Oops, I missed a week last week, forgot to post. I think with the release of the new plan it confuddled my brain slightly. I lost 2.5lb last week, that made it 8lb in total in 4 weeks and was all set for the new plan.
I spent the past week trying out the new ProPoints plan, and it really is a case of going back to basics and working out the new Points for everything. Effectively WW have changed the daily Points allowance of everyone, given everyone a weekly Points allowance and changed the Points values of the foods. Instead of using calories and saturated fat to work out the Points, we now use protein, carbohydrates, fats and fibres to work out the ProPoints.
This in itself isn't difficult to do, but having pretty much memorised the Points of the food I was eating before and having it all fit in with my Points allowance and loosing weight on the old plan, I think I'm too lazy to be bothered to work out the new ProPoints values, so it has thrown me off slightly.
Also I had a uni friend visiting this weekend, so I spent Saturday in Norwich, and Sunday we went out for Sunday lunch. My parents bought me battered sausage and chips Friday night, and we went to visit my aunt, uncle and cousin Sunday evening and had cheese and biscuits for tea, which came with crisps, pate and lots of other yummy food and then apple pie and Christmas pudding flavoured ice cream. I know I probably shouldn't have eaten it all, but it was yummy and anyone who has a weight problem like mine will tell you that it is difficult to resist yummy food when it's put in front of you.
I've got another dodgy weekend coming up, it's pack holiday with my Brownies, so the food is completely out of my control. It's a Christmas theme; Friday is Christmas Eve, Saturday is Christmas Day and Sunday is Boxing Day, so all the appropriate food is going with it. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it) I'm at work Saturday evening, so I'll be missing out on Christmas Dinner, so that is something I'll be in control of as I can have my normal sandwiches. However I have made them promise to save me some Christmas pudding.
Anyway, lets hope this week goes better than last week, and if it doesn't I think I'm going to go back to the Points plan instead of the ProPoints.
xx
Monday, 15 November 2010
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Week 2
I really thought I'd had a rubbish week last week and had prepared myself for a gain, especially as my Wii Fit said that I had put on 2lb, but miraculously when I got on the scales yesterday morning I had actually lost 1lb. That makes a total of 5.5lb in 3 weeks. So pleased with that. My change of meeting as obviously done me some good and my new leader is really motivating me. Got 7 more WI's before Christmas now and 8.5lb to loose to get my 1st loss, fingers crossed I can do it.
An update on my challenge to eat the fruit (and veg); well I started off well during the week, but by the time I got to the weekend it had completely gone out of the window. I just don't see the appeal of eating a banana/apple/orange/any other type of fruit ahead of a chocolate bar (all be it a low fat WW friendly one). This is where I think my problems lie, and they need to be addressed if I am to finally conquer my weight issues.
It's only 45 days until my second graduation, this time for my masters, so if I could have lost 7lb by then I would be very very happy, but as long as I keep loosing at a steady pace I'll be happy. I still don't think I'm going to be happy with my graduation photos. I hated my first set, I look like an elephant, which is gutting because I'm going to have to live with this pictures for the rest of my life, but there is not a lot I can do about it now. I'm just going to have to find some clothes that are more flattering this time, as opposed to a fitted shirt, but I do need something with a button on it, hmmm.... I'll have to have a think about it.
Job application letters have been written today, and the CV has been sorted and I'm really hopeful they will yeild something soon. I don't know how much more I can take of the working part time and not knowing what hours I'm going to be working from one week to the next and not being able to plan my life. With my boyfriend working 9am-5:30pm Monday to Friday, the only time we get together is the weekends and the only work I am guarenteed each week is on a Saturday night, so I'm looking forward to a time when the weekends are ours to spend together and not having to worry about whether or not I may be at work.
Another reason for getting a full time job sooner rather than later is that when I do I can move in with my boyfriend, but at the moment, it's not fair to heap all the costs on him. We could probably just about afford it at the moment, but we don't really want to be scraping by, we'd much rather be comfortable.
Fireworks this weekend; I'm out Firday night, Saturday night and possibly Sunday night too, I'm like a big kid, so excited =)
I've got a Uni friend coming to visit the weekend after next, and I'm really looking forward to that too. She has just moved into her own home and we went and stayed with her earlier on in the year and now we're returning the favour. I have the weekend all planned out, so hopefully it'll involve lots of walking and therefore any food that we do eat won't hurt the weight loss too much.
xx
An update on my challenge to eat the fruit (and veg); well I started off well during the week, but by the time I got to the weekend it had completely gone out of the window. I just don't see the appeal of eating a banana/apple/orange/any other type of fruit ahead of a chocolate bar (all be it a low fat WW friendly one). This is where I think my problems lie, and they need to be addressed if I am to finally conquer my weight issues.
