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WLB Week 10

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Hey guys! Can’t quite believe it’s been a week since my last weigh in, but here we are. I’ve actually been really good this week and started my mile a day swimming, to shift those extra pounds before holiday. I’ve not eaten particularly badly, as I haven’t been out to go eating and I’ve been knocking up 10,000 steps on my Fit Bit Ultra per day (by walking around my living room for hours at a time!), so I’ve been hoping for a weight loss for this week.

I weighed myself on Wednesday morning, as I had to drop Ozzy off to Mum’s, and I thought while I was there, I would just jump on the scales. I know you should weigh yourself at the same time everyday, because your body has a change of around 2lbs per day, and I usually weigh myself in the evening.

This week, I lost 1lb. I am chuffed, as it’s still a loss – granted, it’s not the biggest loss in the world, but it’s still in the right direction. I am hoping for more of a loss next week, when my metabolism has really and truly kicked in with all this exercise I’m doing. I find it difficult to be sad at a loss, no matter how small, so we’re still happy bunnies.

Obstacles for this week?

None, actually. I have most of my weekend to myself this week, with Jay going away to a wedding, so I’m actually going to get my bum into gear and get my house in order as well as exercise! I’m going to take Ozzy on super long walks to tire him out for when I’m busy as well.

Changes for this week?

Again, I don’t really want to change much for this week. I’m going to be honest and say that I’ve not been tracking my foods as well as I should be, so that’ll be a massive change for this week.

  1. Track more.
  2. Keep swimming/walking.
  3. Eat well.
  4. Drink lots of water.

How’d you get on this week?

WLB Week 9

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Before Weigh In

For those of you who follow my blog, just for weight loss, you would’ve noticed I didn’t post last week. Sozzles, guys – I was super busy! I managed to weigh myself last week and I managed to stay the same. Phew! I tend to eat particularly badly when I am running around like a loon, so I was quite chuffed with that result.

This week has been good thus far. I bought all my food for the week and I have been taking my own lunch into work, in the form of Quorn Lunch Pots. They’re only 285 calories a pop and really filling. My Fitbit diet says I should be eating around 954 to 1054 calories a day, so I find that lunch doesn’t really ‘eat’ up all my calorie intake as well. I’m really happy I’ve found this as a little solution. And it’s cheap!

Breakfast is an ongoing battle and Wednesday morning, I tried porridge. It’s really not my cup of tea; I don’t eat things that have a weird texture (like mash – I hate mash!) and I really really struggled with porridge. I’m hoping I’ll find a flavour that distracts me from the feeling of vomit in my mouth. Instead, I’ve been eating sausage sandwiches for breakfast (without butter and sauce) – but I do want to find a less-calorific option. Maybe an egg on toast before work or something.

Exercise is still a massive struggle, with trying to fit it into my busy life. I need to go and buy a new swimming costume, as my one has gone transparent and I want to still swim a mile a day. I don’t fancy bearing all ever in a swimming pool. Fitbit is making me walk more and I’ve been trying to reach my 10K steps a day, although it’s been a struggle even getting that far when you’re sitting on your bum, replying to emails or making phone calls all day… I’ve found myself walking laps around the living room when I get home, just to push my numbers up!

Fitbit says I will be at my ideal weight by 8th July this year if I keep going as I’m going. I think that’s crap. I want to be my ideal weight by May, if not June at the very latest, reaching half my goal of 2stone by the end of April! I’m going to have to step it up a bit if I want to reach any sort of goal. I hope I have lost this week to kickstart some more motivation, even if it’s just 0.5lbs…

After Weigh In

This week, I put on 1lb. I am pretty gutted with that, but I think I really have to start exercising along with my diet. With 5 weeks left until holiday, I really have to get my brain into gear and get my arse moving!!

Obstacles for This Week:

  1. Pizza night with Marie on Thursday. I’m going to order the lamest pizza ever, on a thin base and switch my cheese to low fat cheese.
  2. Murdock’s birthday in the pub on Saturday. And there’s a buffet. But I am working all weekend, so I probably won’t drink a whole bunch of booze and thus, partake in drunken eating. (Don’t pretend like you don’t know what that is, we all do it!)
  3. Working all day on Sunday. Yup. Another Sunday with a full day’s work. Must plan all my meals before then, so I won’t snack.

