There is going to be some changes coming!

From next week we will be back in the UK again and with this there will also be some changes. One thing that I very foolishly have done is to enter a bet with my sister to loose 8kg until November when we are going on a vacation together! She will probably be very successful and I will not! I have the worst of character ever known to mankind. If I see something to eat it goes down. And it has become worse over the years. First I blamed everything on the pregnancies (as every woman does I think), you know breastfeeding and that, but after the two I had it sort of did not stop! And it has just become worse these last 5 years. I am now at my heaviest ever in my life. I weigh about 75 kg and that would be about 15 kg too much for me.

Now some people would probably say that it does not seem like a problem, there are people who are much heavier, have real problems with there weight and so on. And I feel for them, weight problems are real, dangerous and really exhausting problems. And for some very hard and psychological. But do you know what? It really does not matter to me because it does not take my problem away. To know that there are other people with the same problem like me does not make it easier for me, it’s just sad!

From next week there will be some changes to the diet and my exercise regime. I have 3 months (about) to get into better shape and show my sister that I can make a change to the better and I will do my very best. I have been training a lot when I was younger and I think I can still do it, it will just take the willpower of I do not know what to get started. I will probably hate it and I will be reluctant to do it on a daily basis because I know it will be very hard and boring. (No more nice Sunday lunches at the pub with a nice glass of wine.) But the thing that makes it easier is that if I do not make a change very soon it will be too late for me. I have turned forty and it feels like this is a breakpoint in my life where I will determine if I am to be heavier for the rest of my life or not. And I do not want to end up like some people I know who have struggled with there weight all their adult life.

I will tell you more as this progresses and I will also tell you how much I have worked out and what I have been eating to reach my goal. I hope to loose 6 kg, at a minimum, in these 3 months. That’s 0,5 kg per week which is reachable and on the lower side.

Talk to you soon again!

//Anna

A good day starts with a dip in the sea

This morning was just amazing! The view from my bedroom was something else. It is hard to explain but everything was very calm, no wind in the trees, not a curl on the water and the sun was just getting warm and nice. These days are easy to count in one summer but today was one of them. We have been bathing and laying in the sun all day long, the girls and I. I have been knitting and they have been chasing fish and building a sandcastle on the beach. It has been just lovely. Here is a picture of me sitting on the stairs down to the jetty. And yes it is just as amazing as it looks……..it has been the most wonderful day today!

I hope for more of these days but you’ll never know with the weather in Sweden.

Later on we ended up fishing until late and the girls have just gone to bed even though it is long after their bedtime.

I am doing my knitting and I have taken a picture of it. I need to keep on knitting if I am going to be finishing this before we leave. It is coming on nicely but I have done only 2/5 of it so far. I will show you more later.

Good Night from me and see you later

//Anna

The Swedish elections is coming closer

On the 19th of September Sweden is going to vote for which political party is going to rule the next 4 years. It is really nerve-racking, specially for us who live abroad at this time. We are planning to return home during the next year but I must say it all depends on who wins this election!

There are two side and then some smaller parties in between, up and down. The coalitions today is known as “dom Rödgröna” (the Red and Green) they represent the ones towards the left, and then there is “Alliansen” (the Alliance) who are leaning right.

The last thing I read about was that they (the left side) had a proposition to have a butler service in the underground! You should be able to leave your laundry, have your groceries done for you to just pick up when coming home and so on. This is a suggestion from a party who thinks cleaning ladies are not suppose to be working in other peoples homes!

It is not nice to be a maid. (But a butler is apparently ok to be and use for service). Because being a maid/cleaning lady is degrading and really not something anyone should have to be. Well do you know what, I have been cleaning hotel rooms when I was younger and I can tell you that is not something nice. Wiping up pee around the toilet seat, changing sheets, and the best thing must be wiping up vomit on Sunday morning after the big company party! That is a job that I think would be considered degrading if anything. Not cleaning in a private home for a nice family! But they do the same things, don’t they (apart from the vomit on the Sunday I hope).

But the worst thing the Social party is doing for Sweden when talking about this job (the maid thing) as something degrading and not nice is what kind of message they are sending to a very young and impressionable generation. If one kind of job is not good enough for our elected people, why should we do it?

What kind of job is next?

It will be very exciting to see what they are going to talk about next and who is winning. What else is going to be read about in the newspapers tomorrow?

See you//Anna