Catch up and Mother's Day Classic

Well, long time no post...sorry about that...very slow computer. Now I have a nice sparkly new one. YAY!!!



In my last post I mentioned meeting Elaine's son, Andy from Scotland....here is the photo. Pictured with the GYST gals...me of course and the lovely Heather and Bev!!



I also had to have a spot removed from just above my left knee which turned out to be a basal cell carcinoma...not once but twice.

The first picture shows after the first lot and the other is after the second go. I had 4 stitches the first time and 6 the second time. (I am smothering it daily with BioOil to help with fading scar)




I was unable to do much so the lovely exercise plan from the last post took a back seat.





Mother's Day Classic 2009

Anyway the big news was that Erin and I did the Mother's Day Classic 8km walk in Melbourne on May the 10th. We did it in 1 hour and 40 minutes. So proud of us both too.






This is Erin and me on the train on the way to the walk.







It was such a lovely day in Melbourne too. There were thousands of people there and we were started off at 9:30ish am by Premier John Brumby.










Some on the way pics...me amongst the crowd and Erin going past the Shrine.






We met up with 3 lovely ladies from the Weight Watchers Message boards at Flinders Street Station and did the first lap with them...Sam, Ashlea and Jess.





It was so lovely to meet you all.



The next photo shows our time for the first 4km lap. It says 51 mins 45 seconds!!!



The next photo was a sight for sore eyes (or feet/legs/bodies lol)



As we were about to cross the finish line.....woohoo!!!



Then on the other side of the finish line...YAY we did it!!!!




After we crossed the finish line I had a message on my phone from Schelle, a lady from Craig Harper's forum. We had hoped to meet up and she still had about 2kms to walk so we decided to wait for her. So for all on Craig's forum...here we are!!!!



Here is what we got at the end....


It was a lovely day.

Stay tuned for a Renovate Your Life update after my weekend away at Anglesea in a couple of weeks. Not long to go now

luv Chelle xx

Who Dares Wins!!!

On the 26th of January 2009 on Craig Harper's blog,it started out from this...P.S. Just found out that I will be hosting a four hour talk-back show on SEN (Sports Entertainment Network) here in Melbourne tonight (Monday) from 7-11 local time. The phone number is (03) 9429 1116 if you're up for an on-air chat. You can listen to the show by clicking here and following the links.

Went on to part of my comment...I got all excited cos I have no idea what day it is and thought you were going to be on SEN last night (Sunday). I read..tonight and forgot I was reading it Sunday night lol. I will tune in, though whether I call...we shall see...depends if I have anything worthwhile to share with you I guess!!

To which Craig replied...

Craig Harper said...

Hi Chelle, yeah go on; give me a call on the radio. Dare ya.

( )

7:41 AM

then...

Jules said...

I'll "double dare" you, Chelle!

[Chelle still says nope]

"Physical challenge"?

What could we make her do at RYL, Craig? ;) We have 4 months to come up with something whacky.

Anyone remember that kids game show in the 80's - 'Double Dare' I think it was called. There was an abundance of slime in that tv studio if I recall correctly!

I might ring, Craig? If you talk about Lance Armstrong, I'll call in. Is it all live-to-air though? Can you erase our conversation if I'm crap?

9:39 AM

...and it was on!!!!

Michelle said...

Dare and double dare....lol you are both funny!!!

I am going out for my walk at 7pm so will call after 8:30 is that ok Craig and Jules???? So what will I get if I call in???? Given that if I don't Jules wants to give me a challenge! ;)

OOh and to answer your question Jules...Cherry Ripe! (but these days they are strictly limited...they don't feature too highly on the WW friendly food list!)

Hugs

Chelle xxx

11:20 AM

Jules said...

Chelle, I'll give you a King size Cherry Ripe next week when I'm down in Melb for my brief 5 day visit (before making the big move in early-mid March'ish). Ha ha - sorry, I couldn't resist saying that. But if you want it, come get it. "You'll have deserved it.

On a more serious note, I'll shout you a half hour PT session at the Harperdome. Seriously, I will (you need to build some lean muscle mass to continue burning that adipose tissue - I mean that in a nice way, of course). Conditions: it can only be 'redeemed' between 2-5 Feb. No procrastinating for you then Miss Muffet! Meet me at Harper's on Mon 2nd ONLY if you call in tonight though ;) Luv ya lots but sometimes I gotta be cruel to be kind. It could hurt.

So on the 2nd of Feb I fronted up to Craig Harper's Personal Training Centre on the Nepean Hwy, Brighton to meet Jules and our trainer Rona, for a half hour training session! What a blast!!!! With the GYST Gals, I have been walking 6km almost every night (even in all the heat!) as well as pushups, crunches and squats, so it was decided to give me a program that used those things and added a little as well. Rona was delightful and very caring and gave me a perfect program. She took photos so I can remember the exercises easily. Below are some of the pics.



Then half an hour on the treadmill...


Ok then off to have a lovely lunch...



Thanks Jules for a lovely day and it was great to finally meet you after chatting on msn for so long. I had a ball and have been continuing my exercise program from Rona since.

