Lil K
Addicted to Minimins
Hi Ladies :wavey:
Well I'm back!.....and I've had a great time! First day back in work today and (a) I'm exhausted now, and (b) it feels like I've never been away......still only 7wks and 5 days til my next hol arty0019:
We had a lovely relaxing time and the cottage was fantastic. Only built at the end of 2006, so it was all very modern, very clean, and everything you needed (and some things you never knew you needed until you saw them) were provided. We're thinking of booking again for next summer. Weather was not too bad - a little colder than where we live, but hey when you've done ketosis cold, you're ready for anything
We were based in Ballachulish and ventured out to Oban, Fort William, drove up through Glen Sheil (beautiful) and over the bridge to Skye, went in a cable car up the Nevis Range about 2000ft to the ski resort and had lunch (didn't ski, but did have a little walk about in the snow - really sunny up there with the snow falling as well - lovely), and the views were totally amazing! Also went walking in the mountains at Glen Coe and fell in a burn as I tried to cross it and slipped on a wet rock. I ended up bruised all down my left side - arm, leg, and cheek bone as I banged my face on the offending rock .... I didn't know whether to laugh at the fact that I'd ended up soaked from the ribs downwards or cry at the shock and pain of my fall :cry: - still at least nothing was broken, I didn't knock myself out (which I've done before - but thats another story) and I didn't cut my face as the rock was smooth from all the water running through it - so I squelched and dripped my way back to the car and had a lovely hot bubble bath when I got back.
As for my diet - well I kind of relaxed things a little (quite a lot actually if the truth be told ) whilst away and had a great old time - I won't bore you too much but I'm talking cakes, cakes & more cakes (got into the habit of taking afternoon tea at this lovely cafe in Fort William that did monster, and I mean MONSTER sized cream scones), curry, steak, shortbread, beef olives, sweeties (especially tablet - yum), locally hand made chocs, whisky cake ..... you get the picture . However, I did take my Davina DVD and weights with me and did that a few times, plus all the walking in the mountains so it kind of balanced things out. So before I went away I'd reached the depressing heights of 11 stone, and I weighed myself when I got back (boy, did I miss the security blanket of hopping on the scales whilst I was away)..... and I was 11st 1lb, so I'm happy with that trade off.
I'm back in the saddle again today and I've decided I want to get back to 10st 7lb and see how I feel then. I've done my Davina yesterday and today, so I'm getting back into the old exercising habit that I wasn't able to do for a while because of the dreaded lurgy I had before I went away. I felt like it was all slipping away a bit before, but now I feel much more positive about things. I've got to crack on now with sorting out a decent bikini body for my hols in June .
Dawn: Your post where you say that you feel you have a lifetime of watching what you eat ahead of you really struck a chord with me. I totally acknowledge and accept that I will always have to keep a keen eye on what I'm eating, and keep up the exercise in order to keep this body. There is no way that I am going to just rent this slim body - it's mine for keeps (although I have to say, in my mind I still think of me as being 14st 7lb - its crazy but its going to take some time to get used to)
Nessie: Hope your weigh in went well today xx
Well tomorrow I'm off to the hairdressers after work - what a relief. I was supposed to have my hair done before I went away but my hairdresser got the sack and I ended up going to Scotland with messy hair So now I have dark roots a couple of inches long (classy) and my hair is STILL falling out at an alarming rate and is getting quite thin now - however there is also new growth of varying lengths all over, but this is sticking up all over the place, so I look a right state :cryI'm thinking Wurzel Gummage here :sigh. I've decided I'm going to have my hair cut off to a long bob length (it's passed my shoulders at the moment) in the hope that it will give the illusion of thicker hair - fingers crossed.
Anyway gotta go now and sort my stuff out for work tomorrow.
Hope you are both ok, speak soon xx
Well I'm back!.....and I've had a great time! First day back in work today and (a) I'm exhausted now, and (b) it feels like I've never been away......still only 7wks and 5 days til my next hol arty0019:
We had a lovely relaxing time and the cottage was fantastic. Only built at the end of 2006, so it was all very modern, very clean, and everything you needed (and some things you never knew you needed until you saw them) were provided. We're thinking of booking again for next summer. Weather was not too bad - a little colder than where we live, but hey when you've done ketosis cold, you're ready for anything
We were based in Ballachulish and ventured out to Oban, Fort William, drove up through Glen Sheil (beautiful) and over the bridge to Skye, went in a cable car up the Nevis Range about 2000ft to the ski resort and had lunch (didn't ski, but did have a little walk about in the snow - really sunny up there with the snow falling as well - lovely), and the views were totally amazing! Also went walking in the mountains at Glen Coe and fell in a burn as I tried to cross it and slipped on a wet rock. I ended up bruised all down my left side - arm, leg, and cheek bone as I banged my face on the offending rock .... I didn't know whether to laugh at the fact that I'd ended up soaked from the ribs downwards or cry at the shock and pain of my fall :cry: - still at least nothing was broken, I didn't knock myself out (which I've done before - but thats another story) and I didn't cut my face as the rock was smooth from all the water running through it - so I squelched and dripped my way back to the car and had a lovely hot bubble bath when I got back.
As for my diet - well I kind of relaxed things a little (quite a lot actually if the truth be told ) whilst away and had a great old time - I won't bore you too much but I'm talking cakes, cakes & more cakes (got into the habit of taking afternoon tea at this lovely cafe in Fort William that did monster, and I mean MONSTER sized cream scones), curry, steak, shortbread, beef olives, sweeties (especially tablet - yum), locally hand made chocs, whisky cake ..... you get the picture . However, I did take my Davina DVD and weights with me and did that a few times, plus all the walking in the mountains so it kind of balanced things out. So before I went away I'd reached the depressing heights of 11 stone, and I weighed myself when I got back (boy, did I miss the security blanket of hopping on the scales whilst I was away)..... and I was 11st 1lb, so I'm happy with that trade off.
I'm back in the saddle again today and I've decided I want to get back to 10st 7lb and see how I feel then. I've done my Davina yesterday and today, so I'm getting back into the old exercising habit that I wasn't able to do for a while because of the dreaded lurgy I had before I went away. I felt like it was all slipping away a bit before, but now I feel much more positive about things. I've got to crack on now with sorting out a decent bikini body for my hols in June .
Dawn: Your post where you say that you feel you have a lifetime of watching what you eat ahead of you really struck a chord with me. I totally acknowledge and accept that I will always have to keep a keen eye on what I'm eating, and keep up the exercise in order to keep this body. There is no way that I am going to just rent this slim body - it's mine for keeps (although I have to say, in my mind I still think of me as being 14st 7lb - its crazy but its going to take some time to get used to)
Nessie: Hope your weigh in went well today xx
Well tomorrow I'm off to the hairdressers after work - what a relief. I was supposed to have my hair done before I went away but my hairdresser got the sack and I ended up going to Scotland with messy hair So now I have dark roots a couple of inches long (classy) and my hair is STILL falling out at an alarming rate and is getting quite thin now - however there is also new growth of varying lengths all over, but this is sticking up all over the place, so I look a right state :cryI'm thinking Wurzel Gummage here :sigh. I've decided I'm going to have my hair cut off to a long bob length (it's passed my shoulders at the moment) in the hope that it will give the illusion of thicker hair - fingers crossed.
Anyway gotta go now and sort my stuff out for work tomorrow.
Hope you are both ok, speak soon xx