tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73124018320901832362024-03-05T08:24:51.708-08:00Weight Lost Life GainedI'm 47 years old and overweight. This needs to change. Now is the time for that to happen.Lucky-1http://www.blogger.com/profile/17904586950202567882noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312401832090183236.post-79397347160343446352011-04-12T03:47:00.000-07:002011-04-12T04:04:08.980-07:00Beautiful Walking Weather<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.glasbergen.com/wp-content/gallery/womens-fitness-cartoons/fit49.gif"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 612px; height: 438px;" src="http://www.glasbergen.com/wp-content/gallery/womens-fitness-cartoons/fit49.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.offthemarkcartoons.com/cartoons/2009-04-11.gif"><br /></a><br /><br />Today was such a lovely day for walking. Not too hot and not too cold and no wind. Having no wind was the best part as I have a sore inner ear.<br /><br />That will be a walk this week, down to the doctors to see if I need antibiotics for it or not. So while there Pat can have his flu shot.<br /><br />After sewing this morning Amanda who picked me up, lives a couple of streets over from the train station. Amanda kindly dropped us off at the interchange and into the city we went.<br /><br />Not having walked to the station, we made sure we walked everywhere in the city. Including from the mall to the markets. We did catch the tram back to the train station, as Pat was getting breathless and we still had the walk home from our train stop.<br /><br />What a lovely walk home it was too. Just over a km from the train station to our place. I pulled the shopping cart (fondly called the 4 wheel drive) stacked full of goodies from the markets.<br /><br />Feel very positive from our walk today and Pat said its good to get back into the habit of walking. Good for my health and weight loss and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">very good</span> for Pat's asthma and diabetes.<br /><br />Can't wait for tomorrow's walk to the stupidmarkets and think of the $ we aren't putting into the car's fuel tank.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">One step at a time....</span><br /><br /><br /><p><img id="image329" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/Luckyland/technorati.gif" alt="Technorati" /> technorati tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/walking" rel="tag">walking</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/weight" rel="tag">weight</a></p>Lucky-1http://www.blogger.com/profile/17904586950202567882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312401832090183236.post-63616093768549345342011-04-10T18:45:00.000-07:002011-04-10T18:54:26.169-07:00Two Weeks Of Walking<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/jkn/lowres/jknn296l.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 333px; height: 400px;" src="http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/jkn/lowres/jknn296l.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Well hello blog...been awhile hasn't it??<br /><br />Thought I'd drop in and say hi and let you know what my plan of attack for a couple of weeks is.<br /><br />First off the car is out of rego and we have opted to go without a car and pay some bills instead.<br /><br />So we are walking everywhere for the next 2 weeks at least.<br /><br />Today we walked 4 km to sell my eggs to a customer. Usually we take the car....but not this time round.<br /><br />I'm thinking if I am good enough blogger, I'll record each day how far we walk. I have an idea of the distances to the shopping centres.<br /><br />Tomorrow we'll walk to the train station to get a train into the city and so on. But that's another story.<br /><br />Even though I am not as good as what I should be (walking wise) I haven't gained weight actually I have lost a bit more. Just need to visit here and record my weight lose.<br /><br />I'm excited about this challenge and can't wait to see what happens over the next couple of weeks.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">One step at a time....</span><br /><br /><p><img id="image329" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/Luckyland/technorati.gif" alt="Technorati" /> technorati tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/walking" rel="tag">walking</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/weight" rel="tag">weight</a></p>Lucky-1http://www.blogger.com/profile/17904586950202567882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312401832090183236.post-32265338556923342122011-01-20T13:22:00.000-08:002011-01-20T13:36:12.953-08:00Update<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mchumor.com/00images/7408_diet_cartoon.gif"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 435px;" src="http://www.mchumor.com/00images/7408_diet_cartoon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I'm sitting here eating my breakfast, a serve of vanilla yogurt with fresh strawberries from the garden thrown in. Thinking I should drop by and say hi.<br /><br />Still loosing weigh, slowly and if I was able to get motivated into walking again, I'm sure I'd loose more.<br /><br />Pat has been sick again with another chest infection, so I'm holding down the fort for all of us. By the time the end of the day arrives, I just fall in a heap in front of the TV.