I went to the gym last night and did spin - YAY! Felt fantastic for having done it too Now unfortunately I'm not going to get a chance to go again until after I'm back from my holiday. Working at the rugby tonight so that means lots of walking around which is good.

HELLO LO LO LO . I can hear an echo in here!!!

I'm way to busy to pop in from work so I'll have to make more of an effort from home.

Have I missed anything? Nothing bad I hope.

I'm plodding along not really moving in any direction, but that's not all that bad really, rather be stagnant than be putting on.

I got a $3 an hour pay rise this week! Yay for me! Mind you I sure do earn it, they keep giving me more stuff to do and I'm not really all that confident that I can manage it all, but my boss seems to think I'm doing really well that's why I got the rise and more responsibility!

Anyway I'm off.

XX
Barb

Hey Barb payrise is awesome. maybe the 3 an hour u can put towards gym membership? lol. Says me who is gym procrastinator of the year.

Well i prob need to work more as the school has suggested that instead of my son repeating yr ten there (hes a wagger and when at school does nothing due to anxiety) and not being able to cope they found a person who runs a distance Ed school from his home. It takes pressure of parents to do it. a retired school teacher is he and i was concerned they'd be stuck in a room all day but no. found he takes them places in 12 seater bus. They went ultra light aircraft flying last week wow my son would love that.

Anyhow going to check it out next week.

Me, I working next 9 days in a row. 2 night duties the rest days. so wont be on much but hopefully i can eat right and lose a bit of weight.

Must run much to do before i go work at 3pm.

Vonni xoxox

PS Sry bout the son vent but am excited that finally something might be coming right for him.

Don't have the time for the gym Vonnni! My kids don't know who I am now!

Since starting work I've lost 3kg. See my ticker!!!!

I was woken up at 12:10am by the earth shaking!! There was a 7+ mag earthquake in the Banda Sea just off Indonesia at that point and it felt quite significant here in Darwin! God knows how it felt in Indonesia!! And the noise was quite dramatic too - the rumbling went on for a good couple of minutes (the shaking lasted the best part of a minute)! And I have to admit, I called the Emergency Services in a little moment of panic when I thought about a Tsunami wiping out Darwin!!

Turns out there was initially a Tsunami warning but it was lifted half an hour later.

Freaky stuff...seems mother nature is quite unsettled at the moment?


I have to confess to struggling with the weight-loss thing too. Can't get into it at all. My head is still in the place where it says 'you shouldn't be doing that' as I am eating, or even as I am pulling something wrong and totally unnecessary off the supermarket shelf. I know where I am off the wagon, but I can't seem to get myself back up again.

But I am going to have a long hard looking into things this week and see if I can't pick myself up!

Barb, you sound quite happy with the job! And well done on the 3kg loss!

Vonni, sounds like this guy might help your son...hope it works out.

Anyway...must move!

Lindor that would have been scary as. Glad I'm not coastal anymore lol.

Well, I prob wnt be on for a week. starting this morning i have 7 days in a row work then a night duty on the 8th day so i will be buggered. hopefully can keep my meals well balanced.

I want to try and get my mojo back to drop 5kg.

Starting today I am going to count calories, plan my meals and drink enough water to hydrate me. My days off are now Wednesday/Thursday so here goes…

Today's goal is:

• Eat no more than 1700 calories;

• Drink 2L of water;

• Plan my meals for the next week and go shopping;

• Write everything down; and

• Check in here every day to record my results.

I was made full time today at work, so my payrise is now $5 an hour rather than $3. YAY for me. I'm so proud of myself at the moment. Everything is looking rosy!

And I think I've lost weight too!

Weighed in this morning and I've lost 1.1 kg. WOOHOO!

Where is everyone?

Barb that is awesome. And when you work regular hours it is easier to work a meal plan out. and the pay rise = more fresh stuff

and a regular income, finally things are moving forward for us.

good stuff. Sry havent been on much guys, been working weird shifts and when not at work i am trying to catch up on either sleep or housework. Havent been that bad with my eating but need to drink water.... thats always been my problem.

Where IS everybody. Maybe we are lurking? But not posting? And if lurking is it because we are feeling low? And not doing well with the losing weight bit? But isn't THAT what we are here for? moral support?

HELLO-LO-LO-LO-LO



Me, not doing great but not that bad either. Not actively watching my food intake but i know its not as much as it has been. I've been sick with a wog yet again. So over it. And last night took myself to hospital. I was laying in bed about 11.45pm and as I was dozing off I got this awful feeling of being crushed/smothered (no pain tho) and my heart seemed to pound slowly in my ears and chest. I tried yelling out to Matt or reaching to touch him and I could not move at all or speak. then the feeling was gone and my pulse started racing and i could speak. scared the s h i t outta me so i rang work and burst into tears lol. they did an ecg all seemed fine they think i migbht have been having an anxiety attack. OMG I so never ever want to have one again. it was awful.

Vonni, have you considered Sleep Paralysis?

You say you have had some erratic shifts recently and this is often associated with poor sleep - jetlag etc.

I used to suffer a lot when I worked weird shifts and had a poor sleep cycle. And on occasions I experienced it after taking heavy pain killers.

It is a scary experiece!!

Weight loss is sooooo out the window with me! I don't even want to talk about it!

My vegies are not coping with the heat here...beans are stunted and dying. Cucumbers looked good...but are also dying now. Lettuces don't look anything like lettuce - long vines with big leaves! Tomatoes, the flowers are dying and falling off. Capsicum, look wilted and sad - one plant has flowers, so maybe some luck there? Carrots and radishes didn't survive the first fall of rain! I am really disappointed

Work sux again after the head honchos took away the manager that was working and showing results and replaced him with another hitler who has no management experience nor people skills!!

I am just fed up with everything at the moment!

On a brighter note...my $5 Melbourne Cup sweep at work won me $60!

Hope everyone else is ok

Sorry - I'm here too. I have been totally preoccupied with finishing my book, and I am happy/relieved to say that it is finally at the publishers being edited.

I have also signed up for NaNoWriMo, which is an international challenge for writers - the premise being that you challenge yourself to write 50,000 words of a novel in November. So I have joined the madness . Like a lot of people who write I have always wondered if I could create fiction - and I am in the throes of finding out!

Weight loss? Meh! There is a big lesson somewhere in here for me. Every day I tell myself that I will start again tomorrow - and I know better. And I need to change that and tell myself it starts NOW with every choice I make today.

Lindor vegetables need a lot of attention. I grow mine in pots so I can give them more shade when the hot weather comes, and I feed them regularly with a high-potassium fertiliser. They are what is called 'heavy feeders'. I also spray with a natural bacteria called Success to keep the caterpillars at bay, and I make sticky fly traps to catch all the other little buggers. It's easy - paint something bright yellow, smear it with vaseline and put it close to your plants.

Barb I am so impressed with how you've been going. Losing weight, having a great sense of pride in your work - it's fantastic, and I am really proud of you.

Vonni I have had a couple of panic attacks, and they are terrifying. Are you under a lot of stress? And I agree with Lindor - I would investigate sleep paralysis.

Where is Amy? Anyone heard from her?

OK gotta go and write some made-up stuff for my novel.