Well! where do I start?

guess if I work from the now backwards would be easiest.

Just finished a delishious meal of salmon steak cooked in a smidge of olive oil and a huge plate of salad with meslin lettuce, apricot, low fat feta, lite cottage cheese(was only scrapes of each so splashed out with both)black olives, sundried tomatoe, red onion, green capsicum slice and seafood dressing lite. Bloody awesome and not a speck of need for guilt-was thinking pizza but didn't really have the money.

Back from weight management-the last 3 weeks I have had little gains all related to water retention and I wasn't overly worried about but frustrating all the same. This afternoon my ankles were very swollen so I guzzled 3lts of water and put my feet up for an hour peeing every 10 mins or so and by six my ankles looked WAY better and guess what a 4 kilo loss yes this is offical but the gains of 2.5 over last 3 weeks weren't 'real' so really 4k isn't 'true' either but I am 4k lighter than I was last week and that is the important thing I AM LIGHTER.

Hubby has been out of town for last 3 days while away he got me a pair of walking sports sox recommended by Helena thanks mate. Brand is Thorlos wish they had been on special but I wasn't paying and I am worth the cost. He also bought me home a lovely bunch of daffodils and 3 pretty polyanthus'all for doing so well in my journey and some fresh veges brocolli yeah haven't had broc for ever been so expencive.


Today at work my work mate, these girls have been a great support along the way-I have to order a top for promotion event next summer and first year was mens 5xl last year was mens 2xl this year I have ordered a girlies size 20-I am just so stokked size 20 wow.

Sunday Went for an 18k walk took me 4hrs 10mins and I am very pleased...got a bit lonely along the way so I txt a few friends and got spurred on with there support. Thanks guys. Very pleased with how I felt on Monday bearly even stiff...wouldn't wanna do it again on Monday but pleased all the same.

My baby(Anthony) 29th birthday on Saturday-wow where did the time go-I rung him, we had sent him some photos, with his card, of me doing the Chch marathon he was very impressed with weight loss and thrilled to hear how I'm doing this was a really buzz. Sometimes we are a bit at logger heads so was great to hear. (When I lost in 2000-2001 I was mortified when Anthony came home from Oz and never made acomment on my weight loss hell he had to notice a loss of 35k but never said a thing it hurt and I let the well why friggen bother gremlins take over and gained it all back...also had depression REAL bad. What made me start again...Anthony when we were in Oz March 2005 and huffing and puffing exhausted in the heat of Sydney summer he said Mum can you loose some weight I don't want you to die that was enough...he did care afterall. 50k later he is proud of me. Not sure if I mentioned last time Anthony and I spoke he made mention of coming over in Oct and I said hope it's same time as my duathlon well guess what it is same weekend I am absolutely over the moon that he will be there cheering me over the finish line...now my boy isn't very good at communicating and showing his feelings so I am not expecting loud roars when I come over finish line but he will have a glimmer of a smile and him just being there will be a HUGE buzz.

Worked all last week so pretty much shattered at end of day-could have easily ordered pizza any of the nights but I didn't and did I tell you the scales paid me a huge reward.

Rambled on enough. Nite all.