Shredding my weighty issues!!

This was me back in August, before i started to change my wicked food ways!!  The thing i hate most about these pics is not the weight (although i'm not a fan of it)  Its the defeated look on my face and the slump of my shoulders!!  Being unhealthy SUCKS!!!   The constant tiredness, the icky feeling after a big meal of Macca's, that general feeling of Meh!! 

 Today im feeling the burn!!  For the past 2 weeks (approx')  My very own Jillian Michaels (aka Loral) has taken my fitness to a whole other level!  The Biggest Loser workout dvd was introduced first, which resulted in 3 of us in sweaty fits of laughter and chatter, lying prone on the floor pretending that we were doing press ups!

Then she busted out the big guns!! Introducing Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred!! OMG!! It burns!!  It also works!lol!  Somewhere in the last couple of weeks, several cm's have disappeared from my hips!!  My HIPS people!!  The place i'v always had issues moving weight from!!  What's even better, is that my Jilli-Loral is also watching my intake, making sure im getting all the right stuff going in, in the right amounts for a breastfeeding mama!!  I feel very blessed to have someone constantly pushing me, and through the pain i feel very coddled!! Its fantastic!!

So today im posting BEFORE pics, and in 30 days (unless my muscles freeze over and i cant type) il be posting some AFTER (hopefully fitter looking) pics!!  If im feeling amazing il also post some half way pics!!

And just because i like seeing before and after photos side by side im going to do that too!  Then when i add some more i can line them all up and marvel at how different my body looks!!  So off i go to Shred some more!! Stay tuned as i update on my progress!!

So the first lesson here, is stop wearing stripes!!lol!

The 2nd lesson is that healthy eating and exercise is working!! (And get a haircut!!)

Im looking forward to updating this status soon!!

Toodles!! :)

The Paper Mama Photo Challenge - Colorful!

This is my latest photo challenge entry - Colorful!  These are the little dish cloth balls that i found on Pinterest, they're going to be fabulous for some fun in the water in summer!!  I gave a couple to Lachy to see if he was interested, but he was in his Jolly Jumper and had no thoughts beyond jumping and drooling, and they just became foot decorations!!

  I love his chunky monkey legs!!  I love kissing his chunky lil' feet and making him giggle!!  Even his knees have wee dimples!!  Sigh,  My boys just so scrummy!  And i'm not biased at all!! :)

Have a fantastic evening!! (Have a look at some of the other entries, their are some Gorgeous pics!!)

Toodles! x

5 Months Old!

My boy turned 5 Months old today!!  He's getting so HUGE (i think so anyway)!! We had our plunket visit yesterday, and he's keeping up in all the percentiles, in the 75th for most things! 
So here are some fun facts (and a few that require work) about my 5 month old boy!!

• He now has 2 mush feeds a day.  He's polishing off a quarter of a jar of food and then doing his best baby bird impression to try to get more! (but then he pukes, so we don't give in....most days)
• Fitting '00' clothes and size 2 shoes!
• Night sleeps are still varying greatly!  He can sleep 9 hours one night, then wake every 3 hours the next!  As a general rule though, he does one long stretch (about 6-7 hours) then one short (about 3-4 hours).
• Daytime naps still just depend on who is more determined at the time!
• For the last couple of weeks he's developed a foot fetish, and has mastered grabbing his feet and laughing hysterically!
• Jumping is another fantastic new past time (Thanks Aunty Binka and Uncky Deane for the Jumper stand!!) I swear the kid could jump for hours if we let him!
• He's rolled over twice from tummy to back, with hubby and me scrambling  for cameras to video, but the  Cheeky Bean refused to roll again by the time we got sorted and hasn't done since :(
• Bath time is a bit more adventurous now, with a whole lot of kicking and wriggling going on!!
• Night terrors are still occurring, we're investigating the pain angle, and silent (or not so silent) reflux is being looked at again!
• He makes us smile and laugh every day with his gorgeous personality, his beautiful, screeching laugh and his scrummy, serious 'thinking' face!!!

  I wonder what the next month will bring?!  More terrifying exciting times with my beautiful boy no doubt, and another million photos too!  The poor kid probably thinks that the camera is a permanent attachment on his mama! (has anyone else noticed that i have an obsession with exclamation marks?!) 

Anywho, here's a wee barrage of pics of my beautiful boy for everyone to oogle over on his 5 month birthday!!

Ps: Just gave my blog a new do! Hope ya's like it, feedback is totally welcome!!!

Toodles! :)

Let the gardens begin!!!

So...gardening...where do i begin!!  Uh, I'll start with the fact that I've never kept a single plant alive for longer than a week!(Plants and Goldfish, not my thing)  So what did i do this weekend? I decided i was lil'-Miss-Green-fingers and that i would plant a vegetable garden!!  Iv actually been planning this adventure for a few weeks now, ever since i saw and stole borrowed one of my sisters planter boxes!  I also had my wee planter box from my DIY nite that needed filling, and several half drums that were begging for something to be growing in them!!
So off went my sister and i to amass some plants for me to torture to death try growing!!  Fun day i tell ya!!  We bought strawberry plants, broccoli, beans, lettuce, tomato's, silver-beet and spring onions!!  Then today hubby went to buy me a hula hoop and came back with peas, tiny tomato's, sweetcorn and more broccoli....and no hula hoop!
So this afternoon hubby and i claimed a site for our gardens and went to work!! The following barrage of photos shows off our manky amazing gardening skills and the end results, of which i must say i am MOST PROUD!(Said with the snooty, posh accent of one who is an expert in their field)

My Planter boxes/barrels!

 

 

Hubby's Garden

Our plants

Hubby planting his tiny tomato!

Me with my regular sized tomato!  Yup, very proud of that lil' big tomato plant!!

Grow little broccoli grow!!

Hubbys broccoli!

Lachy in his Jumper watching our manky gardening skills!

Yup....

My big planter box!

My baby planter box (for my herbs)

Just add water!!

My cabbage patch kid!!

My finished Garden containing sweetcorn, silver-beet, broccoli, lettuce, strawberries, beans, more broccoli, tomato's and spring onions.  The herb planter has thyme, mint and parsley!

Hubbys finished garden containing tiny tomato's, broccoli, peas, sweetcorn and strawberries!

Yes, we ended up with a lot of broccoli....i could like broccoli lots if i need too!!  So there ya go! Stay tuned for regular updates as our vegetables die flourish under our tender loving care!! 

Ps: Thanks to my patient and long suffering sister who patiently gave me tips/instructions/orders about what to plant, when and where! Your 'O' for Awesome!!  And to my wonderful hubby who accepted my challenge to have opposing gardens and see which one grows best!! (I've got it in the bag i tell you, IN THE BAG!!)

Toodles! x

Paper Mama photo challenge - Details

I picked this photo for The Paper Mama photo challenge just because i think my son has the most scrumptious feet EVER!!!  His little monkey toes are just so Gorgeous!!

Beautiful feet!

Toodles! :)