Monday 30th April

Breakfast
1 middle cut rasher of bacon
1 egg

Snack
15 grapes
6 strawberries

Lunch

salad made from:
7 cherry tomatoes
1 orange pepper
1\2 tin chickpeas with paprika sprinkled on
1 sausage
few cashews

An apple

Snack
1 square galaxy chocolate (a celebration sweet)
apple

Dinner
lamb rogan josh (otherwise known as spicy tomato and lamb soup)
brocoli
green beans

Haven't posted on here for a while

My last post sounded really, um dunno what the word it, but when I went back and read it it made me go 'ouch' which wasn't really the intention. I was actually trying to state the fact that since I was stating my exercise facts that was what I would call the post. However I was tired and it didn't come out right!
Here's a picture of the little one and me because, well just because really. I know it's not all that flattering, but hey!

Today's exercise, mostly

Let's fact it, it's late and I'm tired, so there's no much hope I'm going to post any much other than what exercise I did today, so why not just call the post that?!

I'm feeling really run down at the moment, due to not enough sleep and dunno what else. So I'm off to bed soon, and I've got some vitamin B complex tablets to take. - I'm got some mouth ulcers and vitamin B is supposed to be good for that.

Today I did some skipping and some step ups too. Now I'm off to bed.

Word Cloud

This is a word cloud generated here with random words from my blog.

Skipping

Today I did 450 skips. How cool is that :-)

National De-lurk week

It's official, according to several different blogs I just looked at, it is National De-lurk week. (Bekki, Arwen, Paper Napkin - ok, so that one was just following the link Bekki had, but three references seemed better than two!)

So, please please please de-lurk. I know several people who know me in real life read this blog, but don't comment much, so if that's you I especially want to hear from you. If you really don't want me to drag out a potentially embarrassing photo (like I did to Esther) and say so then I can try my best not to post one.

Secondly, if you don't know me in real life, I would love to have the chance to get to know you. I love reading blogs, and would definitely check yours out if you have one! And if you don't have a blog, well it would still be fantastic to hear from you.

Thirdly, if you already know me in cyber-space, for example any of the one weigh or another ladies, Kathleen, Chaotic Mum, or Rachel who I am just beginning to get to know, then I love it that you read my blog, and if you could spare a minute then it'd be fabulous to hear from you ;-)

Finally, if you feel you're in another category, for instance you just found my blog by googling something, then say hello too!

Please leave me a comment (or more than one, if you like). I promise I will come visiting to meet you afterwards. Just say hi, or tell me your favourite colour, or share a joke. Whatever you say, say something. Remember, in cyberspace no-one can hear you read :-)

(I've copied this post from my other blog, so if you read that too you might recognise it!)

Today

I only did 100 skips today, but I did also look after little one all day, and that's always hard work!
I'm very tired, so I'm off to bed now (8.40pm) but I did just write a long post on my other blog (click Debs on the side link).
Night night.

time to go to bed

Very tired, so just want to say 300 skips today.
:-)

Happy belated blogging birthday to me

I noticed today that I've just missed my blogging birthday. I started my other blog a year and 6 days ago - on the 30th December 2005. I've been reflecting how my life has changed since then. You can read that here but I would say one of the biggest changes would have to be losing 20+ pounds off my weight. I know there's a long way to go, but if you'd asked me then I'm not sure I would have thought even that possible.
Here's the the next successful year of blogging, but especially to a sucessful year of weight loss :-)

Doing ok-ish

School was ok.
I'm doing ok-ish, but no skipping today because my asthma is still only just under control.
Will try to blog longer posts at the weekend.

I'm ill

Just feeling really yucky today. Not really with it most of the time - a bit floaty. I did not do any skipping today. Please pray that I'm ok to go to work tomorrow. Ok, so actually at the moment I feel like I don't ever want to go again, but I figure I need to give it a fair chance this term, havnig sat down and come up with some stuff with the class teacher. I've just been dreading having to go back all this week. So also please pray that things go ok in school.

Tuesday

I'm fighting a cold still, so not feeling 100% yet. However, I did manage to skip 200 jumps today.
Sorry, that's all I can think of to say right now!

Monday weigh-in

I am indeed up this week. In fact I'm at 270.8 which is up 3 from last week. However I shall not beat myself up over it, but am just even more determinded to lose weight this week :-)

In other news I managed 100 jumps\skips (still can't decide which word to use though) and can already feel that I am able to do them a bit quicker, and more jumps at a time before I get caught up in the rope. We also went on a (r)amble this morning with some people from our church. It was quite a gentle walk as we had a few young kids with us, but it was good just to be able to get out in the fresh air and it not be raining! (I think we're forecast rain for the rest of the week, so I'm not sure what that'll mean for the skipping)

Sunday skipping

Well I'm pretty convinced that my weight will be up for tomorrow's weigh-in (in fact it would be a miracle if it wasn't!) I know that as the week went on my resolve got weeker, so it's no surprise really. I guess maybe I'll go back on phase one for a week to 're-set' my body.
I did get to do a bit of skipping today, but only 50 jumps, and that was whilst dodging between raindrops!

