Wow I haven't been here for 3 days and there's 3 pages worth of posts!
Sarah Ann - glad that you are back home.
Frus - congrats on the 10k and GL with the half this weekend.
Cat - well done on leaving an unhappy marriage, too many of us put up and shut up. Did he really run over your computer? What a twit.
redsoxgirl - congrats on your 10k too!
Veggie - I know who nancy sorrell is, isn't she now married to vic reeves? and here I was thinking he might have decent taste in women.
Slow week for me so far. I'm feeling very run down and exhausted so I'm taking the week off from the gym. I'm feeling a bit disappointed because I'll be missing two spinning classes which I really have started to enjoy. My body is telling me it needs a rest though and I don't want to push on through like I have before and make myself more sick. I went to bed at 8.00 am last night and slept for 9 hours and still feel tired . Don't like this feeling much. This week is TOM week though so I'm thinking that is not helping. I took a multi vit this morning for a vit c boost.
Hubbie is gone for the week again so I'm "on me tod". On the good news front, my size 14 work trousers passed the "time to get smaller pants" test this morning: I can pull them down over my hips and bum all the way to my ankles with them still buttoned and zipped up. So I'm off to the mall to try on some size 12's at lunchtime. I tried them last month and they were way too tight so I'm not expecting much tbh but the 14's are looking ridiculous. I look like a 32 year old woman trying to dress like MC Hammer ffs. This particular brand of trouser does run small though, cause I'm already in size 12 dress trousers that I bought from Dillards (M&S type store) last month.
I'm going to Barnes and Noble at lunch too to see if the latest OK and Hello mags are out, sorry but I can't help myself, although OK has been crap lately, all it's had in it is Kerry fkin Katona moaning on about how bad Brian treated her etc. etc. Reading trash mags always cheers me up.
Dammit! My Boss has annoyed me so much I have taken my anger out on a defenceless bag of minstrels and a 'dipped' flake!!! I wish for once the inches went on his hips and not mine!!!
I'm going to Barnes and Noble at lunch too to see if the latest OK and Hello mags are out, sorry but I can't help myself, although OK has been crap lately, all it's had in it is Kerry fkin Katona moaning on about how bad Brian treated her etc. etc. Reading trash mags always cheers me up.
Dammit! My Boss has annoyed me so much I have taken my anger out on a defenceless bag of minstrels and a 'dipped' flake!!! I wish for once the inches went on his hips and not mine!!!
Peacock - LOL!!!!!
OMG - I feel sooooooo out of it! I've never heard of Kerry Katona until now. Just looked at some pictures of her - isn't she the woman in the Iceland advert?
Lynne, well done on listening to your body. Sometimes just the thought of going to the gym makes me wimper, and those are the days I curl up on the sofa with a good book. See... I can be a couch potato too!
Peacock - STEP AWAY FROM THE CHOCOLATE and then give it to me
I've had M&S sandwiches for lunch Half a Wenslydale and carrot chutney one, and a quarter of a chicken bacon and avocado one
I've had a productive day of Amsterdam shopping today, I've stocked up on Lucozade stuff so I don't need to rely on Gatorade (which I've never tried), and I bought a new t-shirt to run in (exactly the same as my favourite one, but with shorter sleeves as I won't be running at 6am and don't need the warmth).
I had chocolate this afternoon, but I'm unrepentant...
Lynne, if you need sleep then sleep! I have those days too.
Ah Amsterdam shopping! I must get myself up to Sweatshop! I think it'll have to wait till Friday morning though!
So I need carbo gel type thingies and some new socks. I also want some new leggings, since the ones I ran in on Sunday are slightly baggy at the crotch and I don't want to wear pedal pushers. I think I can live with my many current T-shirts
I'm feeling exhausted today I have my diet coke here pepping me up. No gym for me at all today, early home and we may or may not have visitors I don't really want visitors today, but what's a girl to do!? We don't even know if they're coming today or next Wednesday! If they don't come I'm going to snuggle under a blanket and watch Girlfight.
I had chocolate yesterday too! Maltesers, and then DF had bought white chocolate chip cookies - I had about a third of one, which is very restrained, especially since I'd been wanting to binge all day It's one of the side-effects of having the parents stay the weekend. They lull me into a false sense of security and I eat a lot, then I find it hard to stop eating refined carbs. I'm feeling ok today though, no buffet lunches at work, no chocolate in my possession and it may or may not be pizza for dinner, but I might make myself something healthy with the "I'm carbo-loading for a half-marathon" excuse...
I've run 1000 miles this year! (Well, I've not run them all, there have been walk breaks, but I've covered 1000 miles on my runs).
I think I'm having pizza for lunch tomorrow (client lunch) so I'll save my "carb loading" for then. I have fruit today, which is an improvement. With mum being here she does the shopping and while her efforts at main meals aren't too bad, she doesn't appreciate the number of snacks I need.
