DETERMINATION IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOALS AND SUCCESS

I WILL BE PREPARED FOR AN EMOTIONAL EATING EPISODE

People protect what they love.   Jacques Yves Cousteau

Today I am grateful for: a foggy morning, my comfortable home, hand drawn picture from children

Hello Lovely Girls, It is a foggy morning here in Sydney, so we should have a beautiful sunny day later this morning. We are heading for around 72 degrees. Perfect!!!! The cockatoos are apparently not leaving and are hanging in there, I don't know what they are eating, they are particularly noisy this morning, maybe because the fog is so thick. I am surprised they can see each other, with their white bodies against the white fog. However, they are still out there flying around screeching at each other, maybe it's their roll call for the morning????

I am feeling good and happy with the way I am eating. I like this not counting or weighing and just eating healthy when I am hungry. I always have a food plan but sometimes feel like something else or need a snack later after my light dinner. My head isn't focused on food or eating, my tummy tells me it's time to eat. I like that! Although it is Friday, we are not shopping today, my daughter has to go to the doctor's on Monday, so I will do my walk over to the shopping centre with the angel in her stroller and pick up a few things then. I have my usual day planned, a little baking, a little cleaning, a little cooking, a play visit with the angel and afternoon tea with the big kids. The eldest boy and I usually watch WWE on Wednesday and Friday afternoons. It is our thing and we yahoo and generally enjoy the action, of course it doesn't hurt that there are some yummy looking barely dressed men throwing themselves and others around!! That is good for me, stuck as I am in my ivory tower!!! Thank you to all the girls who visited my diary yesterday, I appreciate your comments and support. What a wonderful group of women you are. I love each of you:) Have a good day!

Planned Food For Today

hot chocolate, porridge

spaghetti bolognaise

basa fillet, honeyed carrots, peas

CAMP muesli bar, hot chocolate

DETERMINATION IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOALS AND SUCCESS

I WILL BE PREPARED FOR AN EMOTIONAL EATING EPISODE

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.     Louis L'Amour

Today I am grateful for: my warm bed, fresh food, clean water

Hello Lovely Girls, It is going to be seventy degrees with patchy cloud today, so still not too bad with only a couple of weeks until Winter starts. I didn't do an entry yesterday, mainly because I didn't have much to say. Not that I have a lot to say today either but I thought that my regular readers might wonder where I was. Well I am still here, doing my baking for the children's afternoon tea, playing with the angel and doing emergency call down's to help out with the children when necessary. Last night it was the angel who had woken at ten at night crying her little heart out, I went down to make sure she wasn't sick and she came and sat on my lap for a cuddle then the princess came out all sleepy to see what was going on so my daughter had a spare lap. The big boys of course slept through everything!!! They had both been playing soccer all day for their school and where exhausted, both their teams won as did the school (it was in inter-school competition), they were pretty pleased with themselves.

I am plodding along, I eat when I feel hungry, try to make healthy choices and actually succeed much of the time. I am feeling much more relaxed about the whole thing and am hoping that my new attitude will translate into some weight loss shortly. I hope that you all have a good day and look after yourselves. Love you girls:)

Today's Food

hot chocolate, mini tortilla wrap, peanut butter, banana

oven baked chips, tuna and corn mornay

seasoned chicken thigh, cauliflower, green beans, gravy

DETERMINATION IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOALS AND SUCCESS

I WILL BE PREPARED FOR AN EMOTIONAL EATING EPISODE

I love those who yearn for the impossible.    Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

Today I am grateful for: the promises of the future, being steadfast, understanding

Hello Lovely Girls, It is absolutely beautiful here this morning. It hasn't rained for over two weeks though although the sun and blue skies are wonderful a little bit of the wet stuff would be welcome. I want to thank all of you that visited my diary and commented yesterday. What thoughtful and supportive comments you left, I am very thankful and feel very well looked after by you supportive and gorgeous women.

