Wahooo…
Hey everyone!!
Weight loss
Yep that’s right, last Friday I had a PT session and I weighed in and had lost a kilo. I was soo happy. Now after my weekend I have probably put that kilo back on but the thing is I finally actually got the scales to move DOWN which means they can, which means I can do it! I hope that makes sense, basically it put some enthusiasm and more determination back into me. I can achieve what I want to make myself happy – so yah for Melly ;) haha
This week I am cramming what I can into the 3 days we are here as we go away on Wednesday night…I just got back from another PT session and then tomorrow and Wednesday have some body circuit classes.
I have to say, I’ve noticed my upper body is becoming a bit more defined which I am really happy about as I just love defined arms!! My body circuit classes are really paying off and last week I was just soo sore so that’s a good sign that I am actually working out!!!
Weekend
As ever, it was pretty full on. Saturday we spent all day cleaning out the final parts of our house, cleaning the windows etc…oh yes it was fun – NOT! But am happy to say its all done and now I am just waiting for Tuesday morning for the settlement to go through and that’s one more tick off the ole list. Yippeee. I shouldn’t sound soo happy as we really did love our house but its just gone beyond that and having to look after 2 properties whilst being away heaps was a bit tiring…at least we aren’t all sad that we are saying goodbye to our “first” house!! After jump starting my car, yes Mel left the key on just to top off a busy day *whoops* we headed home and had people over for a bbq, so needless to say the bed was very welcome that night!
Did anyone go and watch the Red Bull Air Race yesterday???!!!! We went down and I have to say I thought it was awesome. Now I am kinda scared of flying but I can realise talent when I see it and boy are those guys talented and fearless! It was very impressive. We had about 5 of us head down from our house, we just walked down with our esky and picnic basket and had a great day of lunch and drinks in the sun. It was sooo hot though and we had to constantly apply suncream, I am happy to report I did not get burnt, I just have a very nice brown tan at the moment J It was also good to see that (where we were at least) there were no fights or anything, everyone was happy and cheery and the police were really good and let people drink as long as no one went over the top, fair call!!
Holiday
Yep we are off on our holiday on Wednesday night. I soo can’t wait. We are off to Sydney for 6 days and I have booked what looks like an awesome hotel in the Rocks so hopefully I can enjoy the Sydney I didn’t get to see properly a couple weeks ago. We are then going down to Melbourne, where we will spend hubby’s birthday and our one year wedding anniversary – we are planning on going along the Great Ocean Road and staying down there for a couple nights. I’m really excited, I’m just soo looking forward to a holiday, finally just relaxing and taking in what’s been a full on year. Bring it on baby!!
So I won’t be blogging for a good 2 ½ weeks, I’ll be back mid December – everyone stay safe, stay motivated and I will catch up on everyone’s blogs when we get back – and I promise to update with some holidays piccies!!!
Love,
Mel.
x
About Me
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- One girl's blog on the eternal effort of finally becoming the person I really want to be. We only live once and so its time fo rme to stop sitting back and dreaming about what I want in life, now its time to become that dream...tears, tantrums, triumphs and laughter - all part of game!
Monday, November 20, 2006
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Now where do I start....
I'm back and busy...there just seems to be no "me" time at the moment....but diet & exercise are certainly still on my mind..will go into that shortly...but to update the adventure so far...
Mt Buller & Melbourne
Let's see...we flew out on the Thursday night midnight flight, I was a little stressed out so I got really nervous about the flight and almost didn't hop on but in the end did (as Stu said he was going without me anyways..what choice did I have?) and actually fell asleep so again was in Melbourne in no time! We got in about 6am and then went to the workshop, which has a loft with a bed, shower etc, and had a 2 hour sleep before heading off!!
Got to MB about 6pm just in time for dinner and a night of drinks....
Anyways Saturday arvo I went down the bottom of the mountain with hubby, that is where the rally starts and the cars climb there way up the 16km winding road. Now let me just say, its a bloody scary road without racing up it, in summer or winter, so I have no idea how these people do it (I stress at doing just 60km)! There were a few accidents but nothing to major. Unfortunately the turbo on the Subaru we were working for went so Saturday was the end of our weekend...so we actually got to go back to Melbourne on Sunday morning and spent 2 days there before flying back home - it was pretty boring during the day as hubby just worked the whole time on cars - oh the fun!
