Jayne and I have just been comparing notes about our weekends ahead of tonight's weigh in. Hmmmm ... we haven't exactly be angels, either of us. From my point of view, this weekend has been a bit of a snack attack. The actual meals that I ate were not particularly naughty as such, but I have been picking.
Saturday night was lots of fun but there were pringles and peanuts and cheese straws and pretzels. I didn't eat a lot of them but I did sneak a few. I suppose I should thank my lucky stars that when Donna brought out the singstar all thoughts of eating lemon cheesecake were forgotten in favour of belting out, what was in my opinion, a truly genius version of Madonna's "Papa don't Preach". Yes, I had drunk quite a lot of Pimms by that point. I may even have been served full fat lemonade too, although that didn't contribute to my belief that I was a pop goddess. We can blame the alcohol alone for that one. That aside I must have burnt off a fair few calories bouncing around the living room screeching "Roooooox-anne ... you don't have to put on the red light ... etc" LOL!
Sunday was not much better on the snacking front. I cooked an absolutely fabulous spinach and ricotta cannelloni for sunday dinner (4.5 syns on green plus 1 HEa and 2 HEb). It was yu-u-u-ummmmmm and I might post up the recipe later. The strawberries I had bought for pudding somehow as if by magic became incorporated into a fresh cream flan ... that was Hubby's doing and I love him for it. It would have been my only syns of the day too, so would have been perfectly allowed if only Mark hadn't arrived with a bag of cashew popcorn. Evil and delicious.
My sneaky weigh in this morning showed a gain so I'm not holding out any hope for a loss on the official scales later. Will post the results of tonights torture tomorrow.
Gem x
Monday, 30 June 2008
Friday, 27 June 2008
Syns vs Points
For the last 2 weeks I have been doing the weight watchers points diet. We started this blog because we had both joined Slimming World. However I have decided the points diet is much better for me. I really enjoyed the Slimming World diet and i'm not saying I will never go back to it, because I might. I just think that the points diet suits me better and I feel more comfortable doing it. I am having 18 points a day.
Our friend Vix is also dieting at the moment and she is going to start joining myself and Gemma for the Monday weigh in at my house.
Anyway. The weekend is upon us. I have been good this week, but I did have 20 points yesterday, However i did go to the gym Wednesday which allows for extra points so i'm not feeling guilty about it. I should be ok over the weekend. I am going in to Wolves Saturday night with Tony and some of his mates, but I am going to drive so i'll be on the diet coke's (0 points).
I will be going to the gym today so shall be doing extra sit-ups.
Jayne x
(Gemma had PIZZA!!!!!!!! *falls off chair in shock* lol)
Our friend Vix is also dieting at the moment and she is going to start joining myself and Gemma for the Monday weigh in at my house.
Anyway. The weekend is upon us. I have been good this week, but I did have 20 points yesterday, However i did go to the gym Wednesday which allows for extra points so i'm not feeling guilty about it. I should be ok over the weekend. I am going in to Wolves Saturday night with Tony and some of his mates, but I am going to drive so i'll be on the diet coke's (0 points).
I will be going to the gym today so shall be doing extra sit-ups.
Jayne x
(Gemma had PIZZA!!!!!!!! *falls off chair in shock* lol)
Friday Focus
I feel a blog is necessary to keep me focused today. The weekend is fast approaching ... and not a moment too soon in my opinion! I've had a busy week and if I'm not careful that could turn into lazy weekend eating.
This week has been up and down, frankly. I have managed to get to aerobics twice and went to my yoga class last night too so in terms of exercise it has been a good few days. In terms of food, it could have been better. On Tuesday I worked an excruciatingly long day and got home at 9pm with no intention of cooking. Hubby, who had only got home about ten minutes before I did was in no fit state to cook either after driving home from a day working in London so we ordered a Chinese takeaway. It's the first one we've had in quite a while and I made a good choice by eating a pork chow mien (which I guesstimated to be around the same as chicken although on weight watchers it was less) at 7 syns. I stayed well within my syns for the day but still feel naughty for having it. Wednesday was a green day ... I ate according to the rules but seemed to eat a lot. Jacket potato with coleslaw for lunch and Spaghetti with a HE (plus 5 syns) of bolognaise for tea. Yesterday, despite eating mainly weetabix and fruit all day I returned home to find a stuffed crust pizza cooking away in the oven. I defy anyone (apart from Saint Jayne) not to eat pizza once they have smelled it. I also had half a pint of Black Sheep. (It's good beer from the lake district area of the UK, well recommended.) I wonder whether my otherwise good behaviour and extra exercise will counteract the pizza and beer incident? Possibly not.
