What a week I'm having

I've been so focussed all week - counting points, weighing where necessary to keep me honest, drinking up to 3 litres of water and walking at least 11,000 steps - some days 13,300! It's good feeling when you know you're doing things right and with little or no alcohol I sleep so much better too. OK you ask so what's the catch? Well I'm one of those people who weight themselves every morning - the routine's the same - up go to the toilet, next into the bathroom and before jumping in the shower - stand on the scales. I know everybody who's anybody tells you, you should only weight once a week but I've been doing this for at least 30 years now. In fact the only time I don't is when I'm being really bad and then everything gets out of control and before I know it I'm 20kg overweight. Anyway the point of all this ramble is that I was down 400g yesterday but today I'm only down 200g and it's just kind of dumped me. I'm not one of those people who fluctuates unduly with fluid so when I start to see the scales going down they usually keep going down (or stay the same) provided I keep doing the right thing. I guess the curved ball in all of this is the HRT meds I'm taking - I've only been on it for 3 weeks and from my net research a side effect seems to be weight gain - DO NOT want that. I think I'd rather put up with hot flushes and night sweats and be a bad tempered bitch from hell then gete fat again. Going to watch things very carefully over the next 10 days before I go back to the doctors to check hom I'm going after a month on the HRT tabs. Have to go to work now. Toodles.

Back in control

So far today's been really good - on plan with points, already drunk 2 litres of water and also walked. Wearing a pedometer as I'm going to participate with my team at work in a walk around Queensland competition. So far today I've walked almost 10,000 steps (actually 9881) so feeling pretty positive about that. I'll report back in later. .... OK its now just after nine and I'm heading off to bed but just needed to emphasise how virtuous I've been today and how good it makes me feel. Finished well within points - walked 11,000 steps (not sure of exact number - went to the loo and the damned pedometer fell off my waistband and promptly reset itself - previous to that it was at 10,666) but the other absolutely amazing thing was - no alcohol!! It's not hard really just a matter of getting the right mindset - and then hanging on to it! Got 14 days until we go to NZ so could lose the better part of 2kgs if I put my mind to it. Stay with it! Toodles

It's Friday!!!

Gosh how I love Fridays! Finished the interviewing and have a pathway forward - which is always a good thing!. So now the weekend beckons. Went to the Work BBQ tonight and of course had a few wines - and worse than that ate some mindless potato chips! Had a steakburger - bun, tomato, lettuce, little bit of onion and some lean steak. But was still hungry and so had an extra piece of steak - lean of course. This was because I was interviewing all morning then got back to my office with half an hour to spare before my next meeting and hadn't time (or inclination) to go the canteen for a sandwich - needed to go shopping at home so didn't bring any real lunch in! Usually I plan better than this! Enjoy ...... toodles!

Busy sort of a day

Well today at work just kind of flashed past. I spent most of the morning interviewing for a new Training Officer to join my team. I really enjoyed that - not something I'm very proficient at or something I do very often so have a lot to learn in this area. It was good though that I interviewed with one of my peers who has a lot of experience in this field and I'm learning heaps. The rest of the day went by in a flash with a series of meetings - not much catching up on my jobs though - but.... tomorrow is another day ..... interviewing again and a couple of meetings planned as well as a work function to attend at night. (at least it means I don't have to cook tea tomorrow night and if I stay focussed I'll eat one bun with steak and lettuce and tomato and leave the chips and peanuts alone. Mind you I'll still sip on a couple of wines! Why does that word make me feel so guilty!! Eating today has been good. Went to the hairdressers tonight - the usual trim and colour but decided to go a bit more coppery rather than as blond as I was last time. God forbid that I stay the same colour for too long!! Anyway really happy with the result. Got Chinese for C but resisted for me - but.... I had a couple of cream biscuits with my coffee at the hairdressers so haven't had a proper tea - just had four square rice crackers with some salsa and WW sour cream - only 2 points but I feel fine. OK so tomorrow's Friday - how I love Fridays!!! Toodles!

So now what?

Ok, I've set up the blog, and now I need to ask myself what I'm going to do with it. Hadn't really thought that through. I guess I'm just going to try and write down where I'm at for the day - probably more emotionally rather than anything else. Right then - I'm in my 50th year - does it worry me - no not really - so what does - keeping a handle on my weight. Over the past 3 years I've been following Weight Watchers - got down to a weight I'm comfortable but geez it's hard to keep it there. Every now and then it creeps up a couple of kilos and the horrible spare tyre is back. Had been doing really well then went off on a wonderful 6 week holiday to Spain, Portugal and Morocco, Scotland and Japan - it was absolutely unreal. Got back at the beginning of November plus almost 5kgs. Plenty of time to shift that before Christmas you say - so did I - but did it happen - no! Now it's nearly February and I'm still 4.4kg above my pre holiday weight. I keep losing and gaining the same kilo over and over again. My thinking is that if I actually make myself write it about it regularly - I might get myself properly focussed again. Added to this is that Minnie Poz has joined my list of friends - get it! (Menopause). Anyway have just started HRT and don't know what effect that's going to have on my weight. And I've got out of the walking habit these last few weeks, so need to crank that up again. And then we're off to visit friends in NZ for a cruising holiday in three weeks. So why am I making all these excuses - it's simple really I just need to get my butt into gear and start doing instead of making excuses. I also need to reactivate my gym habit - I felt great when I was going twice a week but somehow I broke the cycle and can't seem to get started again. So what's the plan - start counting points properly, drink the water (that one's easy at least), stop drinking so much wine (not so easy), walk more and start going to the gym. Toodles!

This is No1..... and the fun has just begun!

Well this is all a bit new and interesting. I've read many blogs and diaries over the past couple of years but had never considered the idea of having one of my own. But Blogger seems pretty straightforward so I'll give it a go. More later