Woo hoo!!!

Well I got on the scales this morning. I've lost weight! Yay!!!!!  Okay .5 kilo.  It's not a huge amount but the way I'm feeling, any loss is a good one!  I haven't even been hungry yet. 

I'm still in bed. I can hear the wind howling outside; it's eerie today and I don't want to get up...  The rain has started which kills my walking the dog.  I would have gone with the wind, but rain....

Still; I guess the world awaits!
Hell.  I might just walk the dog after all...  

Ok... That's all I've got for the pre 'get out of bed'...  

A Life. Not Beautiful, but Serivceable...

Last week I decided an 'overhaul' was needed, because hey, life was going to pass me by in a haze if I didn't watch out.

You probably wonder just what the term an 'overhaul' means.

It means I was going to go on a diet.  Dress better.  Wear makeup all the time, not just when forced to.  Attempt to get a job if I could figure out just what the Hell I want to do (read can do).  Take up yoga; and belly dancing!

Instead, here we are.  Monday again.  The same old routine.

I got up, took the dog for a walk (I crossed off 7000 steps yay).  Came home and mowed the lawn (first bit of sun I've seen for days).  Started cleaning (I haven't finished; stopping to blog); and through it all, not a scrap of makeup on.  My hair isn't done; choosing instead to pull it back into a pony tale (unbrushed).  I'm wearing jeans and a tshirt and my runners (boy, move over Charlize Theron!)

I have SES volunteering tonight.  Come Hell or high water, I'll go shower and put make up on if it kills me!!!

I nearly forgot the most important part!!!  I am still on a diet!!

Weekend One - Down!

Well I made it through the weekend without making an absolute pig of myself :)

It started out well actually...

I met up with old work friends on Friday night, which was great.  I had wondered if I was going to be forgotten now that I didn't work there anymore; and worse, I moved away and I'm retarded lol.  It had been a while since I saw any of them and I think they were surprised at how good I am.

We all sat around their trendy house in Collingwood chewing the fat (without chewing any fat..) and laughing our heads off.  I should say that most of them no longer work there and the two that did, were talking about getting out.

I didn't drink alcohol.   I didn't eat pizza.   I didn't have chips or dip.   I had my bottle of water and just a hint of food which was fabulous, considering it was bought after about fifteen minutes of argument over which takeaway to get!

So the first night down; without busting it wide open.

Then Saturday the Squeeze (yes... he's back) and I went out for breaky.  Instead of going for the bacon and eggs as I usually would, we got the Avacado Smash.  It was yummy! And even better, we got one serve and two plates.  A few weeks back, being heartily sick of the huge meals on offer, the Squeeze and I decided that from here on in, we were going to order one serve and get two plates.  We haven't been wrong yet...

Then we were off out for the night to the Caravan Club to see an ACDC rip off, which were probably very good if you like that sort of thing.  I did let my hair down a bit.  I had three glasses of red and Chinese for dinner but I figure a diet that there is no room to move, is destined to fail.

I've been on target today.  I had an omelette shared with the Squeeze followed by a quick kiss goodbye and zooming back down the highway.  I stopped in at the waterfront at Geelong and walked the dog figuring I'd be more likely to do a long walk there than at home!  And, got a laugh when I saw a guy I knew from Melbourne down for the weekend!

So.   Week 1 is a.o.k.

I'm off to make soup!

Diet time. I hate this. :)

Well the diet has started.

I weighed in this morning and I only ate diet food yesterday.  Last night, I made this yummy chicken soup which had lots of chilli and vegetables in it!

Still, it's not yesterday's I'm worried about...  Things are good when I'm here by myself or with the girl.  Tonight, I have to drive to Melbourne and get together with a bunch of people I used to work with.  They all saw sense and left...

But we are going up there.  We'll order pizza and drink wine and chew the fat so to speak!

I'm going to look great turning up there with my vita wheats and soda water lol

Right now, I'm going to walk the dog though!

Shit that is sharp!!!

Well when I last blogged, I was told that I'd never be as sharp as I once was...

Cruel words.  Hard to swallow.  And trust me, there are difficulties!  But I'm getting better, slowly. Now my brain works as well as it ever did, if you don't think short term memory is any great consolation.  Even that is slowly coming back.  I can get around it by writing things down.

Last year my brain, sigh, could remember nothing.  If you sent me off to the supermarket to get five things without writing them down; I'd get there and be wondering what I was doing there.  Now I don't have to write a list and I actually remember the things I went there for!

Where I used to type as fast as I thought, now I'm struggling along (which is still a million times faster than most of the human race...)  But the trouble is, 1.5 years in, that rehab is starting to think I am fixed.  Yep!; and I'm staring at my memories across the floor and can't for the life of me see why they can't see it.  I wish I'd lost a leg or something because at least then they would think "hear comes hoppy!"  Instead, they don't see a brain trauma.

I decided to start writing again on my blog.  Mainly because I need to go on a diet (and my daughter is coming along for the ride!)  I am fatter than I have ever been....  I'm hanging about the house; so I don't dress up.  I don't wear makeup unless going somewhere, I don't wear jewellery and to be honest, everything is too hard.

I realise now that I am one of people that I would raise my eyebrows at.  A slacker... Self esteem issues. Whatever!

WTF???  That is not me!  I'm conceited!
So I'm about to document our journey!!

Get out of my way!  I'm coming out!  (but not in a lesbian way :) )