Hi Arctic, I was on Facebook with Lauren but she has unfriended me or taken herself off the site. I also had some conversations on whatsapp but cant find her. Wendy (Wendleg) might have contact details. Glad her input led you to you resolving your problems. We are all learning from each other.

2 friends came round this afternoon and helped us get the pool cover off. It is nice and clean, a bit of dirt fell in from the cover and a couple of dead toads but all good. Will take 3 or 4 days to get it sparkling but the water is way too cold to get in just yet.

I am in the front of the house planting out white geraniums. Think a one-colour scheme looks more classy and especially white. So many more to plant but taking my time. 16 in and another 40 or so to go. It is very hot here today (27 degrees) so I have to keep coming in and getting some water.

Hope you are all doing well. Keep on keeping on…

Hello everyone!

Just wanted to share a little positivity from the world of laundry. We know that laundry can sometimes feel like a never-ending task, but it’s also an opportunity to take a moment for self-care and mindfulness. Whether it’s the fresh scent of clean clothes or the satisfaction of folding a neat pile, these small moments can bring a sense of accomplishment and calm.

So, here’s to embracing the simple joys in our daily routines and finding positivity in the little things. Keep up the great work, everyone!

Thank you for opening a thoughtful conversation on heart health and the BSD. From a Conscious Medicine perspective, it’s encouraging to see people becoming active participants in their health journey. Conscious Medicine promotes a holistic view—one that integrates conventional treatments with personalized, preventative care, mindfulness, and emotional balance.

Supporting heart health goes beyond diet alone. When paired with intentional stress management, emotional resilience, and spiritual wellness, approaches like the BSD can be even more transformative. True healing begins when we treat not just symptoms, but the whole person.

Hi FOXY,I’m so sorry youve been having such a rough time recently. I’m glad the therapy helped your back and hip,and thanks for the heads up,I’ll look into it,I’m forever trying to find things that help! X
CCATHY dont worry I have a huge stock of wet lettuces waiting in my cabin! 😄 You sound positive and focused as always,and I feel sure you will slink into those cruise dresses! X
I love the thought of us all on a maintenance cruiser next year!⭐️💜🩷⭐️
Love to all,the weekend is nearly here – yippee!xx

Hello everyone
Foxy- it sounds like you’ve had a very difficult couple of weeks. I hope things soon improve. It’s interesting that you mention the body storing stress. I don’t always know if i am storing stress but ive had it released on a couple of occasions with reiki when i didnt even know i was storing it. The relief afterwards was immense! Yowser, i hope you are soon feeling better and strolling the decks. Please will you bring a wet lettuce with you? I need a swipe with one. I am back to it again but had a weekend off plan so once again i’m playing catchup to get off any weight in May. Am back to being good now and really do have to knuckle down as I do not want my lovely cruise dresses to be like sausage skins in August. Nothing on the horizon to scupper me now so all systems go! Haven’t dared to get on the scales since my weekend away but I’ll work hard this week and jump on next weekend. I keep making excuses and i am running out of time. My wedding outfit for next month will be ok but any extra weight wont help! I really do want to be at goal weight when we disembark at the end of December. I want to catch the maintenace cruise ship when it sets sail in January! Need to get at least 7lb off before August.
Keep doing your best everyone. Almost half way through the cruise and plenty of time left to set your goals and make this trip count. Slow and steady wins the race 🐢

Hi everyone,
Still no time to do more than just skim everyone’s posts. I’ve had a horrible last 2 weeks, but starting to come out of it now and feeling more optimistic. My counsellor accidentally (at least I think it was an accident – I’m going to ask her to confirm at our next session) shook my marbles really hard in a session and it has been a brutal ride ever since. One good thing is that I know I’ve lost a bit of weight from not being able to stomach solid food for the first few days, and also from my muscles shaking non-stop for nearly 8 days. Once my muscles stopped shaking though, I found I was able to move much more freely. They do say that trauma gets stored in the body, so perhaps I was letting a lot of it go. I think I’ve been carrying a lot of stress around with raised cortisol levels. My heart rate is still elevated. I’m hoping that once I’m able to get my nervous system re-regulated that will bring those levels down a bit. I’ve definitely been feeling like there has been something stopping me from losing the extra pounds. Hopefully I’m on my way to figuring it all out.
Yowzer, sorry to hear you are still suffering with your sciatica. I had a new treatment today at physio called interferential current therapy on my back and hip. Feeling pretty good at the moment. I’ll let you know if it sticks!
Keep on keeping on everyone!

