Hey guys!

Sorry I’ve not been around for a while, I’ve been at my parents for a couple of days and working.  How are you all?

I had a very productive shopping day yesterday - £180 in total for me and DP’s clothes.  I had a great time though!  How unreal is that?  It’s the first shopping trip in years that I haven’t burst into tears.  We tried everything on before we bought and I felt really good in everything I’ve bought, which is a feeling I’d have paid twice as much for.

But, today I am a little hormone-fuelled.  Every 12 weeks I get depo provera, which is a hormonal contraceptive injection (I was at stroke risk on the pill).  This however, means that every 12 weeks I go very low on hormones then get filled up with them, so for about a week I’m all over the place.  Unfortunately, DP does sometimes get the brunt of this but mostly it just leaves me over-reacting to most things.  For example, one of my friends can’t make it to my leaving party because he got tickets to T in the Park (a famous Scottish music festival weekend) for his birthday.  I totally understand - tickets are like £200 and it’s a great weekend, but I got totally bummed.  Then my new shoes cut the back of my feet and I actually cried.  Then got even more annoyed because I was crying!  Lol.  I am laughing now because it is so ridiculous but god, I hate hormones.

Other than that, things are ok.  I’m still on track with my points.  I’m so glad the meeting was about al fresco eating because we had a BBQ at my parent’s and I was able to plan ahead and really enjoy it without going out of my point limit.  All the other things I wouldn’t have thought of before, like the burger in a bun with spread, cheese, relish, ketchup, salad…  But I had a plain roll and just the burger and it was only 5 and a half points.  Then I made kebabs from my portion of chicken and chunks of pepper.  I got two kebabs for 2 and a half points!  To top it off I had a skinny cow chocolate ice cream (1.5 points) so I felt really full and proud because I was in my points!  I’m hoping fo a loss this week, but I’m not going to get all freaked out if I don’t - as Betty said, it’s a tried and tested method - all I have to do is follow the plan, get exercise in and I’m there.

Looking over my cleaning analogy, food is all green now it’s just exercise I need to pick up on.  I love earning activity points!

Mango x