I have caved and had some chocolate!

Blame Siansburys - I have done so well and not had any chocolate for 4 months now and had not really missed it but I was walking out of Sainsburys on Saturday afternoon when a girl shoved a bar and a leaflet into my hand - some nectar card advertising. It was only a very small bar and I was tired having done the weekly shop by myself on a manic Saturday afternoon - so what did I do but sit in the car and eat it!! At least I did not go out and buy any - but they should not put such tempation in my way - why not give away satsumas!! It was quite nice I must say but I have felt very guilty ever since because I don't want to get the taste for it back.

We then went to mother in laws for tea and it was a party tea and I tried to be good and did not have really bad stuff like garlic bread or pork pie which I really wanted but had slices of ham, prawns, onions, potatoes etc but a big dollop of dip!! - then meringues and fruit compote for pudding.

Oh dear I am not going to have lost any weight this week when I weigh in tonight - I have been feeling a bit fed up because my trousers are tight again - yet I did so much exercise last week - everyday at least 1 hour sometimes 2 - that I should have just vanished away.

I have done a layout - at long last!

Yesterday I was very good and very busy but still found the time to do a layout - I was so desperate to do some scrapping that the dishes were left piled high and mess all over the house but I just had to do some and I am qute pleased with it.

I was going to use a pencil lines sketch but the size of the alphas dictated the layout really. The school colours are red & black and I wanted to use some red Heidi Swapp letters I had had for ages and not touched. Once these were on the layout - they were so big that I did not really have much space left to follow a sketch - so it all just came together in the tiny space left.

I used black bazzill cardstock and some red from my scraps bag - first time ever I have made an indent into this! PP is Foof-a-la - red, cream & black and the journalling tag from Creative imaginations - karen Russell narratives.

Found an exercise class that I like!

Just returned from water aerobics and I actually liked it - it was tough going but I could keep up - so think I will sign up for these classes only. Trouble is there are only a few and always seem full. The class was full of old ladies with grey hair and as I was huffing and puffing and they were not, I am clearly very out of shape!

Did the easy rider class the other day - hell on earth - never again!!!! Richard said that the spinning class would be too much for me so to try this one, as it went at a gentle pace- I don't think the instructor knew what easy pace was - the sweat was dripping off everyone. He had people standing up and sitting down and going faster & slower - well I tried to stand and came over all travel sick again so just spent the whole class cycling gently at my own pace and feeling very stupid.

I met Richard afterwards and asked him to add the cycle to my gym work out so he showed me what to do and now I have 30 minutes on the bike and 30 minutes on the cross trainer plus my weights, so I think I will just stick to that for now until I build up my fitness levels.

poor old laptop!

It has well & truly died on me and I am not sure why. Before it gave out completely I managed to do a virus check with AVG and it was clean. When I asked in the computer shop they said it sounded like a mother board problem and that it would be cheaper to buy a new laptop!

Anyway after a few frustrating days I have managed to locate the place where I got it from - home computing initiative and it is still in warranty and they have come and collected it this morning!! I have felt bereft without it these last few days - hence only a few blog entries. The last entry was done on the main computer and the images uploaded from Picasa but they have now disappeared for some strange reason! so there won't be any more pics until my laptop returns.

I am so grateful that I backed up all my photos last week - perhaps it was the exertions of doing that that killed it! I am likely to loose all my documents etc as I did not back those up - oh actually I did a few months ago on my new external hard drive (500GB) so I may be able to retrieve something. Must order a new pen drive from Amazon and keep back ups on there as well.

only 1lb loss

I was very dissapointed at SW last night as I only lost 1lb making my total loss 3 stone & 9oz. I had been expecting more as I had been on the scales at the gym and they had said 13 stone exactly so I was expecting at large loss. Mandy was still very proud of me as I am the only one who has lost every week, never stayed the same or even put on - so really I should be pleased.

This is one of my smallest losses so far and I am not sure why.

1) my body has got used to the diet and am I starting to plataeu out?
2) Did I eat too much last week - purposly - but did it backfire?
3) Is it that sugary fibre drink loading me with too many calories?
4) I had lots of green days last week - perhaps I had too many carbohydrates?
5) starting to exercise can slow weight loss down

It could be any or all of the above, so what am I going to do about it?

1) not give up - keep going and stay on plan.
2) stop the sugary fibre drink.
3) have lots more red days
4) drink more fluids
5) keep exercising

My scrapagogo box has arrived

My yellow Scrapagogo October kit has arrived. It is very nice - but I do find that the colours in these kits are a bit dull. The Modscraps kits were so much brighter and I did use them more - but their customer service was not good, so I have not moved to her new venture - which is a shame. I still follow the UKS thread about it though and see that the September kit was not posted till October, so nothing changes then!

I should really use this kit to do a layout. I am on holiday from work and have no excuse but still seem to find myself busy doing nothing. My laptop has broken so I have got to get that fixed !! it is horrid not having it about and even horrider not knowing what has happened to it - it looks like the hard drive has gone kaput - thank goodness I backed up my photos last week!

I have updated my ticker

Here is my new ticker - the old one kept playing up. But this shows that I am halfway through my weight loss plan. It has taken me 4 months to get this far - wonder if I can do the second half in another 4 months? - that would take me to the end of January - but realistically I know my weight loss is not going to be as fast now so perhaps I should aim for March 2008. That means being very good over christmas and keeping off the chocolate. I cannot believe that I have not eaten any chocolate in 4 months - me who could not even go 4 hours without any before.