My Weight Loss Journey

Where to start on this one!? Since having our beautiful little boy almost two years ago

I haven't been happy with my weight. I gained almost two stone when pregnant on Oisín 

and by the time I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes the damaged had been done!

Last year I lacked the motivation to do anything about my weight and actually gained another half a stone, so by this summer I was so unhappy about to go on holidays with a suitcase of clothes that didn't fit me!

Then I realised my best friends wedding was in two months and I couldn't fit into my bridesmaids dress!! I knew I had to do something, I could either comfort eating everything in sight or actually do something about.

So I took to the gym, done spinning classes, aqua fit and walking but with having PCOS I lose weight slowly I knew I need something to help me along and give me a boost.

So I decided to give the Forever Aloe Vera 9 day detox a go. I am not going to lie it was hard the first few days when you can't eat but drink the aloe vera gel and shakes is awful but knowing I had a goal at the end gave me so much motivation. I wanted to walk down that aisle holding my little boy's hand on my best friend's big day feeling and looking good in my bridesmaid's dress!

In the nine day's I lost just under a stone and was down 7inchs in my waist! I was thrilled the morning of the wedding my dress fitted perfect and I felt amazing

     

Afterwards I knew I didn't want to put the weight back on and

wanted to keep the feel good factor of losing weight. So my friend and I decided to officially join

Slimming World. I had been making Slimming World meals for a while but never went to join a group or was never on plan before. I am loving slimming world and find the meals delicious and the plan really easy to follow. I love going to group, meeting new people, sharing ideas, recipes and stories. So far in Slimming World I have lost 7lbs and am fitting into clothes that haven't fit me since Oisín was born! I am loving going clothes shopping again and am slowly becoming me again!

Stressful Events & Changing Times!

Since we found out I was pregnant we have had some stressful and eventful times! We where delighted when we found out after trying for what felt like forever! Since then there have been a number of eventful/stressful things happen.

On the way home from our first scan we where on the bus to my parents and a person walked in front of the bus and got knocked down! Needless to say this was a quite shocking thing to witness and all the bus passengers then got questioned by the police.

After that we went on holiday (a well needed one) the holiday was wonderful! Relaxing, sun, sand and chilling out just what we needed until we where coming home! When our holiday rep forgot to collect people at our hotel and the hotel across from us! Cue waiting around for two hours in the dark not knowing what's going on! Trying to ring our rep with no luck! In the end the rep realised her mistake and collected us all forty minutes before the flight was meant to take off!

The hubby then lost his keys and wallet in the space of a few days...stressful days of getting keys cut and cancelling bank cards ensued! 

A few days after that we almost got run down by a crazy lady driver at a pedestrian crossing! We where mid way across the road when she came speeding into the car park drove half way into the pedestrian crossing and stopped inches away from my face!! Paul had a few harsh words for her!

I then witnessed in work some shocking behaviour from a adult who was aggressive and a bully. I wasn't involved but work wasn't a very nice place to go into for a while. Thankfully in the last couple of weeks the situation has been solved and work is now a nice place to be again.

We now have been getting annoyed with our landlord's lack of ability to get anything sorted for us quickly i.e if anything breaks or needs to get fixed he doesn't do anything about it until we a literally ringing him ten times a day about it! So very annoying!

We are now ready for a change and after a few stressful events things seem to be fitting into place for us.

I got great news that I got another year contract with my job (its government funded and I wasn't sure if I would get two years out of it) I really do like my job. It's only part time but it gets me out and about meeting different people. Plus the money helps also! I plan to go on my maternity leave the end of November until the start of May hopefully all will go to plan!

We finally got a new car! After a year of saving we got our new little car its a red renault clio who I named Betsy! Its a great little family car with just enough space for all of Blip's stuff! Paul got a really good deal on car insurance which was another bonus.

And finally we will be moving from this small one bedroom apartment which we called home for the past three years! Ideally we would like to move before blip is born so that we could get blip nice and settled without having to move again in a couple of months. It also would be nice to move before this place becomes over crowed with baby stuff, but we have to be realistic and we are not sure that our budget will stretch to moving out before Christmas. So we are aiming to move out in February little blip should be two months by then and I can help with moving and packing without a huge bump! I am looking forward to our last Christmas in our apartment before we say goodbye and move on to a bigger place!

So exciting and changing times ahead!