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