Hi everyone, just popping on this thread quickly to ask if anyone has been in touch with Lauren (florob85)? I see she hasn’t posted since 2023, but I was hoping to be able to thank her. It was because she mentioned she has c-ptsd that I looked up what it was, and although I originally thought that it didn’t apply to my situation, the search was enough to start videos popping up on my various feeds and after watching a few, I realized that I was resonating with the symptoms. And then early in 2024, I realized that I likely had ptsd from a nasty incident I attended as a first aider. So I found a trauma counsellor and have been working really hard over the last year, and finally had a huge breakthrough this week. Still a long way to go in my healing journey, but I just wanted to let Lauren know that it is down to her that I was even able to get started. I don’t know if she still checks in and reads the posts or if anyone was ever in contact with her via email?

S-g sounds like you’re going to be very busy!

☀️☀️☀️Weather still lovely here !

👩🏻🚿✂️ Hair cut and coloured so definitely a positive. Always feels good to have hair done!

🥗🍓🥑 Day 5 of ‘healthy eating’ and feeling much better than when I was eating ‘carbage’ willy-nilly! Feeling really positive in the realisation that low carb eating is definitely my ‘set way’ now.

Hope everyone has at least one positive today.

Hi all, not much to report except being extremely busy starting the big clear out. Cleared out an old desk hubby seemed to be so attached to, replaced with a fairly new chest of drawers, done some shrub cutting and now absolutely whacked.

More work tomorrow.

DAWN Glad you had a lovely day and cake! And well done for getting straight back on the horse tomorrow clippety clop! 👍🥰🦋⭐️ xx

Thanks Yowzer, I’ve had a lovely birthday thank you and it did involve cake😄 I’m back to my food plan tomorrow though so still hoping to lose that next 1 and a half by next Tuesday🤞 Dawn XX

DCT I hope youre enjoying your retirement so far x!
DAWN I’m sure you will drop that 1 1/2 lbs by next Tuesday..and hope youre having a very happy birthday THIS Tuesday! 🥰🥳🥰🥳
See you on deck to give you the bumps!
Thinking about it..Im hoping today has included cake and other goodies,so dont worry if maybe it will take until Tues 27 th to drop that last bit..or even 1 st June..what a lovely way to begin a new month 👍🙏! X

Pootle.

The figures are such a problem. I think you need to find your own ‘personal’ figures. I only test in the morning before eating. I do this maybe 3 times a week. For me, if I’m less than 6.7 that’s ok for ME, but maybe not for you!

I would suggest you finger prick before breakfast maybe every other day for a couple of weeks. It would be really useful if you keep a diary of what you eat each day so you can see how your BS is the next morning.

In saying all that the measures are really not accurate. I would guess that within 1 to 0.5 difference in readings is ‘normal’. Finger pricking really is just a ‘guide’.

Here is the guidance for diabetes
‘For people with diabetes, blood sugar level targets are as follows:
before meals: 4 to 7 mmol/L for people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes’.

This is obviously assuming you are diabetic. My readings are also classed as good at between 5 and 6 but I am diabetic.

So you are right BUT it is normal for people with diabetes. For a non-diabetic which you were hoping you were the range is 4 to 5.9.

It can be so confusing but I hope that has sorted it out for you.

Thanks S-G.
I was going by the chart that came with the machine…
1.1 – 3.9 = low
4.0 – 7.0 = normal
7.1 – 10.0 = pre
10.1 – 13.8 = diabetic
13.9 – 33.3 = dangerous.
Obviously incorrect… if I had known, I would have been stricter!
You and Verano have been so encouraging and supportive… thank you both!
Xx

Pootle, on the finger test a 6.0 is diabetic so the 5.2’s probably kept you in pre-diabetes. Try to be under or around 5.

