Happy New Year's Eve!




Hey all, I know I haven't blogged since Christmas but just wanted to wish you all a Happy New Year!

I will post the goals I hope to achieve in 2009 in the very near future!

Have a wonderful time everyone!

Happy Boxing Day!

I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas Day! I had a lovely day, the morning spent with my OH, and then headed off to my dad's to have Christmas dinner with him and my sister, and Molly came along too! She loved her Christmas dinner!

I ate way too much yesterday and when I got home last night, ate even more, while drinking Bailey's, with a touch of creme caramel! Needless to say, I ended up with severe heartburn and by 3.30am I was sick! Serves me right for eating so much!!

Got lots of lovely presents too, which I am very thankful for! I am more thankful for my family though, but it's around this time, I miss my mum that much more, if it's possible to miss her more than I already do.

Here is a pic of Molly with her Santa hat on ................ I don't think she was very amused! She's cute though!!



Today was a very very lazy day, in fact if I didn't have to walk the dog, I'm sure I would have had my PJ's on all day! I'm just glad WW class isn't back until 5 January!! Can you believe it's almost 2009!??!!! I hope to make 2009 the best year yet!

This pic taken in Kissimmee Lanes, Florida in 2003 is my inspiration and goal for 2009! This is what I want to get back to.....

except even fitter with sleek muscles....... maybe like Jenny Lynn - she's awesome!

Red Ruby Slippers!

It's been like forever since I last blogged! I kept meaning to post, but got caught up reading everyone else's blogs.

So last Monday I lost 1 pound at WW class. But since then I had my office Christmas party, which was really good, even though I was dreading it the whole time in case it was a flop, since I was the one that had organised it! The dinner was really nice, I actually tried to keep to the more sensible choices on the menu. I had vegetable soup to start (yummy!), then for main course I had rib eye of Scotch beef ( no sauce!) with mashed potato and veggies and dessert was a gorgeous chocolate mousse in the cutest tiny dish you have ever seen! I wish I had taken my camera for some pics! Then we all danced for the rest of the night, until midnight when we nearly turned into pumpkins! Unfortunately most of us were working the next day :( These are the shoes I bought for the night............ god knows how I managed to dance in them! I sure as hell couldn't walk, but dancing was okay!



Aren't those shoes gorgeous!! They remind me of Dorothy's ruby slippers in the Wizard of Oz - one of my fave films! I love, love, love them! Just need to practice walking in them! Not used to 5" heels!

So tonight's weigh in at WW was not so good. I put on half a pound. Which is actually better than I thought it was going to be. I was sure it was at least 2 or 3 pounds! I so want to get to 180 pounds, and keep hovering around 183 - 184....... it's only a few pounds so why is it so hard???

Thanks to you all for your kind and motivating comments on my last post...... it keeps me going when I feel like giving up completely!

Grrrr!

I hate diets, food, exercise, everything!! I put on another half pound at WW tonight. Well, not really surprising, since I was only on plan like 20% of the time! Why is it so hard to not eat crap?? I don't even like eating high calorie, "bad for you" stuff and immediately regret it afterwards, and then start telling myself that I will be good from now on! Blah! Our office Christmas party is a week on Wednesday, and I am totally dreading it because I will feel like a big fat failure. I could've been a size or two smaller if I had been on plan since I organized the Christmas night back in September!

Just having an off night and needed to vent.......... tomorrow will be a better day and another chance for a fresh start :)

Discover

I hadn't realised it was so long since my last post!! Time is flying by so quick - need it to slow d o w n!

Anyway, haven't had a very good week, weighed in at WW class and had put on 1.5lbs - which is better than I had thought because I hadn't been very good for the few days running up to weigh in day. I was excited to go to the class, despite the fact I knew I had put on weight. We were given a new plan! It's called Discover, and basically it's a plan that encourages you to eat more filling foods so you get more bang for your point! We got a cool folder with recipes, advice on goal setting and exercising. I haven't done much exercising the last couple of weeks. Usually I walk for over an hour a day, on my lunch break and out with Molly, but the temperature dropped here, the pavements and roads have been VERY icy and dangerous and hadn't been gritted. In fact, OH, fell down a flight of stairs - he's a Postman, and slipped on black ice at the top of a flight of stairs, and was off work for a few days - poor soul! Luckily, he didn't break anything, just hurt his leg and ankle pretty bad, but no serious injuries.

Haven't been up to much other than my usual Saturday outing with my Dad! Yesterday was such a gorgeous day, and although it was chilly, it was a bit warmer out in the sun! I will post pics below!

Took Molly to the park this morning, was lovely with the frost and the pond had frozen over too... I just wish I had taken my camera to capture it. It was like a winter wonderland! Now Molly is very tired and lying up beside me curled up in a ball and sleeping! So cute!

I was thinking of joining a gym again. The gym we were thinking of is fabulous! It has a climbing wall, indoor and outdoor pools, tennis courts and cardio machines linked up to satellite TV! The free weight section is pretty good too, plenty of space and benches.

Here are some pics from Saturday....