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I’ve spent most of this weekend dreaming about my holiday. It isn’t until November but it is three weeks in Orlando. I’m going with my parents, for two main reasons, I am an airline employee so have access to perks etc. and the fact that the motels all have two double beds in the rooms so I can stay for not much extra cost. We have now booked the flights and the theme park tickets (including a day in Discovery Cove for me) and decided where we are staying (my dad’s favourite hobby is looking up holiday things online and finding a bargain).  Although I’m trying not to think about how much cash I now owe my dad.

It’s 11 years since I was last there but other than the theme parks there is one main thing I remember, the food!
Now I am fully aware that it is possible to eat healthily in the area but we didn’t and my dad loves value for money, so we ended up eating at places like the ponderosa steakhouse. I found a link to their website on a forum today and oh the amount of food and the price, the exchange rate is almost $2 to £1 at the moment so I can half any price I see but in lots of cases the stuff we get here is the same amount they just swap a $ for a £.

I think my favourite fast food (we tried out most of the brands!) was the taco bell. I think there is one in London but apart from that it doesn’t exist in the UK. We also ate at the Mexican in Epcot and that was the first time I knew that that sort of food existed other than chilli. I still enjoy it just try to have a healthy version.

I’m a bit dangerous in all you can eat places and I imagine we’ll end up in a few even if we don’t unless something has radically changed the portion sizes are larger anyway. I don’t intend to try to stay on plan but I already know that. I hope that walking miles around theme parks all day will help to counteract the amount of food I will be fueling myself up with.

As I have spend the day thinking about food I’m making myself one of my favourite meals, steak wraps. It has it’s inspiration in fajitas and as I have worked out a way to cook it on plan, it is very filling but isn’t cheating.

I know this was a bit of a mixed up blog but it was my attempt not to eat the entire fridge in the time it took to cook my dinner. As it is now nearly ready I will sign off.

It has been a good week. For the first time in a while I really applied myself to this, no excuses. I’ve lost 4lb and I’m 1lb below my mini goal, so for those of you who work in stones I am 19st 13lbs. I honestly have no idea when I was last this weight but it has been years.

We have been sorting our hoilday out this week and it reminded me of one of the reasons why I wanted to lose the weight. A nine hour flight at the size I was doesn’t bear thinking about, plus as we are going to Florida, I wanted to be comfortable on the rides and have the energy to walk round the parks all day.
We have booked our flights with Virgin Atlantic, which is who I always wanted to fly with. They are comfortable even in economy plus I have a tiny chance of an upgrade with them. A quick look online shows that their seats are 17.5″ wide. A quick measure of my behind shows it is not! So a little way to go there.

I did my shopping online this week. It turned up at 8:00pm last night, so I’m fully stocked up for the week without any of the usual stuff that ends up in the trolley through temptation and I only forgot to get 2 things which is better than normal.

After the last two weekends turned out pretty stressful, this weekend is devoted to relaxation, smash bros on the wii, pokemon on the ds and messing about on the internet.

I have been using the same profile pic on a lot of sites for too long (about 3 years) and I have been told that it is no longer representative of how I now look. I’m never quite sure how to take that sort of comment but either way I have had a go at taking a new picture of myself.

I finally have my plumbing sorted, so I can fully use all my facilities again. It’s a good thing it was starting to mess with my plumbing.

I’m trying my best this week but I’ve not been as good as I would like but there is plenty of time left this week to rectify that.

Well I think my life has recovered from the experience of my parents visiting. The excess alcohol has left my system and I finally got a fully working plumbing system on Wednesday. They are threatening to come back for a week and basically use my flat as a base, tour the area borrowing my car. Hopefully it’ll be a while before that happens!

It doesn’t appear to have done much damage to my weight as I’m the same as I was two weeks ago. I’m still 3lbs short of my mini goal and I’m hoping to get there this week.

I’ve decided to do my grocery shopping online again as I’m struggling to resist the temptations as I go round the supermarket. I put the list together one day then go back the next to order so I can add anything I’ve missed and remove any impulse buys.

I think the main theme for this weekend is relaxation.

Hope you guys all have a good weekend!

