Monday 26 October 2015

Is it time I started Blogging again?


I used to write a Blog about the ups and downs of a nearly 30 year old trying to lose weight. I wrote it every day for a year but I soon realised that most things in my life effect if I get thin or not. It quickly turned into a diary and my whole life was left bare for everyone to read. My Blog got me into trouble many times. Ruffling feathers at work and people at the gym which still affects me nearly a year later. If you are easily offended my Blog or my page are not for you. I like to be honest and talk about things that effect me. It might be about purple poo or something more serious. I also found that writing helped me to get things out that I struggle to talk about. Someone confident with a gob like me, struggle? Yes sometimes it’s the most confident outgoing people that struggle inside. I’ve decided to start writing a Blog again today because I am struggling and I hope this may help.

I got married in August to the most amazing, fabulous man I could ever meet who is my rock. I managed to lose 3 stone and had the most amazing day. Me being me I even managed to offend people on my big day after many cocktails which I was still finding out about months later. Do people really want to try and taint our big day by moaning that the bride was a bit rude to you and still trying to taint it months later. Get a grip! We then had the most perfect amazing honeymoon in Thailand where we had a city break in Bangkok then went in to Elephant Hills glamping where we kayaked, went to a elephant orphanage and trekked through the jungle. Finishing with a week on a beach in the most beautiful hotel I’ve stayed in. Perfect holiday. Though my usual food demons were always there. As I quickly gained weight whilst we were away and beautiful new clothes I felt confident in just weeks ago wouldn’t fit. By the end of the holiday even my bras were too tight. Torn between ‘forget it indulge you only honeymoon once’ and ‘stop being so greedy your undoing all your hard work and can’t fit in your clothes’

I gained nearly a stone and a half enjoying my summer. Once back home I tried to not fall in to the post wedding blues by throwing myself into putting the house on the market. The house has been on the market 6 weeks now with no offers. We haven’t even had any views in the last 2 weeks. Stupidly I had believed the Estate Agents when they’d told us a beautiful family home would sell no problem and even more when she said if we lowered it 5 grand it would sell in 2 weeks. Well we’ve had one viewing since then so not quite! Were also thinking about the future and wanting to have a family. This makes it difficult to plan anything. I can be planning next summer’s trip on safari or weekend away to Iceland. Equally it means I can’t change my job. The Equal pay review comes in to place as of January which effects all school support staff across Derby. I will be losing £3,700 a year which is about £230 a month. Normally I would be out there like a shot, looking for jobs. Being a good time to get myself back in the game. A job that pushes me and I feel I’m really good at. My heart will always lie in helping young people with behaviour struggles and helping their families. It’s what I’m passionate about and miss. If anyone has read my original Blogs you’ll know all the reasons and struggles I had leaving the job I loved. I’m 31 and 7 months old and want a family so I need to stay where I am and accept it. I also love to write. You may notice I’m dyslexic so some things may not sound quite right. I try not to let this hold me back and would like to write a book about my struggles one day.

All these things and the fact every few weeks we find the perfect house. (The one we saw this week could definitely be the one!) Are making me struggle to keep my head above water. This weekend I crashed and burned. I don’t like most people and don’t want to be around others sometimes.Im very picky about who I like to spend time with and those in my friendship circle. I don’t like being in large groups of other people and find it awkward.  I wear my heart on my sleeve and am rubbish at hiding my feelings. I really hate being around people I don’t like or worse people I know don’t like me as I hate being fake. I hate making small talk with them and putting on a fake smile. I would rather be on my own. I over think things and can be kept awake for hours by the most silliest worries. I’m up and down like a yo,yo. I always have been but as I’ve got older the downs have got worse and I struggle to control my feelings pushing my most loved ones away. I’m very lucky to have the most amazing husband, mum and brother as well as my closest friends who understand and forgive me. They think I’m depressed. I really don’t like that word. I don’t feel depressed, today I actually feel fine.

You might be wondering what all this really has to do with me trying to lose weight. Well that’s the thing when you’re feeling shity all you want to do is eat ice cream in your pjs! I can’t do that. I write my page to keep me focussed and all the amazing support I get through my thousands (yes thousands?!) of followers help me to try and stay on track with my eating and keep me smiling.

I would like to thank everybody that has helped me along my journey and the journey I will be on for the rest of my life.

Today I am trying to stay focussed trying to look forward to things. I look forward to my husband coming home from work, having the day with my mum tomorrow, spending time with the most amazing niece (Its strange how when I don’t want to be around people being around my niece is fine), my brother and sister in law and going to my besties for chip butties after weigh in on Wednesday. Then there’s Halloween which I love and Christmas which I love even more.

One thing I am very bad at is apologising. It’s not because I’m not sorry I just struggle to say it. I am sorry for when I upset people. I am not sorry if you’re a twat J

Monday 19 January 2015

My final Blog. A year completed.


22/12/14 I just wanted to go to Asda for 10 bloody minutes. Pop in swap Mr Ds trousers and buy a cheese wine set. That is it. My mum went off to look at clothes I said I’d call her once we’d done. The place was manic I wanted in and out! I waited for mum near the entrance but she didn’t appear. I tried to call her and looked for her so I texted her saying i would go to the car. As I left trying to call her a man ran into me with his trolly as I walked off he was muttering loudly ‘Well if you weren’t on your phone’ PRICK!! She didn’t arrive so I parked in the drop off bit and waited. Still no mum and still not answering the phone. By the 6th time I’d tried to call her I realised should must not have her phone so I nipped in to see if i could see her. I couldn’t!! I went back to the car and had to move it out of drop off and park up again. I went back in trying to find her and went up and down every bloody isle!! 50 minutes looking and there she was waving at me at the end of the checks out!! 50 bloody minutes!! As I stormed back to the car a man full on elbowed me in the chest! So much to do I got back in the car to hit crazy traffic!! Arrgghhhhh!!!! I hate fucking Asda and traffic and people!!
People may wonder why rants about Asda are in my losing weigh Blog. Well if you are really fucking pissed off what does it lead to? FOOD!!!!!

After I dropped mum I was tired, grumpy and starving. As I neared my home I pulled up outside the chip shop. I’d just have a chicken kebab I kept telling myself. As I waited for 10 minutes staring at the battered sausages and the fresh chips being wrapped. Chip shop chips might be my favourite thing in the whole fucking world!! I had to keep saying to myself over and over again ‘chicken kebab, chicken kebab’ to make sure when i got to the counter I didn’t order all the amazing foods i could see infront of me!! I did it. It may be a large but Im pretty happy with myself went home with my big fat chicken kebab with loads of salad!

After shovelling it down and following it with a couple of celebrations choc. (good job I only had a couple) I whizzed over to take some pressies to the girl Ive been working with. Re checked my message and i arrived an hour early so had to spend an hour in a busy tesco looking at ingrediants for gingerbread. Arghh I finally got home to wrap yet more pressies! I tried to get back on track and we had chicken pasta for tea then whizzed off to se Mr Ds dad for his birthday. Wow we really are crazy busy right now!!
So my green hair doesn’t want to shift! Normally I’d be happy that a bright colour doesn’t fade quick but now Ive got modelling in the pipeline I really need to get rid. I stripped it and it and it didn’t work at all so somebody mentioned it needs red pigments so put a reddy ginger on the bottom and it has now just gone a dark Christmas tree kind of green. Crap!

Bit of time with the in laws then back home to start making the truffles. Mmm melted chocolate and cream in the fridge over night! Mr D made us a chicken salad sandwhich for supper. A little bit naughty!!

23/12/14 All over the Slimming World sites people are making it to goal and targets!! Is no one else struggling to keep it together this December?? Fucking hell! Well I know Im doing well compared to my buddies they are completly off plan and stuffing their faces. They do make me laugh! These girls get me in a completly different way. Obsessing over food. Being very good, being very bad sending photos of our naughties, our healthy cooking. Having full blown conversations about our favourite sauces.

Spent the afternoon with ketchup on my hair followed by soaking it in vinegar and washing it in bicorbanate soda. Still green.

Bubble bath a couple of lagers and blackcurrent later I was again putting on the suck me in tights. Again nipping at my thighs! Red Santa dress on (classy one to my knee not some slutty one I bought from Home Bargains for £2.99!) My cute little Santa shawl on, black belt, white long sock with white fluffy tops, long black boots and my Santa hat of course! I am a classy Santa (she says necking the end of her pint!!) I’m really not feeling the new hair extentions they really weren’t looking right! I decided to opt for a big side pony and last minute gripped it all up and went with a messy bun. Pleased but very last minute I quickly zoomed out of the door!! After having to walk across the Market place as Santa I reached Nandos. Some of the girls were ready and waiting! Glad to see a few in full Christmas wear and everybody else nice and sparkly!! I was good and had butterfly chicken rice and corn on the cob and hallumi, slice of chedder and chilli jam to the chicken! Mmm! Not sure how many extras the chilli jam would be but it made it sooooo much better!! Cheese and spice make everything better! I slipped vodka into my unlimited diet coke refills and enjoyed the food drink and company muchly! We went to a few bars met a few more folks, got dragged to some awful bars had many drunken heart to hearts, drunken boogies, got my arse smacked-hard! (how fucking rude!!) Drank way too many shots of tequila, danced all night and sang karaoke in a awful dive of a pub where we stayed for the rest of the night!! It was a truely fab night I have made some really good new friends in this lot!! And in true fat club style we ended up sitting on a chip shop floor eating a feast of filthy greasy naughtys!!

