Birthday, Lunch and Telstra Dome and a loss

Ok firstly I celebrated my birthday on the 29th of July, I turned 46. I had a lovely day, starting with getting a lovely pair if silver earrings from Dale (my son) and a beautiful teddybear and glass butterfly from Erin (daughter). My Mum and Dad came up to work with a beautiful arrangement of camellias and 3 charms for my Pandora bracelet. (I will post birthday pictures in the next post) The people I work with got a cake for me...yum!




I went to lunch with the lovely ladies from the Weight Watchers threads again. After much confusion as to where at Southern Cross Station we would meet up, Heather and I did find Marg and we wandered over to Docklands past Telstra Dome. When we got there we had to wait for Dorothy. All of a sudden Heather got a call on her mobile and it turned out Dorothy had walked straight past us. She was about 50m away from us and Heather started describing what Dorothy had on and as she turned there were the 3 of us waving at her. We wandered through New Quay and settled on lunch at Hot Chocolate restaurant. Heather, Dorothy and I had a lovely Caesar salad and Marg had yummy looking egg and ham on toast. In the pic it is L-R Marg and Heather (back) and Dorothy and me in the front.

After lunch Dorothy left us and we walked back to Telstra Dome where the AFL match between St Kilda and Port Adelaide had just begun. As you can see the ground at Telstra Dome from the gates we did a lap of the ground looking in each gate as we passed it.




In this picture we found a Krispy Kreme donut place and we thought it would be funny to show 2 weight watcher people being barred from it by a fence, I was actually roaring with laughter at the time of the photo.





These two photos show(if you look closely enough) the actual ground at Telstra Dome.

We had a lovely day and after leaving Telstra Dome we had a wander through DFO, said goodbye to Marg, had another cuppa and made the train with a minute to spare (well timed)I had such a lovely day. (lots of steps on the pedometer too!!!)





Oh by the way I also had another loss this week...1.5kg which is now 21.9kg all up.

till next time

Chelle

New Picture, a lovely lunch and stars!!

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The picture on the right was taken on the 14th of July with me having lost 20kg. I did actually achieve the 20kg mark a couple of weeks ago but just needed to hve my photo done. I have since lost another kg to bring the total to 21kgs lost in 26 weeks. (Gotta love that right...Woo Hoo!)





On Sunday the 20th of July I went to lunch with 2 lovely ladies from Weight Watchers; Heather who is the weigher/recorder and now money taker/counter at my own meeting and Marg who I met through the Weight Watchers boards. After much to-ing and fro-ing with the plans we decided to meet at Berwick. After a 30 minute walk we drove into Berwick and after yet more walking decided to have lunch at the first place we looked at...Moods. The food was lovely, Heather and I had a chicken souvlaki with tzatsiki on the side and Marg had a lovely looking Hawaiian omelette. What we didn't expect was the serve of chips we also each got. We did eat a couple but not all. We also avoided the "evil" cake selection. 20 Weight Watchers points just to take a look at them hehe. We took our photos to show each other and chatted a lot. Our waiter was delightful and joined in a couple of funny converstions with us and a waitress agreed to take our photo. The end result is below. Such a good day with fabulous company, thanks Heather and Marg. (Hopefully next time we can have all the ladies on our thread attend that would be great!!)



I am on the right, Heather in the middle and Marg on the left.


I have joined the 12 week star team challenge on the Weight Watchers boards, along with abaout 480 other people. So far I have completed my first week and earned myself a green star for completing the week one challenge of drinking 6 - 8 glasses of water 6 out of 7 days. I got a blue star for losing 300gms in the first week. (See left of screen) Week 2 challenge is 2 fruit and 5 vegies. Bring it on...yayayay

Michelle

A Quick Update

Well it has been a while and Yay me I have been going really well. I achieved my 20kg loss and I got a job. I am a Medical Receptionist for a Neuro Physio Group, and I am loving it so far. A lot to learn but I am very happy.

I had an awesome lunch with the lovely people I worked with at PFO on Saturday the 5th of July and got loads of compliments about my weight loss, which made me feel great. Everyone looks fabulous and so much happier.



books and scale surprises


The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

01. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen my favourite book
02. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling I've read the whole series and loved it!!
05. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06. The Bible - the bits we were made to read at school (which was quite a bit)
07. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare -
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwel
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery – Have read the whole series of Anne books
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet- William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Till next time

Chelle

Life Is Hectic.....

