Everyone scramble.......There's a poo in the pool!

I will tell you about the silly title of my post in just a second.. but first up.......what am I going to do every night from 7am now MasterChef Australia has finished? I have followed this show religiously and I have to say, for a reality show this made amazing TV. The finale was on tonight and the underdog won.... GO JULIE!!! This girl was JUST brilliant... and I'm so stoked she won. Julie picked up a hundred thousand dollars to start her own restaurant (if that's what she wants to do with the money)... she will now have a recipe book published (I'm buying it for sure) and she gets some other stuff in there as well. There wasn't a dry eye in the house as the love and congratulations poured out from the three men in the pic above (Gary, George and Matt, the judges), the other contestants and everyone else who had been with her from day one!!! Me included. It was one of the best TV moments ever.

Off the subject (cos it's all about me didn't you know, lol) I have been learning to really love my band. I mean.. REALLY love it! So many good things are coming out of me having this piece of alien plastic placed in my stomach. I am still in the early stages of learning how to work with this girl of mine but she's doing a cracking job so far. If I actually listen to her.........

Yesterday, Riley, Jake and I traipsed off to the Warnbro Aqua Jetty. Riley had been invited to a school friends birthday party which was being held there and it's a great place for the kids to blow off some steam, especially in winter when it's freezing outside and they can swim in comfort inside. There are three pools, one comes complete with a giant blue snake-like water slide and the kids have a ball. Everything was going great guns until some little kid mistook the pool water for a giant toilet!! A reall ewww moment. Quicker than you could blink, everyone was ushered out of main pool area (well, the nazi-like life-guard barked a lot.. you get the picture) while they super-chlorinated, vacuumed and completely changed the water over. Lucky it happened at the end of the party and they were able to finish up in a separate pool in another part of the building. At least we could all have a laugh about it... I just hope the kid wasn't scarred for life! lol or his mother (who was mortified to say the least.)

The past week I have been sporadic in my eating (due to no set mealtimes cos I'm just flat out!) and when I do eat after missing a meal I have stupidly overeaten a couple of times at one sitting. Yesterday I missed breakfast and while at the above party while Riley and Jake were busy I ordered myself some lunch - a toasted foccacia BLT. It wasn't particularly big (especially after being squished in the heavy toaster) and I ate the whole thing over about 20 minutes but boy did I pay for it about a half hour later... and well into the evening.

My stomach felt heavy.. like I had swallowed a lead balloon. I actually feel quite bloated and ill... and the worst is .. I have experienced this like two or three times this past week alone. I have found I much prefer that feeling in your tum that tells you you've had JUST had enough to eat versus that feeling you get when you have had too much at one time (yeah, funny that lol.) When I do just stick to that one cup rule I sometimes find I'm still a little hungry (or I could eat more if I pushed it) but I stop and about 20 minutes later I find I am full. I have to keep reminding myself that feeling WILL come if I just let it.

Off the subject, as I was putting on my makeup yesterday in a rush to get to the birthday party, fiddling around with pots of colour and swiping on some mascara, a sudden thought came to me. I remember when I used to fix my face and wonder what it would look like thinner. I had honestly forgotten what my face used to look like when it was all curves and hollows and sharp planes. I took a step back and went...well, jeez, will you look at that! I'm actually placing blush in the hollows of my cheeks.. not just fluffing it on to make it look like I have them. My skin looks great, nice and dewy and the puffiness under my eyes, while still there, has gone down by about half. I love getting thinner (and the fact my face always shows it first!!)

I have come full circle again. I love buying new makeup, I paint my nails ALL the time (matching toes to fingers) and have started experimenting with my clothes a little. I have this cute leopard print belt that I wore the other day, and I never used to wear belts. Never. Its hard to do when you don't have a waist. Now I do. I can feel that 20 kilo mark racing up to meet me, and since I'm due for my 2nd fill this Thursday I hope it helps me get there .....fast! Then I will be at the half way mark. Go me!!

Well, I'm off to bed. I will try and post a little more than I have been. I just cannot believe how insane life has been of late. I feel like I'm moving in blocks of time... an hour here, two hours to do this, another hour for this job with no time to rest in between. I have some exciting news coming up (well, exciting for me who hasn't travelled anywhere much further than Perth in the past 10 years or so) so when I know more.. you'll be the first to know.

Hugs to you all

Cara