Slimming World -WEEK 6 - off plan

Hey guys,

So it was my birthday last week, we went to London for the weekend AND Pancake Tuesday happened, so it wasn’t the worst week to have off plan…….

London was great fun, we done LOADS.. arrived early Sat morning, we were in the Science museum by 10.30, then I got cupcakes from The Hummingbird bakery (unbelievable)

We got the tube to Harrods for a walk around.... went to a yummy steakhouse for dinner that done a duo of cheesecakes for dessert (need I say more:-))

Sunday - we had breakfast, queued for the natural history museum, dinosaur expo was CLOSED!!! I was gutted!!

Then we went tube hopping to visit, London eye, big ben, Westminster & MI6 building....

 

London eye, big ben, Westminster & MI6 building

After a busy morning, we went to visit Hamleys & hit Oxford street for some retail therapy….

HAMLEYS

I also saw people with Hummingbird bakery  bags, so tracked it down and had a slice of Rainbow Cake (highlight of my trip)

We strolled thru Selfridges to avoid the rain & went for Dinner in Covent Gardens in Maxwell’s (delish)

Hummingbird Bakery

We were very lucky to get home on Monday.. the early flight was delayed in Stansted by 8 hours!!! we walked passed them and got our flight and were only delayed by 45min over the winds in Cork!!!!

I was very happy to be home but exhausted after the weekend!! my legs are still heavy!!

We did 17,000 steps on Sat & 28,000 steps on Sunday according to my Fitbit!

I took Tues off work, himself went to work, I hit the couch and ate lotsa pancakes :-)

So I happily accepted my 4lb gain at Slimming World and plan to get back on track ASAP

Bit of Motivation for the coming week..... 

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Slimming World - WEEK 5 - Jan/Feb 2016

January is finally over…. Can I get a woohoo J Hello Spring & February

Star week and birthday week for me which see’s me going waaay over my syns on 3 days!!

Hey, no one said this was going to be straight forward or easy! BUT the queen of excuses refuses to quit…. 

Friday 29^th Jan 2016 – Day 26

Still feeling nauseous, so didn’t eat much!!! Star week has arrived also!!! So not the best combo to start my day!!!

Today was off plan! I just ate what I thought I’d be able to keep down!

2.5 Litres of Water & ??syns

Sick Day

Saturday 30^th Jan 2016 – Day 27

Woke up feeling better, went to Spinning and hopefully sweated out the end of whatever bug I picked up!!

I was careful with my food today “just in case”

Dinner was a Chinese take away 8 syns and having 3 chocolate biscuits put me over my syns for the day but counting it as a win!

1 hour Spinning & 1.5 Litres of Water & 23 syns

3 biscuits = 12 syns

Sunday 31^st  Jan 2016 – Day 28

Today started well, breakfast * lunch were on plan, I got my food shopping in for the week BUT we had visitors for the afternoon and I let myself get too hungry and also Hangry!

So dinner was off plan pizza! Not sure why I find it so difficult to stay onplan at the weekend!!!

1 Litre of Water & ??syns

 

HEB + 1.5 syns (light cheese triangle)

Monday 1^st  Feb 2016 – Day 29

Have my usual Monday morning determination about me even tho I didn’t sleep very well!!

Ate as much fruit as I could to get the speed food into me!!

Suffered in Spinning class tonight, my dinner was jumping in my throat! Not a good feeling!

Had some dry half a syn biscuits to ease the queasy feeling

1 hour Spinning & 3 Litres of Water & 2.5 syns

Synfree Roast Chicken Dinner

Tuesday 2^nd  Feb 2016 – Day  30

Woke up tired!! I assume its how Tuesdays will be after a busy Monday and Spinning!!

3 meals were on plan.. had a quiet day and early night…  Had 2 x chocolate biscuits to use some syns

2.5 Litres of Water & 11 syns

Tuesday Treat

Wednesday 3^rd  Feb 2016 – Day  31

Today is my birthday, 32.. how did that happen!!! My birthday surprise is a trip to London THIS Sat (lucky me)

So today at work I cancelled cake (we always get cake when there’s a birthday in the office!)

