Anomaly

This weeks WI meeting was a bit strange in many ways. I was expecting a gain this week, and possibly a big one. After last weeks post-WI food binge my eating just snowballed this week. I barely tracked, I didn;t plan, there was a party with excessive amounts of drinking(thanks freshers...) and a consequent day of colossal hangover and the associated munchies. I didn't excercise. I barely left the house. It was a wreck of a week.

But I lost 1.5 pounds.

I'm not complaining as such that I lost weight, any other week that loss would be hugely celebrated. But I know I didn't earn it, and habit-wise this week has been dreadful. So the weights tracked but I'm going to put that week and its anomaly firmly behind me. If I let myself think that acting like that will result in healthy weight loss then I'm doomed to...well...doom.

The topic tonight was dealing with food shopping. I know when I make my meal plans I'm pretty good about this, and stick to shopping lists as best I can. Still, it's always good to get a reminder.
One thing Angela (temp. leader, though soon to become my new leader as I switch meetings to a different night- stupid uni timetable...) said that really clicked in my head was "Even if that food seems like a really good bargain, and that you're going to save all this money on it, don't forget that if you have it in the house, sooner or later it's going to get eaten. And when it does you're going to be spending all that money you saved on these meetings."

As a student on a student budget going to Weight Watchers meetings is quite a big financial commitment, and I know that when I've got my degree my planned career is highly unlikely to provide a steady income, and so I really need to do the best I can to get to goal and lifetime or close to that point by the time I graduate. I know I'm going to need to keep going to meetings to keep myself on track and that's just not likely to happen if I have to spend much more time paying for them!

Anyhow, I have to be up early tomorrow because my classes are starting and I GET TO SEE EVERYONE AGAIN!


So it's bedtime for me.

P.s. I got a hamster.
p.p.s. she's a russian dwarf hamster.
p.p.p.s. her name is Princess Anastacia Karenina.
p.p.p.p.s. She has the tiniest nose ever.

Online Journalling - Day 7

 Today started off really well, then went kind of rapidly downhill....


September 14 Food and Exercise Journal:
time- food/exercise (points)
8:30am- oats (2.5) flat peach (0.5) 50g raspberries (0) low fat vanilla yogurt (0.5) 500ml Skim Milk (2)
9:00am- walk to gym and back + cross trainer, excercise bike, rowing machine and weights.
12:15pm- dolly mixtures (1.5) bruiser chew bar (1.5)
12:40pm- 3 bean soup (3.5) bread (1.5) phili (0.5) quorn 'beef' slices (0.5) mustard (0)
5:00pm- walk to WW meeting. WI= lost half a pound. 
7:00pm- star walking back, tights keep riding down making walking REALLY uncomfortable. Decide to get the bus back. Need bus fare so go to cash point, need to break a twenty for bus fare so go into the shop, super hungry so end up buying and eating: cheese and onion pasty (about 9.5) shrimp and banana sweets (5.5) chocolate raisins (10.5) diet coke ( HA! 0)


Points Summary:
Daily used: 40/21...jeez.
AP earned:8
AP used:8
Points Saved:-11
Saved Points Used:0
edit! fvuckit   viodjka party!
GHG Summary:
Fruits/Vegetables- NOPE
Healthy Oils-NOPE
Dairy- CHECK
Liquids-CHECK
Lean Proteins- CHECK!
Vitamins-CHECK
Whole Grains- CHECK!
Pedometer- 19278

Lessons learned:
Always wear tights that fit properly! And bring some kind of snack to eat after W.I. because I'm always hungry by that point and I can't keep doing these bus stop binges.

So this is my week of blog-tracking up, and i'm annoyed it's ended on such a low note, though I'm pleased that I've at least been honest about it. I think that's making a good step forward to breaking my secret-eating habits.
Here's to a much much healthier tomorrow!