Wow, yes I know it has been a while between posts, but I have been busy looking for work and embarking on a Centrelink required Jobsearch course. I hope you enjoy the pictures of the beautiful spider webs on some of my trees taken the other morning.




After not many interviews, suddenly they are coming thick and fast. I actually have 2 different 2nd round interviews this coming week. (wouldn't it be funny to have a choice of jobs after all this time...lol).




Dale is off to driver training at school...a two day course. I hope it goes well, they do have dual control so I should feel ok about it, right? He is also about to do a week's work experience with his Dad. Should be exciting...would love to be a fly on the wall there!




Erin is happy as usual and enjoying school now the bullying seems to have been brought under control.




I have been losing weight, I wanted to lose 700gms this week to get to the 20kg milestone but alas i lost 200gms instead. I am happy with the loss but would have loved the extra 500g to go too. Never mind I am happy with my loss so far and the smaller clothes I have had to buy as a result...gotta love that right?

On the Weight Watchers boards we have a lot of challenges and for the months of April and May we had our own version of The Biggest Loser. I managed to come 2nd...I lost the most weight but not the most body fat. So YAY ME!!! I am doing it again and thankfully survived the 1st week of the challenge.

I have also been doing Craig Harper's Shove with Love challenge. I have been lucky enough to have a few personal replies from him which has spurred me on immensely. Had the chance to meet him today for coffee (with a big group of people) but alas I had a prior engagement and had to give it a miss...maybe next time. So I guess it is back to his daily posts and Tuesday 6:45am segments on Gold104.3FM.

I have also spent some time on MSN with a great bunch of people, Chrissy, Sue, Mia, Robyn, Elaine (in Scotland) and her son Andy, Caz and Linda. We have a ball and it is sometimes hard to keep up. Erin often gets on from her Dad's place and chats too.

So I hope this updates you all a bit on what I have been up to and I will try to post...next week when I reach 20kg!!!!(fingers crossed I may even have an update on the job front too.)

Chelle

The Story So Far....

Wow, I have just completed week 16 of my Weight Watchers journey, so I decided to show some photos of my progress so far. (See if you can see the difference)

The first photo is from my mum's birthday celebrations and for now has dictated what
I will wear in the photos.(Well until they literally fall of me!)



The second photo was taken on Easter Sunday and after 9 weeks on the journey. I was pretty pleased with the 11.7 kg loss I had achieved at that point.



This next photo was taken this morning after my Weight Watchers meeting and after having a 1.7kg loss taking the total to 17kgs lost. (As you can see from the rainbow tracker above I have lost over 6% BMI as well.



I am so pleased with my progress so far and would love to have some feedback so please if you have a look at this blog click on the comments at the bottom of this post and leave a comment, would love top hear from you.

Till next time

Michelle

Woo Hoo More Losses

Firstly on the 12th of April I lost 2kg and finally achieved my 10% weight loss goal. I got my beautiful little gold star as seen in the picture. I also got a big round of applause from the incredibly supportive people at my meeting. (And also the wonderful people from the Weight Watchers message boards - Thank you)




In the photo is also my 10 week achievement pin and the special goal keyring I am making. I had a loss of 300gms on the 19th April, so the total so far is 14.5kgs.The next to go on will be the 20kg loss, which is only 5.5kg away.

For a bit of fun I had a bit of a play on www.mvm.com, I entered my start and goal weight details and created a before and after shot for inspiration. Wow, what a difference, that is what I am striving for.





I have also downloaded msn messenger and have been having a lot of fun with some of the Weight Watchers board users. I was even in conversation with Erin on msn while she was at her Dad's place. We have been having such a good time.

It's been a while....

We have had a birthday. Erin turned 13. She had a lovely birthday and we had a lovely cake and balloons. Nana and Granddad came for an afternoon tea party.


These two were in the packet stuck together. It was rather funny blowing the two of them up. It felt really wierd blowing up the second balloon with the first one attached.




I have lost more weight and also last week had a gain so the total as of today is a loss of 12.2kg. I am back on track and feel the problem was not enough water or exercise. I am so close to my 10% goal.Do you love my rainbow. I am chasing my own pot of gold at the end of my own rainbow!



I finally got a job interview. It was with an agency and apparently I made quite an impression and the lady interviewing me said she'd like to put me up for the job. so fingers crossed. I got my neighbour to photograph me in my interview outfit.



I will hear back from the agency about when my interview with the company is. It is for a receptionist position. I felt really good about todays interview.