It's only 45 days until my second graduation, this time for my masters, so if I could have lost 7lb by then I would be very very happy, but as long as I keep loosing at a steady pace I'll be happy. I still don't think I'm going to be happy with my graduation photos. I hated my first set, I look like an elephant, which is gutting because I'm going to have to live with this pictures for the rest of my life, but there is not a lot I can do about it now. I'm just going to have to find some clothes that are more flattering this time, as opposed to a fitted shirt, but I do need something with a button on it, hmmm.... I'll have to have a think about it.
Job application letters have been written today, and the CV has been sorted and I'm really hopeful they will yeild something soon. I don't know how much more I can take of the working part time and not knowing what hours I'm going to be working from one week to the next and not being able to plan my life. With my boyfriend working 9am-5:30pm Monday to Friday, the only time we get together is the weekends and the only work I am guarenteed each week is on a Saturday night, so I'm looking forward to a time when the weekends are ours to spend together and not having to worry about whether or not I may be at work.
Another reason for getting a full time job sooner rather than later is that when I do I can move in with my boyfriend, but at the moment, it's not fair to heap all the costs on him. We could probably just about afford it at the moment, but we don't really want to be scraping by, we'd much rather be comfortable.
Fireworks this weekend; I'm out Firday night, Saturday night and possibly Sunday night too, I'm like a big kid, so excited =)
I've got a Uni friend coming to visit the weekend after next, and I'm really looking forward to that too. She has just moved into her own home and we went and stayed with her earlier on in the year and now we're returning the favour. I have the weekend all planned out, so hopefully it'll involve lots of walking and therefore any food that we do eat won't hurt the weight loss too much.
xx
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Week 1
Life is beginning to settle into some sort of routine, although without knowing from week to week what hours I'm going to be working it does sometimes prove difficult to arrange to do anything. I have sorted my CV and covering letter and hope to get them in the post to various potential employers in the next couple of days. I can't wait to be working full time, earning some decent money, and when I do finally get a 'proper' job then I can move out of home and in with my boyfriend. Which after spending 4years away from home at Uni and now trying to fit back in at home, will be amazing (I hope!).
At my second weigh in (WI) I stayed the same, which after a first week loss of 4.5lb I was ok with. Previously I would have come completely off the rails after a big loss and put it all back on again. I'm struggling a bit today though and have already eaten more than I should have done and that is before I have my spaghetti bolognaise for my tea. Never mind will claw it back tomorrow.
At my meeting yesterday I was given a challenge. I find it really difficult to eat my 5 a day. I have no problem with eating vegetables with my main meal at dinner time, which normally provides me with two or three, added to which I normally have a jacket potato at some point in the day (although aparently potatoes don't count as one of your 5 a day!!), so I'd like to think I have three different types of veg in a day, it's just the fruit I have issues with. I'd much rather have a low fat chocolate bar (yes there are such things!) that an apple or banana, it's just much more appealing to me, which I think it probably why I have weight problems in the first place. Anyway, back to my challenge; my challenge was to eat 2 peices of fruit a day. I managed it yesterday, I had an apple and a banana, but didn't have any veg other than my potato for my lunch. Hopefully today will go better, so far I've had my potato, and an apple and I'm sure there will be peas and carrots for tea and probably something else, so as long as I have my banana I am there for today.
The weather has been cold and wet today. I don't worry about being at work so much on days like today, although being at home in front of the fire (all be it a gas one!) is much nicer than having to deal with some of the customers at work.
I'm looking forward to Christmas (yes I know it's still 2 months away), but with not having regular working hours I need to manage my present buying. I'm hoping to make some stuff this year, namely some photo albums/scrapbooks for the grandparents and parents of mine and my boyfriends graduations. They've been talking about getting hold of the photos for some time now and I thought this would be a nice Christmas present for them, and a cheap idea for me.