Online Journalling - Day 6

September 13 Food and Exercise Journal:
time- food/exercise (points)
9:30am- oats (2.5) flat peach (0.5) 50g raspberries (0) low fat vanilla yogurt (0.5) green tea (0)
12:15am- Pretzels (1.5)
2:30 pm- Vegetable Sushi (3.5) flat peach (0.5) Water (0) skinny cow lolly (1.5)
4:30pm- WW tomato soup (1) bread (1) extra light phili (1)
7:00pm-quorn nuggets (4) new potatoes (2) cabbage, broccoli, squash (0) 500ml Skimmed Milk (2)

Points Summary:
Daily used: 21.5/21
AP earned:? who knows, forgot pedometer...
AP used:0
Points Saved:-0.5
Saved Points Used:0

GHG Summary:
Fruits/Vegetables- CHECK!
Healthy Oils-NOPE
Dairy- CHECK
Liquids-CHECK
Lean Proteins- CHECK!
Vitamins-CHECK
Whole Grains- CHECK!
Pedometer- forgot to clip it on today which is annoying because I did quite a lot of walking today!

Lessons learned:
DO NOT FORGET YOUR PEDOMETER!

September 14 Food & Exercise Plan:
Breakfast- oats (3) fruit (0.5) yogurt (0.5)
Lunch- soup (4) bread (1.5) light olive spread (0.5)
Dinner- pasta of some kind? dunno, not feeling inspired.
Snacks- peaches (0.5) skinny cow lollies (1.5)

Online Journalling - Day 5

September 11 Food and Exercise Journal: MOVING DAY!
time- food/exercise (points)
11:00am- oats (2.5) flat peach (0.5) 50g raspberries (0) low fat vanilla yogurt (0.5) fruit tea (0)
1:00 pm- flat peach (0.5) skinny cow choc stick lolly (1.5)
3:00 pm- Massive salad: 2 quorn frankfurters (3) apple (0.5) Light Caesar Salad Dressing (0.5) Lettuce, spinach, red and yellow pepper, mushroom, cherry tomatoes, celery, pickled red cabbage, carrot (0) Water (0)
6:00 pm- brownie made by housemate(and so it begins) (about 4?)
7:30 pm- squash and spinach risotto (5.5)

Points Summary:
Daily used: 19/21
AP earned:0
AP used:0
Points Saved:2
Saved Points Used:0

GHG Summary:
Fruits/Vegetables- CHECK!
Healthy Oils-NOPE
Dairy- NOPE
Liquids-NOPE
Lean Proteins- CHECK!
Vitamins-NOPE
Whole Grains- CHECK!
Pedometer- 5292

Lessons learned:
I am GOOD at risotto.

September 14 Food & Exercise Plan:
Breakfast- oats (3) fruit (0.5) yogurt (0.5)
Lunch- soup (4) bread (1.5) light olive spread (0.5)
Dinner-quorn nuggets (5) veg (0) potatoes (2) ketchup/pickle/something (0.5)
Snacks- peaches (0.5) skinny cow lollies (1.5)

Online Journalling - Day 4

September 11 Food and Exercise Journal: MOVING DAY!
time- food/exercise (points)
8:00 am- bran flakes (about 3? scales are packed) strawberries (0.5) milk (0.5) water (0)
11:00am- wholemeal bread (3) low fat cheese (2.5?) Onion Chutney (0.5) Water (0)
3:00 pm- Vegetable Couscous (5) Water (0)
6:00 pm- Skinny Cow choc-caramel ice lolly thing (1.5)
8:00pm- Macaroni Cheese (6) Leek, onion, tomatoes, mushrooms (0)

Points Summary:
Daily used: 22.5/21
AP earned:2
AP used: 1.5/2
Points Saved: 0.5
Saved Points Used:0

GHG Summary:
Fruits/Vegetables- CHECK!
Healthy Oils-NOPE
Dairy- CHECK!
Liquids-CHECK!
Lean Proteins- NOPE
Vitamins- CHECK!
Whole Grains- CHECK!
Pedometer-10618 steps


Lessons learned:
I don't like not having my scales to measure things. Skinny cow choc lolly things are great because it's not unlike having a chocolate bar, but I would find it much harder to eat 5 ice lollies in a row that 5 chocolate bars, so it's a bit less likely to trigger binges for me.

September 11 Food & Exercise Plan:
Breakfast- oats (3) fruit (0.5) yogurt (0.5)
Lunch- soup (4) bread (1.5) light olive spread (0.5)
Dinner-quorn nuggets (5) veg (0) potatoes (2) ketchup/pickle/something (0.5)
Snacks- peaches (0.5) skinny cow lollies (1.5)

Online Journalling - Day 3

I hate to say this but this blog journalling thing would be a bit useless if I weren't actually honest about it - last night I had a very stupid, pointless, unsatisfying binge involving the rest of the bag of tortillas, the rest of the tub of houmous and a considerable about of the bag of half fat grated cheese. I didn't point it all and I didn't track it all and if I purposefully try to claw back the points I know I'm going to be feeling really unsatisfied and demotivated this week, which considering its quite a disruptive week with the move anyway is NOT how I need to be. So with my best interests in mind Im just going to wipe clean my saved and activity points to now, and any I earn today and then call it a clean slate from there. Annoyingly I've totally sabotaged my meal plan for today as well which was fairly heavy on the tortilla/cheese/houmous front so I'm going to have to do some re-planning. 




