Saturday 29th 2022

Hi guys, just a short one today.

I've had a little blip, which you can probably tell because I haven't posted for two weeks. I've had months of dieting and to tell you the truth, I just wanted to eat chocolates, cake and ice-cream, yes, ice-cream.

However, I decided to try and maintain my weight for those two weeks and to cut a long story short, I put on........half a pound. And the truth is, I was tempted to give up, have a break, maintain my weight over Christmas than go back in the new year, but my sister said we should go, and she was right. We are in it together.

Which means, I've still lost 2 stone, go me. I'm back on my healthy eating plan and I want to lose 2 Ib this week. I want to be 12stone 7Ibs by Christmas Eve. It's attainable and I'm going to do it. 

I did my bronze fitness award but I've decided that I don't want that award  because I didn't lose weight, so I'm going to start again from Monday, will get it by Christmas Eve. 

I'm still pleased with my weight loss, half a pound could be a cup of tea...yea right.

I've recently bought two size sixteen tops and today, I bought some size 16 knickers. Im was feeling chuffed because I was a size 18-20. Probably a size 18 on the hips, but I haven't bought any trousers or skirts lately so I don't know. I told my husband and he said, ' But knickers stretch don't they? Thanks!

So weight is now 12stone 13Ibs. 

Loss so far is 2 stone.

Thanks for reading my blog and I wish you all a happy halloween and a healthy week.  

 

Saturday 8th October 2022

Hi, I hope you are all well and thank you for reading my blog.

How did my week go?

Once again, Wednesday was my downfall but worse than that, I was poorly with a sore throat, headache and a cold. I'm much better now, although I  still have the odd coughing fit, but my head's clear, that's the main thing. 

I've swapped the grapes for Satsumas now and I'll see how that goes as they are referred to as speed foods.

I'm exercising now. In order to get my bronze award sticker I have to do 45 minutes of exercise a week split over three days or more in spurts of 5,10 or 15 minutes. I have to do this for 4 weeks. 

Last week, although I was poorly, I did 47 minutes, I even trotted around the house for 2 minutes, yes, I was nearly running. 

I do Saturday to Saturday, and I've walked around the marina for 45 minutes today, at a bit of a pace, so that means I've done my lot for the next week. Yay. 

However, I will do some more in the week. But one week under my belt. 

I bought three size 16 tops and they fit. Yay, I was an 18/20. Although my trousers and skirts are baggy, I've yet to buy some new ones because I'm not sure I'm a size 16 on my bottom half yet. 

Here we go then.

Last week:           12st, 13.5 pounds

This week:           12st  12.5 pounds

Weigh loss:          1   pound

Total weigh loss: 2st and half a pound.

I GOT MY 2 STONE AWARD STICKER.

Thank you for reading my blog and I wish you all a happy, healthy and wealthy week. I'm off to do a chicken stir fry. 

 

Saturday 1st October

Hi, thanks for popping by and I hope you all had a great week.

Just to let you know, I'm not that into Orange Kit Kats now. No, I've moved onto Caramac, other chocolate bars are available in many stores. lol.

I included two of them in my diet, not all in one go, over the week of course and as sins. I ate each one slowly and it seemed to satisfy my sweet tooth. 

Caramac - Calories 169 per bar.

                  Sins        8.5 sins

I had a blip on Wednesday... again. I'm going to have to keep some calories/sins by to allow for that. 

I made better choices this week and I ate plums and grapes until they came out of my ears. 

I've noticed a change in my attitude towards food over the last few weeks, I'm not so uptight about it. That might be because I've eaten healthier food and less cakes and sweeties. Although there is a lot of sugar in grapes. 

I love socialising with my friends and family and that often occurs in coffee shops, so rather than worrying about what cakes I can't eat, I take my high fibre bar and have that instead. It's healthier, lasts a while and is good for me too. Yummy.

My hubby supports my weight loss all the way and often makes lovely comments about how I look. He used to do that no matter what weight I was but now they're usually related to my weight loss. lol

Well, yesterday, he looked at me and said, ' Your arms are getting really skinny.' Lol,

I DON'T WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT ON MY ARMS! lol

Somebody brought in a courgette at slimming club this morning, they'd planted it themselves and it was huge, which was the cause of a lot innuendo at the slimming club this morning. More people stayed and we had a good session. 

Here we go...

Weight last week: 13 stone and 1 pound.

Weight this week: 12 stone 13.5 pounds.

Weight loss:                           1.5 pounds.

Weight loss altogether:1 stone and 13.5 pounds. 

Or 27.5 pounds. 

I hope these figures make sense because suddenly I've gone number blind.

I AM HALF A POUND AWAY FROM LOSING TWO STONE....HALF A POUND!

