A New Week aka Drawing A Line!

The odds were against me losing weight or even staying the same last week no matter how I tried, by Thursday I had more or less given up! So yes, I gained a whole pound (arrrrrgggghhhh!!!), not really a good start towards my new mini-goals!

Well, its now a new week and yes I did go over my points at the weekend, inevitable really with a party on Sunday afternoon but the good news is I didn't go enough points over to worry me, I can easily make them back up. I have been really good at drinking my 2 litres of water every day, with the exception of the party day because copious amounts of wine + 2 litres of water = making friends with the toilet and that's not much fun really. Plus you always get one person who loves to comment on people's toilet habits!

So here we go again, bad, stressful week over, now for a week of PMT but hopefully a weight loss too!

New goals

First hospital appointment out of the way, got just the result I wanted. They want to operate on my gall-bladder, which is great. The pain is so unbearable at times. I was worried that they would refuse because of my BMI. However, we did agree that we would wait a little longer so that I can lose a little more weight and get our adoption sorted out. Surgeon told me if the pain got too unbearable to phone and bring my next appointment forward. I really feel like he put the ball in my court and I am very happy with that. So that gives me an incentive for a new goal. My next appointment is in late November so I am hoping to lose at least one and a half stones for that appointment in 27 weeks time and hopefully two stones. Crikey! Just trying to imagine that in 6 months I will be 2 stones lighter!!

The other goal is a mini-goal and with my track record of STS and low WI's it might not be achievable but I am going to give it my best shot. So I aim to lose half a stone in the next 5 weeks. I usually average 1lb per week so I may struggle but if i could do it, well it would be the best birthday present ever! My birthday falls precisely on the 5th weigh-in. If I do lose that half a stone, on the same day I will achieve the following:

• Hit 2 stone loss
• Get my 10% award
• Get into the obese range of BMI instead of morbidly obese

I have started working towards it by upping my water intake, weighing anything I can. So fingers crossed, I can do this!

Oweee!

Oh the pain! I don't know what I have done but I had a bloody scare last night, so today I am taking it easy.

Where do i start? Well, I did some digging yesterday as I mentioned in my previous blog, got home had a bath. So far so good. Went to the in-laws for dinner, came home. I was sitting watching TV, nothing on as usual so I had a sudden fit of good intentions and decided that as I was doing nothing good with my time that I would strip the bed and do some ironing. Anybody who knows me well will know that this is highly unusual!

Anyway, I went upstairs followed by Chunky the Cat and Harry the Dog. Stripping the bed is never easy with a cat and a dog trying to curl up on it so I shooed the cat off the bed then went to pick him up to give him a cuddle and ohhhhhh the agony! I fell over with the most intense shooting pain through my hip. I could not walk whatsoever or bend over so ended up all night in bed. DH had to make the bed in the end so at least I got out of that and I was treated like a princess for the night! I considered asking for a little bell to tinkle when I needed a drink or something (not sure that would have gone down well!)

This morning I can at least walk, still experiencing some pain but now I can't do my rosemary conley DVD or do any digging to make up for all the bad stuff I have eaten this week! I had such good intentions for his week! Maybe my body was subconciously protesting at the thought of digging, ironing and keep fit!

Well we shall see what happens on Saturday. Other than that I have a stressful week coming up, no less than three hospital appointments, all for different things, though at least one is for the little girl we are adopting and not for me!

An eventful few days!

I am elated to tell you that following weigh in yesterday I have reached two goals, firstly I have now lost more than my dog weighs (pictured - 18lb), a goal which seemed to be evading me! Secondly, I reached my stone and a half after losing a whopping 3.5lbs this week (I knew it would catch up with me sooner or later!)

Also, on Friday to cheer myself up I treated myself to a lovely new blouse in the sale at Evans, a size lower so I could slim into it. I got home to see how tight it was and it fit perfectly! You could have knocked me down with a feather! So of course I was absolutely delighted to have a bargain buy, that fit beautifully and cheered me up a hundred times more than buying something that I thought would fit in the first place!

Now for the bad news! Hubby and I went to visit relatives in Oxforshire for the weekend, now that was ace in itself but I know that when I visit I always fall off the diet wagon, which of course I have done big style! I am hoping that some Wii fun, a walk and an hours digging when I got back will go someway to me at leats having a Stay The Same next weekend!

I have a few stressful things coming up this week so as per my last post, I need to watch my triggers.

Spotting triggers

I started writing this on Thursday but did not get time to finish it:

One of the things that I have got out of my 'journey' this time is that I am more mindful of my triggers. I am terrible for eating when either emotional or err drunk.



I had some mildly upsetting news this morning, after a little cry I ended up going out for a drive with hubby whilst he did his service calls so he could keep me company, bless his heart.



By the time he had finished it was after 1pm and boy was I hungry! We ended up calling in McDonalds, which I only agreed to because I was already fed up. However, eating out guide to hand I made the fairly wise choice of a McChicken Sandwich meal. Now I would really have much preferred a supersize big mac meal but I knew I only wanted the McDonalds to satisfy a need for comfort. I did treat myself t0 a cappucino though!



So trigger spotted and although not totally avoided I managed it carefully.

Allotment Update

After much digging we have two beds clear and have planted cabbages, leeks, onions, shallots and a million different varieties of lettuce.

Never mind the exercise if munching on all this no point veg doesn't help my weight loss then nothing will.

Soup ahoy!

Slowly does it...

I am still working really hard to stick to my points, and I can tell you I have never been so good. I didn't lose any weight on Saturday but I think that may be because of doing a lot of digging during the week. In fact I earned more than a whole days worth of points last week, and tempted as I was I only ate a few of the points. I have an aversion to eating exercise points, I never believe that I will lose weight if I eat them! Maybe I should, maybe then I would have lost some weight!

I am still happy, I would have loved to have a loss but over the weeks I am averaging about 1lb per week despite having two weeks of gaining and quite a few STS. I also know that last time I did a lot of exercise I barely lost any weight but had sudden inch losses so its time to get the tape measure out again!

Also, something I am really happy about, I went out on Saturday night in a lovely wrap-over top. I could fit into it before but could only just tie the wrap-over bit, I should see if I can dig out the photo of last time I wore it but the picture attached is from Saturday night. I also wore some trousers that I had bought to match the top but could not fit into at all so they were brand new! It's so nice for my clothes to fit so well!

Lastly, I bought some electronic scales from Ebay as I dropped my last scales so I am going to have a week of weighing everything, see if that makes any difference!