Thanks S-G.
Onwards… I will keep on keeping on!
Xx

Thanks Verano,
I find it interesting that I have been doing a morning finger prick test 3 times a week… the results of which were always around the 6mmol/L mark (ranging between 5.2 and 6.8) so I thought I was doing ok!! Obviously not! 😥
So back to it…. Cutting out everything ‘higher’ carb and counting carbs again! I am determined to conquer this!

Hi Pootle, you posted after me so I missed your news but read Veranos.

She is absolutely right about the carbs. Unfortunately, it is a hard lesson to learn. You are prone to diabetes and you will be for the rest of your life. If that upsets you (as it does me) then you have to find the positives in this way of eating. All the lovely things you can have like avocados, olive oil, strawberries, blueberries lots of lovely fresh salads and veg. You have slipped back into pre-diabetes so not full blown diabetes, you have chance to correct things before your next HbA1c (when is that going to be) to put things right again.

I know this is not the news you expected or wanted but you can turn it around again, Good luck. And, yes, cut out the carbs – they are not too much of a sacrifice compared to your health.

S-g good to hear your numbers are moving down. I’m also losing my holiday gain and am pleased with my progress so far. Hopefully by next Tuesday it will be gone and I’ll be back to losing!

Pootle so sorry your results weren’t as good as you’d hoped for. I think one of the biggest misconceptions with this WOE and diabetes is that weight is the most important factor, but weight per se isn’t the secret. It’s the carbs! It’s amazing how the odd piece of fruit, an apple, kiwi or satsuma can push your carbs up quite substantially. The berries are fine but take a look at the carbs in beetroots! In fact anything that grows under the ground is really a no-no.

You have the right idea. Go back to counting carbs and do the odd finger prick test. This is a life long change in our way of eating. In saying that once your BS is back into the normal range you will be able to assess if the odd apple or pasta dish etc throws your BS out. We all work out what suits us best it just takes time!

Feeling frustrated and sad!
Having had an Hb1Ac reading of 40 last December… huge celebration as I was now in remission, my latest reading is 44…pre-diabetic again!!! 😥
I suppose it could be worse, I could have gone back into diabetes, but this has knocked me for 6!
I admit I haven’t been counting calories or carbs, as I have been maintaining the weight… I am the same weight I was in December. However, I have been avoiding potatoes, bread, pasta and rice, as well as all the sugary or sweet foods that once would have been a staple part of my diet! So where have I gone wrong? Maybe the 1/2 beetroot brownie I have been treating myself to? Or the few berries?
Or could it be the asthma medication I am taking daily?

I am going to have to start counting carbs again… 🫣😩

Hi everyone and thanks DCT, weighed myself this morning and only 1lb down since Friday so didn’t manage to get down in to the 11s unfortunately but I’m convinced that I will by my next Tuesday weigh in! Dawn XX

Very sorry to hear about your mum SunnyB. Hope she is getting good care.

Positives
Sun is shining.
Trip to garden centre and bought 60 geraniums, 2 aubergine plants, 6 red peppers and a basil. Due for good weather so will be planting out over the next 2 or 3 days.
Weight down just over 2lbs in first week – slowly slowly suits me fine.
BG down from 125 to 85 today – but insulin injection still needs to be weaned down.
Just heard from builder that he cant do our job on Thursday as he forgot it is Pentecost – a holiday in France – what makes it a positive is it gives us more time to clear the garage of a lot of rubbish and get out the summer furniture.

One week weigh in today shows just over 2lb loss, so I am well on track for 1kg a month. Taking it slowly but really concentrating on getting BG down and insulin. I have had 2 readings in the 80s which I am well pleased with but insulin is 24units and last night reduced to 22. Slowly slowly.

Verano, I know what you mean about throwing yourself back in. Funny how the choices I make here at home are automatically the right ones. Only downfall was a couple of vodkas on Sunday evening – just getting out of bad habits a bit at a time 🙂 I am sure next week I will do better.

