Mondays weigh in

After all my extra exercise last week I was sure I’d have a nice loss. HOWEVER...It's wasn't as much as I thought. I lost 3/4 of a lb. This takes me to 9st 9 1/2lb. This means I have 4 1/2lb to go until I reach my goal. People always say that the last few lbs always take a while and that weight loss gets slower the nearer you are to your target. Why? That’s not fair lol. I only have 3 weigh ins to go.

I went to the safari park with Finley and the nursery yesterday. We had a great time and while I was there I behaved myself food wise. However when I got home I was really hungry and had a bit of a binge on.... you guessed it...biscuits. I did only have ww soup for my tea (with 3 slices of bread) but I was so bloated I couldn't eat my curly wurly.

I won't be going to the gym tonight as I am still aching from all I did last week really hehe. I did do LOTS of walking yesterday as well. I will maybe go to the gym tomorrow instead.

I have 2 weeks off as of next week. Fingers crossed I will be able to stick to my points.

Jayne x

My Pathetic Weightloss Graph.

Pathetic, in't it?

Gem x

Sulk

I was absolutely positive I was going to have a loss at last nights weigh in. I was certain. But still, those ruddy defiant scales refuse to budge. 11st 2 and 1/4 lbs AGAIN! At the moment my feelings on this weeks weigh in are :

AAAAaaaaaAAAaarrrrrrrrrrgh!

I am SO disappointed ... I was sure the points and the exercise would have nudged that scale in the right direction. My weight watchers holiday was a sorry and dismal failure. Maybe I am still paying for my binge weekend the previous week. I don't know. And I'm a little bit past caring.

I'm staying on the weight watchers points for a further week, but I break up for ten days annual leave tomorrow so who knows what might happen food-wise while we are out and about. Blah!

Gem x

A Weekend on Points

Well, after following Slimming World since the beginning of this adventure I have just done my first week on the Weight Watchers points system for quite a while. I have done weight watchers before when Jayne and I were slimming for her wedding back in 2003. It worked wonders for us both then and I'm hoping it will give me a bit of a boost for weigh in this week.

I have got on quite well with it actually. It's made me think about my portion sizes, which I think were getting slightly out of control on slimming world ... as much pasta as you can eat is like heaven to me! I can eat A LOT of pasta. Ditto for potato so on green days I have a feeling I may have been over consuming. I have really missed free fruit though. On slimming world all your fruit and veg are free whereas with weight watchers your veg is free but your fruit needs to be counted in with your daily points. I have found myself reaching for a bag of Asda Cheese and Onion baked hoops (1/2 pt) or Weight Watchers Cookies (1 and 1/2 pts) instead of an apple (1/2 pt) or banana (1 and 1/2 to 2 pts depending on size). These are not exactly healthy choices are they? Low in calories but also low in anything nutritious. Although the cookies are white chocolate and raspberry so perhaps they do count towards my five a day ;)

My weekend was quite a usual one with alcohol and takeaway foods but I aaaaaaaaalmost managed to stay within my points. I had a couple extra on Friday, had exactly the right amount on Saturday and slipped a little on Sunday. I ate far too much meat at a BBQ on Sunday evening without looking at the points values first but assuming it was OK because it was lean meat and would have been saintly on a Slimming World red day! That was a bit of a slip up but I'm hoping to have lost at least a little something at tonight's weigh in. All we be revealed in a few hours time!

Gem x

PS. Dreadful news ... there are no spaces left for hulagise OR rebounding this week. Whatever shall we do?! Booooo and ruddy hissss!

Evidence

Here it is ... proof that Jayne and I walked right up to the very top of the Wrekin. I'll tell you what, it was bloomin' warm walking up there yesterday! Plenty of suncream was needed and when we got to the top we got the picnic blanket out and had a little sit around to enjoy the vista while the boys flew kites. Then we treated ourselves to well deserved rocket ice lollies (1/2 a point) on the way down. A really fun afternoon was had by all ... and we ruddy well earned some bonus points too!

Gem x

Had a wrekin good time

Walked up the wrekin yesterday with gem, sam and the boys. Was really good fun. Was very hot yesterday and when we got to the top we had a little sunbathe while the boys did a bit a kite flying.

