Days 127 - 131

I've been a very lazy blogger lately, sorry about that!

On Friday, I bought a second hand TV from a very nice guy on eBay. When I agreed to buy it, I knew it was a 32inch, wide-screen, CRT (in dark metallic blue with a matching stand, very attractive!) and I knew it would be huge and heavy but I just wasn't prepared for the farce of getting it home in my friend's tiny car and then getting it up to the forth floor of my old, lift deprived, block of flats. Somehow, we managed to get the giant TV into the back-seat of the car and the boyfriend just about managed to fit in next to it, but we had to disassemble the stand to get it into the boot. Boyfriend and I could barely lift the TV between us but we managed to get it across the car park and up all those stairs with just 3 short breaks to allow our blood to circulate back into our fingers. I spent the rest of the afternoon shifting all my furniture around and rewiring my stereo, computer, DVD player, Freeview box and other things so they were all working together again. I had a great work out that day, I did hurt my shoulder a bit but it was much better in a few days

I had no hunger and plenty of energy all weekend and went out every day while the boyfriend was away. I did lots of walking, a few miles per day and even though my knee is a little on the sore side, it hasn't been holding me back as much as it did a few months ago. Although I'm still waiting to hear about my physiotherapy, I've had some real improvements as far as the pain goes, I think it's just happening on it's own as my weight has come down. The only problem is, it started getting bad a couple of years ago and at the time, I weighed about 2 stone less than I do now so I don't really know what set it off again, I'm still hoping I can get some physio or some sort of help with it because if I lose all the weight I am aiming to lose then find myself unable to walk, I can see the weight creeping back up again and I refuse to diet again EVER!

On Sunday I was a bit bored so I decided to get a bus over to the giant Tesco store on Old Kent Road for a bit of shopping and a change of scenery. While I was there, hitching my only fitting pair of jeans up constantly, I decided to buy a cheap pair of jeans to keep me going. I bought some cheap and cheerful, dark blue, skinny jeans in a size 18. Although the jeans I was wearing at the time were a size 18, I convinced myself that they were only too big because they had been severely stretched, I've had them for 3 years and kept wearing them for a while as I put on weight. However, when I got home and tried on my new size 18 jeans, I found they were also too big so first thing on Monday morning, I rode the bus all the way back to south London and exchanged them for the same jeans in a 16 which fit me quite well, there's minimal muffin-topping, in a few weeks they will be perfect but they are quite wearable in the mean-time.

On Tuesday evening, the boyfriend returned. I'd cooked some stewed lamb to help him recuperate from the long train journey and ended up having some with him. Apart from the fact it was lamb, it was an almost CD friendly meal, it was just stewed with some celery, mushrooms and herbs and served with a little purple sprouting broccoli. I'd like to be able to say I had a sensible portion but seeing as it was lamb, it wasn't very sensible period. It was delicious though!