BUT....I saw Jennifer Hawkins (aka Miss Universe) and her boyfriend Jake walking past me whilst I was checking our Chapel St - she is absolutely stunning, not sticky thin either but just perfect and very stylish and OMG Jake is just sooo spunky - I had to try and be cool and not stare too much but it was hard.
**I soo wished we lived in Melbourne its just the hottest spot and it just feels like "home" every time we got back!**
So there you go my weekend in a nutshell - it was actually a really funny weekend and certainly not as busy as when Stu races...
Diet & Exercise
Well I had a little sad the other night, everything just caught up on me on the realisation of my 1kg weight gain hit me. My trainer had really told me off about the gain and now every time I see him he really lays into me and questions everything I eat/do...so I think it finally hit home and I just cried.....but then I was like "all this crying is not doing me any good, I gotta start doing something rather than just saying or thinking about!".
To be honest I am still in the mentality of when I was really thin and although I am not massively overweight or anything I'll be heading that way if these increases still continue. I realised that I am not that "thin" person that I once was and that I have to do something about this to get back to being happy because I'm not happy with myself at the moment and the only person I can blame is myself. There is no point asking people if they can tell I have put on weight because in reality not many people are going to tell you the truth, so I have been deluding myself and with my weight gain it kinda hit home that this is the biggest I have been since I was overweight in high school...boom, lightening has struck - I've finally got it.
Soo in that respect I am trying the best I can at the moment, considering how busy we are. Our house sale goes thru next Monday (19th) and the place is still full of junk as we have been away soo much. Today we have to go sort out what we are selling in our garage sale there tomorrow and setup for that, then tomorrow is the garage sale and trying to empty the house out...then we only have next Saturday to get everything else out and clean it - I have absolutely no idea how we are gonna get this done, but I'm not thinking too far forward because I will only get stressed out.
Work is also flat out with a lot of changes being made and a lot of afterwork paperwork and agreements to work on - aghhh!
So I'm still doing my PT sessions, my body circuit classes, I went to our local gym yesterday and did some cardio and unfortunately its the weekend and raining but I'm really concentrating on doing exercise each day and have salad with dinner and no pasta or heavy carbs and to be honest I am feeling better already. So 2kg is the goal for before Xmas, I think that's realistic, if I can manage my nightly meals I can do this as I think that is where this weight is coming from.
I also bought some XLR8 tablets from the health food shop to help speed up the ole metabolism and burn some fat, so we'll see how I go with those, has anyone tried this before??
Right I'm off to check on everyone's blogs - will update on the ole new "determination and lightening bolt" adventure soon...
Love,
Mel.
x
I'm back and busy...there just seems to be no "me" time at the moment....but diet & exercise are certainly still on my mind..will go into that shortly...but to update the adventure so far...
Mt Buller & Melbourne
Let's see...we flew out on the Thursday night midnight flight, I was a little stressed out so I got really nervous about the flight and almost didn't hop on but in the end did (as Stu said he was going without me anyways..what choice did I have?) and actually fell asleep so again was in Melbourne in no time! We got in about 6am and then went to the workshop, which has a loft with a bed, shower etc, and had a 2 hour sleep before heading off!!
Got to MB about 6pm just in time for dinner and a night of drinks....
Anyways Saturday arvo I went down the bottom of the mountain with hubby, that is where the rally starts and the cars climb there way up the 16km winding road. Now let me just say, its a bloody scary road without racing up it, in summer or winter, so I have no idea how these people do it (I stress at doing just 60km)! There were a few accidents but nothing to major. Unfortunately the turbo on the Subaru we were working for went so Saturday was the end of our weekend...so we actually got to go back to Melbourne on Sunday morning and spent 2 days there before flying back home - it was pretty boring during the day as hubby just worked the whole time on cars - oh the fun!
BUT....I saw Jennifer Hawkins (aka Miss Universe) and her boyfriend Jake walking past me whilst I was checking our Chapel St - she is absolutely stunning, not sticky thin either but just perfect and very stylish and OMG Jake is just sooo spunky - I had to try and be cool and not stare too much but it was hard.
