Getting There

2 1/2lb loss for me this week, quite chuffed as that means i only have 2lb to go before 1st stone off....only another stone to go after that....seems impossible, but i#ve gotta do it.

Have tried my hardest to behave this week, although slipped up on Friday with no tracking and going to an indian wedding, so lots of scrummy indian food and 2 glasses of vino.

Managed to get on the wii fit most nights, so perhaps that has helped....will get back onto it again this week, as i'm desperate to get my remaining 2lb next tues.

Have a good week girls xx

I Had My Cake And Ate It!

Today was weigh in day and my first day back at work after my two weeks annual leave. My first day back at work was pretty much as expected ... miserable and depressing. Weigh in brought similar emotions. My two weeks of not properly tracking, not weighing or measuring, not exercising and generally saying yes to wine and puddings has meant an enormous gain of 2lb this week. Vile. That puts me back to 10st 11lbs. Drat.

Actually, I'm not feeling down about it ... I enjoyed myself. That's the main thing when you are on holiday isn't it? To r-e-l-a-x. And I did.

However, the scales so drastically jumping back up like that has really given me a wake up call. Careless eating and no exercise makes Gemma a fatty frump - Fact. And all that drinking has given me a right bloated belly too.

I have eaten my 19 points today but there will be no going over as a weigh in treat today. I even had to cut my post weigh-in curly wurly in half and give the rest to Hubby to save a point. For the rest of the week I shall be attempting to save up food points and earn activity points to make sure I can get a really good loss for next week, whatever the weekend might bring. I've had my cake and I've jolly well eaten it too ... now it's time to get back on track.


Gem x

No news isn't bad news ... but it's not great either!!!

Today is the final day of my annual leave from work ... I just have the weekend to go before I am back in that rather gloomy office staring at the computer screen for eight hours a day five days a week. In the current climate I can't complain about having a job but I have really quite enjoyed being at home, visiting family and friends, doing a few jobs around the house and generally recharging my batteries. It's been a well earned and thoroughly enjoyed rest.

If I'm honest, the diet hasn't been at the top of my list of priorities for the last two weeks. I haven't gone madly off the rails but I have kind of been straying from the tracks a little. A few extra glasses of wine here, a handful of nibbles there, guesstimated weights of cereals and unmeasured martini's have sneaked in there I must admit. I have added things to my online tracker as and when I have been on the computer but I am sure things will have got missed. The time I have spent on the wii fit has been little or none for the most part but by the reckoning of the online activity tracker five hours of decorating every day for three days will have earned me somewhere in the region of 31.5 activity points so I haven't been a complete slob. Well, not until today anyway. Today the sofa was mine, all mine, all day :) Heaven.

Anyways, I missed last weeks weigh in as Hubby and I drove down to see sis-in-law and the family (fish and chips and wine but quite a good sea front walk too) but I did step on the wii fit before we went and it indicated that I had stayed more or less the same. This Monday I did make it to weigh in and I had lost 1lb (!) taking me down to 10st 9.5 lbs ... that's a loss of 9lbs since starting ww meetings and 13.5lbs since the start of the year. Not too shabby eh? I'm actually looking forward to getting back into a routine with my eating next week ... I can't get away with sloppy behaviour like this for very long. Or perhaps I'm not being as naughty as I thought I was. Either way it will be good to get things back under control and I'm ready for it.

Gem x