Weigh in wc 20th September

Another 2 lb off, Just hope I can keep that up cause a steady 2lb per week is 8 stone in a year and that would be something to aim at !!!
Well I am having a rant on Facebook at the moment as they are just changing the time of out Slimming world group. The one I have been going to for the past 3½ years cause it was the perfect time for me !!! Well it seems really unfair that they can just change it because they think 7.30 is a better time well not for me. I love my group and all the people in it, its all going to change.

Hows it Going

Well another 2lb off this week and there was 1½ off last week, so its comming off and if I can keep it up it will be two more stone for xmas.
Gym tonight where I am going to really start to push myself to get burning all the extra calories. I am still very focused and my personal motivation is very high.
I just wished i could have a few good weeks to make me feel I am making real progress.
Got to also stay as the groups biggest looser as I have a few people hot on my heels now with some good losses. By March next year when they award it I want to be back to * stone lost then onwards and upwards to 10stone lost and then keep it off.
I am going to try really hard again this week and reduce my syns right down , and stick to the minimum I can manage with
A green day today with chips and beans for tea tonight.

Weigh in 31st Aug 2010

I lost 2½ this week which I was a little disappointed with but it was a loss and 2lb per week would be 8 stone in a year. I have to now keep the motivation and focus of last week up and keep focused. Stability Ball and spinning tonight and I want to really start to push myself and really get burning those calories.

Next week would really like a good loss and be slimmer of the week and get back to the days of old. I started this week by having eggy bread and fresh tomatoes for breakfast and brought a chicken salad for lunch. Now the question is what to have for tea. I am on an original day so steak Salad would be nice and tick all the boxes. Might see if I could persuade my mum to nip and get me a nice piece from the butchers.
Going to up my water intake as well so that it will flush out all the fat !!! and keep me hydrated of course.

Bank Holiday Weekend

The final Bank holiday of the year & I managed to stay in control for once.
If anything I would have to say I perhaps didnt eat enough. Managed the gym on Friday night and worked really hard, then just had fruit & chicken for tea when I got in.
Depressed myself on Saturday and nipped up to Mcarthur Glenn (J28) to go to the addidas shop, got a great top from the Nike shop and some Fab new Reebok trainers, but the Addidas shop was a disaster, bought some cropped leggins for spinning and couldnt even get them over my hips and then got a Vest top that shows up every one of my rolls of flab !!! This has motivated me cause I now have to go back there again next weekend.
Then on monday someone took a few pictures of me at Moorgreen Show, with the cattle and posted them on Facebook and I look like I did when I was 22 stone !! Yet more motivation.
Add to that the motivation of beeing dumped by the bloke you thought was going to be your soul mate for the rest of your life and being on your own again at 38 and you should have shit loads of motiation .....
I have filled my food diary in religiously for the last week and I am going to keep that up as well, so its a big fingers crossed for a good loss tonight to restart me.

A very good week so far

So far I have made the gym every night this week and ate brilliantly. I am so motivated this week, just wished i could have this much resolve every week.
Went out last night and had steak salad and asked for it with no chips no jacket potatoe no peas no mushrooms and no onion rings and no salad dressing. My friend sat and ate a pudding and I had a black coffee, it felt to be that much in control and the food was really nice. I did have a sachet of mayonaise which I looked up this morning and it was 4½ syns... OMG . Just got to keep this up over the weekend then weigh in on Tuesday should be a breeze.
My personal circumstances have changed slightly (ie been dumped yet again) so i can be more focused on me an my weight loss and exercise.
Having a man in my life has made me drop that focus and cook nice food for him, which i consequentially eat as well. All that now is over his choice and I am gutted but that is the way it is. Cattle show this weekend but I am going to stay focused and in control

Weigh in w/c 23/08/10

A disappointing pound on but I am not going to let that defeat me as I know why it happened. Getting the hours back in at the gym, and looking to do the same again this week but end the week on a loss. I know it is Bank Holiday and could potentially be a situation where Alcohol may be required, but I am going to try my hardest to avoid it.
I have had a very traumatic few days but still made it to weigh in and the gym. I have to turn my life round, and I know I can do it.
If I have a good loss next week i will start to put it down again and update my ticker. Allthough I am not actually sure if any one at all reads this.

