Friend Makin' Mondays

Ooh, a tough one this week from Kenlie at http://www.alltheweigh.com/ for Friend Makin' Mondays.

Pop on over for the 'rules' on how to play and join in.

Here's the questions (and my answers) for this week:

Goals and More

1. Brag about some of your daily, healthy habits.  Some? I eat vegeatbles and fruit EVERY DAY (I'm a vegetarian!) and I drink a lot of water.
2. Do you track your daily food intake? If so, how? I write down everything I eat, and the calorie content too.
3. What do you want to change most about your daily routine?  Watching television whilst sat on the sofa for hours on end! I'd also like to get up earlier every day.
4. How often do you exercise?  Hardly ever - rhuematoid atrthritis and other problems are a hindrance - but I'm trying to get a positive outlook and try harder... soon!
5. How do you stay on track when you’re on the go? I'm disabled and agoraphobic... so I'm not often on the move. I carry a low-cal drink (or water) when I'm out, sugar-free polo mints, and a healthy snack bar.
6. What’s one excuse you use that prevents you from reaching your goals?  I talk myself down and convince myself that either I can't do it, or I'm not worth it. I tell myself that past the age of 40 (which I am WELL past!) it is impossible to lose as much weight as I want to.
7. What scares your most about your journey? Worse than failure, I'm scared I'll get to where I want to be and then just slide back (again!).
8. What do you think will change most when you reach your goal? (If you have reached it, what’s different?)  My wardrobe! On a less shallow point... my outlook on life - I'l be more adventerous and won't worry about what other people will think of me when I go outside the front door.
9. What motivates you to reach your goals?  My family... and the desire to be healthy. I don't want to die before I'm 60 years old - I want my grandchildren to know me, not just remember me from old photographs.
10. Share a few of your goals.  They are all shallow, meaningless aims -- but I'll share anyways...

• I want to be slim enough to get into my leather jacket so that I can...
• ride pillion on Hubbys motorbike again.
• I want to wear beautiful clothes.
• I want to look younger.
• I want to play in the park with my grandchildren.
• I want to walk to the local shopping precinct.
• I want my family to be proud of me.
• I want to feel proud of me and love myself.
• I want to wake up in the mornings and not ache
• I want to control my diabetes
• I want to be healthy

And that is just a few of my goals! I've got tons like that - high-heeled shoes, trips to the cinema, having an anniversary party, eating out at a restaurant... I could go on for hours - but won't *lol*

The Weigh-In (week 3)

A disappointing week for me this week - a loss of just 4 pounds :(

Maybe it's just one of those things - because the only thing I have done differently for this week is eat less yoghurt than I have the previous two weeks.  I'm so disappointed in myself. Like almost everyone in my position, I wish I could wake up tomorrow morning and find myself slimmer and beautiful... but it's taken me years to get as fat as I am, and I know it should take a reasonable amount of time to get to a 'me' that I'm comfortable with and that I like again. But I am just so impatient!

I haven't had the chance to get on the X-Box and try out the "Biggest Loser" 'game' yet - house visitors and busy times have stopped me for the time being. I am impatient to get started on that though - losing half as much weight this week as I did last week has brang my mood down - but it's also made me more determined to lose extra weight for next week. I don't like feeling like this - I hate being disappointed nearly as much as I hate being fat!

Staying positive is a struggle - there's that voice in my head that weeps "Why did you let yourself get like this?", the nagging that cries "You're pathetic!", and the ptiful wail of "You can't do this!". When you get to be as big as I am, you make jokes to hide behind (BIG jokes!).

"Inside every skinny girl is a fat girl screaming for chocolate!"

"Lord, if you can't make me skinny, please make my friends fat!"

"Life threw me some big curves... they all ended up on my backside!"

But the joking is a mask... a place go to so that no-one can see how much hurt there is within those folds of fat, in those chubby cheeks, and flapping by those bingo-wings.

I get that a lot of people love being large - they love themselves with weight and curves... they're happy. I'm not.

Maybe this post should be ignored as the whining voice of a person who just needs a kick up the jacksey - stop complaining, get positive, and get moving!

How do others maintain a positive outlook, I wonder?

Exercise?

Remember that terrible joke...

My dog has no nose.

How does she smell?

Awful!

That's my dog! She does whiff more than a bit! Today was bath day for smelly doggy... and doggy didn't want to be coaxed into the bathroom. I was tempted to just hose her down in the garden - especially after she'd had me running around the house like some madwoman holding a towel, dog treats and the dog shampoo, calling out as sweetly as I could "Come to mummy... what I got for you...?". She was not fooled by the dog treats - and I thought she was a stupid dog! Between my daughter and I, she was finally coerced (dragged) into the bathroom, where I plonked her into the bathtub, and she sat there shaking all over like it was her last moments - and that was before I even put the water on! Weird thing is... when she's out, she'll head straight for the nearest pond or muddy water puddle she can find. Go Figure!