I tried out the new t-shirt this morning, so it's vaguely run in (4.5 miles) before Amsterdam. Not that I thought I'd have problems with it, but I just wanted to check. Actually, I'm taking loads of different options for things to wear once I see what the weather's like, but that's the favourite at the moment.
OMG You are so prepared! Running in your new T-shirt! I'll probably forget my good trainers (like I did at the weekend) and end up running in flip flops
I have fruit today too And a HUGE bag of carrot sticks which I am going to munch through today.
You lot! Whether you run in new t shirts, new/old trainers or flip flops - you still put me to shame!
Off to the parents this weekend. Maybe if it is nice Dad and I might go for a walk - but I bet it'll be miserable (the weather not the walk). Will have to tell them that the Boss objects to me taking the odd Friday off now (all of a sudden). Funny he does not object to the 'Golden Girl' of the Dept who is NEVER here. I think she has been in about 3 times this year. 'Working from home' - yeah right. That is why he annoyed me so much I ate chocolate yesterday. Funnily enough he used to have a weight problem - I should have force fed him the chocolate. Ha ha!
I've got fruit as well - I just had a fresh fig and a small bunch of grapes. I'm being so organised today - I've got a spinach salad with one of our huge tomatoes, some l/f fetta and some olives planned for lunch. More fruit for afternoon snack and then a fennel, sweet potato, mixed bean and red wine casserole with kale and crusty bread for dinner and a baked apple with l/f Greek Yoghurt for supper.
We popped in to Lidl yesterday - and they were selling a lot of their fruit & veg at 'half price'. We got three big fresh pineapples for 64p each and their figs were only 19p each - I love figs. We've even got a fig tree in the garden but, for some reason, the baby fruits just fall off the tree before they ripen.
I'm the lucky one! I've got a bunch of skimpily clad men here demolishing my bathroom. Not sure why they're all wearing shorts and tank tops (its not hot here) but I'm not complaining. I've been promised it'll all be fixed by the weekend but I can't see that happening somehow. The plumber has told me to arrange to have the replacement carpet he's paying for laid one day next week but I think I'll put it off until I know for sure that they've finished walking dust and grit through the house. At least they've finished fixing the kitchen ceiling so I'm not worried that part of the bathroom will end up in the kitchen any more.
DH cooked last night (he loves cooking) and - bless him - really tried hard with the calories! I told him that he could cook me a max of 600 low GI calories and he spent most of the afternoon with a calculator and a variety of recipe books trying to figure out how he can cook the curries he loves but keep in the calorie limit. (Now he knows how it feels!!!) We had a chicken tikka on lettuce & tomato salad starter, followed by three different veg curries (one spinach, one aubergine and one lentil) served with a small amount of brown basmati rice - he even managed to produce a grilled fruit salad with Greek yoghurt for pud - all in the required calories. I could easily get used to having someone cook for me every day.
Lovely walk this morning, even though it was drizzling - 2 and a half hours. Not doing the constant climbing and scrambling any more means that my hip isn't playing up quite so much, so I'm enjoying the walks a lot more and can put in more distance than I have been recently. Its also helping that its so much cooler because I hate wearing waterproofs when its warm.
DH has been trying to persuade me in to going back to the blummin dentist for the next phase in my torture - I keep putting it off but I suppose I'll have to go back soon.
WOW! I'm well impressed with your DH Sarah! The nearest mine gets is buying me stuff to make him a stir-fry with! Actually he did buy it with the intent of me eating it, but he bought tomatoes which I don't like, peppers which make me smell and a courgette. At least he tried! I prefer some bean sprouts and more padding in my stir fries!
. Don't like this feeling much. This week is TOM week though so I'm thinking that is not helping. I took a multi vit this morning for a vit c boost.
Lynne, well done on listening to your body. Sometimes just the thought of going to the gym makes me wimper, and those are the days I curl up on the sofa with a good book. See... I can be a couch potato too! 
Half a Wenslydale and carrot chutney one, and a quarter of a chicken bacon and avocado one 
and I don't want to wear pedal pushers. I think I can live with my many current T-shirts 
I have my diet coke here pepping me up. No gym for me at all today, early home and we may or may not have visitors 
I don't really want visitors today, but what's a girl to do!? We don't even know if they're coming today or next Wednesday! If they don't come I'm going to snuggle under a blanket and watch Girlfight.
I'm feeling ok today though, no buffet lunches at work, no chocolate in my possession and it may or may not be pizza for dinner, but I might make myself something healthy with the "I'm carbo-loading for a half-marathon" excuse... 
I've been promised it'll all be fixed by the weekend but I can't see that happening somehow. The plumber has told me to arrange to have the replacement carpet he's paying for laid one day next week but I think I'll put it off until I know for sure that they've finished walking dust and grit through the house. At least they've finished fixing the kitchen ceiling so I'm not worried that part of the bathroom will end up in the kitchen any more. 
At least he tried! I prefer some bean sprouts and more padding in my stir fries! 