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Confessions of a sweetie-holic

Forgive me (insert applicable saintly figure here) for I have sinned! I have eaten way too many sweets, chocolate and ice cream! I seem to have activated my self-destruction button and I’m eating rubbish. I even told my Weight Watchers leader this morning via text that I was hoping to get back on track today. I did well until dinner time, hubby made my all time favourite chilli meatballs with rice which was delicious, then I just wanted an ice cream fix. I seem to have picked up a really sore throat too (I’m thinking my nephew might have something to do with it!) I’m feeling really crappy at the moment and need to shake myself out of this spiral of being good then ruining all my good work giving in. I feel guilty afterwards so I know it’s not doing me any good.

Well if you’re still reading, thank you! I’ve got a massive walk planned for the morning so let’s hope I can lose my negativity and come back refreshed… Until next time

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Emotional rollercoaster

I’m in such a crap place right now. I went to see my friend yesterday who has been told that her illness is incurable and all they can do is try and manage her pain. I’m beyond gutted for her. There is absolutely nothing they can do and I feel completely useless. She is incredible though, her strength and positivity is amazing and it certainly puts everything else into perspective. Here’s me moaning about eating shite and worrying about a 1lb here and there and she’s facing the reality that at some point her two young children are going to be living without their Mummy. Emma, get a grip!

I have eaten foods I know I shouldn’t have in the last two days and I know it’s not good for me (think chocolate, cake, crisps, sweets!) I amaze myself at how I can be so flippin’ focused one day and the next it’s like there’s going to be a food shortage. I’m certainly letting my emotions and hormones get in the way. I seriously need to get into a new routine with my exercise so I’m really tempted to rejoin the gym but then I think of all the money it costs and I know we can’t really afford that at the moment.

I’m a right whinger today. Think I need my bed and I need a good nights sleep. Tomorrow is a new day and I need to be in a better mood. (It’s Hubby’s birthday and we’re off out for a pub lunch. I’ll post a pic tomorrow of the cake I’ve made him this evening, it is a chocoholics dream!!!) and then I’ve got the weekend to make positive choices and get some exercise in to counteract the damage I might have done in the past 2 days. I’m hoping I can go for a massive walk on Saturday with woofer and again on Monday before I go back to work on Tuesday.

Sorry for such a depressing post, just need to unload it all somewhere. .

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Testing my willpower…

I’m being tested this week. I bought my friend at work some Haribo as she’ll be doing some of my work next week whilst I’ll be off on annual leave (so excited by this!) and I told her not to open them until I was out of the office. Did she heck? She opened the massive bag and placed them on my desk. Luckily, I had the WW sweets at hand to keep my sweet tooth happy.

I had my little box of sweets and I was happy and rather chuffed that I didn’t give into temptation. Apparently Weight Watchers have bought out some Fruit Bear gummy sweets which are pretty much identical to Haribo. They’re 75p and only 2pp per bag. They’ll be on the WW shop at weigh in on Tuesday so will buy a packet and let you know how tasty they are.

Came home yesterday and my lovely in-laws had left me a box of Lindt chocolates for Easter. So far so good but at least I can ration those. Walked into the office today, my last day at work for the Easter holidays and sitting on my desk was a massive packet of  treat size Haribo and a packet of mini Malteser bunnies.

I’ve been for a walk with the dog this evening and have eaten a few naughties (2 tiny packets of Haribo, 2 Lindt chocs and a mini Maltester bunny) but I’m only 6pp over for the day so they can come out of my weeklies.

Tomorrow I’m London bound to stay with my oldest friend (we’ve known each other over 29 years as our Mom’s were on the same Maternity ward back in 1982) and I’m really excited to see her, catch up and have a good girly weekend. I’m hoping the walking I’m planning on doing seeing the sights will help with my weightloss and counteract the one cupcake I plan to eat.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend

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Mission Zumbathon 2012: complete

I am pleased to report that I have spent the afternoon in good company and being just a tad bit active, mission Zumbathon is complete!

The girls ready for Zumba!

Today I joined my friends Sarah and Tresa with a few other lovely ladies in a 3 hour zumbathon raising cash for Beacon Centre For The Blind. Sarah’s daughter uses the Centre and as a way of thanking her for her fantastic support during the last year, I signed up to wiggle my booty for a few hours in aid of a very good cause.

The music started and so did the dodgy dance moves (from me, that is!) It was a very high impact session with lots of totally difference music tracks to what we are used too so it was mostly a case of joining in where I could and following the dance routines as best as I could.


It was a good 3 hours, after an hour we were hot, sweaty and in disbelief that we’d only been dancing for an hour. After 2 hours we were  still hot, very sweaty and pleased we only had an hour to go and at 3 hours we were delighted to have finished. It’s wasn’t easy and I ache a bit now.



Here’s a totally unattractive photo of me  just after we had finished. I drank 4 bottles of water and had a very quick ‘comfort’ break.

So, there we go who’d have thought that 6olb down and I could Zumba for 3 hours! Certainly not me, that’s for sure.

If you’d like to help me raise as much cash as possible, you can donate completely securely here and every penny will be put to the best possible use helping families across the Midlands with the one thing we all take for granted, our sight!

I’ve had my bath, a brew and my Chicken Chow Mein is order and I do believe that my mission is complete!

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Put a ring on it!

I finally got round to taking both my wedding and engagement rings in to be re-sized at the jewelers in town and I am over the moon! They both have been re-sized FOUR sizes smaller than their original size. How happy am I?

That’s definitely what I’d call a NSV (Non-scale victory)
Sometimes it’s the small things that remind me how well I am actually doing despite the blips along the way

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