excitement!

Hey all.

Well today Shaun bought me a very special gift! He bought me a Polar f6 Heart Rate Monitor! It's pretty and pink! lol

Normally Shaun wouldn't jump at anything like that, but he knows my mindset has changed and I am now motivated to lose weight and stay healthy.

So we did research on them. I had actually seen an ad for the new model in Aus Women's Health mag, so I looked them up.

At Rebel sport they are going for $249, but we found a brand new one on Ebay for $159 (inc postage) so I am getting that one! It has already been paid for, aren't I lucky???

I was expecting to get it in a few months and save for it, but Shaun wanted me to get use out of it now! LUCKY ME!

It's great, these are its features

. Heart Rate, shows as bpm (beats per min) and as %. At the end of your session it will show you your average heart rate of that session.

. Shows how many cal's you've burnt off.

. you can set goals. Like heart rate goals for a session. Or Cal's for a session

. An alarm to tell you when you've reached your goals. So if I set my heart rate to reach 65% it will beep and tell me when i reach it! This will REALLY help with interval training !

. It's coded so I won't get cross talk with other monitors!

. You can upload your exercise information (your results for the week) onto your computer! You can also make a logo (much like the old backgrounds on the mobile phones) to personalise your watch!

. you can have 12 summary files of your exercise that week!

. you have an exercise diary which includes, average heart rate, intensity of workout (depending on heart rate) This will make it easier for me to work out my bonus points!

. has a backlight

. water resistant to 50M

. Has a fave setting. So when we walk I can set it to make me reach a certain goal!

. Is a clock aswel!

. Date and weekday indicator

. STOPWATCH . This will be used soooo much..

. And comes with the transmitter too!

HOW AWESOME DOES IT SOUND?

Oh and how good is this ? When we bought our cross trainer it came with the heart rate transmitter (the one that goes around your chest) as there is a heart rate program on it, and it didnt fit! Well tonight I was able to wear it, AND it still had length on it! How great is that? So now I can use that on the x-trainer (so i dont have to hold the heart rate bars) and use my watch for everything else.

YAY!

I never thought I'd be excited to be getting something like this! But I am.

Anyway, been really good today. I cooked a yummy meal for dinner, I made Steak Dianne with Garlic mash potato! YUM. I made the sauce from scatch and (even if i do say myself) it was the best sauce I've ever had!

Anyway Chat soon

K xo

14kg down!

hey guys

Well I only lost 200 grams this week, but I'm happy with it! I had Pizza for dinner Friday night when we went round to a friends to play poker. BUT I did work my butt off this week with exercise. But it's all good, next week will be better!

So I had an appointment today at the optometrists, I'm getting prescription sunnies. I figure, I'm suppose to drive with my glasses on so I should probably get some prescription sunnies! I pretty much wear my glasses all the time now anyway (except for walking around shopping centres and things) So it won't hurt. I'm also getting some contact lenses! I won't wear these ALL the time but I will most likely wear them to work and when we go out to places I wont want to take my glasses! (Like Dinner and things).

So all up its costing me round $500! lol. But I will get $200 back from MBF, so it's something I guess. My sunnies will cost me $330! That's alot of sunglasses. Considering the frames are $170 alone.. lol I better look after them. :oP

I've never worn contacts so that should be interesting. But I thought, when we go out for dinner or parties and stuff I don't usually take my glasses and I normally end up wanting them on. My eyes dry out and when they do my eyes hurt and they water and sting like crazy. The optometrist said these will probably help my vision too, since my eyes waver the contacts will move with them which means i will have better focus then normal! So when I do wear my contacts I won't wear my prescription sunnies, I'll just wear normal ones! But I wanted the sunnies so that I can drive with my glasses on (makes it easier on me) when I'm doing things that I wouldn't normally wear my glasses whilst doing!

Don't panic! It's not like I can't see or anything. I can see just fine! The problem is reading from afar, and well if it makes sense to you (the doc got it!) when I put my glasses on, things seem clearer! BUT it's not like things were blurry or anything without them! Got me? It just makes things more crisp and sharp! My eyes don't strain as much either with them on. So I'm excited to see what its like with the contacts!

I've been buying STGTBT (Symply to good to be true, YES Dad that is how Symply is spelt on theses books!!!!!!!) cookbooks of late. They are awesome! They have the nutritional info which make working out points that much easier! So I've started adding my own recipes to my collection. I've printed ones off the WW boards to ad, so I've always got something to cook up!

Folks, you wait til you come up! I've got a whole menu planned! Although one recipe will have to be altered for mum , since she doesn't eat chicken! But that's ok she can have Lamb instead!
You'll be so surprised to see what I eat now. (I'm slowly climbing out of my hole) lol

Well I start permanent this week! bit nervous about how checkouts will go but I've already told the manager i need a run through since I haven't done it in 4 months!

We have Troy coming this week! Very exciting! He'll be here Friday night. So We are taking him out for dinner on Sat night. This I've been looking forward to, except for the fact my mindset has changed towards food so now I don't really want to go! lol I used to eat chicken Kiev with chips! YUM. BUT it's like 17 points (10 points short of a whole days worth!) so you see my delima. I'm either going to save up points all week, (which you can do by saving no more than 4 pnts a day! BUT you MUST eat them by the end of week they cannot roll over!) OR Saving exercise points (again no more than 4 a day) OR I get chicken and Mash instead, OR Steak and mash!

We don't go there very often so it's not like I'm eating it all the time. I'm sure if i work really hard I could still have the chicken but not the chips! I DON'T KNOW! Lol Look at me !
what do you think i should do?

Anyway It's late and I've been cleaning, so I'm going to head off to bed
Talk Soon

Peace, Love and Chicken Grease
K xo