From the mouths of babes....

Who would ever imagine that the words of a 9 year old boy could make you feel so much better.  Thanks to my little mate Daniel, for looking straight at me over the restaurant table tonight and saying angelically and extremely thoughtfully, "You've lost weight".  How totally nice is that!!!

Puts all the moaning in my last post into perspective really.  Want to be noticed?  Stick with the program!

I have to be honest, there have been a couple of days of slip slop sliding.  Even after a great weigh in where I reached a weight I haven't been for four years.  Must be the leftovers of the flu and being busy at work and plain old tired.

Last night I was going to make the Cajun fish stew.  But my brain was saying "I NEED rice".  I am craving ordinary things I haven't eaten for three weeks.  So I ended up having garlic rice (at least I kept it to a one cup serve cooked) with 500g of fish, steamed all together for dinner. I haven't felt so uncomfortably full for weeks!  But the rice was SO nice and the fish was so soft and tasty.

And today, I ended up going out and having a hamburger at Grill'd with Daniel and his brothers and his lovely mum.  I have been craving red meat so badly.  I have had to start back on constipation inducing iron tablets as I am so tired I know my iron stores are becoming depleted.

Then, lo! Michelle's message about the Week 4 Wobblies (my description, not hers), where all you want to do is give in and give up.  And how good it is to know that I am pretty much normal.  Always good to be normal I reckon.  And to know that tomorrow is a fresh day to start over again on the good track.

And yesterday was a bit of a watershed too. I went and had a chat to a new PT, given my former PT has given up training folk to take up a full time job.  And she was fantastic.  She has a great set up.  She is only one suburb or 7 minutes drive away.  I can have a 7pm session so don't have to worry about having to rush over from work.  She was really responsive to my goals and needs and interests.  She is really well qualified and highly professional.  I am really really looking forward to working with her. And she is so totally going to help me keep accountable in my exercise program.  I am going to stick with learn to run, but I am going to forgo the toning and stretching days for Bikram sessions, swimming and cycling with plenty of walking thrown in as well as an hour of PT.  And those pesky challenges which I am still catching up with as they are SO challenging for me.

And today I was reminded about how extraordinarily fortunate we are to live in this beautiful country Australia.  At work, we had a meeting today where we heard some pretty shocking things some of our near neighbours have to go through to access basic health care, like walking for four hours over bush tracks.  And then going through the forums, I had some eye opening provided by some 12WBT members in other countries who described how difficult it is to find food we take for granted in most of Australia, for example, fresh fruit and veggies.  I have told myself that next time I am in Woollies complaining about the quality of the fruit and veg, I will count myself grealy privileged to live in a place where fruit and vegetables are plentiful and at prices most people can readily afford.

And thanks go out to all the folk in the forums and on this blog who have been so encouraging in my dip this week.  What a great community of friends you are becoming.