Poor little

Get yoursel' some strawberries rather than chcolate to much on! I've just treated myself to a huge box, since I want to eat sugar and sleep!

Primarni!! Love it!!!!!

Well done runners. A bit late I know but I get confused its my age!!!

Hope everyone is well.

Not much happening here my father is still in Kerry, my mother is fine but pining for him. I have been gymming regularly, this evening their scales said nine stone nine pounds but mine said nine eleven pounds.

My day off tomorrow I don't intend doing much although I may go mad
and walk to the gym and do my new high intensity programme!!

Just had a bowl of Kellogs Special K with red berries.

Lovely to hear all your news

Michele

Looking like a gain tomorrow. I am really disappointed. Oh well, I guess it's how it goes. Results tomorrow. *shudders*

running club was good, I kept up OK and there was no-one really scary there. I even managed to restrict myself to a single pint afterwards (the person who took me got through three in the same time ). I'll try to get up there again next week, I haven't officially joined yet but I suspect I will. We did just over 5 miles, and it worked quite well with the faster and slower runners, on the first leg the slower people set off first and the fast ones caught them up when everyone stopped, then we started again and the fast ones did a slightly longer route, and we met up at another stop, then back to the start they just got back a bit quicker than we did.

I did 20 minutes on the treadmill too this morning trying to do some speed work. I actually find that easier on the treadmill than outside, so I'll try to get to the gym more often to start working on it a bit more. Some weights too, I can't remember the last time I went to the gym two days in a row (I went yesterday for a swim too), and I might even go tomorrow as well.

My eating is loads better this week, and I've already got rid of about 3lb of water that has been making me feel fat. Or I assume it's water, as I've done nowhere near enough for it to be fat.

Hello!

Glad your running club went ok last night, it sounds brill-o!

I'm still trying to get a handle on my eating. We had one of Dom's work friends round last night for beer and pizza. It always throws me into a flat spin, I get a bit nervous meeting new people, and I don't really like entertaining people in the house since it's well messy. Anyway, so I was hungry when I got home and ate cereal, although I did recognise what I was doing and made myself hot chocolate (options) and sugar free drinks while I tidied. Then I had a few bits of pizza and garlic bread, then some chocolate. Gah!

I'm feeling a little thinner today, probably because PMT bloat has gone down a bit! I'm planning on heading to the gym at lunchtime to kick my butt for the wedding dress!

Wierdest thing - I tried on some trousers in H&M in Utrecht on Monday (day after the run), tried them on on Tues and there was a good 2" between the buttons! I could NOT get them fastened! Yesterday the buttons were close, but still not fastenable, I haven't tried this morning, but I hope it's ok soon!!!

Morning Ladies! Just thought I'd mention that its a cheap listing day on eBay today - so its a good day to get rid of any clothes that don't fit any more (or anything else you don't want).

My eating can best be described as 'steady'. I think I'm settling in to the lower calories now except on the days when I go swimming and then I'm STARVING afterwards. Yesterday I got out of the pool after an hour of steady swimming and felt all wobbly - I knew I wouldn't make it home so I thought I'd have something out of the Leisure Centre vending machine (a new experience for me!) OMG they sell a load of in that thing - and only full sugar drinks in the drink machine - you'd think they'd fill their vending machines with healthy stuff. I felt very weird so I had to have something so I had the only reasonably healthy thing I could see - a flapjack. When I got it home I worked out the calories and figured that the flapjack had about the same number of calories as I burned off swimming for an hour. Argghhhh!

Four kids in hoodies tried to break in to our car last night. They didn't get away with anything (the alarm went off) but the damage they caused to the lock/door is going to be expensive to fix. We can't work out why Fred didn't go in to his normal bark/growl/snarl routine like he normally does when someone walks on our drive so we're wondering if he knows one of the kids which makes us feel a bit uncomfortable. Its not nice to think that someone you know will try to steal from you and the only kid we can think of thats the right age is a nice lad who belongs to next door but one!

