Ok...I know I've not posted in ages...but I've just been very busy. I tried to post one day when I was working on a Saturday as I needed to wait an hour and a half for the system...I tried to post about the Simpsons movie as we had just been to see it. But youtube was blocked...on a Saturday! so I didn't post as text was just boring. I've been staying away from home a couple of nights a week which means that I don't have internet access in the evenings.
This isn't a very good post and boring I know...but I don't feel quite so bad about not posting as Yvonne has been a bit slack as well lately.
I will try and make a good effort to post more often regardless of being busy...
Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Thursday, 9 August 2007
Fat Club ~ Week 3
Yay! I did it again...I lost weight! I really feel as I have a good handle on my weight loss this time and I'm going to get to my goal with plenty of time before the wedding. I'll keep going to Slimming World until at least the wedding and probably need to continue after we get back...2 weeks on a cruise with all that yummy food...I'll be as big as house! Ok...not...but I'm bound to gain.
I lost 2.5lbs this week which brings me to a grand total of 7.5lbs in three weeks. At this Rate I'll be down to my target weight before mum comes in October.
Colleen asked me this week how I was losing my weight. I didn't think I had told her that I was going back to Slimming world. Apparently I hadn't, she just noticed that I'm losing it. There are three things that are really encouraging about losing weight.
1) knowing that the numbers are going down on the scale...not up!
2) noticing that your clothes are getting looser.
3) other people noticing that the weight is coming off!
So hopefully next week will be as good as the past three. Smiley is losing weight as well and I'm really enjoying the food this time...Especially the Veggie Lasagna...sooooooo yummy!
I'm hoping to go swimming again tomorrow. I went on Monday and did 880 meters in just under 20 minutes. My goal is to eventually get up to 1 km in 20 minutes...only 6 lengths more!
On a side note...Moose is sick...I don't want to go into it as it isn't pleasant...but he has a poorly bum and the vet thinks he has an auto immune disease. We've got some new medication for him and hopefully it'll work (It should...costs £50 for 2 weeks!). Poor Moose! I feel so bad for him and just hope and pray that this sorts him out.
I lost 2.5lbs this week which brings me to a grand total of 7.5lbs in three weeks. At this Rate I'll be down to my target weight before mum comes in October.
Colleen asked me this week how I was losing my weight. I didn't think I had told her that I was going back to Slimming world. Apparently I hadn't, she just noticed that I'm losing it. There are three things that are really encouraging about losing weight.
1) knowing that the numbers are going down on the scale...not up!
2) noticing that your clothes are getting looser.
3) other people noticing that the weight is coming off!
So hopefully next week will be as good as the past three. Smiley is losing weight as well and I'm really enjoying the food this time...Especially the Veggie Lasagna...sooooooo yummy!
I'm hoping to go swimming again tomorrow. I went on Monday and did 880 meters in just under 20 minutes. My goal is to eventually get up to 1 km in 20 minutes...only 6 lengths more!
On a side note...Moose is sick...I don't want to go into it as it isn't pleasant...but he has a poorly bum and the vet thinks he has an auto immune disease. We've got some new medication for him and hopefully it'll work (It should...costs £50 for 2 weeks!). Poor Moose! I feel so bad for him and just hope and pray that this sorts him out.
Wednesday, 8 August 2007
And the Winner is...
Jason from Washington Interns gone Bad!
Congratulations Jason on winning the Blog off V.2.0.
If you didn't get around to reading Jason's post I would definatly recommend it...they were fantastic.
Unfortunatly I won't be taking part in the next blog off (V3.0) as I'm far too busy at work and life in general at the moment but take a moment to stop by Courtney's site and support her on her three day walk in Seattle.
On a side note...I know I've been crap at posting lately but I've just been busy! If I could post and drive at the same time...that would sort out a lot of issues! But I can't...I'll try to keep up with it while I'm going through this busy period of my life...please bare with me!
Congratulations Jason on winning the Blog off V.2.0.
If you didn't get around to reading Jason's post I would definatly recommend it...they were fantastic.
Unfortunatly I won't be taking part in the next blog off (V3.0) as I'm far too busy at work and life in general at the moment but take a moment to stop by Courtney's site and support her on her three day walk in Seattle.
On a side note...I know I've been crap at posting lately but I've just been busy! If I could post and drive at the same time...that would sort out a lot of issues! But I can't...I'll try to keep up with it while I'm going through this busy period of my life...please bare with me!
Thursday, 2 August 2007
Fat Club...Week 2
Ok...so the weekend wasn't so good. Was in London with Shawna and Scott and after about my fifth Natcho...I realised I probably shouldn't be eating all that super yummy gooeyness! oh well! I still lost 2 lbs which is a grand total of 5lbs in 2 weeks! Whoo hoo!
Next week should be interesting...I found out yesterday that I'm expected to work in Bracknell three days a week. This is not forever...just for now. It's due to the nature of the project I'm working on. Driving the 170 miles round trip is NOT fun especially as its all motorways and the traffic is horrible...check out this previous post! So I will probably stay in Bracknell on Tuesday and Wednesday nights as to save my sanity! (what's left of it!) Lunches will be ok...as I do that now...it'll just be dinners...i'll figure it out.
