Forgive Me FatClub Readers…

…for I have been a lazy bint and have not been keeping you up to date!

Last week I lost 1/2lb taking me up to a grand loss total of…. 1 stone off!

And it all went downhill from there! I felt fab last week, invinsible, clearly I was the slimmer of the century?! Apparently not! Getting complacent hasn’t done me any favours and this week, and although I’ve stayed the same, it could have been much worse in truth. Today was the first time since starting I’ve not actually come out with a loss, and I’m irked by it because there was no reason this week not to lose, half term is over, I haven’t been out for any meals… I’ve just been lazy!

From now on, back to it properly, and I am counting myself very lucky I didn’t gain. I am back to tracking (everything) – making sure it is all written down, shopping more sensibly, will make sure the fruit bowl is continually topped up, and hopefully next week I’ll get that good loss that will get me back on track. Right now I am at 13st, I’m itching to to be able to say 12st something (anything will do at this point, just can’t remember being 12st since before I got pregnant with Kieran!).

So, organised head back on, tracking resumed, kick up the arse administered… here’s to a good week.

For any of you fellow WW Fatclubbers out there – if you have any new recipes (well they’ll be new to me), recommended products, anything – please comment. Could do with some inspiration!

In Need Of Time Management Skills / Work Organisation

As I don’t have any!

No, I’m being unfair to myself – I don’t have a fixed time-management routine, but I need one. I am very tempted to go and buy Time Management for Dummies but I’m hoping that the people who know about multi-tasking the best (ie parents!) will be able to help.

A few things I know I need to address are:

I have no fixed work-space. We sacrificed the office to have a nursery for Taylor so files /folders / everyday work and household paperwork seems to be scattered all over. We have a desk downstairs but this has the main PC on which is Roy’s (and no table space) so it tends to be a laptop on the knee (I know) or kitchen table job for me.

Having a 13wk old baby, a strict time-management schedule isn’t an option but I need to find some way of organising myself and my to-do list more efficiently than with scribbled post it notes,keywords on the family calendar and just “remembering” stuff.

I need to be more efficient because I’m not doing myself any favours. I am working the equivalent of full-time hours at home now, am a full time Mum to Taylor (13weeks), and to Kieran (4.5yrs) who is at school, wife to Roy & run the house. The whole 24hrs in a day rule is a stupid one in my opinion and whilst everything is done, and on time, Roy & the Boys get all the attention they should, this does mean running myself ragged sometimes to ensure deadlines are met, and work is completed promptly.

So any hints / tip? What do you do to organise your time better, what tools do you use, what gems of advise do you have?

Feel free to link to your website / blog /etc if it will help me, or anyone else.

Looking forward to reading your comments, when I get a minute!