Anyways... she's scrubbed, smelling sweeter than she did (damp dog smell is better than just plain old stinky dog!) and she decides it's payback. She's jumped out of the bath and shaking herself before I can even pick up a towel to defend myself. Maybe she thought that, as I'd given her a bath, she could give me a shower? Then she was out of the bathroom door before the word "Nooooo!" had passed my lips. I chased her down the stairs with the towel - which the cat obviously thought was a fantastic game, as she joined in the chase too - and I ended up dancing around the living room like a fat demented spiderwoman, trying to towel dry the flippin' dog!

Next was the turn of he garden. All the rain we'd had followed by this week of blazing summer sun has had my garden thinking it's a jungle! You know you're garden is at a bad point when you need a hedge trimmer to gut through the swathes of cornflowers and rosemary that's taken over!

Big mistake, me going out there thinking I could be the boss of the garden. The heat was sweltering, the hedgetrimmer was heavy... and the garden was just too overgrown. Ten minutes in, and I'm feeling more than a bit woozy. Luckily, I recognised the signs... numb lips, buzzing in the hears... and carefully put down the hedgetrimmer and went indoors for some iced water and a lie down. No good... and too late! I was out like I'd been hit by Tyson! Thank goodness I made it to the bed *lol*

Two hours later, and I'm feeling much better :) However, I think I've had enough exercise for one day, and the Kinect will have to wait until tomorrow.

Ouch!

I am aching... a lot! Going shopping and trying to lug heavy bags back to the car, followed by playing on the Kinect yesterday - and my body is telling me now in a very painful way! It's a case of my enthusiasm being in more abundance than my capability. I'll take it slower today... gentle exercise and a day sat doing something with my poor broken nails.

Oh... have a question to ask...

If anyone has a games platform like the Kinect or the Wii... something like that... what are the exercise games that you would recommend? Something not too strenuous, nor too difficult.

If anyone has, or has used, the Mel B workout or "The Biggest Loser" game, I'd love to know what you think of it.

Thank You!

:)

Friend Makin' Mondays

LOVE this idea from  http://www.alltheweigh.com/

Friend Makin’ Mondays

1. What is your favorite way to spend a Sunday afternoon?
2. What is your favorite color?
3. Have you ever been to Europe?
4. Do you wear glasses or contacts?
5. How often do you brush your teeth?
6. Share a guilty pleasure.
7. What are you most proud of accomplishing this week?

1. Reading a book
2. Green
3. Live there :) I have been to France though
4. Glasses (or at least, I should wear glasses).
5. Twice a day, at least - bad teeth mean expensive dental bills, so I try to keep mine healthy.
6. I cannot resist high-heel shoes, and even bought a pair today and tried to hide them from Hubby. Sometimes I'll just walk around the house in my pyjamas and high heels because I love them so much! Unfortunately, our wooden flooring at home does NOT like my high heels :(
7. 8 pounds weight loss!

Here's the info from All The Weigh:

If you’ve taken part in FMM then you know the rules. (The same rules apply today!)  If you’re new, please take a moment to answer this week’s question on your own blog then add your link in the comments section at: www.alltheweigh.com so we can all see your FMM questions and answers. Please invite your blog readers to add their links there too so everyone has to opportunity to be seen. The idea is to connect with other awesome bloggers so take a moment to post your own FMM post and comment on a couple of other posts.

The Weigh-In (week 2)

Ah, yes... the dreaded 'weigh-in' day is here again. Although I'm still a "Big Beautiful Chick" (or an Old Hen *lol*), my weight is still plummeting in the right direction. Two weeks into this whole diet and lifestyle change and I'm buzzing! It may be the Kinect that's helped - or maybe the jumping on the trampoline... but I've dropped more weight than I thought I would. Of course, hot sunny days and a craving for salad helps too :)

So...

Another drum roll for me this week...

I've lost ANOTHER

8 pounds!!!!

I am now at 16 stone 6 lbs  - that's 230 lbs on the nose!

**doing a happy dance**

When A Man Loves A Woman...

Had to write this down...

This evening my daughter was taking Chicago Town Stuffed-crust Pizza from the oven (my favourite frozen pizza!), and I was just finishing making a Rhubarb Peach and Honey Crumble (heaven on a dessert plate!)... when I turned to my husband, put my hands round his neck and moaned "I'm going to have to be on a diet for the rest of my life".

His reply...?

"Yes, but the funny thing is that I love you nomatter - just as you always are"

It's true - I know he loves me nomatter whether I'm fat, thin, or inbetween... but it's so sweet when he tells me anyway. So sweet that I didn't need a helping of that gorgeous crumble I just made :)