My parents spent the weekend at my place, they flew home at lunchtime and the best thing I can say is thank goodness that is over. I have been off plan, mainly through the booze but my eating could have been a lot worse, with a couple of exceptions. I’ve been stressing about this for a while and it was in most ways better than it could have been.

Unfortunately a couple of things happened yesterday which I could really have done without. I ended up on the sofa bed as my dad refused to sleep in it and instead of getting the sofa bed out I just slept on the sofa. At 6:00am Sunday morning I woke up with an agonising pain in my knee. It had locked and I couldn’t straighten it. It still hurt now.
We were due to go out for lunch and while my mum and I were getting ready, my dad had noticed that my sink was draining a little slowly so he decided to sort it out. To cut a long story short ALL the plumbing in my flat is now draining via my shower tray. After a misunderstanding with my letting agents I am now waiting for a plumber.

Tomorrow it’s back on plan with hopefully a renewed motivation but for now it is time to read some blogs and find some food that doesn’t involve any plates etc.

I haven’t blogged in a couple of weeks, I keep coming to the site but I haven’t even commented on many blogs. I lost 1lb last week and gained it again this week. It is not a shock, I’ve been off plan and even at some points mini-binging.

My parents are coming to stay for a few days on Thursday so that isn’t going to help.

I just feel really detached from everything at the moment.

It’s TOM so I guess the maintain is probably linked with that. As I have PCOS my cycle is eratic and once in a while I have a bad one and this is it. I have felt drained, washed out and pretty grotty since Monday. Here’s hoping it not one of those times when TOM lasts several weeks not days.

I’ve done half my exercise for today. My car has gone into the garage for an MOT and service (hope it doesn’t turn out to be too expensive), I dropped it off at 8:30 this morning (much earlier than my prefered waking time on weekends) and walked back to my flat, later it is the reverse.

Hopefully next week will see a loss again.

I lost another 2lbs this week and I have now lost 2st (28lbs) in total. Stones are the most common UK measurement of weight, so along with pounds on here I keep a track in stones as well. My mini goal is 3lbs away when I will weigh 20st.

I took a walk into town today. I actually spent close to 4 hours walking round and I’m now shattered. I’ve been meaning to go for a few weeks but finally got my act in gear today. It was partially curiosity as well. If any of you have seen news about the UK, you might have seen that someone attempted to blow up part of Exeter on Thursday. All they suceeded in doing was injuring themselves and damaging a restuarant toilet but I wanted to see if it was still cordened off. It was and there were TV cameras around. The place is about 5 minutes walk from my flat.

Unfortunately I had forgotten that something way going on in town today. The local football team got promoted to the real leagues last week and the team were being paraded through town on an open top bus. The high street was packed with people, you had to push past to get anywhere. I hate large crowds of people. They eventually cleared off and I was able to get on with my shopping.

Stopped off at Subway while I was in as well, had a nice ham sub with lots of salad, certainly better than all the rest of the fast food options available!

As I have mentioned before I am on an online CBT course called living life to the full. It is designed to help people with anxiety. It is a set of modules and at the weekend I the first of two modules on anxiety control techniques. I had to download a sound file which talks you through a way of relaxing. I’ve got to listen to it once or twice a day for the next few weeks then I can move onto the second one which teaches you how to deal with specific situations.

All I have to say is wow, I haven’t felt this relaxed in a very long time. I’m sleeping better and I’m generally calmer. It is making me much more interested in my healthy eating. So bring on grilled chicken and steamed veg.

Well I’ve lost the 2lbs I gained last week. It might have been a bit more but my little celebration on Thursday night threw that out.

I had a successful shopping trip yesterday. The list helped. I bought some wheat bran to go in my scrambled eggs. If you want a change to usual scrambled eggs I suggest you try it. It adds a lovely nutty taste and a great texture.
While I was in the whole foods section I found a basic museli which only had sugars from its dried fruit, rather the the horrible sweet stuff from the cereal aisle.  This morning I added some sunflower seeds and orange segements just to mix it up a bit.
Even when I have a list there is always some degree of spontaneous purchase and yesterday was no different but it wasn’t food this time, I bought a steamer and I’m looking forward to trying it out.