Finally, I am back!
I still haven't purchased a new computer this month so for now I am using my middle son, Adams computer, but we are buying our new computer in February. We have had to put buying our new computer back a month because our car is off the road due to the brakes failing and we must get that sorted. When the brakes failed no-one was hurt. We discovered they actually failed just as my husband was pulling off our drive. It could have been very nasty because the night prior to this my hubby was travelling down the spine roads with our middle and youngest sons in the car, but there was no signs of the brakes deteriorating at that time. The brakes had been leaking the whole time and no-one knew, although the ABS light had been coming on prior but we thought we got that sorted.
My eldest son, Michael managed to get some sort of braking on the car and he took our car to the garage. A week later and £120 worse off we went to collect our car with absolutely NO brakes on it AT ALL.....talk about being ripped off. The garage said he didn't know what was wrong, and this guy apparently has 30 years experience...YEAH RIGHT! Another lad said he thinks it is the ABS module so our eldest is going to fit a new one for us. We are NEVER going back to that garage!! The bloke in the garage told us that he will try fitting another ABS module but it will cost us £150 just for a second hand module.....AHEM! I DON'T THINK SO! My husband and Michael have found them on E-bay for under £50, or even a scrap yard will have them for about the £50 mark.....£150....BAH BLUMMIN HUMBUG!....Rant over!


Okay, back to everyday. We had a lovely Christmas! I hope you all did! I also celebrated my 49th Birthday in early January....one year to get to goal weight and fab at 50!!


I have subscribed to Weight Watchers online. I weighed in yesterday, Thursday at 15stone 2.5lb.
I have also bought a Fitbit which I am hoping will motivate me to set myself and achieve goals and earn Weight Watchers activity points, I have my Fitbit synchronised with Weight Watchers online so it automatically updates my activity points.


A few days ago I tried online grocery shopping for the first time which got delivered yesterday so I am all stocked up with groceries and raring to get to goal weight, especially before I am 50 years old


I will be updating daily now because it is so much easier and SOOO much quicker with this computer.


Back tomorrow, Saturday 24th January 2015....OH YEAH!!

I am having THE worst computer problems. Last Tuesday and Wednesday it took me literally ALL DAY to be able to do anything on the computer. It kept malfunctioning something terrible. When it did go online it just would not do a thing so we have decided to buy a new computer BUT we can't buy a new one until mid January....boohoo Christmas has to come first when we have kids and grandkids.
I am going to try to update as much as...computer allowing

We done a big grocery shop yesterday. We went to Costco where one of the assistants proceeded to embarrass me. The story goes like this: All my items were put onto the belt, I grabbed two boxes to put the items into as they came down to me but one of the assistants decided she would help to pack our items, I have to say that we prefer to pack our own things ourselves, anyway, she had the longest tarted up finger nails I have ever seen for a shop assistant. At one point she had her hands hanging over the edge of the box into it, as I put a box of strawberries into the box I accidentally caught her finger/finger nail with the edge of the carton and OH MY GOODNESS! She screeched so loudly, "OUCH!" of course everyone looked and I immediately felt so embarrassed by the way she screeched at me, I  immediately said, "Oh! I am so sorry!" She then put her back to me and wouldn't speak or acknowledge AT ALL! She eventually turned around and spoke to the cashier and said, " I was frightened to look at my finger because I thought my cuticle was cut but it wasn't". I tell you, there was NOT A MARK on her finger AT ALL! She then turned away and helped someone else. I'm sure she could have acknowledged me and accepted my apology or something...the nasty piece of work, I did apologise, what more could I have done? It's not as though I tried to hurt her deliberately. The cashier even smiled at me because she couldn't see a mark on the assistants finger either and that she made a deal about it.
Anyway, I also bought a good few of the Christmas presents, I just have two more presents to buy and that is me done...woohoo.
I have only just put the Christmas tree up today and I still haven't got any ornaments on it yet, I will do that tomorrow.

I have decided that come January 2015 I am giving it my all to get to goal weight before I turn 50 years old, so that gives me 1 year to do this. I turn 49 years old on January 8th, so one year, surely I can do this! I never wanted to be fat and forty but unfortunately I have just got bigger in my 40's and I am also going through the menopause which doesn't help keep our weights down or lose weight so I have decided that I am going to be fit and fifty, so it will be full steam ahead to lose the weight and get fit!

Over this last week or so I have been cleaning every nook and cranny in my home and I mean EVERY nook and cranny. I have had to do a thorough clean to make sure I have got all the saw dust out from when my hubby was sanding the stairs over the last month or so. I still have one or two things to still clean but I can say that all the saw dust has gone now...all cleaned away. I always do a thorough cleaning of my home at Christmas time and I always will and of course I do my daily cleans and occasional deeper clean throughout the years but the Christmas clean is THE BIGGY! Tomorrow I will be getting on with that last few jobs of cleaning and finish sorting the tree.

I will try to get back tomorrow, I need to find photo's to take to put here...if my computer will let me.

Night night

I didn't manage to fall asleep until after 4am this morning and because of that I didn't get the best sleep at the right time during the night, all to do with the body clock and so I have been quite tired throughout today. I have also had a migraine for most of the day which always make me tired.

