Smashed into iddy biddy little pieces! My first weight-loss goal was to get under 100kg. And today at weigh in number 4, I did that with an overall total loss of 8.4kg. My BMI has gone from 42.2 to 38.9, so far.
I have planned and tracked and tracked and planned and haven't cheated once in these last 4 weeks. I have avoided all sorts of goodies at work, alcohol (not usually very difficult for me), chocolate, biscuits, cake and sweets.
It would be wrong to say you can't eat these things on WW, but I'm learning about me (after nearly 48 years of me, it was about time) and I can't stop at one with the sweet stuff. Yes, I could have one cupcake, but it would be a shedload of points that I couldn't use for something else and it's not worth it. Yes, I could have a biscuit. But I cannot stop at one biscuit, particularly if they come in a packet of substantially more than 1! I could have one mini heroes or Cadbury's Rose or Quality Street at work. But I definitely wouldn't be able to resist 'just one more' and then maybe another...and another...and another. I know my triggers.
I'm also drinking loads of water - which strangely, I find easier to do at work and just seem to forget at home! But I suppose I drink more other stuff at home, so I'm still getting pretty much the same amount of fluid intake.
The food I do eat has to be interesting and tasty and I absolutely refuse to eat 'diet' food or low fat unless I actually prefer it anyway. I'm trying to vary my meals and not always have the same breakfast or lunch. It helps that OH is also doing WW (although he has considerable more daily points than I do!) We're tending to have different breakfast and lunches and then coming together to share the same evening meal.
Today I have had 0% Greek Yoghurt (which I liked and ate anyway) with a bit of granola as a topping rather than as 'the main event' and some berries. OH isn't keen on the yoghurt, so he has cereal and milk. For lunch I had a bagel and some feta with a bag of chickpea crisps. I was going to have avocado but it's solid and not ready to eat yet. This leaves me loads of points for my dinner and we're planning a grilled chicken salad, which is pretty low in points. I might have some bread too. Fruit is zero points so I am eating loads - berries, apples, bananas and we've had some lovely watermelon and fresh pineapple. There's some ice cream left in the freezer that i might have to dip in to...
21 June 2020
10 June 2020
6 kilos lighter?
I'm feeling motivated and feeling good.
I think the key difference to previous times is that I am planning and tracking every single morsel that passes my lips. I know it's all still new and the motivation is always high at the beginning, but I genuinely feel my mind is in a different place this time.
I have previously 'forgotten' to track this little thing or that little thing and them look aghast at the scales when they don't show me what I want to see. It would be the scales' fault, of course!
Working shifts can sometimes disrupt what I'm trying to do, but yesterday i was on a long day and I had all my meals planned and prepared the day before so I wasn't faced with the 6 am decisions on what to eat for 3 meals - that's never very good.
I'm also planning meals so that I know if I'm having a point-heavy dinner, I make my lunch less so. today we were supposed to be having turkey mince chilli tacos. But we decided this afternoon that it might be nicer in the slow cooker and it was a bit late now to start. So we've changed that to tomorrow's dinner instead. Unfortunately, our alternative meal is a bit higher points and I had my lunch based on the turkey! Oh well, thank goodness for weeklies!
I'm making a real effort to drink loads of water too. I always take a bottle to work, but find when I'm at home I don't drink as much at all. My bottle comes with me at all times now and I try to refill at least once, preferably twice in a day. It hold 600 mls and with other drinks throughout the day, I easily get 2 litres if I refill it once. refilling it twice just gives me that bit extra.
My starting weight was on a Saturday night fully clothed and after meals. My first weigh in was the same and I lost 3 kg. My second weigh in was naked on Sunday morning before food (and after a wee!!) and the scales had gone down another 3 kg. So, I don't really think I have lost 6 kg, but I have definitely lost weight and that's what the scales say! I will stick to naked Sunday mornings from now on I think, to make sure it's reliable.
I think the key difference to previous times is that I am planning and tracking every single morsel that passes my lips. I know it's all still new and the motivation is always high at the beginning, but I genuinely feel my mind is in a different place this time.
I have previously 'forgotten' to track this little thing or that little thing and them look aghast at the scales when they don't show me what I want to see. It would be the scales' fault, of course!
Working shifts can sometimes disrupt what I'm trying to do, but yesterday i was on a long day and I had all my meals planned and prepared the day before so I wasn't faced with the 6 am decisions on what to eat for 3 meals - that's never very good.
I'm also planning meals so that I know if I'm having a point-heavy dinner, I make my lunch less so. today we were supposed to be having turkey mince chilli tacos. But we decided this afternoon that it might be nicer in the slow cooker and it was a bit late now to start. So we've changed that to tomorrow's dinner instead. Unfortunately, our alternative meal is a bit higher points and I had my lunch based on the turkey! Oh well, thank goodness for weeklies!
