measuring check

had an interesting thought, i wondered how much i had actually lost measurement wise, and i was amazed to realise that i have lost,

4 inches off my bust,
3 inches off my waist
6 1/2 inches off my hips

all since i have started to loose weight, so that is about what 2 1/2 stones works out distributed across my body.

oh and i got to my 10% body weight loos and 1 1/2 stone marker this week at sw which i was well chuffed at, i just need the extra half stone and i might be at my target weight lol

its Sunday

Well, its sunday and i have a traditional roast dinner, beef, new pots, roast pots, fresh garden peas, cabbage, courgettes, carrots gravy and horseraddish yummmm. then we had baked potato with pinapple salsa, lettuce and a grating of cheese, with tuna and greek yoghurt

I'm hoping for a decent weight loss tomorrow, it would be perfect if I can loose 3 1/2 lbs then i have my first stone at sw class and 2 st in total

well its Saturday

and we have been to the skelton show, and ov course there were shed loads of fast food vans there, offering Huge burgers, chips and butties etc etc but having a thought before we set off i packed a little picnic and made up a salad for myself, so all intentions were good. Even tho the chips did look delicious pmsl

Had a good week food wise so far, i have been keeping a record of what i have been eating and drinking which has helped, i havent been sneaking a bit here and there and then forgetting about it. (not that i do that a lot)

This morning, i had a slightly larger bowl of cereal than normal but counted it as 4 syns extra.

I must admit, kids Well one of them is driving me to distraction with her selfishness and that is usually my stresser to either eat chocolate or drink !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had compliments last night from some school mums as i went to gabrielles school disco and a couple said how slim i was looking, in fact someone said to me the other day that i was looking younger pmsl how good is that for an ego boost

not as good as i should be

Well, the weekend sort of merged into one and from friday night being bad i havent really stopped picking and doing, during the footie yesterday i managed to eat a load of jelly sweets that i shouldnt have, why cant all my children like them instead of leaving them :-( lol

Oh well, back on track today and if i have gained tonight then i really wont be surprised at all because i have been so lucky the last few weeks with holiday and a loss and then going out for a super meal and a loss so maybe it will just catch up with me . Shows tho that i might just have to start to run a bit faster then eh.

I have bidded this morning on a Belly dancing DVD so that i dont loose out on my fabulous exercise routine during the summer hols, i can pop it in when the mini and midi beasts have gone to bed and get wiggling my tush lol. I love it and it makes you feel so toned too, and its about the only form of exercise where it is good to have tits and a belly pmsl even tho the belly is going big time so maybe its really working......

interesting thought of the week (well as its monday the first)

When setting out on the journey to loose weight I had to get into the right place mentally. But where as most folk want to loose weight because they are 'fat' and so starting their journey in a negative state I didnt mind being over weight so much as the being unfit, but to enable me to do any form of exercise i needed to loose weight. I was also very very happy in my family and relationship. So when my friend suggested having a look at Slimming world i was in the right place to think seriously about what i was eating.

Since starting my new healthy eating plan I have been out more than i have in recent months lol, normally this would sabotage my good work, but even so i have maintained a steady weight loss, even going all inclusive on holiday and coming back to the UK and loosing 1lb.

I am feeling really possitive about the weight loss this time around and being able to keep it off too which is very important to me. and to top it all off, I have the full support from my husband and my daughter. I get the encouragement and compliments from them yes my 9yr old daughter keeps telling me how good i am looking now my tummy is getting smaller .

couldnt do it without them
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shopping lists

Why is it so difficult to write a shopping list??????

i think i have written everything on it, but then i get to the shop and realise that i havent listed everything..... Still costs me a fortune but twice a week instead of once a week grrrrrr

need to get my ass in gear me thinks, again then i can have all the loverly food that i want to eat ,

The weather doesnt help much either, you plan loverly summer meals then the weather turns arctic and you dont want salad, or you plan roast dinners and its blooming roasting outside and you really dont want to be stuck in cooking a full dinner

interesting week

well, after a week of sitting on a sun lounger, drinking cocktails and gin, and eating three fantastic meals a day.... i went to my first weigh in for two weeks and guess what. i lost 1lb.

I think the little bit of weigh that i gained, was water retention lol.

My sw leader wanted to know how i did it, and well it was just making the right choices at meal times intstead of stuffing my face with all the fattening options. I really enjoyed my food whilst i was away, and i didnt miss out on anything that i fancied, if there was something that looked bad but interesting, i had a little bit....... you know what they say a little bit of what you fancy does you good lol

Well, we will see how good i can be this week, i am going out on friday and apparently the menu selection is veggie, so looks like friday is going to be a green day but i need to stay away from the cheese if i want to achieve my goal.

