Now I realise this doesn’t look like anything to “Blog” about, however this was my lunch today and I made it myself.  Smoked chicken salad, I’ve never made a salad before to take to work for lunch, so I’m quite proud of this.  It was delicious too.

Here’s the view from Queen St at lunch time today.  I HAD to go for a walk today in an attempt to try and lose some weight.  Camping with a group of lovely ladies who are amazing cooks and eat extremely well (even while camping) doesn’t do anything for the waste-line.  Add to that it was Easter and there was much sharing of chocolate in a wide variety of forms and plenty of beers and no exercise except for a leisurely stroll to the beach twice.

There’s no way I could be in the top 5 now!

So as soon as I got home I went for a big walk and it rained.  I didn’t care about the rain, but it did dawn on me while looking for shelter in the bush, Kauri trees are very skinny and provide no shelter at all.  The bush I walk in is called… The Kauri Glen…  I got a bit wet!

Click here to read a bit more about my bush walk.

I went camping for Easter, the weather was perfect, the company wonderful and the food… incredible.  There was a fishing competition on and after the prize giving you can bid for the fish (lots of fun).  The money goes to the St John’s Ambulance, so it’s a good cause.  Very very fresh fish for dinner is superb.

I was in the caravan behind the two cars in the top photo, so it wasn’t really like camping.  The kitchens had microwaves and the cabins had fridges and even my caravan had power and lighting.  The showers have hot water and the toilets have electric hand driers!!!

I’m on a three day course in Ponsonby learning all about ITIL. Please don’t ask me what it’s all about, coz I just don’t get it!!!!

On a positive note the tutor is great and lunch is free.

Coffee at King’s Garden Centre. Very flash indeed.

I succeeded in losing more weight this weigh in, so my reward was to eat the other Cherry Ripe chocolate bar I’ve been saving and a night off from walking.  However when I got home the weather was perfect for walking.  But I wanted to walk somewhere different this time.  So I headed off to the Bridgeway Theatre with the pedometer to see how big a walk that is and my stopwatch (I don’t really own a stopwatch but there is one in the iPhone; plus it can help me if I got lost: Google Maps & compass).

It only took me 21 minutes to get there and 2300 steps, so the round trip is actually further than the bush walk but not as tough.  But I’m thinking it would be so cool to walk to the theatre one day to see a movie.

Just down the bank from the theatre is Little Shoal Bay so I headed down there coz the Harbour Bridge looked stunning in the sunlight and it inspired me to take photos of the grand sight that lay before me, (glad I took my iPhone) all this felt far more rewarding than a chocolate bar.  But now I will deserve it even more.

I got to spend today up North in Whangarei. This picture is of the old library, the new one is behind the old one and the new one has a great cafe, where I had lunch.

Happy Happy Joy Joy… I made it to the 75.9 kg mark today.  Which is a huge milestone for me, coz I made my goal about 70 kg, so I’m half way there and all last week I was stuck on about 76.5 and just couldn’t go any lower no matter what I did or didn’t do.

Well not really.

At last the pedometer told me I’d walked 10,000 steps.

As I walked to work this morning I was greeted with yet another glorious sunrise. If you look closely you can see an airplane (near the centre). You can click on the photo to see a larger version.

At weigh in today I had lost another kilo.

So… my grand reward for all this hard work is this wonderful chocolate bar a friend brought me back from Australia for my birthday.  I’m going to have it while watching “The Big Bang Theory” tonight.