One month in and ive lost.........

Im a couple of weeks behind as im coming up to my 7th week on the Cambridge Diet but ill post below my pics and results after one month.

Drum roll please>>>>>>> a grand total of...... 14.5lbs of fat gone for good!

I have dropped 2 dress sizes from a size 18 (uk size) to a size 14, so as you can imagine i am well and trully chuffed. The diet was getting easier and easier each day. Although my weird addiction for fishfinger sandwiches got the better of me on a few occasions, but i ate them, enjoyed them, then started afresh the next day.

Im really starting to feel that my overeating habbits are starting to fade away, if one measly sandwich can taste so good and actually count as a meal rather than a snack, then i think ive got this covered! Bring on next month another stone loss and a very happy girl i will be. At this rate i shall be at my slender 9 stone figure by April.Size 10 here i come!

Ok here are my disgusting pictures, please exscuse me stuffing my face and drinking in my first pic (so attractive!) and in the second i hadnt long got up and hadnt yet washed my hair (will make more of an effort for the next set i promise) and the gross dress errrrrrrrrrrr yukkkkkkk but it does show the comparison. Please feel free to leave any comments espeicaly from those who are doing the cambridge diet, i would love to hear from you x

Better late than never.... here are the boys snow man pics!

New years resolutions, The Cambridge Diet

I havent taken the time to write anything for a while and to be honest its because ive felt so low and had nothing nice to say. I have tried to pursuade myself to keep possitive and that a new year will mean a fresh start and hopefully better things will happen for us, just a shame i let myself ruin christmas because of my own self pitty. But i will write about all that when i have stopped being pissed off about it all.

Anyway New year for me means new years resolutions so here we go the same as most years actually

1. Lose 4.5 stone
2. Go the gym more often
3. Cut down/give up smoking
4. No more alchohol
5. Be less stressed

Well so far ive not cut down smoking and im still stressed but suprisingly i have given up alcohol. Im on my 5th day of the Cambridge Diet and as soon as the snow has gone ill be straight up the gym and ive got to say im begining to feel more confident and possitive im actually looking forward to doing some physical exersize!

 I was really exited about starting the Cambridge Diet as weird as it may sound but there really are some fantastic success stories, people seem to lose weight at a great speed and theres also a realistic programme to finish to help you maintain your ideal weight. I have decided that i need to shift 4.5 stones to make me feel normal again so here are my stats for starting my diet (aperently im classed as obese!)

Hight=   5.5 feet (1.67meters) or (66 inches)
Starting weight =  13.1 stone (183.4lbs) or (83.18 kilos)
Starting BMI=  31

Waist Size= 37 inches (93.98 cm)

I know bloody scary isnt it! Well my first weigh in is on tuesday with my counsiller Brenda, we have decided the best programme for me is the sole source which means all i eat is 3 sachettes a day either of milkshakes soups or porridges so i decided to go for the porridge and 2 soups a day. Im very impressed with the support shes very lovely and still on the diet even though she looks amazing! so i really feel like i can do this in fact every day its getting that little bit easier.

Day 1. Picked up my soups and porriges from brenda, its expensive works out about 38.00 a week (sorry no pound sign) soups are yummy not sure about porrige but not really that hungry all day so big thumbs up!

Day 2. Woke up hungry this morning looking forward to porrige didnt taste that bad actually (apple and cinemon flavour) was desperate for my soup by luch time absolutly starving! got a really dry mouth and my lips are chapped going to the loo every 10 mins because of the water intake. Evening was even worse went bed early to stop thinking about food.

Day 3. Last night i was dreaming about my diet and how someone put milk in my tea an i went mental and started hitting them saying "youve ruined everything, i hate you"  bit extreme i know must be a sign of my metal state! dont feel quite so hungry today, my stomache is very rumbly though and really starting to struggle with the 3 ltrs of water a day, begining to make me gag. Starving by evening started playing games on my p.c to take my mind off it.

Day 4. Didnt sleep well last night, im drinking lots of tea and coffee to take the edge off so going very often to the loo and buzzin around like a looney. Found it difficult getting breckfast down, but really not so hungry today im hoping this is the Ketosis kicking in and im burning some of the fat off. Starving by 9pm again didnt get to sleep till 2am.

Found my before pic to put on, its awfull and shows just how big ive got but as soon as the weight starts coming off ill post it for comparison.

I would love to hear back from anyone whos done the diet and how you got on with it, and some words of support would be lovely its going to be a long journey so any thing will help me along the way x

Snow is here!

This was the view from my house this morning. Looks absolutly beautiful like a perfect winter wonderland. Definatly feels like christmas now.

The boy thought it was great although hes not allowed out in it yet, we'll all get wrapped up in a while and make a snow man so more snow pics to follow.

Today is the first day ive had heating and im sooooo chuffed its happened today because my god we need it!

So bye for now im taking full advantage of being snug and warm and im gonna have an hours nap xxx

Please no SNOT!

if you have been reading my blog then you probably already know I'm a little worried / verging on paranoid about the swine flu situation. I haven't been asked yet if i want my boy to have the vaccine which I'm a little annoyed about even though i haven't decided yet if i would let him have it, it still would be nice to have the option.

