Day One - took 6 hours to get to Devon !!!!

Day Two - Went on the "short" walk to the beach - Ha!!! 20 minutes down the hill and 40 minutes back up the hill.

Day three - Explore the park - took all of 10 minutes. Beleive me it looked much bigger on the website. Did manage to scare all the people in the sauna though. All 8 of us opened the door to see a thousand people all sitting in a state of undress in a tiny room smaller than my bathroom. Ran off laughing like naughty schoolchildren

Day four - Friends car broke down. Squeezed five on the back seat of our car and went to Ilfracombe for the day.

Day five - Beach and bodyboarding.

Day six - Carnival - met some very interesting nutters

Day seven - Went to Chambercombe Mannor - haunted house which will be on Most Haunted the second week in September. Very interesting and got a couple of nice spooky pics.

Day eight - Hubby took us on a "short walk", which turned out to be miles and miles up very steep hills and steps. My daft friend happened to be wearing a pair of gold flip flops - just what you need for hiking. Ended up at a tearoom which was shut!!! Found a pub just down the road. I ended up having a black coffee (for a change). Spoke to the nice owners of the pub and told them we couldnt face walking back over the hills and were going to walk round the road way. After they stopped laughing they told us it would take hours and hours and did we want them to call us a taxi?? Found out there were eight of us and said we needed a minibus. Told the mini bus driver we would be in the car park and that he would recognise us as there was a mad woman wearing gold flip flops !!! Got rescued by minibus - cost us £18.00!!!!

Day nine - Back home only 4 hours to get back.

Need another holiday now

This holiday has nearly killed me.

I'm amazed that I didn't crack and eat.

I know that sometimes I sulked (yep I did!!), but when everyone around you is stuffing theirselves silly with all sorts of lovely food and I have to sit with a bloody black coffee, well it really ed me off.

My friends husband commented that it was like being with a recovering alcoholic (thanks!!!).

I didn't sulk all the time though I went on very long walks up and down hills (and didn't die )

I did do "Add a Meal" for a couple of days. Although how they can call 3oz of fish or chicken and 2 tablespoons of veg or green salad a meal, I don't know!!! I'm now addicted to crab

I did sneak onto my scales when I got back - I wanted to know that all the torture was worth it, and looking at the scales I think it was, but I'll wait til my official weigh in next week before posting my weight (don't want to jinx myself)

Back to normality now

Hello everyone. I'm back home again.

Just a quickie to say hello and a couple of pics. One from last years holiday and one from this years holiday (bit of a difference thank goodness!!!)

More about my hols later.

2005

2006

All packed and ready to go again.

Off to sunny Devon tomorrow

See you soon

to my darling husband.

Last year of his thirties.

I can gloat because I've decided my birthday is going backwards now.

I've decided that this year I shall be 32

We all watched Nacho Libre on Monday and all of us have put in our cards

xXoOoOXXx - for those that haven't seen Nacho

translation

x = leetle kiss
X = big kiss
o = leetle hug
O = big hug

yes we are sad

I didn't know whether to blog this or not, but I decided to anyway. Just cos I didn't blog it won't make it not true (unfortunately).

My counsellor came round this evening to see my sisters kittens (I usually go to hers on a Friday evening), so to save me time tomorrow she decided to bring her scales and weigh me.

I didn't know she was bringing her scales so have been drinking gallons of water and had just had a soup before she came. (excuses excuses)

I've only lost one measly pound, and I thought 3lb was bad last week!!!
I wish I had had fish and chips and cakes and everything else I wanted now. It hardly seems worth starving myself for a pound!!!

Anyhow, I'm definitely doing "add a meal" next week now. She thinks I'm having a plateau and this might help shake my metabolism up. It had bloody better cos I'm this close to giving up.

OK - deep breaths. I am calm.

Well what crap weather I had only one sunny day!!!!

I found these couple of days hard on my diet for some reason. Anyway I didn't crack, but I did feel a teeny bit sorry for myself

Nothing much happened til yesterday. I went in a shop with my eldest son while my husband was buying baguettes. When I went to the counter the lady said "Are you a local?". Which amused my son because he thought she was going to say "this is a local shop for local people"!!! Anyway when I told her I wasn't she said it was a shame because she was going to invite me to the next moot. This amused my son even more as he said I obviously give off an aura of being a "witch" (I wasn't even wearing a pentagram)

So I'm home now, washing, ironing and packing again as I'm off to Woollacombe on Saturday. Hope the weather picks up. Outside there is currently torrential rain and thunder. Lovely

That's it. I've finished reading and correcting. Ironings done, washings done, case is packed.

Will definitely forget something

Going to bed

Bit disappointed tonight as I only lost 3lbs. Yes I know 3lbs is still a good loss, but I've been totally spoilt by this diet, and now my pattern of a big loss, small loss is messed up!!!

But anyway I am now under 19 stone (bit of a difference from 25 ish stone), and have less than a hundred pounds to lose.

I asked my Counsellor if she thought my weight loss might slow down now, and she suggested that I try "Add a Meal" when I go on holiday, as it sometimes helps to kickstart your metabolism. I'm still thinking about that as I didnt really want to eat until Christmas, so I'll see how my weight loss goes this week before deciding.

