Dreadful ... Dreadful ... Dreadful

I'm not weighing in tonight ... that will have to wait until tomorrow. I am going to aerobics tonight in a desperate attempt to undo at least some of the damage I inflicted on my weight loss this week. It was a week of diet dreadfuls.

Dreadful Number 1 - Hubby's birthday. This meant birthday cake (chocolate celebration cake from asda, delish) and a Chinese takeaway (I could have been good and had a chow mien but I wasn't and had the authentic oriental choice of Chinese chicken curry and chips lol).

Dreadful Number 2 - Socialising. Hubby's birthday was on Thursday and seemed to stretch over the hole weekend with different gatherings. A meal out at the pub on Friday (I had a veggie pasta dish with garlic bread and 3 glasses of wine), a fish and chip late lunch followed by watching a fab jazz pianist at a little pub in cannock on Saturday (they also fed us grey peas and bacon bits at the pub and I can't begin to tell you how much red wine was consumed).

Dreadful Number 3 - Hangover. I woke up Sunday afternoon feeling fairly ropey and depressed after all that wine. I managed to force feed myself two crumpets for 'breakfast' at about 1pm, then we had to get out of the house for Hubby's birthday outing to Go Ape. I snaffled twix and a full fat sprite before climbing around in the tree tops for three hours. Surprisingly, climbing up trees and then jumping off them is quite a good cure for a hangover.

Dreadful Number 4 - All-You-Can-Eat. Needless to say we were all starving after doing the rounds at Go Ape. Some little blighter (it wasn't me) mentioned Curry. Once someone says the words Curry it is impossible to take it back and everyone can immediately taste it in the back of their mouth. I probably burned a few calories monkeying around for the afternoon but promptly piled them all back on at the Hot Rock Sunday Buffet.

With best behaviour followed by aerobics (which is going to really hurt after yesterdays tree top exertion) I might be able to scrape a bit of it back perhaps. I would be ecstatic with a stay-the-same this week but I wont hold my breath.

Gem x

My new mission/goal

As I have mentioned in previous posts. Since getting to goal I have been less saintly. I have been pigging out on biscuits and chocolate. Not good. Not only will I gain weight from doing this, but it is very un-healthy.

Now I am at the weight I am happy with I need to make sure I eat healthy and stay active. Will make me feel better inside and out. Lately I have been feeling, tired and lazy. This is most likely to do with what I eat. I eat low point lunches and teas and because of this I pig out on rubbish of an evening. So now I have more points to have per day I need to up my calorie intake at lunch/tea time, thus helping me snack less. Makes sense.

My new mission/goal...

NO CHOCOLATE, OR BISCUITS UNTIL APRIL 6TH.
Tony has hidden these foods that are already in the house. When I go shopping on Friday I will only buy the biscuits that Fin likes and I won't eat those. Tony will do without biscuits, but not chocolate hehe. He will fetch that when he runs out and he will again hide it. I really am going to do this. I know it's only 11 days, but as it is something I really love and enjoy eating, it's going to be really hard. But will make myself do it and I bet I will feel better for doing it.

Jayne x

Silver Seven!

The new mini goal is off to a good start. At yesterday's weigh in I managed to lose another 2lbs taking me down to 11st 2lb. I think that is my lowest weight since I started on the slimming adventure last year. It also means that I have lost 7lbs - half a stone - since the start of the year. WOOHOO!

In the back of my mind I am kind of thinking back to last year though ... and last year I got stuck at 11st 2lbs and couldn't get any further. I am determined not to let that be the case this time but it is a worry. I've got my mini goal to keep me focussed though (I have two more weigh ins before my Easter break and I want to be under 11st before then so 2 more lbs to go).

I also have Vix watching my every move and vice versa. Last week we started texting one another every morning to report our menu plan for the day (for example, today I am having shreddies, ham salad sammo, fruit, fromage frais and chicken stir fry ... Vix is having porridge and prunes, stir fried brown rice and veg and a turkey roast dinner). It seems to be working as Vix also had a good 2lb loss this week. It's also cheaper than going to a meeting which would be the next step if we can't behave ourselves.

Gem x

Maintaining weigh in #2

Weigh in last night showed a gain of 1/4lb. Taking me to 10st 1lb. Not bad considering all the rubbish I ate and not counting my points again.

I am using my tracker this week though and I am going to count everything. I am booked in to the gym today and Thursday and I'm hoping to loose that 1lb by next Monday. If not loose. Then I don't want to gain anymore.

I am good during the day. But once it comes to after eating my tea..I don't know what it is, but I just feel like pigging out. This needs to STOP. Immediately. I have special K and a salad for lunch with a banana, an apple and a yogurt for snacks. Will want something quick and easy for tea as I'd have been to the gym and my mom is coming over to see Fin. I think I'll just have a ww lasagne and waffles for tea.

Well done to Gem and Vix this week. They have both been very good indeed.