Sunny so sorry to hear about your mum. Hopefully her illness will progress very slowly. Very difficult time.

Fatgirlslim great news! This way of eating does work. I’ve been in remission since 2017 and finally a few months ago I was taken of the ‘diabectic’ list. At last I’m ‘officially ’ in remission! As sunshine-girl says we just have to keep on keeping on to stay in remission.

Pootle hope your results are good …. I’m sure they will be.

So to my positives……

🧺🧺🧺 All my washing is done and now just sat in the basket waiting for a rainy day so I can iron!

🥗🥑🍓 Day three of healthy eating. It’s a real pleasure to eat ‘low carb’ again after so many carby extras.

✉️✒️✉️ Caught up with all the post and sorted out insurance claim for missed port. Amazing but filled in the form, received and replied to an email and 2 hours later the claim was settled! Must be a record!

Hope everyone is well and feeling positive.

Hello everyone. I was about to say how can we be in May already then realised we are almost halfway through it!! I had a few days away from the end of April to early May and since then never seem to know what day it is! To be fair we had a busy weekend just gone, and this is the week when hopefully things will return to some semblance of normality.

YOWZER I am so sorry to hear you are unwell and do hope you feel better soon. I’m sure you can feel the love ❤️and positive vibes from everyone on here. Do let us know how you’re getting on.

MARIET I’m so glad your dental problems seem to be easing up now. What a relief! And your mum sounds wonderful too!

DAWN here’s hoping for you to be in the 11’s tomorrow, and Happy Birthday in advance! You are doing really well on this thread as are you SUE BLUE – both losing half a stone is fabulous news 👏

CATHY well done on your half stone loss this year so far too. That’s fantastic news, and I’m sure will continue. Not long till your niece’s wedding now if I remember rightly?And then the cruise to look forward to.

ARCTICFOX well done for losing those inches despite such a busy time. I always find your lifestyle so inspiring – you seem able to do such a wide variety of things, it’s awesome!

I’ve been maintaining ok but at around 8lb more than I want to be at this stage – which in turn is a few pounds more than my ultimate goal. But I’m feeling very relaxed and know that the weight will come off if I put the effort in. I’m more concerned with inches now too rather than numbers on a scale : I just want to wear nice things and have them fit freely without the belly bulge! I’m going on holiday with my daughter at the end of June and aim to lose my half stone before then (so I’d better get on with it really! 😂)

Hello to everyone else too – can’t scroll back further at the moment! But hope all is well with you all, and look forward to catching up soon X

Big thank you to all of you lovely positive people, who have been posting and keeping this thread alive.
FatGirlSlim, wonderful news about your husband, it must be a huge boost to you both and great that the doctor is so on board too.
SG, sounds like some decisions have been made during your time away, hope things go smoothly.
Pootle, hope your blood results are good …. sure they will be.
V, I know what you mean …. it’s wonderful to go on trips and often we don’t want them to end, but there is something very comforting about being home and in your own space again.
Sorry not to have been posting recently. It has been a strange time for me. My mother received a terminal diagnosis just before we left for Turkiye, so emotions have been running riot. However, the time has not been devoid of positives:
🙂🙂 has been lovely to catch up with friends in our second home in Didim.
🌞🌞 currently back in UK visiting my parents and very happy to say my mother is not much different in capacity, to when I saw her a month ago. We enjoyed a little light gardening together yesterday.
🙏🙏 grateful for family and friends who have offered and given support recently.

Please keep posting your positives.

Good to be back s-g!

I have to admit to throwing myself back into ‘healthy eating’ from this morning. It was wonderful not to have to eat breakfast just because it was ‘included’! I know that if I don’t jump back on the treadmill straight away that I’ll be totally lost. I enjoyed my time away but not necessarily the ‘mindless’ eating. There were lots of ‘nonBSD’ meals that I really enjoyed but the majority, especially desserts, weren’t that great.

So back to the ‘healthy me’ starting with the first step today….

