Slight delay in diet plans.....

You may notice from the date that its been a long time since I even thought about weight loss. After I started my last attempt I got offered my dream job being paid to train as a Health Visitor. This was great for my career aspirations, but its a full time year long course with a huge amount of work crammed into a very short time. I'm talking just weeks between the submission of Master level assignments! So my rather pathetic excuse hangs purely on the fact that I have been so ridiculously busy. When so busy I think its fair to consider a packet of biscuits being consumed while falling asleep onto the computer as a healthy and balanced evening meal.
I am due to finish the course on the 19th September and have just returned from the 2 weeks of annual leave. These two weeks involved eating large quantities of patisserie and drinking copious amounts of wine in the French sunshine. It would certainly have been rude to have deprived the bakers of the large quantity of Euro's that we sent their way. I went away back up to my usual 12 stone 7, and came back at 12 stone 10, so 100% definitely heading in the wrong direction.
Now this seems like a good time to regroup and reconsider the fitness and healthy eating thing, I am not rushing head long into a fad diet, just considering some not to punishing and ideally easy steps to start shedding a few pounds. I am due to go on a night out on Wednesday, so we may gloss over that evening, but other than the occasional special treat I am going to start to try to say no more often that yes to those scrummy yummy little treats.

Back from holiday

Ops I promised myself that I would never go above 12 stone again, and guess what after 2 weeks of holiday I am now 12 stone yet again. How rubbish!

I can not blame anyone else, sadly my piggy ways have led to my downfall, too many big meals, glasses of wine and little treats. I will have to think hard about who I can pass the buck too, I wonder who I could dump the blame on for my fat arse.

I had hoped to quickly get back on track, but am still struggling, so watch this space for the return of my motivation.......

Easter and egg hunts

So far we have completed 7 Easter egg hunts, is this excessive?

We started off with a school hunt after their school day, this one was not too bad a temptation, they ran around the school finding clues and were then rewarded with a big cream egg. I do admit to one of two of the small cream eggs stumbling my way, did I ever say I was perfect, I don't think so.

Then we headed to the National trust for day 2 with a hunt at Hinton and Ampner, and also day 3 with two hunts, one at Studland beach and one at Corfe castle. The National Trust hunts were great, even better they gave away just a plain and boring Cadburys egg head, not a huge temptation in my eyes.

We then headed to the Naomi House charity hunt at Highclere castle ( better known as Downton Abbey). Now this may have been a big stumbling block for me but fortunately the weather was in my favour. The ice cold wind allowed the kids to do the hunt, but they quickly wanted to then go home. So thank you horrible weather for saving me from the lure of fudge, cotton candy and ice cream.

On Monday I ran a family egg hunt for the kids mates and their families. Everyone brings along some small eggs, we hide them, then the kids find them simple. This was not to bad until I accidentally opened a packet of small cream eggs assuming the contents would be individually wrapped, they were not. As we could not hide them it would just have been down right rude to not eat them, so I did just that, how morale am I.

Then on Tuesday I ran a small toddler hunt at my baby group. This had the potential to be bad bad bad from a dieting perspective. However luckily the three cakes we were selling for charity were soon paid for and consumed by eager families. I simply then did not have time to eat and of the biscuits of hunt rewards due to being rushed off my feet.

I have certainly not been an angel, but it could have been worse, we have another week of holidays left so its possible that it may get so bad that all hope may become lost.

Resisting those empty wine calories

Doing good avoiding the wine, but don't ask about the biscuits and chocolate.

This evening was one of those evenings when I really felt the need for a comforting and relaxing glass of wine once all the kids had settled to bed. You know that first moment of quiet and stillness after 12 or more hours of kid noise and chaos, that's when I like a glass to see me into the evening, but I resisted, how good am I.

I wish I could say the same about the other daily temptations of life, but if I sad anything positive I would be a big fat liar. I have eaten chocolate sheep, cream cakes, Jaffa cakes and biscuits today, I think the word diet is now too ashamed of me to any longer associate itself with my miserable efforts.

To be fair on myself after an egg hunt I ran on Tuesday I had 20 or so Chocolate aero sheep left over, now a few of those sheep have gone to the great stomach, well what else was I supposed to do with them release them into a field maybe!

Seem to have magically lost a few pounds, very odd

As you know I have been in a bit of a dieting funk and was a little down at still being a hefferlump for when we go away on holiday next month. I am not being obsessive about the weight thing, I just would like a little space to eat like a piggy while away and not come back at my original 12st 7 weight.

The Isle of Wight is a haven for lovely food, if you put me within a mile of a lovely seafood platter, dressed crab or pint o prawns I will sniff them out just like a blood hound, I am powerless to resist the call of the seafood. Knowing this does add a little pressure to shift some pounds over the next month.

With my new contract starting on Monday, a fully chicken poxed up baby and the Easter holidays here I have seriously got a fail on the dieting front. I think my diet over the last week has been about 80% chocolate, 10% yoghurt and 10% bananas, not exactly the NHS eatwell plate!

 

 

By some kind of miracle I have been still going in the right direction and am now at about 11st 8lb, now that is good news!

 



Ben and Jerry have a heck of a lot to answer for

Today I was no angel, but I was doing relatively ok. In fact I was starting to wonder if it was possible to get the diet back on track.

Then evil little Ben and Jerry snuck in under the wire, took a swipe at my knees and knocked me off my feet, leaving me defenceless against their temptation. I hate chocolate ice cream, I know its shocking I love chocolate but don't like it being messed with. However the Phish food ice cream is an exception to this rule, its bleeding lovely.

I had all 4 kids today, we had a car disaster and had to cough up nearly £200 for a new handbrake thing, last night I just couldn't sleep and somehow managed to knock out my fake tooth at some point in the middle of the night. So its no wonder that I struggled a little to get my work done this evening.

I got it done ( and all kids in bed/ all housework at a sub toxic level) so what is a girl to do with an evening stretching ahead of her. Well surely any normal girl would reach for a glass of wine, a half tub of ice cream and a action movie, yeah baby!

So morning 9 out of 10 for being the dieting queen, evening probably somewhere in the minus100 out of 10 region.

It wasn't me it was the ice cream it made me do it....

drat drat and double drat, back up to 11st 11lb

After an interesting week with the kids at home, birthday celebrations, and two nights out, the diet has died a death.

This is certainly not a surrender, its just a mixture of annoyance and a bit of frustration that things are not moving as they should be.

I am really going to start to try hard again next week, fingers crossed, other wise I may have to result to a crash diet out of desperation. Then good help anyone who is around me if I am eating just cabbage leaves.