Weigh in This week & WHats been happening

This week weigh in was much better and my hard work did pay off and I got the loss of 3½ lbs that i deserved and I was finally Slimmer of the Week. Havent had that award since March 2010 and This week I earnt every bit of it. Been at Bakewell show all week so no gym and wont get till Sunday now, but i havent been too far off plan diet wise and yesterday didnt have too much to eat, just got to hold it together over the weekend, and stay focused and on track.

I am keeping up with my food diary which is helping and I have the desire to do this again, so things are all good.

Thursday and all is well

So far been very good, and have kept up with the good food choices and the gym. Got to keep plugging away at it then on Monday night I will get the results that i deserved last week.
Cant go to pieces over the weekend, I never used to, I used to be better at the weekends than in the week. I could loose 3 lb over the weekend, But that hasnt happened recently. Going to have a sneeky little weigh on the scales in the morning.
Nursing a bad shoulder, so only doing spinning and legs tonight !! Still not going to use it as and excuse to skive off, got to keep with the motivation

Massive Kick Up The Butt

Right Confession time
I am putting weight back on, It has to stop. I am back at class with a vengance and want to get myself back on track and back loosing weight.
I could write a list of excuses down here as to what has gone wrong but i am not going to as its life and also me being weak and using events as a reason !!
I found that when I blogged more I was much more focused and was planning more so here I go again.
Not going to say yet how much I have put on, but I will when it starts comming back off, cause I am going to do it, and I am going to eventually get to my target of loosing 10 stone. Now a massive way to go to achieve that, but I will do it !
The gym and classes are still going to form a major part of my master plan, as are my slimming world classes.

Week 140WI

Week 140 weigh in

A good 2½lb loss this week, which I am pleased with after last weeks blip of a pound gain which I didnt feel i deserved. I seem to be getting a steady loss but I suppose I am just impatient and wish it would come off as quick as it goes on. But in real terms i did have three off plan meals in that so just imagin if i ever had a stunningly good week fully on plan !!

Well So far today I have been on a green day and I have had fruit for breakfast and a Baked bean and Cheese jacket potatoe for Lunch. Tea tonight is planned with Pasta and a small piece of garlic bread, and melon and a muller lite yogurt. Going to the gym as well so i should have no reason or in fact time to stray off plan. Got the gym planned in all week till Sunday even then I am trying to fit some thing in.

My shoulder is a little better and definately now feels as if it is on the mend.
I am keeping a comprehensive food diary as well which does seem to be helping.

Its the weekend

Well its the weekend I have been to the gym as planed, and I am going to try and get tomorrow and Sunday. I am finally feeling a bit fitter and in spinning my legs seem to be going round much faster, so i think that my belly must be starting to shrink, so that when I am sat on the bike there is more room for my legs to go round.
I have got spinning and studio strength class again today, and going to be ontrack diet wise and stay under 15syns. Tomorrow will be a little harder but sunday should be ok as I have planned to do a full roast dinner.
In my mind I would really like to loose 3lbs at weigh in on Monday as that would be the two pound I want to loose every week and then the pound I put on last week that was undeserved. In theory to get back on track it should really be 5lb but that is very unrealistic as i have has two meals out this week, allthough I have been very very good the rest of the time.
Quite hungry now so the choice is two satsumas or some grapes.
Got some new gym kit of the internet today from a company called TLC sport, i have ordered off them before and there stuff fits well and washes really well. So as well as feeling fitter this week i will look better in some nice new gym kit.
I am feeling very motivated and really need to have a good weekend this weekend, and I really want that loss for Monday.

