How did that happen??!!

Not sure how but I've lost 2lb!

I'm not meaning the £££ kind...

...it's the wobbly bits poundage kind that I'm on about!

I let slip the other day in a post

that I'd enrolled at

Slimming World

last week, and how I hadn't dieted

AT ALL.

So when it came to my first week

weigh-in this morning I started to panic a little.

The excuses (ahem! lies) running round my head

went something like this...

I've been ill.

Back at work so I wasn't able to do it.

No time.

The children make it too tricky too diet.

I did it, but it doesn't work for me.

I was a tad worried...

Next thing is,

I'm there,

no excuses,

I just said it how it is

'I haven't done it'

No problem,

all the girls offered me comfort and support

and I hopped on the scales anyway.

(yep, that's me!)

Eek!!!

Now really sure how but I managed to be

2lbs lighter than I was this time last week.

You know who I'm going to thank for it?

This little guy!

Come on, lets go on a walk...

We've come to Macclesfield Forest.

Somewhere Basil and my boys take me quite often

these days.

Not the sunniest of days,

but beautiful all the same...

less busy and more peaceful in my opinion.

I spy with my little eye,

something beginning with

beer...

oh, sorry,

I mean P! ;o)

Is that the sun trying it's best to peep through?

Lovely.

Hope you enjoyed the gentle exercise...

EXERCISE??????

Oh my...

...and there's me thinking I don't do any!

I'm thinking now

that if I couple up this

'so called exercise'

with the Slimming World diet,

maybe I could be on to a winner...

...if I manage to drag Baz past that lovely pub that is!

Hee hee!!!

Love Claire. x

Oh...P.S.

If I never mention this dieting thing again,

it's because I've been a piggy.

(again!)

Little things....

I have realised a couple of things today.

1. This Cath Kidston wallpaper is £150 a roll!!!

I reckon it would be perfect in a downstairs loo, if I had one that is.

But £150 a roll? Just for the boys to wee on it?

Are you having a laugh Cath? hee hee.

2.  I am off work for 2 weeks!!!

Whoop whoop!  I didn't realise until earlier today durrr!

But then on Wednesday I was told I may not have a job in September :-(

3.  I need to buy Easter eggs before the shops sell out!

Maybe that should really say;I had best hurry up and replace

 all the Easter eggs I have eaten from the

secret stash I bought, trying to be extra organised has totally backfired!

4.  I would have cleaner eggs in the egg basket if I cleaned out the hens more often.

Very broody hens are now in a cleaner hen house after today.

Gorgeous Delia!

(shhhhh don't tell her anything to the contrary)

All of the above I have found out today.

Somethings you forget

and just need a little reminding....

5.  I love this muddy twosome!

Even though my adorable Finn was, last week, diagnosed as having ADHD

 (yes, it was a heck of a week in the emotional stakes)

I still love my little grubby mates.

(who are they trying to fool with this show of brotherly love? ha ha)

                                      

Love Claire.

xxx

P.S.  OH I NEARLY FORGOT.

6. I COULD BE DOROTHY!!!

Weight Loss Wednesday (Oh crumbs!)

Nothing much to say on the matter this week except maybe...

Oink Oink ! ! !

I put 3lb on last week!!!  I thought she was going to want my 1 stone sticker back, but Janine the Slimming World Consultant at my group was fine, she had lots of words of encouragment and sent me on my way feeling OK about it.

But....Alas!

I have been even worse this week, and with our trip away this weekend all booked I don't think next week will be much better!

Love C. X

Confessions of a dieter...

Well my friends, I have no news to tell of my visit to my Slimming World class yesterday.  That being because i didn't go!  I do have a good enough excuse though,

I am here.

Portishead

This is the view from my Boyfriends flat!

I am sat here right now, after he has gone off to work, drinking fresh coffee made by his 'Boy-Gadget' fancy coffee machine, eating my porridge and banana whilst watching the swans gliding along on the marina.

I could get used to this!!!

Hopefully we are going to 'Wells' tomorrow, one of my favourite places,

When we first got together we watched this film

which is filmed in and around Wells.

So being a little bit like sad movie buffs, he took me to this gorgeous place (the smallest city apparently) and we found the differant places used in the film. 

I remember going when I was a little girl, a memory I have quite clearly as in the footpath there is a marked out area of the world record breaking long jump that Mary Rand did in the 1964 olympics.  She was from Wells and to commemorate this event, they marked it into the footpath. 

I won't be the only kid that tried to match it and failed, but I have the memory of doing so all those years ago, and doing cartwheels on the lawns of the catheadral too. 

I doubt I shall be doing either tomorrow!

We hope to eat in our 'maybe not so secret' place Goodfellows,

and he has promised to squeeze a visit in to Niki's gorgeous shop,

which is in Shepton Mallet, just down the road.

You can have a peep at it Here

So, I had better get out and about today, in this lovely spring like day and go and investigate the beautiful town of Portishead. 

Not that I haven't already before, but minus BF I can rumage in charity shops and drink yet more coffee in the coffee shop without someone checking the time or football scores.  Bless him.

Love C. x

Shrove Tuesday v's Pancake Day

Today we watched one of these!

But after too much of these...

I am now one of these!!!

Oh well, I am a happy little piggy at least, and although my pancakes looked more like burnt scrambled omlettes, they tasted lovely, if we poured too much lemon, sugar or maple syrup on that is.

Oh, you may be pleased to know that our fire alarm works perfectly too!!! Hee hee!

Love C. x

I'm the SOW!

Thursday is 'Fat Club' day!

After being a bit daft and eating every single SYN from my whole weeks allowance on Friday last week I knew it was going to be hard going until weigh in today. I just can't help it! The weekend comes and I just find a drink in my hand, a menu in the other and a few hours later, 80'odd syn in my big belly. This was my 6th weigh in and every week I have been 'on' this diet I have followed the same pattern, ending up quite hungry some nights when I am lay in bed. Now I am sure that would make the fat club 'teacher' worry but at least I see it as a problem, so I am going to make an effort to improve. But maybe not this week hee hee! Well this week it's going to be hard to not have 80'odd syns every day. Valentines day, gorgeous BF taking me out on Saturday. Shrove Tuesday, I have kids-expect the worst! Half-term, I have the week off plus the boys with me and hopefully going to stay at the BF's in Somerset at the end of the week-hmmm vino!!!

After all that I haven't told you my news! I somehow still managed to lose enough weight to be crowned Slimmer Of The Week AGAIN. I lost another 2 and a half pounds, which also got me my new shiny 1 stone award sticker. I love stickers. You can't do my job and not love stickers! Which, by the way, is a teaching assistant. I work in a primary school and often come home after covering myself with good work stickers! We even have ones which are smelly jelly bean ones. They're my favourite! OK I know, I am a bit mad. Hee hee!

So there we go. yet ANOTHER post!

Love C. x