Mum wants help

My mum wants to lose about a stone in weight. She's not exactly fat, but she's definitely a bit over weight for her height. All the women in my immediate family are short. My two sisters and I are five foot two, while Mum is only five foot. Yes, we're a family of munchkins. As such, as soon as we put on any weight at all, it's very obvious on our bodies. So Mum would like to lose a little, but she's useless with technology, so there's no point trying to get her to google calorie values of food, or to use an app like MyFitnessPal. Well, she doesn't actually even have a mobile phone! In her own words, she needs a dietitian and a physical trainer. What she'd really like is for someone to literally tell her exactly what to eat. If money was no object, she'd definitely pay someone to organize her food and exercise.

She's asked me to write down the calorie values of the foods that she eats regularly. She wants me to work out a few menus too, and also work out the calories in a few recipes. I will write out a few of the soups that I make, and the bolognese, chicken curry and pork stirfry recipes. If I list other ingredients for things like a fry up (mostly grilled foods though) then Mum will be able to work out other meals that she cooks. I must try to remember to write down raw and cooked values for things like potatoes, and dry and cooked values for rice and pasta.

I want to put it all in to a nice, hardbacked notebook, something that Mum can hold on to. But a notebook is too rigid. A ring binder would be better, as pages can be added as necessary. I'm going to look out for an A5 binder and paper tomorrow, so I can get it started to take up to Mum on Friday.

I didn't go to the class tonight. The other girls weren't keen to go. As I've been eating healthily, I wouldn't have minded going. But it doesn't especially bother me that we didn't. Penfold, Smiley and I are going to go for coffee tomorrow. I told Penfold that I'd hit the three stone in three months, and she wants to know exactly what I'm doing. So tomorrow I'll explain the mfp app to her, and tell her how lightly I eat during the day so that I can eat a good sized meal at night.

I saw a girl at work today who I know runs a lot. She did her first marathon the same month that I did mine. She always encourages me to get out running again, and after speaking to her today, I do feel as if I'd like to go out for a run early tomorrow morning. My exercise has increased a littlebut not much. I only managed three days in a row for the abs and butt challenges. I have gone out for walks with TMM a couple of times, but nothing too sweaty. I'm three months in. I ran about my house for forty full minutes on Saturday. There's no reason for me not to get out for a wee half hour jog tomorrow morning. No reason at all. And I should start my challenges again from Day Three.

And again this week, I watched a programme on telly about couple losing weight together. And again, just like last week, I was actually lighter than both of the couple. I'm just not as massively over weight as I was. It feels really good!