LIFE TIME MEMBER!!!!

13 kg lost on WW in 16 weeks - lost in total 18kg (5kg lost before joined WW)

Hi everyone - just had my final weigh in for the year and I am shocked to report that I lost another 200grams - so I am at my personal goal weight of 68kg!!!

I have been NoCounting this week and I have only managed to go walking twice - so I am very pleased to say that I lost!!

The picture has hot off hte press - just taken now with my lifetime key!!!

I would love to write more and give you a couple of NoCount receipe that I have been using but we now have to go to Melbourne in the morning (4 hour drive) and I refuse to leave a house messy!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR XX

Love Kirsty xx

Boxing day....

Hi there fellow bloggers... well those of you that are still around.....
We had the best christmas day... kids loved it, Jack and I loved it. It was so "no-stress" - usually we spend christmas with Jack's family and all of the kids and it is SO busy that we end up a little frazzled... so it was nice just to be quite. I didn't dress the kids until we had to go to my dad's in the late afternoon! We all had a little sleep in the arvo. It was great. I can't wait until next year!!

We have had a VERY quite day today --- I had to take some photos at lunch time - other them that we have spent the day at home.

A new member of our family arrived here today. Joesph the kitten. Little grey and white bubba. I have never had a cat before - my sister sally has always been responsible for all pets in our house as kids... so it is a first! He is cute and em loves him!

The photo of the kids was taken at my Dad's last night. Dad has race horses and the kids where helping him feed them...

My Mum and Dad seperated about 4 years ago.... dad has a girlfriend the same age as my brother.... so christmas tea was spent with Dad and his girlsfriends family. All quite nice but it is a little weird in our family home with a stange family on christmas day... but the kids love 'Grumpy' - so we try to make an effort.

My Mum spent christmas eve here with the kids, slept in their room and had lunch with us yesterday. She had the best christmas also.. kids really make a difference. She had to work in the afternoon (She is a nurse) so we had christmas lunch she she headed off. My little sister Sally also was here for christmas morning and lunch - it was excellent!!

Eating wise was OK - I ate crap - but it was OK as I let myself do it... All the crap is gone from the house now and we are back on the wagon... I had two serves of plum pudding then sent the rest home with Mum - it was beautiful!!

Not sure how many people are left reading... but hope everyone had a nice christmas!!

Another 2 KG Loss

This and Jack and me on the way from from Horsham Wednesday...

I LOVE NoCount!!!! I lost another 2 kg this week - 4 kg in two weeks.. Weigh now 68.2kg!! More Tomorrow...

Good morning - just adding more to my post from last night - Can you believe that I am only 200 grams away from my personal goal weight???? I am not expecting to get to my PGW by next week - I need to consider that it is chrismtas on Sunday and I don't want get dissapointed with a gain next week - Christmas is only two days away - very exciting!!!! But I am not going to be stupid about it and eat everything in sight - but I am promising that I am going to eat plum pudding - I LOVE PLUM PUDDING - have I said that before??? I still am in a little shock about losing 2KG!!
Three of us at the meeting are NoCounting - and all had substantial losses - all over 1.5kg - maybe a little detox - with more fruit in our diet but all did really well on it! I ate the most of the 21points - in fact I ate 23 the other two where about 10 or 12.

My personal goal for last week was to walk 50,000 steps - which I did - I didn't reset my pedometer for the week and I plan to do the same again this week. So my pedometer said that I have 26 bonus points...ya!! I found this very motivational to not reset it each day - A few more steps each day to my weekly total - it was great!!

My goals for this week: -

• With the Habit tracker that was talked about last night - I need to start putting myself first - so will work on that!
• 50,000 steps again
• Will be NoCounting again this week - (Christmas day will be easy with NoCount - just the pudding to count!!)
• Start a toning exercise rouitine... my little mummy tummy needs some work!

As you can see - I have also FINALLY worked out how to put a photo in my profile - not a real good photo... but you get a face to my dribble!!

I will post some christmas photos with my new digital camera (Thanks mum!!) but thank you everyone for your support over the past few months... and everyone please enjoy christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

One of those cool lists....

I have had a little time on my hands today and noticed a few blogs with this list completed and I really like ready them.. so here is mine!!

