weigh day results 10 Nov 2011

OK I suspected that it would be a gain, I am not even surprised by the size, I deserved every single one of those 3lb's.  Those who are good at Maths will have already worked out that I am back up above the 2.5stone I was so happy about last week - damn it!

The reason for my appalling gain - I have had a stinking cold all week, my car is broken, its horrible weather and I remember why I learnt to drive, public transport is unreliable and slow and nothing is more depressing than standing at bus stop shivering for 40 minutes.  I turned to food for comfort, and despite having a whole host of healthy options for warm comforting food I decided I wanted everything I shouldn't. For anyone who is going off the wagon for a week who loves burgers I highly recommend Oscar's Mountain Burger from Oscar's wine bar in York, the Special burger is amazing too (from previous experience).  However anyone thinking about actually losing weight probably should avoid it like the plague.  I suspect if I had stopped there I might have maintained, but the rest of the week was no better biscuits, sandwiches, toast, pasties, chocolate... the list goes on.

Oh well never mind, what's done is done I have started this week determined to get back on the plan, I am still not 100% well but I have set myself a goal for Christmas and I am never going to get there unless I am dedicated.

I went shopping yesterday and ended up buying some clothes in ASDA without trying them on, I picked up 14's because my work trousers are a 14 from there, and fit fine.  Hmm sizing is an evil devil the size 14 jeans I picked up are impossible to fasten, they barely make it over my bum - very disappointed.  However I will not be beaten I am wearing them this Christmas, and I do mean 2011!

Tomorrow SW curry for tea - no takeaways, no eating out!!! Wish me look fellow weight battlers!

Weigh Day Results 18 Aug 2011

Oops, its a case of three steps forward and two steps back this week, not in the slightest bit surprising considering that I lost the plot and fell off the wagon  - although you would think all that searching and falling would count as body magic!

I think I have got a bit bored of my diet, I seem to eat the same things all the time and and its not very inspiring.  I am going to have a look through the pile of SW magazines and books that I have collected over the last few years and find something different to eat.

Last night I had Diet Coke Chicken, I didn't have pasatta so just used tinned toms, I never really stick to the same recipe but this one tasted pretty good with syn free chips.

Recipe

Carton of tinned tomatoes
packet of skinless, boneless chicken thighs
2 red onions (sliced length ways)
1 chicken stock pot
Chilli powder
400ml diet coke

brown onions and chicken thighs with chilli powder in a wok
mix tomato, stock and coke together in a bowl or jug
pour tomato mixture over chicken
cook on stove over a medium heat for 30-40 mins or until sticky

Yummy!

Weigh Day Results 28 July 2011

Drum role please! OK I am ready to announce my weight change following my holiday... I am very pleased, I thought it would be worse but in the end I only gained 3.5lb taking me back up to 14stone 2.5lb.  I have decided that I am going to try and lose 1.5 this week and get me back down to overweight instead of obese. I know it is going to take a while to rectify the damage but at least it isn't half a stone.  So I figure I need a new target I would like to weigh 12 stone 12 by the end of October that is 14 weeks away and by my reckoning 18.5lb.  I know that is pretty ambitious considering my average of just less than 1lb a week, but aim high and who knows what you might achieve. Shoot for the stars and you might just hit a cloud on a sunny day and make a rainbow.

I am going to try and get back to keeping an online food diary and add some more foody photos.  I suppose I should make it a challenge; so how about I pledge to keep a food diary, provide at least one recipe and one photo a week for the next 14 weeks.

Good luck everyone and just keep slimming

Weigh Day Results 23 June 2011

Oops I gained 1lb this week. Clearly 2 takeaways in one week pushes flexible syns too far.  I am back on it again now, really hope I can hit my 10 week target next week.  I had my hair cut today so must have lost at least an ounce there !! Hmm not sure that that counts really, better make sure that I eat and exercise properly too.

I finally discharged myself from physio this week (didn't feel there was much more they could do for me in the class I was attending) so now I need to replace my ankle classes with proper gym work. I don't think I am capable of running yet, considering that I still struggle standing on one leg (particularly the bad one). I am going to add the stepper into my workout, along with the bike and walking on the treadmill.  I think I might start working towards my first body magic award, hopefully that will motivate me to go to the gym regularly.

Losing weight is the one thing in my life I can control at the moment. I need to feel better about myself, my confidence has taken a real battering lately and the only thing that keeps me going is the nice comments I get when people notice I have lost weight.  Saying that; you really can have too much of a good thing... can't get complacent still a long way to go.

Good luck for the rest of the week everyone

Weigh Day Results 2 June 2011

Another maintain! I can only attribute this ridiculous stall to the fact that I have been on the contraceptive pill for 3 weeks now for the first time in 6 years.  I was sceptical that this was the cause until I read the information leaflet and weight gain was clearly listed as a common side effect.  Very frustrating, but its a toss up between quick weight loss and improving the other poly cystic ovary syndrome symptoms.  I am holding onto the hope that once my body gets used to the influx of hormones it will start losing weight again, either way I am not giving up on SW, I know it works, its just my body that doesn't!

I am slightly concerned about the current E.coli outbreak, is this a good excuse to become a salad dodger? will SW revise the diet to stop the eating of uncooked veg? Am I getting rather too obsessed? I washed my fruit for about 2 minutes this morning just to be on the safe side, thank god I am not on a water meter.

weigh day results 26 May 2011

I maintained my weight this week, disappointed as I really hoped I had turned a corner.  Losing weight feels like the only thing I have control of at the moment, when things don't happen how you expect it is just another blow to my self esteem.  'I can't even lose weight properly' is constantly going round in my head.  I feel like a failure, I wonder how life ended up like this - I had such big plans for this year, and I have achieved nothing, its all a mess. 

