Day 26...

Right well got up today and ooohhh pain down my right side :(  I think its a pulled muscle in my back.  So today am popping pain killers to help.  No idea what I have done, its fine as long as I don't life my right leg up!  I am hoping with some movement today it will ease... hmmm it had better!  Its just a twinge, something I can feel, I know its there type of thing.  I am still going along this evening to the exercise session... it may actually help doing some stretching? And light exercise, nothing exerting as I still have no energy to run around like a nutter at the moment.  Roll on Friday when I get my blood taken again, and they can hopefully tell me my iron levels have gone up.

Right... 26 days... just a shame I have not been able to exercise now for, OMG 7 days today!  I just hope with all that sitting about I have not put on weight... No I could not of, I have been eating really healthily, just not been able to burn anything :(

Oh a slightly positive note, my i phone is being collected by my insurer tomorrow (Thursday)  to be assessed.  If it can be fixed it will be, if not then a new one will be organised.  And I have to pay the excess of £100, small price to pay really, as my i phone 3 GS cost an arm and leg! 


Oh this is a negative post today :(  Have to switch that frown to a smile and be positive now :) !! 

I am feeling happier now as things are OK today!  Things just have a way of working themselves out don't they!  Or it may be the calming influence of this lovely herbal caffeine free tea I am drinking!...hmmm maybe!  :)

Back to photos!!! :)

What I ate today... 06th February 2013

Breakfast...

1 dry fried egg and 2 bacon medallions.  Does not look anything special, but tasted really nice! 

Snack...

Apple cut into segments, with new gadget!

Lunch...

Half a carton of Chicken and vegetable broth.  Oh my this soup is really yummy :)

Dinner...

Fresh tossed salad with omelette and 1 gammon medallion (cut and added into omelette) 

Snack...

Mixed nuts.

Am feeling rather chuffed and proud of myself as I managed to take photos on my i pad and then put them in here!  :)  Go me!! :)

And more positiveness...  I got weighed this evening at the exercise session... I have in 26 days now lost 1 stone and 1 pound!  And that is with 7 days resting doing nothing!  As long as my weight is going down, which is the right direction I am happy :)  Considering what I have been through in the last 7 days I think I have done really well, virtual pat on the back!! :) 

GO ME!! GO ME!! 1 stone 1 pound gone!!! Yippppeeeeee 

OH MY GOODNESS!

Just looked and...

(Borrowed from Google Images)

That is the amount of times someone has looked at my blog!! I cannot believe it!! :)  Thank you all so much for popping in and showing your support for my weight loss challenge.

Goodness!! :)  I am speechless... 

Day 25... what now!!

OH MY!!! What is that saying, it never rains it pours?!  Well I was all set to go to my exercise  session... for a light work out to get my slowing moving again.  And... I did not go as I was in A&E!! Oh not me this time!!  The other half, Jon!  He has been unwell and had this huge lump appear at the top of his spine, just below his neck, and its really painful.  We called GP out and he rang the hospital and so that is where we have been!  I am now back home and Jon has to see GP for a referral to ENT... we shall see hoe long that takes!

So day started GREAT, was really looking forward to going along to the session...was going to get weighed!  Oh well :(  

Now I am going tomorrow night, fingers crossed nothing crops up!  Hannah (daughter) went and said this new challenge for the teams is tough! OMG!! Well I cannot do it 100% yet as still recovering, not until I get the all clear off GP, from the blood test they take on the 8th February.  But by going I am hoping to do something, that has to be good..right!

OMG...some really sad news... my i phone has died!  :(  Yup its true!  So now I have no phone , but am putting a claim in to get another, how ever long that takes?  So no phone...OMG how will I cope!! lol  That means no photos, well until I can figure out how to transfer photos taken on my i pad to my PC where I write my blog.

So am sticking to eating healthy, becoming addicted to eating nuts!  I really never knew how good they really were, and they give me a little energy boost int he afternoon too :)

I took photos of what I ate today, I was doing so well... and a new tea reviewed... then the damn i phone died :(  Ok so no pictures today, but I will figure the i pad out for tomorrow.

I am feeling a little deflated as I was looking forward to going to the exercise session, but my husband comes first :)  Now he is OK, and I am on the mend things are hopefully getting back to normal again...what ever that is!

I still feel that drive in me to WANT to do this, its great!  And better still I WILL DO THIS!! 

Normal service will resume tomorrow! :)

Day 24...

HELLO!! I am back!! Ok so not 100% but I am feeling much better.  I ventured out today as needed salad and other healthy options!  I am still very slow, my daughter thought I was more like a slug today! Like I said to her, at least I am up and trying to make an effort.  The fresh air did me the world of good I think, blew those cabin fever cob webs away! :)

I have been eating healthy whilst not 100%, but with no exercise I dread to think what my weight looks like?  I have decided to go back to the exercise sessions, OH not for me to do it yet!  Hannah still is going so I will support her and maybe do a 'light' form of exercise until I am back to normal again.  Some exercise is better than none...  And the club has just launched a new challenge, a team one.  Now I am a member of a team, I don't want to let others down so will do my bit.

