Still here...

Good god.. a week without a post.. sorry.. but it has been busy!

The weekend away with Jack was brilliant! The ute behaved and didn't miss a beat, the accommodation was great.. in fact.. I wish I could live there! The little gym on the second floor was also cool! I went out on Saturday night with firm muscles from my workout in the morning! That was nice! One thing that I couldn't believe was the shower head in the motel!!! I know that we are extreme with our water situation, but I swear the amount of water that poured through that beautiful shower head would have been enough water to keep our sheep going for a week! Amazing!!! even through we aren't greenies (as far from it as you could nearly imagine..) but man.. surely if there was a little more water conservation it would all help with the big picture!

Anyway.. this week has been flat out... but things have all been done and up to date! Gym and food have been great. A little ashamed to admit this, but there is a lady at gym in her 50's and she was on the rower forever... and I just asked how long she spends on there and she said 30 minutes.. farrk... I do about 15 (that is how long it takes me to do 2500m) so, not to have a 50 odd year old beat me, I sat of that fuckin' rower for 30 minutes also (after a previous 40 minutes of cardio...) well.. I had to roll off the seat and my arse still hasn't quite recovered!

The sun was shining yesterday, so I again bundled the kids up in the car with their bikes and we did the creek track in town! It must look funny.. three kids taking off too fast and their mother running behind trying to catch up and yelling.. "stop at the corner..." either way with was yet another hour of good cardio!

Did ya all read Kenz recent post about choices??? I love that concept! Everything we do is a choice! If you don't read her posts, please do!!! She is a brilliant writer and puts things in prospective with no fuss!!!

So.. i think I might follow suit as share come of my choices as well during my weeks.

Choices..

I chose to have a Coke Zero instead of the ice cream yesterday afternoon in the sunshine...

I chose to cook a beautiful roasted vegetable pasta instead of the normal take-away...

Have fun girls...

Take 3...

of this post!! Having trouble posting!!

• BEAUTIFUL weather!!! My god bring on summer!!!! I love the hot month. I get so much more excited about summer and summer clothes!
• Kids are packed and ready to be shipped off tomorrow!! Jack and I leave at lunch time to head to his Pembroke school reunion in Adelaide, so bags are packed, WB Ute is clean (and going again after a new engine was put in..) Won't be much conversation over jack's 80's music and the roar of the v8!! Lucky I brought the new Madison mag (at a free Napoleon mascara as well!!)
• I was sore last night from Gym.. legs!! much better today!
• Food has been awesome! Looking forward to a few meals out in Adelaide.
• Have a 2 year old birthday party tonight so I don't even have to mess up my kitchen again before we leave!!!
• Emilie is enrolled into primary school.. forms are handed in!!
• Had lunch with the girls yesterday.. NO ONE had cake (that is a first..) maybe I am rubbing off of people...
• Went to the playschool concert on Tuesday on a bus with playgroup. Kids loved it!!! So many people I went to school with have had kids!! Great to catch up with so many!
• Looking forward to using the gym at the motel that we are staying at in Adelaide... just different. Must also remember to pack the bathers!
• Will be back on Monday with photos of the weekend (note to self.. pack the camera!)

till then take care and get some sunshine!

Tall and strong...

If someone asked me how I felt at the moment... that is how I would describe it! I have been doing core body exercises every other day now for a few months and I feel great.. flatter, taller and stronger!!


I have about 20 minutes before I have to head into town again to collect the kids before our fitness for life program begins, but better type fast!





getting very excited about our weekend away this coming weekend. We have Jack's boarding school reunion in Adelaide, so kids have been farmed out and we are off! got a rate deal on wotif on a 5 star motel room (one of those mystery bookings..) so will be great!


Course is great as well!! Surprised how well I am absorbing the information! Been a while since the brain has been in gear.

I brought the kids christmas present the other day.. a Honda 50 motorbike!! I am excited, just hope that they are! They will LOVE it on the farm... just looking for all of the protection gear now.

Our neighbour just brought a new KTM motorcross bike, it kids had a ride last night... look at them posing in front of it! (excuse the feral clothes.. farm day at home)

Heading to the playschool concert tomorrow morning in a bus with 21 other kids... Hope George puts on the dress again..

Weekend was great.... Ok.. better go!

WW Slimmer of the year....

is it a curse???? I think after reading a recent post, you would nearly give the award back (once you had flown OS to meet Fergie first)..

I am presuming that most of you guys read What about your hips?? Amanda recently wrote about how her sister Anita was one of the slimmers of the year with WW and how they tried to organise a reunion of all of the last 15 years of Slimmers of the year, but they had to cancel the reunion as ALL 15 of the winners had gained the weight back on!!!

My first reaction was WTF??? That is amazing... But as I said in an email to CKK, if this was published, most people would knock the WW program.. "doesn't work.." "You just put it all back on again.." but when you really think about the amount of weight the slimmers of the year lost, they must have had huge psychological issue to firstly get to that fat. Some have lost around 70 or 80kg!

This is just my humble opinion, but these might be some of the reason they put weight back on:-

• The haven't dealt with the issue that made them put on weight in the first place. Not saying that they have huge scars that will never heal (eg. abuse, death of someone close etc.) But even low self-esteem could be a big enough issue. Not everyone thinks the same. Something as simple as a off-handed comment can be enough to make someone think that they can't keep weight off. "they will just put it all back on again..." or not being comfortable with the positive comments that could also come their way. Quoting jack "Sometimes it pays to pay for help.." I am sure that there are thousands of people out there that have overcome major issues that impacted on their weight and kept it off. But, perhaps they worked through those issues more thoroughly.
• This one is related to the first reason, but if they do have issues etc., the WW program might have been their vice.. the thing that they focused on, sunk their teeth into, instead of what ever the problem might have been. Once they had lost weight, they lost their next vice...
• I also think that some fatter people believe that their life will be perfect once they are thin.... they might be happy with how they look, but other areas of their life are still falling apart. Sure, you will be healthier but it doesn't make then control their kids better or deal with anything else better for that matter...