<br /><br />What I need to do is, walk again....first thing in the morning. Once school is back and my walking buddy is able to encourage me and I her...... things will be back to normal.<br /><br />I've lost 6 kilo now and people are telling me, they can see I have lost weight. Makes me feel good when I hear it.<br /><br />Oh yeah, I heard the other day..................one of those yummy muffins you like to eat with your coffee while out shopping, is equivalent to 8 slices of bread. <img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_eek.gif" alt="eek" title="eek" height="15" width="15" /> Oh well..... more weight lost and more $$$ in my purse....lol<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">One step at a time....</span><br /><br /><p><img id="image329" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/Luckyland/technorati.gif" alt="Technorati" /> technorati tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/walking" rel="tag">walking</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/weight" rel="tag">weight</a></p>Lucky-1http://www.blogger.com/profile/17904586950202567882noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312401832090183236.post-22910833636810669942010-12-19T15:26:00.000-08:002010-12-19T15:33:34.184-08:00December Update<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/abr/lowres/abrn779l.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/abr/lowres/abrn779l.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Well yes it's that time of the year, where we're told not to over indulge and to eat in moderation.<br /><br />Also if we fall off the weight wagon to just start fresh the next day.<br /><br />Sounds like a good plan to me.<br /><br />We're off out to our son-in law's parent's place for Christmas this year. So I have no idea what we are going to be having for Christmas lunch. But I do know I shall enjoy it very much and just start again on the 26th.<br /><br />I'm still loosing weight, I was 84.7 yesterday morning. Khris and I seem to have found it hard to get motivated for walking in this time of the silly season. Once she is back from Queensland I'll have to kick our bums and get out walking again.<br /><br />So from this want- a-be but slimmer woman, to you out there Merry Christmas and stay safe on the roads.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">One step at a time....</span><br /><br /><p><img id="image329" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/Luckyland/technorati.gif" alt="Technorati" /> technorati tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/walking" rel="tag">walking</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/weight" rel="tag">weight</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/food" rel="tag">food</a></p>Lucky-1http://www.blogger.com/profile/17904586950202567882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312401832090183236.post-71577660365845921952010-11-14T20:51:00.000-08:002010-11-14T21:01:05.102-08:00What The Doctor Said.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqJnM7gjWSedYLVtsS1J93QHXpS-8Uq3tYnF7gWmJOZogw9VfJx4qSSLsyPSxpvbDoUinr3bREt7bie89h0gAQqywcn_BuITec5uaPtbv60DNU2vYbXR64XVXmo3pflhaEnURYscqHziXv/s1600/Image1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 130px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqJnM7gjWSedYLVtsS1J93QHXpS-8Uq3tYnF7gWmJOZogw9VfJx4qSSLsyPSxpvbDoUinr3bREt7bie89h0gAQqywcn_BuITec5uaPtbv60DNU2vYbXR64XVXmo3pflhaEnURYscqHziXv/s200/Image1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539634684881559026" border="0" /></a><br />Oh I am a happy, slimmer woman today.....<br /><br />Pat needed to see our family doctor and so I thought, I'd get an idea of my height and ideal weight range for me.<br /><br />Its there in black and white.... so I have amended my height and weight I would like to aim for.<br /><br />I'm nearly out of the obese range and into the over weight range. I'm stoked!!!! I can't remember the last time I was under 85 kilo, back when I was working, over 8 years ago at a guess.<br /><br />Onwards and upwards..... or should that be downwards (weight wise.)<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">One step at a time....</span><br /><br /><br /><p><img id="image329" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/Luckyland/technorati.gif" alt="Technorati" /> technorati tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/weight" rel="tag">weight</a></p>Lucky-1http://www.blogger.com/profile/17904586950202567882noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312401832090183236.post-35375455961462998902010-11-04T22:25:00.000-07:002010-11-04T22:31:06.151-07:00Another One Bite The Dust.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.chrismadden.co.uk/food/balanced-diet.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 394px; height: 500px;" src="http://www.chrismadden.co.uk/food/balanced-diet.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Yay....I have once again shifted my lovely little butterfly along the chart scale. Another kilo bites the dust.<br /><br />This week coming is going to be a testing time for me as my walking buddy is going home to Queensland for a week. So if I don't get out and pound the pavements on my own, I'll be in the gym room on the treadmill each night.