24/12/14 So excited its Christmas eve!!!!!!!!!!!!! My favourite day of the year!! Feeling a slightly bit rough! At 5am I necked a few pints of water and woke up Mr D to ask if I could see my neice yet. He did not find this funny!! He was pretty annoyed and proceeded to tell me how I kept him up for an hour talking crap at 2.30am! and now Ive woken him up at 5am. Oops I managed to doze back of to sleep until I heard my phone vibrating at 8.30am! My brother was ringing me to tell me him and my neice were up watching Elf and ready for me to come over! They were very excited!! I jumped straight up and in the shower and finally got Mr D out of bed and into a elf outfit! Of course i was also dressed as a elf! Fully christmased up and the boot full of pressies off we went to our first stop!!  Very excited we pumped out the Christmas tunes and arrived at their house with her Christmas eve box. She was so excited and opened her box with her very own elf outfit, christmasy gingerbread pyjamas, the snowman puppet book, the snowman DVD and christmasy chocolates! Everything you need for Christmas Eve! Thoughts of being good were out of the window!! I was just feeling very excited. I had a few cookies as I started to feel a little rough and needed some naughtys to soak it up! We then went to see my Nan and Grandad starting to feel a little more rough.  A good natter and some cow biscuits (that you must only be able get in some special grandparent shop!) and we needed to stop for a early lunch! We were both hungry. Mr D refused to keep his Elf outfit on but I was not fussed and happily went into Subway in full Elf outfit! I was still trying not to be too bad and only opted for a 6 inch sub as Mr D got his big fat one. I love tuna mayo when Im rough but I made a bad move and had it toasted with southwest sauce. Nooooo don’t mess with tuna mayo!! Just salad and a nice cob is perfect! Now if it was steak and cheese that would be different then it should be toasted with southwest sauce!! Damn in my roughness I messed up my order. To improve this mess I spotted a few bargains and just had to buy a chocolate milkshake and snickers flapjack and off we went home for our little picnic with a bag of walkers cheese and onion crisps. Mmmm what a treat shame I messed up the butty!

Ive just had a flashback helped with a photo from last night that I ate my battred sausage I dropped on the chip shop floor! What a state! What a fat bastard!!

Then off to our next stop off to the Bessie. She lives 40 mins away and I have already gave her pressies but it wouldn’t be the same not seeing her on Christmas Eve. I let her open one present early the beautiful sewing basket I made her.  Eek I get more excited about giving pressies then the recivers! We then had a cheeky piece of carrot cake and had a little nosey at the nursery thats now ready! How different Christmas will be next year! I gave everybody the gingerbread hearts with the little windows in the middle to everybody in nice little see through snowflake gift bags I got in the January sale! We managed to squeeze in a full hour power nap (more of a proper sleep than a little nap we completly zonked out!) Then popped to see my last friend on the list with her 4 year old daughter. She was so excited. 4 is a great age when their really into Christmas!! I gave her a cheeky little Christmas eve present and surprised her mum as she came out dressed as a Elf!! I loved elves so much!! Yey its Christmas Eve!

Popped in to Tesco to get goodies for Christmas Day breakfast you don’t want something to heavy but we’ll be up early so will need something good and naughty to keep us going. Christmas day has to be filled with indulgence because its Christmas Day for fucks sake. I bought a special Christmas brie, crumpits and some extra special raspberry pan au chocolate. mmmm

We picked up my mum and Step dad and went off to the pub for Christmas Eve. It wasn’t as bad as we first thought as we were all down one end and quite away from the busy pub. Finally officially off the diet!! (not that milkshake and a flapjack was on it ha ha!) The step bro was running late so we ordered a few starters to share potatoe wedges with stilton and bacon, nachos with cheese and cheesey garlic bread! Not that we love cheese or anything! Everybody arrived at once and the starters! They didn’t stretch far but I managed to get enough to get started the stilton wedges were amazing!! Mmm now what to have for the main? Ive been thinking about this for weeks planning on what treats I can have for my 2 and a half days off. How i can get in all my fave foods so I don’t feel like ive missed anything out!! I was tempted by the burger have it with all the extras, cheese and chilli mmm but luckily i got a sneaky look at somebodys burger at the next table and it just didn’t look impressive! So I ordered what I defiantly cant have on Slimming World a proper pie!! Crusty steak and ale pie, chips, peas and gravy!! It wasn’t any fancy homemade pie we were in a chain pub but it wasn’t bad! Mr D was very disappointed with his a very shit looking pulled pork chilli. It looking fucking awful! There was no way it was going to taste good, I even offered him some of my pie. I felt bad for him, nothing worse than waiting for a nice treat and it comes out shit!! At least he ordered a portion of chips on the side! Better than a kick in the teeth!! My mum had the same as me with the same thoughts of what aren’t we allowed on Slimming World ha ha. Theres no way i wasn’t going to indulge on a pudding!! Theres one thing i haven’t had a long time and that a yummy chocolatey pudding with custard!! Brownie cookie brownie with custard. Hell Yes!!! It was gone in minutes!! I miss good stodgy pudding so much!! Felt pretty stuffed as we all sat there in red wigs and hairy eyebrows opening more random Christmas gifts! My neice loked so cute as a Elf and my Step brothers little boy was a elf too!! After lots of christmasy goodness we headed home to get to bed before Santa came!!!

25/12/14 AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Its Christmas day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn’t sleep well I kept waking up. I swear even the dog knows its Christmas I found him sitting eagerly outside the bedroom do on at least 2 of my late night loo visits. At 7am I woke up Mr D and he said I had to wait until 7.30. Whats that about?! Thats what time I normally get up!!  I waited a little longer, put the heating on to make him happy and put afew christmasy tunes and we got up to do pressies! He got me a huge beautiful hamper basket full of little pressies and one big box. I was petty sure I knew what the big box was as I’d hinted lots and lots for a certain healthy frier! I never hint for anything I don’t normally want anything but I was very happy to receive my Halo!! Whoop! The only kind of halo I’ll ever deserve ha! Mr D was very happy with his day tickets to Download Festival, his Samcrow t shirt and put on his Pink Floyd dressing gown straight away.  He also liked all the millions of other little pressies. We moved on to all the friends pressies. I got lots as always! Got some really lovely gifts always like it when my Bessie makes me stuff. Shes so gifted she made us a nice little photframe with our names in scrabble pieces. The thoughtful presents are always my favourite. You always get a few pressies that I think do you really know me at all? Bumper pack of sweets! Well Im usually on a diet and I don’t like sweets.  Some presents will be recycled as I just don’t need all this stuff. Its good to recycle!
We filled the car with all the large bags of pressies and went off to my mums. Loved seeing everything we’d bought and wrapped. My mums so easy to buy for. As we arrived they were in their Christmas onesies  I’d bought them and gave them Christmas eve. Christmas eve pressies were my new thing this year! Its nice to get a nice christmasy gift the day before.  My neice arrived soon after, very exciting! She got straight into opening her gifts. Shes still too young to really understand but it excited her.  She seemed very happy with a plastic hippo cup and plate set I bought her and playing with the paper ha ha. If only we were  all so easily pleased. She put her new little red converse straight on and we played with the puppet show set we'd bought. It was lovely its hard to imagine I could get more excited about Christmas but since my neice came along it has become more exciting so I’ll be off the scale when I have my own kids.

Next stop the Inlaws. There was pressies and people everywhere. Its nice having a full house at christmas time and everyone around. I love Christmas dinner it has to be my favourite meal of the year. Ive done it a few times myself really indulging on mash with cream, crispy goose fat roasties and the best sausagemeat stuffing. Thats the level I like my Christmas dinner at and of course plentiful. My mother in law cooks Christmas dinner for 16 but still manages to do a blody smashing job and that cant be easy. Ive had previous other houses Ive had to go for Christmas dinner and had to have little frozen stuffing balls, dried up chicken breast and aunty bessies roasties. Aunty fucking bessies roasties??! Who does those on Christmas day??!! There was also a year a friend bought homemade cranberry sauce round and me and the bessie said it looked lik period blood. We thought that was hilarious Im pretty sure he never came for dinner again. Luckily I don’t have to worry about that today. The dinner was fantastic a plate full of rich and tasty food and of course lashings of cranberry sauce.There wasn’t chance to be greedy if I was at home I would have filled my plateuntilI couldn’t move but you cant be the one fatie at the table that wants more.

It was then time for more presents, which was kaos. 16 people in one room throwing presents at you from all directions. You didn’t know who had given you what and everyone was just opening at once surrounded by a sea of wrapping paper and my dog barking and going crazy in the middle of it all. It was exciting and christmasy but I do like opening pressies seperatly with my family so I can see people excited about what they have. We had lots of vouchers towards wedding goodies and plenty of choccies and goodies that we picked on all afternoon. Christmas tea was equally as good. Where everybody gets up saying their not hungry and walk away with a plate of cheeses, nuts, crisps and crusty bread and even have seconds. I then sat on my fat ass for the rest of the evening. We played a few of the different little pocket quizzes we received. There a clever bunch I had no chance and most of the questions. Obviously still finding room for pudding. I picked chocolate but still had a sneaky try of the raspberry roulade also. Such a fat bastard. Most people went so there was only a few of us left to watch shity Tv and still munch on the odd celebration.
We realised we'd not recieved a present from one of Mr Ds Aunties when we were told we had a voucher. That only meant one thing!! We had to go through all the present bags and go through all the bin bags of wrapping. Three bin bags later and we found it. The voucher had been wrapped up with a box of heroes and we'd not noticed it and chucked it! Thank fuck we found it!!

