Early Thursday morning

Morning all,

Woke early this morning and decided to sneak down the stairs for some tea and some quiet time before the monkey's wake up, managed to wake George and am now sat enjoying my quiet time with George watching very loud television, great!

No real band news, I weighed in at 16st 3 today which is 227 lbs. I've been doing ok but am allowing a little naughty snacking to creep in which I must stop. I'm going to the gym today, I missed it on Tuesday as I had to go to a teddy bears picnic at George's nursery, was very cute, they made teddy bear hats.

I bought some clothes yesterday in Laura Ashley, i've never bought clothes in LA before, I didn't realise they went up to a UK 20 (US 16) I bought brown linen tailored trousers and a couple of tops, everything fits but is just a little tight, i'm not sure what to do with it, it was quite expensive and as I plan to hopefully only be wearing it for a short time I may need to return it.

Isobel has 1 full week left at school and then she's off for 8 weeks, 8 weeks! Not quite sure how i'm going to get through this time! I have planned a few activities and she has a couple of weeks summer school and visiting relatives etc. We're also going to Center Parcs (v kid friendly holiday park type place set in the forest, slightly more upmarket than your average holiday park, lots of families head to toe in Boden!) in a couple of weeks. George and Izzy being off is going to really curtail me getting to the gym, i'm going to have to try and work some exercise in with them in tow, wish me luck!

Going to catch up reading blogs, George keeps sticking his head in front of my laptop, he is obviously just enjoying reading all your updates!

Oh dear

(World cup) England are out, they played badly, in fact after about 30 minutes I stopped watching and ironed the kids school uniforms! Ghana to win for me although I think that Argentina will win.

Anyway, enough football talk! I walked to the gym again yesterday, it was very hot again but the walk was fine apart from the blisters afterwards, that combined with the heat meant that I had a good weekend and didn't over eat.

I stood on the scales this morning as I do every morning and several times during the day, my weighing in once a week is long gone! I saw 16st 3lbs (227 lbs), weighed again 227, weighed again 228 and then gave up, my scales are rubbish, I will treat myself to some new scales as soon as I find some that have good reviews, I can't stand the way they are not accurate.

Hope that everyone is doing well, I have a busy week this week, Teddy bears picnic at George's nursery tomorrow and a baby shower on Wednesday. We don't really have baby showers in the UK, its a new thing for us, any ideas for easy to play games would be appreciated.

First pb

Morning all,

Its 6.44 and I'm downstairs alone, I need alone time in the morning, why is it once I shimmy down the stairs as quietly as possible, make coffee quietly and then sit down that both children wake up? Not fair.

Had my first pb last night, I was really good all day, after the gym I had lunch, scrambled eggs, cheese and a little toast followed by fruit salad, didn't eat anything at all until about 7 when Paul made us marinaded chicken with saffron rice, it was lovely but it was dry! I managed about a quarter, I was trying to chew properly but was quite hungry. I started to feel quite stuck which was uncomfortable, not sliming though, after about 10 minutes I thought i'd have some water to move it, big mistake! Felt dreadful and very very stuck, decided to go to the bathroom but made my husband come with me as I thought I might die in there when suddenly the water came back up, the food was still stuck but it felt much much better with the water gone, I didn't eat or drink anything for a while and gradually felt ok.

Didn't eat any more food other than some chocolate with a cup of tea later on, special chocolate full of anti oxidents, almost a health food!

Today I weighed in at 16st 4lbs, 228 lbs. That's a total of 25 pounds lost, I was banded 3 months ago. I feel that i've lost very slowly, mainly as I haven't got my eating habits under control, guess that this will be helped once i've had another fill. But, I'm ok with 25 pounds, if someone told me that i've loose that much on the 5 day pre-op and the last 3 month's I would have happily taken it.

Am going to the gym again this morning, I think that I might walk, its going to be very hot again but i'm going fairly early so should be ok.

It's the England v Germany world cup match this afternoon, my husband is stressed, we have a really bad record at playing football against Germany, especially when it comes to penalties, Mr Alison will not be a happy chappy later on.

Shame about the USA going out, I really felt for the team afterwards. Am happy that there is an African country left in though, if England don't win i'd like Ghana to win!

I did it

Was fine, bit hot but ok, have a couple of blisters but my trainers seemed slightly big, perhaps i've lost weight from my feet!

I messed up with the party, thought it was at 2, was drying my hair at 1230 when my phone rang, it was another mother asking for directions and if I was there yet, party started at 12 so Paul dashed off with Isobel, she wouldn't go without her make up on! They got there ok and only missed an hour of the party, feel rotten for not checking.

Think that I will walk to the gym tomorrow too, i'll soon have glute's of steel!

I promise....

That today I will walk to the gym.

Its very warm here at 7.30am its about 25c (about 77f) I live in a nice village which has a river running through it. There is a path along the river which I can walk along to get to the gym, it will take about 35-40 minutes, i'm not sure on the distance as its a quite rough and bumpy track and I don't walk that fast.

I'm promising here to walk to the gym this morning, have been toying with the idea but figured if I wrote it here I might just do it!

My daughter has a party this afternoon, its one of her school friends (yet again!) the mother of this friend has just been diagnosed with breast cancer, she has a mastectomy on Wednesday, I don't really know her as she has a nanny so we rarely see her at school but I'm so sad that she is having to go through this. I have no idea what to say, i'm just not very good in those kind of situations and i'm sure that she doesn't want all 20+ mums talking about it when they go in her house, she may not even be there, I feel a little uncomfortable about it but will just play it by ear. It could be that she isn't actually at the party but I do know that she was planning to be.

Weighed in at 16st 6lb's (230 lbs) today, a pound heavier than my lowest, i'm sort of ok with that but I don't want to be staying the same/gaining, I want to be loosing. I really need to sort out that fill.

Have a good day all, I will report back about walking to the gym xx

Quick update of nothingness

Sorry for not blogging for a while, my life is truly very dull and there is little to say.

The restriction I found last week coincided with my period, period went and so did my restriction! I've been ok all in all, eating more than I ought and struggling a little but am at more or less the same weight.

I need to book a fill, its just so difficult to get Paul to have time off so I can go for a fill, its a 4 hour round trip at least.

I had a chicken wrap in Mcdonalds tonight after i'd taken the kids swimming, I'd checked the calories and it wasn't terrible, I felt a little stuck a couple of times whilst eating it so think that i'm probably not too far away from restriction, I hope not anyway.

Hope that everyone is doing well. Will try and live a more exciting life so I have more to say!

Ooh, I did buy an Aspray's purse, its gorgeous.

Just had to note this!

Sorry, 2 boring blog entries in one day!

I just had lunch, (home grown) rocket, tomato's, cucumber, cheese and chicken breast. I was eating really slowly and I got about 2 3rds through and suddenly thought that I didn't need any more, I didn't feel full, I felt satisfied I suppose.

This is a new feeling for me, I normally just eat and eat and eat. I'm really pleased but fully aware that this might be a one off.

Also, my (UK) size 20 jeans which have been a little tight and slightly uncomfortable seem a bit looser today.

Am going to celebrate the above by taking the kids to the zoo after school and hopefully having a good walk (if I can tear them away from the play area!)