Stone down

I went for my 2nd weigh in today and found out i've lost another 4 1/2 pounds. So i'm a 1/2 pound away from losing a stone. To be honest the pharmacy I have to walk to for me to get the shakes is about a 20 min walk so I might have it off already! Anyway, a stone in 2 weeks! I can't believe it and i'm so proud of it. A few of my friends have started the diet since, we've been txting/messaging a lot to encourage each other and it really helps! Feel like this song is playing in the back every time we communicate.

It really helps to have a goal in mind, it's nice that when we finish these shakes it'll be spring and we can wear nice clothes, looking like we're in one of those glossy next advertisements, shaking our curvy hips like we know we're worth it. whoop whoop! Speaking of sister's doing it for themselves. . . . . Last week I applied online to get tickets to be audience members in chat shows. I applied for every and any. Trying to fill all my sober energetic time. And what tickets did I get? Loose Women! No word of a lie. I dragged my flatmate Jess along today and we saw those girls gossip like their pay check depended on it! It took all my energy not to shout "I'll have a vowel please" at Carol Voderman. Who might I add is a foxy mama. Actually the 4 of them all had sassy figures at over 50, if I had their figure at 24 I'd be happy! They were discussing about exercise and going to the gym, does it make you happy or is it a chore. Some of them said they couldn't be bothered, life was too short. Now Lisa, if I was a natural size  6 and could eat anything, i'd think life was too short. She was saying how she just watched what she ate. But what the viewers at home don't know is she had a packet of ready salty walkers under her desk. Showbiz eh!

It's being so so so cold this weekend. We had proper snow and my room has just been so nippy. During this weather I just craved what we call at home "a mammy dinner". A pot of soup/stew/casserole. Something that when you eat it, you feel like it's warmed your bones. A milkshake does not give you any satisfaction, but losing 4 and a half pounds does, so i'm trying to stay positive. It's just hard when you can smell them and can't eat them. I'm thinking this must be what married people must feel like. When a beautiful man/woman walks in the room. They can still look at him/her, but they don't necessarily have to act upon it. . . .

I'm two weeks down and it's starting to go faster. As I said writing the blog has given me so much more motivation. And now from 4 other friends doing it from this, it's made me so much more positive about it, friends and family are so supportive it really keeps me in a good mood. So supportive, that when my mum overheard my dad at their local telling his friend about his daughters "Dog". Yes my dad has been telling people of me writing a "dog" on my diet journey. She quickly had to remind him that it was called a "blog". It wasn't a slip of the tongue or a mistake, he genuinely thought it was called a "dog". But this is one of those men who has a smart phone but can only ring/txt with it. Only last winter I found him watching a DVD that came with his sketchers, teaching him how to walk on snow with them. You couldn't make it up. Bless him, his heart is in the right place and i'm so proud he's supportive of my diet and me writing my dog.

Something I miss about these shakes is the eating out socialising. I've been on nights out, met people at the pub and had a water on the rocks. But theres a few times I've had to meet people later as they're eating out first. It's not that I'm missing out on the catch up, as I see them after. But in Derry and a lot here, every catch up revolves around food. If it's not lunch or dinner, it's nibbles. And there is no point me coming to a dinner when I had the ordeal with Lasagne last week. Its not a big deal, but its just something I've had to give up that I miss. But when you're losing a stone in two weeks and feeling this so much better about yourself, it's worth it!