Jayne x

1st weigh in after getting to goal

I didn't have time to weigh in on Monday as I was at Finley's parents eveining and it was late when I got home. So I did a weigh in last night. I was 10 stone and 3/4lb which is a gain of 1lb. I think that is ok as I know I will go up and down around 10 stone from now on. It's what happens to everyone at the end of the day. No one is the same weight week in, week out. I had also been to the gym. Don't know if that makes any diffencece with weight, but I'll go with that.

I didn't count points nor did I behave very well last week. I kept using the excuse...I deserve this, I am at goal. But that happened the whole week. Even Tony said it when I had the second chocolate bar one evening hehe.

Anyway. I will start counting points again now as I know I need too (just wanted a week off)

Today I have had special K for breakfast and I do have a salad for lunch as I have not had one for a while now (I had a few sarnies or pasta bowls last week :o) I have a banana and a yogurt for snacks. For tea I have a chicken breast with cous cous, a jacket spud with a squirt of extra light mayo and salad. Will have fruit for afters. Pineapple and strawberries. Yummy.

I am going to the gym again on Thursday. That will be my new routine. I will run more and use a few more weights to help me tone up. I have stopped the rower now as I think this is what hurts my back.

Jayne x

Gem's New Mini Goal

Right ... I have decided on a new mini goal. It's very mini. Graduation isn't until the 20th June, which is too far away for a mini goal. By rights I should be at my actual goal by then but let's not think about that for now.

I have a few days away booked for over Easter ... Me, Hubby, Mom, Dad, Brother and his Girlfriend are going to Lincolshire for a short break in a cottage in the countryside. Nice. Holidays are notorious for weight gain so I want to be under 11 stone by the time I go away so that I (hopefully) wont be more than 11 stone when we get back. That gives me 3 official weigh ins between now and then to lose at least 4lbs.

There ... I have thrown down the gauntlet. Not an easy challenge but a challenge none the less.

Today I have had rice crispies for breakfast, I plan to have a ww wrap for lunch and some fruit and an alpen light bar for a snack with a cuppa later on. That's 10 points (depending on what fruit I choose) during the day. Then either salmon or chicken with new potatoes and veg for tea which equates to about 6 points so there's room for a yoghurt or more fruit later too.

Gem x

Feeling Light as a Feather

Well, weigh in didn't go exactly to plan this week. I put back on the 1/2 lb that I lost last week BUT I do have excuses.

1. It is only four days since last weigh in being as I weighed in so late last week.
and
2. I ate the world at the weekend so there was no way I would get away with it.
and
3. I actually feel FANTASTIC and like three stone has been lifted from my shoulders as I just got a distinction grade back for my final MA module. Bring on the graduation :D

Niether myself or Vix did particularly well this week however we have made a pact to watch each other like hawks for the next seven days. We will be texting our meal plans each day and and giving regular updates. I have also made a no-sweets-or-chocolate-for-seven-days promise to myself. I have loads of points left today (11.5) so I can afford something nice for tea and a celebratory glass of wine.

Perhaps my graduation on the 20th June can tie in with my next mini goal? Something to ponder.

Gem x

9lbs in 9 Weeks - FAILED!

Ok, so Monday 9th March should have been the 9th weigh in of my 9 week challenge to lose 9lbs. I was out on Monday night and back late on Tuesday so it was actually Wednesday before I got chance to weigh in this week. I knew it was unlikely that I would reach my mini goal, being as last week I still had 4lbs to go! Obviously, I failed the 9 week challenge. Boooo and Hisssss!!! I did however, have a teeny tiny loss of 1/2 lb which puts me at 11st 3.5 lbs.

Vix and I are both struggling to stay on track at the moment. We KNOW what we shouldn't be eating and yet we do it anyway then text Jayne and each other to confess and ease our consciences LOL. For example, last night after weigh in I ate one of those small chicago town pizzas with oven chips followed by a Smarties egg (one of those cadbury's creme egg sized ones with the mini smarties inside) ... see, now I feel far less guilty. I know that pizza and chips and chocolate should not be on the menu when I really reeeeeeally want to be a slimmer but I just keep on sabotaging myself. Humph.

Anyway, enough with the self pity. I must get immediately back on the wagon and write down everything that passes my lips. After such a late weigh in this week there is less time between now and the next one so I have some serious work to do if I'm going to lose after skiving off aerobics and eating pizza :P

I must also have another think about setting myself another mini goal.

Gem x

I'M AT GOAL

So pleased. I was really good all week. Stuck within points. Went to the gym twice. Went on the wii fit a few times and went for a long walk on Saturday. Tony has been doing it with me which really helped.

I lost 2 and 3/4lbs taking me to 9 stone 13 and 1/4lbs. Hoorah, I've done it...Reached my ultimate goal weight.

Thats a loss of 32lbs ...or...2 stone 4lbs...or...16 bags of sugar.

