The angel of doom descends...

I'm still here and still pretty useless at this losing weight business.

We had a fairly stressful weekend - the Mother in Law (to be) came to stay and she is fairly hard work (Matt will tell you himself she is a nightmare, so I'm not being unpleasant).

I've never met such a negative person and after a while it grinds you down, no matter how cheerful you try to be. We tried to do lovely things with her, afternoon tea, shopping (at her request) and a Sunday lunch, but listening to her moan and complain throughout was a little bit depressing. If you have a cold, she has pneumonia, if you are short on cash, she is destitute, if you are tired, she is extremely exhausted - you get the idea. She also announced she hates Italian food and can't stand the heat - so that pleases me that we have paid for her and her husband to spend a week in Italy for our wedding (all inclusive, I hasten to add). It's enough to make my blood boil.

It turned us both to drink - so all weekend involved wine and cider, plus the aforementioned meals. Not overly conducive to weight loss. Couple that with incapacitating myself following a gym session last week - well you have a weight loss disaster.

I managed to get back into the gym for PT last night which was really difficult. I was in a total mess, sweating, swearing and totally aching. I'd had 6 days off exercise due to my bad back and I could really tell. I am making a concerted effort to go more this week.

I've also decided I need to cut out alcohol on school nights, so from now on, my boozing is limited to Friday and Saturday. It's become a very bad habit to go to the pub a couple of nights a week and it's all empty calories. Not to mention bad for me all round.

I can't make WI tonight as we've tickets for Rhod Gilbert, but I will face the scales tomorrow. I don't expect them to like me too much.

In wedding related news, we appear to have a venue sorted for the night time drinks now. It's not exactly what we wanted but to be honest, I was starting to lose the will to live. It also looks like my wedding dress will be ready to try on at some point soon - although I'm not holding my breath on that. Thanks amy for the suggestion of the lace Vivien dress. It's a definite contender if I start to panic!

This week involves a lot of salad and water. Matt is having his stag do at the weekend so I am off to stay with a friend as her hubby is in attendance. She has a child so boozing won't happen. It could shape up to be a decent week.