Great to have you back Verano. Don’t rush to get back on plan, take it easy, it is b—–dy hard work. Just about managing after 5 days and kept carbs and cals down yesterday. Must start recording on myfitnesspal just to be sure.

Not much to report, gardener came this morning to look at the mess that is my potager. He will send me a quote later today.

Yay: Fgs… congratulations to your husband. I did it last year (put diabetes into remission) with this way of life… keeping it up and have fingers crossed for results of blood test on Thursday. That was 12 months from the original test that showed me to be diabetic! It really does work!!!

Great to hear positives from (I hope you don’t mind me calling you this) old hands! You are inspirational that it can be done and life can be good going forward!

So for today:
Sun is STILL shining… 🌞🌞 almost unheard of in rainy Wales. Veg and cutting Garden is benefiting greatly and I am delighted to be able to get on with it having been unable for the last 2 years! 🌱🌱🫛🫛

My weight seems to have settled again.. having been yo-yoing! 😄😄😄

Husband’s birthday on Monday so really looking forward to eating out … a meal I don’t have to cook is a huge bonus!! 🥙🥗

Just a quick ‘hello’ to say home safe and sound, great flight, bags unpacked but washing still to do!

Well done to those losing, those with T2 staying in ‘remission’ and everyone who is still ‘trying’!

Tomorrow I will weigh and assess the ‘damage’ of over three weeks of, not gay abandon, just mindless earring that wasn’t always that enjoyable!

Really looking forward to getting back to my ‘healthy’ eating plan tomorrow.

Hope everyone is doing ‘Marvellously’ in ‘May’!

Thanks Yowzer,
Yes it will be lovely to drop down into the next stone, I was in the 11s for a long time and it seemed so sudden being in the high 12s after Christmas, it’s like I can’t remember how I got there😱. My goal since I joined this forum has been to get down to around 9st 12, my thinking being that I could rein myself in if I then ever went over 10 but I honestly would be happy getting down to 10 and a half stone at the minute because I started this year the highest weight I’ve ever been so to get down to 10 and a half would be quite a chunk to have lost. I will just see how I feel when I get there as I got down to 10st 11 I think when I first joined the forum and felt I still had a way to go. I’m sure your positive vibes will help me get that 2 and a half pounds off by Tuesday (actually I’ve just remembered it’s my birthday on Tuesday so it would be a lovely present to myself to be under 12 when I weigh myself that morning!)
Don’t be too hard on yourself with the wet lettuce, it sounds like you’ve been through the mill a bit so deserve some leeway!
Have a lovely evening
Dawn XX

Ahh DAWN thanks,lovely to hear from you.
Im sure you will smash that 2 1/2 lbs very soon 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Onwards and downwards! Isnt it a fab feeling when you drop into the next stone down. I know you can do it! 🥳 🩷xx
I’m giving myself the wet lettuce treatment and pulling myself together for a fresh start..every day is a new beginning!
We have to “ seas” the day,hehe! Sorry for the corny joke 🥰

Hi Yowzer,
So sorry to hear you have had a virus for a while now and that your sciatica is playing up on top of that, not surprised you have been comfort eating bless you! I hope you start to feel better soon and am sure that once you do you will be back to being your usual focused self:) ❤️Dawn XX

Still lost 1lb so no further progress. Weighing every other day. Cutting down each day, still had a slice of toast last night. Today started with 2 boiled eggs but minus the Ryvita, then a lunch of tuna salad. Friday is fish and chips and I am not keen on fish but I will have a small piece with a salad.

News about house move is that daughter and sil want us to move into the house they were gifted by his father (and mother). They say they are happy to gift it to us. No money will change hands so we will not be handing over our life savings but maybe paying amounts to update the house. They will sign documents to say we cannot be asked to leave in case of divorce or some other unforseen event.

I can see my husband becoming more and more frail and I too find I have to sit down every 15 or so minutes to have a rest when doing housework. Things can turn on a sixpence and go terribly wrong and then we would be trying to sell up when we are more infirm. Better to get it done now while we have some fitness left.

