MOrning all

Just had two days of working around the edges while the boy has been off school! Went pretty well considering how exhausted Cub camp left him he’s desperate for money for games for a new gadget, so willing todo some jobs for me, and now he’s obsessed with cataloguing all his pokemon cards so he can sell them…I foresee a lot of typing on ebay coming up!

Haven’t been able to even think of fasting so well done everyone else who is keeping on track. I haven’t had a biscuit yet, though in June, so if that’s the only target I meet it’ll be a pretty significant habit broken! I know – only 4 days done…but I like to celebrate enven the little things.

Right – time to get the boy to school and crack on.

Mx

Send me some of your weather Jean miserable here.Fast day today and gym later,my knees are sore from yesterday’s bowling so I hope she doesn’t get all the balls and bands out at the gym.I got a key for the bowling green so I can go when I want to practice (knees allowing)

Jean- fingers crossed then for Steve’s next appt,🙏. Well done on low carb for you…
Dave- getting serious, being given the key to the green! Hope your knees hold up this afternoon!
My car will be £500 😞😞, not done until later tomorrow. My home-start mum has had her little baby boy, she’s had a c-section though so that will be really hard as the twins are so little…going to see them next week.
Fish was yum!

This is why I bought a new car,my old one the windows were sticking, needed new brakes and drums,mot was due so I thought to myself get a newer car, I now have no mot due everything is new still only done 45 miles and was a good saving on a new car.Fast day going ok just got home from gym so having a cuppa then take Heidi out.

Getting hungry now, still no food so looking forward to having some 😋😋😋.

Very few housemartins about our way, nor swallows, shame, I love to see them.
Dave- the car isn’t that old & only done 28,000 miles, I thought Suzuki’s were supposed to be very reliable! Well done with your FDs!
Mel- Very well done with the weight loss so far! A good incentive to behave on holidays! we are like you- more lenient with Xena than with our last dog! She does snuggle on the sofa although to be fair she’s small for a lab, Josie was alot bigger! Posts do go I think if you go back over the page…
Minols- dinner sounds nice! Hope your meeting goes okay…
Jean- I’ll visit HS family next week- the little ones are away with grandparents this week, & Dad is off for 2 weeks so not needed yet but will pop in to say hi next week!
Eek- for some reason HS have nominated me for a volunteers award- there’s others who do far more than me so it doesn’t seem right- I think it’s because of the story in the film we did & the impact that’s had from that one family. Hope I don’t win, would be more photos!😵 Salad eaten, have done okay today!

Morning All…
Bright day…

We are fasting today, anyone else?

Going into Hull today to take our watches to be serviced, Steve’s broken his watch winder on the dustbin..a big ouch for us…we have a few caravan jobs to do we are waiting for a blind to be delivered later pm, so a job for Saturday and taking all washing back.

Charlie waiting for his walk but he will get left behind for a couple of hours while we are out, he will be sulky!

Cakey…
Have a lovely relaxing day today…take some wine with you….

Speak later…

Jean x

Afternoon All…
We got our jobs done taking Charlie with us….then as being Hull there’s a huge park, what fun Charlie had, the swifts or swallows were low flying he chased them for 20 mins or so full pelt on the way to the cafe and also coming back to the car..he is shattered!..he didn’t want to leave……shame it’s fast day the cakes are really nice theres homemade flapjack too…we just had a coffee..

Very hot at the moment it’s lovely…getting ready for the heavy rain tomorrow 😬

Dave..
Charlie would have to agree with you, exercise in the park is a killer 😂…enjoy ..hope you don’t ache too much…

Fasting day going well…..ham salad this evening…scales moving slowly in the right direction 😀

Jean x

Dave..
Well done on the park…you are doing really well with all the exercise…Charlie is not so bad with squirrels chased a couple, he ignores most….the birds kept him going, funny to watch…

X

Hi all…where has today gone?! Long walk with Xena, lots of washing & ironing, did hubby’s hair & washed floor, been to see mum as she’s not doing great…phew, no time to eat so have fasted all day!
Catch up with posts later, now off to pick up the car…

I took Heidi out again,shoes off now,in for the night.Football at 7-45 so I will get the circulation booster out later.Legs are aching a bit.My son is walking like a zombie,he has done weight lifting Tuesday and Wednesday,ball hockey last night too.Denise did the gym with me Monday and Wednesday,think she is doing it next week then stopping.