The problem with skipping ropes

is that you can't skip if it rains all day. Especially if you are as tall as me and there's no way you could skip\jump rope inside without causing endless amounts of damage to all the things around you.

An assortmet of thoughts

I've been away longer than I had planned to be gone, so I'll have to try to get you all up to date. On my Christmas day weigh-in I was actually down 1lb to 268.8. However I think I may have put on a couple of pounds over the last couple of days. I was doing ok, but several days in a row of Christmas celebrations my resolve was worn down a bit, and by yesterday when we visited my Dad's parents I was pretty much just eating whatever was put in front of me. However although I wasn't sticking properly to south beach I wasn't eating to excess, which I#'m sure I've done in the past. Hopefully I'll get back to the diet over the next couple of days, and by the time I get back to work it'll be automatic again.

Hmmm, I received a skipping rope for Christmas. I wasn't feeling brilliant from boxing day onwards - the family cold had got me, giving me a sore throat and glands as well as the snuffles. However today I took it out the box and gave it a go. Now I know my fitness level is not at a high at the moment, so I'm aiming to just build up the amount I can skip in one go. I did 5o jumps (not straight, as I can only seem to do about 8 or 9 in a row, but in a session) and then HP did the same. I did a second fifty, and then escaped back indoors to take my asthma inhaler! However, I did do another 80 about an hour later, so that's 180 altogether today. I've no idea if that's good, or quite how I should be going about it, but it felt good - my heart was certainly pumping faster and I got pretty warm doing it! If anyone has any ideas of how to build it up, or extend what I'm doing, then please let me know.

In other news, I have now switched to the new blogger, so hopefully everything will continue to work ok....!

My job

Sorry people, I haven't said much about my job and what happened in the meetings and stuff. That's cos I'm still trying to work out how I feel about it all. Part of me really wanted to say to them that since my contract ended at the end of the year I wouldn't be returning after Christmas. However, I never quite got round to saying that (the sickness bug got in the way somewhat). I did agree with the headteacher that I could continue childminding the little boy two days a week, so at least I'll be keeping the bit of the week that keeps me sane.

I am going to be changing what I do with the one of the two children I work with - doing some more individual work out of the class (as he is quite far behind the other children, and needs to go back to the basics). And I think I've managed to come up with a balance between totally taking him out of the classroom (Headteacher's idea) and only working with him in class to try to access the work the rest of the class are doing (class teacher's idea). We'll see how that goes.
One sad thing is that the lady who was the other classroom assistant (and the person who made the job bearable) has retired, so we'll be having someone new in the new year. Hopefully I'll get on ok with the new person.

That's about all I can think of about it at the minute and I have to go wrap presents. I'll try to post more about it once I start back in the new year - I plan to try to forget all about it over the holiday!

Monday Weigh-in

Haven't done one of these for a few weeks. Probably because of being stuck pretty much in the same place (I went up, up, down but only little amounts so far as I can remember). However all that changed this week. I was back on phase one of the beach, and have lost at least a pound by Wednesday night. That was when I came down with a horrible sickness bug. I was back to eating normally by the weekend, but at my weigh in today I was down 9.4 to 269.8. Which is a total weight loss of 24.2lb.

I'm sick

sick sick sick, and then sick again. Didn't go to work today, and won't be going tomorrow either. The up side is that I just weighed myself (yes, I am a bit obsessive about it) and I currently weigh my lowest for a long time. However, personally I'd have stuck to the beach than having to go through this. Not sure when I'll be back, but in case you were missing me thought I'd better explain.

Knowing that people care really helps.

I was going to title this post "don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo", but having thought about it, that title would just be wrong in so many ways.
For a start, I didn't give it a capital letter, and that would be bad, very bad.
Secondly, I don't want to give anyone the impression that I'm about to hang myself - that would be very far from the truth, so please no-body panic.

This weekend I've been to the Saturday morning prayer meeting that our church has, and then a church training meeting, and then to church this morning. At each of these there have been people that have asked me "How are you?" in a way that showed they actually wanted to hear the answer - they weren't just asking for the sake of asking. Although I probably haven't expressed to them just how down I've been feeling, I've been able to share a little bit of the stresses that are going on in my life. And time after time I've heard them say those special words "I'll be praying for you", and I know that they meant it. It's really been such a blessing to know that people do care.

I can't say that everything is sorted yet, but I know that I've got people on my side, and that all I can do is go into the meeting tomorrow moring and say what I've got to say. God already knows what the outcome will be, I've just got to trust him on that.

I've decided that I want to say that I don't want to continue at the school after Christmas (that is, I don't want my contract to be renewed). I've no idea quite how the headteacher will respond to that, but we'll see...