So sorry I've been missing for ages. First I went on holiday for a week then last Tuesday night I was taken ill and spent 6 days in hospital. It turns out that I have gallstones and the gallbladder had become very infected. So I spent days hooked up to some very strong IV antibiotics. I got our of hospital Monday and am on a cocktail of painkillers to help until I get a date to have the gallbladder removed. The upshot of this all is that from now I HAVE to follow a very low fast diet unless I want to spend the next few months in agony and throwing up. I do not want that. If anyone reading this has had a bad gallstone attack yoo'll know what I mean. I've had a natural labour followed by a c-section and that doesn't even come close to describing the pain I was in the other night. Even worse than that was the 6 days I couldn't spend with my son. I don't want that. I don't want William knowing mummy was in and out of hospital because she couldn't be bothered to eat healthy. I don't want my bad diet to affect william, I don't want him to be a fat child or to cause him health problems in later life. I won't do it to me, I won't do it to him.
The only plus side? I was nil by mouth for 2 days followed by starting a very low fat diet straight away. Since last Tuesday I have gone down to 19st 8lbs. A nice to start to weightloss seeing as I had gone up to 20st 4lbs after my holiday.
There is something strangely addictive about the biggest loser. I just downloaded the first episode of the 8th season, I don't know even if it's even being aired in the UK right now but if it was we don't have TV so I couldn't watch it on there. I suppose when I think on it I don't approve of the methods used, the excessive exercise etc etc. and especially not the game play but....the programme is just plain addictive lol I just can't help but watch it. This season, I like the pink team so far. Oh and Daniel from the orange team - he seems like a sweetie.
I think I must be a glutton for punishment, I've decided to start losing weight on the week I'm going on holiday. Not that a holiday is an excuse to eat whatever I can shovel down me of course ;-) however I could have picked an easier time but I'm fed up of saying "tomorrow, tomorrow" tomorrow is over, it's today!
Well i weighed in "first" things this morning. It was actually 11am by the time my son had calmed down enough to let me step foot on the scales but since it was before my breakfast *sigh* it counts as first thing. The result:-
20st
Ick. That means I've gained weight since giving birth - ummm not the way it's meant to happen people. Not the way at all. I don't intend to list all my foods here unless I have something really yummy cooked by my husband. I'm lucky that I have a husband that does all the cooking, if it was up to me we would all have died of food poisioning by now. I can just about manage making the baby's purees lol.
I was going to set my first goal as a stones (14lb) weightloss but I think I'm going to set it as something more fun, for me at least and set my first goal as my sons birthweight which was 7lb 9oz (7 and half pounds) which I think I can manage pretty easily.
I'm always saying that, the diet starts tomorrow. but really, this time....it does! I've just been out an purchased a nice shiny new pair of scales, scary. We got them at the local discount store, a £50 pair of scales for a tenner, not bad. They are those "high tech" type that track your starting weight, last weight, current weight, percentage lost that week, percentage lost total. Oh they have it all. I do love a good gadget. So tomorrow morning, bright and early if my son has a say in the matter, I shall be jumping on those scales and seeing the horrible truth and belive me it's going to be horrible.
So a little bit about my weight. I can in all honestly say I've always been well built, I was fat as a teeanger but these days in my early twenties I would be classed as morbidly obses. Even before my son I was way way over weight. In fact due to gestational diabetes I actually lost a few pounds in pregnancy. I once lost over 70lb but I did it on a trict diet that I just couldn't keep going and the weight piled back on plus more. This time I intend to stick to healthy eating and exercise but in a way that I know I can maintain well...for the rest of my life. I will probably keep an eye on calories as well but I'm not going to be listing them here, that's boring for me and anyone (if anyone!) who is reading this.
That's my weight. Now for me. I'm 23 years old, married for 2 years this December and in May this year I gave birth to my first child, William. I am a trained nursery nurse and as I like to claim two thirds a teacher. When I feel pregnant I was just entering my third and final year of a primary teacher training degree. All I have to do now to finish is compelte an 8 week teaching block and hand in an 8000 word dissertation. I fully intend to complete that before summer 2010. I was born and raised in Worcestershire but have recently moved to my husbands home town of Derby where the cost of living is a lot cheaper, especially rent! I hate having to stay in the house so I usually take Will out to baby groups or the park during the week. I don't drive so I walk everywhere with him in the pushchair - good exercise ;-). I'm a film and book fanatic but my favourites in both are usually murder and crime mysteries - I am quite gruesome like that :D
Well this was a longer blog post than I meant it to be. Stay tuned tomorrow for the first weigh in.
