Weight Loss Journals - petecohen.tv

My office desk is a lot clearer. I said I was smug.
Accounts now in at Company House before the deadline. See I said that I was smug.
Corperation tax paid before the deadline. See I said that I was smug.
I have just finished our ironing and my Mum's ironing. See I am smugger.
I have been making some great arrangements for South Africa visit in June. Now I am getting really smug.
Oh and by the way; I just thought that I would mention; just in case there is the slightest interest - my weight is on the way down again. Yer I am v. smug with that one.
Keep on with those great choices; Enjoy and have Fun

my sports clothes - I have been out running. Well not for too far but it was running not jogging and not a fast walk. I enjoyed myself

my gardening clothes. It was really warm work raking the thatch out of our lawn and getting some other outside jobs done. Very satisfiying.
I have also been wearing a smile; the sunshine always makes me feel sooo happy.

Today I am wearing a smile.
I have got my books into the accountant.

I am also wearing a tuna sandwich, water, breakfast tea, green tea, juice - celery and carrot. That appears that I am a messy eater.

At lunch time I am changing - I will be wearing an apple, dried fruit, seeds and nuts with a match box sized piece of cheese. (I have cut this ready and didn't have an extra piece as I cut.) I will have a pack of oatcakes with me for mid afternoon.

This evening I will be wearing my gym kit.
I am booked to the gym as they have new equipment installed and I will need a lesson how to use them. Best thing about the new equipment is that the machines are quieter therefore much better when we are at the Pilates class.

Porridge
Juicing was - beetroot, carrot and ginger - yummy
Breakfast tea
Water
Fruit Tea
An almond biscuit (a large one) (WELL NO; NOT THAT BIG)
Tea
Water
About an ounce of cheese.
Prawns with a large leaf salad with some mashed potato.
Water
Water
Not looking my best yet but I will.
08:30 went to Pilates - very good effort put in by me.
18:30 went to drawing class - I am rather please with my work.
I am going to have more water now and then off to bed. Night

PS Make great choices on Thursday and have some fun.

flights for a summer holiday. Will be seeing my sister in Durban. I am feeling sooo excited.

Day 12 and I have had porridge with fruit and nuts sprinkled on the top. I have also had a glass of water, a cup of breakfast tea and a cup of Lemon and Ginger tea. I have put an apple and a pack of oatcakes in my handbag. I am ready for the day - bring it on.

I wish that I could be dynamic enough in my willingness to make changes - perhaps I will have a 'wake up moment' one day. In the meantime I will just plod on.
Daughter and I are signed up again for a summertime Race For Life; that should help me on the keep active side of things. Daughter was very prompt with signing up as she got us numbers 6 & 7.

Birthday today went fine. Better than lots of recent days as I was so focused at work. Deadlines are a wonderful tool. It is amazing how often a job fills in the alotted time! The accountant is in at noon tomorrow and if I go in early then I ought to complete in time! Funny thing is it is the accountant's birthday today and also the counter staff team leader at the bank?

What next then? Well I had better keep up the good work for the next year and not daydream quite so much.

I have been to my drawing class this evening and enjoyed it no end.

Thank you for some of your tips and ideas for my London trip. I had two whole days on my own as He was at a conference.

What I did on Thursday.
I went to the Bodyshop to buy a present for daughter's birthday (I had a five pound voucher from the Telegraph)
Then of to Picadilly to buy theatre tickets at the half price ticket booth. Bought tickets for same evening to see 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre across the way. I then checked the menu next door and that looked ok as well.
Then of to queue to see the Van Gogh exhibition at the Royal Academy http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/ . There was a 2 hour wait in the cold drizzle. I got in and the wait was well worth it.

Afterwards I went to find Rigby and Pellar for a new bra. I went in wearing a bra sized 38C and came away with a 34F. Remarkable; I was shown into a changing room and the lady asked me to take off my top; turn to the mirror with her behind me and then I removed my bra. She just looked - no tape measure; gave me a gown and she went off to select an everyday bra for me. The one she came back with was just the right size and a realy good fit but a bit industrial. Of she went again and came back with a prettier bra I liked this one much better. She fetched to same style with an E cup but that wasn't right. I bought the second bra. How clever was all that - how did she size me by just looking at me?.

Off to Covent Garden - I love this place - the colour and the bussle. Great people watching place. Lady singing opera; then a quartet played; there was a juggler and actobats. I had a small paella and a glass of mulled wine.

Then off on my jaunt I walked down to the National Gallery. What a brilliant way to spend some time. I used the tube back to the hotel. Made tea and ate two biscuits.

Had a rest then washed and changed. He came back - washed and changed then off to the meal and the theatre - the meal was very pleasant and a reasonable price. The 39 Steps was so funny - do go if you get the chance.

Friday in London - I walked over the Millennium Bridge to Tate Modern - I now know that I am not very keen on all of this modern art.

