Well What A Year!!

I know the year's not quite over yet, but a conversation at work yesterday got me thinking about how much I have done this year!

I know I haven't blogged very much but I think I have the following very good reasons for not doing so:

• I got engaged!
• I quit a job that I hated!
• I started two new jobs twice as was the plan!
• I finished my uni degree - yes you can call me the Professor!
• I became an aunty (by my brother) and a great-aunty (by my husband's neice)!
• Oh yeah I got married!
• I have been to Bali, Hervey Bay, Airlie Beach and Sydney (all since the 5th of October)

I hope you agree that I can cut myself a bit of slack because I have achieved these amazing things!  And as a special treat here are some pics of the most fantabulous day of my life (so far)!  Details and stories to follow in future posts!

Celebrity Spotting

I went to Paniyiri yesterday and indulged in all things Greek, get your mind out of the gutter - not ALL things Greek! But I did have lots of food - souvlaki,octopus, sausages, haloumi, loukamades all washed down with too much retsina!

And to top off a great day I was lucky enough to meet the gorgeous Melissa Bergland from Winners and Losers!



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Living for The Weekend

I had one of the best weekend's ever, this weekend just gone!

My lovely boyfirend and I finally got to spend a whole weekend together!  We packed our bags and headed to the Ekka - the Brisbane Exhibition or annual show/fair for those not local to Queensland!

We had a total blast - well I did! I didn't eat very much junk - 1 Dagwood Dog and 1 ice-cream and boy did we walk. Both of us had sore legs yesterday!  Yesterday we took future mother-in-law for Yum Cha and wine in the sun by the river!

It was just awesome to spend some time together!!

Me and A Lovely Llama

Lovely Boyfriend and Beer

Ekka View

Spare a thought for this boy -1332 kilos!!

Kids!

It's a Beautiful Day!

It was a beautiful morning here in Brisbane and can you believe that it 27 degrees! 27 in July!! Woo-hoo!

I couldn't convince my lovely boyfriend to have a sickie today but he did take me out for breakfast. We sat with our eggs and vegies, hollandaise on the side looking out onto the spectacular Manly Marina and went for a walk to soak in some rays and fresh air!

I forgot take my camera with me today. But I do have some piccies from one of my walks earlier in the week.

These are taken around the Teneriffe river walk in Brisbane! Another great area for exercise! God I love this city!

I was trying to capture the row of lights but my camera is ancient and it was extremely windy! I like the effect that I ended up with though!

This post wouldn't be complete with a nice very close up of me! (I hope you can't see any boogas!!)

The Kitchen - Before & After - The Pictures Say it All

Wipeout!!!

Hi everyone!

I was all ready to post today about the amazing Wipeout that I was expecting at weigh in today.

In terms of eating and exercise last week I had a pretty slack one!  No tracking, only a couple of short walks, we ate out for lunch and dinner nearly every day and I had whatever I wanted - wine, cocktails, chips, pizza, chocolate, ice-cream! Also I felt a bit blue this week, a bit like life is passing me by - I am very much head down with exam revision right now. I also had an incident which resulted in me not being very proud of my behaviour!

But alas, I had a loss!

I'm at a loss!

700g gone to be precise ..... AND I wore jeans and a belt to weigh in, I thought it was going to be bad so wanted to be warm rather than light!

Anyway in preparation for bad news today, I sat down last night and worked out that I need to put some time aside today for refocusing on my weight loss goals, putting last week behind me and concentrating on menu planning, exercising, getting some motivational bits and pieces in my face and practicing the Think Slim techniques some more - which I am still going to do as I don't want the frustration of seeing this week's damage on next weeks scales!

My goal for my first five kilos gone was a lovely jewellery box which only came back into stock this week - so I picked it up this morning - piccie below:

I also promised a pic of my lovely man and I at last week's wedding - I so need a hair cut!

I'm looking forward to getting back into the swing of things! What are you focusing on this week?

Progress Pictures

Here I am around the 31st of March, at this stage I'd lost about 3 kilos. This is the best pic of me from around this time so I'm goimg to use it as my before shot.









These pics below were taken 29 April 2010, 5.9 kgs gone. Gotta love those bumps!!

Ps Sorry about the bra strap ;-)