So what is that equal too....

For the sake of argument, I'm going to top it up to 2 stone. 

According to the internet, two stones is equal to:

About 33 cans of fizzy pop.

66 average size oranges

A baby polar bear.

Obviously I can't weigh all that, but doesn't seem right to me, but hey. 

Last Word

Grapes are gooseberries with their coats off. 

You've probably heard that before but it's one of my favourite sayings. 

Thank you for reading my blog and I wish you all a happy and healthy week.

Saturday 24th September 2022

Hi, and no, I haven't given in, just haven't got around to doing my blog. Procrastination seems to be my second name where my blog is concerned. I'll try to get back to writing it weekly, but the good news is, I no longer have writers block and have started a new book. Whoops, wrong blog. 

Well, here's my life story. I went on holiday a few weeks back and had a lovely time with my family. So, I missed the club the Saturday before I went and the Saturday I came back.

Despite this, I did weigh myself when I got back off my holiday and I had stayed the same. Go me. 

To cut a long long story short, I went last week and lost one and a half pounds and this week, I stayed the same. 

So that means in roughly four weeks I've  lost one and a half pounds. So one and a half pounds divided by 4 is pants. I won't embarrass myself by trying to work that out. But I still lost. That's the silver lining.

This week I hope to lose 2 but anything will do me as I have to get back on track, as I've been naughty some days, oh alright, most days last week. Let me show you how much.

I tucked into:

Orange Kit Kats

Magnum ice-cream lollies

Jelly babies

Frys chocolate cream

Lemon tart

Scone cream and jam

99 calorie Cadbury chocolate bars... all six.

And there only the ones I can remember.

Chinese takeaway

A perfect example of what not to eat. 

I also forgot what vegetables and fruit looks like.

Weight on the 27th August 13st 2.5 pounds.

Weight on the 24th September 13st Ib

Weight loss in roughly 4 weeks 1.5Ibs sob sob.

TOTAL LOSS SO FAR equals 1 STONE AND 12 POUNDS OR 26 POUNDS. Just two pounds away from 2 stone, the question is, will I manage it next week or the week after. 

26 pounds according to online sources is equivalent to...

A two year old toddler.

A baby dolphin

30 pack of beer, I think that means 30 cans.

2 small microwaves. Don't believe that.

Plan of action.

More meat, veg and fruit, less sweets, cakes, biscuits and ice-cream. 

Thought for the day.

'Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!' - anonymous.

 

Thank you for reading my blog and I wish you all a fit and healthy week. 

P.S

One and a half pounds divided by 4 is, dum dum dum...

1 pound divided by 4 is a quarter of a pound.

half a pound divided by 4 is one eigth. 

one eighth plus one quarter is...

I'm a bit rusty, but I think that's three eights. 

I hate fractions. 

Checking the internet now...

Three sources say that's right and I still don't believe my working out, did I just get lucky or did I finally understand fractions. lol

 

Saturday 27th August 2022

Hi, I hope you all had a great week.

Me and my sister didn't go last week because she was poorly and I think I may have lost some last week, but can't be sure. However, we've just returned from our weekly meeting and my sister lost three pound which makes two stone. Yay.

I went off the rails Wednesday big time. For some reason I fancied everything in sight and everything in the cupboard had 'come and eat me' written all over it; and of course, I felt obligated to do that. However, the good news is, I did get back on my diet on Thursday which will show up next week...or not.

I'm always hungry from the moment I get up, and I know, that once I start eating I'm at it for the rest of the day. So, I've been eating a high fibre bar each morning which seems to take the edge of the hunger pains. Then I wait as long as possible before I have my breakfast and it seems to be working for me.  That way, I find I can control my eating habits until lunchtime. Obviously, we all have different ways of coping. 

Whether it's because Summer is coming to an end I find that strawberrries are really pants lately and they don't seem to last as long, even in the fridge. There's some out there now and I'm trying to force myself to eat them so they don't get wasted. And I don't mean I'm going to marinate them in gin. The trouble is they're trying to turn themselves into jam and you can image what the red slushy things look like. Not only that, I nearly ate a small green fly on one of them and since then, I've gone of them a bit.

Honestly, it was that small, I thought it was a strawberry seed. Needless to say, I've been washing my fruit ever since, which I should have been doing in the first place. 

 Here we go then.

Weight two weeks ago:13 stone and 4Ibs.

Weight this week:         13 stone and 2.5 Ibs.

Weight loss:                  1.5 Ibs. Over two weeks.

Total weight loss:          1 stone and 10.5 Ibs

                                      Or 24.5Ibs

So really, I probably lost that last week and stayed the same this week because I ate and ate and ate, but didn't make myself sick.

Rounding it up to 25Ibs this means that this about...