________Best________
1. male friend: Jack - My partner for nearly 10 wonderful years - and husband for nearly 7
2. female friend(s): I have a lot of friends - but my friend Monica and I have been friends from babies - never a cross word spoken between us!!
3. Vacation: Recent camping trip with the kids... it rained but it was still excellent!
4. Age: 28 - my age now - Love my life right now!!
5. Memory: Many - the day Jack and I where married and when all of the kids where born..
______Worst________
1. Time of day: 5.45am - The time that Hugh wakes each and every day!!
2. Day of the week: Monday - housework day
3. Food: Seafood
4. Memory: Hard one - I tend to block out bad things and focus on postive - so pass..
5. Boyfriend or girlfriend: Same asnwer as prior..... take your pick!!
_______Lasts__________
1. Person u saw:Other then my children - Stacey a friend who just came to collect her son
2. Talk on the phone: Stacey - rang to see if Will wanted to come home
3. Hugged:Toby - Stacey's littl ebot - Hugh had just wacked him
4. Messaged: My sister Sally - She is in Melbourne and a little homesick
5: IM:The office in Horsham
_______Firsts_________
1. Kiss: A youth group leader from Church called Chris (I know.. that is bad!!)
2. Serious bf or gf: Anthony.. school boyfriend
3. Car: 1983 Mazda 626 - even had cruise control (Nellie)
4. First school: Horsham North Primary School
5. Job: Receptionist at a Motel in Horsham
_______today________
1. What are you doing now: Wasting time before I cooked NoCount tra
2. Tonight: Ironing and walking when it cools down
3. Wearing: Black singlet top - Denim shirt - colorado shoes
4. What did you eat for lunch: Chicken Rissito
5: Better than yesterday: It's warmer and my kids have slept
______tomorrow___________
1. Is: Wednesday
2. Got any plans: Shopping in Horsham to collect christmas presents
3. Goal: To finished christmas shopping
4. Dislikes about tomorrow: Shopping with three children and a husband in tow
5. Do you have work: No
_____Fave's__________
1. Number: 7
2: Song: U2 - One
3. Color: Pink and chocolate brown
4. Season: Summer
5. State: Victoria.
________Currently_________
1. Are you in love?: Yep.
2.Dating someone: Married - but jack and I do go on dates
3. Missing someone: Yep - Jack
4. Mood : Good - Kids are good - I am good
5. Wanting:To put my feet up for 30 mins!!

So it is Christmas... Well nearly!!

I'm getting SO excited... Only 6 sleeps till Santa comes... I brought all of my Christmas meats today - Rolled turkey, leg of lamb (I LOVE LAMB!!) and a home smoke ham... Enough for quite a few days, but I am NoCounting at the moment so I will be able to eat it!!

NoCount?? I am not sure what to say about it until I weigh.... I am following the principals of the program and understand it all.... but not willing to say too much until I have weighed a few times. I think there are only two of us out of our group actually doing NoCount.. but it is almost Christmas and it is difficult to eat out on NoCount (If anyone else has found a easy way - please let me know!!) We had take away at a friends on Friday night and I found myself making just a salad out of things from her fridge! - Not willing to kiss the whole week away just one day into NoCount - but on the other hand - I went to my trustly recipe book this morning and discovered that I can eat rissito again (minus the cheese) - so I am planning to give my curry chicken one a whirl tomorrow - will let you know how it goes!!

Jack started a week off today - but with the public holidays and a roster they've going for between Christmas and new year he doesn't go back to work until Friday week... So at present he is driving a header just down the road, but he has pumped a dam empty today that we are filling and revegetating - (Due to drought and limited dam fills - dam no longer needed)

The poor bugger had a stressful week last week... he had a client breakdown on him earlier in the week... The emotional damage the the drought has had on some farmers is ongoing and I wonder at times if they will ever recover fully... Then one of the young guys that Jack works with Father died suddenly. The guy was only in this 50's and Chris who works with Jack is just 20 - so Jack went up to the hospital, just after Chris rang him to see what could be done and stayed with them for a while until more family arrived. I think now that he is worried about himself and if that happened to him - what would we do... I hate to think about it... but that is how I deal with things... I will ignore it.. Hoping that it will go away (It rarely does... By the way!)

So that is about it for now... Horsham Wednesday to pick up layby's and the rest of the gifts the I need then a couple of quite days - then it is CHRISTMAS ___ YEAH - I'm soo excited!

