Monday 20th July 2009

R is school, it is her leavers assembly this afternoon, I am going to watch it.
Today I am starting Slimming World PROPERLY (at home). I am going to follow it and LOSE WEIGHT. I am going to write in the food diary and keep a check on what I am eating. I am going to eat more fruit and veg as this is a bit lacking in my day to day diet sometimes.
WHEY HEY - HERE I GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some pics

Pic of J taken last night
R and I taken last night (I was wearing her mask! Scary!!!)
R and Phil and Angie last night in Neil's mum n dads (they over from Australia for 2 weeks)
My garden today, looking greener!
The hedge next door!
My Aloe Vera plant
R last night before she went to the Black n White Masked Ball
Our holly tree today
Me on Friday night before I went to the theatre to do the ushering
R and J the other night!

Neil and I went for a half hour walk in the evening which was nice.
Start of our walk
Post box round the corner from us
End of our walk
It was a lovely evening, warm and quite sunny. I think we should go for evening walks more often (with and withot the kids). I said tomorrow night the kids are coming.

Been ok on food plan today. Work tomorrow, I only have 4 days in work them I am off for 2 weeks YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got some PDF files from Ebay - the Slimming World Extra Easy Plan and a Syns list....so now I can do it properly! I shall photocopy them for the 2 in work that are doing it too. One of the girls in work has lost over a stone (14 lbs) with SW which motivated me to think maybe I should do it again.
My firned Judith has decided to join in September, I shall go along with her depending on how I do over the summer. We have a meeting at the end of my road every Monday morning and that is my one day off from work.
I have been filling in the food diary - did not look good on Friday/Sat and Sunday I am afraid to say (chips-a magnum-cake-scone-wine) Eeeekkkkk. But hey, now I am making a good start. Today I had 2 wholemeal toast for breakky, a bowl of stew for lunch and mince and veg and wholemeal noodles for tea and earlier I had a skim milk coffee. I did have 4 (yes 4 and I counted them) little sweets (Roses) at 2 syns each (8 syns in all) and hey presto - that was my day. And yes it is now almost 10pm and I AM NOT going to have anything else but could have a muller yogurt if I wanted (but won't!) PHEW!!!!!!!
Here is a picture of me taken last night and BOY you can see here why I need to lose those lbs!!!!!
Now ordinarily I would not put such a picture up of me NO WAY, my pics are usually carefully selected and the BAD ones are ignored and NOT put on the web site here. But what the heck, I am overweight, by 2 stone (28 lbs) and every flippin lb shows (not helped by being under 5 ft tall!)
On some pics I don't look that FAT but on many - oooppppps I do. Ah well. I WILL LOSE THIS WEIGHT!

Wed 22nd July

Went to the Dr's this evening (rather than in the morning). She said my chest sounds clear. Bloods are fine as is my BP. SO she is sending me for a chest xray and an ECG. I said I was off work from Friday for 2 weeks, she said that would be good, let me get a rest and get better (maybe I have been run down she said). Hmmmm.....
Having an ECG will be scary and PRAY to god it is all clear.
J is coming with me to Unity theatre tonight to Usher for the play Angels With Mankey Faces (as Vicky cannot go). We have to go there a bit earlier so he can have his training.

Thursday 23rd July

J really enjoyed Ushering at the theatre last night. He was on the top entrance to the theatre and I was on the bottom entrance. The play was brilliant (1 hour long then and interval then another hour).

Went to work today not feeling so good. Aches pains and just not well. Had my ECG in the morning thanks to my manager who spoke to them to do it sooner than the planned next week. Also had my chest xray. Felt really tired and grotty so got sent home. Am gong to the GP tomorrow as under my left arm is hurting, there is a VERY tender bit....no idea. I think this is where all my left side pains are stemming from. Am not going into work tomorrow. They gave me the print out of the ECG and said give it to your GP, so Bill collected it from me at the hospital and took it to my GP. Rang the GP from home in the afternoon and they said ring back again Mon or Tuesday. Oh ok. Hopefullt this means that is OK. But I am still going tomorrow to see what this pain is (cyst? trapped nerve? blocked something or other?) Is making my shoulder hurt and arm. Dr wasn't terribly concerned about it yesterday, didn't even examine me apart from listening to my chest. Hmmmmm...........

DId I say I have booked us 2 nights in a nice hotel in Scarborough next week? Well I have. And I am so looking forward to the break. I do wish we had our usual 2 weeks away but unfortunately cannot afford it this year. But hey, 2 nights will be nice and we have never been to Scarborough.

Friday 24th July

How can a person get SO tired doing nothing? Felt not so good all day. Went to Dr's at 4pm. Good news is ECG and chest xray clear. Have (said the Dr) injured my shoulder (yes, I said, but that was about a month ago) yes he said "things don't always hurt straight away".
Well, my shoulder has been bothering me on and off for weeks, left side. So it's painkillers and diclofenac for me for the time being. The Dr said to avoid lifting, no repetative movements and no playing tennis!

YEAH got 2 weeks off to relax as much as can.
Neils brother and his wife popped round teatime-ish, it was nice chatting to them.
J took R to Birkenhead today (he needed new guitar strings).

DIET - not even thought about it. Well, not much anyway. I stepped on the scales this morning and seem to have lost some. OF course I missed my Friday weigh in at work and am not getting weighed for the next 2 weeks as am on holiday. Am going to do my best to follow SW plan. Today was a bit of a mixture with diet as just did not have energy to even think about it, hence the easy option of a takeaway for tea, though was very good with weetabix and skim milk for breakfast and cottage cheese n jacket potato for lunch (afternoon, a chocolate eclair minus the chocoolate, 5 krackerwheat and an icecream was hypo and yep the takeaway - 1 burger, fries, 2 onion rings and a 1/4 slice garlic bread). Oh bugger, not so good eh?
Tomorrow I will be sensible. Have to send Neil out with s shopping list (unless am feeling energised and minus aches). Want to feel better by the time we go away for our mini break, so must rest and relax and chill out.

Sunday 26th July 2009

Spent most of the day sleeping. J and R spent the whole day in the studio (recording). 5pm Neil and I went up to Neils mum n dads fot a buffett tea with Neil's 2 brothers and Sister in law (Phil and Ange from Australia), that was nice.

Me and Phil and Ange the other night
J and Phil and Ange
R and J and Phil and Ange
My sister is coming here tomorrow so we can go on the ferry to Liverpool, she is bringing her little girl Eve who is 5. J has an audition for a band in Liverpool sometime tomorrow.
Am still feeling a little 'puffed' out a lot of the time, but ok I guess.

It's 3.30am in the morning and I so should be asleep, but that's wot you get for sleeping all day as I did today - NOT GOOD. And I have to get up early in the morning as my sister is coming here so we can go out for the day. I am not tired. Watched a film earlier with Neil - He's Just Not That Into You which was fun. Must try and get to sleep

What have I eaten today? Does it matter?
Breakfast - Weetabix and skim milk
Lunch - None
Tea - Egg bap, salad, crisps, 2 small pieces of quiche and a piece of apple pie.

Hmmmmm..........not exactly SW but ok I guess.