WW On-Line Acheiver Photo Shoot

Wooo Hoo I was chosen to do the Weight Watchers On-line Achievers photo shoot. I cant wait, I am nervous but very excited. It will be a fun day i am sure, i was hoping to get an experience like this. So far the photos will just go on-line as a success story or if they are impressed maybe the mag but I am happy for either to happen.

Got my package details today and I have to be at Alexanandria by 8.30am , oh that will be an early day. Have to organise for hubby to be home to take kids to school or drop to a friends that day. I will have to leave up by about 7.00am to get there on time. I have cab charges in hand and details and will be counting down til Monday.

Oh I wonder what I will wear lol, i am sure it wont matter it will be great.

Wish me luck.

Operation

Hey

Well finally had my diagnosis of a Hernia and had my op Thursday and came home Friday. Hopefully this will be the end of my pain. Well i have more pain til i get healthy again and gym it with no pain lol.

I was scared and worried but it all went well, no hiccups just a long wait for the actual surgery on the day. Admission at 1.30pm and op ended up taking place at 6.50pm, very late. Two hours later i awoke in recovery. Feeling some pain but happy to be there lol.

So i have to rest up and take it easy for six weeks then hopefully back into life. I have been wearing my new dresses as my tummy is a little swollen and they are nice and loose, i will have to take pictures. One dress has small straps and i wore this to hospital, it is just weird i felt naked, not use to no sleeves but now it is great in this weather, nice and cool.

Well just thought i would give an update to show i am still around just had a different journey to take and hopefully be back to being me and being fit and healthy enjoying my new life.

Update on Maintenance and Life

Hi

Just thought i should update haven't been on here for ages. Nothing much to report all is going well, maintenance is good. I have worked out what works and just doing what i know works and sticking at it is my way of life now. Ensuring i eat well and exercise with treats still.

I have eaten a few things i never would have on my journey but i think because i was so strict on my journey i had to lash out. But it is all good, i think maybe it was just something i had to do. I enjoyed what ate and i am past that and below my goal weight still and below my personal goal weight so nothing bad at the moment. I can have things now and then, work them off and move on.

Had my red blood radioactive labelled cell test yesterday and all good, got the results today and it says consistent with Haemangioma and that is what the liver specialist said it would be so all good on that front too. Nothing else to be done, so i am relieved.

Went back to the gym today after a two week break due to school hols and just having a rest to see if my tummy pain had gone. Well i loved being back and felt fighting fit but my tummy hurt a little, nothing major and not all class but it is still there so back to my GP i head to follow that up. Hopefully it is minor as i have had soo many tests and they didn't find anything before.

Life is good though, just need to get that sorted but it feels so great to be healthy and happy.

I was thinking it has been 1 year and six months since i joined Weight Watchers and as i said still below my personal goal weight. I am sitting at 64.2, i go up and down but it is a good feeling to be in control. I am never going back to where i was as my new life is so good. I have more confidence and get on with people more. I am more friendly with the mum's at school and i really just enjoying life itself.

I also had my hair chemically straightened last week and i am loving that too. I have posted some pictures to share too.

To Louisbird i am sorry i hadn't read my blog for a long time. Happy to answer any questions if you want to email me - jmehaley@optusnet.com.au. Hopefully it is not too late, i didn't aim for exercise points just to up my intensity at the gym or how many classes i did a week, just kept pushing myself and changing it up. I had PT once a week and she pushed me too. Best of luck.

Talk soon.

Maintenance

Hi

Well maintenance has been going well, at first i thought it was a head game, hard not to expect a loss on the scales. I was going to maintain a while then loose some more. Well the lat two weeks i lost a little and am aiming for a loss this week. Hoping to get to 65kg at some stage and that is 50% body weight lost and exactly half of me gone. Some days i think why bother lol then other days i think just a few more weeks. I have worked sooo hard for so long and deserve to take it a bit easier on myself. But i know i will do it.

I haven't adjusted my official points in the tracker but just eat the 4 less - 20 which is what i was on when i reached goal and see how that goes for 3-4 weeks then start maintaining properly by eating them all and see if i can maintain.

I feel sooo good this week, my PT killed me at the gym, made me do lots of sets of leg curls, leg extensions, then 50 Chin Ups, she really had it in for me that day lol lol. Then we did reverse leg curls - they were fun. We stirred each other, but all in all i needed that it really was great, i left feeling like the old fit me after having two weeks off with the school holidays. So last week was my first full week back at the gym and it was great. One instructor said look at you there is nothing left of you lol NEVER heard that before lol.

I also felt great cause i went summer clothes shopping bought a few tops, a dream pair of capri pants and board shirts BUT all were size 12 everything i tried on was a 12 and i had a teary moment in the change room as it really came to fruition that i have done what i set out to do - such a dream and it feels great.

I also took some new pictures and added one to the left of me today - At Goal.

Talk soon.

♥~♥ AT GOAL - YEAH ♥~♥

Hi

Well today is the day i actually made my Weight Watchers goal weight - just under - phew lol.