My 3 main meals were 100% on plan (lunch was 1.5 syns for light cheese triangle) So that when I went to my parents for dinner, I was able to join in the “party” with my nieces and nephew & have birthday cake

Cake pushes me over my syns, but I’m ok with that…. It is my birthday after all

2 Litre of Water & ??syns

Happy Birthday to Me

Thursday 4^th  Feb 2016 – Day  31

Weigh Days here once again…. I’m feeling good today, and kinda lean and light, could be all in my head,  but regardless of what the scales says I plan to enjoy my weekend away…

Hit the scales and walked away with a maintain….. very happy with that  J

2.5 Litres of Water & 11 syns

Happy

I’m taking the next few days off, but I’ll pop in next Friday with my weigh in result xxx

 7lb lost to date

74lb to go

Bit of Motivation for the coming week..... 

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January 2015 Update

There’s something to be said about being a weight loss blogger who's kind of crap at losing weight. It’s embarrassing, and that’s why I haven’t been blogging all that much in the last few months.

I feel like my blog posts have become whingey and full of excuses, they’re aren't as positive or as progress-full (is that a word?) as I would like them to be….

But I think that this is ok? I’m not perfect, no body expects me to be and sometimes life gets in the way of things.

Also I’m like a bad penny, I might be down but I’m certainly not out. I refuse to give up. I’m not making much progress being a yoyo, but I’m refusing to give in and stay like this.

Because I’m not happy and I’m not comfortable, and I’m refusing to settle.. I've only got one body and I've been treating it like crap for years! Its taken me 30 years to realise this and now I’m sorry I've treated myself so badly!

Here’s a little update as to how I've been doing, January went well for me, I was eating good, cooking from scratch, trying a few new recipes, and not going berserk at the weekends (in my head weekend = food party/ all you can eat style! WHY!!!)

So facing the scales after non-food partying weekends was making me feel smug (& also expecting huge losses… why do I decide that 4 days in a row of good eating should equal half a stone gone?)

I was down, 1.5, 1.5, 3.5 and then I had a gain of 1.5.. which I wasn't expecting and I wasn't happy about. Shit happens eh? Yes it does, but what did I do? I ate my disappointment....literally!

Also the following week was my birthday week, so I had a night out, a hangover day/binge, followed by 2 dinners out for my birthday and wait for it….. 5 different kinds of cake for my birthday celebrations… yes, you read that correctly FIVE. .everyone is aware of my love affair with cake and all my lovely friends and family bought me cake for my birthday.. Sure it was my birthday and I was celebrating!!  So the 48 hours before facing the Slimming World weighing scales I had 2 dinners out and ate A LOT of cake

So there was no surprise when I jumped on the scales and had a gain of 5.5LBS

Yip, I managed to undo all of January's good eating and hard work in less than 7 days… But it didn't end there, Oh no, the birthday celebrations weren't over just yet!!

I was out with the lovely Slimming World ladies on Friday night for drinks and pizza slices, I was away on Saturday Night for my Birthday and we had car snacks (yes it’s a thing) and a 5 course dinner that evening followed by drinks (I don’t regret it, it was AMAZING.. and the Breakfast the following day… OMG **drooling just thinking about it**) All the photos are on my instagram page. Click HERE 

So here I am, its Monday AGAIN and I’m back on plan today.. my first day on plan is over 10 days, I’m guessing I’m back to the start again with my numbers... that wont be made official until Thursday night, so the next 4 days I am going to try to do a little bit of damage control and get the scales moving in the right direction again!!  I’m back in control again, I made my speed soup last night and that’s a baby step in the right direction at least…

I’m disappointed with myself but I enjoyed every single day of being off plan… but I’m ready to stop eating crap and treat my body properly, it won't thank me for the binge eating!!!

I don’t know what kind of penance would be recommend after that synful confession, but I  will definitely try harder. I have to if I want to start seeing results…..

January 2015 Stats
Week 1 = + 8.5
Week 2 = -1.5
Week 3 = -1.5
Week 4 = +1.5
Week 5 = + 5.5

Weight lost to date: 0lbs
Onwards and Downwards, the Slimming World way :)

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