Hello and welcome... looks like you got everything all planned out and besides the fact that your family comes before you when it comes to eating it looks like your going to do just fine.

Hi. Thanks Ashley. It's good to see that you have been hanging in there and making progress too. If you lose what you have already, four more times, you'll be at your goal! Good luck!

I have been feeling pretty good about my eating this week. I haven't really been hungry or getting cravings, except when I've been waiting too long to eat. I think I will really have to keep paying attention to cope with that. Hopefully if I think about it a lot for a while I will develop some better habits and not need to focus on it as much.

Thanks Ashley. It looks to me like you have been progressing well. Four times what you've done and you're there!! You seem to have a very busy life - good on you for taking control.

I have been happy so far with what I'm doing - not feeling hungry or getting anywhere close to a craving - except when I'm waiting too long to eat - I still need to put a lot of effort in getting organized enough to keep that bit controlled.

You know I could have sworn I already posted something like this, but I cannot find it! Nor can I find the long post I was preparing after it. Oh well, not the first time that's happened. I will post this NOW.

Edit: something funny going on with my link. First I cannot find the post, then it turns out I have posted it, and also posted the redraft 3 times! (Deleted 2). This will have to do for tonight. I thought it would be ok to stay up as I can sleep in but I have probably over done it. It's so easy for that kind of plan to not turn out - I mean maybe I won't be able to sleep in after all. Also now I think about it, being too tired before I go to bed has given me problems in the past, so I probably should try to keep to the 11.00 bedtime even on the weekend. I haven't even managed an actual 11.00 so far!! Close but not actual.

Anyway it was a pretty good day. I stuck to my plan for dealing with the challenges and it worked pretty well. My husband was supportive. I will try to remember that he is just trying to help when he forgets what I have already told him about eating lots of salad and worries that it is too much, like he did again tonight. Poor darling, that is the food he sees me eat the most even when I am eating a whole bunch of other bad stuff he doesn't notice, or maybe doesn't even see because I'm hiding it, so he thinks the salad is doing the damage. I will make it work this time. I have so much in place to keep in the groove - and this site! This is really meeting a need for me.

Hi, Just wanted to pop in and tell you that you're doing great I hope you continue to overcome the struggles!!!!!

Have a GREAT day!

Tag ...you're it!

Share 5 facts about yourself

Hi MomtoMandK. Thanks for your encouragement. I'm sending good wishes your way too! Great to see you are a third of the way to your goal. How unreasonable that your very active exercise program didn't pay off better earlier! Still, now you have so much working for you in your weight loss program - even an on-line partner!

I so totally get it about the hard work of little kids. My life from when my children were really little is kind of blurry to me now because it was so hectic and lacking in sleep - but I remember the feeling, and particular events. I used to look at my little girl and think it was not right that I couldn't pass on the message to never have children because it is too hard and takes away all your own life! I didn't want that for her - but you can hardly tell that to the little body who is fifty percent cause of it all can you? That probably sounds more negative than I felt! I did love my little cherubs so much - but I feel like I just struggled through - wish I knew then what I know now and all that!!

Still got two lots of teenage years coming up to enjoy now!!

I wouldn't have it any other way. Busy, busy, needed, needed. So many people would love to be busy and needed wouldn't they? I expect I will be wishing for it myself in times to come.

Anyway, I'm sorry to see that you're unwell. Hope it's turning around for you quickly.

Thanks so much! You're so sweet! It's been rough, but Hopefully it will get better soon. I would love to get back to exercising, but right now I can't barely function!

I love being a mom Tiring sometimes.....but I wouldn't trade it for that world

I am sooooo tired! Just got in from shopping and heading to bed!!!!!

Hope you have a great weekend Enjoy!!!!

So I'm tagged. I have already gassed on heaps about myself, but I will try to find 5 new things.

Five things about me.

[Edit: I just looked at Melani's Diary to try to tag her (too late) - I see this what I've written is pretty massive compared to that so here is the short version.

1. I'm Australian.
2. I plan to holiday in New Zealand next year.
3. I have been married 3 times.
4. My family has a dog.
5. I like to go canoeing occasionally.]


1. I'm Australian. When I was in High School I had three American best friends and an American boy friend. I had an American accent!! The boy and the 2 girls I was close to went back to America to finish high school, and our correspondence petered out after a while. However, when I was in first year Uni, one came back to visit her parents who were still here, and I had a coffee with her and my new Australian boyfriend. They noticed that when I was looking at him and talking I sounded Australian and when I was addressing her I sounded American!! (Yep. I am a bit weird.)

