Back again…

 Gee sometimes the weeks go by so quick, before I know it I’m standing on those demon scales of mine for my weekly weigh in. Had a heck of a week, what with sabotaging myself, Skye’s 21st, and a babysitting gig among that as well.  Anyways, weigh in wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, just a 400g gain….I expected a lot more. 

Today I’ve been babysitting so a few treats have passed those lips of mine….but I’ve not been too bad. One thing that has saved me is that I do not eat after 7pm. I started doing it in my personal challenge, I set it as a goal….and that’s one goal I have mostly achieved. Only times I haven’t has been Skye’s 21st dinner and when I overnighted with my sister.

I am counting down to my specialist appointments. First one thankfully is in a couple of weeks and that’s for my Dupuytrens Contracture in my fingers. I can’t tell you how many times I have dropped things because my fingers aren’t gripping. Or I can’t grip to open jars or bottles. I’ve also had to taken my wedding rings off that finger is starting to contract too 😕😕

I can tell you I’m not liking it at all. But not long now as we will see what’s to be done. 

Eyes, meaning cataracts, will be next after the fingers. Hopefully all my ducks will line up in a row 🪿🦆🪿🦆🪿🦆 and appointments will go smoothly and I can both hands and eyes done and recover before we hit the road come winter. 

One little treat….

 One little treat won’t hurt I said to myself…..but it did 😏😏

That one little treat led to another, then another …… and then onto the next day 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

It didn’t help that I forgot my thyroid medication for those 2 days…..but I’m not blaming that. ONLY MYSELF to blame. 

Now it’s Wednesday, and yes I’m back on track but I feel like shit and so disappointed in myself. It’s Skye’s 21st birthday tomorrow and she had asked if we could all go out for Chinese on her birthday so I’d booked us in to a restaurant. I WAS going to treat myself then….but ohhh Lordy…😮😮 Why do I do this to myself??

Anyways what’s done is done and moving on now. I’ll keep on writing in my diary, I’ll keep on tracking and enjoy tomorrow night and move on and see what the rest of the week brings. 

Weigh in was a 200g loss. It could have been more off but I had a couple of higher calorie meals during the week. BUT I was happy with the loss. 

I’ll keep on plodding away. My kids have said to me many times not to worry about my weight so much, just go and enjoy life. But my knee and my feet won’t let me, my weight effects them so the more weight I get off the less pressure I put on them ehhh….

Weigh in day

 

After my weigh in last week I went a little bit……well more than a bit overboard and ate too much. AND that was despite writing in my diary that I WOULD NOT do that. So I owned up and wrote I failed my goals that day. 

Come Tuesday I went to work and was offered breakfast by the cafe. Ughhhh need I say I accepted although I had written my goals in my diary AND a cafe breakfast was not included. Anyways…..my day went pear shaped from there. I was not happy with myself at all!!!

Wednesday morning I wrote down my goals for the day and set about trying to reset myself. And I’m very happy and proud of myself because I did. And the rest of the week followed according to plan.

Weigh in today was a 700g loss.

What it could have been if I hadn’t of detoured for those 2 days. 

It hasn’t been an easy week….lots going on. My brother in law had a minor stroke and is in hospital, my granddaughter injured herself and needed a Doctors visit and time off work. 

I got my Specialist appointment for my Dupuytren’s contracture in early December. Be interesting to see what he has to say. Also got an eye specialist appointment in early January. A eye test I recently had showed I didn’t need new glasses but that I needed surgery to get rid of a cataract that was causing problems. My optician had been keeping a close eye on it.

Anyways that’s it, I start work early in the morning so it’s time I moved and got myself organised and ready for bed. 

Goodnight. 😴 

One week down

 My countdown to Christmas is going well. 

I’ve used my diary everyday, writing in every morning my goal for the day and then every evening what I have achieved during the day. 

I’m proud of myself. Also proud that on the weekend I travelled down to my home town to see a bestie and also spend the rest of the time with my sister. 

It was wonderful, I hadn’t seen her for a few months, what with her hubby being ill, me and hubby travelling then ourselves being ill… so we had a bit to catch up on. It was wonderful. We had a few drinks, a few nibbles…healthy ones of course…and a lovely meal. 

With travelling my goal was no snacking in car ✅ 

Sugar free alcohol drinks only ✅ 

Drink only water there and back ✅

SO I was happy I achieved those.

Something must have worked as I lost 600g this week. 

Today, I’m struggling a little but I’m trying hard to stick to my goal today. 

Right…time to put dinner in oven.