**I soo wished we lived in Melbourne its just the hottest spot and it just feels like "home" every time we got back!**
So there you go my weekend in a nutshell - it was actually a really funny weekend and certainly not as busy as when Stu races...
Diet & Exercise
Well I had a little sad the other night, everything just caught up on me on the realisation of my 1kg weight gain hit me. My trainer had really told me off about the gain and now every time I see him he really lays into me and questions everything I eat/do...so I think it finally hit home and I just cried.....but then I was like "all this crying is not doing me any good, I gotta start doing something rather than just saying or thinking about!".
To be honest I am still in the mentality of when I was really thin and although I am not massively overweight or anything I'll be heading that way if these increases still continue. I realised that I am not that "thin" person that I once was and that I have to do something about this to get back to being happy because I'm not happy with myself at the moment and the only person I can blame is myself. There is no point asking people if they can tell I have put on weight because in reality not many people are going to tell you the truth, so I have been deluding myself and with my weight gain it kinda hit home that this is the biggest I have been since I was overweight in high school...boom, lightening has struck - I've finally got it.
Soo in that respect I am trying the best I can at the moment, considering how busy we are. Our house sale goes thru next Monday (19th) and the place is still full of junk as we have been away soo much. Today we have to go sort out what we are selling in our garage sale there tomorrow and setup for that, then tomorrow is the garage sale and trying to empty the house out...then we only have next Saturday to get everything else out and clean it - I have absolutely no idea how we are gonna get this done, but I'm not thinking too far forward because I will only get stressed out.
Work is also flat out with a lot of changes being made and a lot of afterwork paperwork and agreements to work on - aghhh!
So I'm still doing my PT sessions, my body circuit classes, I went to our local gym yesterday and did some cardio and unfortunately its the weekend and raining but I'm really concentrating on doing exercise each day and have salad with dinner and no pasta or heavy carbs and to be honest I am feeling better already. So 2kg is the goal for before Xmas, I think that's realistic, if I can manage my nightly meals I can do this as I think that is where this weight is coming from.
I also bought some XLR8 tablets from the health food shop to help speed up the ole metabolism and burn some fat, so we'll see how I go with those, has anyone tried this before??
Right I'm off to check on everyone's blogs - will update on the ole new "determination and lightening bolt" adventure soon...
Love,
Mel.
x
Thursday, November 02, 2006
The Chaotic Life of Mel....
Yep life is just a tad busy at the moment.
Last Wednesday night we flew out to Sydney...of course, we got stuck sitting in the plane on the tarmac for 90 mins (yes this is at midnight!!) whilst some alpacas were removed from the cold storage section on the plane and put into a slighter warmer cargo hold...so they wouldn't freeze to death!!! Yes, strange I know but true...I thought my tablets were having wierd affects on me when I heard the pilot make that announcement..haha
So really the weekend was a blur. We were non stop busy. We stayed out in Campbell Town because it was close to the track - I hope no one is from Campbell Town reading this because but I have to say, it was horrible (equivalent to our Balga/Midland) - I walked into town once and didn't dare go back again by myself, so lesson learnt and consequently no gym due to that fact as I didn't have a car when Stu wasn't with me.
But moving on, spent our days at the track, I did the very good "wife" thing, I worked on my lap top whilst Stu played with his car etc and also did some video cameraing of his races - but I didn't do too well with that as my hand was shaking soo much from nerves watching him...hehe...but he did awesome as usual!
Friday night we went into the Rocks and went to dinner at this chinese place, Imperial Peking, or something like that. OMG, it was just the best chinese I have ever had. I actually haven't had chinese for years as I prefer Japanese or Thai but this was just amazing. Stu's boss took us and picked out what we ate and it was just brilliant - I can't say enough about it!
Saturday night we all went to the Sydney Motor Show, I got to sit in the new Audi R8, and it was pure bliss, I could only dream of buying one of those, it costs as much as our first house cost us!! The guy we were with has purchased one...hmmmm....anyways finally at like 10.30pm, with me looking to eat the artificial flowers on display, we finally went down to the harbour and had dinner. We ordered this massive seafood platter with lobster, crab, prawns, oysters etc...it was soo nice. I have never had oysters before but now am addicted!!
