Why did someone buy my daughter a recorder?

I've been up with the kids since 6am, Isobel has unearthed her recorder, its the worst noise in the world bar non! Especially this early, she has been told repeatedly not to play it but we're still getting the odd note. Nice at 6am without enough coffee!

Awful weather here, its been raining for days, I may need to begin building an ark! I really shouldn't complain, after all I strongly dislike very hot weather but come on! The kids are off school, every indoor activity is packed and we end up having to stay home. We were planning a big day out today but that's not going to happen now.

It's George's 3rd birthday in 2 weeks, I need to begin practising making his cake, he wants a brum cake, brum is a little yellow car that he's obsessed with, I have no artistic ability at all, luckily Paul is much better, I'll be baking the cake and he'll be building the car, we're having a trial run this weekend, wish us luck!

Scale is ok at the moment, I saw 16st 0 (and 3/4's) (224 & 3/4 lbs) yesterday and today was 16st 0 (& 1/4) so half a pound down, I'm really hoping to see 15st something tomorrow, so far this week I have done no exercise at all, I've not been able to get to the gym with the kids being home and we would normally be out and about walking a fair bit but the weather is so awful we've been stuck in all week, Paul is working from home today so I hope to go to the gym today and will go on Saturday, on Sunday I'm donating blood and if the weather is ok I might think about walking there, it must be at least an hours walk from here but just dependent on the weather.

Off to read your blogs, my laptop is acting up this morning I'm still considering an ipad, anyone have one?

5 month bandiversary

I was banded 5 months ago today, can't believe how quickly it has gone! In that time I've lost 2 stone (28 pounds) I only really felt restriction for the first time after my fill last week so I'm quite pleased with that.

My kids go back to school in 2 and a half weeks, I can hardly wait! As usual Isobel is being very trying, just at the moment she's not wanting to eat any meals, she'd eat junk all day long but I've thrown away so much food lately, she refused a cheese sandwich at lunch time (bread not right) and lasangne at dinner time (too crispy??) It's driving me to distraction, I sent her to bed after the dinner fiasco. I wouldn't mind if she actually tried the bloody food before rejecting it!

Please tell me that this too shall pass, we seem to be constantly battling, she's 5!

I can't imagine ever rejecting any food at all as a child I ate everything put in front of me, perhaps that's why I needed a band? One good thing could be that she isn't like me!

Hope that everyone is well, I'm going to go and bang my head against a wall repeatedly! xx

Good news/bad news

Weighed in this morning at 16st 1lb, which is 225 lbs. This is my lowest but I've been here before, I do feel confident that I can get under this quite soon though so I'm happy enough.

The bad news is that we've lost the house, someone made an offer last week and was in a position to proceed, the estate agent haven't actually let us know, we saw it on the internet, great!

There is some land next to our house, its a quay as we live by a river, its very rarely used and we've managed to find out who owns it and have made an offer for it, the offer is way over what its worth but we've always been told that the guy who owns it wouldn't sell so it had to be a big enough offer to turn his head. We'll see how that goes, if we get it it would mean that we wouldn't be looking to move any more as out door space is what we need. Keep your fingers crossed for me please!

Home today with the kids, roll on the 9th of September when they go back to school/nursery. We need to shop a little and will probably go to a local town for the library and Izzy's art club.

Have a good day all x

So happy to be home!

Got home from my Dads about 2 hours ago, am so pleased to be home!

Weather was awful, constant rain, kids were sharing a room which meant not much sleep for anyone! My Dad lives in Bournemouth which has a big air show which was meant to be this weekend but couldn't happen due to the weather, Paul was gutted.

Anyway, more importantly, I had a fill last Tuesday. I thought that I might struggle to get 1cc as the last time I saw this nurse she was reluctant to give me this much, she must have relaxed as I ended up with 1.3cc's, I now have 7.3 in a 14cc band, she was going to give me more but said that when she tried to add more the fluid came back up the needle so she thought that I'd got enough. I was able to drink without a problem. I went straight on to my inlaws, we were staying with them, they don't know about the band and I was meant to be on fluids. I tried to eat a little of what they cooked but couldn't really, I was having to drink a lot and kept feeling stuck.

I think that I can honestly say that I have restriction, I'm fairly satisfied with small meals but am having a bit of trouble with getting stuck.

I've also eaten lots of chocolate, goodness knows why, I think that I was in holiday mode so that stops now. Not sure of my weight just now, don't think i've gained anything but will weigh in tomorrow and see.

I went shopping after my fill, I went to Marylebone High St which is around the corner from the hospital I go too, this was Justine's (http://adventuresinbandland.blogspot.com/ ) fault completely as I'd never been there before and she posted about going there a few weeks ago, it's a lovely place to shop and I spent lots. I wonder if I can convince my husband that it wasn't my fault?

Remember my friend N who i'd not heard from since I'd told her about my band? I called her and left a message a week or so ago, she left a message whilst I was away so looks like things might be ok.

Hope that everyone is well, I've been reading a little from my Dad's, have missed you all!

