXERCISE ........ and I know from past experience if my weight isnt going up then I must be eating the right amount? And also if it isnt going down, I am fuelling my self just enough to stay consistent. Will try and sort photos to,morrow believe it or not i am tired and I am heading off to nae nae's (bed), and I will probably toss and turn until 10.45pm BY normal bedtime!!!(in this heat too I sooo hate that).
Ciao
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Ohhhhhh how cool I have followers...
Yay thanks everyone who have said HI and commented, and thanks to Jaxx for giving me the heads up.
To answer a few questions the "Blonde" bit. Well my ex friend is a blonde bombshell Peg Bundy look alike and act alike (her affairs and issues broke our friendship of 20 years plus, she had one too many affairs ONGOING with her Brother in Law and needless to say I said NOPE I am not playing your patsy anymore or lying anymore NOT that I did lie BUT I SAID SHOULD your husband ask me IF you are STILL seeing your brother in law I WILL tell him the truth,!!!) Lets just say A VERY awkard place to be in and AN even awkarder(is that a word) place to put ones supposed best friend in!!!!!!!!
I took the name blondieone as a PISS TAKE to her also wan2beblonde, wannabblonde, and blondeanon all my favs!!!!! and it stuck when I outed my pic on TMMSG board well the reaction was the same, especially since i have been nattering on there for a few years now.
For the first time in 5 years I had no child for 4 days ( thats a whole nother story and unless you can lie down I WONT subject you to the couch counselling YOU will need after it), I didn't do a darn thing no dishes, no ironing (yes I iron), no washing, no cooking,no gardenng, no lawns my next door neighbour is my good friend and she cooked every night so I went down there and got spoilt, (I did however do the dishes every night and help prepare the meals), as she cooked for 6 every night (incl me).
In the last few days I have once again thought to myself IT IS the TIME CONSTRAINTS we as women (not mothers), place on ourselves to ensure everyone else is catered to EXCEPT US!, Our health suffers, our routines suffer, our weightloss and gains suffer, Jaxx and I have spoken at length about this on various occassions and yet still at the end of the day WE BEAT ourselves up about it! WHY? Who the hell knows.
I will reitirate here again, when I look in the mirror I HAVE NEVER seen myself as fat PRE pregnancy I was 118kg size 18 and VERY comfortable with myself, I lost 12kg in the first 3 months and had to be monitored (ha crazy I know), then I gained 16 kg and ended up 2kg heavier than first recorded pregnancy weight. THE DOCTORS were thrilled (they perdicted MUCH BIGGER GAINS) had numerous diabetes checks THEY prepared me for the absolute worst DIABETES they said gestational they said SICK baby they said AND yip you guessed it NOT EVEN !!!!!I can honestly say I have only dieted once in the last 20 years, and that was to support my sister whom had started the Atkins diet when it first hit our shores.
I have never had low self esteem or even had lovers who or partners or boyfriends who EVER said I was fat IN FACT the opposite, I have strived for just being FIT!! and in the last few days have dusted off gym gear I have the following A bean, Total Gym (I absolutely love this), a super exercise bike (given to me A VERY expensive model), and 2 top of the range pairs of walking shoes, tomorrow begins the the steps towards the half marathon training.
I will attempt to walk 3km, and do the full total gym routine about 25 mins(on 5-7 reps per exercise SO not strenuous and just arm exercises) I build up to 3 sets 15 reps per exercise when IT GETS into gear, then Tuesday walking the same and then only lower leg work about 25 mins nothing strenuous of course.(have to see how my ankle holds up WHEN I say I severely tore the ligaments IT WAS a mess and the Doctors and Physio all said BREAKING a bone is better than what I did) Nooooiiiiiiiiiiccccccccee.
Jaxx will confirm this, I am not into Dieting or even changing food that I eat I have always been a firm believer AND I STILL am that it is exercise that jolts everything along. When i first started out 18 months+ ago I had 12 weeks until the Taupo Half Marathon held in AUGUST and it was friggin AWFUL!!! (rained all day before and hailed and rained ALL WAY round the bloody course!!!) in that 12 weeks I lost 27kg nearly 28kg after the first month into the training I discovered SLIMFAST capsules the ones THAT are now BANNED!!! they WERE GREAT FOR ME, and in the last month I ate carbs every second day so too carbo load on the nights before MY huge walks eg: 12km, 14km, 16km, 18km, 20km, and during the weeks before the BIG walks I would get in 3 x 10km walks, ADDICTIVE it became I would head out earlyish NOT LIKE Jaxx early say around 8am after son had gone to school on the bus.(I am not an early riser in fact I am a poor sleeper ALWAYS have been since I can remember, I also SNORE and suffer terrible sinustitis) I wake up sometimes worse than when I went to bed!!