September 10 Food and Exercise Journal:
time- food/exercise (points)
7:40 am- 2 glasses water (0)
8:50 am- 1 Glass Water (0) 35g Cheerios (2) Milk (0.5) 60g Strawberries (0.5)
10:00am- Chickpeas (4) Olive Oil (1) Lime Juice (0) Ground Ginger and Mixed Spice (0)
12:00pm- Vitamin tablet (0)
1:00 pm- Feta Cheese (3.5) Honey Mustard Dressing (0.5) Red and Yellow pepper, cabbage and celery (0)
3:30 pm- Twix Fino (4) Raspberry Coconut Ice (4.5) -This was a moment of sheer madness. Neither were nice, both have made me feel a bit sick. 
8:00 pm- Bean and Chickpea Goulash With Rice (6)


Points Summary:
Daily used: 26.5/21
AP earned:1.5
AP used: 1.5/1.5
Points Saved: 0
Saved Points Used:0

GHG Summary:
Fruits/Vegetables- CHECK!
Healthy Oils-NOPE
Dairy- CHECK!
Liquids-CHECK!
Lean Proteins- CHECK!
Vitamins- CHECK!
Whole Grains- CHECK!
Pedometer-8840 steps


Lessons learned:
Cheerios are yummy but don't fill me up for very long. Also buying chocolate means eating chocolate. Need to NOT DO THAT.

September 11 Food & Exercise Plan:
Breakfast- bran flakes, fruit, juice (4)
Lunch- cheese and pickle sandwich (6)
Dinner- No idea whats in my cupboard at uni....

Exercise- Moving Day!

Online Journalling - Day 2

September 9 Food and Exercise Journal:
time- food/exercise (points)
12:15 am- 30g Bran Flakes (1.5) Apple (0.5) 150g Grapes (1) 150ml Skimmed Milk (0.5) 200ml Orange Juice (1) 2 Glasses Water(0)
1:15 pm- Graze Box Strawberries and Cream (semi-dried strawberries, green raisins and white choc chips) (2)
2:00 pm- 500ml Diet Coke (0) Vitamin Tablet (0)
2:30 pm- 2 slices wholemeal bread (3) 1 Tbsp Houmous (1) Mixed Salad (0) Activia Fat Free Cherry Yoghurt (1) 2 Glasses Water (0)
4:15 pm- Graze Box Natural Vanilla Seeds (3)
6:40 pm- 50g Goats Cheese (4) 1 tbsp Olive Oil (2.5) Roasted Butternut Squash, Celery, red and yellow pepper, mushrooms, red onion and courgette (0) 2 Glasses Water (0)
9:00 pm- wholemeal tortilla (2) bertolli Light spread (0.5) teeny tiny bit of marmite (0) Water (0)



Points Summary:
Daily used: 21/21
AP earned:0
AP used: 0/0
Points Saved: 0
Saved Points Used:2.5/4.5

GHG Summary:
Fruits/Vegetables- CHECK!
Healthy Oils-CHECK!
Dairy- CHECK!
Liquids- CHECK!
Lean Proteins-NOPE
Vitamins-CHECK!
Whole Grains- CHECK!
Pedometer-4846 Steps - bit pathetic, only just got to "healthy".


Lessons Learned:
I don't know why i keep trying to make myself like marmite. It's just foul devil-tar grossness. Blurgh. Also- no protein makes me hungry.
September 10 Food & Exercise Plan:
Breakfast- Creamy Mushrooms on toast (4)
Lunch- cheese and chilli tortilla(5)
Snack- Activia (1) Apple (0.5)
Dinner- Chickpea and Bean Goulash (6)
Evening snacks- tortilla (2) houmous (1)
Exercise- Packing, packing , packing. Back to crewe on saturday!

