Heinz Tomato Ketchup Facebook Competition

Well, I just had a go at the Heinz Tomato Ketchup Facebook competition to win a bottle of their new Indian Spices Tomato Ketchup and after several attempts I managed to complete all three levels, which are like jigsaw puzzles, and got a congratulations message. They have 300 bottles to give away so quite a good chance of winning. I will let you know what I think of their new sauce when it arrives.

Competition wins arrive!

Star Wars Phantom Menace Goody Bag

I enter many competitions everyday through Loquax. Loquax is an excellent website with brilliant competition listings but also an excellent forum, with some lovely people to share competitions with but also to chat and get advice from. Well today I have recieved two prizes the first came via CityLink and was a Star Wars The Phantom Menace Goody Bag which I won from Primary Times Magazine.
I also recieved today my coupon for a free bar of Dairy Milk Bubbly which I won from the recent Tesco Facebook giveaway.

My Weight Loss Journey

Well after another weekend of excess I find myself going round in circles. Tuesday to Friday I stick to my diet and track my food on Sparkpeople and then Friday evening comes and my chocolate cravings rear their ugly head. From there it is a huge downward spiral into binge eating on chocolate, sweets and cakes all weekend and even into Monday. So inevitably dieting for 3 and a half days and bingeing for the other 3 and a half days leads to weight gain. So this morning I was 15 stone 9lbs, a gain of 3lbs from last week. This week I am determined to break free from this destructive cycle and am going to eat well all week. So day one begins now and I will keep you updated on my progress. Sparkpeople works well for me because it enables me to track everything I eat on their nutrition tracker and it keeps track of my total calories, carbs, protein and fat consumed throughout the day. It also gives me guideline figures to aim for; for calories, carbs, protein and fat, based on your starting weight.

Competitions, Free Samples and World Book Day

When you enter competitions, do surveys and request free samples the arrival of the post can be quite exciting. In fact if I don't get something interesting in the post I feel a little disappointment. However today the door knocked and the postman gave me two small packages. The first package contained a sample of Tetley's new Blend of Both Tea which I got through Tetley's Facebook page I will try these later on today. My second parcel contained a pack of Barclay's Topps Trading Cards which you get just for entering the Barclay's Ticket competition. My 6 year old son will be over the moon with these as him as all his school friends are obsessed with collecting football cards.

World Book Day is looming large on Thursday and once again letters have come home for children to dress as their favourite book characters. Last year my son went in his skeleton costume as one of the characters from Allan Ahlberg's Funnybones and my daughter went as Violet Beauregarde, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, after she had eaten the blueberry bubblegum with blue clothes and face and a hand made golden ticket.


We have decided that Sean is going as a Pirate Dinosaur from Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs, he is going to be wearing a pirate dressing up outfit, which I bought off  Ebay. He will also have green face paint to make him look like a dinosaur. However we cannot decide what my daughter can go as this year. She is 11 and so most of the books she reads have normal people in them and not characters as they do in younger children's books.

World Book Day 2011 - Funny Bones

World Book Day 2011- Violet Beauregarde

Hi

Well this is my first attempt at blogging. I hope to provide stories of my life, my children, my pets and my hobbies. I am 34 and have been married for 12 years I have 2 children. Megan is 11 and Sean is 6. I also have a gorgeous border collie called Barney who is nearly 3.

I also have an 11 year old cat called Lucky. I am going to be blogging about my hobbies and family life. My main hobbies apart from spending time with my kids are reading and entering competitions. I also love hunting out bargains. I am also trying to lose weight and constantly seem to be taking one step forward and two back or in weight terms putting 2 pounds on and losing one! I am also in the last year of my Open University Degree and I am doing two courses together which I am finding very intense so my reading for leisure has had to fall by the wayside for now, although I still managed to find time to read James Patterson's new book Private Games, well he is my favourite author!