May!!! 5 Months already :-s

Doesn’t time fly!!!

Okay so 3 weeks back on the weightwatchers plan and I have lost 9lb, a 2lb loss this week which amazes me as I’ve been ill (unconnected) and on antibiotics (errrgg!) and really didn’t try very hard (bacon butties!)  I thought I might take up wake boarding this last fortnight as the rain situation here in the UK has been constant, my bike has remained in the garage and my running shoes untouched.

The garden is looking great though!

Looking at my resolutionary list I’m able to strike off the ‘short stories’ and not getting stressed at my son’s school application. I have to admit I have been worried but everyone kept saying ‘Siblings at the same school it’s a cinch’ and it turns out it was Bravo Council!  He’s not keen on the idea of starting school, they don’t start the school visits until after Whitsun but I’m sure he will get used to the idea in due course…

With the removal of the school issue and my daughters dental issues resolved for now, I currently have very little to stress me out *touch wood* long may it last. So my insomnia is practically non existent. It’s so lovely to sleep, really it is!!

 

Things are ticking along and looking positive. After all…  Here Comes Summer!!

Meh…

I’ve been feeling lots of meh… This week I had a bit of a break through, it might have been that my husband has been off work and has NO IDEA how to relax, he started on a redecorating jolly of immense pro portions! Half way through this week I decided I just can’t do this on my own.

I lost weight before, leading up to my 40th birthday I lost over 2stone. Id signed onto weight watchers and it seems to suit me! Then somebody accused me of having an affair because, let’s face it, I couldn’t be trying to feel and look good just for me could I? *face palm!!!* after that little gem I kind of lost momentum. My fire fissled out of the diet world and here I am over a year later with the weight back on

But this week I’ve signed back up to weight watchers again, I’ve missed their natty little website with its food calculator and some where to record my activities, I like arranging what I eat so I can have enough points left for a glass of wine at the end of the day.

It’s a little extra help for my wildly flailing will power…

Let’s hope it helps!

I want to ride my bike…

I took the mountain bike out this evening, or rather we took each other. It has more gears than a posh clock I swear… No idea what to do with them all!  I stuck it in 2 on one side (left) and clicked up and down happily on the other as required.  My husband set me a route, he said as it was my first time out in ages best not to push it.

The weather was marvelous and I truly did love the ride. The spring sun was very warming, just enough to enjoy without being too hot and the solitude suited me after playing with my 3 year old all day, brain space, what a wonderful motivation to go exercising!

I almost did the prescribed circuit when I arrived at a bench and realised my throat was quite dry; fighting off another cold I expect, my daughter is very sneezey this week. I stopped and sat for a while and necked a bottle of water and stretched out my thighs which were pleasantly buzzing. Apparently I’m going to be made to endure this most days. I think I can live with that.

Told you so!

I use the term with amusement and in the sarcastic nature it is intended, I know me, by February I can almost guarantee this blog and it’s ideals will have fallen by the wayside, I have good intentions but little to no determination. I’m not driven or competitive enough to make much happen for myself.

Now, you know I was not kidding

So here we go again!! It’s nearly the end of March, I’ve actually put on weight, I have excuses but they are just that. I’ve not been trying, again excuses, I won’t bore you.  I’m going to give it another shot, mostly because I’m sick to death of the spare tyre and the back ache.

 

I weighed myself earlier this week – 13st 12, I was gutted and I’m sick of looking at myself in the mirror. Mr. K say’s I should go cycling for an hour a day and I’m going to take him up on that. Tomorrow being Friday I have to wait until he gets home, he thinks it’s going to be after lunch so I’m going to focus on that.

 

Remind me eh!

 

On a brighter note, I’ve had 3 insomnia free days, this usually happens after the event I have been stressing about passes, after 4 months with no sleeping through it feels weird, I feel even more tired if that is possible! *sigh*I hope this feeling passes.

 

Week Three: or why resolutions never work for me…

*cough cough, hack, aaaachiooooo! snivel*

What a bloody horrid week…  I seem to be getting over the most mind bogglingly distructive cough but I’m sleep deprived and grumpy.

No… Nothing has been achieved this week except the shedding of a few pounds perhaps.  Wednesdays bathroom bleaching session did clear the old tubes for a while but I have done no exercise bar the school run (there are hills involved) which left me breathlessly hacking most mornings.

*sigh* January is grey and unloving, nothing is nurtured, everything sleeps… I wish I could

This is why resolutions never work, January is just not the right time to make them, new year should happen in April when the Spring shakes us all up a bit…

Enough feeling sorry for ones self…

Week Three… Goals

Kitchen extreme rescue clean required…

Unclutter  the surfaces throughout the house.

Use my F”in trail trainers and/or mountain bike!!!

Organise the photo’s on my hard drive

 

 

Week Two – Onward… :-p

Erm… yes well… good job most of my Resolutions are long term…

My husband had a really tough week last week, those stormy days with high winds we had had him running around with work, funny how I feel the knock on effect…  Come Friday night (after being good all week) when he said, shall we have a glass of wine I was very pleased to agree. *head desk* 2 bottles later and we retired that night giggling like teenagers. I guess it was a much needed chill out and release, I’m sure we feel better for it after this weekend so I can’t think of it as being bad.

