Morning

Yesterday didn't go well. Pippin was very ill and I didn't want to leave him during the day. Then after rushing him to the vets the last thing I felt up to was going out to do my food shopping. So I ordered take away, again.

However, unfortunately (or possibly fortunately), I think my dinner wasn't cooked properly as i've been rather poorly. It should help me get back on the diet though. Hopefully it will also put me off takeaways for a while... :)

My weigh in this morning puts me at 19st and I really want to be 18st at the most by the holiday in 2 and a half weeks. My goals have changed a little though, now the plan is for me to be fitter no matter how much I weigh. Tenerife is going to be HOT and we'll be wanting to do lots of exploring walking and the last thing I want to do is be complaining that i'm tired. Fingers crossed I won't be poorly for much longer so I can get myself to the gym and on the treadmill.

TTFN

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No Success But No Failure Either

I've been really bad about what i've been eating but the increase in exercise seems to be stopping me from putting anything on. Which I thoroughly approve of! :)

It's also a really good omen for the future because now I can see hope for me to be able to go back to enjoying food, in moderation, when i've reached my target! Yay!

Today i'm going to try and get back to being really good so hopefully i'll start seeing the weight falling off again tomorrow.

TTFN

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I got the part!

Last night was the final "auditions" for my am. dram. group and I got the part I wanted! Now I have another reason to slim! :)

I had lunch out with Mum and Verity yesterday but was good for the rest of the day and have stayed the same. I'm back down to 19.2 now.

I'm afraid this is going to be fairly short and sweet today as I want to get up and off to the gym fairly soon as i've been really bad about going this week. 

So i'll say TTFN!

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Mum's here...

And it's going ok. The weight seems to have started moving again which is good.

That's it for today!

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Slimfasts Are Go!

I'm back... Well so far today... But trying to do the eating 5 times a day thing that Stuart at the gym suggested. Apparently every time you eat you raise your metabolism a little. The same applies with exercise. So to lose the most at the fastest "healthy" rate possible I need to be totally focussed. Gulp. That'll be me trying to break the habit of a lifetime then!

The diet and exercise all went a bit wrong yesterday, my friend Victoria treated me to lunch and then we had take out in the evening and the most exercise I did was drumming on guitar hero! D'oh. As you can probably guess I put on another pound.

So here's the honesty, because I think not wanting to admit how much i'd messed up just made it worse cos then no one knew so it didn't matter.

I'm back up to a rather terrifying 19.5 and Tenerife is under 4 weeks away. Bugger sums it up rather nicely I think.

On the plus side I have booked myself in to both aquafit's tomorrow and i'm hoping to get a gym in somewhere in the middle. So by tomorrow night i'll be exhausted. :)

Mum's coming to stay on Tuesday and i've already pre-warned her that we're going to have to plan our gadding around my exercise. Lets see if I manage to stick to it shall we??

TTFN

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Well, That Went Well

Sense the sarcasm?

I worked my butt off in the gym yesterday, so much so I nearly passed out. Which was highly embarrassing as you can probably imagine. Still I stopped feeling sick and dizzy and got right back in there and working. I can feel it in every muscle of my body. Including some I didn't know I had...

The sarcasm is because of the 2lbs i've gained this morning. :( Not amused.

I'm going to go and find someone to moan about it too!

TTFN

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Well, It Seems To Be Going Again!

I've shifted a lb this morning. Not really doing that well for the dieting but my exercise levels must be through the roof! I had my gym induction yesterday afternoon. Stuart(sp?) is my gym dude, showing me the ropes. He's really nice and also really good at health/diet tips. A random cross between ecstatic and disappointed because he's told me that I won't be able to do a 1000 calorie diet for much longer, unless I want to start passing out regularly. He's also got me agreeing to "eat" 5 times a day. Luckily a yoghurt counts as a meal and he's going to give me a list of some of the things that are really good for me to eat as a meal. We'll see! Apparently it's all to do with raising your metabolism. Short bursts of really hard exercise help too. :(

 I got going on the treadmill, upright bike and rowing machine. No idea if i'm going to remember it all though! I'm booked in again at 10.30 this morning to learn to use the rest (sitting downy bike, cross trainer and stepper, plus some of the resistance machinery). Then i'm on my own! Scary.

Well i'm off to the gym... TTFN

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I'm back, under duress!

To be honest, i'm only back on line because Mum made me promise. I've had a really, really bad few days and I was trying to avoid coming back on line until I had, at least, got back to where I was. My compromise is i'm here but not talking weight! 

Ray treated me to my full gym membership on Monday and i've made reasonable use of it. I did aquafit and a swim on Monday, pilates on wednesday and I have my gym introduction this afternoon. I am unbelievably achy from all the unaccustomed exercise. 