What I need to do is to get straight back on track and not have another bad day today, because Saturday night is a little works gathering and alcohol will play a part there. I have decided to take pimms (3 syns per 25ml) with me and drink it in really long glasses with lots of diet lemonade and fruit so I should get away with that. A tasty alcoholic summer drink AND a good chance of getting in at least one of my five a day. A perfect idea methinks.
So, tonight I need to make sure that I avoid eating out at all costs and take it very easy on the booze. I can see myself falling asleep in front of the sofa about ten seconds after I get through the door anyway so if I'm unconscious I have a good chance of getting through the night relatively syn free!
Gem x
This week has been up and down, frankly. I have managed to get to aerobics twice and went to my yoga class last night too so in terms of exercise it has been a good few days. In terms of food, it could have been better. On Tuesday I worked an excruciatingly long day and got home at 9pm with no intention of cooking. Hubby, who had only got home about ten minutes before I did was in no fit state to cook either after driving home from a day working in London so we ordered a Chinese takeaway. It's the first one we've had in quite a while and I made a good choice by eating a pork chow mien (which I guesstimated to be around the same as chicken although on weight watchers it was less) at 7 syns. I stayed well within my syns for the day but still feel naughty for having it. Wednesday was a green day ... I ate according to the rules but seemed to eat a lot. Jacket potato with coleslaw for lunch and Spaghetti with a HE (plus 5 syns) of bolognaise for tea. Yesterday, despite eating mainly weetabix and fruit all day I returned home to find a stuffed crust pizza cooking away in the oven. I defy anyone (apart from Saint Jayne) not to eat pizza once they have smelled it. I also had half a pint of Black Sheep. (It's good beer from the lake district area of the UK, well recommended.) I wonder whether my otherwise good behaviour and extra exercise will counteract the pizza and beer incident? Possibly not.
What I need to do is to get straight back on track and not have another bad day today, because Saturday night is a little works gathering and alcohol will play a part there. I have decided to take pimms (3 syns per 25ml) with me and drink it in really long glasses with lots of diet lemonade and fruit so I should get away with that. A tasty alcoholic summer drink AND a good chance of getting in at least one of my five a day. A perfect idea methinks.
So, tonight I need to make sure that I avoid eating out at all costs and take it very easy on the booze. I can see myself falling asleep in front of the sofa about ten seconds after I get through the door anyway so if I'm unconscious I have a good chance of getting through the night relatively syn free!
Gem x
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
It takes 2 (and 1/4) baby
Last nights weigh in was a success. I lost 2 and 1/4lb. Which takes me down to 10st 13 and 3/4. Ok so it’s only 1/4 lb under 11 stone, but I am very pleased with that. Oooh yeeeeah.
This means I am 9 and 3/4lb off my main goal. It will then be my mission to get a flatter tummy. When I had a caesarean I did ask them to do a tummy tuck, but they were having none of it, so I will have to start doing extra tummy crunches and maybe start up Pilates.
So here's to another week of being losers :p
Jayne x
This means I am 9 and 3/4lb off my main goal. It will then be my mission to get a flatter tummy. When I had a caesarean I did ask them to do a tummy tuck, but they were having none of it, so I will have to start doing extra tummy crunches and maybe start up Pilates.
So here's to another week of being losers :p
Jayne x
Weigh Better Than Expected.
Yesterdays weigh in was probably the most complicated one ever :) I think i stood on the scales a total of five times yesterday! Jayne insisted that I had an official weigh in on the official scales. She ruddy well put her foot down, she did. However, as I was going straight to aerobics after work and you always weigh heavier after excersise I was scared. So, under Jayne's insistance I stood on the scales at aerobics before the class. Then I stood on them after class. I had put on a lb through excersise. I drove to Jayne's and stood on the official scales and then took a lb off for the excersise weight. And guess what?! Despite the absolute dread I was feeling about stepping on those scales I had actually lost 2lb this week taking me to 11st 2lb and very, very close to the mini goal. I'm glad Jayne badgered me into getting weighed after all, even though I did moan about it A LOT. My good behaviour is starting to pay off I think. I might not quite slim down to meet the mini goal for next weeks weigh in but I will definitely have it licked before the girls night out on the 10th July. Fact. Feeling very confident.
Gem x
Gem x
Monday, 23 June 2008
Hogwash
Jayne just confessed to weighing herself earlier on today ... so I feel it is safe to admit that I did it too. A few times actually. In fact, I have been weighing myself quite a lot this week. On Saturday morning I weighed 11st bang on ... BUT it was the morning (like Jayne said, we always weigh less in the morning) and I was also completely starkers and about to get in the shower. I can confirm that the official Monday night weigh in does take place fully clothed so we can allow a couple of lbs for jeans etc. Not only that, Saturday morning was a few hours before the annual Hog roast that takes place on the first weekend of the British summer at a friends house. Food wise I was very good, choosing a wholemeal roll on which to place my slices of pig and that was it. Alcohol may possibly override my saintly food choices but we shall see.
