Wildlife Bouquet

Another lovely walk along the canal today, making the most of the weather, it's getting to be quite a habit! Well it must be good for us!

We fed the ducks who seem to be getting to know us now, and come to us almost as soon as we leave the back gate!

And we collected a beautiful wildlife bouquet, including dandilions, I remembered the old wives tale of wetting the bed if you pick dandilions, well if that is true I bet the guy who was over the fields mowing them was going to be in trouble with his wife, he uprooted loads of them!

Pretty as anything from interflora!

Feeling a bit low

Feeling really tearful today, no idea why - which kind of makes it even worse cos it's so illogical.

Had a wonderful couple of days with walks and fun and even in the pool yesterday afternoon, all of the idylic parts of home ed with none of the routine bits getting in the way.. so why am I this way? I can cope with being low when there is a trigger for it, but when it's like this it drives me nuts!

Too sunny for maths!

Well we woke up this morning to blue skies, and bright sunshine.

After having set up a load of maths work last night, immediately decided after all the yucky weather we've had there was no way we were sitting indoors pouring over pages of maths. It's very patient is maths, it'll still be there.

So being blessed with a beautiful canal right outside our back gate, we decided the ducks needed feeding and we'd walk an find where we ended up.

The ducks got a rude awakening - quite literally in one case, TJ threw bread to on who was sitting quietly on the bank looking the other way.. except her aim wasn't the best and instead of landing just infront of him as she intended, she managed to hit (gently) him! He wasn't best pleased and let us know by jabbering at us for the next five minutes non-stop!

As we walked down the canal throwing bread as we went we were followed by ducks, pigeons and sea-gulls alike.

As we walked under a bridge I couldn't believe what we saw, could this be the most unusual place for a yarn shop?

 

Unfortunately they'd only stopped to get some shopping, so weren't set up to sell, but they've told us where they will be set up at the weekend, so weather permitting a trip to Calf Heath may be in order! 

We continued down the canal, and came to a small shop which sold canal themed souvenirs. We picked up a couple of models to make of old fashioned 'bargees' (canal people) and a canal horse, just need to colour them in and cut them out. Oh and we bought an ice cream of course!

Turning around we decided to make our way to the park on the way back for a fun 'PE lesson'

 

After that it was time to hurry home for lunch, as we had a very important appointment this afternoon - took my older daughter to hospital for her 20 week scan to find out we're expecting a second grandson! 

This evening was off to church for a lovely meal with lovely friends, very yummy!

A really lovely day!

 

WOOO ZUMBA!!!

Did another session of Zumba yesterday afternoon with TJ - she is SO good at it and keeps going for AGES!

We had home made burgers, with low fat cheese slice, lettuce, tomato, mushroom, and beetroot, and slimming world chips for dinner last night - all free! Well the cheese was my HEX A, and the bun HEX B, so free for me, but Mike had already had is A & B so it was pretty syn intensive for him, about 9 I think.

Was feeling a bit overheated after dinner, so given the nice day we had TJ and I decided to have a quick dip in the pool... brrr.. however nice a day it has been, an outdoor unheated pool is COLD on 1st September! lol It served it's purpose though and cooled us down :)

Had a nice hour of 'family game night' on the Xbox before TJ's storytime, love snuggling up for story time for half hour before she goes to bed, and even though she's now 9 she still enjoys it, hope it lasts for a long time to come!

Did another session of Zumba this morning, only about 10 minutes, but i'm sure it's burning more calories than my half hour of swimming/cross training did!

had a big breakfast this morning, but all free (except for the 1 syn worth of tom ketchup!)

Gap in posting, but not in living!

Haven't posted for a while, but I've still been keeping up with everything!

The swimming, and cross-training have stopped.. it's just TOO cold for swimming and cross-trainer is sooooooooo boring!

But they've both been replaced with ZUMBA!!! lol

So far I'm not doing as long Zumbaing (that a word?) as I was swimming and cross training, but I feel I'm getting a LOT more out of it. In fact I have declared that our heating isn't going on this winter, anyone complains about being cold they get to do ten mins ZUMBA! I'm so hot when I finish - literally BURNING calories! I'm doing it on the x-box with the help of the kinect, and so far I haven't even mastered the tutorial on the basic steps! But I'm having lot's of fun!

Weigh in on Tuesday was a bit mixed emotions, only lost 1lb, which I can't really understand as I'm not cheating at all. BUT that lb took me to my stone award! yaay! really happy. That is a stone since April, which is when i re-joined SW, but 1 stone 9lb since February!

I don't have a picture of my 1 stone award yet, as I couldn't stay for IMAGE therapy after my weigh in this week, so my consultant said she'll give it me next week - she likes presenting stickyfoots!

Anyway, since I recommitted myself to SW just over a month ago, I've not had a week where I haven't lost SOMETHING, so overall I'm very pleased :)

Two piles of Grossness no long in my body!

My mini target for my weightloss this week was 3lb, I achieved 2lb, which initially I was a little disapointed over, but when I look at this picture of 1 lb of fat, and think that there is twice as much as that gone from my body, how can I be disapointed?!

So, yes, I'm happy :)

I didn't cheat this week, I did have a small blip in what I ate yesterday when we went down to Bedford to see Mikes family. My mother-in-law had done a great job in providing low fat 'weight watchers' food, but it wasn't easy to calculate syns, I was good though I ate the filling from the quiche but fed the pastry to the dog (dog thought it was Christmas!), but also succumbed to a few mini sausages, and mini fahitas, which may well have put me over my syns for the day - I didn't have any other syns for the rest of the day, but was feeling a bit hungry later, and filled up on free yoghurts, and fruit - which is fine, but goes to show that bad food makes you want more food!

Anyway I'm still over the moon! if I was to average 2lb a week weightloss I'd be 8 stone lighter this time next year and that is awesome!

*hugs & blessings*

Weigh in day : Part One - Hubby's Weigh in

Well for the last two weeks, Mike, my husband has also been following the Slimming World plan, he doesn't come to group with me, but Iweigh him at home every Tuesday morning. Well he stepped on the scales this morning, and has lost an amazing 5 1/2 lb!!! Making an impressive 9lb over 2 weeks!! I shall be making him his half stone award later today!

I'm so proud of him!

I was up at 6am for my excercise regime this morning. I am going to stop whinging about the temperature of the water at that time of the morning, unless otherwise stated you can read "It was FLIPPIN COLD" as a matter of default!

I did 15 minutes on the trainer and 20 minutes swim, the time certainly passes faster listening to UCB UK as I work :)

No robin came to see me this morning, though there was definitely a bird twittering at me from the tree, not sure if it was the robin, as I couldn't see it, and have no idea what sound a robin makes - I must look that up! Maybe it was just a sparrow mad at me for making so much noise.

Talking of which I'm half expecting some complaint from neighbours about music at that time of the morning, especially when it's been a warm night and people are sleeping with their windows open! I do keep it fairly low - just loud enough for me to hear in the pool, so hopefully I'm not disturbing the peace too much.

Well I'm off to prepare for my weigh in - don't expect to do better than hubby, men do lose faster than women after all, but so long as I get a loss I'll be happy. I had a little bit of a blip yesterday too. But I'll blog more about that in my next post!

*hugs & blessings*