I'm back - and it looks like I'm running too!!

I know, I know, I have said this in the past plenty of times... but I actually am back on it!!

I decided not to start back up again until I knew that I was definitely back with Weight Watchers well and truly...  

So to start off, I thought I would just give you all a quick update on my current weight loss journey...

Week 1 - 7.5lbs

Week 2 -2.5lbs

Week 3 +.5lbs

Week 4 -1lb

Week 5 -2lbs

Week 6 -3lbs

Week 7 -2lbs

Week 8-1lb

Week 9 -1lb

Week 10 +1lb

Week 11 +1lb

Well, I apologise now for the last 2 weeks, but theses have been weeks that have been better than they could have been as I seem to have eaten out lots over these last two weeks so hopefully I will be able to get back on fire with it this week....

Life? What's happening with it at the moment? Lots but I wont bore you all for now with it. But Baby O now looks like this.....

  

And here is Mr O and I last week out for a meal.  

                                            

Why did I decide to get back on it and loose my weight again? Simple. That guy there! I just don't want to be a 'fat Mum' at the school gate! I don't want to be an embarrassment to him. I remember once I had a 'tiff' with some kids at school about them calling my Mum fat and from then on I was really embarrassed about her. I never saw her as fat. I saw her as my Mummy! Maybe it was because I was going through the 'trying to be cool' stage at school? Or maybe it was the turn in me suddenly being embarrassed by my Mum as I was 'at that age'?... I mean, my Mum was working her butt off doing different jobs, bringing up 4 children (all with an age gap of 6 years) and trying to keep us all together. 

Ok, so that is one reason. The other reason is thanks to some awful photos that were taken of me.For example this is me in Australia back over the Easter period.

                                    

No selfie angle can hide a photo that someone else takes off the cuff! There is no excuse now. Baby O is nearly 3 and I can't exactly say it's Baby fat or baby fat anymore!

So, after 8 weeks, THIS has been the difference so far.... The photo on the left was back in June and then the one on the right was taken in September.

If you fancy seeing what I'm eating daily you can find me here...

WeightWatchers Connect: emma-joy89

Instagram: Thelifeofmrso

Bare with me as I also update the recipes on here to SPs and keep an eye out for all the new recipes and foody finds out there that I find... I'm aiming to do at least one new blog post each week. :)

 Here's to a new, healthier, slimmer and fitter me and being a health inspiration to my little boy....

Love, Mrs O xxx

Guess Who's back....

Yup, that's correct, it's me! The Life of Mrs O is BACK!

If you follow me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram then you will know that Baby O finally arrived - 6 months ago! 

I literally 'popped'! This is how big I got to...

Look at my massive feet!

I wont bore you all with loads of info or photos but....

He was born on 30th January at 7:13am by an emergency C Section and weighed 6lbs 4oz

It was a week of my nightmares finished off with a real bump into motherhood but it was all worth it. I just remember waking up and asking Mr O about 4 times 'What have we had?' and then when I finally came around (as I was given a general due to implications of my epidural that didn't work) I remember Mr O tried to be funny and told me that we had called Baby O: Rupert Digby Jonty. To which I nearly cried! I said we can't call him that! I want an Albert! He told me that he had told all our friends and family that we had called him that. With that I told him that he had to call them all and tell them that it was a mistake - he then reassured me that he hadn't told everyone that at all! Family knew that we had a baby boy before me! 

Anyway, Baby O and I enjoyed getting used to each other, our middle of the night cuddles and our time at home. However, Baby O was losing weight after re-gaining his post-weight birth loss. I could just tell that something was wrong as he looked so grey compared to other babies. He was alert and all his developmental signs were fine but he just kept on being sick and was therefore looking really ill and loosing weight.

So, at 5 weeks he got re-admitted back into hospital. This to me was worse than being in hospital for a week when having him. I actually cried one day. On the maternity ward I couldn't fault the staff at all. Every member of staff from the cleaners right through to the consultants (minus one) was lovely and supportive. However, on the childrens' ward this was a different case. I had nurses telling me that he was hungry and that he needed this and needed that. I even had one nurse take Baby O off me at one point as she said he was hungry (he had only recently been fed) and fed him! How happy was I though when the paediatrician and the dietician came in and told me that the shortest amount of time that I could feed him was 2 1/2 hrs - that nurse then looked in shame! I will say though that there was however one nurse that was agency and she was like my guardian angel - she was amazing. She's the one I broke down to after having that nurse the day before and a night nurse that wasn't interested in either of us at all. 

Baby O was given a change of milk (now a prescribed high calorie, soft tummy milk) and put on medication - which I took him off a few weeks later as it was making him more sick. And my word! It was like he was a new baby that next morning that he was put on the new milk. He continued to put weight on and grow - very happy Mr & Mrs O!

We now could continue to grow and learn about each other and enjoy our time together. We have already in these short 6 months had such great fun :)

Trips around London...

The Salvation Army's congress...

Holidays

       

   

A Wedding

Fun walks and trips around parks and shops of course!

      

      

    

    

Parties...

Meals out....

We got him dedicated back to God... (Christened) 

    

   

   

Trips to Ikea

And each month he becomes a new 'month age' I have done this....

A quick update about myself...

Firstly, as said above, I had a C Section, but I also had an epidural. I have already decided that if there is a next time, I WILL NOT have another epidural. It didn't work and not only that, it's left me with no feeling down the sides of my legs :(

Secondly I took a detour from the world of Weight Watchers and went on the journey of a Slimming World Member. I lost over a stone doing it but my word it was tough! It's a really easy plan to follow and it's all about eating healthy but I just could not digest the amount of carbs that I was consuming. Being a lady who has PCOS (Polycystic Ovaries Syndrome) one of the side effects is that your body can't break down carbohydrates in the same way as other people can. I think that is also a reason why I just couldn't get any more weight shifted off. 