At this mornings sneaky, pre-shower naked weigh in I was 11st 2lb ish so i think we can safely say that by the end of the day when fully clothed I shall probably find myself at 11 st 4lb and exactly the ruddy same weight as I was last week. Yet again. Grrrrrr.
Gem x
At this mornings sneaky, pre-shower naked weigh in I was 11st 2lb ish so i think we can safely say that by the end of the day when fully clothed I shall probably find myself at 11 st 4lb and exactly the ruddy same weight as I was last week. Yet again. Grrrrrr.
Gem x
Got my fingers crossed
Got my fingers well and truly crossed for tonight. I did weigh myself this morning (naughty i know, but I can't help myself) and I came in at 10st 13, which was very nice to see. However I will of course be heavier at the 6pm weigh in tonight. I do think I will have lost, but prob not the 2lb as I was hoping. We shall see.
My weekend dieting went well. I again ate too many biscuits yesterday (hehehe, not sure what it is about eating biscuits on a Sunday) but THIS HAS GOT TO STOP.
I like the sound of Gemma's curry and will note the recipe and make it next weekend.
I am still doing my sit-ups while watching big brother, so just hoping my tummy will one day be flat...well flattish anyway.
Jayne x
My weekend dieting went well. I again ate too many biscuits yesterday (hehehe, not sure what it is about eating biscuits on a Sunday) but THIS HAS GOT TO STOP.
I like the sound of Gemma's curry and will note the recipe and make it next weekend.
I am still doing my sit-ups while watching big brother, so just hoping my tummy will one day be flat...well flattish anyway.
Jayne x
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Friday Night Curry Feast
Whoa there! It's not what you're thinking. I have not committed the cardinal sin of dieting that is Indian takeaway. Not at all. I had what I like to think of as a "Jayne Moment". That's where I am very, very good and make an exceptional diet choice, just like she would do.
On Friday I cooked a curry that totally kicked ass. It was delish and it had 0 syns at all. In fact, hubby said it was the best curry I have ever cooked. Praise indeed as he loves my curries. I made something along the lines of Balti Chicken Saag Aloo, although it was kind of a made-up-as-I-go-along recipe. Free on Green, using 1 HEb choice for the chicken, I had it with basmati rice, 1 poppadom for 1.5 syns (a sharwoods cook at home one, cooked without oil for 40 seconds the microwave), and a quarter of a co-op garlic and coriander naan for 4 syns. I also made raita from total 0% Greek yoghurt mixed with a teaspoon of mint sauce and some peeled finely diced cucumber. I was so impressed with myself I have posted the recipe below so that I might actually be able to make it again!
Balti Chicken Saag Aloo
Serves 4
Green - 0 syns + 1 HEb
(or leave out the chicken for a completely free on green vegetarian dish)
Peel 3 large potatoes and chop into chunks. Boil for five minutes then drop a few handfuls of frozen spinach in with the potatoes and boil for a further five minutes or until the spinach is cooked. Drain and put aside.
Spray the pan with fry light and heat up some chilli flakes, garam massala and ground coriander in the bottom of the pan. Fry off 1 large diced onion, 2 diced green peppers and three chopped garlic cloves until soft. Add some chopped mushrooms and while they soften, sprinkle the diced chicken (4 HEb portions) with salt, pepper and garam massala. Place the diced chicken in the pan with the rest of the ingredients to brown. Once browned add the part boiled potatoes and spinach. Tip 1 can of chopped tomatoes into the pan, and half a can of water. Add more spices (garam massala, ground coriander) and salt and pepper to taste. Stir and leave to simmer until the chicken and potatoes are cooked through ... which is about the same time it takes boil basmati rice! Stir a few tablespoons of fat free fromage frais or yoghurt to serve.
Very yum ... and I was able to put the leftovers in the freezer for a ready meal another day.
Gem x
PS. I was having such a Jayne moment that I also WALKED over to Morrisons to buy my curry ingredients. I even remembered to take my bags for life with me to keep my carbon footprint in check! Lol.
On Friday I cooked a curry that totally kicked ass. It was delish and it had 0 syns at all. In fact, hubby said it was the best curry I have ever cooked. Praise indeed as he loves my curries. I made something along the lines of Balti Chicken Saag Aloo, although it was kind of a made-up-as-I-go-along recipe. Free on Green, using 1 HEb choice for the chicken, I had it with basmati rice, 1 poppadom for 1.5 syns (a sharwoods cook at home one, cooked without oil for 40 seconds the microwave), and a quarter of a co-op garlic and coriander naan for 4 syns. I also made raita from total 0% Greek yoghurt mixed with a teaspoon of mint sauce and some peeled finely diced cucumber. I was so impressed with myself I have posted the recipe below so that I might actually be able to make it again!
