Dumpy the diet disaster tries again.

OH YES:hurray: 6lbs off:rotflmao:

I can't believe it. It's not as if I have been very hungry and don't forget the midnight munchies episode. I am so happy.
Thank you for your best wishes and keeping everything crossed for me. I go to my doctor's this morning and I hope his nurse will be pleased with me. She is retiring next year and was born the year I qualified as a nurse. Makes me feel very old.

Hey Amber The hyper dog syndrome labradors seem to be born with fades away around age 2. Hang in there. Our Dolly used to go off around the house like a balloon with the air let out. Now she's 10 she spends most of the day snoozing. We always had rescue dogs. Our last, a Jack Russell, was thrown in a sack in a dumpster. A few weeks after we had him we noticed something very strange. Just before our daughter was due to have an epileptic seizure, he used to nose her to a chair, stand in front of her and bark steadily for us to come. He was never wrong and saved her from injury many times. Our daughter, because of the deep autism, had no speech and the 2 of them went everywhere together. He even slept on her bed. When he died aged 14 she mourned him as much as anyone would mourn after an old friend.

Its a bank (public) holiday here this weekend and the weather is good (well at the moment it is!) We shall be doing a bit of gardening and packing up odds and ends in the kitchen for when the new one arrives on Tuesday.
 
Well done Dumpy!!
We had a holiday yesterday and I have today off, so we are just hanging around and I just had a little nap. Have a great weekend and continue your diet.
 
Well done D on the 6lb loss! (I can't call you Dumpy.) With a new kitchen you can make it a turning point for cooking & eating really healthy food. How exciting for you. Walking is really good exercise & it's nice that you & your husband go walking together. Good for you getting motivated to lose weight. We are never to old to get fit & healthy. Cheers, Cate.
 
cate said:
Well done D on the 6lb loss! (I can't call you Dumpy.) With a new kitchen you can make it a turning point for cooking & eating really healthy food. How exciting for you. Walking is really good exercise & it's nice that you & your husband go walking together. Good for you getting motivated to lose weight. We are never to old to get fit & healthy. Cheers, Cate.
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My nickname in the family and with friends is Toots Cate, but that was taken when I registered.
Thank you all for your kind comments will talk to you all again tomorrow(I hope)
 
I'm not going to rest on my laurels after such a successful week. That was then, this is now so I'm totally focused on the new week.

As I'm writing this, I'm looking through the French doors into garden. The birds on our nuts and seeds are beautiful. Thrush, sparrows, black birds chaffinches and I've just seem a green finch. I've planted my sunflowers to harvest the seeds in the autumn (fall) I mix them with suet for the cold winter days when they need extra fat. Its hilarious watching the sparrows in the bird bath at the moment. There are about 6 of them taking turns... dust bath... water bath... all change

Our council, owing to being short of money, has stopped cutting the verges in the country side. We are going for a walk this afternoon, just poddling along the country lanes which are beautiful with all the wild flowers allowed to grow. Poppies, buttercups, cow parsley, and I've even seen rare cornflowers. A wood where we go badger watching is a mass of bluebells. Just a blue haze as far as the eye can see. It is an ancient woodland, where Nelson got timber for his ships and deep into it, where people seldom wander are red deer. We're off there tomorrow
 
We are having a quiet day today after yesterday. It was a beautiful warm, bright day, a cornflower blue sky with fluffy little white clouds just ambling across the sky in no particular hurry to get anywhere. We took the dog and walked through the water meadows to a little natural spring very few people know about. It was a bit far for our old lab to walk back so we rang a neighbour who collected her in his car and we walked back through a little village and got home late afternoon. I have not walked this far in years and my knees are up like balloons this morning and my poor feet feel as if I have a size 5 foot in a size 3 shoe. But I thoroughly enjoyed it. My legs are getting stronger each day
The new kitchen should have been delivered on Saturday but the lorry broke down and, even though its a public holiday, it will be here sometime today.
I'm having a warm coffee shake for breakfast, a mushroom soup for lunch and a tuna salad for my evening meal with a strawberry shake made into a mousse.. My husband has joined me in the hot chocolate shake at bedtime routine. He says it is the best he has ever tasted.
 
Hi Toots :waving:

Like Cate, I struggle with calling you Dumpy. I've just had a read thru your diary and :hurray: well done on your 6lb. That is so good :)

I'm sorry to hear about your daughter, I have heard many stories about dogs abilities to predict a fit. They are truly amazing creatures. I've always had dogs, since I was a child and I don't think I would be without one. We have just got a rescue dog, we have had her for just over 2 weeks. Company for our other dog as our old dog pasted away about 10 months ago and Millie was getting really bad with separation anxiety. Sky (our new dog) is lovely. She is nearly 6 and it is lovely to see her excited about the smallest of things. They are becoming friends, bless them. I have never had a rescue dog before but it's a good feeling giving them a 'forever home' that is loving and happy.