Online Journalling - Day 1

At WI tonight I lost 1lb so everythings going swimmingly!

I've been thoroughly inspired by the marvelous Leah and so as a bit of a kick-in-the-pants motivation booster I'm going to make myself accountable to you all again! Following her journal template thingy because I LIKE IT. And it's good.


September 8 Food and Exercise Journal:
time- food/exercise (points)
11:30 am- 1 Cup Green tea with Apple and pear (0), 250 ml Water (0), Creamy Mushrooms On Toast (150g Mushrooms, Half a Leek, 40g Philadelphia Extra Light, 100ml Veg Stock, 2 Slices Warbutons Wholemeal Bread) (3)
12:00 pm- Graze Box Milkshake Mix (semi-dried strawberries and bananas and white choc chips, yum) (2.5)
12.30pm- Walking and blackberrying!-getting pedometer towards healthy, nearly there.
1.30pm- Graze Box Pitted Kalamata & Amphissa Olives with Chilli, garlic and Black Pepper (3.5)
4:00pm- 1 sugar free polo (0)
4.30pm- Wii Fit Step Plus for 30 minutes
8:00 pm- Halloumi With Minted Cannelini Beans and mixed salad (6) 
2 glasses water (0)
8:40 pm- Stewed blackberries with apple, half spoon sugar and mixed spice (1.5) Carte D'or Vanilla Light Ice Cream (2)
9:30pm- 2 glasses water(0)


Points Summary:
Daily used: 19.5/21
AP earned:3
AP used: 0/3
Points Saved: 4.5
Saved Points Used:0/4.5

GHG Summary:
Fruits/Vegetables- CHECK!
Healthy Oils-NOPE
Dairy- CHECK!
Liquids- CHECK!
Lean Proteins-CHECK!
Vitamins-NOPE
Whole Grains- CHECK!
Pedometer-12105 Steps


Lessons learned:
 I should start getting up earlier, 11.30am is rather a late breakfast. Blackberries,apple and mixed spices are quite probably the most delicious autumny combination of flavours ever. I love Autumn! 

September 9 Food & Exercise Plan:
Breakfast- bran flakes, fruit, juice (4)
Lunch- houmous, cucumber and phili sandwich(5)
Snack- Graze Box Strawberries and Cream (2)
Dinner- Goats Cheese with roasted veg (7)
Evening snacks- Graze Box Vanilla Seeds (3.5)
Exercise- WII Fit til pedometer at healthy, 30 mins move more dvd.

Accidental shopping spree...

I'm feeling a bit guilty about just spending way more money that I should have done today. So much so that I'm seriously beginning to think about joining The Great American Apparel Diet, which is actually nothing to do with food and everything to do with not buying any clothes for a year.


But let me just say...


TKMaxx.... L.K. Bennet purple wraparound dress....down from £175...to THIRTYTHREE POUNDS. And it's so beautiful : )


And because it's wraparound it fits nicely, even in a size 12. But it will fit much more nicely once I lose some more weight. 


So in order to alleviate my guilt somewhat it's going to be my reward forgetting down to 13 stone and breaking my massive and ridiculous weight loss plateau.


If anything can break it, this dress can.

*sigh*

One Week To Go

Until I'm back in the Creweniverse for Uni...

So this week Im pulling out all the stops.

Which basically means I'm doing fast start for a week to get me properly in the WW zone before I'm left to do it on my own again.

And today's fast start breakfast? YUMMY.

I had the creamy mushrooms on toast, and added some cherry tomatoes and half a leek into the mix as well.
And I've also got the twinings green tea with apple and pear which is gorgeous.
So far so good.
:)

Self-Sabotage

I had laser eye surgery today. Which is mad. Quite simply the most surreal experience of my life, I have to sleep in goggles and put in eyedrops that make me look like I'm crying milk for the next week. And you haven;t lived until you;ve seen your corneas being brushed back into place over your eyeball....

Anyhow, it's pretty life changing stuff. Which has got me thinking...

This week I've been eating absolute rubbish and haven;t quite been able to put my finger on it. I knew part of it was probably to do with being nervous and comfort eating, but I'm pretty certain it's mainly some very insecure little person sat in the corner of my brain saying;

"You can lose the glasses, or you can get thin. You can't do both to me."

I've been wearing glasses since I was 11, so thats practically half my lifetime. I've also been overweight for about as long, maybe a bit longer. And while I desperately want to change that, it's also really frightening. I have little to no idea of what this transformed me is going to be like, and that's pretty terrifying.