Balti Chicken Saag Aloo
Serves 4
Green - 0 syns + 1 HEb
(or leave out the chicken for a completely free on green vegetarian dish)
Peel 3 large potatoes and chop into chunks. Boil for five minutes then drop a few handfuls of frozen spinach in with the potatoes and boil for a further five minutes or until the spinach is cooked. Drain and put aside.
Spray the pan with fry light and heat up some chilli flakes, garam massala and ground coriander in the bottom of the pan. Fry off 1 large diced onion, 2 diced green peppers and three chopped garlic cloves until soft. Add some chopped mushrooms and while they soften, sprinkle the diced chicken (4 HEb portions) with salt, pepper and garam massala. Place the diced chicken in the pan with the rest of the ingredients to brown. Once browned add the part boiled potatoes and spinach. Tip 1 can of chopped tomatoes into the pan, and half a can of water. Add more spices (garam massala, ground coriander) and salt and pepper to taste. Stir and leave to simmer until the chicken and potatoes are cooked through ... which is about the same time it takes boil basmati rice! Stir a few tablespoons of fat free fromage frais or yoghurt to serve.
Very yum ... and I was able to put the leftovers in the freezer for a ready meal another day.
Gem x
PS. I was having such a Jayne moment that I also WALKED over to Morrisons to buy my curry ingredients. I even remembered to take my bags for life with me to keep my carbon footprint in check! Lol.
Friday, 20 June 2008
Down with the BMI
Well. I have been having my BMI and Body Fat checked each Friday with the boys from work. We started doing this on 13/03/08
On this date I came in at :
Kilos: 74
Body Fat: 33.5%
BMI: 26.2
My graph looks pretty cool actually. Mostly downs (apart from around the wedding and our week off work)
As of today it looks like this :
Kilos: 66.4
Body Fat: 29.9%
BMI: 23.5
I am very chuffed with that :) so thought I'd share it with you.
Our mini goal is in 3 weigh ins time. I'm pretty confident that we with BOTH be successful as Gemma is being very saintly indeed (even poached her salmon for tea and had it with a sauce she made from fat free fromage frais, which is free and lemon juice and salt and pepper. GO GEMMA GO)
Jayne x
Thursday, 19 June 2008
A Slim State of Mind
I'm feeling better today. After another stay-the-same weigh in I was about ready to give up the whole slimming world malarkey to be honest but as my old weight watchers leader used to say, "Well, the weight didn't creep on over night did it? So you can't expect it to disappear over night either." And although it was a different diet and a good few years ago you have to admit there's something to be said for that philosophy.
I have come to the conclusion this week that it is very possible that I will probably be on a diet for the rest of my life ... now hold on, you might think that sounds terribly depressing, but actually I'm just approaching it all wrong. I probably shouldn't really think about it as being "on" something at all. They all say it ... Slimming World, Weight Watchers, Rosemary Connolly, whoever. "This is not a diet, its a lifestyle" or something along those lines. Something that should be adopted for the long term. I think, actually a truer reflection of the situation is that it's a state of mind thing. Make a commitment to change and the rest will follow. This blog helps a lot, so does having the support and occasional telling offs from a great friend ;) and the slimming world rules (for want of a better word) are guiding me along too. I have a rebellious streak you see and if I don't have rules I cheat. For example, I always go to exercise classes like yoga or aerobics because in a room full of other women I just get on and do it, possibly out of pride as much as anything else if I'm honest. Left to my own devices in the gym I will spend ten minutes on a cross trainer and then skip off into the sauna. I know this to be true and that's why I cancelled my gym membership.
So that's that I suppose. With my state of mind officially in the right place (for now) I think I can safely go and have a cup of tea.
Gem x
I have come to the conclusion this week that it is very possible that I will probably be on a diet for the rest of my life ... now hold on, you might think that sounds terribly depressing, but actually I'm just approaching it all wrong. I probably shouldn't really think about it as being "on" something at all. They all say it ... Slimming World, Weight Watchers, Rosemary Connolly, whoever. "This is not a diet, its a lifestyle" or something along those lines. Something that should be adopted for the long term. I think, actually a truer reflection of the situation is that it's a state of mind thing. Make a commitment to change and the rest will follow. This blog helps a lot, so does having the support and occasional telling offs from a great friend ;) and the slimming world rules (for want of a better word) are guiding me along too. I have a rebellious streak you see and if I don't have rules I cheat. For example, I always go to exercise classes like yoga or aerobics because in a room full of other women I just get on and do it, possibly out of pride as much as anything else if I'm honest. Left to my own devices in the gym I will spend ten minutes on a cross trainer and then skip off into the sauna. I know this to be true and that's why I cancelled my gym membership.
So that's that I suppose. With my state of mind officially in the right place (for now) I think I can safely go and have a cup of tea.
