Blooming great

Just over a week ago I got a phone call from Louise who helps to run the Chepstow Pink Ladies club. She asked me if I'd like to take the mobile shop to their February crop on the 1st Thursday evening in February, and also if I'd teach. Yes says Linz, thinking it's ages away. Then I realised it was only just over two weeks and I have soooooo many things to do.

Anyway, in quiet moments (yeah right)I've been trying to put together something to teach and I've almost got there now, so I'm putting a sneak peak on here. You can't see it all because it's still not finished yet. Hope they will like it!



It was weigh in this morning, I've lost another 2lb - if I can keep that up for next week then I'll have lost 1st in a month, fingers crossed please.

Do you ever think

if only......

Come on admit it, there must have been at least one time in your life when you thought it. If only you'd said yes instead of no or vice versa.....

I have a lot of those to look back at, although I must admit I almost always straight away think that if I had made a different choice I wouldn't be with my wonderful DH and the most gorgeous two girls in the world.

I guess my main one is that I wish I hadn't wasted my education and that I'd gone on to University as was expected.

So what's your if only....

I forgot

I hadn't posted a picture of my Troll Beads as they are now so hopefully this will work. I got the simple lock as I'm hoping that I'll lose enough weight to get a smaller bracelet and then I'll get a fancy lock to go with that.

So far I have the Turquoise flower and the Turqoise Armadillo

Just a quickie

As I've got to go get the girls from school in a minute.

This weeks weigh in showed a weight loss of 2lb so that makes it a total of 10lb. I haven't ordered my Troll bead for last week as we are totally brassic at the moment. Maybe by the time Gary has been paid I'll have lost enough to get two!

On the news front Gary has managed to get a part-time photography job - he's got a job this weekend and if he likes it I'll tell you more.

Right best go, 3 minutes to finish off everything and get out the door.

Well it's a Troll Bead for me then

I weighed myself this morning and was very pleased to see that I have lost 8lb :)

Although having said that it wasn't a total surprise as I always lose big on the first week and as I'd just put loads on over the holiday period it was easy to shift it back off again.

Usually (and yes I have been on soooo many diets I can say usually), I lose well for the first 3 or 4 weeks and then I hit my first plateau. It's getting through that which can last a few weeks that is the really hard thing. I often lose about 1½ stone before this happens and then bang. It then gets to the "what's the point" stage and I end up giving up and putting it all back on again.

So I'll be calling for extra help and support when I get to that point, but in the meantime I'm off to look at the Troll Beads site to pick my next one :)

Troll Beads

I saw a post on UK Scrappers recently about Troll Beads and someone said that she was going to use these as a reward system for her weight loss.

Well thought I, what a fantastic idea! So I've ordered my bracelet, lock and two beads (these are a Christmas present) to get me started. I'm waiting for them to be delivered but I'm hopeful that they won't be too lonely for long and that my bracelet will be full before long.

I've decided that it will be 1 bead for every 7lbs lost so it will give me some incentive to keep losing once I get through the first 1st. I tend to find that quite easy to lose, but keeping on going and not putting it all back on again has been another thing.

My first proper weigh in will be tomorrow so I've set up a little chart at the side to start to record my details.

OK todays the day

Yes I know the 1st was yesterday, but I never actually get round to doing anything much on the 1st January so I had already decided that I'd start everything today.

So what am I starting, well losing weight to start with and no it's not a diet because diets don't work. It's a healthier and hopefully by the same token slimmer me.

I weighed myself this morning and I won't be revealing the result as I was pretty shocked myself. I knew my rough weight, but was gobsmacked at how much I'd put on over the holiday period.

So my first target is to get down to what I have been weighing in at for the last few months and then I can start tackling that. I'll blog what I've lost every week so that should make me blog at least once a week - another target.

I was aiming at a weight loss of about 6 stone but seeing this mornings shock it may be a little higher than that.

There are going to be a few other changes in my life too, I've decided that at 46 it's about time I stopped letting people upset me. I've been told by lots of people over the years that I am too sensitive so guess who's getting hard - LOL. Seriously though I've decided not to take things to heart as much as I have done in the past and if that makes me a tougher person then so be it. I've spent too much of my life in tears because of other people so it's smiles all the way - so from now on it will be "whatever" or "so what" and move on.

There are a few goals that I've set myself for this year too, can't say them here yet but as the year goes by I'll let them out of the bag.

One of the biggies though is for me to be more organised, I never seem to have time to do half the things I would like to and I realised quite a while ago that it's because I am so disorganised.

I have what I call a butterfly mind. What I mean by this is that I'll start one job and then something will distract me and I'll start something else and then be distracted again and another job gets started. I've known myself to have up to a dozen things on the go by doing this and yes they do all get finished (eventually) but if I concentrated and finished the first one, or at least set myself a limit of 3 then it would be much easier. I'm pretty sure that if I do this I'll feel happier about getting tasks completed and find more time as I won't be flitting (hence the reference to butterflies) from one thing to another all the time.

So there you go, blog entry done, start weight recorded (not here though) and two other things set down in writing, 2007 will be my year.