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All change...
Sep 25, 2003

Last day of old job was Tuesday. Still don't think its hit me that I've gone for good. Job may have been monotonous and thankless, but it was a great group of people who I will really miss.

Start new job Monday. I'm looking forward to it and dreading it in equal measure. It'll be a challenge, but I'm sure I'm up to it. But after 4 years of repetition will my brain still work when I need it?

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Weight loss stalling...
Jul 8, 2003

A little background - 4 months ago me and a few colleagues decided to set up an informal slimming club - no hard or fast rules, we could follow whatever diet we liked, but we'd have weekly weigh ins, pay £1 a week or £2 if we gained and at the end of each month whoever had lost most would win the money. I'd intended losing weight for ages, but think I needed the public humiliation aspect before I actually started doing anything!

I didn't want a dramatic change, I knew I wouldn't stick to it, so i started eating healthier and exercising more, while my colleagues went on various faddy diets. So, things started very slowly for me, and I got frustrated when all my friends shed pounds and I just didn't gain any. And then suddenly I started losing a lb here and there, and 4 months on I have dropped consistantly if not dramatically while they are almost all back up to their start weights as they couldn't keep up the fad diets.

But now my weight loss has stalled, and I don't know why, I seem to be in a monthly cycle - two weeks same, put on 3lb just before my period, dramatic drop of up to 5lb the weeks after my period, resulting in a monthly weight loss of one or two pounds if I'm lucky.

I know my reaching for the chocolate as soon as I'm stressed isn't helping - and I have been very stressed lately (driving test, family problems, work...) and I cannot honestly say that I've been really good all the time, but I am eating much less than I used to, and its healthier stuff I'm eating, so I can't understand why the sudden stall.

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sulk, strop, waaaah
Jul 3, 2003

There are times I hate being a woman. And today (first day of period) is definately one of them. Ow. Don't believe men suffer anything to compare, and we get pregnancy and childbirth too.

Oh well, at least there's chocolate. Someone pass me a hot water bottle.

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