Holiday over, it's back to business!

Gisborne sits on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, it has a warm almost tropical climate, pristine beaches and feijoas in abundance and boy did I take advantage of savouring the delectable sweet fruit!

I was able to spend some time with friends who I haven't seen in quite some time and of course my family and them not having laid eyes on me in a while were shocked to see my smaller figure. It was the most uplifting experience to see their excitement for me and it made me feel like all the hard slog is absolutely worth it!

One of my gorgeous friends Saina is also on a weight loss journey and told me about a woman who was quite large but then was in a car accident and packed on so much weight that she ended up being over 200kg! (440lb). She ended up in a wheelchair and needs surgery to correct her spine but operating on a person so large is very dangerous so she went on a weight loss mission and has lost over 100kg from her wheelchair! She exercised every day and even wheeled her wheelchair backwards up Kaiti Hill which is very steep and full of tight turns! Now that really does giving meaning to NO EXCUSES!!!!

Well I am back into it again starting this evening with a 5km and I am so pleased to say that I am once again 100% off bread and sugar! Life is great, I feel fantastic!!!

Barbs xx

Back in the Land of Feijoas

I apologise for taking a while between posts but I have been frantically busy trying to get my assignments done before coming to my hometown for my sister's birthday.


I am currently in the land of fruit trees galore! My parents have tangelos, grapefruit, & lemons and they're fantastic! A friend of hers at work gave her loads of feijoas and I am in heaven! Feijoas, also known as pineapple guava in South America, are a delectable sweet fruit. They're green on the outside and you cut them open, scoop out the flesh and throw them in your gob! I can eat and eat them but, too much of an indulgence will have you racing to the loo! Feijoa trees are abundant in New Zealand and yet, to buy them in the supermarket costs a fortune! $7.99 per kg, it's outrageous, so as you can imagine, I am getting my fix while I am here :)

As far as the weight loss goes, I am sitting at 108kg (237.6lb) and will not be weighing again until May 31st for two reasons:

1. I am addicted to the scale, I will get on and off that thing three times a day given the chance so I need to stop doing that.
2. I can't weigh myself anyway because the batteries in my scale are dead .... yay!!

Well that's it from me for now, I hope you are all having a fabulous week and are getting your burn on!

Barbs xx