<br /><br />Might end up posting here a bit more, to clear my head as I won't have Khris to chew her ear off instead.<br /><br />Tomorrow my niece is getting married, so I'm not going to be stressing out too much about what I eat. She's only going to be married once and so I'm going to enjoy the day 100%.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">One step at a time....</span><br /><br /><p><img id="image329" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/Luckyland/technorati.gif" alt="Technorati" /> technorati tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/food" rel="tag">food</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/gym" rel="tag">gym</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/walking" rel="tag">walking</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/weight" rel="tag">weight</a></p>Lucky-1http://www.blogger.com/profile/17904586950202567882noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312401832090183236.post-48531218943286167612010-10-30T04:43:00.000-07:002010-10-30T04:52:44.909-07:00Fruit Loaf<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/rrd0044l.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 359px;" src="http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/rrd0044l.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I have a fruit loaf cooking in the bread maker. Oh it smells so yummy....... but I'm going to be good and not have a slice until tomorrow for breakfast.<br /><br />On a different note, if I jump on my scales and hold my cat Lucky at the same time, my weight is what it was when my journey started earlier this month.<br /><br />Instead of thinking I've lost a 2 kilo packet of sugar, I'm now thinking........... I've lost my beautiful cat.....lol<br /><br />That is so cool.<br /><br />Khris & I did get a walk in last evening. The promise of rain followed us for the hour, but only a very light mist fell for a couple of minutes.<br /><br />This afternoon I walked for 20 mins and then did weights for 20 mins. By then the Supernatural DVD had run its 40 min course.<br /><br />One thing that has stood out is my sleep pattern has changed. I'm no longer laying there for up to an hour waiting to fall asleep. Also I am not waking up much through the night, unless Pat wakes me. This makes me <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">so happy</span>.<br /><br />Anyway...better go and find something to keep my mind and nose off that fruit loaf cooking...............<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">One step at a time....</span><br /><br /><p><img id="image329" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/Luckyland/technorati.gif" alt="Technorati" /> technorati tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/food" rel="tag">food</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/walking" rel="tag">walking</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/gym" rel="tag">gym</a></p>Lucky-1http://www.blogger.com/profile/17904586950202567882noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312401832090183236.post-62727933272489783552010-10-28T23:36:00.000-07:002010-10-28T23:46:20.875-07:00Today's Weigh In<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/rma/lowres/rman3515l.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 341px; height: 400px;" src="http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/rma/lowres/rman3515l.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Not for me it isn't.....lol<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>I'm stoked as this week I lost weight.......YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY<br /><br />All up I have now lost 2.4 kilo and I'm grinning from ear to ear.<br /><br />The extra walking and smaller meals and 5 a day not 3 is helping. I'm learning more about the info on foods and I'm now eating fruit. Yep fruit!!! <img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_eek.gif" alt="eek" title="eek" height="15" width="15" /> I'm more of a vegie girl, but I'm learning to eat fruit and enjoy it. I must say I do like the tropical fruit to pears and apples.<br /><br />Today its raining here, so no walk today. After tea tonight I'll use our treadmill up in the gym and play a DVD to stop me being bored.<br /><br />Khris also gave me some digital bathroom scales to use. Thanks Khris, save you dragging yours over when we go walking and I'm having a fit , if my weight has gained.<br /><br />Walks off into the sunset....... singing......... I've lost something and I am feeling wonderful.....lalalala <img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_mrgreen.gif" alt="mrgreen" title="mrgreen" height="15" width="15" /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">One step at a time....</span><br /><br /><p><img id="image329" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/Luckyland/technorati.gif" alt="Technorati" /> technorati tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/food" rel="tag">food</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/walking" rel="tag">walking</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/weight" rel="tag">weight</a></p>Lucky-1http://www.blogger.com/profile/17904586950202567882noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312401832090183236.post-12255260198720632702010-10-26T01:55:00.000-07:002010-10-26T02:08:23.266-07:00My Reward<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/jmp080410l.