Take care everyone and will post weigh in results on Thursday - just o see how this NoCount is going!!

A BIG loss....

I'm the biggest loser, I'm the biggest loser, I'm the biggest loser... Yup - left the WW meeting on such a HIGH - new program and I was the biggest loser for the night... 2KG and the lowest that I have been... yeah me!!

And... the new program... I'm just so excited about it!! I think it will work for me--- I am going to give it a whirl anyway.... I was surprised that so many people where not that keen to look at it... I think that they like the restrictions of portion control etc... I am really looking forward to it and the thing that I like the best about it is that you can change week about... If you need some more control or whatever.... Very very excited.. Feels like my first meeting all again...

So.. All good new... Nearly feeling 100% - when the baby kicks my stomach I can still feel the tenderness.. But as a whole feeling stronger phyiscally and emotionally... NEARLY had a few binges last week - I am blaming hormones - but I was in control and didn't do it!! (well not as bad as I could have...)

So my pre-Christmas commitment

• To walk 50,000 steps for the week - I am planning not to reset the pedometer for the week - (Also to benefit the NoCount program if I over indulge!!)
• To drink at least 1.5l water a day (Have been a little slack on the old water and time for a bit more effort!!)
• To have fun!! - Pre-Christmas week and the kids are talking about Santa NON-STOP - so planning to make the most of it!!

I am taking photos tomorrow night for the local Christmas committee for kids to sit on Santa's knee - Have been doing it for 5 years now - love it!!

Merry Christmas and I will be here over Christmas ... so the blog will continue!!

I really don't want to sound like a nasty bitch... But

I really do feel like a bitch blogging this, but I need to tell you all about it....

A friend from town needed to buy some clothes and we have a Target Country in town, so I meet her there this morning. Now, my friend is not that big - and she doesn't stress about her weight. She would be 75kg and I guess 5'2' tall - She is happy with the size is she, which is great. But she doesn't like the tops of her arms showing.

We spent a hour pouring through the racks of clothes, trying to find clothes that would fit her shape. She also has trouble with the 7/8 length pants as she is a little on the short side and 7/8 is nearly a perfect length full length for her...

After about 12 outfits on and off it dawned on me that I was in the change room this time last year and having the same problems my friend was today - clothes just weren't fitting the way they should be. Pants fitted around the legs but big around the waist - skin tight around the legs and couldn't do up the button. Tops - not sitting right - pulling around the boobs, tight around the arms. Nothing I tried on last summer went right! I brought a skirt last summer - size 16 and It was gone to goodwill - it is HUGE now. The T-shirts I brought last summer have also gone - size 16 to accommodate the breast feeding boobies - but now I am lucky to be a B cup.

The fashion this summer is all sleeve less and I live in singlet tops. I love them.... Actually I love my collar bone. If I had to identify a part of my body that I love - it would be my collarbone.... I never noticed them until about a month ago - but I love showing them off...I like the way they poke out.. I don't know why... But it is my favorite part of my new and improved body...

So my dear friend ended up buying a couple of outfits...that she wasn't really that happy with. I think it made me appreciate my new body even more. A size 12 pant fits - and fits well... sleeveless tops are fine and so much cooler then t-shirts when it gets really hot.....

So, I hope I haven't come accross as a bitch, comparing my body with a friends... but I guess it was more of a realisation then anything that my body has changed and that I have to keep at it and ot let it all go again...

I must maintain 71 for LTM for another 3 weeks, but as soon as christmas has gone I REALLY want to weigh 68kg.... I can never remember weighing 68kg...

Hope each and all are enjoying a little christmas cheer this weekend... nad hopefully more cheer then beer....

I'm a star...

Article about me in our paper today.... I am not sure if you can read it but it is about our lavender plantation...

a BIG GAIN....

No, we aren't talking just a few hundred grams - 1.4kg gain in a week..... I felt that I was heavier and I last exercised on Monday night prior to op - So i haven't had much movement since then and for those of you who like just too much information - I also haven't pooed since the operation also - so there - my excuses - -

I nearly didn't go and weigh - But i knew that I needed to get my attitude into gear and even through I am still quite sore - I can't let it rest too much.

