17th Jan – that goodness it’s Friday!

Evening all

What a day! well what a week actually 😀

I am thankful we can relax for tonight at least. I’m kind of looking forward to tomorrow, Paul and I are going to Kew Gardens in London. It’s been years since we last went. I’ll take a few pics for tomorrow’s post 🙂

That’ll make up for the unreasonably early morning we’ll have on Sunday getting Mum from Heathrow.

I have a couple of confessions to make!

Paul found 30% less sugar dairy milk, we had a bar each! it wasn’t quite the same but it was nice enough. There are also some lost and found pretzels, which are being finished off this evening. Oh…. and there was a slice of bread and butter this afternoon! oh dear! My promise to myself for next week – NO UNNECESSARY FOODS!

Obviously I don’t expect to do well on weigh in tomorrow. And I don’t have any right to expect any different…… oops!

At least my good nutrition is back on the up now though, so yes there’s badness, but there’s a lot of goodness as well.

And on the subject of Paul…. half hour late from work, no text, no call, no nothing! now, I’m a worrier, always have been, always will be. Paul did apologise, however that was somewhat diminished by the fact he was trying his hardest not to laugh! grrrrrrr

He’s forgiven now, of course, he’s so annoying, I can never be annoyed at him for long 😀

Good news, the monthly pains are very nearly gone…YAY!

On to the day.

Food – 40g natural nuts (there are cashews in the mix now), 90g dried fruits (I’ve discovered I really like apricots and absolutely adore dates) and 1 hard boiled egg. Prawn salad for lunch.

Dinner was healthier fish and chips.

As you can see, no veggies, but I had about 7 portions with salad and fruits.

Fluid – 330ml of milk, 4 cups, no 5 cups of tea, 1 glass of water, 1 can of pepsi max.

Exercise – there’s always next week!

So that’s me for now. I’ve got the lap top, so I’m going to do a bit of WordPress catch up tonight 🙂

TTFN

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16th Jan – a good food day, but boy am I cold!

Evening all, hope you are well.

I’m feeling quite run down today, Even though I only got up twice during the night.

Had a strange moment during dinner, I was half way through, chatting to Paul, and then I just got very light headed. This is not something I’m concerned about, this is not unknown for me during meltdown week, what was unusual was the length of time it lasted, a good three minutes. Just another thing for me to monitor!

Before coming home Paul and I took Angela and Lukey to Matalan, Lukey now has a nice suit for his dad’s funeral.

I’m hoping I can lock the door on the world tomorrow night, but we’ll see.

Right now I’m on my sofa with a hot water bottle for my coccyx, and tablets for the head, stomach and back aches.

Other than that, the foods been good today although we have had a bit of choc tonight.

Food – 40g natural nuts, 90g dried fruits, 1 hard boiled egg, prawn salad for lunch.

By the time we got back home we were knackered! I was hoping for liver which Paul can get on the table within 20 minutes, and a real comfort eat for me. Unfortunately Paul couldn’t face cooking tonight, so it was left to me. Paul did suggest take away, and oh my god!!!! I was so tempted… I didn’t feel like cooking either!

However, i cooked Maggie bag with nearly 6 portions of veggies, and 2 chicken breasts, and then did my old faves, oven spuds!

Not the prettiest of pics!

Paul is going to make us Greek yoghurt with seeds and honey in a while. With my milk this morning and mozzarella in my salad, that will give me my 3 dairy portions for the day. So important for women.

Fluid – 200ml milk, 4 cups of tea (could have had more but trying to limit), half a can of Pepsi max (from yesterday) and 1 glass of water.

Exercise – no, not today, I decided with that dizzy spell, exercise is off the agenda today. There’s a small (I admit it’s a very small) part of me that’s annoyed, we’re going back to Wales in August, and I so want to be fit enough to get up Snowdon.

Ah well, not worth the possible problems.

The next few days are dodgy for one reason or another, tomorrow’s ok, Saturday London, Sunday 4.45am picking mum up from airport, Monday funeral, Tuesday – fully back to me dedication!

I think I might miss the yoghurt tonight, we still have single cheese portions in the fridge, I’ll have one of those instead. A nice shower and early night sound like heaven to me 😊.

All being well I’m gonna get to catch up with your posts tomorrow night, maybe even during the day if I can.

