A first

Today was the first day in a long time that I didn't stand on the scale first thing this morning, it was really tempting as I'd had a good day yesterday but I didn't.

Isobel isn't going to school today, we all went to the zoo yesterday but she really wasn't well and we ended up leaving early, she's her normal self when she's laying on the sofa but the minute you get her moving she just flops. George is going, he just told me that he didn't want to go as he doesn't like school, I said that he was going and he told me that his throat hurt and started coughing! He's 3 and a complete drama queen.

Paul still has the manflu and is working from home today, hopefully this will allow me to leave Izzy here with him and go for a walk today, everything I do at the moment is to please myfitnesspal! I'm obsessed.

Today will be filled with sick people, housework and tearing my hair out! Can hardly wait!

Have a good day all x

myfitnesspal says

If every day were like today... You'd weigh 193.2 lbs in 5 weeks

How fantastic would that be, also, I'm liking this font! Easily pleased, me.

Huge thanks to Rachel

Lovely Rachel at http://www.blogger.com/profile/10594536445697602339 talked about myfitnesspal.com, I'm very grateful, at least I was until I made it go red yesterday when I input my food!

(I don't know how to do the hyperlink thing, must learn!)

Yesterday started off well, gym, myfitnesspal said that I burned 200 cals from my circuit workout, I'm not really sure about that but I entered it under a curves workout and I think that its pretty similar. I ate well, took the kids to the cinema leaving manflu at home, was ok but Isobel was very floppy and hot by the time we got there and I was regretting taking her, I'd driven to a cinema 40 minutes away where we could park outside. Finally got them in and I think that her medicine started to work and she had some popcorn and blueberries (together??!) and that seemed to perk her up. We saw Tangled, it was quite good.

There is a shopping centre by the cinema and there is a Cadbury's shop there (can you tell where I'm going with this?) I'd promised the kids that we could go so, £10 later and a carrier bag of chocolate some of which was eaten on the way home. I was being pretty good until George decided that he didn't want the mini eggs I'd given him, what is a Mummy to do? Scoff the lot of course!

We had lovely sausage and mash for dinner, I never eat food like this, I didn't have huge amounts but it was really nice, I then had to have a little ice cream and there might have been more chocolate so myfitnesspal was bright red and probably very cross with me, however, I'm ok with it, will do much better today, honest myfitnesspal!

Scale was up today, no surprise! I'm going to challenge myself to weigh in once a week only, my weigh in day will be Saturday as it was lower than today. I promise that my tootsies will not touch the scale until next Saturday morning, anyone fancy joining me?

Anything exciting happening today? We normally go to the church family service but as Paul and Izzy are both full of cold/manflu and most of the congregation are over 70 I think that its best that we keep away, would hate to pass it on to anyone.

I'm off to the gym shortly, then I'm going to scour the house for stuff to put in my enormous skip then after lunch I'm taking George to the zoo, manflu and Izzy can come if they feel up to it, its funny weather here, not at all cold, about 14c today (57f) but very windy, not lip gloss wearing weather!

Have a lovely Sunday all x

Happy Saturday all

from the house of illness, Izzy has a cold and Paul seems to have a severe case of manflu. I'm not very of him when he's ill, Isobel is dealing with it much better than he is, we've left the poor love in bed.

So, its looking like swimming will be postponed and my leg hair can stay intact! As Tina says, I need it for warmth, wonder if the scale will show a loss once I shave it!

A very clever blogger (who's name escapes me and who's blog I just can't find, I'm so sorry) posted about myfitnesspal.com yesterday, she was saying how since logging what she's eating she's loosing weight. Her post was similar to mine yesterday so I thought I'd go and take a look at it and its fantastic. Really worth a look, they also have an iphone app.

According to it in order for me to loose 2 pounds a week I need to eat no more than 1200 cals a day, this seems low to me but once I'd cut out snacks and logged what I actually ate it was fine.