Anyway, I'm waffling, as usual. Good luck with your journey to your goal, look forward to traveling it with you :)
 
Loved hearing about your walk. Me and the wife will go for walks like that every so often. And this time of year we enjoy a lot because everything is turning green from the long winter. Especially like going now also because it is Mushroom time so we go out and walk the woods looking for mushrooms I can cook up and eat. YUMMY!!!!!!
 
:party::party: 6LB LOSS That so so so awesome. Keep at it, D!! The next 22lbs will come off so easily. I am rooting for ya!

Thanks for your thoughts on labs. That's what everyone keep telling me that they get better with age. He's a good boy and we take him for so many walks- especially on the weekends. He loves them- he especially loves chasing after the squirrels. I love him so much.

Your walk sounds so lovely. I may do that with the BF this weekend. Love springtime.
 
Enjoy your walk Amber, you'll sleep like a top after it.

The new kitchen arrived yesterday.. lots of it, I didn't realize how much stuff we had chosen. When the kitchen designer showed us the designs, he had planned, on the computer it looked quite a basic kitchen lol. We had a phone call to say that the fitter had had an accident so couldn't come to fit it as planned. The firm offered another fitter, but we have seen the work of the one we wanted so we said we would hang on until he is up and running again. It should be about 10 days.
So, the kitchen is in the garage. The back door of the garage ( we are lucky, we can, if we want,drive straight through onto the patio) is locked and bolted. The front door of the garage is also locked with the camper van up tight against it and our car behind that. We got us a convoy!

I had a banana shake for breakfast and I'm having mushroom soup for lunch and I have some pork in the halogen cooking slowly for my husband's evening meal. I shall join him in a few naughty slices of it with a salad. I just fancy a bit of pork.
 
4lbs off this week. I had to start a new ticker because the old one didn't recognize my signature. I didn't mind at all. For a mighty 10lbs off, I'd do anything.
Dreading next week when the new kitchen goes in. I'm being kind to myself, not setting unrealistic targets and not reaching for the biscuit barrel when something goes wrong.
 
Awesome weight loss D.
I bet it will be hard not to jump in and break the new kitchen in by cooking lots of stuff once it is installed.

Keep it up girl
 
GreyGhostHunter said:
Awesome weight loss D.
I bet it will be hard not to jump in and break the new kitchen in by cooking lots of stuff once it is installed.

Keep it up girl
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Aww GGH you have hit the nail firmly on the head. I love to cook. We have been in this house 15 months and the largest outlay so far has been a new central heating system. After the gales we had in the UK at the start of the year, we had to have all our fences replaced. No idea where the old ones went... just saw then flying, one at a time, past the kitchen window, so that was an expense we didn't budget for when we moved.
This kitchen has come out of the blue. We had a little lottery win just after my mum died ( end stage dementia, she was 94 hadn't known us for years and could be very aggressive. It was a happy release.) in January so we were no longer financially responsible for her fees in the specialist care home.
We put a new kitchen and bathroom in our old house 10 years ago, we have learned by our mistakes with this new one. Our old house was Victorian so we had a kitchen in keeping with its age. BIG mistake. All those recessed bits and bobs on the wooden doors and knobs were a nightmare to keep clean. This new one has brilliant white plain cupboards etc, black granite work surfaces and a ceramic sink.
 
Sounds like you definitely had your hands full. We bought our house two years ago and have done tons of remodel ourselves. Painted the whole interior of the house was our biggest. Also installed a celing in the basement and created my man cave in the basement which is still in the works but it is getting there. Going with a hunting theme. So far I've got a huge four recliner sectional, 60" flat screen TV, lots of wall decor, dart board, and my favorite a 1912 8 foot solid mahogany pool table. Still looking to find a jukebox, couple vintage arcade games, and a bar.
 
Properly out of my comfort zone today. The kitchen is going in, or I should say, the old one is out and where I used to reign supreme is just an empty room. I’m trying to be good, dietwise but it’s difficult because my head is in the ‘wrong place’ I’m just not totally focused on losing weight.
There’s 2 ways of looking at this. One is to use it as an excuse to come off the diet and eat all the wrong things and consequently feel a failure and the weight will pile back on or I can face up to the fact that I’m only human. Yes, it is difficult and no, I’m not going to set unrealistic targets. I probably won’t have my shakes as regularly as usual but I can aim at eating sensibly and have a goal of just maintaining until the workmen have gone next week (hopefully) It’s a small bump in the road, and will not make much difference to things in the long run.
GGH: Over here man caves are sheds. It is an unwritten rule that all married men should have a retreat from the womenfolk.

Amber backatcher. I am using you as one of my role models
 
D, I like the second option better. Also, you've kick-started healthy lifestyle. I would see this as a test of your conviction (although conviction is a strong word but for the lack of a better word). Don't think too much about it. Just take it as a bump, try your best. You'll be great, I just know it.

How's the water consumption, btw? :)
 
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