2. I have been lucky enough to have travelled a bit, both in Australia and overseas a couple of times. Sometimes I think maybe it's a waste spending money on travel when it is needed around the house, but then I find that looking back over my life, those travelling times stand out. There have been some take your breath away moments. We have booked a holiday to New Zealand for next year. With the children.

3. I have been married three times. I have been with my current husband for 17 years.

4. We have a dog. She is moderately well behaved but quite independent minded and not as cuddly as we wanted. Well, not cuddly at all. She just tolerates being cuddled. Depending how high up in the family pecking order the cuddler is, she endures quietly, or moans sadly, or quietly growls.

5. Last summer my husband and I and some old friends who used to go canoeing together, got together again and took our 2 children as well and went canoeing down the Blackwood River for a weekend. I love being in a canoe - it's exciting and peaceful at the same time. Mind you getting out again was pretty difficult- especially from a kayak, as I have such short wide legs and virtually no stomach muscles!!

These are some pics of canoeing B4K. There is a dog in the canoe too, but it is our old (cuddly) dog. Our current dog went canoeing with us all last Australia Day weekend, but I don't have pictures.

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Those canoeing pictures look FABULOUS!

I would so love to do that
Of course, when I paddle, I end up going in circles (I think I do something wrong)

LOL. Canoeing is great. I have always done it in groups, and had some one in the canoe to help me keep going straight. I was pretty nervous trying it again because I had to be the experienced one in the back, with my son in front - and I had never actually been the one in control before. We had lots of fun though.

Beautiful canoeing pics Looks like you had tons of fun!!!

Thanks MomtoMandK. I hope you are having a good day today and starting to feel better than you have been.

I want to record a couple of things quickly then I'll go to bed.

This day seems like a danger day to me as far as food goes. It's Saturday night now. Because it was Saturday I was looking towards doing all the things that didn't fit in to the weekdays, but in a disorganized way. I didn't sleep in as much as I'd hoped. After 8.00 my mind started ticking over and I was up by 8.10. Yes it's a sleep in, but it means I should have been in bed earlier.

I had breakfast full and fine then stayed on the computer a lot - cleaned up and washed things a bit. I did a bit of planning in my head about tonight, but didn't write anything down. I didn't feel hungry at 12.00, so I put off lunch for a while - till I felt hungry about 1.30 I think. Had a good lunch.

I went shopping in the afternoon. Remembered to take my water. OK.

Tonight is a special night though. I don't quite know what I could have done much different but ....

Tonight was my daughter's dance concert. It is really awkward to deal with, even without considering being careful about my eating.
The concert starts at 7.15, a half hour's drive from home and as she's performing we are supposed to be there about 6.30. At the last minute before we leave, after she's eaten, so she doesn't mess her costume up, I need to help her put her hair up and apply a full make up. This is getting faster every year, but still takes about 40 minutes.

Anyway, as far as eating goes, the good bits are
I did cook (no quickish take away)
We had good food. I remembered to change the way I cook the chicken for myself - it tasted good.
I nearly had the amount of chicken I've been having but at the last minute before tipping it it into my salad I realized it looked bigger than what I think I should eat. I thought "too late now", but then I thought, "that will muck up my plan and it isn't actually mixed in, I could change it" and put some back into the fridge.
I nearly forgot the potatoes (which I've only just started having), but remembered in time.
I remembered to look for my water bottle to take, couldn't find it, but bought some as soon as we arrived.
I planned enough to think that my son and daughter would be having snacks while we were out and I might want to join in, and probably would feel hungry because I'd eaten so early (5.00), and so I took some wholemeal crackers and 2 nice apricots.
At intermission when my hand was diving towards my daughter's jelly beans, I diverted it to an apricot. When my son offered me a fantale I said no.
Afterwards on the way home I had a serving of the crackers and ate the other apricot.

But when I got home, I was still hungry and felt weak and I had no chance of being in bed on time because of how late it finished - plus daylight saving starts tonight so that might mean an earlier morning, yet I hadn't posted about today because of being out, and I had also missed my playtime on the computer and then when I was unpacking my daughter's bag the damn jellybeans fell all over the counter. I put them away and didn't eat them, but I felt such a strong tug. You know probably the thing I did wrong was to buy them in the first place. I should have remembered that I have a history of impulsively eating 1 or 2, or 5 or 10, or a handful followed by another handful, for no particular reason, or for a bedtime treat. I should have made sure that if I bought the children lollies for tonight, I chose something I didn't like.

Well that makes me feel better. I didn't actually go off the plan, and now I feel calmer and I will just go and have a glass of SoGood and go to bed.

Hi Felici and a belated welcome!!!

Your diary is so in depth, I need to take a bit of a leaf out of your book I tend to be very brief if I write in it at all!!!

I look forward to keeping up with your diary (or trying to lol!!!!)