Back on Track

Well, after yesterday's not so great day, I am back on track with the diet today.

I'm happily munching my nibbles every 15 minutes, I snacked on an apple, and I've got ham salad and a kiwi fruit for lunch. AND I resisted the Mars Bar crispy cakes that are being bandied around the office.

The difference is that, when I'm at work, the choice of what I have to eat (the things in my bag Vs nothing) are limited considerably, so I stick to what I'm supposed to be doing.

So, whilst having time off work is AWESOME, the routine that work gives me is much better for the diet!

Well, that just sucks!

After yesterday's awesome weigh in, I was really fired up for getting going on this week's diet, and excited to speak to my advisor for the first time this evening.

She was due to call me at 6.30. It's now just gone 9pm and I still haven't heard from her, which is pretty annoying. Last week she wouldn't speak to me as she hadn't received my payment, but she emailed on Thursday to say that she'd received it and would call me on Monday.

I've emailed her this evening and said that, as I haven't heard from her, I expect that the six weeks I've paid for will start next week (I'm not paying for a week when I don't get the support I'm paying for!!).

It's also been a bit of a bad day for sticking to the diet. It's a bank holiday weekend, which is great as it means 4 days off work, but isn't so great because of the decorating we're doing. That means, in turn, that I haven't really left the house for 4 days so I'm bored and restless. Which in turn, means I eat things I shouldn't.

It doesn't help that there's a whole load of chocolate and sweets around because of easter. If it wasn't there, I wouldn't want it, but because it is, I do. Here's hoping Mr B scoffs it all while I'm at work tomorrow!!

Week One Weigh In

Well, after the phone call from my Dad on Thursday, my dinner went a little bit pear pizza shaped! And then on Friday I was out for dinner for a friend's birthday, so all in all, I wasn't too sure that weigh in was going to go well.

So, imagine my surprise when the scales showed that I was

FIVE POUNDS LIGHTER!

I am so happy - I'm five pounds closer to my 4 stone target!!

The C Word

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I had a phone call from my dad on Friday evening telling me that they'd found out on Friday that his wife has breast cancer.

I don't have a particularly good relationship with her - I've never really liked her, she drinks too much and she's aggressive with it - but my dad loves her and she seems to make him happy and that's the most important thing.

So, I was quite surprised to find that I ended up getting quite upset about it all, really. I think maybe because it's my dad's wife, and I know that he'll be struggling with it all, but also because the only other person I've ever known with cancer was my uncle, and he died within a year of diagnosis.

On the positive side, though, they've caught hers really early from a routine mammogram. At the moment it's 1cm long, and she's booked in for day surgery on May 18th to have it removed. After that, they'll see what the best course of action is...

Must try harder...

I have no real idea where I am in my cycle, but being ever the optimist, decided to test last night.

As a result, we must try harder....

Mission Accepted!



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 So, I've set myself the target of losing 4 stone by 2012, and my mission started yesterday.

I'm doing a metabolic rate diet, which is completely different to anything I've ever done before, and I'm feeling really positive about it.

My understanding is that, after the first couple of weeks, the diet is specifically matched to you and your metabolic rate. I get 121 support from a consultant on the phone and via email. And I KNOW this diet works for women with PCOS as a number of the ladies on the Verity website have had great success with it.

The general rile with it is to eat pretty much all of the time. I have 6 small meals a day (instead of 3 big uns) and eat "nibbles" every 15 minutes. Basically, they're a thumb nail piece of pepper / celery / mange tout / carrot etc, that I eat every quarter of an hour. The theory there is that it takes 1 minute for the nibble to digest, but 13 minutes for you metabolism to switch off. So, for the 12 minutes in between, you're burning fat cells instead. So I'm literally sitting here now, losing weight. I can feel it melting away... (OK, so that's not strictly true, but it's a nice thought all the same!)

I'm really really focussed on this diet, and I'm determined to make it work. I WILL REACH MY TARGET!!

Catch up

Just a quick one today, and mainly photos, too.

I've struggled a bit, time wise, with the photography challenge but I have managed to catch up.

One of the challenges was about lines and repetition, and one of the others about protecting the photos that are on the blog. I'm still missing the colour and contrast aspect, but I'll get it, I promise!

Lines and repetition....

This is my radiator in the living room - it didn't quite come out as I'd hoped, but it'll do!

I was out last night with some friends and even though I was very drunk, I was still thinking about the challenge. And these lights really caught my eye. The camera on my  phone isn't great, so sorry for the poor quality.

And, because the diet and the mission to lost 4 stone by 2012, I baked cookies today! They're Nigella's Totally Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies. They are AMAZING, even if I say so myself!