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 329px; height: 400px;" src="http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/jmp080410l.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Today Pat & I were in the city and while there we took a tram to Hettie's Patch and I rewarded myself with some <a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://stitchselection.blogspot.com/2010/10/first-pieced-quilt-reward.html">beautiful fabric</a> for loosing 2 kilo.<br /><br />I thought 1/4 metre per 500 grams was a good call.<br /><br />I have a feeling I have put it back on now though....... bugger hey???? <img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_eek.gif" alt="eek" title="eek" height="15" width="15" /> A busy last weekend and today wasn't a good day eating wise..... gone from 8.45 this morning to 4.30 in the afternoon. Finished off the day with fish & chips as we're both too darn tired to cook any tea.<br /><br />Gee if this is the case, do I take the fabric back and get a refund.......lol<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">One step at a time....</span><br /><br /><br /><p><img id="image329" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/Luckyland/technorati.gif" alt="Technorati" /> technorati tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/weight" rel="tag">weight</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/food" rel="tag">food</a></p>Lucky-1http://www.blogger.com/profile/17904586950202567882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312401832090183236.post-50208663100444318382010-10-24T23:47:00.000-07:002010-10-24T23:49:55.712-07:00Been Hard This weekend.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/vsh0141l.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/vsh0141l.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This weekend just gone was a complete right-off.................... hanging out for a walk with Khris after tea tonight.<br /><br />As I say at the end of these posts <img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_mrgreen.gif" alt="mrgreen" title="mrgreen" height="15" width="15" /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">One step at a time....</span><br /><br /><br /><p><img id="image329" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/Luckyland/technorati.gif" alt="Technorati" /> technorati tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/walking" rel="tag">walking</a></p>Lucky-1http://www.blogger.com/profile/17904586950202567882noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312401832090183236.post-84479661597362318762010-10-21T22:23:00.000-07:002010-10-21T22:50:16.838-07:00Food, Food And Food.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.jasonlove.com/cartoons/00422-daily-cartoons-losing-weight.gif"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 357px;" src="http://www.jasonlove.com/cartoons/00422-daily-cartoons-losing-weight.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />LOL that cartoon is just how I felt this morning at weigh in time. I'm the same weight I was last Friday. <img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_razz.gif" alt="razz" title="razz" height="15" width="15" /> Both Khris and I just looked at each other..... I check 3 times and for a laugh I removed my ankle socks and raised my arms to see if the scales even moved.<br /><br />Nothing.<br /><br />Going over the last week we came up with some thoughts like<br /><br /><ul><li>I haven't been eating my points (Weight Watchers) up each day and maybe my body is hanging on to the small amount I am having and not burning a lot of it up. I'm allowed 20 points a day and some days I was only having 16.</li></ul><ul><li>Lifting weights in the gym has started to turn my flabby pecks to firmer pecks and my weight is staying the same. Wonder if my boobs will become perky again??<br /></li></ul><ul><li>I'm not pooping like I used to either....... you were just busting to know that one, weren't you. <img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_twisted.gif" alt="twisted" title="twisted" height="15" width="15" /> I would have a sandwich for lunch (home made multi grain bread), so I'll go back to that as well and see if the pooping returns. No carbs in the afternoon or evening.<br /></li></ul><ul><li>I'm special <img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_mrgreen.gif" alt="mrgreen" title="mrgreen" height="15" width="15" /> Yeah I like that one........lol</li></ul><br />So I'm going to try something different for the next 7 days.<br /><br /><ul><li>Eat my points each day.</li></ul><ul><li>Have little snacks between meals, I'm not a grazer......3 meals a day has been my motto for years. Unless I hit the Cheese and Onion chips. Then its look out gut....here it comes with a splash of diet coke.<br /></li></ul><ul><li>Have a fresh egg from one of my girls each morning for breakfast. Usually its 1 piece of toast and a cup of tea and nothing until lunch time.<br /></li></ul><ul><li>Only do weights once a week on a Wednesday night. Monday & Friday nights, walk on the treadmill.</li></ul><ul><li>Keep that walking up in the mornings with Khris.</li></ul><ul><li>Plus the walking I do with Pat to the shops and such.</li></ul><br />Be interesting to see what happens over the next 7 days.