Things to Change for This Week:

I don’t actually think there’s much I can change for this week. Exercise always makes an appearance on this list, so I will buy a swimming costume and start with my mile a day! I’m also going to stick to preparing all of my meals for the week and see how I get on next week.

How’d you get on this week?

WLB Week 7

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Before Weigh In

I actually don’t think I’ve done all that well this week, but everytime I seem to write that, I have a 2lb weight loss, so here’s hoping! Here’s why I didn’t do too well anyway. On Saturday, during the day, we had Domino’s. Granted, that was all I ate, but still, it’s not good for my waist line. Not only did I have a moment of weakness on Saturday, but on Sunday after work, we had Fish and Chips!! What on earth was I thinking?! Calorific! Those were my two really bad moments in my diet this week, so I’m really not expecting much and it’s my own fault. On Tuesday, I actually ate food that was bad for me to try and shed a little bit more weight, but I doubt that’s made much of a difference, haha.

The doctor diagnosed me the other week with having food intolerances and the past week has been about discovering what they are and changing my diet to rectify any horrible side effects. So far, I have discovered  intolerances for milk (any skimmed or full fat), diet drinks (no more vodka diet cokes…), red onion (I’m fine with normal onion…) and garlic, and so I’ve got to start changing my diet around these. I am finding it really tough and I have found that, over the past 2 weeks, I have lost somewhat of my appetite (not for pizza or fish and chips though…). I’m hoping that I’ll figure out what else I have a reaction to soon and I’ll be able to get past this.

I’m planning on kicking up the exercise a notch as I have failed with exercise again this week and I’m planning on swimming a lot again. I think I’m going to try and swim the channel every month, which isn’t too bad, to be fair. It’s only 21 miles in 30ish days (depending on the month) so I think I’d defo be able to complete it every month. I think I do need a new challenge, perhaps for charity again, to give me something to be motivated for.

I’m going to start planning what meals I’m eating every single day and night, and start taking my lunch to work with me again. Something’s got to give and now I get paid every 2 weeks, there’s no excuse why I shouldn’t spend something on proper good for you food. I need to increase my fruit and vegetable intake again, but I’m worried that this will mess up my stomach. Just got to start being better at eating better.

I have joined (yet another) weight loss website today called Fitbit. Stolen from Jodi (again), this website shows you how many calories you should be eating and when you should reach your goal. This isn’t to say that I’m stopping WW; I think for now I would like to compare the two and see how many points is worth how many calories. I think this would be useful for when I finally come off of WW (and am therefore 2 stone slimmer…) and would be helpful for me to maintain my weight. Fitbit tells you when you should reach your goal by and it has given me the deadline of 23rd June 2012. I’m hoping for a bit sooner than that. I think Fitbit is a bit more scientific and clearer than RunKeeper or Fitocracy. I haven’t used Fitocracy in what feels like years and I think RunKeeper is a useful tool to keep track of any long walks I do. I am considering buying the Fitbit Ultra, to make this even more worth while. I might see how I get on with the website and app first before splashing out on £79.99 of technology, but I think I’ll ask Jay’s opinion as well as he knows all about this kinda stuff!

After Weigh In

So this week, I put on 1lb. To be honest, this was to be expected and I’m lucky that it wasn’t more than just the one! Next week, I’m going to try so much harder and, with Fitbit, I am hoping for some massive changes. Today, I’ve only drank water and I’ve eaten some soup for lunch, so it’s a bit of a detox day for me :)

Things to change for this week:

  1. Exercise
  2. Fruit/Vegetables
  3. Food planning
  4. NO TAKE OUT - seriously now!

Obstacles for this week:
  1. Working all day on Sunday
  2. Working all day and evening on Tuesday

WLB Week 6

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Oh. Hai guys. It must be Wednesday for this post to come online. Nearly the weekend! Woo!