It was a fantastic Christmas and my last one as a Miss. I am so lucky to now have two fabulous families around me. Thank you to everybody who helped make my Christmas fantastic!!

26/12/14 We got up about 10am and headed home pretty much straigh away with our gifts. By 11.15am we were sat at home discussing what naughties we could have for lunch. I fancied chinese not the easiest thing to have Boxing day lunch and Mr D fancied chippy! i settled for chippy and we got up the Just eat app and found 2 local chippies open at 11.30! Bonus!! Whoop started loooking at what goodies to order when it popped up 'No delivery' Damn it!! Had to brush my hair and take my onesie off which i wanted to be on all day today! We drove out passing a few closed chippies on the way to the one not deloivering to find it was closed!!! After driving around for quite a while looking for open chip shops Mr D said there was one on pride Park. I knew there wasnt!! Im the fat one here! I know theres no chippy at Pride park!! I was right so we headed to the only option which was now looking rather appealing. Mcdonalds. As we stood in the queue for Mcys we were discussing what extras we were going to order on top of our bigmac meals. As we discussed extra chips, nuggets and cheese burgers the thin brunette infront of us half turned round and looked down her nose at us. I decided I’d keep quiet about my greed and we ordered a little greedy feast between us. As we sat and stuffed our faces on the sofa whilst watching Anarchy you don’t get much more dirty and greedy than dunking your extra burger in your sweet curry dip and wondering how many chips I still have left.

Oh god I feel so sick. I am a disgusting fat bastard and deserve to be right now!!

Im actually feeling glad to be back on plan tomorrow this dirty stodged up nasty feeling is not good. After a few hours of lazing I went off to try and get some more bargains for Boxing Day tea. I got side tracked and popped in Next. Im not a Next person its too ‘beige’ for me but I like the homewear section. It was a good move I spotted some jars with ribbon round and red flowers. £2.50 instead of £8. Very cute and would be a really good decoration for the wedding. Having two venues I will need lots of pretties!! I got loads of bargains. All filth. 12p bags of cookies. Double chocolate, white chocolate, chocolate orange. Lots of naughtys. I’d been eyeing up Thorntons chocolate liquer for weeks so thought bugger it Im enjoying my last day off plan. Im having today what Ive craved for weeks, months! My grandparents arrived an hour early so Mr D had to get them settled. We had a large cheese board, I made homemade sausage rolls, crisps, chicken wings, pizzas and a chocolate pudding out of the truffles that would not set. A chocolate creamy bowl of naughtyness!! Everybody arrived and got stuck straight into the buffet. It started snowing and coming down thick and fast. Mr Ds family had to leave to make sure they didn’t get stuck here! We had time to play a few games before everybody else had to do the same. It was a struggle to even get down the road with no grit everybody was sliding around. I gave everybody goody bags of cheese, bread and cookies so there wasn’t a crazy amount of things tempting me before my fresh start tomorrow!!

I squeezed in a extra cookie and thats it done. Ready to be on plan tomorrow.

27/12/14 Mr D went off to work armed with a load of naughtys to share with his work buddies.  I started the clear out. Binned some stuff and put the boxes of chocolates away to use as presents. I had a couple of boiled eggs for breakfast and went out into the ice to hit the shops! I love sales almost as much as I love Christmas. I met up with one of my new fat club friends and we strolled around looking at the bargains. It was a little disappointing I didn’t buy much. I was almost tempted to go for lunch with the girls (who were not back on plan yet) but was good and went home for some chicken! Who needs lunch out anyway?!  Mr D came home from work and we enjoyed a nice chicken salad together.

So sad so uneventful.

With the modelling day looming I decided to bleach the ends. I know Im doing exactly what I dont want to do by wrecking my hair with more bleach but what chocie have I got. Well its still fucking green but more on one side than the other! I now have patchy green hair!!!

This is my last Blog. I have completed my Year of blogging and feel this is a good place to end. Ive enjoyed my few days over Christmas and have over indulged in places but this is because I’m normal. Who doesn’t over indulge from time to time? Wants the point in spending months being good if you cant treat yourself with everybody else at Christmas?
I will carry on with my facebook page 'Diary of a fat bird turning 30' where I will post my food, thoughts and feelings and trying to stay on track! A great place for us to support each other through the highs and lows!

2015 is going to be my year. I know that it will be the year I finally do this, I finally lose weight. Im in a good place. Ive made some great new friends and I know i can really do this. Im getting married in August and hopefully babies wont be too far behind. Thank you for everybodies support with my Blog. Do what makes you happy.  I’ll keep my page going and may even do the odd Blog from time to time. Good luck for 2015 everybody, lets do this shit!!

Monday 5 January 2015

I'm no off the wagon I'm just walking along the edge


15/12/14 Woke up feeling christmasy and quickly decided to sod off the gym to fo christmasy things! Started my day with scrambled eggs, beans and bacon in bed!!

I went to see my mum not seen her as much as usual the last few weeks. We popped in to Home bargains. I needed some toiletries and I needed one more baskets for a Christmas hamper. I then spotted some glass drinks dispensers. We had a good nosey at one and they were what I’d been looking for for the wedding!!! Ive only seen them over  twenty quid each and these were £5.99 each!! Bought all 4. Very chuffed!! We went to take my Nan and Grandad some fresh bread and cinnamon pancakes this week I like taking them goodies. I should do a service to old people giving them 10p crusty bread and cakes. Picked up a few parcels dropped my mum headed home.

I was happy about being home for a chilled out afternoon of Christmas movies and wrapping!! And guess what? Another bowl of speed fucking soup! I loved my afternoon. Lots of shit Christmas channel 5 films and a hell of a lot of wrapping. Why do i buy so many presents??!! Cooked a really good dinner of chicken with roasted peppers, onion, garlic, chilli in passata with spinach and butter beans with rice. Mmmm I love cooking a good slimming world friendly dinner. Mr D had the same just with some crusty garlic bread.  Mm galic bread would have soaked up the juices nicely but nope! Good girl here!

Had to pop to the supermarket for buffet bargains beens as I didn’t get much yesterday! Why are some Supermarket Staff so fucking Rude? Nobody wants to be the reduce lady as a career but don’t look down your nose at me because I want to buy some things for 10p! Your not superior to me because your stacking shelves and I want a few bargains. Yes you may get some crazy people that push and want all the bargains. But its just me, you and the price gun right now so get off your high horse and get back to your checkout!!

16/12/14 Nope not going to the gym again! Pah too much christmasy things to do! Even the scales cant tempt me into going! Christmas, Christmas, Christmas tra, la, la ,la!! I got things ready for todays buffet. Carrot sticks and low fat humous for me. Nice bread, spring rolls and cous cous for the others. Big  basket of different yummy breads and pate ready for fat club tomorrow. Made some oat and fruit cookies with oats, raspberries, natural yogurt, sweetner and vanillaresent. Yep they tasted like shit I’ll take them to work. I give up on making Slimming World puddings!

Eating my speed soup actually made me feel sick today. Thank fuck I don’t have to eat anymore Ive done it for 6 days!! I’ll be gutted if I don’t loose this week!! Off i went to work for buffet and secret Santa. Thought I could handle a bit of buffet being the day before weigh in I knew I had to be good and i was.. at first. It was hard, there was homemade warm sausage rolls so I had to have one of these, I had a small bit of cheese on some fresh bread and then had some grapes, strawberries low fat humous and celery and carrot sticks. I then had another plate the same. Unfortuanley then I started grazing and once I started I couldnt stop. A onion bhagee, a small smaosa, some pretzels, a few curly fries and a small slice of lemon cake. I messed up the day before weigh in L Ive spent the whole week on shity speed soup to go and ruin it over a bloody tesco samosa!! Not even a good samaosa! I wish i could say that was it but then there was a big bowl of dry roasted peanuts in the staff room which I had a handful of every time I went in. When it started to get later I finally said to myself no more!! And the last 2 times i went in I resisited. I feel disappointed with myself but I guess on full form it wouldn’t just be one onion bhagee I’d be having 5!!

Sometimes all you want to be is ‘normal’ be able to have one sausage roll, one onion bhagee and a handfulof nuts at a buffet and it be okay. To get home and join your boyfriend in eating crumpits and brie for supper in bed. Instead sitting there miserable, belly rumbling wondering if that extra handful of nuts is going to give you a gain in the morning. Feeling hungry and miserable.I refused to speak to him whilst he was eating crumpits! I got home at 10 past 10 he could of had his supper before I got back. Ugh I love crumpits.