On the way back down we stopped for an ice lolly. I had a rocket lolly (1/2 point)

The wrekin is quite a trek but I enjoyed it and will go again soon as I bet it burns quite a few calories.

We then popped to a beer garden for a drink where I had a refreshing diet coke (0 points)

For tea I had a chicken salad (with extra light mayo) and a curly wurly. I then did the ironing, made the packed lunches and did sit ups before I went to bed.

Gem and I have decided that we shall go to hulagise again on Thursday. Also it is payday so we may invest in a hoop each as well :)

I am hoping for at least a 1lb loss today (which is what i put on last week).

Jayne x

LOTS of exercise

I am feeling quite proud of myself so thought i'd share it.

I have walked to either sainsbury's or town from work during lunch everyday this week. I went to the gym Wednesday, went to hulagise on Thursday and went to the gym today. I am also walking up the wrekin on Sunday. I have also been doing my sit up every night this week. Big Brother has just started so I will do some while watching that. LOTS of exercise.

Surely I will have a loss on Monday after all this exercise and point counting. Will keep my fingers crossed (as it is * week)

Looking forward to noodles with Gem and the boys tomorrow. Will make sure I stick within my points :) Saint Jayne is BACK!!

Jayne x

Hulalicious!

What Jayne says is all true. Hulagise is excellent fun! In fact, I haven't yet stopped smiling. The 45 minute class went so quickly I was very surprised when we had to pack up and go home. It really gets the heart rate up and makes you sweat. I can certainly feel that it did something to my tummy and waist area anyway (and not just the big purple bruise on my left hip ... it worked my muscles too lol).

I think hula could become a regular feature in our slimming adventure as Jayne and I have spent most of the morning looking for internet bargains on weighted hula hoops! I definitely intend to go again. We are just trying to decide whether to do hulagise again next week or whether to go a little earlier and have a go at rebounding. Rebounding is aerobics on little trampolines and sounds like a riot!

I really really want a hoop ... now!!! Hehehe.

Gem x

Bruised Hulagator

Well, we went to hulagise last night. What a laugh. Really enjoyed it and the time went so quick. I did keep dropping it, however I feel as I did actually manage to hula. I even managed 3 steps while hula hooping...but that was my limit.

It definatly does something as my waist and hips are aching today. I also have quite a large bruise on my hip. Who'd have thought that hula hooping would do that!!!

I will deffinatly go again. Even looking at buying a hoop so that the 3 of us can have hula nights. I really think this will help me get the flatter tummy I am so wanting.

Exercise that is great fun at the same time... it's a winner for me.

Jayne x

Feeling Energised

Well, I managed to make it round to Jayne to check up on my weight and have a guess what the scales said? That's right! How did you guess? 11st 2 and 1/4 lbs ... again ... for like, the fifth or sixth week in a row! LOL. I suppose I should be grateful to not have had a gain after my horrendous binge over the weekend really.

I feel quite energised by my switch to weight watchers though. It's like a fresh start and I feel that I am approaching things with renewed vigour! I had a lovely tea last night of jacket potato with chicken breast that I butterflied (that's chef talk for cut in half almost all the way through and folded out to make it thinner) seasoned with salt, pepper, a pinch of mixed herbs and crushed garlic and put it in a hot griddle pan for a few minutes each side so it was cooked through and had char-grill marks. It was ruddy lovely chicken, I tell you and would be lovely cold for lunch with a salad or in a pitta bread. I shall definitely make extras next time. I also had a couple of pieces of scampi for 2 extra points ... hubby calls the chicken and seafood combination "Surf and Chirp" LOL.

The energised feeling has also spread to other areas of life and Jayne and I have a full few days planned before weigh in. On Thursday we have Hulagise, on Saturday evening we are meeting up for noodles, and on Sunday we plan to go for a walk up the Wrekin (as long as it isn't raining ... we aren't that committed)!

Huge weight losses expected for next week. FACT.