Will keep you updated but try not to bore you.

Great news Fatgirlslim, it is so good to hear of someone beating diabetes. Keep on keeping on…

Positives:
I have a new app on my phone called Merlin. When I am out in the garden I switch the recorder on and this morning, in 3 minutes I recorded 6 different birds. Lots of Euraisian Blackbirds but also Little Owl, Golden Oriole and Blackcap. Try it.
Tidying the garden and house, getting ready to put it on the market but so much to do – positive it will all get done.
All the unpacking and washing done and put away – phew – only taken me 5 days 🙂

Glad to be of helpl. Keep in touch.

Just a quick hello to all. Not very well at the mo. Sciatica is very bothersome and painful, and I have a virus which I cant seem to throw off,its been over a month now. I feel my weight is creeping up due to inactivity and comfort eating! I need to get a grip!
Several of us have been suffering one way or another and you have my sincere commiserations! XX And congrats to those losing weight,very well done! XX
Hope to bump into you all when Im well enough to stroll the decks and smell those lovely sea breezes!
🥰 High tides and good vibes everyone! 🥰

Hi everyone,
Thanks Mariet, I hope we are as active as our Mums as we age:) I’m pleased your dental problems are getting better, albeit slowly.
I weighed myself this morning and am another 2lbs down. If I could lose just over 2lbs this coming week I would be back down in to the 11s again so am hoping to do that. I’m going to change my weigh day to Tuesday as that’s when my menu plan runs from which is the day I go food shopping. I’m going to aim to lose 2 and a half pounds by then so will concentrate on sticking to the menu plan I have loaded onto Mfp and see how I get on, it’s only four days away so I may be being a bit ambitious but it would definitely give me a boost.
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend.
Dawn XX

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply, and your kind words.
As I live in Souh Wales I go walking up the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) most weekends. I take Nuts, seeds and fruit along with a small portion of peanut butter dip, which provides me with enough energy to get me through a 7, 8hr rigouros walk. I think it will be some experimentation as I ramp the training up to further distances, I am sure boiled eggs would be okay in a rucksack. Salt intake is another issue I need to address, I limit salt after years of battling blood pressure, but this diet seems to have sorted that out, I’m thinking of the kallo rice cakes which according to the label are low in sugars and most other things.

Thank you again for the reply
Dr Michael Mosley 8 week blood sugar diet changed my life for the better, and I will forever be indebted to his book.

Love the positives on this thread and the quiet optimism of all of them – celebrating small wins as well as really big ones is a beautiful, mindful way of enjoying life and all its vicissitudes…. I have a huge positive I wanted to share with the group. My husband is no longer pre-diabetic. His latest blood test shows normal cholesterol and blood sugar levels!!! The GP is on record as saying: “Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it!” So happy I actually cried. Love the old codger after all these years (30+) and he’s been given a new lease on life. Doesn’t get more positive than that!!!

Taking a couple of days to get back into the eating routine plus I needed to do a shop. Verano said she might feel hungry when she gets back on plan and I can assure her she will. I even had a slice of toast before bed.

Breakfast today was 2 boiled eggs and one Ryvita then hallumi and bacon salad. For dinner I am having an aubergine mousakka and hope that will be it for the evening.

Should also have said I have set myself a goal of 7.5kgs in 7 months. So nice and steady.

Welcome back S-G & it’s good to hear that your lawn mower has not been broken. Getting ready to sell one’s house is always stressful & hard work so I hope all your prep goes well.
Thank you Verano for your kind words & I am getting used to my hearing aids although they still feel itchy in my left ear. I have now reconciled myself to my delayed surgery & my husband & I have booked a week away at a Warners holiday hotel on Hayling Island next month. We come from Portsmouth so it will be fun visiting the area & getting to know it again.
Well done Pootle getting back on track & HappySnap for losing weight 👏👏. I hope your blood test results are good Verano 🤞🤞. Sorry if I have missed anyone out 🤔
Margaret xx