I told ya'll I could ramble, I generally jump on the computer late at night after jobs done, and NO DISTRACTIONS of I want to get ont he computer MUM!!! so will update probably at night and on some accassions every other day I work odd days and hours sometimes.
ohhhhhhh maybe tomorrow I will post my Gurda the Goat Herder pics (at my heaviest 142kg then at my smallest in the last 12 years pics and my current pics).
Ciao
To answer a few questions the "Blonde" bit. Well my ex friend is a blonde bombshell Peg Bundy look alike and act alike (her affairs and issues broke our friendship of 20 years plus, she had one too many affairs ONGOING with her Brother in Law and needless to say I said NOPE I am not playing your patsy anymore or lying anymore NOT that I did lie BUT I SAID SHOULD your husband ask me IF you are STILL seeing your brother in law I WILL tell him the truth,!!!) Lets just say A VERY awkard place to be in and AN even awkarder(is that a word) place to put ones supposed best friend in!!!!!!!!
I took the name blondieone as a PISS TAKE to her also wan2beblonde, wannabblonde, and blondeanon all my favs!!!!! and it stuck when I outed my pic on TMMSG board well the reaction was the same, especially since i have been nattering on there for a few years now.
For the first time in 5 years I had no child for 4 days ( thats a whole nother story and unless you can lie down I WONT subject you to the couch counselling YOU will need after it), I didn't do a darn thing no dishes, no ironing (yes I iron), no washing, no cooking,no gardenng, no lawns my next door neighbour is my good friend and she cooked every night so I went down there and got spoilt, (I did however do the dishes every night and help prepare the meals), as she cooked for 6 every night (incl me).
In the last few days I have once again thought to myself IT IS the TIME CONSTRAINTS we as women (not mothers), place on ourselves to ensure everyone else is catered to EXCEPT US!, Our health suffers, our routines suffer, our weightloss and gains suffer, Jaxx and I have spoken at length about this on various occassions and yet still at the end of the day WE BEAT ourselves up about it! WHY? Who the hell knows.
I will reitirate here again, when I look in the mirror I HAVE NEVER seen myself as fat PRE pregnancy I was 118kg size 18 and VERY comfortable with myself, I lost 12kg in the first 3 months and had to be monitored (ha crazy I know), then I gained 16 kg and ended up 2kg heavier than first recorded pregnancy weight. THE DOCTORS were thrilled (they perdicted MUCH BIGGER GAINS) had numerous diabetes checks THEY prepared me for the absolute worst DIABETES they said gestational they said SICK baby they said AND yip you guessed it NOT EVEN !!!!!I can honestly say I have only dieted once in the last 20 years, and that was to support my sister whom had started the Atkins diet when it first hit our shores.
I have never had low self esteem or even had lovers who or partners or boyfriends who EVER said I was fat IN FACT the opposite, I have strived for just being FIT!! and in the last few days have dusted off gym gear I have the following A bean, Total Gym (I absolutely love this), a super exercise bike (given to me A VERY expensive model), and 2 top of the range pairs of walking shoes, tomorrow begins the the steps towards the half marathon training.
I will attempt to walk 3km, and do the full total gym routine about 25 mins(on 5-7 reps per exercise SO not strenuous and just arm exercises) I build up to 3 sets 15 reps per exercise when IT GETS into gear, then Tuesday walking the same and then only lower leg work about 25 mins nothing strenuous of course.(have to see how my ankle holds up WHEN I say I severely tore the ligaments IT WAS a mess and the Doctors and Physio all said BREAKING a bone is better than what I did) Nooooiiiiiiiiiiccccccccee.
Jaxx will confirm this, I am not into Dieting or even changing food that I eat I have always been a firm believer AND I STILL am that it is exercise that jolts everything along. When i first started out 18 months+ ago I had 12 weeks until the Taupo Half Marathon held in AUGUST and it was friggin AWFUL!!! (rained all day before and hailed and rained ALL WAY round the bloody course!!!) in that 12 weeks I lost 27kg nearly 28kg after the first month into the training I discovered SLIMFAST capsules the ones THAT are now BANNED!!! they WERE GREAT FOR ME, and in the last month I ate carbs every second day so too carbo load on the nights before MY huge walks eg: 12km, 14km, 16km, 18km, 20km, and during the weeks before the BIG walks I would get in 3 x 10km walks, ADDICTIVE it became I would head out earlyish NOT LIKE Jaxx early say around 8am after son had gone to school on the bus.(I am not an early riser in fact I am a poor sleeper ALWAYS have been since I can remember, I also SNORE and suffer terrible sinustitis) I wake up sometimes worse than when I went to bed!!
