I hate technology...

this is how I feel about technology!

After almost of month of holding my laptop together with various random items from around our house, I finally replaced the dying cable. Since then my internet has been down, GRRRRR!!! Anyway, it's been a crazy busy month and I've got so many things to write about. Here's some of what's been happening around here...

So far on Weightwatchers I've lost 8lbs (in four weeks). I've found the programme fantastic but was disappointed with my own will power!  I may have already said this here before, but my problem with food is my lack of self control. I generally eat very healthily, cook all my food/sauces/soups from scratch but if I open a packet of biscuits I will eat the entire pack. All of them. Even if there are twenty in the packet.

Doing WW has helped me in lots of ways but if I can't get past this sort of overeating I won't have suceeded, no matter how much weight I loose. I've been really lucky so far and have managed to loose weight every week, even if it's only half a pound. After an incredibly unmotivated week and lots of chocolate I'm expecting to have gained weight. Weigh In is tonight so I'll let you know how I get on.

Elliott is EIGHT AND A HALF MONTHS old! Which means I'm super late doing his monthly photo and update. Will have that up tomorrow so do check back for some adorable baby photos of Elliott and Sophie!

 Eights months marked the end of breastfeeding for me and smEllie Boy. There were a couple of reasons why this was the right time for us to stop. I'm hoping to dedicate an entire post to this topic and to how we're getting on with formula and bottles.

Have a lovely evening!

(UPDATE: I did indeed put on weight, but only a half a pound! Hopefully it'll motivate me to loose more than that again next week.)

2 INCHES!!!

My sweet boy

Hello Lovely Readers!

I hope you all had a great week last week. Sorry for the lack of posts, my laptop isn't charging unless you ram one of Elliott's toys something under the flex so it doesn't die. Eeeek! (It's died three times while I was writing this post grrrrr.)

I had a really great week last week. I've been running almost every night and I'm loving it! I've been doing 4.8km runs last week and hope to hit 5.4km  next week if I'm doing well. Recently running is beginning to remind me of swimming as a child.For years when we were younger, my sister and I went swimming every friday after school and I grew to love it. I loved the weightless freedom that my body had to twist and turn in ten foot deep water. The utter silence that takes over when you plunge back in after coming up for air. The refreshingly clean feeling you get after being immersed in chlorine filled water for an hour. Most of all, I cherished the way in which the steady beat of my swimming strokes cleared my head. The way in which I could swim for an hour and not think a single thought.

Running (yes, still really slowly!) clears my head. My sweet Elliott has been a little off form recently. He is growing from my teeney tiny, helpless newborn into a crazy, fun boy who seems to know exactly what he wants. Before these last two weeks Elliott really didn't cry that much. He was SUPER BABY and now he seems to be kinda normal baby. I know I probably won't get that much sympathy from most other moms but Elliott is wrecking my head with his little whining thing! Trying to reason with an almost eight month old baby is proving difficult. I feel like nothing is working with him. I've tried cross mommy voice, giving him lots and lots of positive attention when he's being good, ignoring him when he's throwing a little tantrum. Do you know what I think after trying all of this..I think he's a normal baby. Human even. The only problem is I'm human too. I get frustrated and tired and near to clear my head. So I run. I pound the path with my big legs. Slow and steady. Only my legs aren't that big anymore. They are two INCHES slimmer than they were before I started running!!! That made my day.

So Lovely readers, what do you do to clear your head?



Hope you have a lovely day

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