For those of you who are new to my blog (and me!), WLB stands for Weight Loss Buddy as no one likes to lose weight alone and sometimes we need the support of others to help us get over the fact that we ate a chocolate bar, which isn’t part of the diet, but you fancied it anyway and now you feel worse for eating it. I had a friend who was a real life weight loss buddy but unfortunately, we have fallen out so I’m going it alone (well, with my Mum, who has shrank down to a size 6 or 8!) and we are on the Weight Watchers programme and have been since January 2011. Please let me know how you’re getting on with your weight loss journey so far this year – it’s always good to share tips and tricks to lose those extra poundage.

Before Weigh In

Last week, I was sick and so I’m actually not expecting much from my weight loss this week. If I lose 1lb, I’d be happy. But we’ll see how we get on. I didn’t eat particularly well, because I was all like, STOOOODGE to make me feel better… But we’ll see how we’re going. I thought I’d post you my WW graph that I have online because I love visual aids. I posted it a small age ago in one of these posts, but I haven’t posted it since.

It’s a very wobbly line, due to my not taking the weight loss very seriously last year. I’ve even been super brave and left all the numbers on there so you can see how much I’ve lost and how much I currently weigh. Yikes. I must like you guys a little bit… And so my average weekly weight loss is 0.3lbs!? That’s not very good, is it?! Although there are ‘peaks’ in my wobbly line, the general direction is down, so I’m hoping that it’ll keep going this way for my holiday (in 60 days time… eek!!) and my birthday party and beyond! It would be completely and utterly awesome to be 2 stones less than I am now by the time I go away, but I don’t like putting stupid amounts of pressure on myself. I know it’s doable, but because I know it’s doable, I don’t think I’ll try much. Does that even make sense?! But look how far away that purple line is from where we are now :( I’m going to have to work hard if I want to pull this off!

After Weigh In

Well, there we have it. Another week, another weigh in. And I lost 2lbs!! I wasn’t expecting much, so I’m hoping I’ll do better for next week anyway. Back to Pilates/Zumbas and eating better this week! My weight loss goal for next week is to lost 3lbs, which I think is achievable if I stick to my diet plan properly.

Obstacles for this week:

  1. The Only Way Is Blogging event in London on Saturday. My second event :) Again, I’ll just have to behave myself. I’m not going to go out drinking (particularly after the mess I was last week!) so it’ll just be a case of controlling my food!
  2. Working all day on Sunday. Yep. That’s right. Another full day’s work on Sunday at both jobs, so I’ll have to ensure that I pack myself a lunch so that I don’t get persuaded to pick up a McDonalds or something equally as bad on my drives from one to the other.

Things to change for this week:

  1. Back to exercise classes after my week off sick.
  2. More water consumption.
  3. Use my ProPoints tracker. Properly.
  4. Less fatty foods, like cheese and chocolate.

WLB 2012: Week 4

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Before Weigh In:

This week is week 4 of WLB and I’m hoping I’ve done really well. Sometimes you just don’t know how you’ve got on until you nervously step onto the scales and see for yourself.

I haven’t eaten too badly this week; well, other than the Fish and Chips on Friday, which Jay and I shared, because we’d both had a really rubbish week and didn’t want to cook. But, because I have been really busy, I’ve found it quite difficult to stop and find time to eat. Particularly when the shops around near where I work don’t allow for dogs and I don’t trust leaving Ozzy in the office on his own! My packed lunches to work have kind of stopped, because I really haven’t had time to food shop! This weekend, I’m not working so I’ll be able to shop then! I haven’t really been drinking much (not that I ever did in the first place – that makes me sound like a right alcoholic!) apart from at a family friend’s 50th on Saturday.

Exercise has started and I’ve been to Zumba twice and Pilates once. I used to do Pilates when I was at university and used to really enjoy it, so I thought I’d give it another go. It’s not the most strenuous of classes, but I get it for free on Mondays, so why not?! Zumba is completely and utterly awesome again, as it was before. I now have a loyalty card, so I’m entitled to a free session when I’ve been so many times. Hooray! Savings! I will be Zumba-ing on Thursday and Saturday this week, so really stepping up my exercise from before. I have been trying to find a personal trainer, but they all seem to be booked out for the January ‘let’s get fit‘ phase. I’m going to arrange a gym induction for the fitness centre I work at as well, so I’ll be able to pop into the gym before or after work when I can’t commit to any of my classes.