But for now I think it’s time for bed.

Night.

15th Jan – what a day!

Hey all, hope those of you who are suffering with various allfictions are feeling a bit better.

Where do I start….

How about straight after my last post. Yes, I think to explain now I need to back track.

Not long after posting my blog post last night I had a text from my friend. Needless to say I went round straight away with much needed hugs, hand holding and a listening ear.

I stayed with Angela until about 11.30pm, having a cuppa and a glass of water.

Climbing into bed was welcome, however between bed at midnight and getting up at 7am, I had to go to the loo ELEVEN times. I got up knackered.

My saving grace should have been that I was working from home. My normal Wednesday routine is to use my lunch time to do exercises. Yesterday daytime I had told Angela I could take her to Next for her suit, this would take care of my lunch time. Last night we rearranged to take her this evening rather than daytime due to a meeting with undertakers.

So this morning I decided I would get my head down for an hour at lunch time instead.

Then Katie called!

The car had broken down!!!!

She had next to no charge on her phone, and apparently she doesn’t have recovery on her insurance, which we are all sure she did. a problem to sort out another day. but in the meantime I had a panicky Katie to deal with, so I called a breakdown company and arranged recovery, told Katie to stick her phone on power saving.

Two hours later I used my lunch break to drive to the garage I’d arranged recovery to, paid the man, helped Katie book the car in, and get Katie home.

It’s Paul’s birthday today, so I cooked a nice dinner, then left him to clear up while I took Angela to Next.

It’s now 8.10pm and I’m back home feeling frazzled.

Paul liked his pressies, I got him (And me) Ed Byrne tickets, he’s one of our favourite comedians! I also bought him a DNA kit…. though I’ll be gutted if he has more Neanderthal DNA than me 🤣🤣🤣🤣 ill keep you posted.

I am really looking forward to bed.

So to business…

Food – 40g natural nuts, 90g dried fruits, and 1 hard boiled egg.

Prawn salad for lunch

Venison steak (A very healthy and tasty meat, all green on the traffic lights), mushrooms cooked with a knob of salted butter and oven ready herby sweet potato fries.

A bit of chocolate, savoured slowly!

Fluids – 2 glasses of water, 4 cups of tea and 1 can of Pepsi max.

Exercise – so I had planned to do 3 x 5 minute exercises, to include running on spot, side to side exercises, push ups and ‘running up and down the stairs, this would have allowed me to have a guilt free sleep at lunch time. Katie called after I had done one.

So here is my embarrassing exercise record for the day.

With luck, I’ll get a good night’s sleep and hopefully feel better tomorrow. I’m not sure about exercise yet as we need to take Angela and Luke to matalans to get a suit for Luke.

Anyway, I’m going to say teddy bye for now. Night 🤗

14th Jan – surprisingly lovely dinner!

Hey all,

Today has been the kind of work day I’m glad to see the back off. There was nothing particularly bad about the day, not overly busy or anything, I’m just glad to be home.

I’m full on into monthly meltdown at the moment, a bit odd as I didn’t seem to get a week of warning signs, and I’m sure I’m a week early, but I could be mistaken and just lost track given everything that’s been going on.

I’m pleased I’m menstruating now, I’ll probably put a bit of weight on this week, meaning I can then have 3 week solid of (hopeful) successes, whereas I was expecting a loss this week, then a gain next week. Not what I want as I try to get back into the swing of things.

My stomach hurts, as does my coccyx, and I’ve had an annoying headache, but normal ibuprofen and paracetamol seem to be keeping it all at bay.

Usually at this time I just want to curl up with my throws, I’m actually considering going for a walk, even though it’s raining cats and dogs! I mean, this is very odd for me!

So on to my day…

Food – 40g natural nuts, 90g dried fruits, 1 hard boiled egg, prawn salad. I’ll take a pic of my salad tomorrow.

I was fairly peckish when I came home tonight so was a bit worried about dinner. We’re trying a meat free day a week again, and today we had falafel, wholewheat pitta, loads of salad and Sainsbury healthy red pepper humus. To my hungry and food loving mind, I was thinking this is a glorified sarnie… I LOVED it! And after half my pitta I knew one was definitely enough!