Gem x

1lb gain

I said it, and I was right. I have gained 1lb this week. Not great, but i guess it could be worse. I now weigh 10st 10 1/4 lbs.

SO AS OF TODAY the diet starts again and I am going to go back to being Saint Jayne. I have 5 1/4lbs to loose in 4 weeks. So I really need to stick to the diet and keep going to the gym.

I am looking forward to Hulagise on Thursday. Feeling a little nervous about it, but it looks like a right laugh.

Jayne x

Diet Kick Start - Weight Watchers Style

Well, last night I was unable to make it round to Jayne's for the official weigh in so I stepped onto my own scales. My set weigh me at about 1lb lighter than Jayne's so, taking that into account it would appear that I have actually lost a couple of lbs ... although I am reluctant to put anything on the graph just yet.

Anyway, today I have made a decision about my diet strategy. I have been unbelievably rubbish lately with keeping track of my syns and I feel like I need a bit of a change. So in an attempt to give my weight loss a bit of a boost I shall be following weight watchers this week. Don't get me wrong, I don't think weight watchers works better than slimming world or vice versa. Actually I feel like slimming world promotes a healthier approach to eating in general but I have just got a bit apathetic about following it properly. I am so used to slimming world now that I don't need to think about it ... and that is a fatal mistake. I should be thinking about what I am eating and drinking. So the plan for this week is this :

• Eating no more than 18 pts per day, ideally saving some for the weekend.
• Keeping track of my exercise and earning bonus points to use on treats.
• Trying extremely hard to stick within my points at the weekend too.

I feel quietly optimistic about achieving successful weight loss this week. Particularly as myself, Jayne and our good friend and regular blog reader Vix, are going to Hulagise at the local leisure centre. I've booked us in for Thursday night's class and we're going to try our hand at hula hooping away our jelly bellies. I'll let you know how that goes ... although we are all kind of expecting to be spectacularly bad at it! Watch this space!

Gem x

Let's go fly a kite.

Well, I did warn you that I was about to take a running jump into a big old eating binge. It was quite spectacular really. Since last Thursday I have eaten almost everything that you shouldn't eat when you're watching your weight. I won't dwell on it ... it sounds as though Jayne and I both needed a bit of a blow out this weekend. I have no idea what the scales will say this evening (when I eventually get to step on them in between waiting for the eBay buyer to collect the table we auctioned and trying to catch the cat and administer her eye drops). Yesterday the Wii Fit told me I have gained 1 lb, in that smug, jolly way that only Nintendo can do when it tells you your Wii Fit age is 103 (slight exaggeration).

Despite my terrible eating (pizza, chinese, scampi and chips, chocolate cheesecake, malteasers, flapjack, tiramisu, red wine etc, etc, etc, etc) I was actually quite active. On Saturday alone I walked the mile and a half from the centre of town to the garage where my car was getting it's new tyres fitted, I did fifteen minutes of step aerobics on the Wii Fit and spent a good few hours flying a kite at the top of a hill in Lower Penn with Hubby and MH ... you would be surprised how much your heart rate goes up from kite flying. Especially when your hubby is doing the flying and you are chasing around the field retrieving the crashed kite and then relaunching it at the next decent gust. Great fun! And are horror films exercise? My heart was definitely thumping in my chest watching "1408" too ... I reckon shaking on the sofa behind my cardigan wondering what the hell was going on and when the horrible film was going to end burnt of a few calories.

Anyhoo, whichever way I try to appear virtuous through various excuses for exercise, I know I will gain today. Anything up to about 3lbs I reckon from my sneaky scale monitoring over the weekend. I am planning to go to aerobics on Wednesday though (after chickening out of it this evening) and possibly to hulagise on Thursday if I can con at least one person into coming with me. I might even mow the lawn later which, trust me, is going to be one hell of a task.

Gem x

It all started to go wrong...

I am going to confess to my naughtyness...Here goes.

