After 26 years

I have decided to learn the violin again. They used to cost $400 up, now I got my first ever violin for $150. Yes I know it is a cheapy but I can always get a better one if I get good at it.

As my weight is going down I must highlight why

I gave up on that list some time back. I have made my own diet that seems to be working.

I am going to call it the fist diet.

Since I am not normally hungry in the morning I will have something with approx 100 calories in to get my metabolism up.

I keep with me sugar free lollies (licorettes, Werthers sugar free and tic tacs to be precise) for sugar cravings.

I am drinking quite a bit of either green tea or herbal teas to fill the food gaps and cause I am not really into water straight at the moment.

For lunch I can eat what I like as long as it is the size of my fist (so alot of the time I have a sandwich and an apple or in the weekend 4 pieces of sushi and miso).

Then for dinner again I can eat what I like as long as it is the size of my fist (we have been eating a lot of KFC twisters).

If I eat slowly I don't have to wait the 10 - 15 mins before my brain tells me that my stomach is full. If I feel like something else, I will have it (a very small bit, to get the taste, so I don't feel like I am missing out.)

Hopefully this will get me all the way to my ideal maintenance weight (120 - 126 pounds)

Wish me luck, or have a go yourself and let me know how you go.

Weight loss 2009 - 2010 cont...

Starting weight is 188 pounds
30th June 2009 188 pounds
7th July 2009 187 pounds
14th July 2009 188 pounds
21st July 2009 185.4 pounds
28th July 2009 183.8 pounds

4th August 2009 184.6 pounds - bought my fitflops around this week

11th August 2009 186 pounds (I have gone back to Paul McKenna hypnosis mp3, fell asleep listening)

17th August 2009 184.6 pounds

24th August 2009 183.8 pounds

1st September 2009 182.8 pounds

8th September 2009 181.6 pounds

15th September 2009 178.4 pounds

22nd September 2009 175.8 pounds

29th September 2009 174.6 pounds

Check list for our next home

1. Is this where I want to live? (view?)

2. Is it within budget?

3. Will it take us into the future?

When the kids grow up.(till retirement)

A guest room.

Preferably a rumpus room.

4. Enough bathrooms?

5. Safe garden for children and a little dog/dogs.