I have already been out and about shopping for vegies and a few bits and pieces, the biggest boy has managed to pick up a cold and sore throat from somewhere so I expect that will be doing the rounds downstairs and hopefully I can avoid catching it. Of course, those chances are very slim, I can avoid the older children, however, what am I suppose to do when the angel holds my face between her little hands and says "I lub you" and lays a big kiss on me. It's inevitable I guess. Apart from imminent chances of a cold I am feeling good and doing well. I hope that you have a good week and stay healthy. Love you girls:) 

Monday Update: Motivational and Meatless Monday - The best motivation always comes from within.       - Michael Johnson Food for today: hot chocolate, porridge, herbed basa fillet, honeyed carrots, peas, peanut tofu power smoothie, CAMP muesli bar, hot chocolate

DETERMINATION IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOALS AND SUCCESS

I WILL BE PREPARED FOR AN EMOTIONAL EATING EPISODE

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. Pablo Picasso

Today I am grateful for: personal revelation, my Saviour, living with hope

Hello Lovely Girls, Another glorious day today. Just got back from church and am feeling refreshed and loved. I was having a think yesterday and considering how far I have come in this battle with the food monster. I was surprised by how far my internal progress has been even though my external weight has not altered that much in comparison. I used to wake in the morning thinking about food, ate and thought more about food and so it continued all day and into the night. Food obsessed my thoughts and controlled me actions. It drove me crazy. It really was my addiction. I realized during my little think that I rarely think about food anymore. Sometime I forget to eat breakfast until ten or eleven (not a good thing!) and then eat because I know it is best for me. I cannot of imagined that I would ever of been able to get to this point where food is in the place it should be - as a enjoyable fuel to keep me healthy and strong. Although lapses do occur, they are rare and even then I seem unable to maintain an overeat for very long. So it has been a positive journey, I really have achieved what I set out to do in one form and that is that 'I will be in control of my eating behaviour'. It has been a long journey, but one that has lifted a burden from my shoulders. I hope you girls are having a good weekend, making good choices and enjoying yourselves. Love you:)

DETERMINATION IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOALS AND SUCCESS

I WILL BE PREPARED FOR AN EMOTIONAL EATING EPISODE

The only journey is the one within.    Rainer Maria Rilke

Today I am grateful for: a beautiful morning, living with lots of trees around me, the beauty of nature

Hello Lovely Girl, It is a lovely Saturday morning here in Sydney. The house is quiet, the children are at sport or their dad's for a while. I have figured out that if I keep a spray bottle with water in it a quick spray and using my fingers to give it a quick run through does the trick. Easy!!! I have a quiet weekend coming up, as usual, nothing much planned at this stage. However, I never know when I will be called into action from downstairs.  Thank you once again to my regular diary readers, I really do appreciate you visiting my page and supporting me. I am pretty sure I would give up with out DD's. Love you girls:)

Today's Food

hot chocolate, lean bacon and tomato sesame roll

herbed chicken thigh, cauliflower, green beans, gravy

peanut tofu power smoothie 

DETERMINATION IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOALS AND SUCCESS

I WILL BE PREPARED FOR AN EMOTIONAL EATING EPISODE

OK, back from taking the angel to pre-school (she sang us all the way there!!) and doing the shopping, lugging the bags up the stairs. I have caught my breath and am ready to finish. It is indeed a wonderful day out there! I don't have any afternoon tea today as the boys have sporting activities on after school. I do however have a formal request from the princess to ' please, pick me up from school nana'. I hope that you girls have a great day and enjoy your lives. Love you:)                                

DETERMINATION IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOALS AND SUCCESS

I WILL BE PREPARED FOR AN EMOTIONAL EATING EPISODE

DETERMINATION IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOALS AND SUCCESS

I WILL BE PREPARED FOR AN EMOTIONAL EATING EPISODE

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.   Gilbert Parker

Today I am grateful: that there seems to be fewer cockatoos screeching, having a good night's sleep, being warm

Hello Lovely Girls, Looks like it will be another sunny day, clear skies, but it's going to be a chilly 60 degrees. Fortunately I have my three huge ceiling to floor windows facing westish so I catch all the afternoon sun especially as winter sets in and the sun moves around. I have decided to get some more hair cut of the top, the hairdresser left it longer on the top just in case I wanted some options. I think that it will suit me better to have it a little more choppy on top so that I can just wash, mousse, dry and go. It isn't as if I am going out a lot, so something easier will be better. So, my daughter, the angel and I are going out this morning, the angel is getting her first hair cut. Her hair falls past her shoulder blades and she is only 2 1/2, we are all like hair grow Barbies in this family. No sooner do we get it cut than it is needing a trim. My daughter's hair grows at an amazing rate, I am sure if you were to watch you would see it growing. Definitely faster than grass!!!!!!!