This challenge looks really great, I am quite excited about it...oooh I feel some photos from what I get up to being posted!  Its a 7 week team challenge, will have to see what happens and let the best team win! 

So with feeling a bit better and my phone OK well its still acting dodgy but I can use it.  I will pick up taking photos again and start posting what I eat again.  For today I have captured my evening meal as it was something new I tried.  Oh my goodness...I thought jacket potato, hmmm but with sweet potatoes?? Well lets say it was interesting!  And one to note not to have again!

And just checked the date and Oh MY!! We are now in February! Where did January go?!

What I ate today...04th February 2013

Breakfast...

2 bacon medallions, scrambled eggs.


Lunch...

Mixed salad and fruit cocktail.  


Dinner...

Sweet potato jacket with tuna and mixed tossed salad.

With the iron tablets I am taking I have had to stop drinking coffee, which I have!  And instead I have to drink citrus fruit juice.  Something to do with aiding the tablets to be absorbed quicker.  I can honestly say that I have not really missed drinking coffee, I think it was more of a habit for me.  I am now drinking tea... oh yes must post the 'new' one that I found that is caffeine free!  :)  And not to mention the water that I am drinking more of too.

There is something that I am really not too happy about... shocking actually!  My wedding rings!! I almost lost them today, they nearly fell off my finger, it seems that my fingers have shrunk! hmmm odd you think!  I have tiny fingers as it is, size K on my ring finger!  So I think I will have to leave them at home, I know I will be heart broken if I loose them.  So something else to add to the ever increasing list of things to get once I have hit goal!  I think I may need a lotto win! lol

I am back to positive thinking...not that I lost it!  OH my I am happy to be back being me again, OK so not quite me but nearly! lol  My plan of action is to slowly edge back into exercise again, I don't want to over do it or I will be back in my bed!  So slow is key here!  With some added swimming to help me out :)

OK so for the feel good factor... I WILL DO THIS, I CAN DO THIS..... JUST WATCH ME!!!

I thought a little swim would help...and it did!  I feel great, relaxed and ready to take on the world again!  Hmmm one day at a time! :)

Day 22...

Well I wanted to carry on with my posts, to be honest I have had no energy and been in bed and not really had the strength to do anything.

I know this is just a temporary blip or hic cup, still feel awful as I enjoy posting, and well with no energy it's hard! It has only been 1 day so far of taking the medication and the doctors said a good few days before I see little improvement. Hmmm so I am hoping that maybe Monday or Tuesday I might have a little more energy?

I am writing this on my i pad, so have no idea what it's going to look like! So apologies there!

Oh yes on a brighter note... My i phone is OK! My lovely daughter took a look at it, plugged it into i tunes and restored it, and hey presto it's fine :) Phew! :)

So what have I been eating and drinking; I think I have been really good considering! So I have still had scrambled egg on a morning, ooh yes had it with mushrooms today! Very nice :) and lunch I ate some salad with tuna and dinner is soup with ryvita as there is hardly any chewing! I think maybe I will have some melon later, as I do like to eat that :) I have drank no tea or coffee since having to take the tablets as they slow down the absorbsion. Instead I have been drinking natural orange juice, apparently helps speed up the absorbsion!

Even sitting, doing not a lot really drains your energy, it's really quite scary. Having never been in a predicament like this before it is actually scary. I wanted to make an effort earlier so I got dressed, oh my goodness, I was out of breath just sitting on the end of the bed! With help I got dressed and ventured to the corner shop with my daughter. We both really needed to get some fresh air and I needed to go out as I was getting cabin fever! Is that right? I used that 'cabin fever' as I understand that to be the term used to describe when someone cannot get out and stuck looking at four walls?! Well that is what I think it to be! No doubt, I hope some one will enlighten me!!

Anyway yes, we ventured to the corner shop. Now normally I am the one with the quick pace leaving daughter behind, but today I could hardly move and daughter was practically sprinting! Well it seemed like that! It took ages to get there, I was puffed, and Christ knows what people thought of me in the shop, maybe they thought they were looking at a ghost? My skin tone was an off white shade, I thought I made a good ghost! So walked around shop got milk, so other half can have his coffee and then walked home again. Walking back I was thinking to myself I must be quite mental having ventured out like this! And all I concentrated on was getting back home. Yes it's OK, I made it. Back! And as a result I am now back in bed!

I will check in I hope every other day or daily if I can, depending on how I feel. I say that as today I had good intentions to do some of my Open University work but I could not lift my laptop up! A feeble excuse! But seriously I had a hard time, so I am going to be better organised and prepared tomorrow.

Oh my goodness I have to mention... Day time TV... Dreadful!! I normally don't really notice it as I am busy doing things and only catch bits of it here and there. But OH!! Laying in bed, yes I have a TV in the bedroom, awful it's just awful! So been surfing on my i pad and playing time wasting games! :)

Until I next pop in!