Sue81

I’ve lost 2lbs this week and I think it is down to the extra exercise I’ve done.

Last Saturday I spent 4 1/2 hours walking round town and I’ve recently bought Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games for the Wii which I’ve been playing a lot. It certainly classes as exercise in my book.

I also took part in a team building exercise on Thursday. It was a walking treasure hunt round Exeter, in fancy dress. So if anyone saw a bunch of people looking like complete muppets, I was one of them. It was a superheroes theme. My team were the Men in Black so we weren’t as bad as some.

I think the weight loss would have been higher if the team building hadn’t ended in a drinking session but I’m happy with 2lbs.

It has been a bit of a stressful week familywise as my little brother (25) was rushing into hospital on Tuesday and straight into an emergency op as he had a strangulated testicle. Luckily he still has everything attached but is on bed rest at our parents for a while. They are hoping he hasn’t done any permanent damage.

I have suffered from lots of different allergies since I was a child and I try to avoid things I am allergic to as much as possible.

Well this lunchtime I got a sandwich from the same place as usual and it was a sandwich I have eaten before but they must have used a different supplier for one of the ingredients because 30 minutes later and I was not in a good way.

So I have had to come home. I’ve taken some antihistamine which is making me feel drowsy and I’m drinking loads of water to flush out my system.

I hate this I’m going to feel dodgy for ages.

This week at work has been so frustrating. Along with my day job, whenever we prepare a business plan, I co-ordinate all the individual pieces coming together and analyse the outputs. Essentially that means I spend all my time chasing everyone else to do their work and I can’t do mine until everyone else has finished.
We had to review with the Finance Director on Friday so the deadline for the work to be finished was Wednesday lunchtime, to give me time to do my work and for reviews to take place.
If I tell you that when I left on Friday, the basic work in one area still hadn’t been finished, you can understand how frustrated I am.

I didn’t eat my way through my frustration but I did meet up with my parents last night for a meal. They are on holiday this week in Cornwall and were passing through so we spent a couple of hours together at a cavery. It wasn’t on plan (and I did round it off with an ice cream) but I knew it was going to happen. Still I’ve lost 1lb this week and hopefully it’ll be a bit more next week.

I really liked the look of the walking DVDs recommended as a reply to my last blog but they are all region 1 so won’t work in the UK. There doesn’t seem to be anything similar here which is a shame. I guess I’ll have to keep looking.