I debated weighing in today, especially as I'd weighed last night (I know) and it indicated that today would show no loss (generally about 2 pounds lighter the next morning) I couldn't help myself and stood on the scale, today I weighed 14st 9lbs, (205 pounds) so a pound down from yesterday. This is great but I know that all the weighing messes up my head, perhaps we should have a no weigh challenge! It's so hard.

Anyway, off to get manflu up so he can watch the kids whilst I go to the gym, have a wonderful weekend all.

It isn't rocket science

Well, what do you know, when you eat less you loose weight! It's a revelation!

Yesterday I had a really good day, no snacking, 3 smallish nutritious meals, some exercise (emptying the garden rubbish in to the skip and 2 hours walking around the zoo with George) and this morning the scale was 3 pounds down! I'm now back at 14st 10 (206) 2 higher than my lowest.

I've realised that I was snacking too much before and getting away with it so it almost felt normal but then suddenly gained 3 pounds. I gained the 3 pounds because I ate too much/rubbish. So there you have it, my blog posts for the last week have been me feeling terribly sorry for myself when actually it was all deserved.

The skip is still outside and my scale is still in the bathroom, not sure that we can be parted at the moment, will keep thinking about it.

Thank you for all the vibes and prayers for my sister, the 3 are still doing well (grade 2/3 from a scale of 1 to 6, 1 being very good) 1 will be implanted tomorrow, will keep you all updated, please keep your fingers crossed.

Any exciting plans for the weekend? Not much happening here, if Izzy is a good girl we are going to see Tangled on Saturday and swimming on Sunday, really ought to shave my legs or they'll think that a yeti just entered the pool!

Chicken with broccoli and cauliflower for lunch, think that cauliflower is becoming a problem for me.

Have a wonderful day x

It's still here

In the bathroom mocking me, it gave me an extra pound this morning too! Horrible scale! Could have been as I ate lots of chocolate yesterday I guess. I'm now 5 pounds over my lowest of last week, bizarre.

Anyway, feeling ok today, went to the gym this morning to find that one of the circuits is broken so didn't work out as there were at least 15 woman in front of me and I wasn't going to wait for 45 minutes. I did throw all the rat rubbish in the skip, it was very heavy so that was my mini workout. Found a little dead mouse under one of the bags, poor thing.

My gym membership is up in August and I'm considering going to a "proper" gym, mine is just a circuit place and I think that its pretty good for toning, not sure that it adds that much to weight loss really. It works for me as its quite quick but I think that I'm getting to the stage where I need more. Will continue to think about it.

I know that a lot of us are thinking and praying (if that's your thing) of others at the moment.

Could I ask for you to think positive thoughts for my sister please?

She's called Rachel, she's 33 and has been trying to have a baby for quite a few years, she is going through IVF at the moment, she had her eggs collected yesterday and had a call this morning to say that 3 have fertilised and are doing ok at the moment (2 didn't make it)

The whole process has been really tough and I know that she would be devastated if it didn't work, I really don't know how she'll cope. Thank you x

Negativity

Was just considering what to write any its all really negative. So I'm going to spit all out and then try and readdress the balance.

The scale is still saying 14st 12lbs (208 lbs) I'm frustrated and annoyed and this is the worst thing for me, it makes me think that there is no point, I then snack and make bad choices.

There is some of that going on now, evenings are killers for me.

I am exercising, I am in the main eating healthy high protein meals, I have booked a fill for the 25th of February.

But, I weigh under 15 stone, I haven't been under this in years and years and years. I am happyish about how I look, I want to be smaller and look better but I'm ok just now.

I don't measure myself but I know that even though my weight isn't going down I am smaller, I can feel more bone under the blubber!

I have some nice clothes that fit just right!

That's all, the scale is still here, I am going to get rid, in fact I just got a skip delivered to take away all the compost rat rubbish and I might do a symbolic throwing the scale in it. I might.

Have a good day all.