1 Month Today!

Let me get this over with here and now:

one month today until we get married!!!
I can't even tell you how excited I am about this. I spend my time hovering between excitement and panic, but today is definitely a day of excitement. I never thought this day would come. I spend so much time hearing other brides counting down to their own wedding, and now it's only a matter of days for me! One month; 30 days; four weeks = not long at all.

Another reason to be happy is this: At my Weight Watchers weekly weigh-in (that's a lot of W's), I discovered I’d lost 3lbs since last week! You may recall that when I went for my first dress fitting, I was heavier than I was when I first went to collect my dress. It gave me a huge downer, so I vowed to lose some of the bulge, and I did it. I’m so happy.

Now, I'm not afraid to admit how much I weigh, so to give you an idea of where I am;

* Last April I weighed 173lbs
* When I started WW in January, I weighed 161.5lbs
* I currently weigh 144.5lbs
* My goal for the honeymoon (31st Aug) is 140lbs
* My goal for Christmas is 133lbs

The first 12lbs didn't count in Weight Watchers terms, because I lost that weight before signing up. But I lost a further 14lbs between January and March, but was then told to stop losing by the wedding dress vendor. I've therefore been hovering around the 147lb mark ever since, but as of 8th July, I'm officially back on the points system again; in a mission to get to my honeymoon goal.

And now I have some free space in my wedding dress, I intend to make the most of the food at the wedding, by eating lost of crackling!

Sorry if this image grosses you out, but crackling's a huge thing in my family, and was the deciding factor for having a hog roasted at the wedding reception. But as everyone knows; calories don't count at weddings, so I should be safe...

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before, but I go to my Weight Watchers meetings with my mum, and then spend an evening with her; catching up, chatting, laughing and just enjoying one another’s company. Hubby picks me up on the way back from work (which is often as late as midnight), so I don’t always get much sleep on a Wednesday night! Last night we were up until 1am, which explains why I’m sitting at my desk about to nod off.

This is not good.

Tonight I’m on day four of my housework frenzy. We have a friend coming to stay tomorrow night, and the house was an absolute mess. I’ve managed to get through most of the washing up, all of the laundry, and consolidated paperwork into one monster pile, which is now situated in the corner of the room. Tonight will be spent cleaning the bathroom, mopping the floors and vacuuming the carpet.

And tomorrow I can relax, because I’ve decided to ban housework for the next few days.