Thanks for the encouragement Amy ... Millie & Fidget's escapades had me chuckling!
If you ever consider putting a peanut bar in the freezer, take my advice and chop it into little cubes first: it comes out like granite (takes ages to get through ... good for that film night nibble!)
Hi Judith - nice to see you! Thanks for the kind words re hubby working away. It was bizzarre arguing when we had precious little time together - I suppose it was the pressure of KNOWING we had precious little time together before he went away again ... feelings just spilled over.
He's gone away again and won't be home til Friday. Last time he went, the central heating packed up - this time it's the microwave
These appliances seem to 'know' when he goes away and take the opportunity to give up the ghost!
Over the weekend, he banged his hand when he was loading his van with air-con bottles ... it looked really swollen and I suggested a trip to A&E - of course, being a man, he refused saying it was 'just a bruise'.
He texted me this morning to say the pain was so bad he went to A&E in Doncaster to find he has split a bone in his hand and burst some cartilage - ouch! Don't like to say 'I told you so' but ......
In answer to your question about my diabetes: it's going really well and I haven't needed meds for over a year. Losing the weight has really brought the blood sugars down so if I was going to choose any ONE thing to focus on, it would be losing the weight because that ALSO brings stress levels down.
I know that being stressed makes someone like me eat - but then gaining weight adds to that stress so, for me, I HAVE to break that cycle. It's no good waiting until the stress has gone before I address the weight because there is ALWAYS a stressful situation waiting in the wings.
Anyway, enough rambling. My first 'new start' weigh in is at 5:30 so fingers crossed!
good luck at the weigh in 
