Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Ahem.........A Brief History of Time

So I haven't blogged for an eternity, probably connected with the fact that I went WW AWOL for November & December. Here's why:

30th October - Off to Thailand for 2 weeks "summer" holiday. Stayed at an Ibis Hotel for the first time. Not so much a room as a room-ette and not so much a balcony as a balcon-ette. Getting the picture? This place was tiny but new, spotless and well located. Had a ball. Swam a minimum of 40 laps each day, walked for miles, ate sensibly during the day, drank Singha beer insensibly at night. Got beer munchies and ate things like pizza for first time in eternity. And Swenson ice cream - chocolate and peanut butter ice cream should be a class A drug. Went to The River Kwai, Temple of the Tigers, Climbed Erawan Waterfall, visited Cambodia and visited some amazing temples including Angkor Wat and Siem Reap to name but a few. Visited the Killing Fields at the same time as the King of Cambodia who waved at us, the only tourists at that point, from his procession! Came home 7lbs heavier!

Rest of November - Bit of a blur, but hard going at work getting caught up after holidays.

December - Didn't shift any of the holiday gain, but managed to maintain it for first few weeks of December. Then comes the many many many Christmas events - nights out, days out shopping and lunching, Christmas itself. Wahhh - hello another 4lbs!

New Year - More parties but officially bored with the excess now. Manchester on the 2nd for the last big wahoo - a Golden Wedding Anniversary party. Getting back to WW is now no longer a "need to" situation, it is also a desire.

January 9th - Should be 1st class of the New Year but the awful weather means its cancelled. Start getting into the habit of pointing again, and find I am struggling to keep to the 18 points I should be on. Averaging around 22, but certain that is many many less than what has gone on for the last 8 weeks.

January 16th - Hooray. Back to class and to normality. Gain was 11lbs as expected. Thank God it was less than a stone - a very small mercy at least.

January 23rd - Motivation, willpower, focus and drive all present and correct. TOTM arrives most unwelcomed. Lost 2lbs though, so at least going in the right direction.

And thats it folks. I'm all caught up and ready to go go go.

3 comments:

  1. Welcome back Karen :o)
    God knows how you can survive on 18 points, i struggle on 21!

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  2. Hi Karen, I stumbled on your blog by clicking a button I should not have touched but I am glad I did. You are so refreshing even though I don't understand some of your short forms. I finally worked out what WW meant - weight watchers. Right? I wish you well as you try to get rid of evidence of munching sessions. I am in the same boat and not winning.
    Lemmy

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  3. Oh and i have also awarded you a beautiful blogger award over on my blog :o)

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