But before Christmas it's Bonfire Night (I don't care much for Halloween - it's not really my cup of tea). We're not having fireworks in the back garden this year, which was dissappointing especially as I have taken the weekend off work as holiday especially. However we are going to a family friends and they're having a massive bonfire and fireworks to go with it. I'm like a big kid at this time of year, and I love the sparklers. We're also going to my boyfriends Aunts to see a bonfire and firework display that happen in the field next to her house every year. Not to sure how two lots of bonfire parties are going to help the weight loss, especially with them being on a Friday and Saturday night and my WI being on a Monday, but I guess I'll just have to be careful.
xx
At my second weigh in (WI) I stayed the same, which after a first week loss of 4.5lb I was ok with. Previously I would have come completely off the rails after a big loss and put it all back on again. I'm struggling a bit today though and have already eaten more than I should have done and that is before I have my spaghetti bolognaise for my tea. Never mind will claw it back tomorrow.
At my meeting yesterday I was given a challenge. I find it really difficult to eat my 5 a day. I have no problem with eating vegetables with my main meal at dinner time, which normally provides me with two or three, added to which I normally have a jacket potato at some point in the day (although aparently potatoes don't count as one of your 5 a day!!), so I'd like to think I have three different types of veg in a day, it's just the fruit I have issues with. I'd much rather have a low fat chocolate bar (yes there are such things!) that an apple or banana, it's just much more appealing to me, which I think it probably why I have weight problems in the first place. Anyway, back to my challenge; my challenge was to eat 2 peices of fruit a day. I managed it yesterday, I had an apple and a banana, but didn't have any veg other than my potato for my lunch. Hopefully today will go better, so far I've had my potato, and an apple and I'm sure there will be peas and carrots for tea and probably something else, so as long as I have my banana I am there for today.
The weather has been cold and wet today. I don't worry about being at work so much on days like today, although being at home in front of the fire (all be it a gas one!) is much nicer than having to deal with some of the customers at work.
I'm looking forward to Christmas (yes I know it's still 2 months away), but with not having regular working hours I need to manage my present buying. I'm hoping to make some stuff this year, namely some photo albums/scrapbooks for the grandparents and parents of mine and my boyfriends graduations. They've been talking about getting hold of the photos for some time now and I thought this would be a nice Christmas present for them, and a cheap idea for me.
But before Christmas it's Bonfire Night (I don't care much for Halloween - it's not really my cup of tea). We're not having fireworks in the back garden this year, which was dissappointing especially as I have taken the weekend off work as holiday especially. However we are going to a family friends and they're having a massive bonfire and fireworks to go with it. I'm like a big kid at this time of year, and I love the sparklers. We're also going to my boyfriends Aunts to see a bonfire and firework display that happen in the field next to her house every year. Not to sure how two lots of bonfire parties are going to help the weight loss, especially with them being on a Friday and Saturday night and my WI being on a Monday, but I guess I'll just have to be careful.
xx
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
First Post
Hello,
I am in the process of starting my life in the big wide world. I've just finished University and am currently on the look out for a full time job.
Working part time isn't paying my way and it's driving me mad being sat at home with nothing to do. A job would also mean that I could move out of home and into my own home. After spending four years away from home at University, living on my own and looking after myself I am finding it difficult to be living with other people again, especially my parents who want to know what I'm doing and when I'm doing it.
I am currently in the process of loosing weight with Weight Watchers. It was my first WI last week and I lost 4.5lb. I have struggled my weight since I was a small child and it worsened when I went away to University, but now I am doing something about it.
As a current Brownie Guider we are celebrating 100 years of GirlGuiding today, and specifically at 20:10 20/10 2010, when we will all be making our promise again together with other girls and women from the Guiding community throughout the UK. Quite looking forward to it. At least it'll give me something to do today.
xx
I am in the process of starting my life in the big wide world. I've just finished University and am currently on the look out for a full time job.
Working part time isn't paying my way and it's driving me mad being sat at home with nothing to do. A job would also mean that I could move out of home and into my own home. After spending four years away from home at University, living on my own and looking after myself I am finding it difficult to be living with other people again, especially my parents who want to know what I'm doing and when I'm doing it.
I am currently in the process of loosing weight with Weight Watchers. It was my first WI last week and I lost 4.5lb. I have struggled my weight since I was a small child and it worsened when I went away to University, but now I am doing something about it.
As a current Brownie Guider we are celebrating 100 years of GirlGuiding today, and specifically at 20:10 20/10 2010, when we will all be making our promise again together with other girls and women from the Guiding community throughout the UK. Quite looking forward to it. At least it'll give me something to do today.
xx
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