Second goal reached.......

Well, if you are reading this post today you will no doubt see the pic above. Yep.. I have officially hit and surpassed the 50 pound mark of weight lost. As the car advertisment here in Oz says, "Oh, what a feeling." Cue jumping high and pumping fist! lol 


I am sitting her writing this feeling a lot of contentment. The support and hurrahs for my hitting Onederland was both amazing and overwhelming - I even had a small poem written for me... thanks Catherine xx You girls are my lifeline, seriously. The fact we are all in this together and are going through exactly the same things no matter where in the world we are just makes our bond stronger (a special call out here to my good bud Linda who was banded the same day as me.. hugs). I seriously give credit to each and every one of you for pouring your heart out onto a page - just like I do -  so we can see exactly what each of is going through at a particular stage. If you baby-bandits learn something from me along the way, even better. I know I learn from those even further into the game than I am, every single day. 


Gen came up with a fantastic idea when she left me a message last time. She thought it would be great if there was some sort of conversion method from changing my kilos into your pounds. That way you're not always dragging a calculator out to work out who is where. I did find something. If you go to about half-way down my page on the right under my archives I have added a conversion calculator. Up the top it says speed, volume, weight etc. Press the weight button, put in my kilos and press convert it. And Voila!! Up comes the pound equivalent in the little box. I've been having all sorts of fun with it. It will also help me when I'm doing the opposite trying to figure out how many pounds you've lost into our kilos lol. Nifty little thing.


Gen also liked the colour of my scales in the pic yesterday: They are actually a reddish/orange colour (it came out more orange for some reason: probably the light.) But they are a really kicking pair of scales that measure in stones, pounds and kilos and does your BMI, too. Very easy to use though. If anyone is after a new set, the brand is Tanita. I'm not sure where they were purchased (and our stores here in Oz are different anyway) as they were Mitchell's and I nicked them.. just for a little .. Uh huh. It's been five months and I don't think he's getting them back lol.


I have a quick question. I am trying to do a v-log. A video on here. I am now only half a kilo away (work that out on my conversion thingee lol) from hitting 89.9 and I want to put myself out there on a little video. Do you think I can work out how. Jenny tried to help yesterday (thanks Jen xx) but unfortunately, the problem solver she came up with was one I had already tried. This was going into settings and changing the editor from new to old. Apparently, a film icon should be there next to the image one. No such luck. Hours of fiddling with it still brought no joy. So you girls who already do the v-logs can you help me any further? I don't know if I need a special program or what? Would you let me know what (or how) you get it onto a blog? Thanks.


Bandwise I'm cruising here. I think that I have finally hit my sweet spot. I have 6 mls (or cc's) in my 10 ml band and I am going a good four, five or even six hours without being hungry. I am struggling to eat in the mornings but I am sticking with a coffee first up (to warm the little cow Portia up... if the men of the world had their way they would call this part foreplay..) and then I have a protein shake. Lunch is very light (Tuna, eggs.. whatever I feel like.. I have forgone the crackers for now thanks to Amy's advice) and dinner is whatever I'm cooking. Last night it was an omlette (or should that be smashlette... swear to God, I can never get an omlette to look right, it was more scrambled with bits in it lol) I have really started to shift the weight again.. another loss for me this morning of 300 grams which is .600 of a pound. I'm taking it and running with it. Life is good! 


Till next time
Chow
Cara xxxx