I am in a dark place emotionally, I am trying to keep my head above the water, but my legs are thrashing in the seaweed that is trying to pull me down. 

Sorry for my depressing rant, I promise not to keep doing it, I will snap out of it and prove that even when things are beyond bad you can still lose weight. 

What is the best possible revenge?
To be successful.

Watch this space...

Weigh Day Results 28 April 2011

Not really surprisingly I had a 2.5lb gain this week. That means my end weight after the Lent Challenge is 14 stone 9lb.  A little bit disappointing as that is just 6lb in 8 weeks, especially as I had lost 8.5 lb last week.

My Award and prize Tiara which is in celebration
 of tomorrows Royal Wedding

Measurements 10 March 2011 compared with Today

Bust (in bra) 44 inch 43.5 difference -0.5 inch

Above belly button 40 inch 38 inch -2 inch

Below belly button 43 inch 42 inch -1 inch

Hips 46 inch 45 inch - 1 inch

Thigh left 26 inch  26 inch  -0 inch

Thigh right 27 26 inch -1 inch

Calf left 17 inch  17 inch -0 inch

Calf right 17.5 inch 17.5 inch  -0 inch


Next goal


I feel thinner, well not so much this week but definitely last week. Obviously the first thing is to get the weight off that I gained this week and then I am going to start aiming for the 2 stone award, I know I am skipping one, but I whenever I get close to it I gain weight so I figure forgetting it is there is a better idea.  I want to weigh 13 stone 13 by the 30 June 2011 that is 10 lb in 9 weeks that should be completely possible.  I may be going to a wedding the week after as such my goal is to look decidedly more svelte than I do at the moment.

I will be writing my food diary on a new page challenge to lose 10lb in 9 weeks

Other news


I found out this evening that I had been slimmer of the month for March, My consultant has been off sick a lot recently and she missed giving it out when it was due.  It is a shame really because I think I would have felt more motivated if I has known I had achieved that, as never in my entire SW life have I ever managed it before Still I will hold the fact that I can do it close to my heart as I attempt to undo the damage caused by my binge session by sticking to 70 syns this coming week.

Wish me luck... 

Results of Slimming World Lent Challenge Week 6

There are good weeks and there are bad ones; unfortunately two weeks of flexible syns have resulted in my first gain, 0.5lbs.  I am disappointed, I didn't go that far over my syns and it isn't like I have lost much for weeks.  I need to think how I can speed up my weight loss. To make it worse; I have been invited out for tea on Saturday, I can't imagine it is going to be low in syns and as flexible syns are not working for me at the moment, so that is another challenge.

Somedays it all seems so hard, having to worry about everything that passes your lips, constantly thinking about food.  Why can't I have been born with a fast metabolism, why did I put on all this weight again, why doesn't everything go the way you plan.

I am slipping into a bad mood so I am going to leave it at that, wish me luck!

Slimming World Food Diary

I am still reeling from shock, I have gained 7lb, in just two weeks! Half a stone - I feel so annoyed, I won't make excuses, but I will say I didn't expect that size of gain.

The shock has made me determined to stick 100% to the diet this week. I really hope that the result will be a large loss, I am so disappointed I really wanted my two stone award by now, but I am back up at a total loss of less than a stone after this recent disaster.

I feel that there are some clear reasons for losing weight and I want to write them here for the world to see, that way I can't hide from them.

Reason 1: I want a sex life! How is that for brutally honest I think I may be finding my virginity again it really has been that long. I know I am unattractive and I have lost confidence in that department, but I miss feeling sexy and desirable; I don't expect to look like a page three model; just vaguely attractive.

Reason 2: I am reliably informed the PCOS symptoms will reduce if I lose weight down to a healthy level.

Reason 3: I hope losing weight will increase my fertility and my chances of conceiving (see reason 1)

Reason 4; I have little control or clue how to deal with anything else in my life, I think concentrating on weight loss as my primary goal for a while might lead me to resolving some of the other issues I am avoiding dealing with.

I promise to be good from now on, in fact for lent I am giving up cheating on slimming world! I am starting early so here is my food intake for the last 3 days.

Thursday Eve

Spaghetti with Quark, tinned tomatoes, 1 tbsp pesto (4 syns) and Quorn fillets.

1 Banana muller light and 1 plum.

Daily total 4 syns

Friday

Scrambled egg, fatless bacon, and tinned tomatoes.

Butternut squash and red pepper soup.

Pork loin and bovril on 4 ryvitas (HE).

Rhubarb muller light

Fresh Fig

Steak, SW chips, salad and 1 tspHelmans XL mayo (1/2 syn).

1 Hi Fi delux bar (6 syns).

Daily total 6.5 syns

Saturday

Bacon, dry fried egg, wholemeal bread (HE and 2.5 syns)

Butternut squash soup

SW lamb rogan josh, sw chicken balti, rice

4 x SW vegetable samosas (4 syns)

1 x Weight Watchers naan bread (5.5 syns)

2 x Coors Light beers (9 syns)

1 tsp lime pickle (0.5 syns)

1 x galaxy ripple (9 syns)

Daily Total 30.5 syns

Sunday

Bacon, scrambled egg, baked beans, 2 x weight watchers sausages (1 syn).

Plum

Roast chicken, dry roast potatoes, mashed potato, spring cabbage, carrots, leeks, yorkshire pudding (7 syns) and Gravy (4.5 syns)

2 x Alpen light (HE)

Daily Total 12.5 syns

Total so far this week 53.5 syns

The weekend is always the hardest part so I am pleased with how I have done so far, just got to keep it up.

Update will be posted tomorrow.

For the full food diary for this week and the whole of lent please see the Slimming World Food Diary Lent Challenge.