Back to Work!

Well half term week went very quickly! Normally I wouldn't mind going back, as I have a lovely class, but we are having a few issues at work at the moment to do with staffing, and things are gettting a bit emotional. I love my collegues (well most of them!) and so this is a tough time. So I am aware that my old comforter; food, is the thing I am tempted to turn to. So long as I know what is going on though, I can cope. I am pleased with the steps that I am doing, most days I have done over 10,000. It's surprising how many steps i can manage to do in my normal daily work, and then just a short walk before it gets dark tops it up to the 10,000.

The chocolate craving seems to be settling down, although I am still enjoying my hot chocolate drinks! I'm sure it's the cold weather we are having that is doing it!

I went to the Beyond Chocolate Drop In last week. A nice crowd of ladies there, and it was lovely to see Sophie again and have a chat, and to meet Clare for the first time.

I said to Sophie, it's like a Slimming Club without the horrible bit; getting weighed! I like the way Sophie structures the 'talk' section of the drop in, in pairs, you talk for 3m then swap, then have 1m chat. It's good, because it stops the 'clique' tendency that can happen in these sort of

meetings, where people who know each other, or have met before, can pal up, and exclude other people.

Chocolate week. (weak?)

I'm having a right old 'chocolate week' this week! I have been off work, (half term) and a lot of the time all I have wanted to eat is chocolate cake, or chocolates, and all I have wanted to drink is hot chocolate.( Mind you, I don't usually have cream like this picture!)

It is strange, because I don't normally eat a lot of chocolate, I don't normally fancy it that much. But I am just going with it and seeing what will happen. I have done lots of steps this week, so I have moved around quite a lot.

We are going for a meal in a local restaurant tonight, which will make a nice change. Am feeling guilty because I washed o/h's 'fitness pants', with fabric conditioner (they got mixed up with the other washing) and I feel really bad now!

Off to aplologise to him!

New Glasses.

Today I decided I would go and order a couple of pairs of new glasses. As I have to wear them all the time now, since my sight started to deteriorate in my forties, I thought I would treat myself to a couple of really glamorous pairs in the BOGOFF at Specsavers. Then I can wear different pairs with different outfits, which is what I really love to do. One pair are bright pink and red, and the others are a dark bluey-purple with flowers down the sides!
I always like to look good, and have decided to incorporate the specs into my 'look'!
No need to look dowdy, even if I am in my 50s!

I have also walked 11000 steps today!

Honeycomb Smash Cheesecake.

MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

O/h's birthday so we went out to lunch. Normally I wouldn't eat dessert if I wasn't hungry, but today I really fancied something sweet. It was so lovely, I enjoyed every mouthful.

The steps are going ok, but I have been really busy at work, and driving to pick up o/h from station, so it has been really late by the time I get in. I have been walking every where when time has allowed though.

And my weight has satbilised to its lowest yet since I started BC, so I am very pleased with that.

Steps.

I decided to concentrate on another aspect of BC; 'Move your body'. I like walking above any other sort of exercise, hate the gym, hate going to classes, hate swimming (unless I'm on holiday somewhere hot!) and I'm not going to force myself to do something I dislike, because I know I just won't stick with it. I've been wanting for some time to include the walking in my daily activity, and have at last hit on a method to do it. I watched an item on a TV programme last week which said that you should walk 10 000 steps per day. I had bought a pedometer before Christmas but hadn't used it at all, as I didnt want to be focusing on calorie burning. So I just googled '10 000 steps' and hit on this website. It said that you need to work up to that number of steps which made a lot of sense, so since midweek I have been trying to do this, and am currently up to around 8,500 from 6,500.
I 'm really pleased, as I can fit this into my daily activity, I can easily push the steps up by extending the amount I walk around at work; walking and jogging around the hall in a PE lesson with my class; walking around the playground when I'm on duty, and walking from one building to the other on our school site. Plus if like today, I fit in a walk to town, this pushes it up even more.
Oh, and I seeme to have got back into my eating routine a bit better too!

Why is this happening?

Having a minor 'blip' at the moment. January is one of my worst times, Christmas is over, I'm a year older, the weather is crap and I am skint!

So I do know why it is happening. 'It' being the temptation to eat when I am not hungry. I'ts so annoying when I really felt I had this thing just about sorted. It's just that blind desire to eat, and it's so hard to resist at times.

Pause, pause, pause. Think..... Is this really what I want to do?

After... how does this feel,, How does this food feel in my body? Is this how I want to feel?


I know I can get over this.

AND I WONT ATTACK MYSELF FOR IT EITHER!

Happy new Year (part 2)

I just want to celebrate how wonderful it is to begin the new year without that horrible pressure of thinking you should be on a diet! Never being 'on' one means never coming 'off' one, so that feeling of guilt, pressure, depression or whatever is just not there.