Week 112 WI

Well as promised I am back and writing things down again, and back on track with the diet and exercise.
Weigh in was no where near as bad as I thought. I put on 2lbs and and still at a total loss of 7stone 2lbs.
First mini target is to get back to 7stone 7lbs lost which I am going to try and do in the next couple of weeks, then onwards from there.
The gym is going well and I did a hard spinning class last night and will go again today, but it will be the gym as opposed to spinning.
Diet wise I am much better as I am eating healthier and staying relatively on par with syns allthough I am only on day two, but I do feel motivation is high.
I will do this and will get two stone off for xmas
21 weigh in's till xmas, scary i know but at two lb per week that could easily be 42lb which would put me at target, but alloing for a few slip ups along the way i can do 28 without too much stress. I really want to motivate myself to do this now.

Week 91 WI

Week 91......



Another 2lb off Yippee. I knew i deserved a loss last week, but I did feel it may have been a little more. Allthough I had lost 6lbs the week previous and 2½ the week before that.

I am now feeling like I have got back into the swing of it and would like to keep going this way for the next few weeks. I really must not let anything throw me off course food wise and I want to remain focused.



Circumstances have made it that I am not gyming tonight, but I am going to cook much healthier for tea and have a nice Green day tea of slimming world chips and mushy peas. I have some Rice pudding as well that I can also have and still keep my syns right down.

I have got back to loosing exactly 7½ stone (again) and now need to get back to that 8 stone mark. If i could do that before the end of March that would be fab, if not i will get there.



I also got slimmer of the week at group last night, and the nice thing was that was 2nd week running. It has been a very long while since that has been the case.



Motivation is still good and I am not wanting to eat the large ammounts of rubbish that I had been eating. Finally i am on the move.

So on plan today, meals planned for tommorrow, got to start to think about Thursday.

Did My Plans Come Off ??

Both diet and exercise this weekend have been top class. I so deserve a loss tonight and I hope I get one.
I did Spinning & Gym on Friday and had a go on the powerplate which was quite good.
Saturday did a long walk with the dog and then got my butt to the gym, and did the xtrainer & rower and some free weights, then a spinning class.

Tea was lovely I did slimming world chips and mushy peas with a small piece of cod, and the syn free rice pudding. How nice was that !

Sunday I became gym bunny extodinaire. I got up and took the dos out, and then went to do spinning and aerobics. Got home and took the dog for a proper long walk and then did another gym and power plate session and aerobics class, as I couldn't get to the studio strength class that I normally go to on a sunday.

Diet wise I have only gone over 15 syns once this week and that was on Monday which was treat night. So I am really hoping for a loss tonight. I haven't been this motivated for a long time, just need to hold on to it.
Fingers crossed and watch this space

week 85 Weigh in

A satisfactory result due to have three meals out a loss of 1½lbs. That is 8½ lbs in three weeks, the disapponting thing is that i put 14lbs in 2 weeks over xmas !!

But at least it is comming off and I am feeling quite fit at the moment, allthough I have got to improve in the gym. I have got to get my times better on the rower. And get back to more cardio in the gym. I am going to try and do some extra in the gym on saturday.

Food wise this week I did have a meal out last night, but that is it now till next week, so i should be on for a loss this week. I would like to have a 2-3lb loss, cause I have lots of exercise planned between now and Sunday and I am going to work hard to achieve the results.
Spinning & Studio Strength later today so that should help as well and the same booked tomorrow.

I have been writing down all my food and exercise in a book and that is really helping, and also I have found out that my BMR is 1720, but i am going to try and find out a bit more about that. Isn't the internet a wonderful thing !!!

week 84 Weigh in

A great loss of 4lb. Really pleased that my hard work of last week paid off. I am gong to try and work harder this week cause i know that it will harder. I was Slimmer of the week this week, and it has been a long while since I have done that. I would like to get it again soon.

I did have a few more original days than i was going to have, but it has worked so I am going to keep up the good work. I have one meal out planned this week, and one night when I am not sure what will be happening food wise. But i know for sure both nights I wont be drinking, as I am going to drive both of them.
I am going to go for a walk every day this week at lunchtime as well, unless the weather is really bad, and that should help things along.
Fitness goals this week are more walking and improve rowing times and distance in the gym, whilst still doing other classes. I can see improvements with the weights in my studio strength classes.

