No longer a baby

So my little boy was 18 at the weekend! We all had a trip to Inverness to see him. His grandma made the fabulous cake, Isaac with our giant sized Labrador. We had a really good meal and it was lovely to see him again (4 weeks for a mum is a long time!)

What do you do when you just can't seem to get back into the losing weight game? You make everyone else do it with you of course. I've recruited most of the ladies at work to join in to my waist loss challenge (I'm not being sexist here - there is pretty much only one guy who works in my office, and his waist is tiny! Though I did ask if he wanted to join in but  to try to gain weight instead lol. He declined). So we are going by waist measurement - I measured in cms as it's easier to lose 1 cm than 1 inch!! Anything over 80cm is bad but anything over 88cms is really bad. My waist was 103cms. Anyway let's see how it goes. Although watching the amount of chocolates and sweets being eaten it's not going well for any of us.

My mate (which one? - bestie at work one) tagged me on Facebook challenging me to respond within 1 minute (1 minute!!!) or I have to do sober October!! So I thought sod you...I can be sober in October, no problem! And then she invites me to hers for a night of drinking tonight. Who does that? Who? Who would do that?? No bestie of mine that's for sure. But I shouldn't have worried because I actually only managed one day of no alcohol. Come 2nd October I got home from a stressful day and went straight for the bottle! Yes mum - I'm back on the drink again!! Sorry

So my plan? I want to stick to 1600 calories, walk 10000 steps, make the calories count (more health less chocolate) and have one fasting day each week. So far? I've got one day of my step target under my belt but not had a great week of counting calories (oops). Gilly must try hard!

I rescued some wine - it was trapped in a bottle!