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. 

 

Saturday 30th July 2022

Hi all, hope you all had a good week. 

So, how did I do this week, Mmm. The good news is, my sister lost 5Ib's yay, yay and yay again. 

I wanted to lose 1.5 this week to get my one and half stone weight loss award and to have lost ten percent of my body weight. So did I do it?

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Am I annoyed - not as much as I thought I would be. I think the trouble was, at the beginning of the week I cut down drastically so by the middle of the week I was hungry and had to eat normally, if there is such a thing as normal for me and over the week I think the weight loss balanced out. I don't know that for sure, after all, it could have been  the two small crunchies or the victoria sponge which I'd been craving for weeks, which turned out to be a let down. Or it could have been the fact that I came off my diet on Friday and didn't bother to monitor what I ate. It could be all that, but probably wasn't. lol

I think I put too much pressure on myself, usually I just want to lose weight or stay the same, I'm going back to doing that. 

So, here we go.....

Weight last week: 13stone and 7.5 pounds

Weight this week: 13stone and 6.5 pounds

Weight loss           1 pound

Total loss so far:   1 stone and 6.5 pounds

or 20.5 pounds.

I am half a pound away from my one and half stone award.

HALF A POUND, YES, HALF A POUND.

Just in case you are interested, according to the internet 20 pounds is equivlaent to...

A standard car tyre which weighs between 20-22 pounds.

A tuna fish

A patio table... don't believe that.

A small sledge hammer. Hum!

It seems that three average bananas make up a pound, so quite a few. lol

Tip of the week

Eggs are a good filler and although it's cheating and an expensive way to buy eggs, you can buy two boiled eggs in a pack for around about a pound, and they are great for when you are desperate and they will fill you up quickly, then you won't need to eat cream donuts with artificial cream oozing out of the sides and have to wash it down with a frothy sugary latte. Sorry, I'm dreaming again.

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

 

Saturday 23rd July 2022

Hi, thanks for taking the time to read my blog.

For the first half of last week, up to about Thursday, I was craving cake but I didn't give in. I stuffed my face with apples and hoped for the best.

I have a sweet tooth and it's a nightmare, although I do have fibre bars and low calorie bars to counter that

Although there really is nothing that can compare to a fresh fruit scone, topped with homemade jam, oozing with thick succulent clotted cream, washed down with a pot of tea. Hang on, I'll just wipe the drool off my chin.

Of course, if I sin it or count my calories, I'm allowed to have that, but it would mean I couldn't have the good stuff. You know what I mean, the type of food that is full of protein and vitamins that keeps you fit. In other words, everything that tastes boring. 

I was going to have a scone today after slimming club and count it, but I was starving and had a leek and cheese pasty instead. Pastry Danger! Danger! 

I had that about twelve and I'm not hungry yet, so at the moment, every mouthful was worth it, despite me only being able to have fruit for the rest of my day, because I also had a strawberry mouse. However, you'll be suprised to hear, that I didn't exceed my daily allowance of calories. I tend to resort to calories when I go off my diet and it seems to be working so far. 

The cheese and leek pasty was 776 calories and the mouse was about about 150, then I had a low fat yogurt and a fibre bar for breakfast which equals 150 so total about... hum!  Just getting my pad. Total calories - 1076. I aim for 1,200 to 1,300 a day which seems to give me a 1 or 1.5 weight loss a week. Bodies may vary. 

This was a one off but so far, I feel full and will fill up on apples if needs be, but I think I might feel a litttle guilty later when I think what I could have for that 776 calories. For a start, I could have had 2 chicken breasts and loads of veg. So, it goes without saying, my choices weren't good today, but they were yummy. lol

Ok. let's get down to the nitty gritty. 

Weight last week: 13stone and 9 pounds

Weight this week  13stone and 7.5 pounds

Weight loss:                              1.5 pounds

Total loss so far:                       19.5 pounds

I need to loose another pound and half to make it one and a half stone. I'm going to stick to my healthy eating plan from tomorrow lol, and write everything down to try and lose that. 

Rounding it up to 20 pounds, according to the net, twenty pound is roughly equivalent to...

The average weight of a melon is between 20-25 pounds.

The average office chair weighs about 20 pounds, I don't believe that.

Patio table

A push lawn mower.

Not sure about you, but some of this seems a bit far fetched, lol.

Thought for the day:

Write down what you eat and weigh as much as you can, guessing an amount can vary according to how hungry you are. After all, that odd bit of cheese or that small roast potato still has sins or calories, no matter how much you want to ignore that fact.

Thanks for reading my blog and have a great and healthy week, but if that biscuit accidentally jumps out of the biscuit tin and lands in your mouth, don't beat yourself up about it. It was one biscuit. 

Just forget about it and move on. Unless it's two or three and then you have to think again. If the whole tin gets stuck on your hand and the biscuits hold you hostage, then you may need to phone someone. lol

Tip

If you're hungry, core two apples and put them on a side plate. About twelve segments. They fill the whole plate and take a while to eat.

 

Saturday 16th July 2022

I won't lie, I found this week difficult and I had a relapse on Tuesday and started my healthy heating plan again on the Wednesday. 

Having eaten anything I like for most of my life, cutting down can be really hard sometimes. 

I have a sweet tooth which is the bane of my life and it can't always be satisfied with strawberries, apples or any fruit come to that. 

The good news is, I've found some snacky food that seems to help and it's not anything sweet. lol.

When I felt like stuffing my face after my blip on Tuesday, I suddenly found a well known variety of cracker along with a well known triangle of cheese and that seemed to take the edge of it, and it wasn't high in calories or sins. 

The well known brand of crackers was 35 calories or 1.5 sins and the triangular cheese was 1.5 sins or 33 calories. Not sure if I'm supposed to say brand names but you can guess what I'm talking about. lol. Anyway, four crackers and two triangles spread on them seemed to satisfy my hunger.

Apart from the obvious, my clothes are getting baggy and I don't feel like a donut any more, I noticed another thing. I followed my hubby up a flight of stairs in a shop and it wasn't until I got to the top, that I realised, that I'd walked up the stairs without huffing and puffing. Wow! lol.

And now for the moment of truth.

Weight last week. 13stone 11 and half pounds.

Weight this week: 13 stone and 9 pounds.

Weight loss/gain.  Lost 2 and half pounds. 

Total weight loss now is 1 stone and 4 pounds or as I like to put it, because it sounds more. 18 pounds. Yay.

According to the internet, 18 pounds is the same as:

The average weight of two cats.

About nine empty electric kettles.

Just over ten dozen eggs.

All seems a little far fetched to me, but if it's the case, then it's a good job the fat loss is spread evenly around my body. 

Thought for the day

Eating a two fingered kit kat, is not as satisfying as a large piece of cake. However, it does save you eating over 500 calories more. 

Thank you for reading my blog and I hope you all have a great healthy eating week and if you do, you too will be able to walk up one flight of stairs without getting puffed. lol 

Hang on in there people but most of all this week, drink as much water as you can, it's going to be a hot one this week.