One more step

Had my weekly weighing yesterday and took one more step towards my goal. I got rid of 600 grams this week and have now got rid of 29 kilos all in all. Hopefully I will be able to get over the 30 kilos goal next time but to be able to do that I have to do better than I've done for the last few weeks. But we'll see how it goes. I need new pictures of me soon, I'll ask Bob to do that when we get a chance.

School is busy, handed in an assignment yesterday and have math problems to do before Friday. Busy, busy time. But that's OK.

Not much progress, but still

I went to the weekly weighing yesterday, got rid of 400 grams but that was probably just because of the haircut I got on Monday. It's not much at all, but still 400 grams down and not up. That's the main thing. I sat the meeting, Þórhildur got a lot of questions asked this time and it was useful. Some were things that I didn't know before, some not but it's always good to have things pointed out to you again. Þórhildur told me to try more variations in fruit, not just juice, apples and grapes. And she also told me to skip the lunch bread and have one extra fruit instead so I'll try that. I just have to get going again, I'm getting sick of this. Maybe I should start making ice cream for myself, maybe like I used to, after the girls are in bed or maybe weekends during the day so they can have some as well, maybe I'll do that this Saturday or Sunday. Sounds like a good plan.

The girls

I haven't put in any pictures for a while but here we have a couple. I took them last night when the girls were getting ready for their bath, as can be seen, they had to try out new things first! They thought this was a lot of fun.

Last night we saw - and heard - the first 8 entries in the Icelandic Eurovision. Three qualified to the finals, non of them really good. I didn't think any of these songs was really good, Bob liked one and that wasn't a bad song at all, but it didn't qualify. In the last three songs we saw, there were four former Idol "stars". One of the songs that qualified, was performed by three guys and they "danced" the most awkward dance while they performed. It was really embarassing but people seemed to liked, at least it qualified. Bob doesn't think we will qualify this year either and with these songs, we won't.

Poor mother's small heart

We took Sólveig Lilja to the doctor on Wednesday. He sent her for a blood test, which we did yesterday morning. Mother and daughter, unknowing what was going to happen, went there yesterday morning. We arrived maybe 5 past 8 and got #3 from the number machine. Sat down and waited. A few minutes later, the lady started calling up numbers and it was soon our turn. Sólveig Lilja was playing with some building blocks at the time so I stood up and paid and the lady explained that when a little screen displayed our number, we'd go into a room across the corridor. We only had to wait a few minutes before our number came up. We went in and the nurse went to get somebody to assist her which is a standard procedure when they deal with kids. I took Sólveig Lilja's coat and jumper off and sat down with her. Then the nurse put a strap on her arm to check the veins. Checked both arms. Then the other nurse came in and they started the procedure. I don't think I want to describe in details how it was, suffice to say Sólveig Lilja has veins like her mother, tough and difficult to put a needle through. They had to try both arms and of course the child didn't like it. Neither did I. I told Sólveig Lilja not to cry because if she did, I would cry as well and I did so feel her pain. Finally they got enough blood, put plaster on her arms and she got to pick a toy from the prize box that they have there.

During the day she forgot all about this. But last night when I was getting her ready for bed, she saw the band aid and when I pulled it off, she saw the little holes in her arms. She got all cautious and protective. Hopefully she won't have to do that again, well, hopefully I won't have to take any of them for a blood test any time soon.

Sat a time management course yesterday and it was very good. Hopefully I will take advantage of what she told us, otherwise it's useless.

I still have some reading to do for school for this week but I've done my IT-course assignment for the week. Making progress with the math as well but I'll have some stuff to do this weekend. Don't think I'll be able to finish it tonight.

Major milestone, brainwashing and more

As a mother I find all new things that my children do major achievements. Or most of them. The first word they say, the first tooth they get, the first time they roll over, the first step.... all these things. And now it's the first pee in the toilet. Kristín Lára has been going to the toilet for a while "for a pee". Of course she hasn't done anything but sit there and then pulls off a sheet of toilet paper and stuffs it down between her legs in pretending to dry herself. At first she was a bit nervous sitting there but that was only for the first two or three times, since then she's loved this pretend "going for a pee". The last couple of days she's sometimes said no to the question of going for a pee and the same thing happened last night. She'd been in bed for a while, singing away some of the time but also crying some of the time. So to make sure she hadn't poohed herself or something like that, I went in to check on her. She of course wanted to be picked up and soft as I am, did so. But she didn't want to go for a pee but her diaper was wet so I decided to change it and put her on the toilet anyways. And I heard it. Not a few drops but a proper pee! And I praised her until she got all shy, not understanding why her mother went on like that about something as natural as having a pee. So what that it happened to land in the toilet, that was just a coincidence. I dried her and put a new diaper on and took her down to tell "pabbi" about his milestone in his daughters life. "So?", said the expression on his face. He was having his evening feed and I think he was afraid that we would disturb him in that. As we did. Kristín Lára quite liked his fish and his bread and his cheese and his biscuits. And she quite liked sitting on the sofa with him, watching the airplanes. So that was the milestone in Kristín Lára's life yesterday. One year, six months, two weeks and two days old she peed in the toilet for the first time.

Went to a fat fighter's meeting yesterday. Normally I go before I have lunch but since I wanted to sit a meeting as well, I went in the afternoon. Mrs Scale was nasty. 800 grams up :( Not fair, I thought I'd been doing well. Valdís (my math tutor and fellow fat fighter) had decided that she too needed to sit a few meetings so we had decided to meet there and try to support each other in the fight. It is so true what she said. This is brainwashing. I've know that all along. I allowed myself to be brainwashed and that's why I did so well. I just did pretty much exactly what I was told. Then during the summer I started to slip, thinking that since it was summer it was OK to allow myself a bit more and seeing that doing that, I didn't put on any weight but stayed pretty much the same, I continued on that path. And of course, I haven't really lost any weight since then. But now I am going to go to meetings again and get brainwashed again. I'm not going to almost follow the diet, I'm going to follow it as I did when I first started. I'm going to have fish 3-5 times a week. I'm going to have 4 eggs a week. I'm not going to have meet more than 3 times a week. I'm going to drink 2 liters of water a day. I'm not going to eat more than 4 fruits a day. I'm going to write down what I eat and drink each day. And now, even if Bob is probably the only one reading this, it is still official and only the fact that he has read this, makes me have to do it. Although I'm not doing this for him, I'm doing it for me, he has been my biggest support in this and he has done just as much, if not more work than I have. Because he is the one cooking for me. He is the one chopping carrots almost every day of the week. He's the one looking after me. Thanks sweetheart. And about the water, according to some thing I stepped on last week, my water% is too low so I need to drink more water. How this "thing" works, I have no idea, neither how reliable it is. It calculated my fat% 35,9 (I think) but last year someone pinched me all over, manually with some little thing (which is supposed to be more accurate) and that said just over 31%. So I don't know.

Sólveig Lilja has an appointment to see our GP today. She's still coughing and now Kristín Lára seems to have got a cold. Maybe it wasn't the jab that she got the other day but the cold Sólveig Lilja had (or still has). And their father as well. And now I have a sore throat :( We'll see.

I've started my first math assignment. Done two of seven problems. Wonderful. Right.