Happy New Year to All!!

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Wishing you all health, wealth and happiness in 2009!! Happy new year!!

Twas the day after Christmas (diet version)

Twas the day after Christmas, and all through the house
Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.

The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I'd taste
At the holiday parties had gone to my waist.

When I got on the scales there arose such a number!
When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber).

I'd remember the marvelous meals I'd prepared;
The gravies and sauces and beef nicely rared,

The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese
And the way I'd never said, "No thank you, please."

As I dressed myself in my husband's old shirt
And prepared once again to do battle with dirt---

I said to myself, as I only can "You can't spend a winter
disguised as a man!"

So--away with the last of the sour cream dip,
Get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip

Every last bit of food that I like must be banished
"Till all the additional ounces have vanished.

I won't have a cookie - not even a lick.
I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick.

I won't have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie,
I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.

I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore---
But isn't that what January is for?

Unable to giggle, no longer a riot.
Happy New Year to all and to all a good diet!

Merry Christmas and starting afresh in the new year

Christmas Glitter



Merry Christmas to everyone who reads this blog and thank you for all your comments which are hugely valuable to me and helped me get back on track after falling off the wagon.

I stayed the same at my weigh in last Thursday but I'm not too disappointed with that. I am determined though that 2009 will be my year to slim down and hopefully have another baby.

I have struggled this year with medical problems that are down to my weight but after some blood test results I received yesterday have made me realise that whilst the problem can be solved I need to do my part too by losing the weight. I am hoping to lose as much weight as possible so that I can pregnant and have another child.

My doctor has prescribed me Clomid which will help things along as I have not been ovulating each month so hopefully I can post some nappy news in 2009 lol!! I really think it will be a great year and I am full of enthusiasm that I will lose as much weight as I can safely and healthily and eating more sensibly.

I am starting over again on 1st January 2009 but am not going to go mad in the meantime as I don't want to undo all my work so far. I am also determined to do more exercise too.

I have just been reading Bryher's blog and she is a huge inspiration to me and shows me that I can do it too. I haven't been terribly good at keeping up with blogs lately but am determined to catch up on them all over the holidays as I find reading others blogs really help me too.

Merry Christmas & a happy new year to you all xxx

Yay!! 3lb lost this week!!

I am feeling really good at the moment and was over the moon to find I'd lost another 3lb. I feel I have got my groove back at last after it went missing for most of November.

I think I will put it down to going to meetings and drinking my water. I have always struggled to drink plain water but have been following a tip by CJ to fill a bottle and drink it out of there so I can see how much I am drinking and I am finding it easier to drink from too. I am managing to drink 1.5 to 2 litres a day which is amazing for me as I drank hardly any before. I already feel like I have more energy and my skin is clearer for it too.

Its been a while since I posted a full weight loss update so here is a week by week account to my weight loss so far:

My Starting Weight: 277.5 lb
Week 1 weigh in: 270 lb
Week 2 weigh in: 264.5 lb
Week 3 weigh in: 262.5 lb
Week 4 weigh in: 262.5 lb stayed the same
Week 5 weigh in: 261 lb
Week 6 weigh in: 261 lb stayed the same
Week 7 & 8 weigh in: 266 lb Things went a bit AWOL for the next 2 weeks and I gained 5lb the last week in Cyprus and first week back in England
Week 9 weigh in: 262 lb joined weightwatchers meeting and lost 4lb in the first week
Week 10 weigh in: 259.5 lb lost 2.5 lb
Week 11 weigh in: 256.5 lb lost 3 lb
Total Loss so Far: 21 lb
Long-term goal: 106.5 lb remaining and I will get there! Slow and steady wins the race!!

I am feeling really positive at the moment. I am hoping to lose 1 lb next week then will give myself 2 days off pointing for Christmas Day and Boxing Day before I get back on with things.

I am currently working on a menu plan for the week and will post that when I've done it.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Going well this week!

I am hopeful of a nice weightloss this week. Things seem to be going ok. I am managing to drink more water though probably not quite at 2 litres a day yet but am building it us slowly and can get through 1.5 litres quite well.

We were hoping to go out for a family meal on Friday night but unfortunately our ds J 9 started to feel unwell so we ended up staying in and I made a lovely meal of chilli con carne and rice. I really love that and the whole meal with the rice works out at 9 ww points and it is absolutely delicious.

I am finding it much easier to control what I eat now that we are in our own home. Whilst staying with my parents I had to eat pretty much what they cooked but now I am enjoying the freedom once again to prepare our family meals the low fat and low point way.


Weigh in is tomorrow morning so I will update after that. Fingers crossed for a nice loss.

Happy Birthday to Me!!!!!! & 2.5lbs off!!!

Its my 29th birthday today so am having a day off plan and not point counting at all. I've been fine all day but we are going out for a family meal tonight and I will be having a few glasses of baileys too so I won't be counting points or it would be too scary but I do plan on getting back on plan tomorrow.

I went to weigh in yesterday and lost 2.5lb so I am pleased that I feel as though I am getting back on track. I just need to keep up the good work. I have 365 days to reach my goal of being able to wear a fantastic dress for my 30th and feel like a million dollars.

I'm sorry I have been so crap at updating lately. What with the move to England and all its been quite manic!! We have just moved into our house here after staying with my parents for 3 weeks which was driving me up the wall. Things should get easier from hereon in hopefully as I will be doing all the shopping and cleaning and there is so much more choice here of healthy food I like and it is cheaper than Cyprus so I have no excuses now lol.

I am determined that this time next year I will look and feel so much better. I have been feeling pretty down about it all lately but dh has been brilliant supporting me. He says he doesn't care cos he loves me the way I am but I know for a fact that my son age 9 is embarrassed by me. I feel awful about it. He says he wishes I was thin like other mums and I have promised him I will get there. He doesn't say it in a nasty way and you can tell it is killing him to say it. I know he is only saying what others probably think when they look at me though.

I haven't spent much time on weightwatchers online and I should really get back on there as the support off the forums are great and can really help if you have a bad day. I also want to thank everyone who reads this and comments on blogs as it really lifts you when you are having a bad day or week to know that you are not alone.

I am looking at changing our family's eating habits and make sure we always sit down at the dining table for dinner. We have all been doing more exercise since we moved back as we haven't got a car at the moment so are doing much more walking than what we did in Cyprus. I am thinking of joining the local gym after Christmas too which I used to enjoy going to before we moved away so hopefully I can tone up at the same time as losing weight and speed up the weightloss process too.

I will get back to blogging properly as I find it really seems to help me to focus and I will get back to blog reading too which I haven't had time to do lately.