So now its maintain time. Will keep up with the gym and still behave food wise as I know how quick it can go back on.

I'm going to celebrate with a snickers later on. Yuuuuum. I am going to the gym today and Thurday this week. Will hopefully go for a run/jog/walk this weekend as well.

I have special K for breakfast, A ham salad and a yogurt for lunch and a few strawberries and some special K mini breaks for snacks...not forgetting my snickers woowooo. Not sure what to have for tea yet. I'm quite fancying beans on toast.

Whoop whoop whoop.

I have just worked out that I can have 25 points a day. Thats 7 extra points a day. Blimey :D

Jayne x

Scale Fight!!!

As you know I have been weighing myself on my scales at home since April 2008. As you may or may not know, I have also been weighing myself on the scales every Monday and Friday morning in the gym at work with the lads I work with. We have a dead cool graph. I must post it on here sometime...Anyway. It has always showed a different weight to the ones at home. They always show a lighter weight. This morning they showed me at 60.2 kg. That's 9 st 4 stone. So way off what my scales show. We were told by the gym instructors that they were out by 2 kg. So that would make me 62.2 kg 9.7 stone. So still totally off my home scales.

Anyway...I went to weigh myself at lunch time on the health scales in Tesco. These types of scales..like in boots...are meant to be correct. These scales say I am 9st 8.4lb. Which is closer to the gym scales than mine. Shocking :0 Surely that can't be right? 2 lots of scales say I am 9 stone something. Naaaah...I can't be.

I weighed myself on my scales last night and I was 10 stone 1lb. How confusing haha.

Girls get down to tesco or boots and try it for yourself. See what the difference is. I will still go by my scales.

I have been good this week so hoping for a loss x

Getting desperate

Last (working) week went pretty well food wise. I was unable to go to the gym because of my back and then on Friday I had some work to do which stopped me going.

Friday evening I went to a party with my mom. The buffet looked amazing..and I couldn't resist. I pigged out. Slice of pizza, cheese cob, pasta, potato salad, cheese rolls. Then I had a pudding of fruit and a meringue.

Saturday I had a banana for breakfast and a Gregg's sausage roll for lunch. For tea I had ww soft cheese on a ww toasted bagel. But during the day I did snack on biscuits. Once Fin went to bed on that evening myself and Tony had a go on the wii. I was doing very well and had done 30 minutes when I then decided to have a go on super hula. I was spinning that fast that me and Tony starting laughing. As soon as I did that I felt my back go again. I was in agony...raaaa. So I couldn't go for the run I had promised myself I would do on Sunday.

Sunday I again pigged out. I had 2 bowls of special K for breakfast, cheese spread on crackers for lunch and ate even more biscuits. Terrible and very piggy. I didn't have a proper tea due to all the biscuits I ate. Just had a yogurt. But then also had a curly wurly. As you can see I was very naughty and a pattern is emerging that I am good until a Friday afternoon. Why on earth can I not behave of a weekend?

Anyway. I had weigh in last night. Luckily i'd stayed the same at 10 stone 2lb. Phew.

Tony has started dieting with me this week so I'm sure this will help me. Also Vix lost 3lb this week so that has spurred me on to be good. I'd like to say that I will loose these last 2lb by next weigh in, but I guess that depends on if I can get to the gym. I'm feeling desperate now.

Jayne x

Uneventful and Unorganised

Weigh in was uneventful for me this week showing a fairly disappointing stay-the-same result. I felt like I deserved a loss this week after being reasonably well behaved at the weekend so I had a look at my food diary for the week to see where I had gone wrong and actually, although my weekend was OK I forgot I had had a meal out in the week, only one trip to aerobics, no yoga and two days of feeling poorly and eating rubbish. I also accidentally ate 5 points worth of croissant? I didn't realise they were that many points :( So ... still 11st 4lbs. Still 4lbs to go to reach mini goal and only one weigh in to do it. I think we can safely say I am going to miss the goalposts on this one. Darn it. I am going to try and get as close as possible for next weeks weigh in however.

Yesterday I was fairly unorganised. I forgot my aerobics kit, my glasses, my packed lunch and my security swipecard for the office. Being disorganised is when I run into trouble as I am overly generous when guesstimating points values for meals and have no concept of portion size. Being as I was unable to go to aerobics (unless I went and did it in my pants and socks like they used to make you do in primary school ... I doubt they get away with that anymore) I used my time wisely to make up for the rest of the days muddle. I went home and cooked a Quorn Chilli with rice for tea. It was nice actually, I am certainly coming round to the idea of using Quorn instead of minced beef and Hubby doesn't seem to mind it either so I think that will continue. While I was cooking the cilli I also had another pan on the go making a 0 point tomato pasta sauce. I made my packed lunch of chicken salad sandwich on wholemeal with a selection of fruit AND as I am working late and want to avoid the school dinners I have the 0 point pasta sauce with mushroom tortellini and salad for tea.

Gem x