So, I've had two weeks off work - admittedly, with a week in work in the middle, due to some bad planning and holiday plans that never got off the ground.....
Anyhow, I'm wittering before I've even got going! But, where I was going with that is, that I've been feeling a bit rubbish about myself over the last few weeks and consequently hitting the sugar and carbs! I'm like a Labrador! Can. Not. Stop. Eating! Aaaaggggghhhhhhhh.
But it's got to stop. I know it's only because I'm out of a routine, and as the weather has been rubbish and the OH couldn't get any time of work, I haven't really been able to do some of the things I would have liked with my time off - taking the dogs to the beach, painting the ducks shed.....and living with the mother in law at the moment, brings its own issues - nothing like that - we get on fine, but I can't really do any pottering, although I have redesigned her house (in my head) for when we can buy it.....which is never and in desperation I've even rearranged the furniture in our bedroom, which was no mean feat given that there is a lot of furniture in our room! I've also done quite a bit of research on what I can do with the girls for my birthday that doesn't include too much food and drink, but inevitably....bad weather + time on the sofa + computer time = needing something to nibble on :-/ So in some ways, I can't wait to get back to work!
Anyhow - you should know me by now, we've been friends for a little while after all, and what I love best is a bit of organising - it all stems back to playing post office with my nan as a child.....I must get my love of lists, and bits of paper from her......so, not satisfied with the tools I have access to at SW on line, I have come up with a little challenge for myself.
I have a weight that I want to get to by my 40th birthday ideally (11th December, for anyone who's interested) - but most certainly by 8th Jan 2016, which will see me being at SW for a year, which is a major milestone in itself, and should definitely prove to me that it is a change of lifestyle, not a 'diet'. This came about after our body IMAGE group last week, where the SW consultant mentioned that some people did not have interim targets set - me being one of them - so I had a think about what was realistic and achievable and decided on the target I have chosen.....it's no where near where I want to be eventually, but it will mean that I have lost a whopping 7 stone. It will take me to around the weight I was when I worked at a riding stables back in 2000, and when I spent all my time in jodhpurs (and was confident to do that) - I was probably the fittest I have ever been then - riding two or three times a day, as well as all the manual work walking with kids on ponies and catching the little darlings in from the field (ponies, not kids), when there was all that nice grass to munch.....and although I had to have my leather riding boots and show jacket made - I felt pretty good about myself back then.....
So, I've made myself a little table and graph on an excel spreadsheet - so I can enter the weight I want to lose (2lb min a week) until the end of the year.....alongside the actual weight I lose - and I have chosen lovely pink and purple to reflect each of the amounts, so it is a clear visual aid to help me to see how closely I am tracking the amount that I want to lose - hopefully, the two lines will run more or less parallel to each other, but even if they run one on top of the other - that's fine too!
I've been researching some lovely vintage tea dresses - as this is the style I love, and want to wear for my birthday celebrations - so together with all the gorgeous frocks.......I'm hoping to keep on the straight and narrow.
Stuff these last two weeks, back on it from weigh in tonight - I guess everyone over indulges on their holidays don't they - even if mine was only in miserable old grey Worcestershire!
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