I'm making a real effort to drink loads of water too. I always take a bottle to work, but find when I'm at home I don't drink as much at all. My bottle comes with me at all times now and I try to refill at least once, preferably twice in a day. It hold 600 mls and with other drinks throughout the day, I easily get 2 litres if I refill it once. refilling it twice just gives me that bit extra.
My starting weight was on a Saturday night fully clothed and after meals. My first weigh in was the same and I lost 3 kg. My second weigh in was naked on Sunday morning before food (and after a wee!!) and the scales had gone down another 3 kg. So, I don't really think I have lost 6 kg, but I have definitely lost weight and that's what the scales say! I will stick to naked Sunday mornings from now on I think, to make sure it's reliable.
30 May 2020
A week in and feeling good
The week started with us using up all the rubbish food that we had bought because we had not planned to be following Weightwatchers; spur of the moment kind of people that we are!
Anyway, I kind of abandoned hope of losing any weight in the first week as we hoovered up Bon Mamman desserts and bags of Walkers crisps. You can eat what you like, but spending 7 points of my 32 on a coffee dessert that doesn't even touch the sides is a hell of a waste.
Despite the lashings of 'wrong' food, I have tracked every last morsel, which I've never done before and consequently used up 60 of my 42 weekly points too (!!)
As you can see that's a pretty hefty deficit - but it could have been oh, so much worse if I had indulged in the Bon Mamman! By Thursday, I had been shopping and bought in the healthy stuff and the points grabbers were diminished as we had ploughed our way through them, and i have stuck to my daily points since then. Hubby has almost twice the daily points I do, so he is making the most of it at lunchtime when I don't have to see!
I have charged my fitbit and been wearing it all week, at work, in the garden and at night recording my sleep and I have earned 53 of my 21 fitpoints. I don't quite know what that means, but I'm hoping it goes some way to evening out my points deficit - perhaps even cancelling it out. Maybe.
The scales will tell...
Anyway, I kind of abandoned hope of losing any weight in the first week as we hoovered up Bon Mamman desserts and bags of Walkers crisps. You can eat what you like, but spending 7 points of my 32 on a coffee dessert that doesn't even touch the sides is a hell of a waste.
Despite the lashings of 'wrong' food, I have tracked every last morsel, which I've never done before and consequently used up 60 of my 42 weekly points too (!!)
As you can see that's a pretty hefty deficit - but it could have been oh, so much worse if I had indulged in the Bon Mamman! By Thursday, I had been shopping and bought in the healthy stuff and the points grabbers were diminished as we had ploughed our way through them, and i have stuck to my daily points since then. Hubby has almost twice the daily points I do, so he is making the most of it at lunchtime when I don't have to see!
I have charged my fitbit and been wearing it all week, at work, in the garden and at night recording my sleep and I have earned 53 of my 21 fitpoints. I don't quite know what that means, but I'm hoping it goes some way to evening out my points deficit - perhaps even cancelling it out. Maybe.
The scales will tell...
24 May 2020
1 March 2020
I am an addict
It's me, really. I am a sugar addict.
there. I said it.
I am a sugar addict.
Hubby is a carb addict. Mostly bread.
We're going to try a ketogenic diet and see how e go before one or both of us develops type 2 diabetes or our joints collapse under the colossal strain of our bulk!
1 January 2018
Happy New Year!
Yes, predictably with the new year comes all the resolutions and all the big plans to change my lifestyle. I'd like to say "No,; this year I'm not going to conform to all that!" But sadly, yes I am as hubby and I are about to repeat the six week bootcamp I embarked on on November.
https://www.fatgirlgetfit.co.uk/
I had degrees of success with it and lost 10lbs in the first detox week. Then I carried on for a week or so without a problem before going to Leeds and staying at Malmaison for 3 nights. It all went completely to pot and I was very ill on the last day, either through a bug or through eating so much rich food straight after a detox!
After that I kind of half-heartedly followed it as Christmas was approaching and I couldn't be bothered and hubby wasn't doing it and and and... excuses excuses.
I put 1lb back on by the time it came to Christmas Eve and the next time I was allowed to weigh myself so I was pretty pleased with that. I have just weighed myself again and I've put on another 5lbs over Christmas. C'est la vie! At least I'm still lighter than I was 2 months ago!
So today we are eating what remains of the Christmas indulgences and tomorrow I am back at work and back onto the detox.
I'll keep you posted...
https://www.fatgirlgetfit.co.uk/
I had degrees of success with it and lost 10lbs in the first detox week. Then I carried on for a week or so without a problem before going to Leeds and staying at Malmaison for 3 nights. It all went completely to pot and I was very ill on the last day, either through a bug or through eating so much rich food straight after a detox!
