look at the freakin time! daughter getting me up earlier and earlier! not cool

weight watchers official weigh in today, last week on their scales i was 95kg, on my quick weigh in at home same day i was 95.5kg, it seems thursday is my heaviest day... dont care coz i figure much of a muchness and i should lose weight if i have lost weight doesnt actually matter WHAT number it is

no daycare for jem today and i think she is fixed! no snot this morning and two teeth have cut through so I think she will be a different child from today i hope!!!!

saturday is my 10 year highschool reunion

I feel your pain Kel - I have to get up before 5am every day this week for work, and it's still dark.

Good luck with your weigh-in at WW. How much water are you drinking every day? That will make a difference to your weight loss, and to how hungry you feel throughout the day.

It's pouring with rain here - woo hoo!!!

Vonni what's going on? Is it all the stress and tough times you have been through?

I'm having a 'maintenance week'. I find it really hard to focus when I'm working these hours, so I've decided that as long as I can average around 1600 calories a day, it doesn't matter what else I do. I can't lose weight when I'm only getting around 4-5 hours sleep a night.

Congrats Vonni - what a great achievement, don't know how you do it with a bub! I am having a hard enough time with work, school and only myself to look after! I got 85% for my first pathophysiology exam - pretty crap, but I really didn't study nearly as much as I should do. Will try better for next one.

The doc is 37, although he looks much younger. He's Polish, been in the US for several years now though. Not sure why he's single - he's very hot! It's funny, because Kathy the annoying nurse at work was telling me weeks ago I should go for him, but I didn't know him at all. Not sure what we'll do - just got chatting and it turns out he only lives around the corner from me, so he said we should hang out. I'll probably see him at rounds tomorrow. We were on the way to a bar with a big group of people and I lost track of where he was. I'll let you know!

Good luck for your weigh in Kel! I'll be thinking of you

Ani, I don't know how you do it, getting up at 5am. I was meant to get up at 6 to go to the gym this morning but only made it out of bed at 7:55 so not gym for Julia today.

Vonni I know what you mean about fuel prices. It really does make you think about whether you really need to go somewhere in the car doesn't it.

Gen! Go get that cardiologist girl!!!

I've got a concert to go to tonight so won't be able to go to the gym today which will mean 2 days in a row with no exercise and that's not ideal.

Unfortunately yesterday I totally blew out on my points. Instead of dinner, I sat down and ate a pack of pate and some crackers and was HORRIFIED when I turned the pack of pate over and saw that I'd just eaten 19g of fat.



Even worse as I'd been at a seminar and had eaten 3 wee pieces of cake/slice type thing. NOT GOOD!!

Tonight I'm going for a meal of Thai before the concert so diet won't be 100% great. Will have to do lots of jumping and dancing at the concert.

I thought thai was healthy enuf? Kel yes sometimes I do give Eb a smack. Not often though, I find she just turns around and blows a rasberry at me and sticks her bum out. The trick is to get what you need to do and say out of the road in 15 seconds. They lose track after that and close off.

If she has hit Bree. I pick her up say NO sharply and put her on the kitchen floor (its boring in there) and microwave timer for 2 1/2 minutes. I do tell her she has to stay there. And when timer goes off I give her a hug and take her to apologise.

I did give her a smack this morning and it shocked her she just walked away lol. I had roused on her and took chewy off her (found it in her brothers room probably shewed a month ago yerrrk) threw it in bin. She came at me yelling and fists flying. As soon as she reached me I whacked her on bum and it stunned her into silence lol.

Mind you my kids are definately no angels. I am all for giving a smack. I think that the do-gooders have given kids all the rights and no responsibilities and taken parenting away from the parents.

If the crime fits the punishment go for it. She doesn't bite, but she does whack her older sister a lot with anything she has in her hand. OR crash tackles her and sits on her head. Bree is quite little and fragile and hurts easily so as you can imagine when it happens there is LOTS of noise in my house.

I've had one kid bite when little. I tried the biting back thing but it doesn't work. Its like replacing a hurt with a hurt so they think it's ok. Say NO sharply and then turn away and do your own thing. I found ignoring them for a few minutes makes them think that it wasn't nice and they come to you. Then give her a hug and say gently "musn't bite mummy. It hurts"

Anyhow, I've prattled enuf. Remeber its MY opinion and way of dealing with stuff. Everyone is different and what works for one kid may not work with another. See how you go. Daycare is wonderful, but at the same time they do pick up bad habits and it's up to us to guide them. It's all we can do.

PS, sorry about all the typos. busting for a pee

vonni you rock. you said exactly what i was hoping was normal. jem goes to bite now EVERY time something doesnt go her way. i tell her it hurts mummy and then she kisses it better BUT sometimes she doesnt kiss it and bites me again! and she bites me ON THE FACE AND DRAWS BLOOD!!! little wench
adorable little wench
i have started to say NO in my dog growly voice when i REALLY mean it and then ignore her and she gets it and comes looking for me to give me a cuddle like she is sorry.....
but i feel i need to sometimes smack her hand if she is going for a powerpoint and i dont know how many times i have to tell her not climb on the fishtank or the coffee table.....
YOU ARE SO RIGHT about all rights no responsibility but i dont want her to think it is ok to hit or bite.... i DONT AND WONT bite her but i think a smack will sometimes stop her to make her think about what she has done... just dont want her getting out of control...

