Hi All,
Happy New Year!
I weighed in yesterday…9st 6lbs. I spent 10 months last year getting from 9st 6lbs to 8st 12lbs and 6 weeks to put it all back on. I am not impressed. I am putting some of it down to coming off the pill. The rest is pure gluttony.
So we start again.
Yesterday:
B – pain au chocolat
L – pea and ham soup with homemade bread roll
D – lamb madras with a small portion of rice
S – packet of low fat crisps, 3 cups of tea, 2 small crackers with stilton, 187ml bottle of white wine
Not great but a hell of a lot better than a week ago!
Today:
B – pain au chocolat
L – cheese and cucumber sandwiches
D – fish and veg
S – packet of low fat crisps, 3 cups of tea, no alcohol
Oh! Yesterday I exercised. Ok, you can all pick yourselves up off the floor now! 
20mins on X-trainer, squats, weights and lots of abdominal crunches followed by a walk around the village. Felt great! Will do that again tonight.
Tomorrow things are going to go downhill again – a last minute trip to Belgium sees me up at 4am then a stressful day ahead, night in a hotel (which I still haven’t booked), home on an early afternoon train. Really not looking forward to it, but I don’t want DH to have to go on his own.
I’ve cut down my alcohol intake a lot since Boxing Day. I was even sensible on NYE. DH very impressed – I’ve more than halved my intake and it feels good. I’m enjoying not having a hangover.
TTC starts this month after AF arrived after 31 days – didn’t think this was too bad for the first month off the pill. Of course, I have no idea what the length of this cycle will be! I’ve worked out when I ovulate by the crippling pains that leave me unable to stand.
Ugh, this weather. I hope none of you are seriously affected by it? Our village is flooded. Two of the roads into/out of the village are closed, the river is still dangerously high, as is the canal and we’re onto yet another day of flood warnings. My friend lives in the centre of the village and was flooded yesterday. It was up to his knees outside his front door but luckily only affected his front room which is floorboards so as long as they don’t warp, he’s had a lucky escape! I live on a hill so we’re not really affected, although the chickens were a bit surprised by the overnight addition of a swimming pool to their coop. The village has suffered with the wind as well – a massive tree in the churchyard fell over Christmas and has damaged a lot of graves. We also had a lot of damage to houses and cars by falling roof tiles.
Very dark, wet and windy here again today. Fed up of this now – I like cold, crisp days, not wet and wild.