My Precious

It's a strange feeling, success. When you've worked so hard to achieve something and you finally do, how do you feel? Proud? Tired? Elated? All of the above?
For me, I feel like I have broken down a barrier that was holding me back.

Last night at Weight Watchers I weighed in to lose 1.1kg. Which brings me to a total of 15.4kgs lost. Aaah, the elusive 15kgs....
Now, I've by no means "made it". I still have just shy of 45 kilos to lose! So why is this "milestone" so important to me?
Well, I joined WW over a year ago in September 04. Things went really well at first and I lost my first 10kg quickly. Then things slowed down and I lost interest. Over the following months I gradually got down to 14.6kg lost... Until I fell off the rails and put a lot of it back on. I was still going to meetings, mind you (and this saved me in the end) but wasn't following the program. (Do you think a bag of lollies, a mince pie, and a McDonalds Boss super combo would fit into my points?)

Then 2006 came. I had no excuses. No-one was pressuring me to lose weight, and I had nothing to aim for. This time, I'm doing this for ME! And this time, things are going to be VERY different.
Since January I have lost 8.5kg and have FINALLY broken the 15kg loss mark - I'm now in unchartered territory!! So you finally get to see my bookmark with three stars on it - one for every 5kgs lost. It is MINE... My PRECIOUS...

Oh, and by the way... My camp on the weekend was FABULOUS. I felt like a complete knob walking around with my WW Points guide and my food scales, weighing everything and writing feverishly in a little book like some investigative journalist or IRD auditor... BUT I managed to stay COMPLETELY on points, drink all my water, and even got in some exercise!
The pics below are of the gorgeous "windows" walk we did through the old Waihi mining tunnels. The first is me about to walk into a tunnel, and the second is the amazing scenery. And if you look carefully through the tree branches you can see a black hole, or "window" where there is a hole in the side of the tunnel where miners used to throw the excess rock straight into the river. It was a long walk with a lot of stairs but I highly reccomend it!