I've tried a new soup tonight, Oriental Chilli and it's my new favourite. It tastes just like Thai Green Curry mmmmmmmmmm.

Better go and do some work. I'm proof reading some medical essays and correcting them (just because my punctuation is crap in my blog doesn't mean I don't know how to do it!!!)

Busy, busy, busy - I'm also packing to go away tomorrow for a few days. Anything to stop work contacting me on my week off

Be good while I'm away. You know I will

1. Make sure you're wearing a low cut nightie that's at least 2 sizes too big.

2. Have an argument with son

3. Storm over to computer to switch it off.

4. Notice two large mounds appear in the bottom right of the screen

5. Realise you're bending down in front of the webcam

6. Die of embarassment

*takes a bow* Thank you

So, taking Charlies advice (thanks Charlie) I went to the Asda this evening. Not quite as late as I was advised to go though.

Was very quiet there and a nice lady gave me a chicken for £1. I didn't really want a chicken and I can't eat anyway, but I just couldnt say no

Picked up some nice books (just can't help myself) and a new dress which was half price and a couple of tops.

Now Charlie, my husband says can you not advise me anymore because it costs him too muchDDD

yes my tooth - the one that has been giving me endless tootache for months is finally out.

I have a crater the size of.... erm well a really big crater in my gum (why does everything feel bigger when it's in your mouth??). Careful with the comments there

I was actually looking forward to having it out until I sat in the chair and he blasted my tooth with freezing cold water. The last thing you want on a rotten sensitive tooth is freezing cold water. My buttock cheeks have only just unclenched After trying to freeze my tooth with 10 -yes 10 capsules of "numbing stuff" and all of them breaking he decided to try and pull my tooth out. I soon let him know that I wasn't happy with the pain shooting through my gums everytime he yanked by trying to pull his hand out of my mouth. Another round of numbing began. Fortunately, this time I didnt feel a thing and it was out in seconds. He asked me if he could keep my tooth (yes my teeth are special!!). Well after thinking about missing out on money from the tooth fairy I said yes - cos I'm generous like thatD

My mouth has just unfrozen after 5 hours and you will be happy to know that I am now able to say "F" again, which much to everyones amusement I haven't been able to say all day. Obviously I say words beginnning with "F" a lot

p.s just to let you know how much sympathy I get my mum has just rung to see if I can say "Fart" yet- Thanks Mum

I'm sitting here happily waiting for my Tesco shopping when I get a phone call telling me that there is a problem with their system and it will be late.

Of all the bloody days to be late - Ive got a dentist appointment at 12pm, so now I've had to cancel my order.

I am very very very pissed off.: : That's just adding to the pissedoffedness (yes it is a real word !!) that I'm feeling lately.

Anyone want to do my shopping for me ????

Just going to run down the road screaming at the top of my voice. Will be back later

Because I wasn't seeing my counsellor for two weeks I thought I would have a change and order some shakes.

Mistake!!!

I remember now that I don't really like them. I've made muffins and biscuits but I'd still rather have a chocolate tetra made into a mousse. So I'm bored until Friday and I'm stuck with not wanting to eat every morning (thats a first )

Anyway off to the dentist later to have a tooth out eeek!!

Hoorah I made it to 100 days on the Cambridge Diet.

That's no eating and no cheating for a whole 100 days.

:D

This is what happens when you go to the gym for a couple of hours and your son and husband are left to their own devices. Another new guitar. This is his new pride and joy. It's an Epiphone Explorer. Apparently it's a girl and it's now named Dora I'm sure it would be sleeping in bed with him if it wasn't wrapped in cotton wool

Oh and this is in addition to the electro-acoustic guitar I bought him last week.

He'd better bloody become famous !!!!!

Anyhow so its showing off band practice at ours tomorrow. Neighbours will be sooo happy

I didn't go to see my CDC last night because she's on holiday.

So last week my husband fetched the scales from the top of the wardrobe (where he knows I can't reach them) so that I could see how my weight compared with her scales. Fortunately it was the same weight as hers, so I can now tell you that this week on my scales I have lost another 3lbsD

Nearly halfway there

Whoo hoo only another 100lbs to go

I've done it!!!

I've agreed to go to the Christmas "roaring twenties" party.

Now I will spend the next couple of months worrying about it

I'm sure once I get there I will have a great time.

They will be putting us up in a hotel afterwards so my Mum's offered to keep my boys overnight - so no excuses

For some reason, now I've lost weight everyone seems to be interested in my sex life
There's only one problem with this, I have to say I'm the biggest prude on the planet I'm not averse to hearing about anyone elses sex life, and with my friends I don't really have much choice!!! But when it comes to mine, my lips are firmly shut (no pun intended!!)

Everyone seems to think that now I've lost weight I must be some sort of gymnast and are eager to hear all the details. I wouldn't mind, but I never had any trouble before I lost weight Obviously when I've lost the next 6 stones they'll be expecting me to be swinging from the chandeliers (must remember to buy some first).

One friend even had the cheek to tell me I would be going out and picking up men. I don't bloody think so !!! I've got enough with the one I've got.

All I can say is, if losing weight is supposed to turn you into some raving nymphomaniac all the men had better watch out if ever me, CD Thing, Fatal and Deter go out on the town together