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.

                               

 

Sunday 7th August 2022

Hi, hope you are all well and have had a great week. Having had a busy week we all decided to stay in today, and when I looked at the TV listings I was happy to find that there was a Jane Austin film folllowed by a Catherine Cookson film on. What could be better, a day of crafts while watching my favourite authors on TV. All good so far...

Wrong, we only have terrestial tv and not digital which means, for the last two hours the signal has been breaking up. Luckily, it's been on more than off. And no, it doesn't matter that I've seen them both before.

 Que sera

And back in the room.

So, how did I do last week. Well, I had a wobble on Wednesday and from then on, I had to fill up with apples of every description possible. Plus strawberries and grapes.

I have to admit, I had a couple of crunchies in the week, although I did count them, and yesterday, I had a mini chocolate brownie with ice-cream. I also counted that, and they won't show until next week. 

I'm thinking about doing ten minutes exercise a day, it's still in the planning process at the moment and as we all know, when you send anything to the planners, it takes forever.

And now for the nitty gritty.

Weight last week: Hang on, telly has gone off again and I'm now watching England and Australia in the Commonwealth Games Hockey final and England are one goal up and are about eight minutes from half time.

Weight last week: 13 stone 6.5 pounds

Weight this week: 13 stone 5 pounds

Weight loss; 1.5 pounds 

Total loss so far -1 stone and 8 pounds or 22 pounds

I couldn't stay at the club this week but next week I should be getting my one and half stone award.

I've also lost 10% of my body weight. 

According to the net, 22 pounds is equal too:

Two babies

127,914 excited bees

3,695 table tennis balls

Tip of the day

Make sure you eat healthy food because using all your sins up eating crunchies means you can't eat what seems like forever. Keep eating those veggies, fruit and low fat meat. 

Thanks for reading my blog and I hope you all have a healthy and happy week.

Just to let you know, the telly has gone off completely and I've turned it off. 

However, I've done my blog and I'm just about to have a nice cup of tea, thanks to hubby.

Slurp, slurp and slurp again.