Back to normal

Afternoon all....

I have to report that yesterday I had to change the course of my diet.  Reason being that on Thursday night I suffered badly from leg cramps which were threatening and I knew I wouldn't be able to jump out of bed to sort it out easily so before that sets in (like it did last time I was on the low carb diet) I decided to change tack to a calorie controlled diet.  I worked out that to lose weight slowly and steadily I need to consume less than 1470 calories per day and so me being me I am aiming for a daily amount of approx. 1200 :D.

So far so good and I have lost in total since Monday (it's Saturday today) 4 and a half lbs.  My other half has done better than that and has lost 6 lbs now :)) I am very pleased for her although she expected to lose more apparently.

I saw my eldest son this morning and he was at my mum's visiting with my grand daughter, my grandson was by all accounts at his senior school of choice taking entrance tests.  I shall ring him this afternoon to see how he got on.

I gave my lady's son a lift to work this morning and had a good chat with him about openness and honesty with his mum or/and me I think it was well received and I hope it will help him to talk to us more.  17 year old boys are notoriously difficult to engage in conversation I believe although thankfully I had no such problems with my own.  For some reason my boys have always been very open with me, sometimes, embarrassingly a little too open ;) hopefully it will start a new level of communication with him. 

After finishing my visit with my mum I went to pick my lady's daughter up as she had been playing football in the morning and brought her home and we are not sat watching TV - guess what is on?? Yep you guessed it dear Reader, it is indeed football!! Still we came to an amicable arrangement whereby she will watch this match and then I can have something on.  She is quite happy, in fact she has been full of smiles etc and as happy as Larry.  Now this is something odd that I have noticed that when my lovely lady is present her daughter tends to present with a miserable face and mope around the place a lot especially if she is being told that my lady is working late or extra like this morning being a Saturday which meant that she was unable to watch her play the game and in fact missed her scoring.  This behaviour has the desired effect on my dear lady making her feel guilt ridden as though somehow she is letting her down in some way which of course is utter nonsense.  But the daughter seems to pile it on and yet as soon as she is out of her mum's range she is completely normal and happy #grossmanipulationfor maximumeffect

Back in the swing....

Good Evening to you

Well, it's all over and done with for another year....I sometimes think of the frantic build-up and wonder why people get so uptight about it all....I mean yes, I can understand that we all want to spend time with our loved ones and 'break bread' together sharing the festive feast which everyone partakes of to excess.  Nearly all of us are guilty of this I know that personally I look on it as a time that food wise 'anything goes' I will generally eat items that normally I would consider unhealthy and fattening but over the Xmas holiday season it seems that all the taboo items like extra thick cream, sweets, puddings, and excess of roast pots, pigs in blankets etc then after rolling away from the table to sit and doze in front of the TV just for a short time we begin again, preparing fruit, nuts, crisps, popcorn and other picky bits until everyone is most uncomfortable whilst engaging in game playing or more TV watching.

But, my point is this dear Reader, why do we use the Xmas holiday as an excuse to get the family round the dining table, why don't we do this with our loved ones on a more regular basis? Admitted it's not Christmas but that doesn't mean we cant enjoy each others company and share our news good and bad and discuss and yep, even play a few games in the evening too...why not??

I think I shall try to get them all together more often to do this so that Christmas becomes just a time of being off work and exchanging a few gifts but the practice of sharing totally as a family should be a normal occurrence and I'm aiming to make that so.

Well, it's day 3 of the diet (new Atkins) and I have suffered from a really awful headache today and feeling sick but on the positive side since I began it on Monday my stomach actually feels so much better, not bloated, no horrendous noises, no gas, just calm - this is the upside of dieting, I feel at peace within my body and that makes me very happy.  I am on the journey of getting a slimmer figure and once my foot is better I shall begin exercising so that the weight will drop off faster.  I also need to start doing some weight training again to burn off the excess flab on my arms and tone up the muscles so that I can wear sleeveless vests when the weather gets warmer.

The storms keep coming....we have never known a year like it - as far as WInter is concerned we have experienced a very mild one so not too bad however, many people have been so terribly affected by flooding that they are still under water now, I feel for them and am so thankful for both my partner and myself have houses that are warm and dry and thankfully not in a flood plane.

I think I have written enough today boring you silly so will end it now....until next time....