Oooh e-bay! Righty ho! (Why do they always put it on on a night I get back late!!!) I'll bung on the rest of my books and DVDs!

Morning Ladies, you all sound so energetic with your running clubs, swims and gyms, and here I am on my first cup of coffee struggling to make my eyes w ork for the day. WAKE UP CHRIS!!!

Shame about your car Sarah, I had my car broken into years back at home, we lived on base, but that was before all nasties happened on a daily basis so it was an open base, the ba#$(@#ds nicked my stereo, I was very upset, I was only home for twenty minutes and hadn't turned the alarm on, as I was going back out again, when I was in my house talking to the police, the thieves came back, they were after the CD's and other things, so the police gave chase, didn't catch them though. The next week my best friends husband was told by his brother that he had a stereo for him...he was one of the theives, I knew him, not as a friend or anything, but knew who he was...my friends hubby was brill, he called the police and told them to go and search his brother's house...but by that time, he'd got rid of our stereo, so we never did get it back. I hope you get your damage sorted and that the insurance covers erverything for you.

Well Hannah has just headed off to school, I'm going to get myself ready and get to curves...am doing very wellwith attendence this week, I want to go six days a week as I need to...I'm heavier than before we moved as I found out at my weigh and measurement the other day...got to get it off... I'm not even going to contemplate the Halloween challenge...I've gained, not lost!

Have a good day all.

Gah, I have sooooo much work it's not funny. It's my boss's last day before maternity leave and the piles are growing by the second (which is clearly why I'm on here instead of doing it!).

(Although on the plus side, now I'm in charge I can structure my working a bit more to my liking and know that no-one internally will set me stupid deadlines, although clients are another matter entirely. And I do get to delegate...)

Planning is going to be the key, the longer I spend in the office the more I'll get tempted by the vending machine, and the less I'll feel like cooking, and I want to arrange work so I know I can get away on running club nights.

Ah well, at least it's only 6 months (she says, hoping her boss doesn't decide not to come back...).

I've had a snack size mars bar today (thrust at me during a 2 hour conference call), but other than that haven't been too bad, and had a fairly low cal spinach soup for lunch so it balances itself out. Now I've seen a bit of movement on the scale I'm determined to get down another 2 or 3lb to where I was. Not sure whether the rest of it is water or fat, but fingers crossed I can shift it somehow.

Hello everyone, and well done all you runners

I had my car broken into a couple of weeks ago, they didnt nick anything cos I dont keep anything worth nicking but it still was a load of hassle, as they trashed my stuff all over the place And the police didnt even want to know

Oh forgot to say, I managed to squeeze into an old pair of size 20 jeans, I couldnt breathe in them but I still managed to do them up

We won't be claiming on the insurance - DH has got a zillion years no claims bonus and it would probably cost us more in increased future insurance premiums (if he lost them) than to pay to get the car fixed ourselves. (Well it worked out that way last time we got a car broken in to!)

We phoned the Police at 2am and they finally got here at 11! As you say, Kalijack, they aren't much interested.

I think I might go and have a word with this kid's stepfather this evening (on the pretext of warning him about possible car theft). He's a nice bloke and I'd just like to know if his stepson (or one of his mates) has got a pale coloured Nike hoodie with a large stain or some other kind of mark on the back of the hood.

Hmmmm sorry about your car Sarah - that sucks. Funny about little dogglins too. Perhaps they did know the kid.

I'm posting some pics of Mum and Dad in their wedding attire! Dad looks so grumpy! I think he's just in the middle of telling mum how to work the camera

The last one is of Mum in her ballgown! It's LOVELY! I wanted one too, we both tried one on in Laura Ashley!

I'm looking at those pics and thinking that she could do with a longer black top, wotcha reckon? I chose the top in the first place, but I think she could do with a longer one.

Glam Frus parents Has Father Frus got dog food behind him?

Poor Sarah.