17/12/14 This morning I cant stop smiling! And its certainly not because Im getting weighed! Today i got a email to confirm theve picked me to be their model! Yep fat bastard got picked out of a list of red heads to be the face of their new business!! That is not bad for a fat 30 year old!! I’m genuinely excited! My face and hair for a wedding shoot! My friend put my name forward when they were asking for a red head over 20 and it went from there. I looked at some of the other people that wanted to do it and some of them had proper portfolios!! Well in your face proper model portfolios they picked me!! Oosshh now thats a confidence boost!!

Pre weigh in weigh in looked like I’d stayed the same! Damn all that bloody soup for nothing! I wont be in a rush to do that again!! Off to fat club for our Christmas party armed with my secret Santa pressie, Christmas tree dress and big basket of bread with cheese, pate and humous. Oo and my shit biscuits that no one ate at my work fuddle I’ll try them for the ‘good ones’ at fat Club. I’d put some effort in my secret Santa pressie and made a little hamper full of sliming world goodies! Ive seen on the internet that most groups are having parties and having a buffet but nearly all of them are having good ‘Slimming Wold’ buffet. Not ours! Our leader told us to bring what we wanted! And everyone did the buffet looked great couldn’t wait to pop a sausage roll or 5 in my mouth! No thought of any kind of being good. You could also bring family along today so I bought my mum and neice. Before I could fill my face I needed to face the scales!! Stayed the same!Arghhh slightly annoying but at this time of year with buffets and parties coming out my ears a mantain is not bad!! I would love to mantain for the rest of the holidays because a loss is going to be near impossible!! It was a lovely little party my little group were straight up for some buffet eating cheese, pate and sausage  rolls followed by profita rolls and chocolate tart. Mmmmm yummy!!! There were prizes for the raffle. I won a very useful hand blender! (I chose this over a bottle of wine!) and for secret Santa I got a pen?! My mum settled in lovely and my necie was spolit. My mum culdn’t resisit a few treats even though she gets weighed later on that day!! Brilliant time!! What a fabulous group! Roll on the night out!! I still went home with some of my homemade biscuits! I only made 12 in total!!

We had a movie night at work complete with hot chocolate and cream as well as a big pile of mash and too skinny sausages for tea. Not forgetting the numerous snickers celebrations that passed through my lips!

By the time I got home at 10.15 i was hungry again/greedy and Mr D had made me a crumpet with brie for a treat! Bless him, but why only the one?!!! Followed by yet more sausage rolls and bread grazing. I am a disgrace. I am one greedy mother fucker today.Its got to stop!!

18/12/14 It was so dark this morning and I was so cosy i didn’t want to get out of bed but I had to go to my mums early to take my stepdads birthday pressie. Told her to get the breakfast on. I got there and she said she’d had her breakfast already but she’d still make me some. I told her to leave it didn’t want her to have to make it just for me! I went home to make a lasagne for tomorrow. Im super organised sometimes. Im out for after work drinks tomorrow but I’ll be home for dinner tomorrow and don’t want Mr D to have to try and do it after work. Also don’t want to have take away when I need to be super good!! So I only used a small amount of 5% less fat mincemeat and had to use whatever I had in! I fried off some onions , peppers and plenty of fresh chillis. I found a soup mix pack in the freezer for spicy butternut squash soup so i chucked that in with a bag of spinach and half a tin of butterbeans.  Chucked in some passata and it was done. I made the white sauce with 0% fat yogurt , 2 eggs and cottage cheese and whisked it up. I layered it all up with lasagne sheets in a big dish. The dish was full of goodness and just sprinkled low fat cheese on the top. Some big fat potatoe wedges went in also and dinner was ready to finish off tomorrow night!!

I am on fire!!

I wrapped some more pressies up as I knew my brother was round later and might snoop so needed to make sure his were all wrapped. Whilst watching Homes under the Hammer of course! Really trying hard to get back on it I made fish with lemon juice and herbs with veggies for lunch and the same for packed lunch tomorrow. Being organised is the key to me being thin!!

Gone into work and there was boxes of chocolates everywhere given to us by the students!! Arghhh!! I will not eat chocolates!!  Off to class ending with Mcdonalds!! I was that close to ordering I had my hand in my purse!! At last minute i changed my mind!! I’m really struggling not to give in and do what everybody else is doing!! Filling their faces!!

We had a little girls Christmas night at work. Just me and a few students. We had healthy chips and salad for tea and watched Jingle All the Way and Elf whislt painting our nails and having a hot chocolate! I saved a few of my chips as usual for supper. Double chipping it has got to be better than half a tub of celebrations that are calling me from the office!

19/12/14 I slept so bad last night! Even with the hypnosis. The heating was on it was too hot but i couldn’t be bothered to get out of bed. Mad rush to get the Christmas tree down and close everything down for the holidays before going into school. Im hoping the fact thats its the last day will power me through. A couple of eggs and beans and it was my turn to go in the pool at work. Damn I will have bad hair for the rest of the day!! I had my fish and vegetables for lunch and then went off to my afternoon class. We were staying in this afternoon and eating the rest of the buffet. My will power was out of the window. I didn’t even try and resist the second they filled the table with goodies i was straight in! I spent the afternoon munching cheese savouries and shortbread and it was bloody great!! It was nice just not to care for a bit. After wishing everybody a merry Christmas I zoomed home to get ready!
Went into town for our annual drinks with a few old friends. One has moved away so we like to have a little get together when we can. It was great to see them.  We had a chat about this time last year I told them I wanted to write a book about my journey trying to lose weight this is when K said ‘why don’t you write a Blog?’ and that is where it began! Here I am still going strong. They were laughing about how much time I spend pissed off and i suppose I do. I’m just a emotional person when I’m happy I’m really happy when I’m sad I’m really sad theres no half measures with me. It was K that put my name forward for the modelling. We laughed that she should be my agent! If ever any of my latest ventures become anything of anything. I become a famous writer or model I will give K a cut ha ha.

After a few hours of drinking I headed home to the Mr for our usual Friday night. Thanks to my well organised self we had lasagne, wedges, salad and coleslaw for tea. All home made. We spent the evening watching the end of Series 3 Sons of Anaachary and it was so good I almost wet myself! When I told Mr D what I’d been munching at work he said I had fallen off the wagon. I told him if I was off the wagon we’d be eating a big fat take away right now and not homemade grub! I’m not off the wagon I’m just walking along the edge.

20/12/14 Me and Mr D woke up and had a snuggle and a chat. I told him about a text I received yesterday from a brilliant man from my old job. He told me Christmas dinner wasn’t the same without me. I explained to Mr D when I stated my previous job in October by December I’d organised the Christmas do for the school and organised a Christmas day including a full Christmas dinner for 50. They tried to put me off and said it couldn’t be done and just do a buffet. A child had told me they normally have a pot noodle for Christmas dinner. I wanted to give some children a ‘normal’ Christmas which so often they didn’t have.  It was a big success and we did it the following year this time even got a student cooking that always refused to go in the kitchen! But there we were turkeys on and we were dancing around the kitchen to Christmas songs. Half way through telling him I started getting upset. I miss making a difference,I miss being needed, I miss how so quick I settled in and could make big changes. I miss my old buddies. Theres a hole that I just cant fill right now. Whatever happens in the next year by next Christmas I want to be happy and making a difference.

My Blog helps me when I’m upset, when I’m angry. I write it down.Maybe it is time I stop telling the world and get a bloody diary.

I stayed in bed listening to Christmas song. I like all Christmas songs, I just don’t get bored of them. I like all the Band Aids. I like the new one even if its got Sam Smith in it singing ‘Its Christmas Dime’ whats a Christmas dime? I want one! I sent Mr D off to make breakfast and listened to the Elf soundtrack.

Mr D thought he’d done really well and gave me breakfast in bed scrambled eggs, beans a sice of wholemeal and some quorn sausages. The qourn sausages were rock hard Ive know idea how long theve been in the freezer for! I didn’t eveb know I had them. I couldn’t get my fork in one or cut one. Mr D thought I was exgerating  until I had a go. I was happy with my scrambled eggs and beans! Even the dog struggled to eat them. He gave up after a couple. Mr D got showered and went shopping with bro! So I pottered around cleaning the house and made a trip to Aldi. It was a bit crazy in there . I loaded my basket with lots of fruit, a bit of a booze and baking goods and got out.

I tried to make the christmasy fruit snack I’d seen on the internet. The santa hats made of banana, strawberry and a mini marshmellow they looked okay but didn’t know how long the banana would last? I couldn’t get white marshmellows so the snowmen weren’t very good and the santa strawberries with a cream beard in the middle looked great! For approxmently 2 minutes before the cream melted! I gave up on trying to mae healthy goodies and did hot dogs, chicken wings and potatoe wedges. I didn’t eat too much I just grazed a bit. I didn’t even drink that much either to be honest. I always love the Christmas quiz night. Even if my brothers 10 question round took nearly an hour, another round nobody had any idea of any answers at all (luckily it was multiple choice) and the picture round had 2 questions short so we had to guess too badly drawn doodles! It was good. I gave lots of pressies out! So exciting, I love giving presents!! Everbody left with their families and left me, Mr D, my bro and his Mrs to celebrate my brothers birthday! We cracked out so more beverages gave him his pressies of a boozey munchies hamper and his Maroon 5 tickets whoo!! (we go every year! One of the only things me and my bro like to do together) He then got out the thing he wanted to do most on his birthday night. Cluedo! Yep u know ur old when u lead up to a big game of Cluedo! My brother tried to cheat by showing the wrong room because he knew I was going to win and a drunk Mr D said he didn’t have a card that he did have so Mrs B called the wrong room! Drunken games, curly wurlys and love with my fave people!  Good night!