Gem x
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Same Again
Aaaah man ... I suppose I should be grateful that I didn't have a gain but I stayed the same again this week. Still 11st 4lb. Blah, blah, blah. I don't think I am ever going to get under 11st! Lol.
I must must must try and do some more exercise than just my yoga class this week but my right leg reeeeally hurts :(
Feeling a bit sorry for myself actually,
Gem x
I must must must try and do some more exercise than just my yoga class this week but my right leg reeeeally hurts :(
Feeling a bit sorry for myself actually,
Gem x
Another one bites the dust
Weigh in went ok last night. I have lost 1 lb so that takes me down to 11 stone 2.
I am so looking forward to being under 11 stone. So I am going to try for a 2lb loss this week to help me on my way. Fingers crossed. I am even thinking about going to the gym 3 times this week :o
Heres to a good week *ching ching*
(thats using a glass containing no added sugar squash...not a wine glass...)
Jayne x
I am so looking forward to being under 11 stone. So I am going to try for a 2lb loss this week to help me on my way. Fingers crossed. I am even thinking about going to the gym 3 times this week :o
Heres to a good week *ching ching*
(thats using a glass containing no added sugar squash...not a wine glass...)
Jayne x
Monday, 16 June 2008
Scared of the Scales
Well, I have just had a most lovely weekend. We had sis-in-law to stay friday night and then we had a smashing day out on Saturday at the NEC Gardeners World Live and Summer Good Food shows (not a good one for the dieter but rather good fun nevertheless). Saturday evening was a girlie night at my bride-to-be friends house talking bridesmaid dresses (again, pretty bad for the diet but following a day surrounded by free samples of cheese, wine and other goodies was rather inconsequential on the calories front). On Sunday I was relatively well behaved actually, in comparison but I am feeling a little aprehensive about tonights weigh-in. I feel very VERY bloated and heavy today. And slow. And tired. I suppose a weekend of late nights, early(ish) starts and sizable amounts of alcohol will do that to you!
It's going to be awkward for me to get weighed today as I'm going to get my hair colour done after work. I did sneak onto the scales yesterday twice, I and found a loss of 1lb on one and a gain of 1lb on the other. Part of me doesn't want to get on the scales at all this week. Perhaps I could leave it till wednesday when I might not be feeling so roly poly ... is that allowed? I feel like if I get on those scales tonight and it isn't good it might just push me over the edge into bingeville . That would not be good. I might just be being cowardly. Kind of like not checking your balance when you know there is no money in your bank account and buying that pair of shoes anyway.
Gem x
It's going to be awkward for me to get weighed today as I'm going to get my hair colour done after work. I did sneak onto the scales yesterday twice, I and found a loss of 1lb on one and a gain of 1lb on the other. Part of me doesn't want to get on the scales at all this week. Perhaps I could leave it till wednesday when I might not be feeling so roly poly ... is that allowed? I feel like if I get on those scales tonight and it isn't good it might just push me over the edge into bingeville . That would not be good. I might just be being cowardly. Kind of like not checking your balance when you know there is no money in your bank account and buying that pair of shoes anyway.
Gem x
5 goods days...1 bad
I had been very good all week, eating lots of fruit and salads. I only went to the gym once as I normally go on Fridays but my cousin and her hubby were coming over so i didn't want to go home sweaty and in gym clothes. I am proud to say though that that for tea on Friday I had a lovely chicken salad...the others had orange chips. AND i didn't even steal ONE. Saturday I behaved and make a batli for tea...All within syns.
Sunday was my bad day. I had jam on toast for breakfast and fruit for lunch followed by biscuits for snack. Tut, (I have now got Tony to hide the biscuits as I can't help myself) and I made a Sunday roast for tea seeing as it was fathers day. I did it the best I could by making my own roasties (I did these like syn free chips) and had lots of veg, but also had chicken, yorkshire pudding, stuffing and gravy. As much as I wanted a curly wurly about 9:00 i resisted and even went on my stepper and did some sit-ups.
I'm not expecting much from today’s weigh in. I don't think I have gained but doubt I have lost much. I WILL go to the gym twice this week as I think is helps loads.
Jayne x
Sunday was my bad day. I had jam on toast for breakfast and fruit for lunch followed by biscuits for snack. Tut, (I have now got Tony to hide the biscuits as I can't help myself) and I made a Sunday roast for tea seeing as it was fathers day. I did it the best I could by making my own roasties (I did these like syn free chips) and had lots of veg, but also had chicken, yorkshire pudding, stuffing and gravy. As much as I wanted a curly wurly about 9:00 i resisted and even went on my stepper and did some sit-ups.
I'm not expecting much from today’s weigh in. I don't think I have gained but doubt I have lost much. I WILL go to the gym twice this week as I think is helps loads.