Dave- well done with all your exercise! Why is Denise stopping her exercise, has she finished her course? Xena chases squirrels now, she doesn’t seem to realise they go up trees & keeps running!
Jean- what training are you wanting to do with Charlie?
Mel- well done staying strong with the buffet, hope the funeral wasn’t too bad 😞. I love cheese, have some for me!😉
Minols- hope all’s going okay with you & you’re still avoiding the biscuits?!
Cakey- nearly there now…soon be flying away! Hope it’s getting done & hubby’s being more helpful!
Car collected, errands done on the way home, more scent work & a game in the garden instead of a second walk with Xena- too hot! Nearly all my calories eaten for my evening meal, 740 today.

My last dog would do everything I told him, never had any training except from me,I once told him to sit and wait while I went in the shop,I came out talking to someone and forgot about the dog he waited until I was about 50 yards away then barked at me😄I shouted him and he came running.Denise’s course finishers on the 18th of June and she doesn’t want to carry on after where I have started another 3 months.

Morning all – beautiful orning here and really hope the forecast lousey day tomorrow is wrong as it’s the church picnic! Not hugely hopeful, but they hae been wrong twice this week, so…

Not really doing any fasting these days – there just doesn’t seem to be room in my head to get myself motivated…but I haven’t had any biscuits, so cracking a bad habit would be a positive, at least.
And my treat today will be a salad from the takeaway before the BB display tonight!

Our dog is terrible on recall nowadays…just ambles around pretty much ignoring me. He is deaf, and my be a little bit blind, but he knows what he’s doing too, and he’ll look like he’s coming, but always looking for distractions that he can indulge to lengthen the walk…he’s a cunning old thing but puts on an innocent expression, varying to slightly puzzled/hurt if I get too shouty in my frustration – ‘I’m annoying you? who me? oh, I’m very sorry you can’t keep your temper. let me come back and see if being cute helps calm you down…’ Like I said – cunning!

HH – have a nice time with your Mum – hope she’s doing alright.

Mx

Well yesterday became a bit of a disaster. Evening food was the buffet stuff and cheese, sitting around the table all evening. I just don’t know when to stop so basically hoovered up everything! A new day now. Looks a bit cloudy. Have got to negotiate a full English breakfast soon. 😱. Jean, my steps vary according to if I am walking Jodie or not. Think if I didn’t have a dog I wouldn’t do very well. Averaging 17,000 is brilliant. I probably average about 13,000. On holiday though I do around 20,000 – 22,000. I have one day of 30,000 which I don’t think will be repeated!

It was a strange and rather surreal funeral actually. A 93 year old auntie who was not liked or loved by anybody. She was extremely nasty to her only child and unfortunately was not mourned at all. The lovely man doing the funeral wanted us to pause and think of how she enriched all our lives. No one (of the ten there) knew where to look! No excuse for the 10,000 calories I probably consumed that evening though!
Jodie is being good here with the three other dogs and two cats. We have to watch her with the cats but she has got a lot better and they take no nonsense from her. It is disconcerting watching her sitting next to them salivating!

Dave, don’t get disheartened. It is probably a delayed reaction and will show up at some point. Think you have done great. Have just had bacon, eggs, sausage etc but no toast.

Afternoon All..
I have decided to have my usual day off, Friday ..I have had a couple of slices of tea cake loaf for lunch and I shall have just a few chips with my haddock tonight. Then 6 days of no bread and potatoes. I have bought a lot of fruit to have fruit salad for lunch during the week.

Mel ….
A very interesting funeral..shame on all the evening calories, still a funny day I wouldn’t worry..

Dave..
You can’t loose weight every week…you may catch up next week..you have done great this last year, you have to be so pleased with your self..

Jean x

Afternoon all!

Travelling over to Wiltshire for camping weekend!! At the moment its stopped raining but we’ve had lots of it and the forecast is grim. Just want to be able to get the tent up in a dry moment or 2!

Jean, you are finally back from your travels! Looks like you all had a lovely time. Charlie has been spoilt with a variety of different walks!

Minols, even if you arent fasting, are you still doing the shorter eating window? Ive not been fasting but a couple of days woth the TRE has put me back to where I was.

Brad, I wouldnt worry, the weight loss will catch up next week. Are you doing 800?

CW, where you off to on holiday?

HH, Xena seems to be doing really well with the training. I would definitely invest in classes if I got a young dog or an untrained adult one!

Mel, very interesting funeral! Line drawn under the eating and back on it.
30,000 steps! I dont think I have ever done that many in a day! Well not since wearing my fitbit anyway!

