Insane in the Membrane - 24 hours of liquids will do that....

Well, not sure what caused that awful restless of mine that I wrote about in my last post - but I do know it lasted three whole days. I tried everything to get rid of it.. walking, taking Vanessa's (Dinnerland) suggestion and cleaning the bathroom etc.. and nothing worked. Thank goodness it's gone again though. Whatever was going on, it wasn't fun!!

So today, The Crazy Coconut and I are trying an experiment. ( I will call her CC for want of something better - crazy or coconut just doesn't sound nice unless put together in the right context.) Anyway, today CC and I are having an all liquid day. We have found that we are in exactly the same place restriction wise - we started off great, it lasted for a few weeks and by now, almost 6 weeks later .... KAPUT! ....it's all gone down the toilet.. figuratively speaking of course. So, in order to see if liquids give us a tighter band we have this self-imposed 24 hours of torture because we have this theory - individually we find when we have liquids for breakfast, we DO have a fish-bum tight band in the evening rather than loosening as you would expect and we were curious to put it into practice then compare results. Actually, it's not too bad. I find I can do the liquid thing all day quite easily now as it fits in perfectly with my lazy state of mind and not having to sort the eating side of things - but I do realise it must only be a short-term thing. I wouldn't like to have to do it permanently again aka the liquid diet at the lead up to getting the band in. I went for a walk this morning - really really fast.. so fast I broke into a trot (I know I need to up it to a canter lol) for a good portion of the walk. Unfortunately, it was like 30 degrees this morning and it was only 8am. I came back totally red in the face and puffing like an asthmatic. Can't wait till my fitness improves. Will let you know how the whole liquid thing goes anyway. 

Something I have found out is this: it's in regard to the way I lose weight. Anyone who's reading, let me know if you have the same thing happening to you. I'm very curious. Ok.. so we have our weigh in day - mine is a Tuesday. I weigh in and usually, not always, but usually, I have by now hit my new low weight. Yipee for me.. BUT by the next day I have shot up by about a half-kilo again (around the one pound mark).. and that's where I hover for four or five days. For some reason I  NEVER get back to that new low weight again during the week. By day six (the day before the new weigh in) I start to feel a shift. Like I might be able to suck my tummy in just that touch more, or my clothes feel just a teeny bit looser, then by the next day, my weekly weigh in again...(or day 8) I have hit another new low. And here's the thing.. .where is the kilo a week I was supposed to lose according to the advertising of the lapband? For me.. it's around that half kilo or one point one pound a week... which is damn slow going. On the upside, I guess it IS going .. weight downward that is.. but I want it a little faster.. pulleeeze Ms Weight Loss Fairy, can you start to be kind?? Someone mentioned to me the reason I bob around the weight I do during the week is because it's probably water weight. The fat that I am losing (haha.. let's hope that's what it is) needs water to flush it through and so I hang onto it. I don't know if this is true but maybe they are onto something. Whatever it is, it seems a definite pattern with me.. this has been happening for months.

Yesterday being Sunday we had a 'Family Fun-day Sunday. This is where we rally the troops - all six of us - and head off into the wild blue yonder to have some badly needed family time - and hopefully a little fun into the bargain. Of course, this is often easier said than done. Trying to rally three teens to leave a Sunday free might be easier than it sounds - or does it? We tried this theory out a few years ago - we would leave the Sunday free to have 'our day', a day where we can hopefully connect again and just spend some time together instead of everyone running around doing five hundred things and not one of them with a family member. It didn't take long for the day to go to pot... within weeks we were finding the Sunday was again being taken up by other things - but this time I plan on keeping it together. 

Yesterday we left about lunch time for Mandurah. This is about a half hour drive from where we live - a lovely place that is fast outgrowing our own town in population and they have a better council too. A council that actually encourages tourism and they have beautified their parks and there's new restaurants popping up all over the place. Anyway, we ended up having lunch at this lovely little park - ordering fish and chips and fighting off the flies and the wind. What was with that? lol Usually if there's wind, there's no flies, but yesterday we got the best of both worlds.  I had like three bites of the fish and yuck - it wasn't going down. Or should I say it went down but also wanted to come back up. MOTH (Man of the House) was thinking quick... much quicker than me. As I was desperately looking around for a toilet or somewhere I could go in private to ahem... pb... there he stands like an apparition, hand out with a bunch of serviettes, in front of me. He had ducked back into the fish and chip place to load up. What a man. Even he recognises the warning signals now lol. Shame I still can't a lot of the time. 

After perusing the small market set up at the park we then went across the bridge to a small fair that has been there for like forever. Now it's summer it's open again and the kids had fun on the bumper-cars, the trampolines (while attached to a bungy kind of elastic rope) and just did all the normal kind of things you do at a fair - namely spend a bunch of money lol. We all had heaps of fun and in the next few weeks plan on visiting the Perth Zoo.. the Serpentine Dam (complete with huge rocks and waterfalls - great picnic area) and a few other places. Will have to put my thinking cap on to think of a few more spots.

                                                                      Mandurah Foreshore

                                                           Moth and I - relaxing

                                                                  The Foreshore again

                                                              Jake on the bungy - mid-air

Thats it for me today, folks. And sorry about the spazzy titles under the photos - for some reason they won't sit straight on the actual blog page - though they do here on the new post page. Bugger!

See you again soon

Cara xxx