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This week I lost 1.5lb which I am happy with. I also got my 5% and 10% milestones calculated to give me some interim steps to aim towards. I like to stay to the meetings for extra tips to keep me motivated. Today was focusing on then skills to support lasting weight [...]

18 Comments CherryPie on Aug 12th 2010

I could tell I had lost weight over the week by just looking in the mirror. I was however quite surprised when the scales told me I had lost 5lb!
What I did differently this week was; write down and point up everything I ate, ate a variety of different foods, ate more fruit, had [...]

14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 5th 2010

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Just Me

I have been testing different effects in Corel Painter Essentials trying to get a softer feel to images.  I tried the effects on some of my self portraits, this is one you haven’t seen before, it was taken a couple of years ago in the grounds of Stanton Manor.

14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 4th 2010

Collated info on the CSCS (7th March 2010):
In August 2009 the government announced plans to reform the Civil Service Compensation scheme in such a way that it made it look the Trade Unions had agreed to the terms.  Although the Trade Unions and the cabinet office had been in negotiations since the previous autumn no [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 2nd 2010

Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Proverb

A special post for Cherry-Pie Sunday.

19 Comments CherryPie on Aug 1st 2010

For the second annual Blogger’s silly week.
I received an email with some pictures of 1930’s ads and this was one of them. The original was headed with “EAT! EAT! EAT! & ALWAYS STAY THIN!”
Yuk springs to mind and I think I will stick with a more healthy method of losing weight.
There is a really [...]

14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 1st 2010

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Fresh Start

I have been well intentioned with trying to lose weight for more than a couple of years.  My weight has stayed much the same despite fluctuating up and down a few pounds here and there.  It probably isn’t a good idea to decide to lose weight when life itself is a bit up and down [...]

19 Comments CherryPie on Jul 31st 2010

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