And even better… as my mum’s in New Zealand at the mo, I’m not going to lunch on Fridays, I only have salad for tomorrow and Thursday, so I mixed my normal salad with the left over salad, the mozzarella, tinned beans and extra prawns, and now have 3 HUGE tubs of salad to see me through the full week… RESULT!

I’ve prepared Greek yoghurt with seeds and honey for supper. After our walk I think 😋.

Fluid – 200ml lactose free milk, 5 cups of tea, 1 glass of water. I drank about half a can of Pepsi max yesterday (I reported a full can as I assumed I would have it) so I’m gonna finish that off tonight.

Exercise – none yet, but our walk will be no less than a moderate half hour. I’ll post a quick update on that when I’m back home.

So for now…. bye 🤗

13th Jan – a good food start!

Hey all, hope you are well.

There’s been a bit of a change at work, I now have to be careful about using my computer for non work stuff. Bit of a shame as it’s easier to use than my phone, but hey ho 😊

So chuffed with Katie, she passed her driving test first time, and she has spent today getting my old car mot’d. It cost her a few hundred, but not bad considering I gave her my car. The car will do her for at least a year.

Anyway, on to the day.

Food – 40g natural nuts, 90g dried fruits, 1 hard boiled egg. I’m still buying those gorgeous salads from a local shop, it’s a big salad that and lasts me two days. But each day gives me more than 3 fruit and veggie portions. Today’s and tomorrow’s salad items are spinach, beetroot, pineapple, sweetcorn, beans, shredded cabbage, olives, garlic, prawns and honey and mustard dressing.

There’s not a full days worth of pulses, so for tomorrow I have added another handful of 5 bean salad, this makes my salad up to 4 portions of fruit and veg. I’ve also added some Sainsbury be good to yourself mozzarella to help with my dairy intake.

Tonight we had trout with quick cook rice with some sweetcorn and peas added to the rice.

I have eaten a biscuit, and the very recently discovered ferrero rochet I thought had all been eaten. Paul has very kindly helped me!

Fluid – no milk this morning, we forgot to get some lactose free over the weekend, and, well, normal milk is not a good idea according to my guts 🤣. I have had about 5 cups of tea today, all with 1 halfspoon sugar. I have also had 1 glass of water, and am having 1 can of Pepsi max as I type.

Exercise – none today, although I will have taken 5000 steps by the time I go to bed. I blame Katie for my lack of exercise, by the time Paul and I get back from shopping and ate, it was already nearly 8, then Katie called and just wanted to do her car tax with us… bless her, she’s very nervous about getting anything wrong, and I don’t blame her 😀, so now Paul and I are relaxing for an hour before bed.

I would not have considered this a great day a few weeks ago, but I’m counting it as a good day, as I’ve realised there’s nothing wrong with easing in, and I still have complete faith and belief in myself.

I’m getting back on track and I’m excited again 🤗

12th Jan 2020 – 7lb festive weight gain, nearly eaten all the rubbish!

Hey all, so here’s my ticket for yesterday.

Today is the last day of rubbish food.

We had two of our nieces round over night, we went for a lovely afternoon in our local park, walked through the aviary and the museum, walked round the lakes, played on swings and stuff.

It was good to come home to a warm house!

We had a chippy dinner, unfortunately the kids are fussy so this was a way of being certain they’ll get a good meal.

Today Paul’s family are coming round so the kids helped me tidy up, obviously that meant what should have taken half hour ended up taking an hour 🤣🤣

Paul’s nipped out to take Katie to work, and will pick up our salads while out. Me and the youngest neice have weighed out fruit and nuts, and I’ve boiled our eggs.

As for dinner, we’re being really lazy, we’re getting pizzas and sides, but I’ll get a flatbread pizza. I’ll also be sticking out the last bag of festive foods, so tomorrow I’ll be fully back to good portions, and nutritional foods.

I’d like to hope for a loss next week, however the body’s gearing up for meltdown. Never mind.

so for now ill say tada, and update again either tonight or tomorrow.

10th Jan 2020 – an okish day

Hey all, First and foremost, a belated HAPPY NEW YEAR to you 🍾

So, catch up post done and dusted earlier today, it’s time now to get back to routine…. for blog posts at least 🤣

I had today off work, our home was a mess! Now it looks homely again. I also wanted to get reacquaint myself with this community, something I’ve missed terribly. I feel so much better now having dedicated some time to it.

