Saturday 27th August 2022

Hi, I hope you all had a great week.

Me and my sister didn't go last week because she was poorly and I think I may have lost some last week, but can't be sure. However, we've just returned from our weekly meeting and my sister lost three pound which makes two stone. Yay.

I went off the rails Wednesday big time. For some reason I fancied everything in sight and everything in the cupboard had 'come and eat me' written all over it; and of course, I felt obligated to do that. However, the good news is, I did get back on my diet on Thursday which will show up next week...or not.

I'm always hungry from the moment I get up, and I know, that once I start eating I'm at it for the rest of the day. So, I've been eating a high fibre bar each morning which seems to take the edge of the hunger pains. Then I wait as long as possible before I have my breakfast and it seems to be working for me.  That way, I find I can control my eating habits until lunchtime. Obviously, we all have different ways of coping. 

Whether it's because Summer is coming to an end I find that strawberrries are really pants lately and they don't seem to last as long, even in the fridge. There's some out there now and I'm trying to force myself to eat them so they don't get wasted. And I don't mean I'm going to marinate them in gin. The trouble is they're trying to turn themselves into jam and you can image what the red slushy things look like. Not only that, I nearly ate a small green fly on one of them and since then, I've gone of them a bit.

Honestly, it was that small, I thought it was a strawberry seed. Needless to say, I've been washing my fruit ever since, which I should have been doing in the first place. 

 Here we go then.

Weight two weeks ago:13 stone and 4Ibs.

Weight this week:         13 stone and 2.5 Ibs.

Weight loss:                  1.5 Ibs. Over two weeks.

Total weight loss:          1 stone and 10.5 Ibs

                                      Or 24.5Ibs

So really, I probably lost that last week and stayed the same this week because I ate and ate and ate, but didn't make myself sick.

Rounding it up to 25Ibs this means that this about...

Two ten pound bowling balls

A horse saddle

2 laptops.

I have been doing ten minutes of walking around the house every day. It's a start, stop laughing. I usually put the telly up loud and listen to the news as I walk around downstairs. I must admit, for half an hour after, I feel enthused and ready to face the world, then I turn the telly down, sit on the sofa and dream of  Crunchie bars, flakes and Caramac, then I go and get some delicious apples that taste like wet earth and eat them. Yummy. Other varieties of chocolate are available. 

I've been eating English plums this week and they are yummy and you can get a whole punnet of them for one pound in most shops, even the high end shops. 

So this week, I'm going to try and stay clear of cakes and chocolate and stick to the heavy duty stuff like fruit, meat, veg and fish, not so much of the fish. Even though a crunchie bar keeps appearing before my eyes.

Thank you for reading my blog and I wish you all a happy and healthy week. 

Have you noticed that my favourite word this week seems to be 'yummy.'