Yay, it's Friday!

Friday 4th March 2022

It's a slow process but quitting won't speed it up.

Well it's been almost a month since I last blogged and as expected it was on a Monday because on a Monday I'm always ready to have a good 'diet' day.  It'll be 5 weeks Monday coming since I broke my ribs and smashed my head open, everything is healing slowly, I'm now able to sleep lying down which is amazing, I can't lie on my side where the ribs are broken which is the side I'd normally lie on and I don't know if I'm not snoring as much or he just ain't moaning about it because he knows I gotta lie on my back to sleep :).

Yesterday was 6 months since he knocked my door and that time has flown and I'm a very, happy lady, we've always been friends, the time was just never right before, and the last 10 years with mom well I didn't have time for anything did I.  

It's a year on the 22nd since mom died, again where has that year gone and now to make it an even more difficult month for my amazing sister, her husband is in hospital, we would like a break right now to be honest and I think there's so many others out there who are feeling the same. 

Why haven't I been blogging daily?  Honestly, well partly because a lot of the things going on in my life now don't just involve me and I don't think it's right for me to choose to share other peoples business, it's not like when it was just mom and I and we were happy to share our lives 100%.  I now have a teenager living with me who won't even have photos taken lol.  What I can say about that though is we're a very, happy unit dealing with anything that comes our way in the best way we can. 

The other reason I probably haven't blogged is because my weight loss journey ain't been great.  I haven't been able to do much physically with my ribs, so there was a lot of sitting round, I couldn't even lift stuff, I haven't hoovered yet cos I can't pick it up (that's my excuse and I'm sticking too it, thankfully there are other people here to do that for me).  This all means I've not been burning so many calories, add to that I've been comfort and boredom eating well that caused a 3lb weight gain, then a stayed the same, finally this week I lost a pound.  Not the end of the world thankfully, my total weight loss is still 21lb so I'm happy with that.

Last nights huddle gave me some great meal ideas so I've got my foodie head back on, the boys are gonna have to eat what I fancy or feed themselves because I like what I like and I need some of these meals in my life.  Corned beef hash, stuffed mushrooms were just two of them, then I have these in the cupboard and they're only 75 calories each, so I'm gonna get my cook on with them too; 

Today though, we have steak pie because he thought it was a good idea to bring one back from the posh butchers where he was working away - dead healthy that, but I'll give the boys most of the pastry, I'll have lots of veg and some mash with mine, it'll be lush I'm sure. 

The pasta dish I had yesterday was delicious too, I'm not usually a fan of tomato based meals but his was really tasty, 131 calories in half a jar.  

 The pasta I used was ZENB UK | Plant-Fuelled Goodness - Taste What Plants Can Do it's not cheap but it's super high in fibre which is important in this house, 11g in a 85g portion, plus it's gluten free and actually tastes like regular pasta.  I bought 3 boxes to try it, got 40% off, didn't want to pay P&P so when I realised I had to I didn't buy it but they emailed me the next day to say I could have free p&p.  I'll definitely order more, there's 4 portions in a box and I can do the 40% again and send to my sisters so I'll stock up!

 

Yeah it was so good I ate it two days running. 

• High in Protein
• High in Fibre
• Source of Iron
• High in Potassium
• High in Phosphorous
• Gluten Free

Anyway, enough pasta talk.  I'm off to see the nurse this morning, she's gonna take bloods that'll tell me if I'm menopausal, I didn't think it'd work as I'm on the mini pill and assumed that would interfere with what my hormones are doing anyway - who knows!  

I do know my peri-menopausal symptoms have been better since I went on the mini pill but I'm not sure if it's because of that or just that my life has improved all round, life was hard this time last year, really bloody hard.

Let's not focus on what's gone though, let's look to the future, losing some more weight, getting my healthy back, I can't wait to start walking without it killing me, build back up slow and steady.

Here's to a wonderful weekend and making March matter.

Have a great one. 

Luv ya, 

Love me xx