WEIGH IN AT WEIGHT WATCHERS 93.3KG THAT IS A LOSS OF 1.7KG!~!
WOO
WOO WOOO
i have been drinking a lot more water - still can be improved but HEAPS better still need towork on my afternoon snack attack i think maybe i will replace it with an afternoon walk with jem and the dogs..... now that is an idea but at least now i am working out how many points i can "blow" on my snack attack, binge session

went to the gym tonight (thursday is gym night) and did half an hour of treadmill and then hour pilates class, i AIM to go to the gym at least once more before next weigh in next thursday

hopefully MY weigh in on Monday reflects the ww trend....

Gen - woo hoo

you go kel 1.7 is awesome.. ...

dont you love toddlers,, im lucky neither of my kids bit but Cameron went through a girl hitting stage.. where he would just whop girls when ever he saw them.. lol
There was a girl about a year older then him that would pick on him at playgroup so he begin hitting all girls.. it was so embarassing.. oh look a girl.. time to punch... any random sweet innocent girl.. lol... they all do something.. Leah used to bite her own arm when she was annoyyed.. i told hwer off for it once which just made her do it more so i ignored it and she stopped getting the attention out of it she wanted .. so stopped doing it..

Do you have a play pen you could put her in when she bites you??
a quick growling no and in the pen for a minutes or two.. ? just a suggestion.. oh and yes i smack at times too .. but that had to be a really good reason for it.. time out is the thing that gets done her 99.9999% of the time as a form on punishment.(by the laundry door .. nothing to see do or interefere with there).

Julia i hope you enjoy the concert...

Ani what a horrible way to start the day.... lol before the sun... the only movement you see from me is tht of me snoring.. lol

anyway im off to bed.. nighty night

Congratulations Kel on a fantastic result!!

I had great fun at the concert last night. Dinner beforehand was delicious, I had steamed jasmine rice and chicken and veggie satay. Yum Yum. Danced for about an hour while the second band played so that would have burned a couple of calories!

I have a friend coming over for a couple of drinks tonight and I've told her to come a bit later than originally planned so that I can go to the gym after work.

Goals for today: 1) STICK TO MY POINTS!!! 2) Go to the gym and do weights and cardio.

i was actually thinking julia but forgot to say that thai can still be "good" the ww book i got yesterday told me the better choices to have when you have take away.
i had sushi yesterday i love sushi

ani - it is weird doing stuff before the sun comes up.... i dont know how shift workers do it.

i have GOT to get a time out corner but my whole house is too damn interesting or not baby proof..... i will work on it

again up out of bed before 7...... sigh.... i am so lazy

wanna know something funny.... beachboys just came on ipod and the song 'barbara ann" was on - and i always thought it was ba ba ba ran not ba bar ba bra ann i am so naive

time for brekky for us two girls... i am hoping there is raisen toast in the freezer but if not i know there are crumpets both the same points!

Kel I'm really happy for you that those scales dropped .

Get this: yesterday I hurt myself at work - I was unloading pallets and I felt a really strong pain below my ribs. It was so strong I dropped the pallet, and was doubled over - and I went into shock from the pain. So one of the managers took me to the doctor…

Dr said I needed 5-7 days of complete rest because I have strained/torn a muscle in my ribs - and resting was the only way to fix it. The manager gave him an official worker's comp form and said: "Let's not dwell on what she can't do. I need you to fill out this form and indicate which of these light duties she CAN do".

So the frustrated doctor ticked the boxes for heavily restricted duties, which is all Bunnings needed to keep me at work. But how ridiculous. I'm not allowed to lift anything over a kilo, no bending, no twisting, no standing for more than 20 minutes, should be sedentary. Must have heat pack every hour, and Panadeine Forte every six hours.

In all of this Bunnings found a way to keep me at work on light duties.

I have had about two hours sleep, because every time I rolled on my side the pain woke me up. There is no way I am going to work today - I'm going to ring in sick in a minute, and it's just too bad if they don't like it. All my workmates are furious with management, and conducted a 'go-slow' yesterday on my behalf… and the union rep at work told me that "Bunnings always does this because management lose their monthly bonus if any of us are injured at work".

Pfft!

I have to confess I comfort-ate chips and chocolate last night. Oh well…

Ani that's terrible and what a pack of w*nkers trying to keep you working when you should obviously be at home recovering!

You stay put and look after yourself

Ani, sorry to hear it. I would have thought being on NARCOTICS (panadeine forte) would be sufficient to get you out of work. If in doubt, tell them you're not prepared to drive impaired.

oh ani i am so glad you are "ok" that is so stupid though to get you back at work so you can not recover properly..... how cool the "go slow" protest that is awesome!!!

My 35-year-old cousin died overnight in Canberra. Farking cancer! Left behind a five-year-old daughter. That's just crap!!!