I got badly bullied from halfway through primary school right up until I started college, and it was nearly always for 'external' things, things that didn't quite seem like a part of me- being overweight, wearing glasses, etc. And I think I found some comfort in that, it didn't feel like I was bullied for who I was the majority of the time, just for the things they perceived as being part of me. I've just lost one of those for good, and I think the insecure little mini-me in my brain is getting scared about what will happen when I strip all the other layers away.

So I know I've eaten rubbish this week. I know I won't have lost weight this week. But just for once I'm going to accept that and give the mini-me a chance to catch up with reality.

Things are changing around here.

Graze Boxes

I know these divide opinion massively but I think they're an awesome idea.
For those who havent heard of them its basically a box of healthy snacks sent by post for you to graze on throughout the week, such as Fresh and dried fruit, nuts, seeds and crackers. The points values that I've heard of range between 1-6 points, so obviously some snacks are better than others but you can choose to "bin" anything you don't want sending.

The points values I've managed to find out so far are:

New england - 1 point

The Beach - 1
Golden Pineapple Rings - 1

Strawberry fields - 1.5 points

whole imperal plums - 1.5

Love Mix – 1.5 points

agadoo - 1.5

Pina colada - 1.5

round and round the mulberry bush - 1.5

Luscious lemon raisins - 1.5

juicy orange raisins - 1.5

go gojo go go go - 1.5
Figgy Pop - 1.5

great fire dragon - 2 
Grandma's Apple Crumble - 2.5

Swallows and amazons - 2.5

himalayas and beyond - 2.5

milkshake mix -2.5

Korean chilli rice crackers - 2.5

bento mix - 2.5
Checkmate - 3

natural vanilla seeds - 3

Lightly toasted pistachios - 3

born in the USA - 3

beach bum - 3

Ooh la la - 3.5

fiery seeds - 3.5 points

Natural vanilla seeds - 3.5

Sticky choccy pudding - 3.5

Granola seed mix - 3.5

funky gibbon - 3.5 points

Ancient forest nuts - 3.5

Savoury roasted nuts - 3.5

savoury roasted seeds - 3.5

Salsa tossed almonds - 3.5

Mount pleasant - 3.5

kalamata and amphissa olives with chilli and garlic - 3.5

green olives with fresh basil and garlic - 3.5
Olives With Citrus Marinade - 3.5

Funky gibbon - 3.5

Oven roasted cashews - 4

Cracked black pepper cashews - 4
Sweet and Sour Nuts - 4

mount pleasant - 4

7 fruits flapjack - 4
Yin & Yang - 4
Honeycomb Flapjack - 4.5

americas nut mix - 4.5

naked goodness seeds - 4.5

Chocolate peanut cheesecake - 5

copacabana - 5.5
Bounty Hunter - 5.5

desert Island nuts – 6 points

I'll add to this when I find out more- if you know of any not listed please comment! Forewarned is forearmed as it were...or four-armed, or something. 

Anyhow If anyone wants to try it out (UK only I'm afraid :( ) then go to www.graze.com and put in this code: 635YGP8

If you use this code you'll get your first box free and your second half price (they normally cost £2.99 with free posting). I'll also get a discount off my next box so it works out nicely for everyone : )
I'm not getting paid in any other way for this so I dont consider it advertising- your just helping subsidise a penniless student's dried fruit addiction and getting yourself some yummy healthy treats into the bargain :D

Enjoy!

Apologies

Blogging her has kind of gone by the wayside as I've gotten rather into my OTHER blog www.theymightbeshiny.blogspot.com, lookbook, and posting daily challenges on the weightwatchers website.

But i'm feeling fairly on track, and I lost 3lbs at last nights WI taking me back down to my 25lbs and to my pre-maastricht weight. so that is a GOOD THING.

Also, have a picture of a pig-marrow.

Wardrobe Clearout

Been having a bit of a clearout of things that no longer fit me so there are some gorgeous things on ebay for you to grab!

Check them out HERE

River Island Pencil Skirt (16)

Desperate Dan T-Shirt (Mens XL)

River Island Cocktail Dress (18)

Dark Star top (10-12)

80s Day Dress (16-18)

Amazing 80s cocktail dress (16-18)

Sad to let some of these go but it means more wardrobe space for shiny new things that fit me!

