Put that down, fatty! (again!)

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Well done Hana on all the steps & none of the alcohol. Snap. Me too. I'm having today off wine too. I wish you could send messages via your Fibits!
 
Thanks guys - calories for yesterday were 1700 which is a little high but I did 17,000 steps so I think that's okay. Yank made dinner which was a nice change, we had halloumi and chicken burgers. Volunteering went well - I need to learn to say no though. This lady has asked me to "help her write her life story" and I felt I couldn't say no so now I'm meeting her next Wednesday with my laptop to make a start...Joy!

I have ZERO plans for this weekend which sounds absolutely amazing. I'm gonna do a long beach walk with my delicious husband and slow-cook some food, do some meal prep, play some games and chilllllll. Can't wait. Hope everyone else has a happy Friday!
 
No plans for the weekend are the best plans. My commiseration for the life story - those are generally very draining.
 
If you decide to do a 'dry' December, let me know and we can complain about it together! December is the WORST for going dry (except for summer camping months, fall weather with ciders, spring evening drinks...going dry just sucks in general) - but yeah, I'll jump on board that one with you! I haven't touched alcohol for over a month and I'm actually giving away a bottle of homemade blueberry wine that my mom gave me - it's a favorite but SO sweet... so I painted it like a Santa suit and regifted it.

I can't open a bottle and just have one glass either.

You're doing amazingly :D Have a fantastic weekend - my hubby gets home from a week in the Northwest Territories tonight so I'm going to be spending a lazy weekend with him and my minions.
 
Hey Sam - I don't think I could manage a dry December! So many lovely things planned, made lovelier with wine! However, I did ring our local Wellbeing service today and they are gonna give me a hand with cutting down. Should be good. Hope you had fun with hubby over the weekend.

Well, I had a gorgeous weekend. Me and Yank went for Italian food (my favourite) and I slow-cooked a couple of meals for meal prepppp (can't say that without doing a little meal prep dance..have trained Yank to do it as well so we look rather stupid. Meal prep, meal prep, meal preppp) and we vegetated the rest of the of time. It was nice to finally chill out. It's been a very busy few weeks. I had Monday off work too so I did some organising (tidy home, tidy mind...I think!) and sorted through photos. Food and drink hasn't been terrible but it's not been great either - I struggle in the evenings. I had 7 satsumas last night in a bid to avoid chocolate though so that was good at only like 30 cals a Suma. I've been in court all morning (left the house at 6am, yawn) and just got home (3pm) so am in PJ's, have dinner planned out (chicken kiev on a bed of pearl barley and peppers and mushrooms) and will be having a nap shortly!

Will weigh in tomorrow when feeling less manatee-esque.
 
It's been a very busy few days - went to court with one my boys from Afghanistan for his asylum claim appeal and think it went well. They've age assessed him as being a year younger than we age assessed him so he's now 18 instead of 19! How weird that must be for him.. I'm on duty in the office today so can't do much moving but I'm going to take a lunch break today instead of eating at my desk and go for a walk which will be nice (even though it's freezing).

I'm got the soup kitchen tonight so Yank is cooking and I've asked for a healthy thing! I've also been allocated a wellbeing worker so will be weighed weekly...and some help to stop drinking so much (and I've recently started having the odd ciggie when I'm out and about and that needs to stop!).
 
Well done Hana. You do such a good job. I mean that in the true sense of the word. You do good.
Well done also on getting help to cut down & acknowledging that you need to. Brave & smart woman xoxo
 
I wish someone would age assess me down from 30 to 29! ;)

Working with the wellbeing person sounds like a great idea, it's good that you have some of the support you're always giving to other people!
 
Thank you, beautiful people. You make me smile :)

Last night at the LifeHouse was brilliant - I worked the door again so greeting the homeless chaps and gals and then taking names, finding out where they are sleeping and making sure that people aren't too drunk/haven't used drugs before they go in for their meal.. We did beef stew and potatoes for them last night and put their Crimmus tree up. I had to separate one fight as someone had used heroin that belonged to someone else and it caused a problem. I think being a female keeps the chaps a bit calmer outside so I'm glad I do the door as I think it helps a little.

Today I have a child protection conference that I'm gonna walk to so that will take 30 mins. I also walked into work this morning despite it being fucking freeeezing so feeling good that I did that.

1st December:

Breakfast: low calorie pretzal box and a satsuma (100)
Lunch: subway salad and lemon rice (440)
Dinner: low calorie spinach and chicken pizza with home-made chips and mushrooms (655)
Snacks: crisps (124) small glass of wine (270)

Steps: 14,000
 
I'm sure you hear this with mind-numbing frequency but you're a pretty impressive human being :)
 
What you do is so amazing! I recently read an article that apparently for rehabilitating drug addicts, food and empathy are particularly important. I'm sure you know much more than I ever could. It really is so wonderful that you're doing so much to make the lives of all these people better!
 
It is a very lucky world that has people like you Hana in it. I think we can get obsessed & overwhelmed with the bad, when we should be rejoicing more in the good. Like you- Hana banana :beating:
 
You guys are so sweet. I just like filling my time with lots of "stuff." If I focus on everyone else it means I don't have to think too hard about myself. Not always a good thing..

So, I've been doing some soul searching over the weekend. The drinking is completely out of hand - I went to the cinema on Sunday and took a bottle of wine in with me.. who does that? (Sully with Tom Hanks was very good though!). I just can't get a handle on it. I read half a self-help type book (Alan Carr) on drinking yesterday which was quite interesting but unsure how beneficial his approach is. I have my appointment with my well-being worker today and I'm going to be completely honest about my drinking and see what they say. It's not impacting my work at the moment but I'm so concerned about my poor liver. I eat very well, I don't eat frozen shit, I love veggies and fruit and, aside from my portion control issues which I think is related to the wine drinking, I always end up around 1500 cals for the day and then spoil it with 600 cals of wine.

I'm drinking around a bottle of wine a night, every night. With the occasional night off. This is not sustainable and it is not healthy and I need to stop kidding myself that this is normal. I'm too smart for this shit! Last night I brought two small bottles that totalled 300mls, so under half of my usual nightly intake. This is a start. I found it difficult.

Going to see what my worker suggests today and go from there but making myself accountable and posting here too. I will log food and alcohol on here. I could be losing so much weight but I'm spoiling it for myself completely..

Everything else going well - I'm going to go to the gym tonight after work and then have an early night to avoid the wine.
 
Hey Hana

Just started reading your diary and oh my word I just love your sense of humor. You are definitely motivating me.
 
Car85 said:
Hey Hana

Just started reading your diary and oh my word I just love your sense of humor. You are definitely motivating me.
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Thanks sweetpea :) As a massive manatee I've developed some sort of sense of humour to attract males. It has worked wonderfully so far!
 
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