I am sure their are other reason, like Anita, Amanda's sister, she is pregnant with her third child.

Can you imagine the pressure on these people once they have been announced as a slimmer of the year... all of that publicly, firstly how much weight they weighed, the embarrassment of that being announced nationally.. then the pressure to keep that image going. That in itself could be enough to succumb to a deep fried donut eat day...

People.. deal with your head first... the rest will then fall into place!

I believe that the WW tools are great!! But they are just that tools.. You still need to do it and anything you change in your life to become healthier, must be done for life,! Not just until you fit into your honeymoon jeans..

What do you think???

Giddy-up!!!

Opened up my in-box this morning and this greeted me!!!

Mail from Craig Harper...

Hi Kirsty.

A little birdie told me that you have lost a whole bunch of weight, have turned your life around, you’re now inspiring others and you’re undertaking some study to become a Trainer…
Giddyup Girl!
Good for you.
I also heard that you have been steering people in the direction of Fattitude… thanks.
If you need any help, advice etc. with your study or your PT/fitness career let me know and maybe I can be of some help (or not).
I started doing PT when no-one knew what it was… I think that makes me old.

Anyway Kirsty, take care and let me know if I can help.You can email me or call me on (xx) xxxxxxx after 2pm most days

Peace and hugs,

Craig


Chuffed...
totally chuffed...
Made. my. day.. (at it is only 9am!)

So thank you little birdies!!! (i think I have a fair idea what chick/s they are!)

Sore hips....

Bit stiff and sore... and not sure what has caused it.... Had a great workout at the gym yesterday. I don't normally do a heap of carido at gym, as I have limited time there.. but machines where busy and the trainers where riding my back a little.. so I took the challenge and sore today... a nice soreness...

I should have taken my camera to the kids gym last night.. we have a Tai Chi for kids instructor for a few weeks! You should have seen the little ones! Will take the camera next week. I have never down Tai Chi before.. perhaps that is the reason for my soreness???

Neearly finished my first assessment for the fitnation course!! Surprising how I am fitting in little bits of study here and there!

My sister and her partner are in sunny Tasmania today buying a house. My little sister is moving there next year!!! So looks like a few holidays in Tas coming up. I have NEVER been there.. so will be great!

I have just made a pot of pea and ham soup (new WW cook book).. very yummo! Both Laura and Hugh love soup.. so it won't last long.

I have kinder duty tomorrow, but my Mum is coming up to do it for me. It does my head in.. I don't to craft well.. mum loves it!!

I just got an email from CKK... **waves** better go

cupcakes anyone...

what a job to give me...

they look nice through....

My friend that had her baby at 26 weeks is home and we we having her belated baby shower tomorrow after lunch... my jobs.. games and cupcakes... they are going piss themselves laughing at my games... will let you all know how it goes!

I have sunk my teeth into the first module of the fitnation course... LOVE IT... I have had a friend ask me to help her with getting her head around food etc. and she commented to me what passion I speak about the issue with.. so that was nice that others can also see that I get very excited about helping someone else and begin to talk really fast!!!

Little Hugh has been a little off colour the past few days. We headed to Horsham yesterday to do a few jobs and by the time we got home, Hughie was hot (38.7) and I took him into the Dr's... all ok.. just keep the drugs up to the boy!!

I had a great workout at gym on Wednesday.. VERY sore yesterday. I didn't intend on running for as long as I did, but there was a bit of drama going on there and who would leave without seeing it to the end hey... Even if it does mean I stuggle to get out of bed!

Yet another busy weekend for us... will post again soon!!

It has arrived!!!

Did anyone else read Craig Harper's recent post about being excited???? Well that is how I am feeling!! This has just arrived!!!

"You have nothing to worry about...."

or

"It won't hurt you"

or

"Are you still watching what you eat?"

with me here....

can you get my drift....

Isn't it funny how people comment on what you eat... do you think they would tell me not to eat something if I was 150kg??? I think not...

I have been guilty of those comment above myself.. in my other life... now I know better!!

I believe that anyone who has been over weight and has fought the battle to lose it and keep it off NEVER stop watching what they eat.

Sounds depressing doesn't it.. but that is the reality. I can remember when that light bulb went off (I may have blogged about it..) and I was in a little bit of a depressed state for a couple of days when I realised that I will never be able to just eat anything my heart desires IF i wanted to remain slim. But then.. the second light bulb was turned on and it means more to me to he healthy, fit and slim then choosing to eat cheesecake, KFC and god dammed fuckin' Hungry Jack's Whoppers (31 friggins WW points in one of those suckers..)

It is my choice to eat what I do. I never make a song and dance about my food choices. I don't read a menu and get the "Food Police" pen out and work out which choices will keep me running for a week to burn off.

So why do people comment??? (they are usually ones with a weight problem themselves..)

My opinion... they would secretly love nothing more then to watch me blow out to 80 + kg again. I am sure that they (well most) aren't conscious what what they are saying and thinking at their back of their head.."see.. I told you she would just put it all back on again.."

Well my little saboteurs... my life.. my choice.. and I choose to be slim and fit!