If I can maintain my goal weight of 71kg between now and after christmas I will be happy - so that means a good week for me.

For the first time, I also didn't track this past week. I always track - but with going away and then having surgery - there was only one day out of the week that was really trackable - So I have printed out my little tracker and already in gear for next week.

So my committment for the week - no alcohol - exercise three times (later in week) - and no BLT's - I am still having trouble with this - the bites. licks and tastes are a killer for me!

We are only eating out once this week - tomorrow night and it is a BBQ - I find BBQ so easy with WW - You choose what to eat - portion size etc...

Jack has gone to Halls Gap, in the Grampians for the night with work for a meeting, so it is just me and the kids. I think I will put the kids to bed shortly and start on the house work. I have let the kids really have a quite day today... they have also been so busy. Just a day home playing with their own toys and sleeping in there own beds....

Thanks everyone and I promise to lose next week - I only have three more weeks time life member and I need to get under 71kg for that!!!

One tube gone....

Yeah... they had to take out one of my fallopian tubes... There was a little embryo behind the scarring from the last tube tieing efforts and they had to remove it yesterday.... so I am very stiff and sore... but it is all over for now...

I hate waking from a GA - I just know that there is going to pain - and perhaps a little vomit and feeling so groggy for hours - then a 2.5 hour trip home.... But yesterday wasn't as bad as last time.... I asked for no morph. this time as it made me vomit in Feb.. so I felt better for that. Still a little vague now... but another nights sleep will see to that. Just a little shoulder tip pain - they pump air into you tummy and this for some reason, causing pain in your shoulders...

Anyway.. not really making much sense.. will sign off and go and get some rest... just letting you know that I am OK. Thankyou all of your comments and I will look in on you all over the next few days....

Love to all

What a week!!!

A week without an update - OMG - But I have had the most busy week. I went to Ballarat on Thursday with Hugh and saw Doctor and I am going back Tomorrow (Tuesday) to have another Operation to clamp the tubes and a D & C to clean everything out. We have to be in Ballarat at 7am - so my mum and I plan to leave here at 4.30am!! - Will be fine for me, but it will be a long day for Mum! This one will be free - "no charge" says Dr.. hehehe - I am sure he did everything possible first time around, but with the odd being 1 in 500 - they aren't that great when I think back in heinsight..... I had a very teary day on Wednesday... i think it was all hormones, but I just need it all fixed up again and move on. I cant believe the problems that I have had down there... first not be be able to carry babies - then to not be able to stop getting pregnant - even with my tubes tied!! This will be the 6th D & C that I have had... If I could take out my fertility and wrap it up and give it to someone who had trouble conceiving - I would. We are very lucky....

So that was Thursday gone and then my mother-in-law pulled up in the drive the same time that I did to look after the girls has Jack and I headed to Echuca for the weekend! Jack works for Elders and each year they have a weekend away for their christmas party - a great weekend and Drank and ate to much - But I did go swimming/walking/shopping/dancing till 4am :( - so plenty of movements over the weekend also!! There where three of us there that where WW's - so that was great.

One lady there first went through the WW program in the late 80's and just recently went back again and she can not believe how easy it is now. It has taken her a little while to understand it all - but she just can not believe how easy it is compared to the old program! I know that my mother-in-law says the same - that the old program was too hard. I think I have convienved her to go back. She plans to after christmas - but she doesn't like the lady in Renmark that is the leader, so hopefully she goes along to a meeting and gets back into it!

I hope people don't think I talk about it too much - but my idea is that if I can get one perosn to go to a meeting and make a difference to their life by becoming more healthy - well I am doing the right thing... The difference it has made to me in 3 months is amazing.... the more people I tell the more committed to my lifestyle changes I become. When I first started, I didn't tell anyone apart from family... I think I didn't want to fail!! But not now... I tell everyone!

Exciting news from last week is that our barley came off and went malt (For non-farmers - this is good!) and a average of 27 bags (also good!!) so That was fantastic news... Jack is all smiles!

Lost 400 grams at weigh-in, and happy with this. Carrying around a lot of fuild at present but after tomorrow - this will all be cleaned up. My next little mini goalis to get in the 60's ...

Hope everyone is great and I will post again later in week... Thanks for all of the lovely comments of concern.... but we have been through worse and things will be right again soon!
Take care
kirsty xx