So far following SW I have lost 1 stone 6 1/2 lbs with the classes i have managed 6 1/2 lbs ( i lost one stone prior to joining) so i just have another 1 stone 5 1/2lbs to get to my first goal, and from there we will see what i want to do

so easy to slip back into bad habits

Well, it would be if i wasnt so determined this time to loose the weight, enjoy loosing the weight and also the important bit, keeping it off.

I was dancing for joy last night at weigh in, i lost 2lb's now this might not seem like much but when you have been out for a mexican meal, and made good choices (obviously) but drunk far to much marguirita lol and then to loose, its gotta be good eh.

But as i am about to embark on a weeks all inclusive holiday, the devil that has beat me before was there saying, well your going to put weight on so sod the diet for two weeks, But if i do that, i knwo that i could put back on all that i have lost and even a little bit more.

So i thumped the little devil on the head and told him to sod off, i had a good day food wise, grilled gamon, for breakfast, baked pot for lunch with tinned salmon, and then salmon new pots and peas, n sweetcorn for dinner...... and when i got pickish at aldi, instead of diving into the multi pack of crisps i opened the banana pack and stuffed one of them down my gullet lol

So, devil 0 Me 4 yey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hmph!!!!

well, i have done a reasonably successful week, food wise, and guess what, my mum has managed to loose 4lbs lol she hasnt been following sw to the enth degree but has had the meals i have prepared etc and not eaten extra snacks... so fingers crossed she might decide to get on with loosing weight, instead of saying that she wants too....

I myself, went out for a mexican meal with the ladies, and two jugs of marguirita and a few glasses of wine and a gin or two, i will be hoping to stay the same this week, a loss would be nice but i dont think its gonna happen, and then next week i am all inclusive so not a cat in hells chance of loosing that week, so its sort of trying to be good, but without spoiling my holiday or my diet either lol

I have had a good week, clothes wise tho.... Been thru my wardrobes and chucked out any clothes that i think are far too big for me, (how many inches !!!!!!) and putting to one side some of my old skinny clothes that dont quite fit me yet. Its such a good feeling to get back into clothes that you havent worn for over 4 years, and no im not totally out of fashion as i sort of tend to buy classics rather than fashion and so they still look nice.

I am saving myself tho, for my goal weight when i get there i am off shopping, and instead of spending all my money in the first spend because i am pretty sure that the first batch of clothes i will be buying a new winter wardrobe, and so will need some new summer clothes next year pmsl.

i did have a little ego boost last night too, as i had my ass felt in the pub pmsl, and i was told that i have really quite slim legs and hips and that my top was well smart and very fetching lol

funny weekend,

Well, the weekend started on friday at 4pm, car loaded with kids and clothes for the weekend trip to my mams, for my mates 'bollywood' party on Sat night.

Well, one hour into the flippin journey the fun started, we got to the end of the A66 (scotch corner end) and there was a bloomin broken down lorry, which caused us an extra half hour whilst the caos of cars moving into wrong lanes and then having to move back into the other lane as there was no indication that there was a problem till you was virtually ontop of the flippin thing Not good with three kids in the car,,,,,,,, oh and also at this point Middle daughter decides to poop for england and it shot out the leg of her nappy, so bless her little socks she was sat with one leg in the air and poop squeezing out aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggghhhhhhhh another 14 mins added onto the already long journey.

Gets to my mums, and then i went to kebab shop to get my supper,, Decided to go for lamb shish as i thought this would be the least fatty of all the delectable delicaces (i wish i could spell)
Well it was delicious and not fatty at all, so i didnt feel too guilty.

Saturday dawned and Leo had had a lie in so we didnt get up till 6.50am yey. I decided that i was going to tesco's to get a bit of shopping and have a look at their little strollers, well got there and they were giving out vouchers for £5 off if you spent over £25 on clothes, well G needed some trainers, so we had a look at them and she saw some that she liked and got P some new little cute dresses bought some fruit to make fruit salad, (which actually has been my saviour food wise ) then sat on my mums back garden drinking rose Cider yum yum dangerous.

