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!!