21/12/14 Got up and had a little trip to the carbooty. I just cant help myself my love of bargains take over me!! I ignored the christmasy party mess and went out into the cold. Not much there to be honest i guess people would rather stay in the warm. On the way back I was feeling pretty hungry and contemplated going to the shop for bacon but I fancied the full works and could not be arsed to cook it so I texted Mr D the one message I knew would get him out of bed. ‘Get out of bed Im treating us to breakfast!’ To be honest I’d been wanting a excuse for ages to try out the new Harvester breakfast I’d heard people at working talking about! Determined to stay on the wagon and have a healthy one. I started with a bowl of fruit and natural yogurt with a dollop of some raspberry yumminess which Im guessing is fooling me looking like fruit and is actually full of sugar! You can then order whatever you wanted off the menu. Mr D ordered a bit of everything. I went for beans, mushrooms, poached egg, scrambled egg and 3 rashers of bacon. What I actually wanted to say was 6 rashers of bacon, every type of egg and double everything else! But I didn’t want to be that ‘fat greedy bird’  The guy did say people have ordered 3 times that amount. Damn it! could have had a extra bacon! I was good trimmed off all the fat and had one slice of wholemeal and a fruit tea. The big temptation was the big fat square crumpits. Mmm crumpits smothered in butter. I could of easily ordered some more but Mr D was full and didn’t want to order extra alone. Maybe me and the slimming girs need to come together and order 10 slices of bacon each!! Off home to do the clean up! It wasn’t too bad we smashed it together pretty quick and had a afternoon of Sons of Anarchy.

We pretty much didn’t move for the rest of the day. We had ourleftover lasagne with crispy skinned pots and veggies and wanted to pick a movie. Mr D was not impressed i would only watch Christmas films! He picked Scrooged because he’d never seen it before, he loved it! Me and my bro loved it as kids but I deffo don’t remember a scene about a woman having her nipples hanging out or about the karma sutra moves!!

Monday 22 December 2014

Becoming obsessed with the scales


08/12/14 Woke up still snotty and couldn’t go in to supply because i was still waiting to find out when the man was comin to fix the shower. The fridge was pretty bare as we hadn’t done our Sunday bargain shop (the freezer is always full) but decided to use my last 2 eggs to attept slimming world pancakes. Ive not tried doing them before but thought I’d give them a blast. They looked fab! Had them with sweetner, lemon juice and chopped up strawberries. They still tasted a little eggy, maybe I did them too thick? But these would make a great pudding with some chocolate shot!! Deffo will be trying these again!! The shower man said he was coming in the afternoon.

I’m not sure whys theres people in this world that go out of their way to try and bring you down.  Try and go through things with a fine tooth comb to catch you out.  I’m not a bad person. I swear too much and get pissed off at things too much but I always make sure my good deeds out weigh the bad. I try and do my best and make people happy. I work hard and will always do the best for any young people I work with.  I try and make people laugh even at my own expense. I can sleep at night knowing this. Maybe some people need to have a think about themselves.

After enjoying going back to class last week i thought I’d get out of my nice warm cosey bed and have another bash!! I arrived just in time to the same bunch of regulars. I had to stand nearer the middle today as my usual place had been taken . i don’t like changing my spot I like to be the edge with my own space and at the back so i can hide. Detective man still seemed to end up next to me even when I’d moved! I caught my reflection in the door infront of me and realised what a mess I look. Im normally quite particular about the clothes I wear and the style I go for but not when i go to the gym.  I was wearing a baggy white stripped t shirt with a bike on it 3 sizes bigger than i am. I hate the thought of people being able to see any bits wobberling so i go super baggy to try and hide it but then I just look huge. I think its time to ditch the baggy asda t shirts and at least wear something more my size.  Saying it was a big room and there was plenty of room to spread out I seemed to be sandwhiched quite close to Detective and Bouncy blonde next to me. I didn’t recognise her as a regular. She was like a bouncing bunny full on going for it but constently getting it all wrong. Now i do get it wrong regulary but this woman was going the wrong way every single time!! Everytime we went left I had her shimminging and grapevining straight into me!! Nob head.

I went to my Nan and Grandads for some lunch and it was a bonus my Aunty was visiting from Liverpool. Grandad had done his one meal and had minced some roast beef in his hand mincer. Bless him and added stock and veggies. Im not going to lie it wasn’t good. It wasn’t awful but it was really lacking flavour and seasoning. Obviously I told them it tasted great, cant upset the grandparents! Had a catch up then went to pop in the Post office on the way home to pick up my Christmas party dress!! I’d got it handmade for £12 with postage!! Excited!! I parked up and popped in. I then realised I’d parked in the carpark at the back of the railway at £7 a day! I’d only been 10 minutes! I was that excited about my dress I didn’t care! But I pressed the button and spoke to the man and he said the barrier would just open. Phew nearly wasted £7!! I got home and tried it on! It was nice, I definitely felt thinner!! Green polka dot, greens christmasy right? It was too big!! Which is fab that the bigger size is now too big but not so great when I need to wear it this week!! A few stitchs in the back and it should be fine!! Feeling good!!

I spent the afternoon wrapping some pressies and waiting for the shower man who didn’t arrive!!

09/12/14 I’m only weeks away of completing my year of Bloging and how much my Blog has changed. Starting off just with a short version of a few things that effected me losing weight that effected me day to day to a full blown Diary for the world to see. Do I carry on and see where I get as my wedding gets closer or do I stop at the end of December? Is it about time I stopped letting people know my inner thoughts, my ups, my downs, my highs, my lows? I get a lot of reads but do people still enjoy it or am I get boring ha ha. I will have to decide soon!! Your thoughts would be very helpful so please feel free to leave messages and comments!

Decided to go to the gym again the thought of geting weighed on the fancy machine was luring me on just as much as the class! The scales at this stage are looking good. Deffo a lost but really fed up of being the top end of this stone!! I want to get down! It was the step dance class again but I didn’t seem to mind it as much today. It was the usual Nicky Minaj booty shaker infront of me. To be honest that was the only thing in the class she seem to do! Shake her booty! She spent half her time standing at the back on her phone like she was going for a drink of water but spent 5 minutes texting instead. She did everything apart from the twerking half heartidly. Didnt put any effort in and did as little movement as possible. Apart from sticky her big butt out of course! I was wondering why she bothered coming at all but maybe she just liked the opportunity to shake her ass in public. Who knows?! As I worked hard up and down off the step i thought how I really didn’t want to put all the weight back on at christmas. Im so desperate to get away from this stone mark and get closer to the next stone. My heart breaks every time I get near to that big fat horrible number again. I don’t want to work hard the next few weeks to only have to see it all over again after Christmas. I really need to stay focussed!!

Still no shower so having to wash in the bath its such a pain in the ass!! I ate my big chicken salad with a bit of rice and went off to work. My mornings just go so quick sometimes! The first thing i did at work was sneek in for a cheeky weigh in. Im becoming obessed. Its just too easy there are scales bloody everywhere apart from my own bloody home!! Good job.  Im still hovering just under the stone above mark.I just want a good loss a big fat one to take me down a bit! I need it now. I was good tonight ate my usual jacket potoate with beans but was organised today and bought my reduced fat cheese with me and some grapes to make it a bit more flavoursome.  Pudding looked quite nice, a fruity flapjack but I was good and didn’t eat any even though there was loads leftover so was very tempting! But I did not give in!!  We eat dinner around 4pm so its really hard not to snack later on. I finish at 10pm and literally zoom to get in my car i just cant wait to get home. I can get home in 10 minutes but tonight I hit traffic!! 10 past 10 on a Wednesday night and theres fucking traffic!! Fuming! 20 minutes before I got home. I was so annoyed and then was in a bad mood by the time I got home. A bag of space raiders and my advent chocolate later I was finally feeling a bit more chilled. Shattered I was straight to sleep.

10/12/14 Woke up feeling thinner! I had to finally give in and take my engagement ring off my engament finger as it was just slidding around too much and I was scared I would lose it. For now it is on my middle finger which it fits better but still a little big. Weird how your weight literary comes off all parts of the body! Stood in my undies infront of the mirror and i can definitely see signs of less tyres/layers/chunks/love handles. Still plenty but definatley a little more compact. Off i went to work bright and early though it wasn’t bright it was still bloody dark and it felt like I’d literally just walked in from work. I was tired and Wednesday morning are hectic. At least that means they go quick! I had another cheeky weigh in and it looked like a loss but wasn’t sure how much. I had my yogurt and one slice of toast with light phili. Im just finding it too hard not to have any toast at all. I just want to fill my face full of warm jam on toast! Back home I was putting my lunch together for after weigh in. I’d made Mr D pesto new potatoes so thought I’d have a few of these with salad (so naughty but not too naughty) and take my Christmas sandwhich I’d bought for 23p! Mmm turkey and cranberry!  So off I went to fat club feeling quite confident and secretly hoping for 2.5 off to get my 10%. I was gutted that I’d only lost half a pound! Sausgae roll avoidance and no Tuesday night grazing and a went to the loo this morning for half a bloody pound!! My friend reached her 7 stone tonight! She took off her jeans,socks and even her glasses to get it! These girls make me laugh as its the first time I think Ive really met people who go through the same dilemmas as me and think the same when it comes to food! Genuinly really like them and i really hate making new friends. Love the group! After having a good natter and a plan of lots of superfree soup this week I left feeling positive! Got in the car and did exactly what a fatty would do! Sneakily on my own sat and eat my raspberry cream cake. Good job that secret eaters programme isn’t following me. What a proper fat bastard thing to do! Sneeking cream cakes and quickly stuffing it down my face in the car!