Also check out the amazing nectarine tarte tatin I made the other day:

2 Points per slice! and then a nice scoop of low fat ice cream for 1 point- completely delicious.

OMOMNOM.

Unfortunately you can;t get the tart on ebay...cos I ate it all already.

:D

WW Site Revamp

The Weight Watchers site has been revamped(in the UK at least, dont know about you guys and gals across the pond) and for the most part I LOVE IT.

Now we can make official challenges for everyone and anyone to join in on which is right up my street. I made my "Just One Week" mission into a proper challenge:

Just One Week

And I've also christened myself "The Instant Mini-challenge fairy" - I posted a couple of instant challenges on all the message boards, such as "if you've read this DO 10 STAR JUMPS!' and enjoyed it so much I've made it into a daily challenge feature.

Your Daily Mini-Challenge!

I'm updating this with a new challenge every day, that can be done in roughly a minute or less! The first was do do 10-20 star jumps, the second to spend a minute thinking about how you will look at goal weight, or how great you look now you've reached goal, and todays challenge is to go drink a big glass of water!
I'm finding setting these challenges really helpful as
A) I feel accountable to all my challengees! I can't expect them to live up to the challenges if I don't do it myself!
B) it's keeping me creative, it's only been 3 days so far but I know having to come up with new challenges will help keep me out of ruts and boredom, and hopefully I can pull others out with me!
C) It's keeping me focussed, knowing I have to go and post a new challenge everyday, and that (as of right now) 29 people will be checking up on me - I've got to be there! I can't let them down! And with not letting them down comes not letting myself down.

Another new feature is that you can start blogs on the WW site now. I've ummed and ahed over whether to transfer over there, or whether to post the same blog on here and on there, but that seems silly, and I like my community on here! The limitations of the WW site is that it's just for the UK as far as I'm aware, and I don't want to lose my favourite overseas buddies! So for now at least, I'm challenging on there, but blogging right here.

But if you ARE in the UK.....come join my challenges!

Just One Week Of Fruit

So today is the last day of my first "Just One Week". I decided to snack only on fruit and veg...

and I pretty much succeeded in that!

Fruit is yummy. I need to keep reminding myself of that fact.

This week hasn't been perfect WW-wise. There was surprise indian takeaway the other night, and less surprising thai takeaway yesterday(but it was celebrating my aunt,dad,brother and friends birthday all in one night so I'm counting that as a bit of a win in terms of keeping on track rather than battling four separate parties!) with quite a bit of cakey stuff to follow...

There was also a freaking DELCIOUS burrito in leeds. Omnomnom.

But there was also lots of walking and goodness.

And fruit.
Quite a lot of that.
So I don;t really know what the scales will say tomorrow.

I DO know now that snacking on fruit is actually really useful for me. Even when I get the low fat crisps and cereal bars and stuff they have a tendency to trigger huge binges for me, which I suffered far less from with the fruit.

I'm going to try and keep this up.


NEXT weeks Just One Week will officially start tomorrow morning not today, but it will be to actually STICK TO MY MENU PLAN!
I spend ages making meal plans every week and hardly ever stick to them for very long.
For one week I am determined I can do this. I've written out my plan, bought everything it requires and I've pre-tracked it all on my e-source.

There are a couple of obstacles to this, but I will deal with them the best I shall.
Firstly My bestest everest friendest gets back from travelling today and will be in Yorkshire land for a couple of days before she has to go back londonwards. So obviously I shall be going to see her this week. This will inevitably involve a sleepover with much drinking and madness. But I have vodka and diet coke to bring along so hopefully I won't go too overboard. I've also saved at least a point most days on the plan so I have a bit of a buffer for this. Also, she's vegan and most of her foodstuff is super-healthy. Noone ever got obese from too many lentils. Probably. It'll be fine. But I'm not sure yet how much time I shall get her for, so I'll just try to keep on track while at hers rather than trying to pre-pack all my meals and take them round and look like a diet-nazi. That won't do.

The other very probable obstacle is that I live in a house with a mum and a dad and a brother. And they will probably end up eating my carefully planned food sooner or later. In the event where I am supposed to have a bagel with phili extra light and quorn ham, and someone gone and eaten my bagels I will A) Roar at them till they apologise, and B) substitute the stated bagel for bread or similar foodstuffs.