After that I kind of half-heartedly followed it as Christmas was approaching and I couldn't be bothered and hubby wasn't doing it and and and... excuses excuses.
I put 1lb back on by the time it came to Christmas Eve and the next time I was allowed to weigh myself so I was pretty pleased with that. I have just weighed myself again and I've put on another 5lbs over Christmas. C'est la vie! At least I'm still lighter than I was 2 months ago!
So today we are eating what remains of the Christmas indulgences and tomorrow I am back at work and back onto the detox.
I'll keep you posted...
13 November 2017
6 week bootcamp
Oh my, I haven't been here for a little while, have I? Well I'm back and I'm on it like a car bonnet! On a whim of depression, sadness and outright disgust at myself and my bad eating habits I signed up for a 6 week bootcamp which started yesterday and finishes on Christmas Eve.
There's a facebook group for excellent support and a lot of us with fitbits have become friends on there and are completing challenges. I missed out on success on a virtual Yosemite Valley challenge - the winner (and only person to have completed the whole walk in the time given) had trekked up Snowdon - hence the massive amount of steps. I was the next best achiever, but didn't finish (38500 steps in 36 hours!). I am currently doing the New York marathon and was in the lead this morning but I fear I will have been overtaken tonight. It's good motivation if you're in that frame of mind.
This first week is detox week - no caffeine, no dairy, no wheat, no sugar. My head's a bit fuzzy today - I should be studying for the 3 million things I've got happening in the next 3 weeks but I can't concentrate to learn. I haven't had caffeine since Saturday lunch time - that's ok; I drink decaff after 6pm anyway so I've had that for some drinks. I also have lemon and ginger tea and today I bought Pukka licorice and mint tea as recommended on the group for sweet cravings. It's not too bad actually and I can see the 'sweet' bit is helpful. It recommends not having too much of that if you have hypertension (waves hello) so I'd better not have any more today (2 cups already).
I have always objected to being told what to eat, but I have batch cooked a few meals (as recommended and they will be repeated) and so it's actually a novelty not having to think up 'what to have for tea'. I've made myself a plan of what I think is realistic to make fresh and eat straightaway and what I can make beforehand. I have made the 'smokey chilli' from quorn instead of minced turkey - cannot find that anywhere and it has far too much chilli in for me - it's uncomfortably hot. But I've got 8 portions left in the freezer! I've made 8 portions of harari soup - I limited the chilli and it tastes pretty good. My main downfall is that I want to season everything with salt. And for years I didn't season anything and now I can't, I miss it!
Using the fitbit and taking on challenges is good. I have done over 10,000 steps every day since Tuesday. It's motivational for someone who has seriously lacked motivation for months. My legs ache, my ankles ache and my hip is very sore but I'm trying to manage without painkillers if I can - another thing I need to cut down on.
As for peeing. Well I'm doing plenty of that!
There's a facebook group for excellent support and a lot of us with fitbits have become friends on there and are completing challenges. I missed out on success on a virtual Yosemite Valley challenge - the winner (and only person to have completed the whole walk in the time given) had trekked up Snowdon - hence the massive amount of steps. I was the next best achiever, but didn't finish (38500 steps in 36 hours!). I am currently doing the New York marathon and was in the lead this morning but I fear I will have been overtaken tonight. It's good motivation if you're in that frame of mind.
This first week is detox week - no caffeine, no dairy, no wheat, no sugar. My head's a bit fuzzy today - I should be studying for the 3 million things I've got happening in the next 3 weeks but I can't concentrate to learn. I haven't had caffeine since Saturday lunch time - that's ok; I drink decaff after 6pm anyway so I've had that for some drinks. I also have lemon and ginger tea and today I bought Pukka licorice and mint tea as recommended on the group for sweet cravings. It's not too bad actually and I can see the 'sweet' bit is helpful. It recommends not having too much of that if you have hypertension (waves hello) so I'd better not have any more today (2 cups already).
I have always objected to being told what to eat, but I have batch cooked a few meals (as recommended and they will be repeated) and so it's actually a novelty not having to think up 'what to have for tea'. I've made myself a plan of what I think is realistic to make fresh and eat straightaway and what I can make beforehand. I have made the 'smokey chilli' from quorn instead of minced turkey - cannot find that anywhere and it has far too much chilli in for me - it's uncomfortably hot. But I've got 8 portions left in the freezer! I've made 8 portions of harari soup - I limited the chilli and it tastes pretty good. My main downfall is that I want to season everything with salt. And for years I didn't season anything and now I can't, I miss it!
Using the fitbit and taking on challenges is good. I have done over 10,000 steps every day since Tuesday. It's motivational for someone who has seriously lacked motivation for months. My legs ache, my ankles ache and my hip is very sore but I'm trying to manage without painkillers if I can - another thing I need to cut down on.
As for peeing. Well I'm doing plenty of that!
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