Monday 28 July 2014

Weigh In - 28.7.14

I feeeel happyyyyy...

Another 2.5lb gone (for good, fingers crossed!)

Colin has taken the children to his mum and dad's and I have had 3 days of 'deep cleaning' in the house.  I suspect that has helped get such a fab weight loss this week.  I have had a few off days this week and wasn't expecting to lose more than half a pound and of course 'that time' is almost upon me too, never good for losing weight!

So that 2.5lb has taken me back under 18st by a pound and sees me only 4.5lb off getting back to where I was before my 7 or 8 month blip!  Yay!!!!

Tuesday 22 July 2014

Weigh In 21st July 2014

Woooohoooo!!!  Another 3lbs off this week.  Really pleased as it was a hard week with it being the last week of school.  There was enough cakes, biscuits and other crap in the staff room to feed a small country for a week thanks to people leaving, retiring and thanking us for whatever they were thanking us for.  I managed to avoid a colleague's retirement buffet by taking charge of the washing up instead.  How sneaky is that?

Anyway I am feeling well chuffed with myself this week because of that.

Luke has written me a new sign this week and put it on the bread and biscuit cupboard reminding me that if I lose 1.5lbs this week I will be on 18st.  Once I get under that, I seem to struggle, so I will be very grateful for any cheer-leading from you all this week.

Thank you for your support, it means a lot to me. xx

Monday 14 July 2014

WI 14th July 2014

After a good week, I lost 3.5lbs which I am pleased with.  I have managed to eat around 7-10 portions of fruit and vegetables each day for 5 days this week.

I have also signed up for Swimfit which is a free swimming programme with workouts for you to follow.  I am starting with the 'Health' programme and my session 1 will see me:

  • swim for 3 minutes using any stroke to warm up
  • hold a float in front and kick using any stroke for 4 lengths
  • swim 8 lengths using any stroke
  • swim for 2 minutes using any stroke as a cool down.
Apparently the equipment I need to take with me is - a costume, towel and goggles.  A costume?  Seriously? I'm so glad they told me that one!

The session is apparently going to take 15 minutes - yeah right!

The question is though, with my current fitness levels do I repeat session 1 until I can do it in 15 minutes or do I do that and then move on to the next session?  Some sessions are really hard and if I move too quickly, I may not be able to cope with them.

Sunday 6 July 2014

Right....

I have fallen by the wayside, but NO MORE!

I weighed myself earlier today and found I was back up to 18st 8lb.  I am NOT going up any more.

So tomorrow I will


  1. Track everything that goes in my mouth.
  2. Go to WI EVERY week, whether or not I have had a good week.
  3. Only have a bar of chocolate if I have first had 2 pieces of fruit (note to self - 2 grapes don't count!)
  4. Not beat myself up if I have a bad day and a bad day doesn't need to carry on all week!!!!!
  5. Track everything that goes in my mouth!!!!!
The school holidays start in about 10 days so I will not have the stress of work which is an excuse at the moment.  Healthy eating will be so much easier.

So wish me luck as you wave my weight goodbye!