Tuesday morning.

Hello all,

Had a good day yesterday, controlled my food, in fact I wasn't really that hungry, snacking is a real problem for me normally. Took the kids to the zoo and walked around for about 3 hours, not sure we walked that far, we were mainly walking at a 2 years pace, the kids had ice cream and I had diet coke (my surgeon is fine with carbonated drinks)

As I might have mentioned, we are selling our house and trying to buy a house down the road, we have our first official viewing today, can I please have some "buy the house" vibes? I just can't keep this level of tidiness up, especially with the kids being on holiday.

Talking of kids, one of my little darlings woke me at 5.21 to tell me that she had a barking cough, just what you need to know at 5am! Got her back to bed but didn't manage any more sleep myself.

Scale was ok today, 16st 5lbs, (229 lbs) 3 lbs above my lowest, am going to try and get to my lowest by the end of the week. Saying that, there is no surer way to make me eat rubbish than setting myself a goal! Am going to try my best.

We have tennis club for an hour this morning for Isobel, then I need to take the kids shopping, only need to pick up a couple of watches I had repaired and pick up a card for a friends birthday. My kids HATE shopping, wish me luck!

Have a great day x

Wowzers

*edited to add* It's my 4 month bandiversary today, i'm down 23 pounds (4lb's over my lowest) I wish that it was more but still don't have restriction but all in all i'm ok with it.

The scale said 16st 6 this morning (230 lbs) which is much better, I had a great day yesterday other than later on when I just needed something sweet.

I've obviously been taking note of what everyone eats as I had a protein shake for breakfast, non fat Greek yoghurt with granola for lunch and chilli made with turkey and brown rice for dinner.

I not only went to the gym yesterday but also walked there, had very sore feet as for some stupid reason I left the house in flip flops, which are really unsuitable for walking on that kind of terain, I wore my gym shoes on the way home but they aren't that much better as they are very thin soled.

I'm going again today but have other things to do so can't walk.

I am dieting at the moment, I don't have any restriction at all, i'm making an appointment for a fill tomorrow, I can't go for 2 weeks but will feel better if I at least have it booked.

First full week at home with the kids, I can hardly wait! Actually, that's a lie, it fills me full of dread! At the moment they do nothing but fight, Isobel is really maddly jealous of George, you would have thought that after almost 3 years she would have got over it but sadly she hasn't. George for the most part is a poppit but he is starting to assert himself and quite enjoys winding his sister up. Wish me luck!

Home again

Good morning,

Had a really nice break, thanks for all your good wishes. The kids had a ball, we swam, played in parks and rode bicycles everyday, they loved it.

Despite all that physical activity the scale is awful today! 16st 9lb's (233 lbs), I ate allot, I did try and be good but it didn't last long, i'm hoping that as it went on quickly, it will come off quickly, i'm booking a fill on Monday for mid August which is the first time I can get there, I hope to at least get to where I was before that. I'm going to go to the gym this morning.

Our house is now on the market, i'm worried about how we are going to afford the new house if we get it, it's much more expensive than our current house but Paul is convinced it will be fine, he's an accountant, he ought to know!

Just going to catch up on blogs, going to take a while!

Did my bootsale today

I was up at 5am to go to the car bootsale, this is a bit like a yard sale but you go to a specific field (normally) pay £12 (about $18) set your stall up and sell all your junk!

I made the princely sum of £225 (about $345) less my costs my "profit" was £175 and almost everything I didn't sell I gave to charity so I came back with nothing (apart from 2 Dorothy Koomson books and a Jodi Picoult which cost me 60p (about $1)

We are going on holiday tomorrow and at the moment we're a bit financially embarrassed so it should cover most of our spending money, private school fee's are killing us.

The scale said 16st 4lb again, 228lbs, I didn't have a great day yesterday and its my TOM so not so bad really, would like to get under 16st soon.

Anyway, won't be blogging for a while as we're away until Friday, keep well, will miss you all!!

She's here and i'm out of control.

Tmi, again, My period finally came just in time for my holiday which involves swimming allot, excellent.

Scale was awful this morning and after a good day yesterday I was up to 16st 4lbs which is 228 lbs, I guess that this is water retention due to tom.

Anyway, I feel so so much better, the house is officially on the market and has been photographed.

We have had our first viewing, not through the agent but through word of mouth, these people live in a house very like ours down the road, not sure if it will come to anything but you never know.

This is a picture of the house that we want to buy http://www.wivenhoerentals.co.uk/Wivenhoe_in_photographs/Rowhedge_landing.jpg it's the house on the right (not the pink one) I really hope that we manage to buy it.

Because of my period (that's my excuse anyway) my eating hasn't been great today, i'm ok with it, I'll be ok tomorrow.

Hope that everyone is well, i'm looking for more blogs to follow, let me know if I don't follow you or recommend any to me, thanks!

An all time low.

Morning all,

Stood on the scale this morning and it showed 16st 2 (and 3/4's but I tend to ignore this bit) 226 lbs.

Just goes to show what a healthy dose of stress and pmt can do. I have so much to do, still. The estate agent is coming tomorrow to photograph the house, both kids are home with me and Isobel especially is driving me crazy. We've just had a nice mother and daughter argument over me asking her to try on a skirt, her not coming when I called her until the 4th time, then kicking it out of my hands on purpose, this happened twice, I had to leave the room or I would have done something I would have regretted. Luckily, Paul is working from home but just at the moment is still laying in bed, Izzy is up there with him.

It's only day 3 of the holidays and i've had enough already!

Really really need to get to the gym today, i'm being physical enough at home but i'm away next week from Monday to Friday and really want to get a couple of sessions in before I go, I haven't been since Sunday.

Anyway, whine whine moan moan, better go and clean some more!

Great news, well, no news really.

Morning all,

Another early morning for me, not sleeping too well, woke up to an amazingly clean and tidy house though, I ought to take more care of it as its so nice when its like this.

Isobel is up with me, she's obsessed with Supernanny/Nanny 911 type programs, I have no idea why, we're sat here watching Nanny 911 now!

*tmi* I have an upset stomach, luckily i'm not in any pain. I think that its stress related as I've not eaten anything controversial.

Probably due to the above the scales say 16st 4lbs today, that's 228 lbs. Just 1 pound over my heaviest. I would really like to have been 15st something in time for our holiday on Monday, I doubt that that will happen now but I'm going to try my best.

I'm missing my midweek gym sessions this week as the kids are off and my gym has no creche. I was thinking of going last night but was shattered after all the shopping and cleaning and figure that I must have had a fair bit of exercise from that. Will try and go tonight.

Hope that everyone is well, sorry for the boring post!