Jayne x
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Cinematastic
It's all true ... Jayne and I were positively saintly at the cinema last night. Thanks to Jayne's forward planning with the Rainbow Drops we successfully avoided the pick 'n' mix (I am a sucker for cheap chocolate flavoured goodies) and the huge bag of drops lasted the whole film and I couldn't even find room to eat my giant flump.
We did, however, notice something rather unfair while watching Carrie and the girls. Yes, they have fabulous clothes. Yes, they have utterly fabulous shoes. Yes, they are surrounded by hot men (often shirtless) but that was not the worst of it. What made us the most jealous was all the eating and drinking they did while staying utterly slim and gorgeous! All that Chinese food and going for lunches and drinking champagne and cocktails ... yuuummmm. Working out the syns in a Cosmopolitan cocktail in the car on the way home was quite interesting. Despite the injustice of it all though, we had a great time and suggest Sex & the City is one to watch (ideally with rainbow drops).
Gem x
We did, however, notice something rather unfair while watching Carrie and the girls. Yes, they have fabulous clothes. Yes, they have utterly fabulous shoes. Yes, they are surrounded by hot men (often shirtless) but that was not the worst of it. What made us the most jealous was all the eating and drinking they did while staying utterly slim and gorgeous! All that Chinese food and going for lunches and drinking champagne and cocktails ... yuuummmm. Working out the syns in a Cosmopolitan cocktail in the car on the way home was quite interesting. Despite the injustice of it all though, we had a great time and suggest Sex & the City is one to watch (ideally with rainbow drops).
Gem x
Sex & the City & Rainbow Drops
Gemma and I went to see the Sex & the City movie last night. It was brilliant. I loved it.
Anyway we were very good and didn't have any popcorn or minstrels which are normally the law when you go to the cinema. However we were very clever in thinking ahead and I popped to Sainsburys to get some rainbow drops. This was a super large packet and came to 11 syns. Neither of us had used any syns that day so it was allowed. Yuuuum rainbow drops are awesome.
Gemma also bought some flumps which are 2.5. I didn't eat mine and saved it today so I shall look forward to that later on :)
Oooooooooh my god, the lads are just talking about having a mcdonalds breakfast...*puts fingers in ears* lalalaaalalaaaaaalalala. Right...this means its banana time.
Jayne x
Anyway we were very good and didn't have any popcorn or minstrels which are normally the law when you go to the cinema. However we were very clever in thinking ahead and I popped to Sainsburys to get some rainbow drops. This was a super large packet and came to 11 syns. Neither of us had used any syns that day so it was allowed. Yuuuum rainbow drops are awesome.
Gemma also bought some flumps which are 2.5. I didn't eat mine and saved it today so I shall look forward to that later on :)
Oooooooooh my god, the lads are just talking about having a mcdonalds breakfast...*puts fingers in ears* lalalaaalalaaaaaalalala. Right...this means its banana time.
Jayne x
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Total
Here is my graph as it looks today. A few ups and downs, but its slowly coming down so thats good eh.I have been very good this week. Even at the weekend I was eating salads for lunch and I even did 100 sit-ups sunday night while watching Big Brother (Get Alex out, she's horrid)
Anyway. It was weigh in time last night and I am pleased to say after my dreadful losses of late I lost 3 3/4 lbs. Yay. I now weigh 11 stone 3lbs. Thats only 3lb to go for the "mini goal" and 12lb to go for my target weight of 10 st 5. My total loss so far is 10lbs.
So heres to another week of dieting. Will be going to the gym on Wednesday and Friday as usual and hoping for another good loss next monday.
Jayne x
Post-Mortem
This weeks weigh in could have been better, but equally it could have been much, much worse. Somehow, despite the weekend cheese fest I managed to stay the same at 11st 4lbs. Pheeeew! I also avoided having a massive post weigh-in binge too, opting instead for a tasty lean steak with salad. I did treat myself to a small glass of wine and a sliver of Tarte au Citron but I didn't stuff my face by any means and stayed well within my syns. I have got my weetabix and banana breakfast at the ready and a brand new food diary sheet which always makes me feel uber organised and optimistic.
My strategy for the week is to try and include plenty of red days. Now, I love green days with all the potatoes and pasta to fill up on, but I do feel I have a tendancy to over-indulge just because it's free food. The week before last I did mostly red days and had a pretty good loss so I think it's a good way to go. I will have lost at the next weigh in though, by hook or by crook.
Gem x
My strategy for the week is to try and include plenty of red days. Now, I love green days with all the potatoes and pasta to fill up on, but I do feel I have a tendancy to over-indulge just because it's free food. The week before last I did mostly red days and had a pretty good loss so I think it's a good way to go. I will have lost at the next weigh in though, by hook or by crook.
Gem x
Monday, 9 June 2008
Weekend Update
Weekend Diet Update via MSN 09.06.08 8.45am(ish)
Jayne says: how you diddling? how did the diet go?