But as much as possible,

I

WILL


STICK


TO



PLAN!!!!!!!!!

Snackish Noms

My new obsession.

200g strawberries, chopped up (1pt)

Thats several more strawberries than this.

Juice from half a lime (0pts)

TANGY

2tsp Half Spoon sugar (0.5pts)

Diet Crack

My new favourite food....

FOR ONE AND A HALF POINTS!

I'm getting into this fruit as snacks malarkey.

Just One Week

We had a temporary leader for our meeting last week, who suggested we think of one thing we can try and do for just one week. Just to see if we can. This could be addressing a bad habit, or trying to pick up a good habit. it could be increasing excercise or decreasing food. It could be swapping something bad for something good. it could be anything at all, as long as it would help you on your weight loss journey. All you had to do was commit to doing that thing for one week. Not for a month or a year, or forever, a week. 7 days. How hard can that be?
Various commitments were made to keeping within points, tracking everything, working out everyday, eating more fruit and veg, etc. I chose to drink 2L water every day(I managed 5 out of 7 days which im counting as a bit of a victory for me).

Anyway I thought that would be a nice little challenge type thing to do on here.
So come on, one weeks commitment to something-what will it be? Try something new? or get back into the groove with an old habit thats fallen by the wayside?

Post what youre going to do on here so we can all get inspiration from it!

For this week I am committing myself to snacking solely on fruit and veg. I've been very snacky this last week and havent been able to stay away from bread and butter and biscuits. I'm expecting quite the gain at WI tonight.


So when I went to do my weekly shop today I bypassed the crisps and cereal bars- all the carby things which I can get a hit of for a couple of points, but which send the cravings soaring. Instead I got strawberries and apples and peaches and nectarines and plums and pomegranates and bananas and a pineapple. 


Omnomnom.

Lets see how many just one weeks I can string together...

Stringing Beads

Actual new plan.
I'm home from holland(finally. 7 and a half weeks takes it out of you...) and back at WW as of tonight.
I haven't been on plan whilst I was away and i reckon i've gained about 7 pounds. But it's ok because I'M BACK ON TRACK IN AN EPIC MANNER.
I am most of the way through writing out a nice meal plan for the week, and me and the mumsicle went shopping for lots of nice healthy low points goodies to keep me on the straight and narrow. (When I got home the fridge was just full of meat and cheese and very little else. No.)
I also have a new motivational plan type thing - slightly nicked from...one of you? I've forgotten who, i'll have a looksie and re-edit this later when I can remember who. Anyhow, they were talking about taking things just one day at a time, no worrying about the big picture, just to keep trying for one good day. She equated these days to stringing pearls and diamonds onto a necklace. My budget wont quite allow for pearls and diamonds but I am going to string a bead onto a ribbon for every good day I have, and take a bead off for every bad day. Every ten beads on I will give myself some kind of a reward -a manicure or a bubble bath or a magazine or something - just some little non-edible treat to keep me in the game. I think this is going to be good. And if I'M good then I'll have a shiny new necklace sometime soon :D

Also I was a bit of a silly and left my weigh-in card thing and points calculator in the uni house. So I'm going to have to get new ones tonight...
Oops.

Start stringing your bead too! I want to see pictures of you wearing strings of shiny good days! Overuse of exclamation marks! Yay!

Cycling Terrors II (Back with a vengeance)

I went for a proper bike ride today.
We all rode towards the park, across the bridge, and then started cycling along by the river. And kept going. The bike path was really quiet and pretty and long...We ended up cycling all the way out of Maastricht! I must have ridden about 4-5 miles today and Was feeling super proud of myself and a hell of a lot more confident.
And then we went back into the city. Where there are people, and sharp corners and cars.
I was going too fast down one side of the bridge, saw a car coming, swerved massively to miss it and ended up skidding into a group of three women on their bikes. We all went down pretty hard put noone was seriously hurt, I just have a bit of a bruised and bloody knee. And a heavily renewed paranoia. I couldn't stop shaking and crying for about an hour, and got really hysterical. I'm just not ready for city cycling yet. Greenie made me get back on my bike to cycle back to the house though, which was probably for the best, even if I was very wobbly. We're going to get up early and cycle along the riverbank again tomorrow, weather permitting, so hopefully I'll get my confidence back a bit. Until the crash I was actually really enjoying myself!
But slowly does it. No more getting ahead of myself.