Unofficial Weigh In

Evening all!

Well I've moved back to Bristol, stoked my fridge and cupboard full of all healthy goodness, meals planned for the week, and gym sessions planned!

I didn't make weigh in today but I stood on my scaled and they are normally the same as my meeting and it shows a 5lb gain over the festive period. Not as bad as last years 9lbs!! I think walking around London all weekend probably helped that a bit! Hoping to shift a large proportion of that this week ready for my first official weigh in after Christmas next Tuesday.

My first gym session back after Christmas hurt, a lot. I pushed myself, probably a bit more than I should have for my first session in 2 weeks, but hey "no pain no gain". I'm going again tomorrow morning before cracking on with my uni work; which yes is in for Friday and I'm only just starting it! That's one of my new years resolutions failed! At least I'm still blogging!

The new series of Biggest Loser is back tonight, I didn't watch the last one from the beginning but started about 3 weeks in and absolutely loved it! If you've never watched it before I'd highly recommend it: as it does give you a bit of motivation, if not some envy as to how quickly they lose the weight. Yess I know there in the gym for about 10 hours a day but still; because you don't see that I still have this idea in my head that they are losing 10lbs + a week just by the hour in the gym like I do! HA! We can all dream hey?!!

xxxxx

New Year, New Start.

Hello!

I'm back with a revamped blog, a new name and lots to share!
So it's been about 9 months since I last blogged, and wow quite a lot has happened. For numerous reasons I haven't "felt like blogging" but remembering back to when I did I realised it actually helped me quite a bit so I have made it one of my new years resolutions; to blog at least once a week!

It's quite weird that my last post back in March was about getting back on track after Christmas (how did it take me THREE months?!!) This year - 4 days after Christmas I am sorting myself out. Ok so I'm not being a complete weight watchers angel but my head is (near enough) in the right place and I'm ready to get back on the wagon, that is come Tuesday. So everyone says "i'll start again tomorrow", but starting on Tuesday has it's reasons. I'm going to London for the weekend for new years eve and come Tuesday I will be back living in my own house where I do WeightWatchers best. Living at home + me + Weightwatchers = 9lb gains (that was last years, I'm yet to step on the scales this year!)

So what has happened since march? Well weightwatchers wise I think I've lost about another 2.5 stone since then, leaving me with 2 stoneish to go to goal, and I am being totally impatient about getting there and I want to be there NOW! Which in a weird way is part of my motivation.  This year I also went travelling for a month with one of my best friends, something which was amazing, and I definitely would not have done it when I was my fat old self. I've made it to me third; and final year of uni; how I will never know, and I am totally in denial that I will be graduating in roughly 6 months and should probably think about a "proper job". My "personal" life, or my love life in better terms has been eventful to say the least but that's totally for another post as it is far to long a story; but I do believe that without my weight loss it would not have been so eventful and I guess in some weird way it is good as it is teaching me more about who I am and becoming confident in myself.

I've set myself a *few* realistic (I think) goals for the new year (some weight watchers related, others not), and I'm going to share them all with you in the hope I actually stick to them:
* Track every day even if I've stuffed myself
*Go to the gym at least 4 times a week
*Blog once a week
*Finish (and start ) uni assignments before the night they are due in!
*Get to goal in 2012 (preferably before my 21st and graduation; June/July)

After trying and failing for 40 minutes to add a ticker to my blog (any advice welcomed!) I will bid you all good night and shall report back soon with my post Christmas WI and the damage!

xxxxx

Back to Basics and 9 months on!

If any one actually reads this blog I'm apologizing for not blogged in over a month! But after Christmas my head was messed up regarding WW, but here we are week 3 of being back on the wagon. After a 3.5lbs loss the first week, and 0.5lb loss last night, I am embracing WW and realizing that ProPoints is amazing and actually works! 


And back to basics actually works, you know read all the information they get when you first start, look at why you want/need to lose weight, and most importantly: TRACK, EVERYTHING. This is the reason behind successful weight loss. Take last week for example, I went out on the Thursday night, drank copious amounts, hangover day Friday = McDonalds for lunch and Indian for tea = 66 propoints! But before I would not have pointed this, and now I do and I think that is the reason behind the 0.5lb weight loss this week! Even if you've been "naughty" you can still to some extent control your eating. 

So the following photo is the first time I have realised that I have actually lost weight! I think because I see myself everyday I don't realise, and I know I'm in smaller clothes but I always think I'm not "truley" in them as I always used to squeeze into smaller clothes when I was at my heaviest. But here it is in black and white, I am actually smaller. WOW! I am by no means "small" or any where near goal, but I'm getting there, and this photo is the background on my laptop and this is what keeps me going. I can do it. And if anyone reading this is feeling low or feeling like they are going to give up, please don't this plan works, even if at times you feel like throwing the towel in (I've felt this many a time!) Just go back to basics and remember how far you have come so far!

On other topics than WW - uni, it's such a bore at the minute! I am only in 6 hours a week and even this seems like a chore! And I have a massive project in 2 weeks today all about STATS. I HATE STATS. Which is why I am yet to start it.....

Love Love:)

xxx

A day without laughter is a day wasted<3

Tracking...

