Woo hoo I lost weight! I have lost 11lb since the 2nd of January. I am very pleased.Today I ateBREAKFAST: PorridgeLUNCH: Tomato Soup (my homemade stuff), chicken, sun-dried tomatoesDINNER: Tomato SoupEXERCISE: 30 minute walk at lu...
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Monday, 28 January 2013
Over the weekend I made a batch of Peanut Butter Cups. I brought them into work and left them in our kitchen for people to enjy with a cup of tea or coffee. Boy, did they go down well! Everyone really liked them. I will leave it a couple of weeks and either make another batch of them or make something else nice and nibb...
Saturday, 26 January 2013
I had a lovely Saturday morning today.First I went to Ikea and met Enid. Ikea had loads of stuff on sale so we had a nice time just browsing. My big(!) purchase was a set of 3 scissors for €1.20!Afterwards I headed to the Blanchardstown Towncentre to buy food for dinner tonight - in Marks & Spencers.On my way to M&S I popped into the Yankee Candle shop. I love Yankee Candles. They have 5 new scents - my favourites...
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Weigh-In today. Only lost 1lb since last week :-(Saying that, that is 9lb in total in 3 weeks which is not bad. BREAKFAST: LUNCH:I have become obsessed with sundried tomatoes. But I am afraid the oil on them is slowing down my weight loss. Any thoughts anyone? DINNER:Tomato soup AND:Ooops! Couldn't resist some peanut butter cups&nb...
Sunday, 20 January 2013
INGREDIENTS:Icing Sugar Peanut ButterChocolate (FYI I would suggest a better quality chocolate then the cooking one I used) Mix the peanut butter & icing sugarThis mixture is fabulous even just like this!Melt chocolate and pour into mini paper cups. I'd suggest you get use a mini muffin tin to hold these in shape - I did not as you can see.Blop some of the peanut butter mix onto the chocolate Pour chocolate on top...
I posted yesterday about the Pro-Life vigil in Dublin and our demonstration that we counter-staged.See my post here. Katie was reading all the online reports of the demos and she found an article which included a photograph of the two of us. The article is from the Breaking News Ireland website - see the article here. The first photograph is of the Pro-Life group. A crowd of 25,000 was reported - and I'd well believe it. And the second photograph is of Katie & myself!Edit. 21/01/13 - Katie located another...
Saturday, 19 January 2013
Wow what a day. The Irish Pro-Life movement were having a gathering in Dublin today. To counter this the Pro-Choice movement planned a small silent demonstration. I received an invite to it on facebook from Katie. Today really opened my eyes to the size and strength of the pro-life faction. Coaches upon coaches were parked along Merrion Square. The people piled off the buses - ranging in age from...
Friday, 18 January 2013
Thursday, 17 January 2013
I saw an ad in the Metro this morning which I thought was interesting. When babies are born in Ireland a test known as the Heel Prick Test is carried out soon after their birth. This enables doctors to diagnose or rule out 6 conditions - and enables doctors to give treatment early if required. In order to comply with European regulation the Irish health board is going to dispose of the cards of these tests taken from 1984-2002....
I have inherited an exciting object! I have always, always wanted one of these but the price has just been too much for me to spend. So now that my sister Lydee has moved away and is not doing her cupcakes anymore I have been passed her Kenwood Chef and I am delighted! I scrubbed it clean tonight. I am super excited to start using it! Watch this space to see what I get up to with ...
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
WEIGH-IN THIS MORNING:Woo hoo I lost another 2lbs. I've lost 8lbs in total so far. BREAKFAST: LUNCH:Turkey, sundried tomatoes, tomato soup.EXERCISE:30 minutes walk at lunchDINNER:Bowl of homemade tomato soup.SNACK:This one square of chocolate looks very big pictured on it's own. Here it is pictured beside an ipod nano, it's exactly half the size of i...
Monday, 14 January 2013
I have mentioned before that my twin (Enid) blogs and I have posted links to her blog.Another of my sisters (Katie) also blogs. She is a funny little creature - check out her latest post/blog here - as you can see/hear she is a talented little singer but ssshhh I don't think she knows she has a teddy bear on her head ...
BREAKFAST:Yummy fabulous porridge! How have I only ever found porridget in my 35th year??? LUNCH:I forgot to bring some of my home-made soup into work today. So I bought some avonmore low fat tomato soup...it is not as nice as my soup I tells ya! With it, I had two slices of turkey, coin size piece of chicken & sun dried tomatoes. Sorry I forgot to take a photograph of it. EXERCISE:Myself and a work colleage (one of...
Sunday, 13 January 2013
BREAKFAST:DINNER:I was really hungry... But I know I ate an awful lot. I just cannot resist my mam's Sunday dinner. But I didn't have any dessert. SNACK: One square of dark chocolate - eeugh - it is not neccessarily too bitter, it is more just very dry and no sweetness whatsoever. No taste really... even a bit of bitterness would be nice!&nb...
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