Craaaaazy

splish splash

I did it.. 

yes not a pretty picture I know

and realised the minute I got in the water - how much I had missed it - and how much I love to swim!!  

Started yesterday - have been every day since!

Saving my pennies

because the way Miss Rach is kicking my green kiwi ass - I will be biggest loser because I will not be the biggest loser.   Confused??   My dear friend Rachel has embarked on a journey - one she knows I have been on.. and off and on for a while.   She has inspired me to get back on the horse so to speak - and try harder.   

The loser (although we are both winners for the journey) has to fly to the winners city!     She is screaming ahead of me at the moment and I am so so proud of her - I just know she is already feeling amazing and looking amazing.

Here is my ticker which I will post off and on.    

While this looks great - most of this weight loss was achieved earlier in the year. I am proud of the fact I had kept most of it off - but that is only through sheer willpower and trying to eat sort of right. I had gained a little but since I restarted with Rach - I have lost 2.4 pounds.  My weigh in is Wednesdays - this week is not looking too good... hoping for a miracle by Wednesday morning!!

Maybe I should do another ticker- actually yes I will - and here it is... the backgroun is a swimming lane - to remind me to start swimming laps again which I love to do!!

In other news I may be a little underground the next couple of days dealing with the IRS *bleech*.   Mike and I spent ALLLL day - 12 plus hours - yesterday sorting through a years worth of receipts from 2007 to give them copies to PROVE I really did have certain expenses.   *sigh*    Today I will hopefully finish it off.

FINALLY!

made it back to my pre-Italy and pre knee injury weight!   It has been no mean feat either with not being able to exercise because of my knee.  

However I have now been given a clean bill of health - albeit with certain warnings - but hopefully I can now see more of a downward trend and quicker in the scales!!

So to celebrate - here is a little diet humour for you!

Even Facebook thinks I'm Fat !!!

After several great weeks of losing weight steadily, and watching the numbers go down I have had a very frustrating week and a half.   Especially this week.   I have stayed the same and even crept up a little - which has annoyed me to no end.

To add insult to injury - I did one of those *name generator* fun - HA - things on Facebook yesterday and even that thinks I am fat too.   This is what it came up with....

Shell's Mafia Name is Jimmy "The Gut" Costello

Hello?????   How mean is that!

I will admit I have not had a great week on the exercise front.   It has been a week of being very busy and a lot of appointments - but that is no excuse.   I cannot let things like that get in the way of stopping me exercising or doing less than I normally do.

At least my diet has been on track - thank god for small mercies.    But I still feel very frustrated at seeing the scales go in the wrong direction.

Of course, having added a pound - and not losing any at all this week - means I have a snowballs chance in hell of  hitting my target set on the Wii.    Target date is Monday - and short of a miracle - or a box of Exlax - I am not going to make it.

BAH!   I guess I could always try this!!

Hitting the hyperdrive button

ok I have seen piccies of the family (sisters and cousins we think) of the bride - of the wedding we are going to in Italy at the end of April

Can you say women

can you say Italian women

can you say very pretty Italian women

can you say very pretty stylish Italian women

can you say very pretty stylish slim Italian women

can you say very pretty stylish slim Italian women who looked like they just stepped out of Vogue Italia

yes well... all of the above.

So I am now going into warp speed on my diet and fitness.    Managed to shed another couple of pounds at the beginning of this week YAYYY - but need to up the ante some more.

More exercising
More aerobics/cardio
More strength work
Strict strict strict on the diet

Hoping to shed at least 20 more pounds before I leave!