Third hole

Thankyou all soooo much for your comments, it has encouraged me no end!!!

I'm here at the station and it's 6.30am. My brain hasn't really woken up yet so excuse me if I waffle!! :)

Put my ambulance belt on this morning and I've gone down another hole ... wahoo! When I got my uniform a little over 2mths ago I had to get Bill to hammer another hole on the very tip as that was the largest they had and it just didn't quite fit. Two weeks ago I could go to a 'proper' hole but was pretty tight. Infact when I got home that night I had to 'let it all hang out'!! lol and now today I've gone down to hole #3 :)

When I was getting fitted for my ambulance uniform the lady was trying to gauge my size. And I really didn't know (or want to tell her) my size (somewhere round the 24-26 mark). She held up a pair of trousers in the air, looking between me and the trousers. "Nah, those will be way to big for you. They're HUGE!!" she said. I was too embarrassed to say anything. She held up another pair, me knowing they would be way to small. "Here try these on" she said. Well, I only got them no higher than my thighs and whipped them off before she looked. While she was fumbling round in the cupboard I snuck the 'huge' pair from among the pile and slipped them on and you guessed it ... they fitted. "These'll do" I told her. "ohh, where did they come from?" she asked. I just gave her a blank look and changed the subject onto shirts. I was so embarrassed that day, but as I always say "It's only downhill from here"

So you may notice I have a goal on the right column "get new ambulance uniform". You can now understand the significance of this. Given I only wear my uniform once a week it's a great gauge to feel them getting looser each week.

I have my specialist appointment tomorrow for my ankle. Every now and then I start to wonder if I'm making a mountain out of a molehill. I very seldom limp now and it only aches when I've over done the exercise for the day. But the other day I walked down the beach and as I turned around to come back I could see my foot prints in the sand. They looked like penguin footprints. I never realised but I was overcompensating for the slope and turning my plated ankle outwards. It was something my brain automatically did and as the slope changed so did the angle of the foot print. It amazed me that my brain would automatically judge the angle and change how I walked without a thought. This I know is bad in the long run and can cause hip and back problems if it continues. Hence why I need to go to this specialist appointment and stop telling myself I'm overreacting.

It's great to see some new people commenting, thankyou and a big hi!

Chris ... duathlon AND bikini?? Sheesh woman you don't expect much do ya?

Lynise ... I got what you meant first time ... lmao!!

Jules ... yeah I know the importance of exercises. I got told the same thing after I had my plate put in and the cast came off. I'm so glad now I spent the money, went to physio and did my exercises. Oh and as for another update pic ... you gotta wait till I get to 10kgs lost first! :p

Livy ... thankyou for the compliments on my layout. I've always found it hard to read some blogs and eventually either delete them or skim read if the words are too hard to read (especially if I'm tired). So I make it a point to have an increased line space (almost double spacing) for us 'oldies' who struggle with our eyesight.

Well I have a vehicle check to do on my ambulance so better get that underway before the boss arrives.

Cya

P.S. I'll have my weekly analysis up tomorrow when I'm back at home.