So nice to have another Aussie on the team, even though she comes from Melbourne and I am from Sydney (there is a slight rivalry between the two cities, each thinking they have one up on the other!!!) I am sure we will get on wonderfully. I am working myself up to printing off my diet diaries entries to keep as a permanent record. They contain so much information about my life and family, what's happening to me or not. I don't keep a journal so this will be a good way for my grandchildren and their children to have a peek into their nana's life and great grandma's life (whoo!! that's a bit scary!). The biggest boy is now twelve, so I shall live long enough to be a great grandmother easy. That is as long as the neurologist doesn't find a tumour or something!!!! LOL I shall expect some respect then, although I don't think I will be able to enforce it when I am in my late sixties. Blimey, I could be around for ages, the women in our family (except my mom) all live into their eighties. Good Grief, I am getting exhausted just thinking about it. Well I have to be off to put my face on before I get the yell to say we are off to the shops. Have a good day girls. Love you:)

Today's Food

hot chocolate, oat crisp cereal, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds, skim milk

lamb and barley stew

peanut tofu power smoothie

CAMP muesli bar, hot chocolate

DETERMINATION IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOALS AND SUCCESS

I WILL BE PREPARED FOR AN EMOTIONAL EATING EPISODE

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.   Titus Maccius Plautus

Today I am grateful for: the night sky, cuddling grandchildren, a loving daughter

Hello Lovely Girls, The sun is shining, the sky is blue, the spring bulbs are already poking their shoots through the soil (I told you our winter's are mild!!) and it is going to be a lovely day. Things went a little awry yesterday, I had everything planned out and then had to deal with an unexpected and upsetting occurrence. Hence, the quote for today. It doesn't seem to matter how organised I get myself or how determined I am to do things right, frequently I find myself at the whim of mine or other people's emotional breakdown's. Yesterday it was my daughter and myself who had trouble keeping things in perspective and we both ended up in tears. Managed to get our acts together by the afternoon. It didn't really affect my calorie intake as I was actually too upset to eat, you know when you feel as if you could throw up. That will have to be my silver lining for the day.

I am feeling much more positive today, it is all a matter of juggling the many distressing things that seem to have fallen upon us at the same time and keeping our eyes on what is important. I will have to deal with the things out of my control the best way I can. I hope that you girls have a good healthy week and that life treats you well. Love you:)

Today's Food

hot chocolate, soy and linseed toast, olive oil spread, lime marmalade

lamb and barley stew

peanut tofu power shake

DETERTERMINATION IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOALS AND SUCCESS

I WILL BE PREPARED FOR AN EMOTIONAL EATING EPISODE

"Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future."

~Rabbi Nochem Kaplan~

Today I am grateful for: a good night's sleep, sun filtering through lace, trees

Motivational and Meatless Monday

Hello Lovely Girls, We had a wonderful warm day yesterday and looks like the sky is clear and the sun in already showing it's face, so should be another pleasant gentle Autumn day. It is always so quiet around here over the weekend, so I hope that those that have been away getting on with life enjoyed your weekend. I also hope that the mom's and grandma's here had a lovely day. It is of course Monday morning here and I am back to my regular routine. A little cleaning, a little baking (choc chip muffins today), afternoon tea with the big boys and the princess and then bathing the little girls. It is sleep over night for the princess tonight (we changed from Tuesday to Monday as there is a program we watch on the TV together) and I have to say that she is getting better, no kicking or whacking in the head for about three weeks now, so yay! for that.

I would normally walk on the treadmill first thing in the morning, but to tell the truth it is just too cold where the treadmill is set up. I shall wait until later when the sun has come over the house and my bedroom is warm. I am a little nervous about hoping back on but figure that as long as I have the emergency stop line attached to me, if I do have a funny turn at least I won't be lying at the back of the machine with the thing still running!!!!! I shall be brave (and probably knackered!!!!) and do twenty minutes and see how I feel. I hope that you girls enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a great week. I hope our holidaying girls are having a good time. Love you girls:)

Today's Food

hot chocolate, porridge

basa fillet, honeyed carrots, peas

poached eggs on toast

CAMP muesli bar, hot chocolate