just a few photos!

from my visits to the Washington Wetland Centre over the passed few weeks

Having lots of fun and taking loads of photos

talking to lots of nice people

and getting to know the names of some of the birds i'm seeing

so far it's rained every day i've been so i'm looking forward to seeing the place in the sunshine

it's also jolly good exercise as i do quite a bit of walking

so it's all helping with the weight loss malarkey

and i'm sleeping a lot better due to the copious amounts of fresh air

so it's all good :-)

Lots to tell this week!

I had a couple of days off work this week and determined not to waste it i took myself off out every single day, saturday i headed to Craster and was very proud of myself for walking at least three miles, to Dunstanburgh castle and back, around the castle and around Craster itself :-) treat myself to a kipper for lunch and a crab for tea, yum yum! Sunday i headed off to the wetland centre in Washington. Have to admit i was very dubious at first as it appeared to be in the middle of a trading estate, but once inside it's a proper little gem. Did lots more walking and feeding the birdies and spending time in the hides watching even more birdies. Had such a good time i decided to become a member and also got a couple of birdie books so i can start to identify said birdies LOL Monday i headed off to the roman army museum near Greenhead, followed by Vindolanda and fruit picking in Corbridge. It was a dreadful day weather wise but the further west i got the brighter the weather became, the only rain i saw was at Corbridge and meant i couldn't go fruit picking. Over the moon to have lost another two pounds this week, must have been all the walking i did cos i've had lunch out every day of my mini break. The last day of my time off i headed off to alnwick to do the garden and to go to barter books. Loved the poison garden tour and the serpentine garden and enjoyed a sausage sarnie in the sunshine before heading off to barter books. Here i discovered i'm a book snob and only like new books LOL these were all grubby and dirty so i came home with nothing!

Another week

Another loss, okay it was just a pound this week but it's still going in the right direction and i'm eating really well :-)

Got the weekend and mon and tues next week all planned cos i've got a couple of days off so i'm taking myself off for some nice days out up the coast and into the countryside :-)

Another week

And another loss :-) quite happy with my two pound loss this week, it's what i'm aiming for every week between now and christmas because that will take me back down to my seven and a half stone loss :-) plus i was slimmer of the month :-) so i got a holographic sticker for my book and another certificate :-)

Week 2

And i lost four pounds :-) very happy as that means i've lost a stone and half a pound in two weeks :-) i know it will slow down now but i'm hoping that i can manage two pounds a week so i'll be back to my 7 stone total by christmas :-)

First weigh in

On the renewed diet programme and i was totally gobsmacked to have lost 10.5lbs :-) was chuffed to bits, everyone was so pleased for me and i got a huge hug off the lovely trish the consultant. So i am aiming for 3.5lbs off next week to get my stone award :-)

long time no blog

and a lot has happened since i last blogged! we had a lovely holiday in Leuchars, gorgeous weather, great cottage and fabulous food but just before we went away i noticed a lump in my calf and a very inflammed vein at the top of my thigh, it got worse while we were away so ended up at the doctors who diagnosed phlebitis and cellulitis and put me on antibiotics. due to my being allergic to penicillin i had to have erythromicin which counter acted with my cholesterol medicine and anti depressants so had to come off them. well after five weeks of antibiotics, 9 visits to various doctors, a&e and the walk in centre someone decided to do a blood test which came back, no infection, i had a blood clot in my calf! so since the end of june i've been on warfarin :-( work has been it's usual understanding self!!! so stress has been building up and i've been getting more and more anxious. we then had another holiday away, right up to the moray firth which was lovely but because i was feeling so stressed i spent most of the time worrying about work :-( if it hadnt have been for the fact i was meeting a friend i've been chatting to online for years on the friday evening we would have been home on the thursday. anyway i've had to go back onto the anti depressants which i'm rather sad about and i have to stay on the warfarin until the end of october but i have made one positive descision and thats to go back to slimming world. went back on monday as i've put 3 1/2 of the 7 stone i had lost back on and i wasnt letting it get any more. so lets see how things go