<br /><br />I don't see what I have done as a loss for the last week as I didn't lose any weight. What I did gain though was a great friendship and walking buddy and more energy. I'm happy with this weeks effort.<br /><br />Oh yeah I have been measured and I'll pop the sizes on my side bar. If I'm gonna be talking fat , flab, fun, firming up and trimming down........ gotta do the bad with the good. As I do in all my blogs.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">One step at a time....</span>Lucky-1http://www.blogger.com/profile/17904586950202567882noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312401832090183236.post-24616982230351416532010-10-20T22:49:00.000-07:002010-10-20T22:59:26.989-07:00Good Snacking.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtBToQTKnigHFUvuOppg53fqJpi67e0sd7iJjCTeZQ8dDJOBZ6A6yBhUoEYp0og1vq2qC0vmLfP9wImswlRESYNuuuy_XoKhNPXXUMDgOcBKJVlBOe7uXAmc3cqliv0zUF-fRmh04HsECB/s1600/radish.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtBToQTKnigHFUvuOppg53fqJpi67e0sd7iJjCTeZQ8dDJOBZ6A6yBhUoEYp0og1vq2qC0vmLfP9wImswlRESYNuuuy_XoKhNPXXUMDgOcBKJVlBOe7uXAmc3cqliv0zUF-fRmh04HsECB/s200/radish.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530372405532131938" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Thank goodness the radishes are starting to be picked out in my organic <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;" href="http://luckysduckfarm.blogspot.com/">vegie garden</a>. I don't mind sharing a nibble here and there as I can eat as many as these as I like.<br /><br />Walking today was once again fun and I have put a link to Khris' blog on my side bar. My legs and hips were feeling it this morning. I have put this down to the hour walk yesterday and then the 40 mins in the gym last night.<br /><br />Tomorrow can't some fast enough as I get to jump on some scales. I wonder how much I have lost this last week???<br /><br />At the moment I am cooking some mini egg & bacon pies for a kitchen tea for my soon to be married niece.Needed to remember not to eat any of the bacon trimmings. <img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_mrgreen.gif" alt="mrgreen" title="mrgreen" height="15" width="15" /><br /><br />This Saturday morning will be a big test as the kitchen tea is in my house. <img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_eek.gif" alt="eek" title="eek" height="15" width="15" /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">One step at a time....</span>Lucky-1http://www.blogger.com/profile/17904586950202567882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312401832090183236.post-46839580570972147982010-10-20T01:42:00.000-07:002010-10-20T02:10:12.231-07:00Day 12I have 5 other blogs............ about gardening, knitting, sewing, food saving and my traveling pigs. So what is another one to add to my list. Now I'm sitting here thinking how do I start off this blog, about something very personal.....my weight.<br /><br />I mean there are some women who wouldn't dare whisper their weight in case someone heard. Not me, one thing I am not is shy.<br /><br />Figured just jump in and say what I want and how I want.<br /><br />I'm chubby, spongy, carry weight, have love handles ....more places than I care to think. My knees hurt and my hips some days can be painful. Basically I am fat.<br /><br />I've been known as<br /><ul><li>Mum & Dad's daughter</li><li>Pat's wife</li><li>Amy & James' mum</li></ul>and now<br /><ul><li>Pat's carer</li></ul>Over these years I haven't really put much thought into me. Oh sure I garden, knit, sew and such, but<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> not for me</span>.<br /><br />After Pat went on insulin for his diabetes back in April this year and I had to fine tune his eating habits, I started to think about my health. Pat's diabetes is due to years of ill health with his asthma and the steroids he has needed to take since 1997.<br /><br />At quilting I was listening to my friends about how they are searching for that weight loss or are achieving it.<br /><br />On Friday 8th of October 2010 I took that step and here we are.<br /><br />In the 12 days I have lost 1.9 kilo and I have my second weigh in at a friend's place this Friday. There are no scales in our house, my last set broke and I was using Amy's. But as she left home 2 years ago, I haven't worried about replacing them.<br /><br /><br />James' bedroom has been made into a gym and why not take advantage of this as I'm not paying gym fees. Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights I take my laptop up and play a DVD of Supernatural and put 40 plus minutes into exercises.<br /><br />Also today Khris and I have started walking near my place on a soccer oval. We put an hour in, brisk walking and talking and it was a load of fun. Instead of walking at Pat's speed (we walk a lot) I was what felt like running.<br /><br />I want to use this blog to record my thoughts, weight loss and I am sure weight gain. It's not a diet, but a life style change.<br /><br />On the days I am weighed I'll record it here for all to see.<br /><br />Also over the next week or so I'll add to the side bar and pretty it up some.<br /><br />If you become a follower.....thanks and feel free to comment too.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">One step at a time....</span>Lucky-1http://www.blogger.com/profile/17904586950202567882noreply@blogger.com3