Sunday night we had a presentation night to go to and again the food was absolutely brilliant - finally had a bit of a big night that one - alcohol wise...was not good going to bed at 1am and having to be up and out of our hotel at 5.30am to get to the airport...very ill....
So really I had a great weekend - a little annoyed I couldn't do any exercise but anyways...I have made up for it a bit this week. I've done my 2 body circuit classes, which I love and this arvo is my PT session - we have measurements today and I am meant to have lost 2kg but its more like I have put on 2kgs, so I'm really not looking forward to it...things are just soo hectic at the moment but I have my goal in mind and I know that when I can exercise I certainly do, so it will happen....
AND we actually fly out to Melbourne (my most favourite city!!) this evening. We are off to Mt Buller for a rally this weekend. We are staying at a realllllly nice hotel this weekend and I've been to Mt Buller before so I'm hoping the uni gym is open so I can go there - Stu's not racing this weekend, so things will be a bit more relaxed and we can be a bit more flexible, just gotta so stuff for his boss, but otherwise we can drink and gym it and stuff...sooo yah!
Anyways I am outtie, I hope everyone is going well and I'll be catching up on blogs later today - see ya next week!
Melly.
x
Yep life is just a tad busy at the moment.
Last Wednesday night we flew out to Sydney...of course, we got stuck sitting in the plane on the tarmac for 90 mins (yes this is at midnight!!) whilst some alpacas were removed from the cold storage section on the plane and put into a slighter warmer cargo hold...so they wouldn't freeze to death!!! Yes, strange I know but true...I thought my tablets were having wierd affects on me when I heard the pilot make that announcement..haha
So really the weekend was a blur. We were non stop busy. We stayed out in Campbell Town because it was close to the track - I hope no one is from Campbell Town reading this because but I have to say, it was horrible (equivalent to our Balga/Midland) - I walked into town once and didn't dare go back again by myself, so lesson learnt and consequently no gym due to that fact as I didn't have a car when Stu wasn't with me.
But moving on, spent our days at the track, I did the very good "wife" thing, I worked on my lap top whilst Stu played with his car etc and also did some video cameraing of his races - but I didn't do too well with that as my hand was shaking soo much from nerves watching him...hehe...but he did awesome as usual!
Friday night we went into the Rocks and went to dinner at this chinese place, Imperial Peking, or something like that. OMG, it was just the best chinese I have ever had. I actually haven't had chinese for years as I prefer Japanese or Thai but this was just amazing. Stu's boss took us and picked out what we ate and it was just brilliant - I can't say enough about it!
Saturday night we all went to the Sydney Motor Show, I got to sit in the new Audi R8, and it was pure bliss, I could only dream of buying one of those, it costs as much as our first house cost us!! The guy we were with has purchased one...hmmmm....anyways finally at like 10.30pm, with me looking to eat the artificial flowers on display, we finally went down to the harbour and had dinner. We ordered this massive seafood platter with lobster, crab, prawns, oysters etc...it was soo nice. I have never had oysters before but now am addicted!!
Sunday night we had a presentation night to go to and again the food was absolutely brilliant - finally had a bit of a big night that one - alcohol wise...was not good going to bed at 1am and having to be up and out of our hotel at 5.30am to get to the airport...very ill....
So really I had a great weekend - a little annoyed I couldn't do any exercise but anyways...I have made up for it a bit this week. I've done my 2 body circuit classes, which I love and this arvo is my PT session - we have measurements today and I am meant to have lost 2kg but its more like I have put on 2kgs, so I'm really not looking forward to it...things are just soo hectic at the moment but I have my goal in mind and I know that when I can exercise I certainly do, so it will happen....
AND we actually fly out to Melbourne (my most favourite city!!) this evening. We are off to Mt Buller for a rally this weekend. We are staying at a realllllly nice hotel this weekend and I've been to Mt Buller before so I'm hoping the uni gym is open so I can go there - Stu's not racing this weekend, so things will be a bit more relaxed and we can be a bit more flexible, just gotta so stuff for his boss, but otherwise we can drink and gym it and stuff...sooo yah!
Anyways I am outtie, I hope everyone is going well and I'll be catching up on blogs later today - see ya next week!
Melly.
x
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