28Day CH – Day 23

Today was another busy day! It was get the kids off to school, purchase items for the hospital patient, visit the patient, speak with nursing staff, rush off to work over an hour late - lucky I work for understanding folks. Then pick up school based child, back to hospital to get the run down …

28Day CH – Day 22 – the final week!

Monday morning weigh-in: 64.7kg Funnily enough my naughty week only resulted in a 300g increase from last Monday's weigh-in so that's interesting. But all the little increases mean I'm only 600g down from my starting weight! Ha! It just goes to show how much those little weekend blowouts, and particularly alcohol, make it really hard …

28Day CH – D13 + 14

Days 13 and 14 were the weekend and it was a pretty social one so I knew I was in trouble. I kept the food pretty clean but I drank wine at the hairdresser on Saturday and then had THREE absolutely delicious and probably extraordinarily high calorie cocktails at dinner. It was Mexican, you have …

28Day CH – D3 + D4

I got smart after the first couple of days and decided to rejig my meal plan to suit the changes I'd already made. Let's see if I have more success at sticking to it. Day 3 Meal plan Eat out cafe breakfast for Mr8's Birthday Wholegrain crackers with cheese Cheesy meatloaf and salad Skip due …

Attempting to compress an already crowded life

After doing a two week stint at full-time work in January this year I had the crazy idea that I'd like to return to study. I mean, why not, right? I have an already busy life, a toddler and a big kid, a part-time job, my relationship was failing and I was about to embark …

Welcome to my new space

Hello Friends and Strangers of the Internet Welcome to my new space on the web. I have had to relocate from my previous space at Stories for Strength as I simply couldn't face writing there about my day to day woes when it is intended to be a safe space for those on some of …