End of Week 3

So it's been 3 weeks and I've lost another 1.5lbs, totalling 10.5lbs! Which I have to say I'm quite impressed with!

It hasn't been a breeze as some days I've really craved tasty food and treats but I've pretty much got through it. Last week I had 2 off days which involved chocolate, KFC and generally pigging out - all because I wasn't feeling well. So looking back 1.5lbs is pretty good and I only went on one run.

Ok, so my week ahead involves 2 days out and a bank holiday. My challenge is to get in some exercise!

Meals have been pretty standard this week but I will say that Tesco Light Choices Lasagne and Chicken Curry have been awesome!

Shopping List

A Healthy Extras
Skimmed Milk
Mini BabyBel Light
Half Fat Mature Cheese

B Healthy Extras
Weetabix
Wholemeal Sliced Bread
Wholemeal Pitta bread

Free Food
Green beans
Carrots
Apples
Strawberries
Grapes
Eggs

Green Free Food
Jacket potatoes
Maris Piper Potatoes - Syn free chips
Boiled Potatoes
Wholemeal Rice
Pasta
Heinz Spaghetti

Red Free Food
Steak
Chicken
Gammon
Cooked Ham


Syns - meals
Homepride Can Curry Sauce
Pepper Sauce Mix
Sainsburys Southern Fried Chicken
Hellmans Mayonnaise
Tesco Light Choices Lasagne frozen
Tesco light choices Chicken Curry


Syns - Snacks
Cadbury Light Trifle (6.5 syns)
Cadbury Crunchie (9.5 syns)


Drinks
Coffee
Sweetener
Squash
Pepsi max

Day 12 - Monday 13th August 2012

Breakfast
Weetabix (1xB)
Skimmed milk (1xA)

Lunch
Tesco Light choices Chicken Curry (5.5syns)

Dinner
Roast Chicken
Green beans
Carrots
Bisto Gravy (3 syns)
Smash

Cadbury Light Trifle (6.5 syns)

Day 11- Sunday 12th August 2012

Breakfast
Poached Eggs
Bacon

Lunch
jacket Potato
Sainsburys Southern Fried Chicken (5.5 syns)
Hellmans Light Mayonnaise (2 syns)
Mini Babybel light (1xA)


Dinner
Syn free chips.
Cadbury light trifle (6.5 syns)
Squash (no added sugar) ice lollies

Body magic
Run
513kcal

Day 10 - Saturday 11th August 2012

Ok so the day was going excellent but I miss counted my syns!!!

Although I did do an hour of Zumba and had less than 15 syns... So I'm not feeling that bad about it! AND I didn't really have lunch.

Breakfast
Poached Egg
Bacon
Wholemeal toast (1xB)

Lunch
Little bit of chicken (as spent most of the day shopping so didn't have time to eat!!!)

Dinner
Wholemeal Rice
Chicken
Homepride Curry Sauce 1/3 tin (6 syns)
Weight Watchers Naan Bread (6.5 syns)
Cadbury Light Trifle (6.5 syns)

Body Magic
1hour Zumba

Day 9 - Friday 10th August 2012

Started the day not knowing what I was going to be eating but managed to stick to it and quite well too!!!

Red day

Breakfast
Weetabix (1xB)
Skimmed milk (1xA)

Lunch
Poached egg
Wholemeal toast (1xB)

Dinner
Steak
Green beans
Pepper sauce (skimmed milk 1xA & 2 syns)

Cadbury light trifle (6.5 syns)

Total syns 8.5

Day 8 - Thursday 9th August 2012

Green day

Breakfast
Weetabix (1xB)
Skimmed Milk (1xA)

Lunch
Tesco Light Choices Lasagne Frozen
(5 Syns)

Dinner
Jacket Potato
Heinz Spaghetti
Half fat mature cheese (1xA)

Snacks
Slimming World Choc Bar (3 Syns)
Half a Crunchie (5 Syns)

Avoided a networking breakfast this morning!

End of Week 1 -Day 7 - Wednesday 8th August

Well, my first weigh in. A little bit excited as the first week is always guaranteed to be a good one. Wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was though!

Lost 6.5lbs!!!!

Although I have to admit that this might have something to do with the fact that I had jeans, jumper and my watch on last week. Either way, it means I'm at the same starting point as I was with Tara last year for the diet tribe.

My first goal of a stone isn't that far away. Would love this by September.

My first event to look forward to is in a couple of weeks.,.. Ffos las on the 24th followed by the first match of the season and then Clare's hen do! All in one weekend!!!

Aiming for at least 2 lbs for next week. Although 4.5 would be pretty amazeballs as it will put me into the next stone bracket!

