Weigh-in-Wednesday: 24th October 2012

Yep...a weigh-in Wednesday post on a Friday.

My sister has been extremely sick, so my week has consisted of driving back and forth from the hospital. She's still in until at least Monday, but hopefully she'll be feeling better very soon.

Due to this, I haven't had a chance to jump on here and update my blog.

So...

Wednesday I was exhausted as I had been at the hospital until 10pm the night before. I almost forgot to weigh-in, as I was dead tired and I couldn't remember what day it was.

Luckily I remembered just before eating breakfast, so I jumped on the scales and was very happy with the number staring back at me...

SW: 80.7kg
CW: 68.8kg
WIR: -800g
TOTAL SHED: 11.9kg

I haven't fit in many exercise sessions this week, so will be interested to see how the scales react next week.

My amazing birthday cake!

Yesterday my daughter turned 4...and today I turned 31.

Unfortunately we've spent most of the last two days at Liverpool Hospital, as my sister is very ill. When we got home tonight, my hubby wanted to do something special for me...so he made me a birthday cake...

...fresh FRUIT cake!

I absolutely loved it!

My family have been extremely supportive of my journey and I received some amazing birthday gifts...

• my family all put in together and bought me a spin bike...
• my beautiful sister-in-law bought me a WW magazine subscription and the brand new WW 2013 calendar...
• and my gorgeous husband made me the best cake ever!

I love all my family so much and I know I would not have achieved so much over the last few months without their love and support. It's been a pretty tough year emotionally...and they have been there whenever I needed a hand, a chat, a hug or a shoulder to cry on.

I have the most amazing family in the world :)

My miracle pants...

Today is my baby girl's 4th birthday and this morning I searched through my wardrobe searching for a pair of 3/4 pants to wear...and was excited to find that everything was too big!! YAY!!

So hubby pulled out my miracle pants...threw them to me and said "Here, try these on."

Now let me explain a little about my miracle pants. I was only just thinking of these pants yesterday and was upset as I thought they had been thrown out. You see, thesemiracle pants have not fit me in 5 years...but I kept them, as encouragement to keep going...but earlier this year, looking at them made me depressed, as I couldn't even pull them up past my knees and it would take a miracle to be able to fit into them again...

...hence the name miracle pants.

Well, I thought hubby had tossed them out, as he knew how upset I was the last time I saw them...but in fact he had hidden them...waiting for the perfect opportunity to reunite us.

"Here, try these on."

I looked at him, a little stunned as I realised my miracle pants were still in the house...and a little smile crept onto my face...

Should I?

Do you think?

I pulled them up...past my knees...past my thighs...and what do you know?...

THEY FIT!

A huge smile broke out on my face as I realised my miracle pants were on! I did a happy dance and was so excited!

You couldn't wipe the smile off my face all day and I loved being back in them. They felt great on...and they are a SIZE 10!

So in the end, it didn't take a miracle to fit back into my miracle pants...

...it just took a lot of focus, determination and hard work!

Weigh-in-Wednesday: 17th October 2012

I had a few sneak peaks at the scales this week and I knew I was getting very close to the 60s...

I was nervous weighing in this morning, as I desperately wanted to see a 69.something looking back at me.

My alarm went off at 5:30am and I nervously approached my scales...and I was over the moon when I saw 69.6kg flash in front of me!

After four very long years, I'm finally back in the 60s! My journey is in no way complete...I've still got a lot of work to do...but my biggest obstacle was been over come...I'm out of the 70s.

SW: 80.7kg
CW: 69.6kg
WIR: -1.3kg
TOTAL SHED: 11.1kg

It's my birthday on Monday and I could not have asked for a better present! I'm so proud of myself for putting an end to emotional eating and remaining focused on my goals.

My headless lunchtime visitor...

I was preparing lunch today when I heard a loud knock at the door and a shout for me to get a shovel...

Um...what?

So I opened the roller door to see a friend of my neighbours in my driveway screaming at me to grab a shovel...

"Why?"

"You've got a brown snake in your front yard?"

A what???

Oh yes...you read correctly...a brown snake in my front yard...AND I LIVE IN SUBURBIA!

I ran to my shed and couldn't open the damn thing as hubby had locked it, so in a panic ran to my neighbours house...knocking and screaming for a shovel! (...thank goodness I've been working on my running!!!)

"This isn't a long-handed shovel. You're going to have to help me get it?"

"Are you serious? There's no way I can do that."

"It's eaither you help, or this snake will end up in your garage...then we're up s**t creek."

Oh man...

Well...I won't share the ordeal...but I had to pass the utensils as my saviourdecapitated the brown snake. 

Thank god for my saviour! Thank God he saw it make it's way into my yard and thank God he disposed of it for me!

I've never seen a 'wild snake' before and I hope I don't see another ever again! I was worried about snakes at my daughters school (as she's just moved over to a semi-rural school...and it's our first summer term there)...and instead a snake visited me at home...

Bring on summer??!! :(

Oh yeah...and I finally had the stomach to eat my lunch around 2:30pm...snake anyone...joking, joking!!!