Stay tuned for the next post where we finally get to meet Andy from Scotland!!

Chelle xxxx

Merry Christmas And Almost Happy New Year!

Well another Christmas has passed and what a lovely one it was too!

I got some lovely Kris Kringle presents and pressies from some of the patients at work as well as seen in the picture.





Christmas day was lovely and was spent at my brother Duncan and his family's place. It was a wonderful afternoon. The table looked lovely as you will see from the photos. The children all got on really well and we all got some fantastic presents. I love getting together with my gorgeous family!






Here are a couple of pics of Santa's missing reindeer. Jessica, Erin and Lexie all used the stickers from the crackers very interestingly indeed.











We had some very festive food, we did have other food besides what is in the pictures! Of course we had turkey, ham, vegies and salads. We also had the fantastic flaming pudding which always delights the children. My brother Stuart made the brandy butter...definitely the best yet Stu! It was rather potent and included not just brandy but cointreau and spices as well. Very yummo!













Erin had end of year activities at school and one of the activities was to cook a biscuit hamper. It was really beautifully packaged..and quite yummy! She made the truffles.



I got some lovely pressies including the lovely drink set and tray from my bosses at work. Thanks Ann and Sue I absolutely love it!



I got 6 new charms for my "getting heavier all the time" Pandora Charm bracelet. The owl from Dale, the hanging heart from Erin, the shell and bow spacer from my Mum and Dad and the gorgeous glass bead and leaf spacer from my sister Louise, who was my Kris Kringle! I love them all and will soon be able to use it for weight training! I will only need to change wrists to get an even workout.



So I decided to buy myself a pressie as well...a new bike! Heather's husband David put it together for me (thanks David), then Heather and I went for a ride. I managed a ride around her block which was 2kms long. I am not too sure how long it took us but I am very proud of the fact that I actually made it without falling off...David was going to get the ambulances on standby just in case though! Here is a picture of me before the ride...and yes I was still smiling after it, my legs however were suddenly made of jelly! I did end up with a somewhat sore behind though!



Craig, if by some chance you read this...not quite the Tour de Boronia yet but I am working on it! I did stay upright though!

Ok hope you enjoyed my Christmas. I will post more next year...hopefully with a smaller time between posts than I have been allowing. Please leave a comment, I would love to hear from everyone.

Chelle xx

Craig Harper RYL, a pressie, GYST and retail therapy!

Hi all this has been a long time coming...sorry about that!

I have been doing some great reading lately, Craig Harper's books Fattitude, So...you've decided to get in shape (again) and Food...for thought available from www.craigharper.com.au. I have also read Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom...all excellent reads.




After much planning and looking forward to, November 2nd finally rolled around. I met Linda from the Weight Watchers boards and chatted with on msn for about 6 months and we both went to Craig Harper's Renovate Your Life workshop. It was a half day course down at Craig's gym Harper's in Brighton. Linda and I met up outside and I took a cheesecake for Craig...he has cheesecake issues lol! We sat in the front row and I saw him and took the cheesecake over to him...he seemed really happy with that. I wound up out the front doing a rollercoaster example which was awesome!!! We had a fabulous time and all got an accountability partner. I also learnt a lot and feel extremely inspired. Thanks Craig!!!



I bought the diary to use for my exercise etc.





Linda gave me a really lovely pressie as seen in the picture. I used the book immediately for my notes and my lovely new pen as well. Thanks so much Linda!


The tag refers to GYST which was a challenge Craig ran called Get Your Shit Together which is something Linda and I have both decided to do and are now accountability partners and swap menus to try to help us both lose weight...seems to be working so far. Heather and Dorothy and a few others have also joined in and our Weight Watchers thread is now called GYST Gals! Go Us!!!!


We then went into DFO at Southern Cross and had some lunch and a bit of retail therapy and got some pretty good steps on my pedometer as well! Here is what I got from DFO!



I hope to not leave it so long next time!!!

Chelle x

The Big Day Arrives.....

Ok a few weeks ago I entered a competition to win Craig Harper for a week of personal training and mentoring. Alas I didn't win, a lovely lady from South Australia named Jo won. Craig decided, however to run a mentoring session for those of us who entered but didn't win. Of course I put up my hand like a shot lol. The decided date was the 30th of August...yep today!

I have my weigh in on a Saturday, so I went to that and woo hoo had lost 1.2kg which now brings the total lost to 23.7kg. I then went home, had breakfast and changed ready to leave on the drive to Brighton where his training facility, Harpers is situated. (I thought I was going to be late but I got there just before him.) He came toward me and held out his hand and said "Michelle?" There were about 9 including Jo and I sat at the front. He chatted about accountability and creating changes to make your life better. Needing to be proactive rather than reactive.

There was question time then hug time (yay) I asked if I could have my photo taken with him and he said rather surprised.."you want a photo...did you bring a camera" I told him "of course." This is the picture.



Then I got my lovely hug. So lucky lol.

I also had a lovely long chat with Jo in the car park. Good luck with everything Jo.

I have had an awesome day.

Chelle

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