I survived!

We had a lovely weekend away and although I did have to say 'no' to quite a lot of things (ice creams on the seafront :-( ) it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and totalling up what I ate now we are home I did actually manage to stay within my daily allowances so I am really pleased.

Weigh in this morning was a bit hit and miss as it was on my sister-in-law's scales (I forgot to pack ours) and she mentioned that they are "not very exact"... according to her scales I am 2lb down which doesn't sound bad so I am going to stick with that - next week on my own scales will tell me where I am exactly!

Jes's mum and dad were well and we had a really nice visit with them. Was good to say hi.

Chocolate... Food.... ANYTHING!!

I am so hungry. SO hungry. Spent the afternoon making chocolate dipped peppermint creams with C which was, on reflection, not the wisest of moves. We are going to stay with her Aunt & Uncle over the weekend and made them as a gift to take with us.

Have spent the last 10 minutes playing a game with her where I pretend to eat her - I really am that hungy :-( I know I have to be good today as three days staying away means three days with little control over what's on offer to eat.

We are going to visit Jes's mum and dad on Monday - it will be the first time we have seen them since the funeral - I am taking a copy of The Life for them to see what I am up to.

In the local rag!

Well there's no backing out now as I have made it into local newspaper The Life - hopefully it will generate some more interest and I'll get a few more sponsors - surely having my weight published is worth a few quid!!

Some success

Am absolutely delighted as have managed to lose a whopping 7lb this week!! Am so relieved that all the denial was worth it - Sundays parties were especially hard - the deserts at the 3rd do were slobberingly amazing looking but I managed with a small bowl of trifle and a chicken sarnie.

Today I borrowed a pair of rollerblades (!!) from a friend and have been and bought all the necessary padding and a helmet to hopefully prevent too much damage when I fall over!! Just have to find somewhere flat to give it a try...

The Weekend....

After a fantastic week the weekend has been harder. Friday night all I wanted was a bottle of wine and a takeaway but I managed on 2 bottles of beer and a chicken pasta affair. Was hard though.

Today I went to a BBQ where, other than the lettuce, everything was reasonably bad but I think I managed well on 1 sausage, 1 drumsick - no bread - and a pile of green stuff with 4 strawberries for afters.

Tomorrow we have two more parties so it's going to be another hard day - oh joy.

Day 2

Well other than the constant gnawing hunger things are going great. I'm managing avoid temptation by keeping busy - which means that things are getting done around the house! Still feeling very positive although fed up with the hunger!!

Final hours...

Just about to go to bed... tomorrow will be the first day of the rest of my life... Excited, scared, nervous...

36 hours to go

Tonight I am having a Chinese Takeaway... a final farewell to all things greasy and fattening. I've spent the last week using up the last of the 'bad' foods in the house so as to remove temptation next week.

I've also been spending some time on the Weight Watchers website familiarising myself with how it works and trying to plan my meals for next week so I don't have to think too hard about what to eat.