We we having a Fryer Tucks feast at work but everything on the menu was pretty good. We had salad, cheese and grapes on sticks, chicken drumstick, a venison sausage and potatoe wedges. Everything was done in the oven so not overly naughty but i did start my Wednesday afternoon grazing! I was cooking so I ate more than my fair share of potatoe wedges! I wasn’t bad enough to eat my tea when we got back apart from a stray sausage that seemed to find its way in my mouth and a chocolate muffin that tasted nothing like chocolate!! If Im going to have a treat i should not waste it on a muffin that tastes like cardboard!! Bad move! That was about 5pm and I didn’t eat anything else until I got home and ate 2 mini pork pie with pickle that were in the fridge! They were delicious. My Wednesday afternoons grazing is really starting to add up! Not as bad as a huge take away and boozey sess but who am I kidding? Pork pies, sausage and cream cakes??!! Really need to knock this on the head!! Its just so nice to have half a day off!! Argghh so hard sometimes!!

11/12/14 I was tempted to stay in bed but I felt I had quite a few bits and bobs to do this morning so got out my nice warm cosy pit and had a ho t shower for the first time in a week! It was so good! I then decided to get my superfree soup in the slow cooker! As usual I never stuck to the recipe. I put in it onions, leek, green beans , cabbage, kidney beans a tin of tomatoes and a few stock cubes. I tried to add a tin of baked beans as listed but I couldn’t open the bastard tin!! I tried for some time but Mr Ds new fancy can opener just would not open the bloody can!! I managed to break it so had to head off to the shops and buy a new one. I made the mistake of going to home bargains and half an hour later came out with 4 bags and spent £32. Love Home Bargains! I went home with all my stocking filling goodies and opened my baked beans and butter beans and added my microwaved half swede to the soup. My slow cooker was full to the top and looked watery and rank! I added a bit of smash to thicken it up. A tweak I know but it was just adding a bit of smash to the water which is exactly the same as making the bastard smash and having it with my soup so no I did not syn it!! I ate a big bowl for lunch and it tasted pretty damn shity!! I was worried I wouldn’t be full enough so added some a bit of potatoe out the fridge which made it a bit more edable. Lets hope it will get better with age! Off I went to work.

My will power isn’t feeling as strong today as the kids were tucking into their Mcdonalds snack as they do every Thursday afternoon I wanted some.  Luckily these aren’t the kind of kids that share.

Why is my skirt feeling tight?! The only things Ive eaten today are that bloody awful soup and jacket potatoe with baked beans! Its not like Ive been feasting! Fell bloody horrible how can I have lost a stone and a half and my clothes are still tight? Depressing!! The next half a stone is really important to me as I’ll be smashing through a barrier I haven’t been through for a long time. I’m currently at the weight I was when I met Mr D but I wasn’t there for long. I’d got there after 3 weeks crashing and no carbs. I never kept it off.  I need to do this and I need to do it now.

Having not had any syns or used my healthy A I made myself a nice milky options hot chocoloate and dipped my curly wurly in it! Lovely when its cold and rainy outside. I might be stuck at work all night but the heating on and Im cosy. Cant wait to get to bed tonight, even if its not my own!

12/12/14 I didn’t sleep too bad. Not great but not awful which is pretty good for staying at work. Mr D texted me to say he hadn’t slept well either because I wasn’t there. Is it sad that we don’t sleep well when were apart?I had my 2 pooched eggs and beans to start the day whilst listening to the Sons of Anarchy sound track (Yes I’m a little obessed, got to stay focussed on whats coming at the end of the night!) I was quite looking forward to work this morning as we were going to the Christmas carol concert at the church. In previous jobs weve never done anything like this, theres no way you would of got our ‘too cool for school’ kids singing carols in a church! They’d be trying to steal the Vickers collar or strapping each to the cross! I really enjoyed it, the kids loved it in their Christmas jumpers shouting the songs at the top of their voices! Proud parents had come to see them and it was a nice christmasy atmosphere all round. I cant even remember the last time I sang a Christmas carol, I love Christmas carols!! At lunch time I managed to finally get my travel expenses sorted and went off to my afternoon class. They were going to Mcdonalds! After eating my gross soup followed by sugar free jelly for lunch I wasn’t feeling very forfilled!! Off we went and I sat with the kids and staff all tucking in to their Mcdonalds meals. How many times a week do I have to go through this torture? Less than a metre away from me from all sides people digging in to burgers and chips. The new festive one looked amazing with cheese sauce. Im nearly drooling just writing about it! Size 8 lady infront kept saying to me, I cant eat all these chips please have some’ Think she was just feeling sorry for me because I was sitting there with a small diet coke. I mean seriously who cant manage a burger with a medium chips. I can eat that x2 maybe even 3! I gave in, I became weak! The salty goodness took over and I ate some of those yummy salty fries. I counted. I had 15. I did good to stop there. I estimated that to be half a bag of small chips so only 4 syns. If its only 8 syns for a small fries  maybe in future I should just bloody have one!

Already the day was over and I headed home for a few hours wrapping pressies. Tonight I decided to launch a competition for my page and my Blog readers because its Christmas and I want to say thankyou for peoples support! I made up a nice hamper full of all goodies for the slimming world diet mug shots, smash, hot chocolate, curly wurlys, pombars etc and a naughty one for a Christmas treat. Jack daniels, wine, nuts, chrisp, chocolates! Im hoping I might get a few more fresh readers out of it too!

Tonight we had fish and chips! Not from the chip shop covered in batter just homemade. Some nice fish I’d bought from tesco for 40p on Monday oven baked with lemon juice and fresh tyme. With homemade chips and mushy peas and even treated myself to a slice of wholemeal bread. I was hoping my allowance would stretch to 2 but nope only one. We then sat with the dogs (we had my brothers dog too) and watched hours of Sons of Anarchy. I had my box of Dime Mikado I so love them but I was nice and gave Mr D 4 so 13 syns. I work on flexi syns most of the time so I can enjoy them more at the weekend. I have my little notebook and I write everything down!

It was my old works Christmas do tonight. I’d organised it and booked it the last 2 years. Whatever job Ive been too Ive always organised the Christmas do.I love Christmas and parties so its always been the perfect role for me and have been nicknamed ‘the Christmas fairy’ this year never mind not organising one im not even going to it. I was sad about it for a while but felt okay when the Slimming World girls reminded me that I’d organised there’s instead! Indeed I have! My buddies were so far off the wagon tonight they were eating the wagon wheels! (So my friend said!) They were all feasting on everything in sight! Pretzels, cakes, biscuits, cheesey chips and kebab from the take away!! It all sounded and looked so good!! I went off to the kitchen and for supper had my cheese allowance with grapes, apple and a slice of ham. The ham was smoked so i couldn’t eat it but I was strong there was no naughtys passing my lips!!

13/12/14 Woke up hungry and got out of my warm pit to go to my friends for breakfast! She made me a slimming world breakfast of pepper omelette and baked beans. Good bit of energy for some shopping. We went to the new big B and M looking for baskets for hampers but came out with bags of other things including a small Christmas tree! My friend spotted them originally £25. B and M price £10 and now there was 2 left at £1.99 each boom! One each. I got home to utter chaos!! My front room was upside down, the sofa cushions and throws all over the floor. Ripped up cushions and fluff everywhere. I very guilty looking pooch cowering in his bed whilst the big dopey one just stared at me!! I was fuming. Kicked them both out into the garden whilst I cleared up the mess. It put me in a right bad mood. I decided to take my new small Christmas tree to pieces to make a piece for the fireplace. Ive been looking at them and there so expensive! So I cut off all the branchs they were wired so I could twist them all together I then add the snow covered cones and different fake berries off the tree and positioned it with all the other cones. Not bad at all. The christmasyness didn’t put me out of my bad mood so i was pissed off and grumpy when my brother popped round and told me how great his work Christmas do was this year. How all my old friends were on form and had a amazing time. Brill! Mr D came home and ha a big fat tuna salad with crusty bread why I was still on the bloody speed soup!! Ugh What a load of ball bags!!

Checked my balance and how well I was doing at this time of year. I had thought I was doing okay but I have gone crazy with presents!! I really have to stop now!! The parking fine only came out of my account today!! That £50 would have made all the bloody difference! Why couldn’t they have took it out straight away?! I have saved £100 this month, I may have to use it!! Bugger! Three nights out and a hair cut before pay day yet!!