I'm also not getting much sleep due to over enthusiastic kittens and over vocal cat! Which I have to admit is not helping with my diet desire. Being shattered and hungry is just a bridge too far! I have however had a slimfast this morning and i'm going to make a valid effort to be good today. In fact I might even work up the enthusiasm to go do some shopping. I need a yoga mat anyway!

Hope you've all had a better weekend than me.

TTFN

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Just A Quick One

Ate out last night and yet somehow managed to shift the 3lbs I put on. Thank goodness.

Now off to see my Auntie Winnie in Sheffield and deliver my Granddad to Yorkshire for a week... Beware Yorkshire!

TTFN

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Well At Least When I Let Myself Down I Do It In Style...

... I've put on 3lbs. Not really suprising considering what I ate yesterday but as you can imagine i'm really disappointed with myself. I don't imagine it'll take more than a day or two to shift it but it's still annoying.

I cheated yesterday lunchtime. I had a panini when I was out in Milton Keynes with Mum. Then we called at Ikea so I had one of the delicious strawberry tarts they do. I was then ever so good and distracted myself around teatime so I didn't eat and only had a slimfast. Unfortunately my goodness didn't last and when we got back from the cinema I raided the fridge and, basically, ate dinner, at midnight, washed down with a yoghurt and meringue swirls. Of course by then I was sleepy so I went straight to bed.

Random tangent... My granddad is playing a cd of christmas carols full volume. WTF?????

All in all not a dieting success! I knew it was going to be harder to do it here. Also I can't help wondering if the fact that I feel fatter isn't making me lose a bit, or a lot, of my motivation. Where's my miracle, hey?? Surely I should be a size 10 by now??? At this point in time it would be very easy for me to throw my hands in the air and announce that I don't mind being "the fat girl"... which would be true... and that I don't want to be slimmer.... which would be a lie.

However, no giving up for me, no matter how much it might appeal. So i'm off to get a slimfast and panic quietly about the fact i'm eating out again tonight.

Until tomorrow...

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Why Is It That The Thinner I Get The Fatter I Feel??

I've lost another lb today but i feel as though i've put about 10lbs on. Strange isn't it.

Maybe it's because I missed dog walking this am. Mum headed out stupidly early with Rosie and to be honest I was still snoring :). In fact I think I still would be if Rosie didn't make one hell of a racket when she gets in the car. Excitement from the ear splitting department. Mind you I am sure that Mum and I will be heading out somewhere today so i'll just have to make up for it by walking more later.

Strangely i'm actually looking forward to being home on Monday and able to go to aquafit class again! In fact when I get home it'll be time to start building up the amount of classes I do at the gym. It's all going to be fairly mental from this point on I suspect.

Just in case they read it today I want to wish Pam and Ray a very happy 9th wedding anniversary! Hope they manage to get some time to themselves.

TTFN!

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Do I Win The Bright & Early Prize??

For being up and 5am and blogging by 6.30??

I should probably add that I'm not exactly up by choice. I gave up and got up as my back pain was so bad that I needed to! Pity really as I went to see Angels & Demons (which ain't half bad) last night and didn't get in until midnight. So I'm actually really quite tired. I'm also supposed to be out tonight. I sense a nap in my near future :).

I'm quite impressed though because I ate out yesterday and didn't pick the healthy option (we were at Frankie & Benny's and I LOVE their chicken parmigiana(sp?) so I cheated, badly) and haven't put on any weight. "and the award for extreme jamminess goes too..." 

I'm back to being good today though (especially as I feel a tad poorly), in fact I'm going to go and fish some turkey out of the freezer in a minute so it can be defrosting. Then i'll wait, probably impatiently, for Mum and Ray to get up before heading off on a dog walking expedition. That is of course presuming I haven't fallen asleep by then. Which is always a distinct possibility.

It's a pity that Rosie (our border collie) is quite so nuts as the sun is out and there look like there may be some fairly awesome photo opportunities about outside but if I go out I suspect she may make an awful lot of noise and no one else is actually up, or wanting to get up, just yet!

Hope you're all getting nice weather and a chance to make the most of it! :)

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Good Morning Peoples!

Before I rattle on about how i'm doing i'd just like to say thank you for the support. Especially Scotty and Pam. Reading your comments helps me keep motivated and gives me extra will power every day. I suspect this would all be much harder without you!

I didn't get round to blogging at all yesterday because there was just so much going on. Ray gave me his camera, my first ever digital SLR, so I spent the entire day out taking hundreds of photo's! Some of them are even quite good :).

I wouldn't have had much to report yesterday anyway. No weight loss unfortunately. This morning however i've lost another 1lb (and been for a longish dog walk already). That's officially a whole stone gone!! Whoop whoop! To celebrate i'm going in to Oxford with Mum and i'm going to buy a nice bag for my new gadget. :D

Short blog today i'm afraid as i'm impatient and wanna go out.

TTFN

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