Walking Billy the labrador ended yesterday but I think he wants me to still take him out once or twice a week for a decent walk 😀

We have 2 nights camping near Malborough meeting up with a group of geocaching friends. Then we are heading over to north devon coast for 2 nights, with a long walk planned.
Back home on Tuesday so planning a reduction in bread etc

Anyone got any specific aims for June?
I want to get at least 2lbs off my lingering half a stone!

Have a good weekend all

Kay x

Dave..
A make you think article….camera sounds as if it’s good…or bad depends how you see things maybe for Denise 😂

Kay..
Enjoy your camping weekend, it will be strange without Ellie…remember she is in a better place away from pain. 💕
Hope you find all the things you are looking for..and dry weather 🤞

Like you I am back to 7 lbs to loose and a wishful bit more…these holidays.. I am gaining 2 lbs on each one, loosing the main lot but going on next holiday before it’s all off…I am really going for it, thinking on what I am eating but still having Friday off, it’s fasting for life, Fridays keep me going for the week ahead. 2 lb off would be good 4 lbs off would be wonderful…I was always a pound off a week girl.

Raining lightly here…may go for an early walk before the heavy rain arrives…watching ‘my Raintoday’ app closely.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone…Cakey hope you have everything done for your holiday..safe journey and enjoy.

Jean x

Dave..
If you have no credit that is possibly why you have failed it…try one of the others..we are with BT, we find them ok.

Jean x

Dave..
We only do Wi-fi …I haven’t gone into tv etc…
X

Morning all!
Dave- hope you get things sorted…in the meantime enjoy the cricket & footie…
Kay- hope your weekend is good & the weather improves!
Minols- hope the weather is good for your picnic too! Hope you can get back into fasting soon- be good if you could stay strong until your son finishes for the holidays- won’t be long will it? It’s harder with kids about eating all day! I think your old dog can be excused some training lapses at his age & after his back problems! Josie had that offended look perfected too!
Jean- hope your Friday off was good! Hope you don’t have too many rainy walks with Charlie this weekend!
Mel- not a sad funeral then! Glad you ate some cheese for me! You’re on holiday & buffets are hard so draw a line under it as Jean says! Hope Jodie keeps away from those cats…
Took Xena out, she was so bad in the car we didn’t go as far as we’d intended! Hope maybe the calming tablets we ordered help! We were out for quite a while, took her to a pet shop too & got a new flavour of her food, which has gone down better! My new recipe went down well too- fish in a cream, lemon & parmesan sauce, good for keto but not calories! Did a keto chocolate cake too which was very good. So not good calorie wise yesterday in the end! & today’s not started well- Xena had us up in the night with upset tummy (maybe the mouldy bread she got hold of on our walk yesterday?!), so very tired…& willpower is nonexistent, made some peanut butter cookies for breakfast!!
Have the village show later, but no dog show this year for some reason, then a scent workshop with Xena, & sis & I are doing our alpaca walk this evening- mum’s weird birthday present!
Have a good day everyone!

And we’re off

A little bit nervous and a lot excited.
The woof happily boarding at his daycare place and a friend house sitting so feel it’s all well at home.
I ended up having to work really late and a little bit this morning but now all done and switched off for 2 weeks. It was my intention last year to lose 3 stone for my 50th and hols and I’ve lost exactly 1lb – lol.

Minols – off to Istanbul tonight for a few days then a week in Cappadocia including a hot air balloon trip hopefully. Very excited although was up at 6 am the other day googling ‘do hot air balloons have seatbelts’ and I’m terrified of heights.

Trainers packed and can’t believe I’m actually hopeful to get a couple of runs in whilst away.

Special Birthday tomorrow.

Dave – I’ll give you a wave, as flying from Manchester
Jean – hope you had a good lovely hols – give Charlie a cuddle as I’m missing my boy already
Hh – enjoy your alpaca visit – let us know more about it and your keto recipes sound delicious
Minols – how’s your running going? Good luck with the picnic
Kay – enjoy your camping
Hi Mel – nice to ‘meet’ you. Just to give you hope, I lost 3 stone in 5:2 previously so don’t let my dismal behaviour in the last few months put you off 🙂

CW

Cakey I am scared of heights,not sure I could do the balloon ride,I would love to do it,I would like to do a parachute jump too but doubt I will ever do one.Mel I to have lost around 3 stone doing the 5-2.Jean the rain is coming your way it’s been pouring down all day here so definitely not bowling today.It will give my knees a rest😄