I went off for my hair cut. It didn’t need to be done desperately and I was putting my hair extentions is so it was a bit pointless but needed my fringe cutting so might as well get it all done!! I was still feeling a bit grumpy and really tired but was pleased with my hair. I headed home for a nap!! Problem was I couldn’t sleep! Decided to have a nice relaxing bubble bath instead and then it was time to get ready.I did my hair with the new extentions which didn’t seem wide enough for my head!! After spending alot of time back combing the top over the extentions I thought I better sort out my outfit. I put on my new suck me in tights but they were only just long enough so I had to really pull them up and they were so tight on my thighs they were cutting off my circulation!! Oh welI thats what you have to put up with! I put on my green polka dot dress I’d bought but I just wasn’t happy with it. I wasn’t happy with the halter bra. It just didn’t feel right. I didn’t feel quite right. Even though it was green which is pretty festive the halter neck and white polka dots just made it feel too summery!! I opted for the original dress I was going to wear. My charity shop black polka dot 40s style number. Knee length but with a bit of cheeky cleavage! Remember ladies don’t look a slut this Christmas. Follow the rules boobs or legs not both!! Not like Fleur on x factor who looks like a hooker. Not that Ive watched much of it this year. After my outfit was sorted I need some colour in my hair and tried many hair pieces. I decided to go for a red little hat fascinator with black net and a bit of hollie on it. Mr D wasn’t sure so I went safe and went for a flower. The taxi was hear so I knocked back my vodka and had no more time to faff with outfit hair or make up!! I would have to do!!

I realised in the taxi that Mr D was already half cut after he was proper babbling away. He’d had nearly half a bottle of whisky! We arrived to look at people names on a list from different groups. Derbys a small place so thought I’d probably see someone I know! I saw a name on the list from one of the two faced gym ladies. Ugh! Always has to be someone I don’t like!! Luckily that was the wrong list and we were in a different room! We had many drinks! I drank as much of the free wine as poss and we had 3 course. I ate all three I was starving! It was too bad. Pate on wholemeal for starter, roast dinner. Not anything too big! Some weird chocolate cherry cake for pudding that I picked around thecherries it wasn’t great! But the booze had kicked in so I was quite happy! We drank more. One of the guys girlfriend started singing to 5ive so knew she must be about my age! She was! They were a nice bunch we had a bit of a boogie but the small dance floor was rammed full of all the different groups. A mixed bag. The usual tiny dresses coming out at Christmas. One woman had a top on at that was it! It deffo was not a dress!! It just covered her arse and was not flattering. She was plastered and left nothing for the imagination!! I spotted a guy I recognised I’m sure it was the boy i went out with all the way through Primary School but you cant really go up and say ‘Hey not seen you since we were 11! What u been up to?’ lol I didn’t bother so off we went in to town! A few taxis full of drunken! We had a tacky cheapo chavy boogie at Walkabout!! Dont mind a bit of tac from time to time. We went a few places and I saw a few people from work! Only a handleful still standing! They were as drunk as me! Me and Mr D headed home stoping at the kebab shop on the way home at gave the man his last bit of money and said give me what kebab you can! Being my usual organised self i had made some slimming chips for when i got home!! Fabulous! Drunk and ate chips and zonked straight to sleep next to a drunken Mr D! Not a bad night!!

14/12/14 Woke up feeling a little rough but not too bad! I decided to leave Mr D in bed step over the shoes on the stairs, empty plates, empty booze bottles and emptied bags of make up and went for a nose at the carboot before I decided to clean up! Theres so many new and nearly new things at carboots i cant believe people who say they cant afford things when you can buy things so cheap!! Bought my friends little girl a new elf outfit for £1 and a fancy dress Christmas tree dress for one of my fat club buddies! I also bought a beautiful vintage basket to fill full of goodies Im making my Bessie for Christmas! Bargains make me happy!! I went home for the tidy up and now starving to make some brekkie!! Back on plan for bacon, baked beans and scrambled eggs! Time for Sons of Anachory and had a bowl of that bloody awful soup for lunch I hope last night shouldn’t have ruined all the hard work Ive put in eating speed bloody soup!!

We popped off to Asda to get some bargains.  My headache was kicking in but with 2 buffets this week i needed some bargains! It was crazy busy maybe everybody needs a bargain this time of year! As they brought the bargains out 2 grown men full on pushed me and squashed me into the trolly. I was not in the mood for this shit and thoughts of bargains went out the window. I turned round and shouted in the pricks faces! No one paid any attention they were like animals grabbing! I like a bargain but Im not a fucking animal and Im not scrapping with anyone for a 10p packet of leeks!

Fucking nob heads! I headed home had a little afternoon nap then off to see the Hobbit!! I can tell my will power is slipping I don’t normally touch Mr Ds popcorn but I had a fair amount! I know its not really bad but it all mounts up!! Film was fab. Loved it had a little cry at the end. No more left L

Ive decided i don’t want to do supply on Mondays for now. Maybe next year.

I’m struggling now. There are temptations all around me contently. Chocolates, buffets, Christmas trips to Mcdonalds. I can feel my will power getting less and less. I don’t know how long i can stay on track!!

Monday 15 December 2014

Get my at Lazy arse back to the gym!


01/12/14 Not the best start to December the shower has broken and I left the parking ticket after the ferry in Mr Ds old car that has now been sold and after 3 emails to P and O ferries they still haven’t replied so that means I’ll be on the phone to 0800 numbers today! Great and I need to ring up orange and find out why the fuck my bills are so expensive!!! Bloody great day! Well the phone didn’t ring for supply so this meant I had lots of time for my annoying shity expensive phone calls I need to make! I decided to put all this off and get my fat lazy arse in gear and go to the gym!!

I decided today was the day to go back to the gym!! Feeling like I needed to do something to really push my weight loss and not doing any exercise makes me like a proper lazy lard arse!! So off i went. On arrival i realised they had one of those fancy machines that you can weigh yourself on and do your body fats and everything! Fabulous I can pop straight on that bad boy whenever I fancy it!! I was disappointed that it was only showing i was 1lb lower than last week. Still seeing that dreaded stone mark that i never wanted to see again!! Ugh disappointing. I was getting off and I could hear the Hippy hip hop zumba lady trying to get my attention ‘Hey, have you signed the petition yet?’ I went over and there was a group of them saying how they are trying to get rid of Moorways. I said I had no idea Ive not been for a bit and signed the petition. I don’t want it to close down. I like the big hall with about 15 people in the class. Not small enough that all the attention is on you but not big enough that if you put your arm out in a dance move that you hit the next person on the boob! Not covered in mirrors so i have to see a big wobberly mess trying to dance infront of me. I think Moorways is just right. It was good to be back. I must admit I do feel so much at home at a council class. A mismatched bunch of people all shapes and sizes some in their unflattering lycra some in there baggy trackies and primark pumps. I slotted myself at the back the regulars were there , next to Dectives man in his pink shorts and hid behind the moon and star tattoo lady. Same folk that have been going for years. Strange how Ive never noiced any of these people lose weight? Maybe they just do it for fun or so they can eat more of what they want? Its a happy bunch no one up themselves. I’ll be sad if this place closes down its just the right place for me! Then theres the instructer! Miss Hip Hop lady today looked like she’d just jumped out of bed even though it was 11am! Her hair had been slung back in a very greasy looking pony tail she had a smudge of yesterdays eyeliner still under her eyes from what looks like yesterday. She had a baggy white top pulled into a knot on the side which her black bra on show on the sides and peeking out the top. All she needed now was a mini skirt and stilleteos and she’d look like a crack whore! I like her.
 
02/12/14 Feeling good about going back to class yesterday I thought i’d carry on whilst Im in the zone and go to another of hippy hip hop ladies classes ‘dance fit’ I was disappointed when i remembered we had to get our step out. I bloody hate step aerobics and if i wanted to do bloody step I wouldn’t have gone to a dance class!! Someone somewhere has obviously decided that dancing is not working all the muscles or not working us hard enough so weve got to add a step in the middle! I struggle at the best of times dong hands and legs at the same time so adding a bloody step in the middle just made it even harder ‘step up,  step off, turn, jump over’ Ugh not for me! 20 minutes in and I was sweating like a bitch! I may not be enjoying it as much and getting my feet in all the wrong places but i deffo seemed to be working harder!! There were some new routines chopping down straw and some Susie Sues. I mean what the hell is a Susie Sue? Who comes up with these moves?! Maybe I will come back next week! We soon got rid of the steps, did some more dancing and some abs work.

Time for work again. Nothing to report. Jacket potatoe and beans for tea. (I say jacket but not sure its counted when the potatoe is boiled)

03/12/14 The morning went quick. I was good at just ate my yogurt and wasnt tempted by the usual weigh morning nibbles!! I weighed myself again. I know its really not good my new obsession with the scales! I just cant help myself. I have to know where Im at! i think about it all the time, nearly as much as food. How I can fit in another weigh in!
Time for fat club! Feeling pretty good and really wanting to lose 3lb so I finally hit the stone and a half award!! But i had that feeling of nwhen you really want it and it doesnt happen! With my 2 lb gain last week and my maintain the week before it feels like Ive been hoovering around this weight for too long. Really need to smash through this barrier!! Got on the scales and lost 3lbs!!! Oooooshhh so happy right now!! Exactly what I wanted, back on track! The smile did not leave my face!!
I ate my lunch in the car today as I just couldnt do it in class it was too naughty!! Big fat beef and cheese salad crusty white cob with butter! yep butter! A bag of cheese and onion crisps and a snickers! It was bloody fantastic!! Sometimes it is just the simple things you want to eat!!! What a proper fat bird thing to do! Sitting shovelling my naughty food down my throat in the car.
I grazed all afternoon again. Not as bad. Tonight with the kids I ate crackers! A whole load of crackers smoothered in cheap marg! If I was going to have a binge I really need to start picking something worth all those bloody syns Who wastes there treat night on crackers??

