Ah, you are all so sweet! I didn’t think anyone had noticed I hadn’t posted all week! Alas I’m not on my hols, wish I were, I think it must be Cathy you are thinking about in Majorca! I went on my hols in April (returned the day before I started LT) and don’t have another one booked.
I’m ashamed to admit my absence has been due to something worse – me feeling very sorry for myself!!!!! After my WI on Monday, the second low one in a row, I felt very down and really wasn’t in the right frame of mind to support, advise and encourage newbies. I especially didn’t feel like telling someone who had cheated and still lost 3/4/5lb that they just needed to focus on their goal when I had stuck religiously to LT for 21 weeks and lost 1lb! Selfish of me? I thought so!
I just needed a bit of time to get my head around things, remember that I have done so well in 21 weeks and am looking and feeling better than I have for years! I didn’t think it was fair to unburden myself on you lovely people when my life motto has been “life is too short to be miserable”!!!!! I have lurked to see how everyone else has been doing but have decided that life is soooooooooo good that today I was ready to inflict myself upon you all (you poor things!!!!!!)
The week went pretty slowly without you all and was a pain at times. Tuesday I felt so hungry that I was worried I wasn’t in ketosis anymore! How could that be when I hadn’t cheated!
Wednesday at 7am the power went at home!!!! Just after OH had left for work – typical! No kettle, no shower, no DVD player to play my workout tape on, no computer to see how you were all doing! I had to take youngest to the fracture clinic at my local hospital. We arrived early and were sent to x-ray, where we waited for ages! We were then sent back to the clinic where we seemed to be sent to the back of the queue! An hour and a half after our appointment time we were taken to a room where we had another 20 min wait till we saw the consultant (for all of 5 mins). He was lovely with my little one and gave her the all clear to swim and go on her residential school trip in just over a week but still no contact sport!!!!! She is really missing it!
I dashed home to collect my mum and take her to the station then I did the shopping. Later, before my neighbour had even managed to walk into his house from work I dragged him into mine!!! That’ll get the rest of the neighbours talking!!!!! He was able to work out that it was my microwave tripping the switch and once it was unplugged power was restored!!! Yay! Alas the upshot of a day without a kettle and the need for a different taste in my mouth to water was that I had about ¾ of a tub of fibreclear!!! It was like sherbet to me!!!!! I didn’t mean to but it was sooo nice! The good thing is the bowels have been busy, the bad side is that it’s been a trifle windy in these here parts, much to the children’s amusement! Does this mean I cheated? In my head I have! Not sure how much fibreclear you are allowed in one day!!!
Thursday I panicked when I tested and found the ketostix neutral! I know I drink a lot of water and had a lot of fibreclear but had I knocked myself out of ketosis? Friday it barely read the first colour, haven’t had a chance to check since! Thursday night at work was a nightmare with 17 students on my register and we only usually have 10 in a class! Fortunately 4 didn’t arrive but the admin needed to start the 9 new ones was overwhelming and, despite starting early and staying late (and worrying my eldest who was waiting in the dark for me to collect her) I was run off my feet!
Friday was a wonderful day! My little one and I went off with her best friend and her mum to a craft show where we had a wonderful time and spent way too much! Mind you, I did buy some Christmas presents and could have spent much more!!! I saw 2 stunning cross stitch kits that I fell in love with but decided that at £40 each I just couldn’t buy them – that’s 2 more weeks worth of LT for me!!! I did buy a couple of kits for me and a couple for my little one and I’ve been helping her with hers. The weather was great and we had lunch outside (well I had a flapjack!) and with the sunshine this weekend as well I’m just happy to be alive!
It’s my anniversary this week and my birthday the week after, I’m slimmer than I’ve been for years and I’ve made so many new friends on this site, life can’t get much better (except maybe a good loss this week!!!!) All I’d like now is to achieve my mini goal at WI tomorrow, so I have everything crossed that the scales will be good to me!
Thank you for caring enough to have started this post Liberty and to everyone else for adding to it, it means an awful lot to me. Sorry for the long post!
Big hugs to you all.
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