I told ya'll I could ramble, I generally jump on the computer late at night after jobs done, and NO DISTRACTIONS of I want to get ont he computer MUM!!! so will update probably at night and on some accassions every other day I work odd days and hours sometimes.
ohhhhhhh maybe tomorrow I will post my Gurda the Goat Herder pics (at my heaviest 142kg then at my smallest in the last 12 years pics and my current pics).
Ciao
Saturday, January 03, 2009
How strange is that
I have just looked at my first post and see it says Friday January 2nd? and was posted at 5.58pm? I am sure someone from blog land will direct me in correcting this, felt I should divulge a little about myself.
As alot of people put on their blogs if it is weightloss updates, personal updates, and family issues, feels really it is anything goes and you are either all or nothing AND some go private (and like me I STRUGGLED to access that for awhile) or just let friends and family know updates I guess as a form of communication.
I am very NEW to this and dont have Bebo, or facebook, or anything page, just thought it would be nice to express some of how I feel and try to get s grasp of more where I want to be or more where I want to head, at 40+ (nearly 41), it is the I need a pep talk blog.
I would love to be more motivated in my journey towards the healthier lifestyle I once had only 18 months ago, 109kg and eating healthy exercising an hour or two a day, and defiantely wearing smaller clothes, currently I am 135kg and back to size approx 26/28 bottom half and a 24/26 top half (4xl BH and 2xl TH) or even bigger depending on where you shop I SWEAR clothes are sent to TRY US!!!!!NOT US try them......
When I view myself I certainly dont see a fat person or obese or even extremely obese, I dont smoke or drink, HOWEVER my portion control is way out of tune, AND I am definately a savoury eater rather than sweet eater but CERTAINLY dont say no too sweets. I have a voluptuous hourglass figure, beautiful olive skin, and hands and feet and wrists that GO ON A SIZE 14 body (they are the only small parts of my body).
I am an organised person most of the time AND LOOOOOVE organising others, (is my forte) I AM a compulsive LIST MAKER and would have a coronary if I lost my list.Cant believe I am in my forties and just wonder where my thirties sloped off too!!! I feel like i have woken into my forties and missed the thirties, I remember them sure, I dont wish them back but think how fast the last 10 years has whizzed by.I am not a very technical computer person and may not even add photos (not sure how too yet!!)
I have completed a half marathon in the last 2 years, and a duathlon, and was walking an average of 50 - 60km per week, I agreed to be the support team for OXFAM and as the teams walking regimes hit up into the 80 - 100km walks MY EXERCISE went down hill fast then back to zilch. I satarted walking again in earnest in May of 2008 and on 11 Nov 2008 SEVERLY tore ligaments in my right ankle around back of ankle and both sides NO WALKING WORKING or DRIVING!!!! until 4 Dec 2008.
I have a son whom adores me and is the highlight of my enitre existence, to see a human being in the form of myself, assuredness, confidence, wit humour, balance, and he knows how to cook, clean and do his own washing he even makes his own bed and DOES his own room (and has done for at least 4 years now). He loves sports and has a zest for life and a passion for food, is highly academic and strives to succeed and try his best at any thing he turns his hand too.
I know I have to push harder to motivate myself back into a LIVING lifestyle I dont like healthy lifestyle or the word D*#T!!! Because I should be wanting to live for my son Why wouldnt I? I am not big on family at the moment and HAVE a few very close friends whom I lean on and vent too when I need a moral boost.My aim for this year is to complete 3 half marathons May/August/Nov.... BUT inbetween those months I would like to average 50km a walk in maintainence, I like to walk alone as I find when you walk with others YOU feel obliged to talk to tem THUS wasting precious breath!!!!
I have an odd relationship to my partner he suffers with Bi Polar and well IT IS trying.... and those who live with mental health issues and have family members in the loop will know THE simplicity of that statement and where I am coming from, (by not divulging too much enough said). He is a lovely man caring, gentle, misunderstood loyal and totally lovable JUST very very hard work, and it would be made all the easier if only his family would accept responsibility to his situation and certainly to our situation. We live apart but have daily contact and I am mostly his only support.I have a wonderful group of ecclectic friends ranging from introverted to LOUD and crass, young(30) and mature (56), zany crazy women whom I surround myself in and enjoy each their unique personalities.
I love to be involved in and around my sons schooling life and whilst some may say ( I am up there all too much, am famous for my hot chilli nacho mix, chocolate cake and biscuits!!), I like many want to be happy, healthy, live longer and have some financial freedoms to allow me the room and strength to survive just normal everyday existence. See I did say I would ramble along, oh well I will stop here or else you may all fall asleep or worse still read too much and then have to start again.