Two ten pound bowling balls

A horse saddle

2 laptops.

I have been doing ten minutes of walking around the house every day. It's a start, stop laughing. I usually put the telly up loud and listen to the news as I walk around downstairs. I must admit, for half an hour after, I feel enthused and ready to face the world, then I turn the telly down, sit on the sofa and dream of  Crunchie bars, flakes and Caramac, then I go and get some delicious apples that taste like wet earth and eat them. Yummy. Other varieties of chocolate are available. 

I've been eating English plums this week and they are yummy and you can get a whole punnet of them for one pound in most shops, even the high end shops. 

So this week, I'm going to try and stay clear of cakes and chocolate and stick to the heavy duty stuff like fruit, meat, veg and fish, not so much of the fish. Even though a crunchie bar keeps appearing before my eyes.

Thank you for reading my blog and I wish you all a happy and healthy week. 

Have you noticed that my favourite word this week seems to be 'yummy.'

 

 

Saturday 20th August 2022

Hi, I hope you all had a good week.

There's nothing much to tell this week so I'll keep it brief. My sister was poorly and I had things I wanted to do so we didn't go to Slimming Club this week.

The good news is, my sister is feeling loads better. Yay!

According to my scales, I may have  lost one, or one and half pounds.

Changes this week...

I did ten minutes exercise each day and we all went for a paddle in the sea today, and last Sunday. Living by the sea I can count on two hands how many times I have been in the sea but we're going to do it every week from now on. Not in the Winter. lol

At the moment I'm eating two Gala apples cut into pieces so that they will last me a long time. Then I'm going to attack some plums, the fruit variety. Oh dear, did I really say that! lol. I'm still keeping it in. lol.

I'll be carrying on with my ten minutes of exercise a day. Fingers crossed, because me and exercise don't hit it off. 

So, thanks for reading my blog and I hope you all have a wonderful week. 

 

Saturday 13th August 2022

Hi guys, hope you are all well.

My week wasn't brilliant, in fact, on Wednesday I had a melt down. I ate healthily for a few hours, but then I fancied something nice.  Recognising the danger signs I ate some strawberries and some apples which didn't work. 

I was craving big time, so I ate a couple of snack a jacks and some pink and whites, but no, I still wasn't satisfied. Then suddenly, I had a brain freeze and forgot that sweets, cakes and biscuits are ok in moderation but not when you eat:

A Crunchie bar

A chocolate ice-cream

Biscuits

A piece of coffee cake 

Another crunchie ( because they were under 200

                                calories each, I thought that 

                                 was cool.)

All in ten minutes or less.

You're joking I hear you say, and I'll reply by saying NO I'M NOT! 

You might then ask, did I feel guilty and I will say boldly. NO! NO! NO! Which really means, yes a bit, but it's too late, it happened and I had to move on. 

So, I started back on my healthy eating plan, hoping that only being naughty for one day, I mean ten minutes, wouldn't mean I'd ruined it for the week.

I expect you realise I'm a bit miffed

As you can imagine, when I got up this morning, I was hoping that I would at least stay the same weight. 

It was a great meeting at Slimming Club this morning, we had a good laugh and we all left a  part of us in the room. We got to know each other a little better which is cool. That's the good thing about going to a meeting, we're all in the same postion and we all understand how hard it is to stay on plan. 

Now, what I'm about to divulge to you may not seem important to many people, but for me, a couch potato, it is. I've decided to do at least ten minutes exercise a day. Which means, I'll be walking around the house for ten minutes. I'm giggling now because I realise how silly that sounds. lol

If I go shopping, I'll count walking around the shops as the ten minutes. 

After a couple of weeks of that, I might start walking up and down the stairs more often. I SAID I MIGHT!

Ok, and now for the important bit.

Weight last week: 13 stone and five pounds.

Weight this week: 13 stone and four pounds

Weight loss:             1 pound. YES. YES. YES.

Total loss:              One stone and nine pounds or

                               23 pounds.

This is equivalent to:

The amount of pizza an average American eats in a year. 

348 roses, not sure if that's just the petals or the whole plant lol.

4 Chihuahua's

Just over 2 gallons of paint.

Tip of the week

If you have a bad day, get back on your healthy eating plan and it may not be as bad as you think. If it is, it's not the end of the world, forget it and start afresh the next day. After all, we're only human. 

Thank you for reading my blog and I hope you all have a really healthy week and if you have to have an ice-cream, take a look at the sins and calories and try and make the right decision.

A Fab lolly is 82 calories or 4 sins.

A Magnum is 11-13 sins or 275 calories.

( other ice-creams available)

You can in fact include either of these ice-creams in your diet. It's up to you how many of your calories or sins you want to use. We can still choose what we want to eat.