The food however, was amazing.... Which for some reason I can't get the photos up :(

Then finally, the classes now fall in a time that just doesn't work with Baby O. I will really miss the classes as the friends there that I have made were brilliant and really supportive and the leader, Heidi, was fantastic. She was really supportive and really spurred me on. 

So, whilst on holiday the other week I decided that I wanted to go back to my beloved Weight Watchers and back to the Life Of Mrs O. I decided that I would enjoy my holiday but still eat sensibly as much as I could, but as soon as I got back, that Monday morning I would sign back up for WW. 

Now, I will not say that these 6 months have been easy and a walk in the past. They have been very testing and at times I just have had to cry! Mr O has been my rock and although he didn't take paternity leave, he has been there for me at the end of the phone for me whenever I have needed to talk. I have also made some amazing friends these last months that have added to my friends and family network and they have also helped me realise that I'm not the only one going through it all.

One thing that is for sure is that God has blessed me in many ways but more so than ever with giving me the gift of Baby O. My baby that is a constant smiler and has shown and taught me so many things including how love can be so unconditional.

  

As I have been, should I say, 'busy' these last few months, that's why The Life of Mrs O has had to be put on hold. I did have plans to have this with a week by week account of how motherhood has gone, but I just literally not had any time! Hats off to those who can do that, plus be a mother, run a household, get dinner on the table as well as looking stunning all at once. At first, it was amazing if I managed to walk out the door with both having had a shower and make up on my face!!

Just so you know, The Life of Mrs O will now also have a few additional features - later to be released. But, it will be like old times too - about my journey through life, getting back to being a healthier human, crafts and of course some fab recipes :) 

So, we should now be a little up to date with life and let the fun of 'The Life of Mrs O' resume!

Sorry for the lots of writing - just a few months to catch up on (!), but back to normal on my next post....

So as always, With Love, Mrs O xxx

I'm not fat..... I'm pregnant!!!

So before I do my usual catch up I have one BIG announcement to make......

Yes, you read that correctly, I'm not fat, I'm pregnant!!!

After weeks and weeks of me sticking to plan and getting annoyed with myself as to why I wasn't loosing much, last week we found out that I have been growing a little Baby O in my tummy!!!

I went along to my GP surgery just to get a check up following all my testing I have been having for Cervical cancer and my PCOS.... 

She told me she couldn't do anything until I had done a pregnancy test to prove that I wasn't pregnant. To which I was adamant that I wasn't, so much so I even booked a follow up appointment the next week to review the results and get my PCOS under control.

However, 2 days later I got a phone call from my GP asking me to call back. I got rather worried as I thought it might have been to do with my other results, but as she had called me during a time that was out of hours and I was getting more and more anxious. So, one of my colleagues made me go and do a new urine sample to do a pregnancy test to start with. As soon as I put the test into the pot it came out straight away that I was pregnant!!!

So then my life kind of turned upside down and in shock!! (It still hasn't even settled down)

Now this was mainly due to several things, but after being told when I was younger that I would have fertility issues and would find having a baby difficult, this put me in even more shock!

I then started to worry about what I had eaten and where I had been (as I work in radiology this got me even more anxious) but as everyone reassured me, I have been living a healthy lifestyle (thanks to Weight Watchers) and only time will tell with the little one inside me.

So I had to have a sneaky peak at the baby to check it was all real. 

And then, there it was, somersaulting showing off it's strong heart beat and giving a real good show to me that 'Mummy, I'm here and I'm OK.'

That journey home that night felt like the longest 20 minutes ever! However, when I finally did get home to tell Mr O, he didn't believe me! I even showed him the stick and he thought it was fake!!

Luckily as I kept my appointment with my GP, she confirmed with me that I was healthy and that the baby looked healthy. But, as you could tell we were all wondering how far gone I was!! As you can see it looks pretty big in the picture above! So my GP sent me for an urgent dating scan......

To finally reveal that I was over 11 weeks and that Baby O would be due in Feb.

I decided to tell family members like this.....

But I searched and searched for ways and ideas to tell everyone else like this.....

  

I even wanted to do this.... 

But Mr O said NO! :(

So, we decided to join some nice words together and just post a picture of the scan.

So, I now have the real guessing time of where to go with this blog..... I have decided that I will definitely be making a return back to WW as soon as I can to a) loose the baby weight and b) get me loosing more as I know I still had a way to go. And I know it's all thanks to me loosing weight through WW that I have managed to grow Baby O....

But for now I think I will just keep blogging about my day-to-day life, any new recipes I try and any yummy food I eat. I obviously am not allowed to follow WW anymore but I have decided to just keep eating healthy and stick to WW friendly meals as I know that will help me not to over-eat!

So after all that fun and excitement, let me back track a little........

Whilst up in London the other week with my MIL, we just had to stop and take this photo, this was a whole group of people going past on roller blades and skating along to music. There were streams and streams of them!

Some of my meals (WW friendly and all pointed!)

 

I've enjoyed some time at my Mums and Dad's house and sitting out in the garden whilst eating yummy food.

I collected my first 'Baby freebies'...

Oh, and Happy Birthday to my little cousin who was 4 last Sunday! He is seriously a little cheeky monkey!

So, as always, I say hope you have a lovely week. And let me know where you think this blog should go.....

Love, Mrs O x