Almost at double digits!!

Well I jumped on the scales at mums today and I was rapt that I was down to 101.5!! YAY!!! but still not quite there with the double digits yet!! I am so going to celebrate when i hit the double digits!! No more triple digits ever again for me!!

There's not much to report really. I have still been slacking off and I really need someone to shove a stick of dynamite up my ass and get me motivated!! I did got for a 3km walk last week and that was about it. I felt really good afterwards too. The weather has been really crappy here in lovely Perth lately so I guess I can use that as an excuse, but I won't be able to for much longer as the weather is starting to fine up now!! I went and had a bit of a splurge last week after work and bought some new exercise gear which I must admit I look pretty hot in!! hahahaha.

School holidays are just around the corner (like today at 3.10pm) so i am going to make sure I go bike riding with the kids and get my ass into gear a bit more.

Anyhow, that's all I really have to report for now. Until next time.........

Daughter v's Mother

So you think overweight, almost 30 year olds can't do handstands??? Well guess again!! YES, that's right, my almost 7 year old daughter said to me today, "Mum, can you do handstands?" I let out a sarcastic laugh and said, I used to when I was your age, but I think I would break something now if I tried. She then said, well why don't you try. You always tell me to give it a go. Which is true. i always tell the kids to give it a go before they say they can't do something. So here I was, shaking in my whatever it was I was shaking in, and I did it, a handstand. Something I haven't done in over 10 years!! And gee I still had my knack!! It took me a couple of goes to get to a walking handstand, but I got there!! hahahaha. Must have been an absolute good laugh if anyone was watching!! But I can tell you that I am going to absolutely feel it tomorrow. And yes, I did do stretches and warm up. I am still as limber as I used to be. Can still do the splits as I discovered today, but that's another sore spot I'll feel tomorrow as well!!

But it just goes to show, that your confidence gets a huge boost when you have lost a huge amount of weight. Even though i still have another 25 - 30 kilo's to go, the 22 i have already lost has made me feel unbelievable!! I am doing things I haven't done since I was an energetic teenager. I am starting to feel really good about myself and I CAN start to see the difference when I look at myself in the mirror. even though sometimes I still see the 130 kilo me, I can see the difference when i look hard enough.

It's also amazing at how different people treat you. even though I am still overweight, people treat me differently. I guess because they see me different and can see a new personality coming out in me. But it does make you wonder why society snubs overweight people. We are no different from the thin people in the world. We are just bigger. We still have the same blood and same heart, but after losing weight, we are just a smaller person. I guess unless you have been an overweight person, you don't really know how much you are judged and how society treats you differently. It's wrong, but that's just the way it is.

I am starting to love the new me. I am still very cautious and nervous as being overweight for 10 years is a long time, but the new me is starting to show!!

So I'm a slacker!!

I know!! I know!! I have been really slack in posting and keeping all my fellow followers hanging on by the edge of their seat with my progress!! hahaha It's wishful thinking to know that I have that many of you watching and reading about my progress, after all we do have more important things to be doing like waiting anxiously for the return of Grey's Anatomy or Desperate Housewives!! I know I am!!

Things have been going great!! I had a review with the fantastic Dr Watson on the 4th. I had only lost about 4.5 kilo's since the last visit, but he says I am doing superbly. He said to me that if everyone came in and told him "I only eat when I am hungry" he would be out of the job. But on thinking about it, I do. i don't get the opportunity to snack between meals because the little amount that I do eat fills me up until the next meal. I do occasionally have a cracker or maybe a biscuit if it's offered, but apart from that, NOTHING!! He didn't put a fill in this time, but mind you, i am still coming to grips with the last fill. I have a feeling that I may have reached my 'sweet spot'. If I have, i am a very satisfied woman!!!

My wardrobe is starting to put on a bit of weight now. Since I left Flight Centre (full time) and am now working casual at Suzanne Grae's (YES because I can fit into their clothes) my wardrobe is loving it!! And so am I!! It is such a fantastic and wonderful feeling to be able to fit in 'normal' peoples clothes and to be able to go to their shops as well.

It's great to get comments from other people saying how fantastic you look. My mum sent me a photo that was taken on my 29th birthday back in January this year and then one she had taken 2 weeks ago!! OMG!! What a difference. even though I look in the mirror (like today) and I still can't see it, yet when I look at the photo's I can. Sometimes I wish I can just slap my brain back into the present!! Not going to happen anytime soon though.

I am still being a slack ass though and haven't been to the gym, but I did go for a bike ride the other day and I didn't have a sore butt the next day, which means my butt must actually fit on the seat how it's supposed to. That kind of made me feel good.

Well I don't see the Dr until the end of November and I am absolutely determined to be under the 100 kilo mark!! OH YEAH!! BRING IT ON!!!