I now weigh 67.6 KG yep you read it, just amazing. It is not the fact of reaching goal, i knew i would get there as i got close, just surreal still. I still am amazed i right down 76 instead of 67 as it just is not something easy to fathom. Having been in triple digits for years and before that in the nineties i just dont beleive it myself lol. Hubby now calls me skinny bitch lol. I told him when i started i would be happy to get to 75 BUT when i got to there i thought i can do this, just keep going and i can feel what it is like to be "Normal". I hate saying that but it is just weird.

I go to the shops and shop in "normal" shops, sometimes i still feel unworthy which is just bizzare. People there dont know where i have come from or what i weighed and it doesnt really matter. Just matters that i am smaller and healthier now.

I am blown away by comments but i know that will pass and life will go on. I just have to deal with maintenance and see how that goes. I have a personal goal to get 65kg which will make it 50% of my body weight gone but if i dont it doesnt matter. Just would be nice, i have still have wobbly bits lol. I am going to try and maintain for 3-4 weeks and go from there. I decided to chill and enjoy the school hols and not stress if i dont go to the gym for the two weeks, enjoy time with the kids then get back into routine.

I am going to Pink on Saturday with 3 girlfriends and we are going all out and staying in town. So it will be a bad weekend. I havent been bad for over a year lol. I am not going to go crazy and undo all my hard work but i am going to have a few drinks, go to a restaurant for tea and just enjoy myself. There is a gym, sauna, spa and lap pool at the hotel so we are going use that during the day and party at night. CANT WAIT. It was a birthday present from hubby but what an "At Goal" reward too.

I hope i can inspire others cause i am blown away myself. I have never tried to really loose this weight before and my head was just in the right space. It shows it can be done.

I will post an 'At Goal' picture soon.

Feelings

Hi

Well i haven't been blogging as usual, though i said i would start again. Just soo busy these days.

Son was sick, now daughter sick and it is the last day of the school term. I was hoping to do my last chance work out at the gym lol and hit the shops, i miss that adrenalin. Oh well i am going to try and go tonight and or tomorrow morning for the 8.30am combat class. Then will take a break during the holidays and chill. See how that goes.

I have 900 grams to get to my Weight Watchers goal weight and it just seems surreal still, i go to the shops and try size 12 and 14 clothes and they fit but it still is hard to believe i weigh so little and i am so much fitter and love the gym lol. I bought a size 12 denim skirt yesterday for summer lol. Not sure if it is too short so i am pondering but it was on sale lol. Might blog a picture of that lol.

I have been working hard the days i have been to the gym even did some jogging on the tready and a few 30 minute stints on the cross trainer and i used to hate that machine lol But i really think it helps with the losses and just thought i would shake things up, something different.

I have been soo positive and happy but feeling a bit overwhelmed when people comment about my stats. I don't know why lately i get the feeling people don't believe my losses, sometimes i dont beleive it. But i know i have been working hard at the gym and they are what they are. But it is no biggie as i am happy, healthier and now that is a fact.

I pondered joining a WW meeting for my last 7kg then i thought why i haven't been going all this time and have been successful and i don't need to get LTM as i don't really like the thought of meetings. Though sometimes i wished i did go to meetings from the start but i HATE crowds have panic attacks - that are actually getting better but mainly just didn't join for that reason alone. I would have liked to have gone and shared this journey and also be helped and help others in hindsight if i could stand the crowds of course lol but i just love the Weight Watchers boards and get lots of support there so i thought i would just carry on as i was.

I THINK it has something to do with getting so much attention being so close to goal lol. I am happy and so i should be but like i said maybe just feeling overwhelmed. Not use to soo much attention. I bought a new tighter shirt for the gym as mine are all too big and get caught in my arms when i try and punch in combat class or lift the weights in pump lol and thought i should splurge. Mind you i found a pretty one at good old Best and Less lol. Well i was in the change room at the gym and one lady that i talk to said OMG look at you - you look awesome. That new shirt shows off your great figure lol. Then she went and told a few ladies in the class and they all came out to look. I was flattered just embarrassed so maybe it takes a bit of getting use to and that will blow over lol. The girls at my gym from day one have been soo supportive, helpful and proud of my efforts. I cant praise them enough both staff and members.

Well like i said i have been working hard this week and will see what the scales reveal Monday.

Wish me luck.

Blogging news and i am a 60s girl.

Well i haven't blogged for a while mainly due to me being upset and pre-occuppied as my beautiful brother passed away 8 weeks ago on Wednesday and it has been very hard and still surreal. He was a great inspiration to me and many others. He was a quadriplegic and never once did he complain about it. He had been a quad for almost 20 years after a motor bike accident. He become very ill late last year and was in ICU on and off for almost 3 months and this was a hard time for the family. But he recovered and went home and all was fine and life was good again. But it was not meant to be he took ill again with pneumonia, his lungs collapsed, he went into cardiac arrest and this time just didn't come out of it. He was only 46 years old.

I took some time out and grieved but decided he was proud of me and what i had achieved so far so i had to keep going and knew he would be happy and proud of me even more.

Went back to the gym and just stuck at it.

Well today was a happy day i had WI and lost 1.1kg to get to a total of 60.5kg gone and i am sixties girl - 69.6 to be exact. NEVER ever expected that. I am very happy and feel so fit. I know now i will get to goal and hopefully maintain this new life of mine.

I posted a new picture, not a great one, but will update it soon.