• Last Thursday I had a 4 finger Kit kat...I went over my points
• Friday I had some smarties AND a curly wurly. For tea I had half a ww pizza and 2 waffles with some extra light mayo...I went over my points
• Saturday I had too many bloomin biscuits (there is a pattern here) I also went to a 2nd birthday party and had an icecream. I also had a ww mini roll and a packet of very low fat asda crisps, I also cooked a brilliant chicken biryani ...points wise for this wouldn't be too high as i made it from using just spices and a can of tomatoes...however i didn't count my points at all, but i know for sure...I went over my points
• Sunday I ate more biscuits and I had a bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes. I had a sausage sarnie (low fat bread but not low fat sausage) I cooked a cottage pie. I also had 2 curly wurly's and again i didn't count my points, but i know for sure...I went over my points

I weighed myself this morning and I was 10 st9 3/4lb. Thats half a lb more than i weighed last monday evening so god knows what i shall weigh later on. I also only went to the gym once last week as I was too busy at work on the Friday.

I am back on track from now as I have over 4lb to loose in 4 weeks...I'm on a misson.

Jayne x

Ditto

I TOTALLY agree with Gem's previous post. I have not been good at all this week. One night I even had 2 curly wurlys lol.

The diet starts again tomorrow.

Jayne x

Diet Fatigue - Update

Just so you know I am officially off the diet wagon. Just temporarily ... probably just over the weekend until weigh in but this week hasbeen one thing after another and I just can't do it any more. Enough already! I'll try not to do too much damage but I just can't be dealing with it. Raaaargh!

Gem x

Diet Fatigue

I am suffering from something quite difficult to put my finger on this week. I didn't get my usual sense of clean slate from the Monday weigh in and Tuesday's new food diary. The new food diary usually gets me feeling all efficient and prepared but to be honest, I don't even know what I have done with it. I have been lacksadaisical in filling it in, trying to remember what I ate the morning after I ate it and guesstimating syns and portion sizes. Perhaps it is diet fatigue. I am just sick and tired of being on a diet.

Other excuses I can think of are :

• I am bored of my job and apathetic about my work place. In the last week I have encountered possibly the worst appraisal/salary review process ever conceived. Where on earth would it make sense to review someones salary BEFORE reviewing their job description and professional development for the year? It's just ridiculous. It makes me want wine.
• I have been studying for what seems like forever. Its draining and time consuming and although I am enjoying my course a lot I feel like I really just want to finish it and get the piece of paper now. Partly because the sooner I finish studying the sooner the training contract with my employer runs out and I can get another job! A proper one who properly reviews and rewards people for bloody hard work. This makes me want chocolate.
• Every social event I ever encounter is a diet nightmare and I just don't want to have to think about it any more. Dieting is just too hard when you have friends suggesting you go out for curry or pizza.
• I really like pizza. Ditto for chocolate and wine.

Anyway, I think I just wanted a moan ... I think eating the most boring ham salad in the world has put in me in a mood for the afternoon. I feel a little better for venting.

Gem x

Pheweee!

Well, despite the wedding and the hangover (both cause and effects) I managed not to have a gain this week. I didn't have a loss either BUT I'm quite happy to stay the same ... but i'm only happy to stay the same this week mind you.

Next week I want a loss.

A good one.

Grrrrrrrr!!!

Gem x

Every little helps

Was sooooooo dreading weigh in (ok, so whats new) however this time I was expecting a gain due to the fact i'd eaten quite a lot of rubbish over a few days. I also made a lovely cottage pie and had quiiiite a large portion.

Anyway, getting on the scales i see a loss of 1/2lb. Phew. Not bad at all. This means i now weigh 10 stone 9 & 3/4lbs. BRILLIANT :)

I hereby solemnly declare that I will not eat rubbish this week and stick to the diet.

4 and 3/4 lb away from my target.

Jayne x

When One Thing Leads to Another.

Well, my last post was about my horrendous drinking binge on Thursday evening. I think I am just about over my hangover now lol. Although I have to say that it equaled a very very bad day of eating. You know what it's like ... food is the only cure for a stonking hangover. It started with full sugar blackcurrant jam on thick sliced white toast with butter and spiraled from there really. I wont go into the details because its quite embarrassing but let's just say that it was quiche day in the school restaurant and hubby and I had a Chinese takeaway on the evening and I didn't choose anything sensible like a chow mein and leave it at that.