My mum’s currently in New Zealand, visiting one of my cousins, so I didn’t go to lunch, and I hadn’t thought ahead so food was a bit off today.

Anyway, here’s my food for today. Breakfast 40g mixed nuts, 90g mixed dried fruits. Lunch was 2 hard boiled eggs and 2 small cheeses.

For regular readers you’ll note I’ve upped my nuts, this is because we’re recommended to have 28g a day, but I rarely have them during the weekend, hence the increase.

i had a shock when chowing down on one of my cheeses! I was eating absent mindedly as I was typing up my previous post, and then had to fan my tongue…. it was a mexicana! I don’t do spice!

And then various chocolates throughout the afternoon.

Dinner was oven cooked lightly dusted fish with oven cooked chips. Tasty but missing veggies.

So not a great day for fruit and veg, only 3 portions, the emergency cheeses have been my only sauce of dairy, so I’m not annoyed I had them.

There will be a couple more chocs later.

I can’t stand the milk I’ve currently got, it’s skimmed, it’s nasty! However I’ve battled through enough to almost run out, so no glass of milk this morning, but a couple of cups of tea. 2 glasses of water, 1 can of Pepsi max, and 2 glasses of Bailey’s! I know! But I was emptying a bottle!

Exercise has been good relative to the last few weeks, I did an 11 minute cardio, and the stretching programme. With the exercising and housework, my new fit watch tells me I’ve down 94 minutes of moderate activity and 17 minutes of vigorous exercise. So this is something I am very pleased with today.

So that’s it from me for now, I’ll update again tomorrow, with a ticket from Boots scales hopefully (last week the paper had run out!). Last week I weighed 15stone 6lb, given the HUGE quantity of chocs I’m eating, I’m nervous about tomorrow’s weigh in, hey ho, tis what it is.

Good night all.

I’ve missed you!

Paul, if you’re reading, im sorry in advance my love for the rant.

Hey all, oh my word, it feels like a life time since we’ve swapped snippets of our lives!

I’ll do a quick review of, well, everything since my last post.

Pete – It is with sadness that I report Pete, a wonderful, delightful man, passed away on 26.12 at 00:15. There were very hard decisions to be made by my dear friend and his family. Knowing there wasn’t much of the Pete they knew and love left, helped their decisions. His funeral will be later this month. In the meantime I support Angela as much as possible, I’ve hugged her as she quietly sobbed, I’ve held her hands as she’s talked of her loss. I’ve laughed with her as she’s remembered funny things. As most of you will know, we feel useless in these situations – but being there or not as my friend needs is as much as I can give. Their youngest son, Luke (we do cooking lessons sometimes) has been extra cuddly, as has Angela’s youngest step-daughter. Not only was Pete a fabulously funny friend to me and mine, and a lovely husband to Angela, he was a wonderful step dad to Lee, and an amazing dad to Becky, Sophie and Luke.

My cousin, so as you know I don’t hear from my cousin, we kind of drifted, and now it’s been too long, I don’t have any more news on her cancers at present or how she is doing. I am still debating sending her a letter, just so she knows how much I have valued her in our shared past, and how over the years, I wish I had made contact.

Aunty Gilly (Claire’s mum) – CRAZY lady!!! I have two amazing aunties, but this one, WOW, she has always been a nutter – crazy hair, crazy shoes, crazy sense of humour 🙂 Regrettably she has now been diagnosed with breast cancer (one of the ones my cousin has), needless to say, it’s more imperative now I get registered to a doctor and have a general check over, in particular with regards to my breasts.

I don’t believe there’s anything to worry about, however last year was horrendous – Angela’s dad very ill – all good now, Paul’s mum skin cancer – all good now, Angie (not Angela) sudden death – age 52(ish), cousin’s shocking multiple cancer diagnosis – not an expected cure, Pete’s major heart attach – death, A.Gilly’s breast cancer – expected to be able to cure.

Makes a person feel very nervous.

