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Need To Get Cracking!

Yet again, I have come to that fateful day of the Weight Watchers weigh-in. Now I know I haven’t done that well this week, as I said in my post at the weekend. I bought myself “treats” but my severe lack of will power turned those treats into a gorge fest. Which of course, is not the way to go about things.

All in all this boils down to the fact that I’mve put of weight this week. Up by 2lb. Big boo all around.

But on the plus side, I know what’s caused it. Over endulgence! This week I ave no meals out planned, I haven’t got any chocolatey treats in the kitchen. If I do need/want something, I will have to go and get it. If this urge does come about, I’ve made a promise to myself that I will only get it from the corner shop up the road. So I have to go and walk to get it. Rather than grabbing it when I’ve driven to the supermarket.

A piece of chocolate candy.

I’ve already been to the gym today, not for very long, but it’s more exercise than I usually would have done. I have also signed up for a Zumba class on Thursday afternoon. I used to be a little bit of a Zumba freak and I haven’t been since I moved. It might be a bit of a shock to the system. I’ve got the day off on Thursday, so I’m going early afternoon in the hope that it won’t be too crowded and it’ll ease me back into it.

So that’s how I’ve got on this week, not the best, butI am still 2lb down over all. I’m clinging on to it and not letting go!!

 

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Just A Quickie

As I haven’t updated you lovely people with how I did at Weight Watchers this week. I thought I better squeeze one in before weigh in day comes around again.

Well you’ll all be pleased to know that I managed to lose 3lb which means as of that weigh in I am 21st 3 (297lbs). That’s a loss of 4lb altogether.
However, this week I haven’t been very good. I’ve been out for meals twice this last week, and although those meals were within my points. I think it’s made me slip into bad habits. Today for example I’ve had a lot of chocolate. Mainly because it was there. No other reason. Should not have even bought the bloody stuff in the first place! So I’m not sure how that’s going to pan out on the scales on Monday.

But on a positive note, this week I finally got around to joining the gym! I had my induction on how to use the equipment on Friday and I was given a little plan on what to do to get me started. Seems pretty simple. I have caught on early to the fact that cross trainers are evil, but in a good way. You can really feel it working! When I stepped off it, my legs were like jelly. I thought they were actually going to collapse, thankfully they didn’t. Otherwise that would have been really embarrassing. The staff are really friendly and supportive too. Which really helps. They seem to genuinely want to help me get healthy rather than judging. I think I may even go in on Monday. Either before or after weigh in. I haven’t quite decided yet.
As part of the package, they also have Zumba classes, among other things. Really need to get back into that!

Well that’s about it. I guess this didn’t end up being a quickie after all. I hope it was as good for you as it was for me.

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R.I.P. Monday Madness

I’ve been doing a bit of blog soul searching this evening, and I’ve come to a decision. From the title of this post I’m hoping assuming that you’ll have guessed what that decision is.

I have decided to put an end to the Monday Madness, at least for the time being. One reason being that as I’m not doing the online dating thing quite as much I don’t have as much access to the crazy photos that there are out in the dating-verse.

Secondly, I’m not getting the enjoyment out of it that I once was. I am starting to feel a little bit sorry for these poor saps that obviously think that these photos are going to snare their one true love.

Also, there is the fact that I’ve added a token mad photo on my only active dating profile, so I can’t really judge others, when I have something like this on mine.

No one does elegance quite like me!

 

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Post Holiday Weigh-In

I wasn’t expecting great things from my first weigh in after going to New York. I went in expecting to have put on something, but if I could at least stayed the same, then that would be awesome.

I was feeling so anxious before stepping on to the dreaded scales, all the while my friend telling me that I’ll be fine. Unfortunately, it didn’t help.

So I, literally, stepped up to the plate and watched the numbers go round and round.

 

I put 2 pound on.

 

Which isn’t at all bad! Considering I went to the land of massive portions and deep fried food. I’m back on it this week, although I did have a chinese take away on Monday night, I have been carefully calculating the rest of the food I have.

Wish me luck!

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I’m Back!

Ok, who missed me? You can admit it to me, I won’t tell anyone!

I don’t know whether anyone felt that I was absent this week or not, but I have been! I was in New York for 5 days with my Mum which was awesome.

I’m the one with out glasses, just in case you wondered!

We did so much in those 5 days, my feet will never forgive me! But I’m sure if you follow me on Twitter you would have seen me checking in places on FourSquare. I didn’t do it for everywhere I went, otherwise you would really have become annoyed with me!

I think the best thing to come out of my holiday is that my new hair cut that I got seems to have made me look younger. All the New Yorkers we talked to asked me how old I was, or what I was studying. Obviously assuming I was of college age or at least close to it. I went out in town last night and was ID’d in the pub, not to come in, but actually at the bar. This hasn’t happened to me since I was about 21!

The downside, if you can call it that, to going to New York on holiday was that mountains of yummy food you get over there. The size of everything is just massive!

Get a load of those bad boys!

That photo does not do those cupcakes justice, they were massive, I’ve never seen any so big before! They were more like muffins with icing on rather than dainty decorated cupcakes.

So of course, my diet went right out the window, I don’t think I went overboard, I always stopped once I got full but I didn’t exactly go for the healthy options either. We will have to see what the scales say on Monday I suppose. Like I said before, I did loads of walking, so hopefully I did enough to combat anything I did eat. Of course I will let you all know!

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Buisness Is Good!

It was my first weigh proper weigh in at Weight Watchers tonight. When I say proper, I mean the first since I started on the diet. I was quite nervous, but in an excited way to see what/if I’d lost.

I’ve had a pretty good week in the way of getting into the diet, I had a meal out on Thursday night, but I drank water and tried to keep the points to a minimum during the day to compensate for it. I had a bad day yesterday I resorted to comfort eating, which is the bane of my life, I had a pizza and a couple of sides from Dominos, and a big bag of Malteasers. So I wasn’t sure how good the weight loss would be.

Saying that, the big bag of Malteasers was the first big dose of chocolate all week apart from 1 solitary square of Dairy Milk earlier in the week. Considering I’m a massive chocoholic, that’s an achievement in itself!

Most days I’ve been 9 or 10 points under my daily allowance, and until yesterday I’d only used up 5 of my weekly Pro Points, so I figured I could be alright and I would be happy even if I only lost 1 pound, it’s a change in the right direction after all.

So I stepped on the scales and weighted for the scales to settle to see if I’d lost any weight. Low and behold, 3lb lost this week! I am so chuffed with myself, I can’t quite believe it!

In the grand scheme of things of course, it’s only a tiny step. But it does mean I’m only 12 lb away from my 5% goal, which is pretty awesome!

There is a slight hitch in the road however. On Friday I am off to New York for 5 days. The land of massive portions with extras on the side. I’m not planning on going crazy with food whilst I’m over there, and will try and make as many healthy choices as I can. As the calories are plastered over everything, it shouldn’t be too hard to do.

I had a couple of more fatty things this week too, and I treated myself to a pudding when I was out tonight with a friend, both of which made me a feel a little bit sick. This healthy eating stuff has obviously taken it’s toll already!

As I’m away next week, there won’t be any diet update I’m afraid. But I’ll be thinking of you all whilst I’m munching on a soft pretzel, then again, maybe not.

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