04/12/14 Feels weird being up and getting ready for work on a Thursday morning when i finished at 10.30 last night. Sleepily getting ready when I have no shower and trying to make myself a yummy packed lunch when the whole class are having Mcdonalds!! The staff have been planning what they are having for weeks. I am strong who wants Mcdonalds anyway?? I was ready for the cold Christmas day out with my snowman jumper,wellies, wolly hate and my pasta with roasted veggies, bacon and light phili. Off we went with my regular cake loving class to the Snowdome. I started feeling very christmasy as we arrived. Buble was blasting out his Christmas tunes (only exceptable to listen to Buble at chrismas!) Firstly you go to the snow area and you can go on sleigh and down little hills on rubber rings! I was feeling so christmasy!! Then you go to see a awful little christmas panto. Which was so awful it was amusing in places. Santa kept thrusting? Odd. Then you get to go to see the animals. Reindeers and strange little horses. It was fab shame we whizzed through and were only there 25 minutes. We got back and everybody had there Mcdonalds. Big mac and milkshake, chicken nuggets, big portions of fries! I just wanted to ram my face in the bag and suck up all the fries!! mmm but nope I was a good girl and ate my pasta. Dieting sucks ass!!

It was so good to have Thursday evening at home. Bubble bath, Chinese style chicken and veggie curry with vegetable stir fry (deffo got my 5 a day there!!) and the only way I like stirfry! Hobbit on the TV, making homemade Christmas cards with the pooch and the Mr. Christmas pjs on. Fabulous, just the kind of night I like at home.

Mr D wouldn’t let me eat number 24 on my advent calendar! One just wasn’t cutting it tonight. Im going to be way too excited to worry about my advent calendar on Christmas eve. Bah humbug!!

05/12/14 Woke up with a really soar throat. Perfect for my day off and a weekend in a caravan ugh! Now I need to use my presience syns on throat sweets and lempsips! Still good to be off on a Friday!! Im not letting this soar throat beat me. Had 3 green teas with lots of lemon juice and some iburophen. I could not bring myself to waste my syns on sweets that taste like soap!!
Me and my mum went off to town to do a bit of christmas shopping!! We had a spot of lunch at the food hall and went for greek. I'd got a groupon voucher and got us both a meal and drink for £7. It wasnt great, it was okay. We were good and we had mixed meat salad. We said no to the pitta that came without. My mum makes good choices when I do. She was going to have chips and a pitta!! I like being a good influence. I did some christmasy things at home, it felt like a Saturday.
It was great not being tired on a Friday night! We had home made burgers and chips for dinner. I needed it after watching everybody else eat burgers yesterday. I didnt need to have my usual lazy night in. We went off to see Mr Ds family and go to the Ashbourne market. It was as shit as last year the same stall they have open every saturday day time selling sofa cushions and old lady underwear. But the christmas tunes were blasting there were a few stalls with over priced reefs and candles and the smell of naughty food was in the air. We popped for a drink and had a catch up with the family and popped in to see his grandparents and more family on the way home. The market was crap but was nice to see Mr Ds family! I bumped in to one of my old chums from my old work. The one who originally offered us her field for us to have our wedding in. Was great to see her but made me miss my old work chums even more. Loyal, good people that always have your back and who you can tell a filthy joke too. Thats what I miss.

06/12/14 Really wasn’t feeling well this morning my throat was really hurting and I felt sick. Mr D was up early as the man was supposed to come and fix the shower at 8am. He cancelled about 8.30am. Ugh still no shower. I thought my feeling sick would wear off and it was just to do with my soar throat but no I ended up having a mad dash to the toilet and chucking up loads of water. Fabulous! Happy Saturday! Went back to bed and 15 minutes later I made the dash again. This time froffy water?! Whats that about? Im not hungover! Not had any bloody booze!!

An hour later and a couple of my fave slimming world bars and I felt fine! How odd! Mr D had been busy getting the caravan ready for trip and was happy I was feeling better! Caravan packed nicely with all our stuff, we then had to get it off the drive!! Luckily a few of her helpful neighbours were around and we got it off with no problems. So off we went in our first adventure in Wilma! We arrived 45 minutes later in a little spot in Moira. Parked up with no problems. The sun was shining but it was chilly. Mr D was having trouble with the electrics and just couldn’t get them working. Me and the pooch sat there shivering and after a hour of faffing decided we needed to go out and buy a fuse. A swift trip to the shops and a lot of time of Mr D trying out different fuses and us then realsing one of the plug sockets was sparking quickly rewired and spent a few hours very toasty with our electric heater on and bangers, mash and baked beans yum!! The dog settled in nicely. Just the three of having a cheeky drink in our warm little home away from home.

We then went off to my bessies house which i thought was round the corner but a 10 minute walk in the cold. Mr D went off to the pub with the pooch, the bessies hubby and his mate whilst the girls had a little christmasy evening! Very civilised evening of sticking cloves in oranges and eating mince pies. Apart from I gave the mince pies a miss and the mini pizzas, sausage rolls, cheese saviouries and Pringles. Lots of yummy snacks and not one passed my lips i was very good! I knew once I started I wouldn’t stop. I used my syns on a bottle of wine and a cup of mulled wine! So it was even harder not to snack! Luckily i’d come armed with the onion bhagees I’d made and the rolo cakes. The rolo cakes were pretty shit but they filled a hole! I really need to get better at baking slimming world puds!! It was a nice evening and I was quite merry when the boys stumbled through the door. The bessies hubby was battered. Mr D wasn’t too far behind him. With our dog in the mix the 4 dogs were going crazy so I decided it was better we made a quick exit. As we walked out the door Mr D tripped over the dog lead and was covered in mud. He then moaned about his ankle hurting and swayed all the way home which took us double the time. When we finally get in he attempted to put the bed together. When he couldn’t do he then moaned at me for not knowing how to do it! (hes never shown me!!) After setting it up he sat on the edge of the bed feeling sick. He then said 'I feel sick so Im going into the car’ I gave him a blanket and off he went outside in the freezing cold night in just his boxers. 20 minutes later I tried to get him to come in but he just snored at me.I couldn’t settle so I just read my book. Half an hour later he came banging on the door. I let him in and he was freezing! He seemed a little more sober and we finally got tucked up in bed. 5 minutes later I said to him ‘did you lock the car’ he replied ‘I don’t know’ and then went to sleep. So out i went in to the cold! The car was open and he’d left the keys on the front seat. Finally time to get some sleep!! On the plus point all the chaosis of the evening meant I’d not got home and had the skips and hot chocolate I’d planned!!

07/12/14 Woke up very toasty in the caravan! Alot more toasty than our own house!! Mr D was very apologetic this morning and said he’d make it up to me and make us breakfast. I felt a little bit rough, I could tell I’d been drinking the night before so was happy to have some brekkie. Half an hour late Mr D was feeling too rough to make brekkie so i got out of bed and made bacon, scrambled eggs and spaghetti. Some crusty bread for Mr D but I was good. I miss crusty bread! We ended up snoozing back off and it was 11.30 when I woke up again so we spent the next half an hour running round getting ready (What I mean by getting ready is throwing a dress on and putting a hat on) and putting everything away!! We hooked the caravan up and started on our way in the cold and rain. Mr D was feeling very rough and quite sick so we had to travel in silence and pray we’d make it!! We did, just!! He managed to reverse it on the drive with the guidance from the neighbour! We survived our first trip in the caravan!! Just!!

After cleaning up I ran Mr D a bubble bath and made him some peanut butter on toast and took it up to him. I am a good girlfriend!! It smelt so good, peanut goodness! I didn’t even dare lick the spoon as I thought it might lead to me sitting on the kitchen floor eating peanut butter by the spoonful!! Mmm. Nope I settled for a mug shot, the last 2 homemade onion bagees. (when I took them to my friends, I left the lid half on and hoped nobody would eat any! Bad yes but all the others could indulge in sausage rolls and pizzas!!) We then snuggled up for a duvet afternoon and ate strawberries. Afternoon turned into evening so I thought I better be a bit productive and finished off making my Christmas cards. We’d not done our usual bargain shop so used up what we had in. I had a big chicken leg (no skin of course) a couple of roasties, cabbage, green beans, brocilli and mushy peas instead of gravy. I was gutted we didn’t even have cranberry sauce. Im happy to use my syns on cranberry sauce every time!! I love cranberry sauce!!! Chicken dinner without it is ruined! Mr D had a pie, roasties and veggies. I often make him slimming world food and hes happy to eat it but we also usually have a lot of 10p food to use up so he has more naughtys than me but to be fair he has massive salads for lunch everyday. Theres not really anything he doesn’t eat which makes it easy for me!! We started to feel better so we went off to the cinema to see Hunger games. I wanted to see if for ages and just not had chance! I loved it, I took my slimming world bars and a curly wurly. Happy Days!!