Next week should be interesting...I found out yesterday that I'm expected to work in Bracknell three days a week. This is not forever...just for now. It's due to the nature of the project I'm working on. Driving the 170 miles round trip is NOT fun especially as its all motorways and the traffic is horrible...check out this previous post! So I will probably stay in Bracknell on Tuesday and Wednesday nights as to save my sanity! (what's left of it!) Lunches will be ok...as I do that now...it'll just be dinners...i'll figure it out.
Sunday, 29 July 2007
Victory...Part II
Strangest thing...Saturday I headed into London to meet up with a friend I hadn't seen in about 13 years. As I was waiting at the Eurostar Arrival gate I thought it might be a good idea to look through the tourist leaflets just in case there was something of interest or value there. Amongst the leaflets was the following...
I had to look twice as I thought it was so strange that I had never heard of "Dig for Victory" before last week and now I've posted on it and found a leaflet for an exibit at the Churchill Museum.
Thought it was cool and figured appropriate to share! Read the original Victory post below.
Thursday, 26 July 2007
Victory
“O Victory in Jesus, my saviour, forever. He sought me and bought me with his redeeming blood; He loved me ere I knew Him and all my love is due Him, He plunged me to Victory, Beneath the Cleansing Flood”
This song has been going through my head ever since yesterday morning when I got the word VICTORY. I’ve thought about posting about it but there isn’t much to say. I don’t currently go to Church and haven’t for about 8 or so years…I have my reasons. But this song must have made an impact on me as I remembered the words, and that is quite an achievement. I find I pretty much know the tunes for a lot of hymns but have no idea what the words are. This comes from years and years of playing in the Salvation Army band. I always played the tune…next to never sang it.
It is a good thing I’m not posting about the song…as this would be the end…So even though that song was running through my head the past two days I’m going to go a different way…of course.
V is for Victory, Churchill, WWII…as I was looking up stuff about Victory on the net (I needed some sort of inspiration!) I came across the following pictures.
And then I kept seeing mentionings of it and I became intrigued…Dig for Victory…what does this mean, what does it reference to? I tend to associate Victory with World War II. Obviously there are other Victory’s but this is what I’m focusing on today.
One month into World War II the British Ministry of Agriculture started the Dig for Victory Campaign. The British People were encouraged to turn their yards and pretty much any free and empty land into allotments to “grow their own”. This was started not only to provide much needed food for the British public but it also in turn freed up the much needed space on shipping convoy’s for war materials.
You would not believe the extent that Ministry went to promoting this scheme. They had songs and poems and even little characters to encourage people to eat Carrots and potatoes.
I’m not kidding in the slightest! Check out this site…it shows some of the poems and songs and characters.
It turns out that this worked a treat and people didn’t starve as being on our own tiny island over here…we were prone to the Germans sinking thousands of merchant ships as Britian imported 55 million tons of food a year before the war started.
How did this help the war effort? It meant that merchant ships could focus on supplying the war effort rather than supplying the British people with food.
I find it funny but very sad at my own ignorance that this was one of the most memorable campaigns of the 20th century and I didn’t know anything about it!
The moral of the story…it’s the small things that make a difference!
This song has been going through my head ever since yesterday morning when I got the word VICTORY. I’ve thought about posting about it but there isn’t much to say. I don’t currently go to Church and haven’t for about 8 or so years…I have my reasons. But this song must have made an impact on me as I remembered the words, and that is quite an achievement. I find I pretty much know the tunes for a lot of hymns but have no idea what the words are. This comes from years and years of playing in the Salvation Army band. I always played the tune…next to never sang it.
It is a good thing I’m not posting about the song…as this would be the end…So even though that song was running through my head the past two days I’m going to go a different way…of course.
V is for Victory, Churchill, WWII…as I was looking up stuff about Victory on the net (I needed some sort of inspiration!) I came across the following pictures.
And then I kept seeing mentionings of it and I became intrigued…Dig for Victory…what does this mean, what does it reference to? I tend to associate Victory with World War II. Obviously there are other Victory’s but this is what I’m focusing on today.
One month into World War II the British Ministry of Agriculture started the Dig for Victory Campaign. The British People were encouraged to turn their yards and pretty much any free and empty land into allotments to “grow their own”. This was started not only to provide much needed food for the British public but it also in turn freed up the much needed space on shipping convoy’s for war materials.
You would not believe the extent that Ministry went to promoting this scheme. They had songs and poems and even little characters to encourage people to eat Carrots and potatoes.
I’m not kidding in the slightest! Check out this site…it shows some of the poems and songs and characters.
It turns out that this worked a treat and people didn’t starve as being on our own tiny island over here…we were prone to the Germans sinking thousands of merchant ships as Britian imported 55 million tons of food a year before the war started.
How did this help the war effort? It meant that merchant ships could focus on supplying the war effort rather than supplying the British people with food.
I find it funny but very sad at my own ignorance that this was one of the most memorable campaigns of the 20th century and I didn’t know anything about it!
The moral of the story…it’s the small things that make a difference!
This was a post for the Blog Off for Breast Cancer V2.0. Please take some time to view some of the other blogs participating, all the links are on the right hand panel. Remember, it's the small things that matter...so do your small bit and please click on the banner below to make a contribution to Courtney and her three day walk so we can all have a VICTORY against cancer!
Fat Club - Week One
Well, the first week has been and gone...I had a rough weekend but regardless...I still lost 3lbs last week! Whoo hoo!
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