Gemma says: errrr ... could have been better. how about you, were you well behaved?
Jayne says: I was. may av ad 2 many biscuits. didn't go over my syns but shouldn't have had them. i had 6 Nice lol! hoping there is a weight loss today
Gemma says: nothing wrong with a few biccies ... that sounds very well behaved to me. Cheese happened for me. and bread. quite a lot of it
Jayne says: ah the dreaded lovely cheese ... mmmmmmmmm bread. was it a cheese bap?
Gemma says: i did have a cheese bap actually although that wasn't the worst ... Sam did a cheese board at about 11pm on friday night and then on saturday evening i ate loooooads of olives and feta with a glass of wine while my dad was bbq-ing
Jayne says: i wish i'd had a cheese bap now lol
Gemma says: i bet you could've got away with it in your syns
Jayne says: not with those biscuits hehe
Gemma says: i bet you will have a good loss though now
Jayne says: i feel thinner though. so even if i haven't lost lbs i do feel better. got in some old jeans that i couldn't even get in to before i was preggers so that made me feel GREAT on saturday
Gemma says: ah wicked *round of applause* thats ruddy ace that is. your graph is gonna look great later lol! I don't feel like i have put on exactly, but i wont have lost. FACT. i am making a positive effort to be good this week though ... as of now. no post-weigh in spaghetti binges or anything lol. I even made salad this morning
Jayne says: a SALAD ... wooooowooo. snap
Gemma says: Yes, chicken salad with a cheese slice and a spoon of coleslaw with strawberries and cherries ... weetabix and banana for brekkie
Jayne says: banana and strawberries for breakfast. salad and cheese triangles for lunch and a cherry yogurt
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The weekend. One was good ... one was not. Wonder what story the scales will tell later. Let's keep everything crossed for a good result (for Jayne anyway, and nothing too disasterous for Gemma) Weigh-in's later.
Jayne says: how you diddling? how did the diet go?
Gemma says: errrr ... could have been better. how about you, were you well behaved?
Jayne says: I was. may av ad 2 many biscuits. didn't go over my syns but shouldn't have had them. i had 6 Nice lol! hoping there is a weight loss today
Gemma says: nothing wrong with a few biccies ... that sounds very well behaved to me. Cheese happened for me. and bread. quite a lot of it
Jayne says: ah the dreaded lovely cheese ... mmmmmmmmm bread. was it a cheese bap?
Gemma says: i did have a cheese bap actually although that wasn't the worst ... Sam did a cheese board at about 11pm on friday night and then on saturday evening i ate loooooads of olives and feta with a glass of wine while my dad was bbq-ing
Jayne says: i wish i'd had a cheese bap now lol
Gemma says: i bet you could've got away with it in your syns
Jayne says: not with those biscuits hehe
Gemma says: i bet you will have a good loss though now
Jayne says: i feel thinner though. so even if i haven't lost lbs i do feel better. got in some old jeans that i couldn't even get in to before i was preggers so that made me feel GREAT on saturday
Gemma says: ah wicked *round of applause* thats ruddy ace that is. your graph is gonna look great later lol! I don't feel like i have put on exactly, but i wont have lost. FACT. i am making a positive effort to be good this week though ... as of now. no post-weigh in spaghetti binges or anything lol. I even made salad this morning
Jayne says: a SALAD ... wooooowooo. snap
Gemma says: Yes, chicken salad with a cheese slice and a spoon of coleslaw with strawberries and cherries ... weetabix and banana for brekkie
Jayne says: banana and strawberries for breakfast. salad and cheese triangles for lunch and a cherry yogurt
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The weekend. One was good ... one was not. Wonder what story the scales will tell later. Let's keep everything crossed for a good result (for Jayne anyway, and nothing too disasterous for Gemma) Weigh-in's later.
Friday, 6 June 2008
I Smell Rebellion
There is a rebellious streak in me this week. A streak that does not want to eat salads under any circumstances and has a real craving for bread and stodge. I think it started with my celebratory post weigh-in spaghetti bolognaise mountain with a big hunk of garlic bread and it doesn't seem to have gone. I haven't been naughty as such, like, I have stuck to my syns allowance and I haven't used my allowance up on sweets or anything like that. I can just feel that binge sitting on my shoulder and whispering "tiramisu" in my ear ... it's very seductive.
I'm not sure what to do to stop it really. I'm not sure I can or even want to. I keep thinking about a brand new suit that is sitting in my wardrobe and the trousers are literally millimeters too small at the moment and I reeeeeally want to be able to wear them. That puts me off the cake a little bit.
I might blog a lot this weekend as a diversionary tactic ... blog or eat. I think that's how it's going to be. Unless the weather is nice, then I may be able to garden rather than eat. Either way I will have to occupy myself somehow! Anyway it's lunchtime. Leafy goodness beckons ... bleurgh.
