Natasha Broke's Page

It makes such a difference to know that my friends are reading my blog - sometimes I feel like a sad old woman talking to herself ;-).

So much for early nights though - I was at doctors with Sophie at 10,30 last night - her ankle has flared up so she is back on antibiotics. I've just been to pick up a whole load of immune boosting and bone repairing supplements. Now I just have to convince her that it is worth trying everything. She's such an orthodox medicine girl!

Had an amazing workout at t… Continue

I decided this morning that I would put all my recent measurements into my spreadsheet. I was wondering whether I had been avoiding this because I was concerned that I might be sliding the wrong way. Actually its been reassuring. Although I still get on the scales I am disregarding weight. I have been the same weight (up a lbs down a lb) since 1st October and in that time have lost 8 inches and 7/8th (or 7 1/2 inches on the old 30 in 30 measurements).

My current measurements (with loss since 17… Continue

I had a planned "relax" as I call them yesterday (I have done two lots of 30 days on the full ED since June and I am finding my way with the occasion meal off). Well - I had far more to drink than I planned (5 glasses of wine - though far less than I would have had a year ago) I woke in the middle of the night with awful stomach cramps - I felt like I had food poisoning. I realise now that my body has got used to being clean and throwing that much toxic alcohol at it in one go it reacted as if I… Continue

I cannot believe I have not posted for a week. I am finding the going tough. In all sorts of areas of my life. Work has been very busy and I seem to be going from one fundraising event to another in my various voluntary capacities. Finally got all the kids fit and healthy and back at school and now Sophie is complaining of a sore throat and moaning about my lack of sympathy when I sent her in today. I tried to give her the final say in whether she should go in or not but she didn't want the resp… Continue

Important things I have learnt this week:

I let myself have an evening off on Tuesday - I was hosting a fundraising wine tasting, lots of canapes and Shepherd's Pie for the meaties and spinach and mushroom lasagna for the veggies. I "only" had 2 glasses of wine, spitting out all seven of the wines we were tasting BUT it was:
(a) enough to mess with my will power - I ended up having a second helping of lasagna (which I did not need) and picking at the cheese while I was clearing up; and
(b) the… Continue