Anyway i have been a bit of a mean mummy because of my paranoia which i think is completely justified given the fact that he is my first baby and possibly my last. Obviously i want to wrap him up in cotton wool and protect him from all those nasty germs but also i wont let him near any children who could be potential carriers. Which made my mothers offer to take him to visit Santa seem like a putting my baby in a leper camp (which he hated by the way, i was secretly pleased as that meant a speedy get away)

But I've sort of developed a self inflicted agoraphobia and banished us to the safety of the house. I'm not a great fan of leaving the house when its so bloody cold outside anyway and I've avoided visiting friends who have all seemed to have gotten some kind of flu bug recently and so far we managed to stay bug free.

But this paranoia has turned me to dislike other peoples children i don't mean kids i know, i mean strangers kids you know the ones that really piss you off. The supermarket screamers and the snotty nosed ones, the ones whose parents seem not to notice the string of snot dangling from there nose, which usually gets sucked back in via either nose or mouth or wiped dry with grubby little hands.

It makes me soooooo angry that people don't have a clue about cleanliness and germs especially with the flu's and winter bugs. I understand that yes you cant keep your kids clean all of the time but come on people a bit of common sense and courtesy for those of us who are scared stiff our kids may get ill please wipe noses with tissues and throw them in the bin.

Well anyway all this being said i woke up this morning to a very unhappy little boy and an echo of sniffles and sneezes. We all feel like crap my boy cant drink anything because he cant breath and suck at the same time. He cant eat because chewing seems like a full body work out and yes he has snot dangling from both nostrils which he keeps sniffing back up and wiping on the back of his hand.

Well i suppose it shows me locking us in the house may have put off the inevitable temporarily but you can never stop these things. Now i have a poorly baby who's supposed to be having a birthday party Saturday urrggggghhh Fingers crossed he'll be better by then x

Snow is on the way!

I have to admit i was a little disappointed this morning as i dragged my self out of my nice warm bed. I rushed to the window expecting a blanket of snow but there wasnt a flake in sight.

It was far colder than usual last night i have a quilt the thickness of a rizzla paper with my dressing gown over the top to try and keep what little body heat i have left inside. even when you try and wrap bodies round each other its never comfortable enough to stay there long with his bones digging in and my worry of morning breath makes me turn over which leaves a hammock between you with a force 12 Gail blowing down you back.

This time last year i was in hospital in Spain contemplating life as a mummy, worrying about my boy being so premature and sweating my tits off with there heating on full blast all day and all night. The one thing i missed the most at that moment in time was Christmas in England and the lovely crisp frosty mornings and the hope of a glimpse of snow.

Well this year it could actually happen my baby could have snow for his birthday and his first Christmas i really hope it does it will be lovely for him and make the pics very cute. Well ill keep the curtains open to make sure i get a snap of the first snow flake...... how exiting!

Note to self.... time to stop sleeping naked, dig out PJS, stick sleeping bag on top of the quilt and buy 2 hot water bottles next time at Tescos.

Families and festivities

Ive been away for a week for a so called holiday.... it wasn't a holiday, not even close to a holiday, in fact i would call it closer to a nightmare!

I cant blame the family, i haven't seen them for over 3 years so it was great to catch up, and I'm very pleased that no one thought to mention the fact i have nearly doubled in size, all emphasis was on the boy that i was chuffed about and obviously hes loved by all.

There are 2 things that i can not do without when staying with other people as far as the boy is concerned these are vital tools that we cannot do without

No 1. The walker

No 2. The high chair

So the two things that were forgotten where obviously the walker and the high chair! which didn't do us any favours what so ever. This meant that rather than the boy playing quite contently on his own which he does at home quite lovely, he will sit in his walker and scoot him self around playing with what ever is in his hands for ages, to wanting to be picked up then put down then picked up then put down then picked up then put down.....well you can see the pattern emerging. this was tolerable for the first day or two but by the 7th day was really starting to piss me off!

It wasn't helped actually by his grandad teaching him how to blow raspberries (this is something that he learned months ago and took us twice as long to stop him from doing it!) as funny as it seemed to the 75 year old i was secretly seething inside as i was covered by his orange staining baby food each meal time..... oh yes so fucking funny!

As we didn't have the second most important item the high chair, the raspberry blowing was made even worse by a child in a bouncer who can not only climb his way out of it but will bounce himself forward till it does a flip and he lands face down on the floor, which to him was the funniest game in the world to me was getting close to breaking point.

All this excitement for a little one seeing people he had never seen before, every one around wanting to play meant that bed time was a complete nightmare i don't know where he got all his energy from all i knew is i had none left and just wanted to go home and to top it all off i had a 5 and a half hour journey home in the fog. Topped it all off nicely.

Thank god we are home, slept really well yesterday and boy is back to his normal self so we decided to put the Christmas decorations up which is something i look forward to every year. So now the countdown begins boys birthday on the 23rd and then Christmas yippppeeeeee cant wait!