Gem x
I'm not sure what to do to stop it really. I'm not sure I can or even want to. I keep thinking about a brand new suit that is sitting in my wardrobe and the trousers are literally millimeters too small at the moment and I reeeeeally want to be able to wear them. That puts me off the cake a little bit.
I might blog a lot this weekend as a diversionary tactic ... blog or eat. I think that's how it's going to be. Unless the weather is nice, then I may be able to garden rather than eat. Either way I will have to occupy myself somehow! Anyway it's lunchtime. Leafy goodness beckons ... bleurgh.
Gem x
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Throwing in a mini goal
We have come to a decision. A mini goal sounds like fun. Gemma has organised a girls meal and gossip night out on Monday 7th July. Our goal is to be under 11 stone by then.
Come ooooon Gemsy, we can do this *high 5*
Jayne x
Come ooooon Gemsy, we can do this *high 5*
Jayne x
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Weigh In #8
I had a good week this week and am quietly pleased with myself. Drum roll please ... I lost 2lb (give or take 1/4 of a lb either way depending on which of the three times I stood on the scales to check ... in the end I decided to split the difference).
Hoorah!
I still have 11lb to go till I have lost my 10% and 18lb to go until I get to my ultimate goal of 10 stone exactly ... however that would make me the thinnest I have been in my entire adult life (apart from a short period where anxiety meant everything I ate came straight out the other end. Not a method of weight loss I would recommend to be perfectly honest). I might want to have a little reflect on the ten stone idea nearer the time and see how I feel. I'm glad Jayne has had a bit of a re-evaluation on her timescales too. I think we both need to be realistic ... our original goals were achievable as long as we didn't actually live our lives for the intervening months. Sometimes friends are going to invite you round for tea, sometimes there are going to be weddings and birthdays and parties, and sometimes you are going to NEED that Snickers bar. Jayne can vouch for the fact that there are definitely occasions where eating that Snickers was definitely not optional! So, at the moment my (slightly) revised goal is to get to the 10% mark by our original goal date of 30th July or at least have lost a full stone by that time. In the mean time just getting under 11st will be cause for celebration!
Gem x
PS. Graph looking healthier :)
Hoorah!
I still have 11lb to go till I have lost my 10% and 18lb to go until I get to my ultimate goal of 10 stone exactly ... however that would make me the thinnest I have been in my entire adult life (apart from a short period where anxiety meant everything I ate came straight out the other end. Not a method of weight loss I would recommend to be perfectly honest). I might want to have a little reflect on the ten stone idea nearer the time and see how I feel. I'm glad Jayne has had a bit of a re-evaluation on her timescales too. I think we both need to be realistic ... our original goals were achievable as long as we didn't actually live our lives for the intervening months. Sometimes friends are going to invite you round for tea, sometimes there are going to be weddings and birthdays and parties, and sometimes you are going to NEED that Snickers bar. Jayne can vouch for the fact that there are definitely occasions where eating that Snickers was definitely not optional! So, at the moment my (slightly) revised goal is to get to the 10% mark by our original goal date of 30th July or at least have lost a full stone by that time. In the mean time just getting under 11st will be cause for celebration!
Gem x
PS. Graph looking healthier :)
Not bad considering
Well it was the dreaded weigh in last night. I wasn't holding out much hope but was dreading another gain. I have LOST 1/4 of a lb hehehe. Not much at all, but better that gaining so i'm quite happy about that. I now weigh 11stone 6 3/4lb. I am really going to try this week. Want to loose at least 2lb so that I am under the weight I was the other week (before my dreadful gain)
So its now a total of 16lb I want to loose. Don't think I will do that by July, but I will do my best to loose as much as possible. I am moving my goal. Not sure if this is allowed, however I am going to do it anyway. The new date for me to have lost the 16lb is August 18th. I wont make a habit of changing my goal. This is it. I have got to say that Louise's hen night(s) and the wedding have not helped with the diet at all so a goal change was defo needed. This new date has been chosen as it is the monday before I go and see Madonna (23rd) and I am also at a wedding on the Sunday (24th). So thought this would be somthing to work to and look forward to.
I'm having a green day today.
Jayne x
So its now a total of 16lb I want to loose. Don't think I will do that by July, but I will do my best to loose as much as possible. I am moving my goal. Not sure if this is allowed, however I am going to do it anyway. The new date for me to have lost the 16lb is August 18th. I wont make a habit of changing my goal. This is it. I have got to say that Louise's hen night(s) and the wedding have not helped with the diet at all so a goal change was defo needed. This new date has been chosen as it is the monday before I go and see Madonna (23rd) and I am also at a wedding on the Sunday (24th). So thought this would be somthing to work to and look forward to.
I'm having a green day today.
Jayne x
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