DAY 550 - bumps and grazes

It's the eve of my 40th birthday and I thought I'd just drop by and let you all know what's been going on.

I've been absent for such a long time now and I've fallen well and truely off the waggon and managed to get quite a few bumps and grazes where I've been hanging on. I've been gaining weight regularly every week and I'm back up to 15 stone 11.5 lbs. Though I have been attending my WW meetings every week. I've decided that what I need is a change of meeting. So on Monday I'm going to start attending a class in Newmarket. Lately, i've been ok for the first couple of days after WI, but once whe weekend arrives I've been going off the rails. Then it's the start off the week and I continue with the 'oh, sod it attitude'. So what I'm hoping is that by weighing in on a Monday I'll be ok throughout the week, then come the weekend I'll be reasonably ok as I'll have WI on the Monday. That's the plan anyway.

The other thing that happened recently is that 2 weeks ago I was on my way to pick my mum up and take her out for the morning. My parents live just 1 mile away from me. I was driving my van down the road and half way there some lady thought she'd try and see if her big expensive Suburu Forester would fit in the back of it without opening the doors first. I've ended up with whiplash and a bruised foot. Unfortunatly my van is going to cost far to much to repair and is going to be written off. So I'm now on the look out for a replacement. I've been aching since it happened and it's also put a stop to all my water workouts. I was doing up to 7 classes a week and 2 belly dancing classes a week. I've not been able to do any since then and I'm really missing it. It looks as though I won't be able to do any classes for the next few weeks yet. :o( Maybe with the time away from my classes I'll be able to get round to putting all the things on ebay that are mounting up.

Anyway, it's my 40th birthday tomorrow and I'm going out with family and a few friends for dinner and a few drinks. I'm also meeting Tina in the morning for breakfast. I've been feeling rather crappy this week and at the beginning of it I was in an awful mood and very teary. Now it's finally here, i've decided that there's nothing I can do about it and I'm just going to enjoy it. I intend to enjoy my meals out and enjoy the drinking. As my friend Sue said to me, you'll enjoy all the people saying, wow, you don't look 40. I'm looking forward to hearing that very often :o)

I'm also planning of catching up with all of your blogs over the next few weeks. I've got to come back to this on a regular basis if this is going to work.

Monday is going to be a new start xxx