Still… I haven’t managed to use my new trail shoes yet   I had it all planned for Wednesday and then discovered (on their doorstep) that nursery was not open, my little man was not keen on going out in the rain and to be honest, nor was I.

I heard today that the school admissions close in two weeks, last years stress of not getting the place I wanted for my daughter came flooding back if only momentarily, I applied for my little man via the web last September but we have to wait until April to hear, I’m soooo glad we only have 2 children, it’s a killer! Although the county say they don’t allow for sibling weighting I hope they secretly do…

High points this last week were giving up sugar in my tea and only having 2 cups of coffee, as a 6 cup a day girl, this is vast!

Right… lets not dwell. Goals for this week.

EXERCISE!!   Somehow! (this last week I took to charging up and down the stairs at top speed, as a mother I do this often)

Still drink more water.

There are 3 birthdays to organise cards and cheques, I have at least written them on the calendar this year

Tomorrow… laundry *groan*

Week One: and Go!

okay, take it easy…

There is another Resolution…. Pace myself, make sure I don’t go all out mad just because it’s a new year, I have a gut feeling that is not going to work.

Today I woke up without a hang over, this is because I’m far to sensible old I didn’t drink a lot last night, simply that, I had one G&T after the children went to bed and I really enjoyed it, I savored it.  I know I said I’m not going to go all out but I do need to shake off a few nasty habits, like wine O’clock or rather Tanqueray and Tonic O’clock as it has become over the festive season.  If only for a while.

In October I had a minor op, I had a general anethetic and since I was pumped full of these chemicals my system has been sluggish, rich food and alchol really has not helped this at all, I feel the need to flush out a bit (Oooerr Mrs!)

So this weeks goals are as follows

Drink Water

Cut back on the booze, preferably to nothing until next Sunday but y’know, I’m a Mother…#sipandrelax

No Junk food (Crisps, Chocolate, Cake etc…)

Drink More Water

Go for a paced jog on Wednesday and Thursday (My only 2 days on my own this week)

Write down what I’m eating and WHY I’m eating it (hunger, comfort, boredom etc)

Drink more Water

No Coffee (This one is the Killer!!!)

Write something fictional… Anything, it’s been too long…. Even if it’s drivel…

and the dreaded housekeeping resolution?

Deep Clean the bathroom

I will keep you updated as I go….

Control the bounce!

A parcel was delivered this morning, it contained my new ‘trail’ running shoes and a sports bra, apparently flip flops and duct tape are not de rigueur in the running world.  It must be all about controlling the bounce, especially regarding the sports bra which I must say seems to work very well!  I could do with one for my tummy…

I spent quite a while trying to work out if trail shoes or street shoes would be best, approx 2 minutes, exposed tarmac as apposed to well hidden highly camouflaged forest tracks… no competition there really.

So now, I’m all ready for the smalls going back to school!

 

Planning

It’s going to be 2012 in 5 sleeps. On the 1st of January I’m going to wake up to see another new year, I’m 41, I’ve seen a few. Most New Year celebrations in my life have passed uneventfully, in my 20′s there were some spectacular celebrations, now they pass mostly unremarked, it’s not so easy with a young family and getting drunk is not such a great experience any more.

But most new years see me making resolutions, last year I dug my heels in and said no way, I had enough to contend with in my marriage and home life without making life harder for myself. This year is different though, the sky is not so cloudy, in fact one could say the sun is out.There are things I still wish to change, me things, taking control and harnessing my strength *giggles*.

It’s time to be a resolutionary.

I use the term with amusement and in the sarcastic nature it is intended, I know me, by February I can almost guarantee this blog and it’s ideals will have fallen by the wayside, I have good intentions but little to no determination. I’m not driven or competitive enough to make much happen for myself.

Still…

2012 New Years Resolutions…

Lose 2st (again, having put back on all the weight I lost in 2010)

Listen to the ‘Thinking Slimmer’ podcast I bought earlier this year.

Get Fit:  Use my Mountain Bike once a week, try to start running again, it’s been 15 years

Eat better.

Write and compile an E-book, short stories if necessary.

Don’t get stressed over my son’s school admission.

Do things for me.

Remember to take my tablets.

Remember peoples BIRTHDAYS!!!

Be better at the house stuff, this includes Ironing, especially ironing…

 

I’m sure there will be other goals to consider as I move into 2012, life is like that! I’ve already put plans in motion, my bike is all ready in the garage and I’ve ordered some trainers and a sports bra which should arrive by Monday.  I have my eye on some decent off road tracks in a forested area near here which should be a great (flat) place to start (weather allowing) and as soon as the smalls start back to school on the 4th I shall go and investigate.

There are a few too many nibbly bits hanging around in the cupboard post season but they won’t last long and don’t worry, I shan’t stuff them all myself in order to get ‘rid’ of them!

and that podcast… Daily listening at least!

I’m not looking for a New Year, New Me.  There’s not much wrong with the old me except she’s got fat and lazy…

There is only one person who can do anything about this isn’t there.