Saturday we were at a wedding ... I think that is explanation enough! Sunday I was well behaved in comparison. I cooked a Sunday roast and didn't really eat much else besides that meal. I ate it with lots of veg and NO crackling off the pork and about two centimeter slice of vienetta.

I am fully expecting a gain this evening. Will I ever break through the 11st barrier? I'm beginning to think not.

Gem x

Whats going on?

As you can see from my previous post i had a chicken, cheese and bacon burger with chips on Thursday. I have since been feeing very guilty...so what I have I done about this guilt?? Felt a little let down with myself and ate more...NOT GOOD.

Before you say anything, it is not turning in to an eating disorder..I would never do that. However it does seem a little strange...just because of a damn burger...and why do I have to turn to food for comfort when what I actually need to do because of eating that burger is eat less to make up for it, AND do extra at the gym. FACT.

This is a little bit of a depressing blog...but now its out I shall get over myself and get on with the dieting as I have done for the past...however many weeks.

Got a horrid feeling I will gain tomorrow :(

Jayne x

OMG I had a burger

As Gem mentioned we went out with the girls last night. I looked at the menu and really really couldn't decide what to have. I could have gone for salad I guess, but instead I went for the light option of a chicken, cheese and bacon burger...WITH CHIPS...AND COLESLAW :0 I soon got full and didn't quite manage to finish it all but oh god did I enjoy it. I drove so just drank diet coke. I LOVE a catch up with the girls.

I do feel very guilty about what I ate, but as my good friends Gemma and Hayley said to me last night, IT REALLY IS OK. I am allowed to do that now and again and to not be too obsessed about dieting.

I am off work today as Finley is unwell so I won't be going to the gym today so I shall do my exercise video at some point over the weekend.

Just looking and wondering whether to purchase a points calculator??

Jayne x

Missed Mini Goal

Well, despite my best hopes I failed to meet the mini goal (11st before the meal with the girls last night). I was convinced I had done it too as my scales at home had moved since Monday from 11st 2lb to 10st 13lb ... but no, the official weigh in scales say I am exactly the same. Ah crap.

So, that not being my only dissapointment of the day Jayne and I went out for tea with the girls (I had steak and jacket spud) and I was really ready for that glass of wine. Unfortunately, as is so often the way with these things, one glass of wine turned into lots of glasses and blimey-o-crikey I am paying for it this morning!

Too hungover to write any more ... bleeuuurgh.

Gem x

Weightloss - Little and Often

Despite falling off the slimming world wagon, and straight into the Flying Pizza on saturday evening I managed to scrape together a 1lb loss this week taking me back down to 11st 2 and 1/4 lbs and aaaaalmost at the mini goal. Unfortunately for me, I was supposed to hit the mini goal of 11st before going for the girls meal out on Thursday evening. It doesn't reeeeeally look like that's going to happen to be honest, but ever the optimist I intend to weigh myself before I leave the house on Thursday in the hope that I can still call a victory on the mini goal. ( I say that like stepping on the scales is a huge occasion when in reality I have probably weighed myself three times already today. For the record, I'm 11st 2lb in my heavy jeans today.) Also, I wasn't even naughty after the weigh in this week ... there were no outstanding goodies to dispose of and I enjoyed roast chicken with a jacket potato (HEb) and salad for tea.

Gem x

Whoop whoop whoooop

It was weigh in yesterday and as always I felt fat all day. However I got on the scales to see a loss of 2 and 1/2lb. That takes me down to 10 st 10 1/4lbs.

Over the moon to be honest. But still feel that my jelly belly is as big as the moon so have got back in to doing my sit-ups every night (didn't do many last week). Also need to start doing some more side sit-ups.

Going out with the girls on Thursday for a drink/meal/gossip. I SHALL be good.

