HYC Check In - Week 10

I'm late! Hi all, hope you've all had/are having a great week. Mine has been crazy and not a good one on the weight loss front. I weighed in this morning with a 2 lb gain. It is a combination of TOM, catch up from a big loss last week, a couple of deviant food choices and a rich meal out last night I think. I'm a litte annoyed with it and with myself but not in a hair-tearing way.

TOM came at me with a real vengeance this month and I can only guess that is because of the stress of the last couple of weeks. I feel like crap. Isn't it funny how much a number on the scale can affect your mood so much? I know I shouldn't let it but I do actually feel yucky today, probably as much because of TOM as the gain but still. Last week I felt great and I was even strutting (and possibly even sashaying a little bit) around in my slinky new jeans and fitted tops and getting compliments. Today I didn't want to leave the house at all but when forced to I managed to slob around in loose jeans, a loose shirt and a sin-covering cardigan, and the only accessorizing I even considered was a paper bag for my head! I felt just huge and gross. Do you have those days ladies? I really hope it passes soon.

Enough of the moaning though. I do actually have good news. We agreed the sale on the flat we wanted! Hurrah! It went back and forth with negotiations for a while but in the end they took pretty much our original offer which is great. It's actually pretty generous of them and we are lucky. 2 other agents I mentioned it to (the one who is selling my dad's house and the one we were buying the previous flat with) both said it would be a great buy if we could get it in our budget. Fingers crossed this one proceeds to completion! We aim to exchange within the month and close/complete in 2-3 months total. The sellers are emigrating so they wanted 2 months to ship their stuff and get their affairs in order. We're excited, it's a great little flat and we're happy with the outcome. We had a nice home-cooked celebratory meal tonight. J bought really good steaks and made steak au poivre, roasted sweet potatoes and green beans, and we washed it down with some bubbly. I may see evidence of it on the scale tomorrow but it was worth it. We're saving the really good bubbly for when we move in though of course.

I can't wait to get things moving. You may be hearing a lot about colour schemes and furniture in the next few weeks. Just to warn you!