Sunny thank you for your comment!  You always make me smile.  Just wanted to let you know I’ve not not been reading your blog, my browser just crashes when I go to comment on it Just so you know!  And way to go on your amazing weight loss; if anyone’s the role model it’s you!

Mango x

I don’t know if that’s the right French, but either way I’m back safe on Scottish soil and a happy about it.  How have you all been these last two weeks?  Well, let me tell you about France.

France was lovely, warm and sunny most days with rain a couple.  We stayed in a town called Aujac, relatively close to Saintes and Cognac.  We lived in a big gite with my aunt and uncle and my parents.  For one week my cousin joined us, for the second my aunt and uncle on my dad’s side. Around Aujac they grow only three crops; maize, grapes for wine and sunflowers.  That was one of my favourite things - the rows and rows of sunflowers that were so bright and yellow.  Happy flowers

The holiday was nice, it was good to get away.  It was just unfortunate that we were so far away from civilization.  Unfortunately DP and I aren’t old enough/haven’t been driving long enough for it to be cost-effective for us to hire our own car so we were reliant on other people, which is difficult, and we weren’t in walking or cycling distance of… well, anything really.  My family enjoy shopping (not a trait I share, I’m an in-grab-out kind of girl) so a lot of our days were visiting and trawling round towns.  Some were nice but in the heat of the day the last thing I wanted to be doing was trawling shops :s

So in some ways it’s felt like I’ve really not been on holiday but in others I’ve had a nice time.  One of the best things was that I weighed in at 11st 1lbs this morning - 1lb lower than when I left, which I really couldn’t believe after the diet we had on holiday.  Trying to get affordable food for 8 people who all have different dietary needs is ridiculous-pizza, pasta and pastry was what I consisted on.  So that just goes to show the difference exercise can make!

Now I’m home I’m back to tracking and feeling so much better for it, and DP has started tracking too!  He can’t make meetings because of his working and study hours, but he’s using the resources I have to make a difference to his wait too.  So now I get the joys of proving him wrong - I really can lose weight consistently - and beating him at it too!

Smiles to all of you,

Mango x