My target was to be 10st 5lb by 18th August and I have 7 weigh ins until then so I am still on track :)

Jayne x

Forgot to mention the sweets

If you have read my previous post you will see that I went to the 6th form ball and foodwise i was pretty good. However i forgot to mention that in a drunken state myself and the rest of my team decided to steal all the sweets that were in bowls on every table. These included razzels, refresher chews, mojo's, vimto lollies, drumstick chewy lollies, popping candy, chocolate cigarettes, rainbow dust and dolly beads. How did we get these out of the ball I hear you ask...well, my handbag mostly, but Bri did took his trousers in to his socks and we put alot down his trousers and then some down my cleavage!!!!

Anyway all of Thursday and Friday they were sitting on the desk next to me and I did have some. Banana mojo's a fave lol. I didn't eat as many as i wanted, but I prob ate more than I should have on Friday. Boooo naughty me.

Also I did not go to the gym last week as Wednesday I was out, Thursday I was too hungover and Friday I was too busy at work. I think that has not helped as when I weighed myself at work on Friday it showed a nice loss. However weighing myself saturday and today I can see that there is no loss AT ALL. Boooooooooo. I am sooooo trying to be good. Yesterday I was, but i'm finding it difficult today as the shopping has arrived. I just need to keep myself busy and I am going to do my exercise video later today in hope that it may help a little.

Fingers crossed for tomorrow. I'm hoping the vodka and sweets don't make too much of an impact..I hope they just go away so that I will have a loss.

Jayne x

If Slimming World Made Pizza ...

I'm sitting here with my Marmite (free) on toast (HEb) and a huuuuge cup of fresh tea, indulging myself in what can only be described as displacement activity. I should be writing yet another assignment for my course but I have found it very difficult to get motivated all weekend. I sat here for a substantial amount of time yesterday just staring blankly at the computer screen and getting increasingly frustrated before giving up, pouring myself a glass of squash and watching Futurama. However, today I have given myself a goal. I'm not allowed to leave the house until I have written at least a thousand words.

Today I do feel like that is an achievable goal but yesterday was not a good day. You can probably guess from the title of the post that my food intake wasn't exactly diet friendly. In my defense it was the freshest, most delicious pizza I have ever eaten in my life and if pizza were even the tiniest bit allowed on Slimming World, this is the kind of pizza it would be. Freshly made dough twirled into a base before your very eyes, piles of fresh tomatoes, onions and basil leaves and mozzerella that has never ever seen the inside of a plastic packet and not even the tiniest pinch of MSG in sight. If you ever find yourself in Wolverhampton pay a visit to the pizzeria next to Bella Italia in Chapel Ash ... it's like a piece of Italy accidentally appeared in the west midlands.

As yummy as it was I do feel like I let myself down a little. After such a good week I go and eat five million syns in one day. Perhaps I am sabotaging myself? Well, that is an issue that I can't even begin to try and resolve today because I have an assignment to write ... and my reward for reaching the 1000 word mark will be a walk over to my folks house for a go on the Wii Fit. Surely the funniest thing to ever have been invented.

Gem x

Slimming Adventure Word Art

Call me a geek (most people do) but I just found something that I thoght was really cool. I found it on my course leaders blog and wanted to have a play around. It's called Wordle and if you paste in some text it creates a tag cloud where the most used words are larger and the least used words are smaller.

Here's one I made earlier using the words in our blog from the month of June! Click on the image to see it full screen.

Gem x

Ball Update

Well. What an evening. I had lots of fun. Maybe did things that I shouldn't have done due to drinking vodka. But nothing too embarresing...I think.

The buffet looked great. There I was lining up, wondering what to have, when i found myself putting almost everything on my plate :o However when i got back to my table all i ate was 1 spring roll, salad and some pasta. The rest was then offered to the boys. I Didn't even venture over to the chocolate fountain. So I don't feel too guilty about that.

I drank quuuuite a lot of vodka though (with diet coke) So hoping all the dancing I did (tried to do) will take away a few calories.

Today I have had a nasty hangover which is not good. Not good at all. Infact I have moaned about it to Gemma quite a lot.

The night before the Ball I tried on my dress which I thought I was going to wear. Thing was IT WAS TOO BIG. Good...but a nightmare also. So I dashed round town (on the day of the ball) in hope I would find something to wear. Luckily I found a purple dress I really liked in M & S. Which may I add was a size 12...Oooooh yes.