Congratulations!!!🍾🎉🥳👏
A baby in the family may give your Mum a focus??!
I am sure your other son, whilst finding it bitter sweet, will be delighted to be an uncle and will dote on the little one.
Good luck for your weigh in on Friday!!
Xx

Hi Pootle. Really good luck tomorrow. You will he great
I am still struggling along, few pounds on then off , But have been good this week. So will see what happens weigh in Friday.
My Dad is very poorly. Another uti or possibly same one….he has lost 3st in 2 months. Just won’t eat a thing. He has a scan Monday to see what’s happening bit it’s more mental with him I think . He doesn’t even know why he doesn’t want to eat but he’s getting more cross rhe more people go on.
He’s a shadow of when he went in there and my mum blames herself for putting him in there.
It’s a very sad depressing situation
However some good news….I am going to be a grandparent….my son who got married and his wife are pregnant and were at the wedding also!
Really happy but a bit double edged as my other son can’t have children. Everything is just a bit complicated at rhe moment.
Keep going Pootle you’ve done great

Hi Lucy,

I hope your Dad has settled and is eating now. Also that your Mum is coping and the remaining cat is getting used to being alone.

Also that you have been able to find some time for yourself….
My weight suddenly started going up by 5lb then down again… it has been very difficult to stay motivated, but I am back to it now!
I am going for an annual blood test tomorrow, so 🤞I am still in remission from the diabetes and nothing else rears an ugly head! 🙏🤞

K xxxx

Positives for today

Mower is still in working order.
Gardener coming to quote for my 2 little potagers (veg patches) to be cleared as they are a real mess.
Nearly finished unpacking and 2 lots of washing done.

Hi all, well the mower seems to be okay and hubby has given half the grass a good going over. Such a relieft it looks so much better, it was such a mess I could have cried. I have also contacted our gardener to come and clear my potagers so I can think about planting tomatoes in the next week. Then I will be planting about 100 geraniums in pots to go all around the house and the poolside. To make the house sellable. Will put it on the market by the end of the month.

Seeing the garden in such a mess and also looking at opening the pool has given hubby new resolve for going back to the UK. The reaslisation at we are getting a bit old for such a big property and how much hard work it is to maintain it all.

Glad you are back on track Pootle. I decided to weigh every other day then couldnt resist jumping on the scales this morning to find a one pound loss already and I haven’t even started properly.

More good weather on the way, enjoy.

Marvellous May is progressing well… sunshine and a very little rain has done wonders for the garden.

Welcome home to all the holidayers, great to hear you have enjoyed a really good break.
My earlier dilemma with see-sawing weight seems to have settled a little. Now only about 2lb difference! I do have to weigh every day because I know my weakness is to think ‘one won’t matter’ then ‘I had one yesterday, so could have another today’! If I can keep track daily it gives me as much motivation as I can get!
I am having an my first ‘annual’ blood test tomorrow, (a little early) so 🤞🙏 that I have remained in diabetic remission and all else is still in order! I don’t expect to get the results until next week so I am keeping on keeping on!
Congratulations Happysnap… doesn’t it feel good!!!
S-G hope you enjoy the planning for the move back to the UK, it can be important to be within easy reach of family… also hope the mower isn’t too damaged!!
Verano, good to hear that your holiday indulgences haven’t had a drastic effect… Hope you have an easy climb back onto the wagon!

Margaret, I hope the hearing aids are working out… tv no longer needing subtitles! And that the op happens soon!

That’s all for now folks… wishing you all health and happiness in Marvell May!

Hi and thanks for starting a Marvellous May thread!

Sounds like quite a few of us are enjoying holidays at the moment- hope the weather is cooperating for those of you and if you’re not focusing on your diet then hope you’re enjoying the food you’re splurging on!!
I’m really pleased my weight has dropped by another 2.5kg, so total weight loss so far is 12kg!
I’ve never managed to lose this much so I’m really pleased with my progress and I bet my consultant will be delighted when I see him on the 9th June… I just googled 12kg and turns out its 26.4lb- sounds better in that currency doesn’t it?
I’m finding the TRE/IF way of life so easy to stick to and I’m so pleased to have discovered this WOE!