The weekend

Well I did lots of exercise and i am back on track with my weights at studio strength. I have got to start increasing the walking, and get back in the gym more. I need to improve on the rower and xtrainer. But there is time to do that.

Food wise not too bad and I am expecting a loss at weigh in tonight, and i do deserve it this week. It feels good to be back in control, and even when I had an impromptu invite out for lunch yesterday, i knew it wasn't going to ruin my whole week. But also I had been for a walk in the morning and went to the gym last night, so hopefully that will have counteracted it.

I am trying to reduce my portion sizes a bit now, as a new aim for 2009. Because i love my food and still love it, i am going to try to scale things down a little and only eat when I am hungry... Apart from breakfast. I do have my big breakfast every day, and that helps me stick to plan for the rest of the day.
On the Slimming World new Extra Easy plan , I have been getting on ok with it but i do enjoy my healthy extras and have found myself reverting back to original, quite a few days last week. I think I am going to use extra easy every now and then rather than the norm, as I know i can loose weight very successfully on original.

Anyway i am looking forward to weigh in tonight, which is a good feeling, and looking forward to the gym tommorrow.

How the diet is going

Still going well been really good for over a week now, maintaining exercisie levels, and getting back into a bit of a zone.
I have been doing the Slimming World Extra Easy plan but the last couple of days I have gone back to original, but only cause it was easier.
Motivation is still high, and I am looking forward to getting through this week with all days on plan. Just need a good loss at the end of the week as a reward. I may have a little sneeky peek on the scales on friday morning just to see how things are going.

New Years Resolutions

My New Years Resolutions

There aren't many but at least if they are wrote down at another point in time I can see if I achieved them, which will be interesting in December.

Obviously number 1 is to loose the weight I put on before Christmas and over Christmas, and then another two stone. I am not ready to say how much i put on yet, but I am working very hard to get it off

2. Get fitter and try to run. I live in the countryside and would love to be able to do some running, down side to this is that i live on a great big hill

3. go to bed earlier. A silly one but after comming home from the gym and having a bath i then seem to spend too many hours in front of the tv catching up with the sky plus.

4. Get to work earlier, i have got in to a bad habbit of just getting to work on time, i used to be a real early bird, i have no problems getting up for show's, it seems harder for work.

5. get on top of my spare room, that is full of clutter, and clothes that no longer fit, that I have been going to list on Ebay

Well there they are.... not an exhaustive list, but it is still written evidance

Week 84 Weigh In

Finally good news to report and i am back on track and feeling more in control.
A loss of 2½lbs which to say they was a new years eve and news day in the week, it was really good. I was trying the new Slimming world Extra Easy Plan, which works.
The new plan allows you to have meat and pasta/potatoes in the same day all free. It was a bit wierd but got me through new year sucessfully. My aim is to have a loss at every weigh in during January, that should help me get back on track.

This week i should have nothing at all to throw me off track, and there will be no alcohol drunk at all for the next few weeks. At least !!!! I have the gym planned most of the week, and i am going to start to vary things a lot more. I went on the rower on Saturday before spinning and I realised i need to actually go in the gym more to get some variety. I have booked in for aerobics, studio strength, spinning and the gym this week. I am even going to do more walking at the weekend and possibly walk up town a bit at lunchtimes.

I am not going to write about my final target till I am 10lb awayfrom it cause as soon as I set it last time, I started to fail. All the way along when i never set a target i kept loosing, so i amd just going to keep plodding away at it for the time being, and just want to get back in to a pattern of actually loosing weight. I do have a couple of mini targets in mind, one of which is a challenge with an online buddy I have on a Slimming World Forum, which is a race to 13 stone, which will take me a while but I will get there. Also I want to have lost weight for the start of the cattle showing season in May which is when the food and drink becomes more of an issue.

Anyway the gym later and an original day for me today as I have lots of Lamb to eat up and tonight i have the rest of it, so it seemed easier to go back to basics today. Also the original and green days are going to shift the weight off quicker, and I could do with a New year boost to shift some of the Christmas weight that is going to take a while to get rid of !!!!!!
Anyway Motivation is sky high now, and I hope going to last for a good long while.