Magical 10

It's only Sunday and weekly weigh in isn't till tomorrow, but since we have some beautiful rain and I'm just having a blobby kind of a day, I thought I'd make a start to this weeks post.

Well this bloody traveller's diarrhea has proved hard to shift. This past week, although the diarrhea part of things settled back down, I was left was stomach cramps and pains. I went back to the doctor (my own one this time) on Friday and he put me on a three day course of antibiotics. Today is the last day and I think my insides are nearly back to normal.

Will be interesting to see how I go in the weight loss stakes tomorrow - I think I might even be up a little bit. I still haven't been exercising as it's taken all my efforts just to go to work each day and then of course there's the old 'feel sorry for yourself story'. I haven't actually eaten much that would pose a problem but a lot more processed type foods than normal just cos they're convenient and have been very careful with fruit and vegies till my tummy had settled. Then I've been having a couple of glasses of wine of an evening. So we'll see.

Now the title! Well although I might not be doing anything too clever with the kilos - the inches seem to dropping very nicely. I put on a pair of black jeans (stretch - Size 12) on Saturday and they were really quite big. So that of course gave me an excuse to have a look for another pair. Now just by good luck, Katies were having a 50 per cent off sale and I got a very nice pair of black stretch jeans in Size 10 which fit very nicely. So that made me feel fantastic. I also got a lovely pair of dress black pants - they're 12's but a nice easy fit so came home walking on air! Even what I call my skinny jeans - Peaches size 12 non stretch - are feeling very comfortable.

These are the jeans I got in Hong Kong - no idea what size - the little man just flicked a tape measure round my waist and my hips and said 'these will fit' and they did!

However I recognise the challenge for me now - this is the dangerous time - I'm starting to feel really good and enjoying wearing clothes, have had three different guys at work in the last week comment that I was losing weight and typically this is the time when I start to become complacent and stop worrying about losing the last few kilos. So my commitment to you all is that tomorrow I'll be out walking again, leaving the wine alone for a while and generally aiming to get back into that nice headspace again!

Had to have a passport photo taken so the travel agent could organise our visas for Cuba. Above is the result - still very pale (and interesting!!) after being sick plus I seem to have a black line under my chin - think it must be just shadow.

On the subject of magic - although my bottom half is decreasing nicely, the girls are stubbornly maintaining most of their former glory. They've reduced slightly but not that much - still managing to fill most of a 12E. I stumbled on this website for a supposedly non surgical solution. While the testamonials seem great, I keep thinking of the old saying - 'if it seems too good to be true - it probably is!'. But still churning it over in my mind and thinking - what have I got to lose - a couple of hundred bucks and hey it might just work. We'll see.

Thanks everybody for your comments on the newlook blog - I'm one of those people who succumb to boredom regularly and have to do something different. It's not that long since I did the new hairdo thing so I had to find something else to set about! And re. the new name - well it seems Chris H was feeling a bit lonely being the sole tart, so I'm delighted to have joined her in that esteemed position!!

One last picture - this is my half of the study where all these literary gems originate!

Ok people, I'll stop for now and post this tomorrow once I've had my weigh in.

MONDAY MORNING

Good morning all - feeling quite chippy this morning. Got up at 5 and have been for a walk - thinking I might have to ease back into the running gradually. But the best news is that I've stayed the same this week so really happy about that and have big plans for the week ahead. Have a great week everyone!

MONDAY MORNING LATER

Just realised that the pictures haven't come through - was using Picasa to upload and thought I could just cut and paste the URL - obviously not - will fix up tonight when I get home as I don't have Picasa loaded on my work PC, so check back tonight to get the photos.