This week, I don’t have much planned, so I am guaranteed some sort of weight loss next week, if I don’t lose this week. I hope I do though. I want to lose 2lbs this week and I’ll be back to my first stone.

After Weigh In:

I actually lost another 2lbs this week, so I’ve lost a whole stone since joining Weight Watchers!! I am really chuffed with myself, although it has taken me a year… It has spurred me on to do my next stone a lot quicker, which I’m sure is possible if I take my weight loss a whole bunch more seriously than last year, which I generally am doing! Hooray!!

Obstacles for this week:

  1. #ZOMGbloggersbash – my first ever blogging event!! I am so excited!! I’m just going to avoid any food and drink that’ll be there on the night and keep talking to people to take my mind off! Haha.
  2. No work at the weekend = boredom eating. I think Jay and I should probably arrange to do something this weekend to stop us from sitting there, eating chocolate and slobbing out. I have asked if he wants to go to Ikea, so that’s something we’re going to do, to sort out our home a little better. We might take Ozzy for a massive long walk as well, to kill some time and burn some calories.

Other than that, I’ll be sticking to eating well and Zumba-ing 3 times a week and Pilates once a week. Fingers crossed I’ll still be on a roll next week with all this weight pouring off of me and I’ll be another stone lighter in no time :)

If you’re losing weight this year, how did you do this week?

WLB: January 2012, Week 3

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So here we are. Week 3 of the new year. Wowzers, where has all this time gone? I honestly can say I’m not expecting a good result this week. I have been running around like a maniac, eating whatever I can when I can and not drinking enough water. Also, with the stress of Dad’s birthday (well, not stress… Just sadness, I guess), I have been focused on other things this past week.

Because I didn’t get a chance to weigh myself last week, I weighed myself this Monday and I lost 1.8lbs. Yay! Losing! Awesome! And then, to get back on track, I thought I’d weigh myself tonight and get back into the swing of things. I lost another 0.4lbs since Monday. Hooray.

There are so many things I have to change for this week to get back on track. Firstly, as I’m nearly settled in all the new things in my 2012 life, I am rebooting my exercise regime. Walking Ozzy for half an hour each day isn’t cutting it – especially when he stops and sniffs at absolutely everything, so it’s not a continuous work out! And there are two things I’m changing for exercise.

  1. Starting from tomorrow, I am restarting Zumba! It’s the exercise class that I love in my life and I think usually that’s half the battle with exercise. As long as it’s something you enjoy, you probably should keep doing it. And I’m planning on doing it on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturday mornings (when I’m not working).
  2. At the fitness centre I work at on Sundays, I’m going to go through all the exercise classes and, if they have space and if I can do them, I’m going to book myself on them. I mean, I’m getting those classes for free. It’d be silly not to take advantage. And that’s something I’m going to do when I’m at work every Sunday; take 5 minutes to look through classes and book myself on. I might find something else I enjoy and want to stick at. Also, I’m thinking of swimming after my swimming teaching hour on Friday nights, but at the moment, Jay and I are using Friday nights as our date night, so we actually get to spend some time together without Ozzy, which is actually really awesome. We had our first one last week and I am actually really looking forward to our one this Friday. It works well when I’m working at both jobs on the weekend – this weekend is my last weekend of that for a while – thank GOD!

Secondly, I need to drink more water again. I noticed a real difference when I started doing that at the end of last year, so I’m just going to have to buy a load and make sure I bring one to work everyday. I know bottled water is expensive, but if it makes me do it then I’m not too worried. Speak to me about water prices in a few months’ time!

It’s not much of an excuse, but because I have been in and out of the office so much and super busy, I have not made my lunch for work everyday as planned in previous post :( So I have been eating stupid convenience foods from petrol stations and rubbish places. I’m going to restart this after my grocery shop at the weekend. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER.

Overall, I think I’m on target to lose all my weight before a) my holiday; b) my birthday; c) my second holiday and d) all the weddings I’m attending this year. I’m just hoping all the above changes work to my advantage. Well, they should, shouldn’t they? It’s not as if my changes are visit McDonalds 5 times a day.

How is everyone else doing with their weight loss?