Hullo everybody! I'm back! Again...

Well it's been quite a while since I sat at my keyboard with any intention other than updating my Facebook status, reading the news or indulging in the odd bit of online shopping and by online shopping I mean putting hundreds of dollars worth of goods to the cart and then never actually progressing to payment.  It's pretty much the new window shopping really isn't it?

A word on 'before & after' progress pics...

Usually when we think of taking progress pics of our weight loss journey, there are two types of pictures we think of.

There's the full face - from the most flattering angle possible, and the full body shots  my personal favourite,  which often contain a shot from each side. The full body shots are sometimes done in underwear, sometimes in tight clothes - which is probably all we have to wear, except for the over sized tunic that we think are so very flattering...

Left: Feb 2013                  Right: June 2015

Hero-ing and winning awards...

Last Sunday night, the same day as my non-event-Winery-Run-and-elevation-to-heroic-Florence-Nightingale-type, I thought it could be an idea to check my emails.  They had been languishing in cloudland for about a week...

So I was deleting all the junk ones, the spam, the scams etc when I came a cross a new scam email that I hadn't seen before.  It was supposedly from 12WBT  yeah right!  congratulating me and asking me to respond to the email because I had won a free round of 12WBT.

3rd Anniversary Winery Wander...

Well it's that time of year again, when I celebrate the anniversary of my first ever fun run, and last weekend was it.

I don't know if anyone else has an event that they use as a milestone event, but I use this one for a few reasons.

My new normal...

I was chatting with Madam Lash recently about how much things have changed for me, and she talked about how the choices I'm making, and she said "making these (better) choices is becoming your new normal".

My new normal.

It's only 3 little words, but words have power, and these words say so much about where I was and where I am today.

Sometimes it really IS all about the scales...

I'm a great proponent of the 'non-scale' victory.

You know the ones, like when your undies begin to fall down, or your pants are too big, or my personal favourite - needing to pull the drivers seat forward another notch, that sort of thing.

Non-scale victories are great for the confidence because you know you've been working out hard, and staying on track with your eating, but the blasted scales just aren't showing the results of all that effort.

How I stay accountable...

When I signed up for the May Round of 12WBT I was determined to do the whole 'food thing' right this time.  So I made a commitment to be accountable for what I chose to put in my mouth - the good, the bad, and the ugly... I was was gonna show you all every single thing I ate!

The result of that commitment has been what amounts to a daily food log via Instagram & personal FB with pictures of my day in food.