Breakfast
Weetabix (1xB)
Skimmed Milk (1xA)


Lunch
Wholemeal Chicken Tikka Pitta (6 Syns)


Dinner
Jacket Potato
Half Fat Mature Cheese (4 Syns)
Heinz Spaghetti

Snack
Half a Crunchie (5 Syns)

Day 6 - Tuesday 7th August

Breakfast
Weetabix (1xA)
Skimmed Milk (1xB)

Lunch
Wholemeal Pitta (5 syns)
Chicken Tikka Slices
Grapes & Strawberries

Dinner
Syn free chips
Egg
Gammon

Snack
Freddo Choc bar (5 syns)

Bit of a stressful day but glad I didnt go over my Syn allowance. Weigh in tomorrow... Planning a run in the morning or in the evening, not decided yet as kit is still in the washing machine!

Day 5 - Monday 6th August

Starting to feel less hungry which is great. Not long to go before my first weigh in! Breakfast Weetabix (1xB) Skimmed Milk (1xA) Lunch 1/3 Homepride Sauce (6 syns) Chicken green and red peppers Wholemeal Rice Dinner Boiled potatoes Ham Heinz Spaghetti Boiled Eggs snack Half bar of Crunchie (5 syns) 2 sugars for coffee (2 syns) Body Magic 3.64 mile run 488 calories

Day 4 - Sunday 5th August

Well, I spent the first part of the day sweating out a fever as I ended up feeling very unwell yesterday with flu like symptoms but I've stuck to the plan today!

Breakfast
Weetabix (1xA)
Skimmed Milk (1xB)

Lunch
Didn't have because I didn't get up out of bed until 3pm

Dinner
Homepride Curry Sauce (1/3 tin) 6 syns
Green and red peppers
Chicken
Wholemeal Rice

Half a bar of Crunchie


Extra strong mints
Coffee with skimmed milk and sweeteners

Day 3 - Saturday 4th August

Breakfast
2 poached Egg on Wholemeal Toast (no spread) (1xB)

Lunch

Jacket potatoHalf far mature cheese (1xA)

Evening Meal

Jacket potato Clover lightSainsburys southern fried chicken steak Hellmans light mayo

Coffee with skimmed milk

Extra strong mints

Body Magic
4 mile jog = 415 kcal

Starting photos :-s

Seeing as I've done 2 days and started my Half Marathon training I thought it would be a good time to post some pictures to motivate me to make the changes and get back to where I used to be!

Taken at a workshop I was delivering in July 2012!  This is not great as it shows all the weight I'm carrying around my waist!

At the Royal Welsh Show in July - wow, this really does show the excess I'm carrying around my waist!

I' not keen on this one as my face looks quite chunky!  

So those are a small selection of my FAT photos... to be honest.. there are a lot of pictures taken of me that don't look too bad as I've angled my face quite well, but the full body ones aren't good at all! The photos to follow is of last year when I lost weight and felt great about it!

At the Business Network awards which will be again this year!  After this I started to put weight back on!

Wearing my first Lunacy dress and feeling quite proud after the half marathon!  Since putting on weight I've not been able to buy clothes at Luncy so I'll look forward to buying my next dress from there!

I think this was at the peak of my weight loss.  If only I really knew how good I looked.  Those trousers  won't go near me now! :-(

As much as this photo isn't one that I've shown a lot of people, this suit is  really tight on me at the moment and I think  I look quite good! 

At the time I had this photo taken on the morning of the half marathon I didn't like it... but now, looking back I look fairly fit in comparison to what I look like now!

 

And this is one of my favourites as I loved this dress from Oasis!  Admittedly I had to wear my 'hold me in' underwear to smooth everything out but I really did feel good wearing this one! 

Day 2 Friday 3rd August

Ok so it looks like I might have messed up my second day! I started putting my suns and stuff into the mobile app and then did my food diary and missed a few things out! Oops... Conveniently forgot that I had half a lager after work and then had a Crunchie as my evening snack!

Breakfast
2 Poached eggs
Wholemeal Toast

Lunch
Wholemeal chicken tikk pitta
Grapes

Evening Meal (Same as last night)
Steak
Green beans
Boiled potatoes
Pepper sauce*

I suppose to make up for my little hiccup I need to get my ass back out there and start exercising. It's quite a scary thought but it's got to be done as I won't be able to shift the lbs

*Pepper sauce was a little runny as I added some boiled water so didn't have have as much as I did last night!

Day 1 Thursday 2nd August

First day on the slimming world...might have gone over my allowance but it wasn't do bad! So here was what I ate:

Breakfast
Weetabix
Skimmed Milk

(Had a skinny wet cappuccino in Costa before one of my meetings which really I shouldn't have done as I think it tipped me over my allowance!)

Mid morning Snack
Slimming World Hifi Chocolate and caramel snack bar

Lunch
3 Pieces of Ham
2 Boiled Eggs
Heinz Spaghetti

Mid afternoon snack
Strawberries

Evening Meal
Steak
Green Beans
Boiled Potatoes
Pepper Sauce made with skimmed milk
(approx one third of a packet)

Evening treat
Half a bar of Crunchie! It was delicious and very much enjoyed it!


All in all not a bad start to the diet. Really hoping for a 3lb loss in my first week as I've certainly got lots to lose!