4 pounds up!

Not sure what is going on with my body! I'm 4 pounds higher than I was 2 days ago, I must admit that I've had a few tom cravings but I don't think that I've given in too much, we've eaten out a couple of days too but I don't feel that I've over done it at all. We did lots of walking and I went to the gym on Thursday and Friday. This morning, despite not drinking or eating over night I'm even half a pound heavier than I was last night! How is that possible, must be absorbing something through my skin! Never mind, I'm sure it will sort its self out.

We went to a regatta in a town nearby on Saturday, it was good, we walked a fair way and had a look around, seems odd to be doing it without Isobel, especially as we bumped in to 2 of her classmates who wanted to know where she was.

I'm spending the day packing today as we're off tomorrow to my in laws to pick up Isobel, then we're going on to my Dad's on the south coast so I've got lots to remember. Paul is driving to his parents with George and is dropping me in London as I have a fill and will go on by train.

Not sure when I'll be updating my blog again, will probably be away about a week, wonder if this will be the fill that gets me to my sweet spot? Will be difficult to explain to my in laws who have no idea about my band that I won't be eating for a day or two and having only liquids. They think I'm meeting a friend for lunch in London so I will probably claim I had a big lunch and am not hungry, will cross that bridge when I get to it.

Have a wonderful week all, will update as soon as I'm back x

I got an award!

Thank you so much to Sparkler for my award, I'm afraid that I don't know how to link her blog to here as i'm a luddite!

Here are the rules for this award:

1.Thank the person giving the award.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Nominate 15 newly discovered blogs.
4. Let your nominees know about the award.

Thank you to Sparkler, her blog is fantastic and well worth a read.

Share 7 things about yourself. I'm so boring that this will be hard!

My parents split up when I was 18, my mother was having an affair, it was an awful time, my Dad was devastated.

My Dad is going out with a fantastic lady called Janis, she was his first ever girlfriend when they were 18, they're 62 now, they got back in touch with one another about 3 years via friends reunited and have been together ever since.

I think that my mum is extremely selfish and I resent her for it, maybe I'm selfish? She lives about 40 minutes drive away and we hardly ever see her, she is really missing out on my children who think that she's fantastic, I just don't get it.

I have a brother, James, who is 14 years younger than me, he's kind of like my first child, I think that he knows i'd do anything for him.

Although I moan about estate agents, I'm not sure that I want to sell our house, I'm worried about increasing our mortgage by so much money to buy the new house.

My Grandma is 94 and is now in a home, I've always been really close to her, she's been really ill 5 times over the last 8 years and we've been certain that she was about to die but she keeps coming back.

I wonder if its my fault that my daughter has a peanut allergy, I ate peanut butter a lot when I was pregnant with her.

Nominate 15 newly discovered blogs. Breaking the rules, not just new blogs

http://lappy4life.blogspot.com/

http://banded4me.blogspot.com/2010/08/band-restriction.html

http://doesthisdonutmakemybuttlookbig.blogspot.com/

http://adventuresinbandland.blogspot.com/

http://maybethistime41.blogspot.com/

http://harveylah.blogspot.com/

http://dinnerland.blogspot.com/

http://graces-fat-chance.blogspot.com/

http://alexisswenson.blogspot.com/

http://gastricbandblog-theresa.blogspot.com/

http://words-of-weight.blogspot.com/

http://tobefatnomore.blogspot.com/

http://thistimenextyear-mynewblog.blogspot.com/

http://julie-and-sammy.blogspot.com/

http://weightsupastar.blogspot.com/

I've learnt so much from all these blogs and many others (who have already got loads of awards) thank you all.

So, I took your advice.

Happy Thursday morning all, grey and horrible here today, I complained so much about the heat that I will accept the greyness without (much) complaint!

Thanks so much for your advice on my friend., you are all right, there is no point loosing a friendship over it, I think that the frustrating thing is that I don't know what it is! I think that Linda got it right when she said how emotive our weight is.

So I decided to call her this morning, no one home but left a message on the answer phone saying Hello, hope they're all ok and I'll speak to her soon. When I do speak to her I won't mention the band or anything about weight loss and only talk about it if she does. Hope that I hear back from her.

Scale was ok today, 16st 1 (and 3/4's!) 225lb's, think that I'm having a TOM bloat, put on jeans yesterday which have been quite tight around the waist when sitting, but thought that they should be much more comfortable as i'm a few pounds down from when I last wore them, wrong, they were horribly tight so will just sit back and wait for it to go. It's very unusual for me, I don't normally gain at TOM unless I eat lots of rubbish of course.

I have a new perfume, actually I got it at Christmas and then forgot all about it, its Sarah JP's covet, I think I like it but I'm not sure. I bought chanel no 5 for my wedding day (almost 8 years ago!) and have wore it ever since so I'm on the look out for new perfume, any recommendations?

My little brother (23) is going off to a heavy metal festival today, I'm having to sit on my hands as I really want to reply to his face book status saying be careful! I'm so old!