Got dressed for the bolly wood party, looked rather fetching even if i do say so myself, and my daughter was probably the best dressed young lady there, lol
Thought i was gonna be in for the night from hell due to my mum n dad going somewhere else for a drink but they came in at about 10pm
Went home at 11pm and had another Gin and a bit of crack with m and d and then went to bed.... woke up at 7am, had fruit salad and yoghurt for brekkie and has just chilled today,

Went over to local park for half an hour with kids, and now i look like a pink shrimp very day glow...........
Cheated a bit, got on wii and have lost a pound according to that so if that holds for tomorrow i will be very very happy lol

Water plants and kids tonight, little monkies kept running thru the hose so the pair of em looked like drowned rats so it was bath time for them bless em

and now all three are in bed and i am chilling and wondering if i have any aftersun lol

Success!!!!

well, i am chuffed with myself. Even tho i thought i hadnt done very well at all this week, and even feeling down to the point of eating a cadburys egg twist on sunday night

I have managed to loose 3lbs which takes me to one whole stone lost since i started my weight loss plan, and its a good start at my slimming world class too

at this rate, size 14 here i come

bad habbits

well bad habbits are hard to break!!!!!! luckily for me, it was a syn free food that i just ate lol

I have made some syn free KFC chicken legs for dinner tonight and i thought i would have a little taste, and blow me the chicken was that tender that the meat fell off the bone, so of course i had to eat the whole leg!!!!!!!! in one way, my 2 yr old daughter saved me some guilt as she nicked the drumstick part to eat. so i only ate the thigh lol

BTW its a yummy recipe so well worth the hassle of making your own lol

bad feeling day!!!!

I have a bad feeling today, I have tried to be really good all week, saving syns, for my Saturday bottle of wine. and i dont think i have eaten to excess, But i am feeling like as the day has gone on i have put weight on.......

I just think its because I am nervous of getting weighed tomorrow night, and on real scales not having lost anything.

I want to get back into my comfort zone again, I am desperate for the new SW magazine to come out and i am praying that the menu in it is decent and easy to follow.

I somtimes think that thinking about food all the time is doing my nut in, Not that i didnt think about food when i wasnt following SW but now, its trying to eat enough and enough of the right things too lol. oh well roll on 7pm tomorrow night

indian dinner for free!!!!!!

Beef curry with bombay potatoes and steamed rice yum yum yum

Day four

Well day four is here, infact its more than half way thru, I have decided to have a curry with bombay potatoes for dinner tonight, was going to be chinese but i cant be humbugged with chinese.

I have done quite well today, had a bit of a hickup with brekkie, so if i bake my mushrooms with eggs again then i need not have the grill on, the yolk was far to set for my liking.

I feel really tired today, I am struggling to keep my eyes open, so i am not sure if i took my thyroxine yesterday, i am sure i did but cant remember :-(

At singing group this morning i am sure the other mums thought i was on speed as i was hyper, but thats the only way to get the kids bouncing and working off some steam lol

measurements

well, i have too also measured myself, but only the three main bits lol

boobs, 44inches
under boob 37inches (which means i am now back to being a 38 bra size YEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Waist 38inches
Hips 45 1/2 inches

So this also means whilst maintaining my hourglass shape, I have lost

2 inches from my bust
nothing from my waist (but i was feeling a bit bloated last night )
and 3 inches from my hips,

and my bra size upto recently was 40/42 depending on bra lol

doing something wrong

well, i have tried making the SW ferrero rocher sweet things but mine just havent stuck together, there didnt seem to be enough nutella to hold the ryvita together :-( so i can feel a cheese cake coming on for the family.

I have put the mixture into a tin and set it in the fridge to set but i dont think its gonna work!!!!!!

what could i have done wrong, i have no idea.

If anyone out there has made them and done so successfully can then tell me how they did it.

day two

well, its officially day two of my SW healthy eating plan (diet to those who choose to call it that lol) and its actually been really difficult for me today. Not so much eating etc, but i now feel like if i have something that i shouldnt that i am cheating myself but hey ho, my shopping got delivered today so my next week menu plan is in operation tomorrow.

I must confess, that i have been naughty today and if the wii is to be believed, i have lost 7lbs, which to my mind is way way too much in one week. so maybe im not eating enought grrrrrr

I will get there eventurally i just need to sort it all out in my head and get it writen down properly

Starting officially

Well, even tho i have been following the Slimming world plan at home by myself for the past 6 weeks, and have managed to loose 11lbs. I finally got it together and joined a proper class tonight. So now there is no longer a need to get onto the wii and have it give me the discouraging oh!!!! pmsl

I weighed in at exactly the same weight as on the wii so that is a positive thing in its self. I have set my inital weight loss target, and i need to loose 1 stone, 12 lbs. When i get there i will see how healthy i look, but i dont think i need or want to go below 14 stones. and for those of you who now have the calculator out that means i weigh 15 st 12lbs, but considering i have three children and an underactive thyroid i dont think its too bad.

So now, i have somone other than me analysing what i eat and how much it is affecting my weight.

all new to me

Well, my first time ever at bloggin, i suppose i will get used to it eventually......