I haven't done much today but I am getting on with it now despite it being 8.02pm. I have so much to do before tomorrow night which is the end of my Christmas cleaning week....for this week anyway and then I have more jobs to do next week and so on until Christmas Eve.

I received our youngest Grandson's Christmas present today which is a dressing up trunk because he just LOVES to dress up.

I don't have anything else to say today but I want to come back daily even if it is just to say, "hello"

Back tomorrow.

For a moment there I could not sign in to my blogger and I thought that I had lost you all...worried there for a moment but FINALLY I am here!
We have been very busy lately...with what? I hear you ask, well, we have been sanding our staircase back down to wood...and what a job that has been, and the mess...WOW! The mess, it got everywhere. Thankfully it is done and the staircase is back down to the wood now and varnished. We still need to replace the landing carpet and we also want to replace the hand rail and spindles which we are doing in January, lets get the Christmas shopping out of the way first.
After we have replaced the spindles and handrail then I will post the before and after photo's.
I have had mega cleaning to do after all the saw dust that was created doing those stairs but I do my thorough cleaning at this time of year anyway which I have been doing loads of. Every cupboard, every corner and even the walls have and are being cleaned. My hubby also painted the stair, landing and front hall walls and glossed skirting boards and door frames.

My washing machine packed up at the end of October and I was without a washing machine for a week....ARRRGGHH Got my new machine now, just what I needed to have to buy at this time of year...ah well, needs must no matter what time of year and I am very grateful to have been able to buy a bigger and better washing machine :)

I have been feeling quite down/depressed over these last couple of weeks despite being on anti depressants, but I think it is starting to lift.

My weight is at 14st 13lb and has been fluctuating between 14st 13lb and 14st 10lb for the last few weeks.

There was loads more I was going to say but I can't remember what they were now...well, it is 1.02am so after a sleep I might remember what I wanted to say and I will blog about it tomorrow...or should I say, later today. Oh! One thing I have just remembered is that we are going to have to buy a new computer early next year because this computer has now become laughable....well, if I don't laugh I will cry because it is extremely frustrating when it wont do nothing or jumps back to the desk top, and when it will do something it can take forever. We do all the clean ups etc etc but to be honest it hasn't got the biggest memory and it has got quite a lot on it, so a new computer is definitely called for.

We have a few jobs that we want to get sorted next year and things that need buying and a computer is on that list.

Night night for now.

I am going to get back to blogging, we have been very busy lately but I will be back this week!!

I have replaced my 'Weight Watchers' Body Analyser scales. I really need to know all the gory details of my weigh ins.

I weighed in this morning using my new scales and because I knew I was getting my new scales I confess to not tracking points over these last few days, but here are a few of my details for now without the body fat, body water and body fat %. I will figure out how to find the body fat etc details and update them here.

Weight: 15st . 2 3/8lb
10% Goal: 13st . 9lb
BMI: 36.5
To Lose To 10%: 1st . 7 3/4lb

It has taken a matter of a few days and already I have gained back what I had lost....oh my!

This morning I have started my day off with a green smoothie...YUM! I had bought some fresh figs when we were at Costco so I threw one of those in also.

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I will pop back later today with more updates.

We have been busy shopping over the last few days with stocking up on groceries and starting the Christmas shopping.

First thing was to stock up on more items from Weight Watchers:

2 Weight Watchers, 'My Food Plans' which also has a pad for shopping lists
2 boxes of the 'Rich Toffee' bars = 2pp each
2 boxes of the NEW 'Dark Chocolate Mint Crunch' bars = 2pp each
4 packets of 'Fruit Bears' = 2pp per packet
1 Weight Watchers 'Oil Sprayer'

After popping into the local 'Weight Watchers' meeting we then went to Costco. It was lovely and quiet in there, but then it would be we were in there at about 9.40am but it started to fill up before we were finished getting our groceries. I spent way to much, it came in at £279.38...Oops! I had to buy more than I usually do because I had to stock up on coffee, chickens, hand washes, body washes etc

After Costco we came home to put everything away. It was then to Argos to get our youngest son a new mobile phone, he needed one because he is now at college.
We spent a few hours at home and then Asda to get the immediate items i.e. cheeses, yogurts, fruit and veg, mini pizza bases, mash pots, chicken kievs, toiletries.

We had a bag of chip shop chips for our evening meal and I have to confess to not tracking over these last 3 days...so disappointed in myself because I had every intention of not leaving the house hungry and sticking to plan on this shopping day but I succumb to naughty treats....I really am going to be more organised when I next do my big grocery shop....a work in progress.

I have ordered a new set of 'Weight Watchers' scales; body analysis scales so I will know my body fat and BMI. My Tanita scales are FABULOUS! And they do tell me my body fat but I do like to know my BMI and my Tanita don't tell me that.

We have started Christmas shopping with a PC for our middle son which I am pleased about because that is one of the main pricier presents sorted :) 3 more to go. I have also started purchasing bits and pieces for Christmas presents.

I am back on track as of tomorrow so I will be back then.