A Bit of Blather whilst waiting for a Backup

In work again for a Saturday night release.
Thought I would blog whilst I'm waiting for some backups to finish.

I'll be in again tomorrow for for a 9 hour stint stopping and starting processes whilst some hardware maintenance is carried out.

Nice little earner, but it means that Novelist Supermum has to mind the hobbits on her own for most of Sunday.

We've got a family wedding to go to in a couple of weeks time - up in Northumberland.
This morning we went shopping, to get some smart new clothes for the boys.

Frodo got a shirt and waistcoat. We couldn't resist buying a Samwise sized pinstripe suit. We're now going to have to get a Sonic Screwdriver to go with it.

Speaking of Frodo - we've booked his Birthday Party for August - he'll be Six on the anniversary of the last eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

This year we've booked a sports hall for a "Fun and Games" party. We'll be inviting about 40 kids from his year at school. Luckily we don't have to organise the party games, since the booking comes with two or three Party staff (the number depends on how many accept the invitation) - who lead the activities.
All we have to do is provide the food and drinks, and dish out the lucky bags and slices of Birthday Cake.

Speaking of Birthday Cake - the diet isn't going too badly. Had a mega-vegetable overload tea last night, with a bit of stewing steak. In fact I probably overdid it with the vegetables (and may have undercooked some of them).

I've probably lost about half a stone - it's a bit difficult to tell since either or bathroom scales don't work very well - or there's variable strength gravitational forces under our bathroom floor.

If anything I'm feeling a little healthier for the detoxification aspect - even though I didn't give up tea and coffee. Hopefully I've also trained myself to be a little less greedy i.e. usually I'd celebrate the end of the week with a Mars Bar or two - but not this time.

One Banana, Two Banana, Three Banana Four

Discovered that today is either semi-skimmed Milk to drink and 8 bananas, or 6 bananas and some tuna.

Went for the tuna option - never has a tin of tuna tasted so good!

Tomorrow is veg and meat (beef, chicken or fish) and potato.
The next day is veg and meat - no potato.
I think that the last day is brown rice and veg.

Not doing too badly. Definitely shedding a few pounds and coping with the diet regime. I reckon that I should make it to the day before the brown rice.

I'm in work doing "ovies" for 6 hours on Saturday night and 9 hours on Sunday, so I reckon that I'll probably crack on Sunday and get a buttie from Subway - since the Company will be paying for it.

Going Banana's by Thursday.

In a bid to be a little less lardy I've embarked on a diet.

"I have been a dieter for three days"...

The driving reason is that there's a family wedding coming up in a couple of weeks - and I'd rather not have to buy a new suit. Although I'm not exactly fat, I'm not as thin as I once was - and my weight is creeping up a bit.

The diet (courtesy of Novelist Supermum) is:

Eat as much as you like (or as can bear) of the following.
Monday - Fruit
Tuesday - Vegetables - with potato
Wednesday - Fruit and Vegetables - no potato
Thursday - Banana's and Milk
Friday - Meat Meat Meat!
Saturday - Brown Rice and Meat - no veg (I think) I can't quite remember if this is right, and what your mean't to have on Sunday (Brown Rice and Veg?) - but by then I'll probably have completely lost the plot by then and will have cheated.

Drinks are water and fruit juice.

I've tried this before and by the end of the week I'd lost a fair bit of weight and felt better for it. Having said that there's no way I could manage a second week, particularly when I got to the Brown Rice days.

So the following week I will switch to the 'cornflake' diet.
i.e. every day.
3 meals a day. One a normal, sensible, meal of whatever you like. The other two meals are replaced by a bowl of breakfast cereal.

My resolution is that once I've reached the weight I want to be, and feel thin enough (or once I give in) then I'll try to be bit less greedy in future.
No more multiple trips to the machine that dispenses Mars Bars at work. (No comments about just sending somebody else for me please!)