Christmas was…. stressful! I cooked dinner for all Paul’s family, his sister came in to my home and immediately stated, aggressively that the kids should not be forced to eat veggies! now excuse me, i encourage and have success, i DO NOT FORCE! and besides, it was Christmas, couldn’t give a damn on Christmas day! As it happens I cooked Christmas dinner knowing my daughter, partner, I and MIL would enjoy the proper food. Even Carly enjoyed the parsnips! They are a family of frozen veggies, including frozen roast potatoes… NO WAY not on Christmas day. Paul’s sister made it very clear she was disappointed there were no baked beans on the table, didn’t thank us once for dinner, aggressively told the room again that no veggies should be forced on her children, she won’t cook them at home for them, veggies are poison, blah blah blah, not a nice or kind word came out of her month once that day! Even going home I asked if she would like to take any food with her, any food – that included the snacky, cakey stuff as well. She LITERALLY turned up her nose and said, and I quote, “well I suppose I could take some of the meat home for the dog” FOR THE FRIGGIN DOG!!!!! So nothing I served up was good enough for the food freak! I am not happy, and have advised Paul, we are NEVER hosting for his family again at Christmas. Three time in 11 years we’ve hosted and the sister has made it her mission to be mean spirited in every way possible, such piss poor manners!

New Years – I spent this time with Angela, Lukey and Lukey’s girlfriend. We had an emotional evening. Lots of ups and downs. I’m pleased I was able to spend this time with Angela. I did miss my Paul and Amy who were at Paul’s mum and dads, but we are lucky as we will have these times with each other again.

And now, on to me. So, the last few weeks have been highly emotional, highly stressful, no time spare for love nor money, trying to get everything done for xmas, trying to be there for my friend, trying to make time left right and centre for everyone and everything, has had a serious toll on my healthy lifestyle. I’ve put on 6lb since I was properly on the ball, and exercise has dropped to zero!

I can’t seem to get rid of all the treat foods in the house, we obviously bought way too much for xmas, and I’m a child!! I can’t throw or give any of it away! Having said that, we are having family over this weekend, fingers crossed the last bag of goodies will be gone ready for the new week! Needless to say, I expect tomorrow’s weigh in will not be pleasant either, but knowledge is power.

What I have done: So yes, Paul and I (and anyone setting food in our home) is munching though chocs and biscuits still, but we are back to the healthy foods so that will at least meet our nutritional needs. Only started this week, but I have to say, I am sooooo pleased to be eating sensible healthy foods again, as much as I’ve enjoyed the crap, I’ve missed the good!

As for exercise, I’m easing my way back in, and with good reason! We’ve gone for a good walk for the last two weekends, and this week (Wednesday) I started my youtube programmes again. I did a bit of walking and the 15 minute strength workout, and oh my word, I could have collapsed! mmmm, actually on the 3rd planking session I did collapse! my triceps are absolutely caning! today I did the stretchy programme and the 11 minutes cardio programme. Not knackered by it, but I can definitely feel the loss of my fitness. So I’m just gonna build up slowly from the start again.

My mum bought me a samsung watch for Xmas, I don’t think I’m using it to it’s fullest advantage, however, I can now see my vigorous and moderate activity (8vig and 18mod today, 15 vig and 3 mod yesterday) so that’s been interesting. I think I’ll start giving that information on my post from now on. I can also see my heart rate which I’m quite fascinated by!

Anyway, so that’s my update so far, things are becoming more settled, now I’m looking forward to getting back to where I was before the last few weeks.

I’ll be honest with you, I might not get to check all your posts from the last few weeks, but I am looking forward to reading your posts from now on.

Don’t know what to say

Hey all,

No update on me I’m afraid, these last few days have been manic. My dear friend’s husband has had a massive heart attack (dad of my honorary nephew who helps me to cook sometimes) and is currently in hospital.

It’s not looking good, he was put into an induced coma, then started looking a bit positive, mostly breathing on his own, body controlling it’s own temperature and blood pressure, yesterday there was even some arm and leg movement.

Unfortunately there was then a lot of thrashing about, so he was put back into a coma.

This afternoon there will be some tests on brain function, and then the way my friend was speaking, decisions to be made.

I wish I could do more.

As you can imagine, I’m supporting my friend and her family as much as possible, so thoughts to immediate health are out of the window.

I’ll drop in again when I can.

Just in case that’s not until after Christmas, my love and good wishes to you all and your loved ones.

xxx

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