I walked along the Embankment just to see the sites and have a look at having lunch on a boat but I hummed and ha-ed and gave that a miss this time. Off on the tube to Pimlico to find Tate Britain - much more my kind of stuff. I was hungry and my pace was flagging so I bought a sandwich and a bottle of water. The gallery was very interesting. There were a lot of children in as it was half term and the kids were on the floor doing craft work - they were all so busy. I enjoyed seeing the Turner Gallery and in an upstairs room I did some sketching.

Back on the tube to Portland Place. I was a bit early so as the sun was shinning I went across to Regent Park and did a sketch. Then of to met Him. Had some food and caught the train home. There was a Polish man on the wrong train and he needed help to get to a town not too far from our home. The ticket lady let him stay on the train with the wrong ticket and he got off with us. We showed he where the taxi rank was but NO taxis. We said that we would give him a lift to the town taxi rank.

Got to our car and Husband had problems getting in! Mostly I drive the car and I thought that he was just being cack handed. Our problem in fact was a flat battery. He walked the Polish man to the town centre and I phoned youngest daughter for help. She came and took me home, bless her. Two blessings for her as her and her family had been looking after my dog while we were away. :-)

Next day we sorted out a battery and the Mr Fixit type man said that the indicator light had been left on and that is what had drained the battery (Husband drove us to the station and parked the car - I say no more)

Well Day fifteen says find something else to do instead of eating when I am not hungry.

1. Watch Pete's video of the day.
2. Phone a friend. No that one isn't any good as I don't do chitty chatty phone calls. Get on with some work would be a better idea. But then I dont pick and snack at work so that is inappropriate.
6. I dont pick and snack - I think that Pete has reprogrammed my circuits.
7. I just think that I eat too much at some mealtimes. Ok well at a lot of my meals.
7. I will not get the cheese out after a meal. The other me would get cheese out and nibble as soon as I got home; in fact when ever I got home.
6. Dont eat pudding - hardly ever. Rarely; in fact perhaps not once a week.
6. Take my own food to work and not taking a sandwich or cake from His lunch bag.
7. Make sure that I drink enough through the day.
6. I do not need cake and biscuits on Sunday afternoon - change to fruit tea at 5o'c on Sunday. I wouldn't eat cake with fruit tea.

I appear to be all at sixes and sevens with my progress and my thoughts but I am making progress. I am off to check out some of the blogs. See you there...
Make great choices; have Fun and Enjoy.

I am going to do the 21 days backwards. I thought that this would make me more mindful of what I am doing instead of being on auto pilot.

I am back in a good mode.
I am trying to get on with things, loads of things.
I just don't know where I go sometimes. I am often in a dream world somewhere. I dont get on with "things" - anything - it is almost like teenage mode when a teenager could go to bed in the early hours of the morning and just not get up for hours and hours and hours. Then they get up and just watch telly, listern to music and doss down some more. Difference is I do get up and go to work but acheive very little. I have made it so that I dont go online at work and lose time on the internet. I have lost loads of work hours helping mum out. I must apply myself and face a mountain of work stuff in a very little time. This isn't mum's fault. In an ordinary week and in ordinary year I can be easierly distracted. I don't do the same thing at the same time each day. I procrastinate. I do not do the same thing at the same time each week. I am chaotic. I was the same at school with regard to school work and homework. I was the same bringing up children. I am the same with timekeeping. I am old enough to know better but I am still disorganized. I don't have structure to my life. In fact most areas of my life are disorderly. I will plod on and I will get there. I just hope that I don't let down too many people on the way. I know that I let myself down.

That reminds me of a joke.

Baby balloon liked snuggling into mummy and daddy balloon's bed. Baby crept out of his bed and tried to sneak into mummy and daddy's bed but he was getting too big. He tried to wriggle into mum's side of the bed but he slipped out. He tried to wriggle into dad's side of the bed but he slipped out, Baby balloon tried to sneak into the bottom of the bed but that didn't work either. So he went up to the pillow and unknotted mummy and let out a little air. Still he couldn't wriggle into bed. He went round to dad's side of the bed and unknotted dad and let out a little air. Still baby balloon couldn't fit into that snuggly bed. Baby balloon reached up and let some air out of his own knot. He manged to get into bed with his parents. In the morning daddy balloon was so cross. Baby balloon was told off about again getting into his parent's bed.
Dad said, "You have let your Mum down, you have let me down and more importantly you have let yourself down!"

All of this might not make any sense to anybody else but it makes sense to me.
Well I had better leave this now or I will be late at the office. I dont want to let any body down - more importantly I don't want to let myself down.

Make great choices today - I know that I will - have Fun and Enjoy.

I have just watched Pete's day 14 video and I have been reminded about drinking water and why I must drink water.

I think that I have taken on board the drinking water thing but Now I will move on to a new level with it. I have been gulping down quite a lot of water; I can even drink a pint of water in one go but Now I will sip.
I am going to find my very nice glass with an owl etched on it and keep it near the kitchen tap. I will make drinking water a pleasure not a task.
Cheers.