Lucybell33's Journal, 21 July 2008

Ack - I haven't done so well maintaining this week! It was easy last week when I was at the Health Spa, so in-between snacks were almost impossible to find. Without the control of counting the calories, it's been easy to kid myself that I've been eating well overall. I think the main problem was that I still had my usual weekend treats, without having had the usual abstemious week. We've had a couple of meals out, so some of the gain is going to be water retention, so will naturally disappear now I'm back to eating healthy home-cooked meals again.

In other news - and the reason I have been carefully trying not to get hungry between meals - I'm pregnant!!! Only 6 weeks, so only telling my closest family and friends at the moment, and of course my FS buddies have to be included in this select group. I'm feeling fine so far - hope that continues as long as possible. I only had a couple of weeks of nausea with my son, so fingers crossed I don't get anything too bad this time round. It was a bit of a surprise - I was thinking it would take around three months like the last time, rather than no time at all - but this will give us a good 2 year 9 month age gap, which is not far off the 3 years we were going for!

So, while I'm going to try to rein back the houmous-consumption a little to ensure this rate of gaining doesn't continue, I'm not going to be able to restrict my calories too much.

Hope all my buddies are doing OK. Sorry I've been neglecting you all - I've had rather a lot on my mind lately! I will try to catch up soon.

Leanne xx

142.2 lb Lost so far: 67.8 lb.    Still to go: 2.2 lb.    Diet followed poorly.