I wish my tracker looked like this every day. I seem to be able to have 4 or 5 days like this, where I track religiously, everything I eat goes in here, the exercise I do, everything! But then I have 2 or so days I week where I just don't track properly, it's usually the weekends, where I'm working and I'm not 100% good, I'll track breakfast, and snacks sometimes lunch and then dinner goes out of the window....I need to break this cycle. I need to be on track 100% of the time! Plus my tracker looks pretty like this!


I'm in a bit of a weird stage with WW at the moment, I'm still trying to lose the Christmas weight, I've lost nearly half of what I put on, and I know losing 2lbs a week is the healthy way to do it, but it's so frustrating knowing I've lost this weight before and I put it back on and when I'm losing now, it's not like I'm really losing as I'm just going back on myself. 


I don't know if I fully like ProPoints either, I've never fully got into it, and haven't seen real results from it as of yet. This week is just a bit annoying after all the exercise I did, I was hoping for more than a 2lb loss....


Let's just hope this week is a good one:)

A day without laughter is a day wasted <3

Life..

This is the story of my life, I'm in a very reflective mood today, thinking about the past, the present and the future. And I've realised most of my thoughts are revolving around guys, seriously why take up so much time thinking about them when it's hardly likely that one guy is thinking about me as much as I think about him....


It's time to do things for me, and not for any one else, I've already started this by WW, and I'm going to carry on and loose the rest of the weight to get to goal, I'll hopefully be going to America in the summer, which I just need to take the opportunity and live it as it's not going to come around often.


I'm also going to try and enjoy every day, like the saying at the bottom of my page "a day without laughter is a day wasted" it's true, we all take to much time thinking about yesterday, what could have been or about tomorrow and what can be, but we hardly take the time to think about today, what is now, what we are living. It's time to enjoy everything before we waste away our life thinking always about "what if".

A Day Without Laughter Is A Day Waste <3

Snow, It's Time To Go...

Ok, so snow is pretty and it's OK for a little while and when we have it once in a blue moon, but when the UK comes to a standstill because of 6 inches of snow it's getting a little ridiculous. And more to the point being house bound is NOT good for WW, it is not helped by the fact that I have a little bit of a hangover and have just eaten all day, for lunch I'm now having pasta with a chicken tonight sauce, seriously that's a weird combination...tastes pretty good though! I NEED TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!

I could be doing some of the mountain of coursework I have to do over Christmas, but I'm in too much of a bad mood to so instead I have spent the day watching TV. Not very productive. Whoopsies!

Another massive rant I'm going to have is about WW, and whether it is a diet or not, I personally don't think it is, it's changing your eating habits and the way you think about food, it educates you abut filling foods and how to make the most of what you eat. So when people say to me " how are you coping with you're diet over Christmas" and "what will you be eating over Christmas" it frustrates me, A LOT! I mean I eat and drink what I want on a daily basis, if I want chocolate I'll have it, but since following WW I have learnt about food, I mean I sometimes crave fruit, and I miss having fruit and veg in my diet. I can now see the difference between filling foods and foods that just satisfy you for a few hours. I will still be following WW even once I get to goal, that is not a diet and as my blog title says "it's a lifestyle change". So this Christmas I will be eating and drinking what I want and if I put on weight it's not the end of the world, I know exactly how to get it off again.  Rant over.

On a positive note, I went out last night at home, which is the first time since the summer as everyone is now home from uni, not sure why we went out in the snow, freezing was an understatement! But it was lovely to see everyone, and people commented on my weight loss which was great. And the funniest moment of the night was my friend face planting the floor after falling in the snow. I'm actually in stitches just thinking about it now! hahaha

:)

A day without laughter is a day wasted <3

I should really be writing an essay!

So I have a 2000 word essay to write, by Friday and yet I'm sat here watching Crimewatch and blogging!

First of all, apologise for my absence in blogging lately, I've been so busy with uni work and working it's all been a bit hectic.

So.. WW, I lost 2.5lbs this week, taking me to a total of 38.5lbs! which is 2stone 10lbs.. sounds so much doesn't it?! Crazy times. The big loss this week may have had something to do with the fact I spent all day yesterday throwing my guts up( sorry for the detail!) It was slightly self inflicted but still.. Hoping to have another loss this week and then fingers crossed STS over xmas. We shall see!! But it's great people are starting to notice now, and I had my works party on sunday and one of the guys said to me I looked like I'd lost a lot of weight. YEY:)

Talking about the male species... seriously, are they from another planet?!
The one guy I'm blatnetly infactuated with is just so flirty but there's obviously nothing going to happen, I should really get over him but I can't...then the one guy who actually likes me, I blew off because I'm so obsessed with the guy mentioned first. And then there's this guy friend who I've been really good friends with for years, and we always have a bit of a cheeky flirt, and then there's the odd (ok a lot) of drunken texts that go on.. and I sometimes think does he actually want something to happen, because sometimes I think I would like it to happen... but then other times I just think he just wants the flirty side. I give up with males. I really do.


 On a more positive note... here's a photo of my in my dress from Sunday, It's 2 sizes smaller than the one I wore at Christmas last year, and to be honest that was probably a size too small for me but I was in denial.

A Day Without Laughter Is A Day Wasted <3