Only just about getting over my hangover..Tut tut

Jayne x

School Dinners

It's all formal events this week. Jayne has had her Ball and tonight I have the "Celebration of Student Achievement" evening. It's basically a posh awards ceremony for the kids and I get stuck up in the theatre control room making sure the graphics get displayed properly on the projectors. Not quite as glamorous as buffets, dresses and vodka but not without its diet dangers either ... namely school dinners.

Our school restaurant (apparently, it's not a canteen as it has soft furnishings lol) is very much responsible for my putting on a stone and a half in the three years I have worked here. Their vegetable quiche is to die for, they do a mean cooked breakfast and don't even get me started on the selection of cakes. They do have their healthy options of course, such as jacket potatoes and pasta which are great for a green day lunch when I haven't been bothered to make a salad. You won't find Jamie Oliver poking his nose in round here, oh no. Tonight is different though because all the governors are here so they bring out the good stuff (in place of good read fattening). I will do my best to stick to the rules, but being as I have no idea what will be on offer until I get there it is difficult to plan. In anticipation I have had hardly any syns at all so far this week (11 in total) and I went to aerobics last night too, in a desperate attempt to lose next weigh in. The scales at aerobics didn't show any loss since Monday though, which was a bit disheartening but I suppose it had only been two days.

Keep on going, keep on writing it all down, keep on being active and try to keep it up over the weekend.

Gem x

Going to the ball

It's the 6 form ball tonight. So it's time to get dolled up and party. I was thinking about driving, but my colleagues insist I have a few drinks. So it’s a few vodka and diet cokes for me later :)
Vodka is only 1 point a shot and diet coke is 0 points so I can get away with a few.

There is also a buffet, so I will have to dance all night so I can forget about it lol.

Thought I would post this so that I can not pretend it never happened if I over eat or over drink hehe. I will update tomorrow.

Jayne x

No Surprise

Well, I was quite prepared for a gain and lo and behold I got one. I put on 1 and 1/4 lbs taking me back up to 11st 3 and 1/4 lbs and a little bit too far away from the mini goal of 11st by the time it comes to tea with the girls next week. In an attempt to rectify the situation ready for the next weigh in I took the following action. Hubby and I ate everything that could be considered dangerous including the remains of the strawberry flan, half a bag of pistachio nuts, some garlic roule and crackers. That should do it. Best behaviour as of now ... I might even try not to drink this weekend but we'll see about that.

On the plus side, while I was hunting for something suitably lightweight to wear for weigh in to minimise the damage I came across some khaki linen combats. I had bought them for my honeymoon in January but after Christmas and New Year there was no way I could fasten them ... however, yesterday I could fasten them easily. Hoorah! Jayne tried to make me feel better by pointing out that I had done aerobics twice last week and perhaps I had just put on some muscle weight but we both know it was food and alcohol really :)

Gem x

1lb loss

Thank goooood. I was so nervous getting on the scales last night due to being * week and having a sunday snack-a-tac.

I was pleased to see that I had lost 1lb. I now weigh 10st 12 3/4lb. I can now safely say that I have passed the mini goal. I have lost over a stone so very happy with that. I have had a few people notice my weight loss of late so thats pretty cool.

I'm hoping i won't struggle to get rid of these last 8lb.

Jayne x

Weekend munchies

Just thought i'd let you know about my weekend. It was * week for me, and I don't know what it is about these few days at this time of the month, however I always get the munchies. Friday I was good all day at work and then had a plain chow mein (4 1/2 points) and some of Tonys rice. However I didn't order prawn crackers so that I couldn't get tempted. Saturday...again I was good. We went out up town of the evening so I decided to drive and drank diet coke. I also did A LOT of dancing (I even did the running man dance to MC Hammer - You can't touch this)

Sunday I got the munchies - BIG TIME. I had crumpets for breakfast, a banana, biscuits, ham salad sarnie, light crisps, ww mini roll, biscuits, chicken fajitas and a curly wurly. I didn't even bother writing everything down so I may have eaten more lol.

I was scared all of Monday...as was dreading weigh in.

Jayne x