Ciao
As alot of people put on their blogs if it is weightloss updates, personal updates, and family issues, feels really it is anything goes and you are either all or nothing AND some go private (and like me I STRUGGLED to access that for awhile) or just let friends and family know updates I guess as a form of communication.
I am very NEW to this and dont have Bebo, or facebook, or anything page, just thought it would be nice to express some of how I feel and try to get s grasp of more where I want to be or more where I want to head, at 40+ (nearly 41), it is the I need a pep talk blog.
I would love to be more motivated in my journey towards the healthier lifestyle I once had only 18 months ago, 109kg and eating healthy exercising an hour or two a day, and defiantely wearing smaller clothes, currently I am 135kg and back to size approx 26/28 bottom half and a 24/26 top half (4xl BH and 2xl TH) or even bigger depending on where you shop I SWEAR clothes are sent to TRY US!!!!!NOT US try them......
When I view myself I certainly dont see a fat person or obese or even extremely obese, I dont smoke or drink, HOWEVER my portion control is way out of tune, AND I am definately a savoury eater rather than sweet eater but CERTAINLY dont say no too sweets. I have a voluptuous hourglass figure, beautiful olive skin, and hands and feet and wrists that GO ON A SIZE 14 body (they are the only small parts of my body).
I am an organised person most of the time AND LOOOOOVE organising others, (is my forte) I AM a compulsive LIST MAKER and would have a coronary if I lost my list.Cant believe I am in my forties and just wonder where my thirties sloped off too!!! I feel like i have woken into my forties and missed the thirties, I remember them sure, I dont wish them back but think how fast the last 10 years has whizzed by.I am not a very technical computer person and may not even add photos (not sure how too yet!!)
I have completed a half marathon in the last 2 years, and a duathlon, and was walking an average of 50 - 60km per week, I agreed to be the support team for OXFAM and as the teams walking regimes hit up into the 80 - 100km walks MY EXERCISE went down hill fast then back to zilch. I satarted walking again in earnest in May of 2008 and on 11 Nov 2008 SEVERLY tore ligaments in my right ankle around back of ankle and both sides NO WALKING WORKING or DRIVING!!!! until 4 Dec 2008.
I have a son whom adores me and is the highlight of my enitre existence, to see a human being in the form of myself, assuredness, confidence, wit humour, balance, and he knows how to cook, clean and do his own washing he even makes his own bed and DOES his own room (and has done for at least 4 years now). He loves sports and has a zest for life and a passion for food, is highly academic and strives to succeed and try his best at any thing he turns his hand too.
I know I have to push harder to motivate myself back into a LIVING lifestyle I dont like healthy lifestyle or the word D*#T!!! Because I should be wanting to live for my son Why wouldnt I? I am not big on family at the moment and HAVE a few very close friends whom I lean on and vent too when I need a moral boost.My aim for this year is to complete 3 half marathons May/August/Nov.... BUT inbetween those months I would like to average 50km a walk in maintainence, I like to walk alone as I find when you walk with others YOU feel obliged to talk to tem THUS wasting precious breath!!!!
I have an odd relationship to my partner he suffers with Bi Polar and well IT IS trying.... and those who live with mental health issues and have family members in the loop will know THE simplicity of that statement and where I am coming from, (by not divulging too much enough said). He is a lovely man caring, gentle, misunderstood loyal and totally lovable JUST very very hard work, and it would be made all the easier if only his family would accept responsibility to his situation and certainly to our situation. We live apart but have daily contact and I am mostly his only support.I have a wonderful group of ecclectic friends ranging from introverted to LOUD and crass, young(30) and mature (56), zany crazy women whom I surround myself in and enjoy each their unique personalities.
I love to be involved in and around my sons schooling life and whilst some may say ( I am up there all too much, am famous for my hot chilli nacho mix, chocolate cake and biscuits!!), I like many want to be happy, healthy, live longer and have some financial freedoms to allow me the room and strength to survive just normal everyday existence. See I did say I would ramble along, oh well I will stop here or else you may all fall asleep or worse still read too much and then have to start again.
Ciao
Wet and wild day procrastinators delight
Having been a reader of numerous blogs though it time I started one, although only one blog reader will know me personally some of what I write and ramble will resonate with many here in blog land.I will at times waffle on and draw out the drama of it all and at other times sound almost like a knowledge well read professor. Should it be about life, weight, past experiences future dreams I'm not sure, allI know that it will be a form of self counselling and a way of visualising things and places where I know I must want to be, and to let go of some of the places I have been and choose to still hang on too, as a security blanket of sorts I,m sure.
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