Weigh in...it's a long one!

This is going to be my first weigh in for two weeks as I was on holiday last week so didn't weigh in. I was going to wait until weigh in but couldn't stay away from the scales to see the damage I had done over 8 days, and by what had entered my gob I knew that I was in for a gain I am going to revisit some of the lovel delights that I shoveled into my very expectant gob!

• Greek Meze meal complete with cheesecake
• Numerous alcoholic drinks
• Take -away (yes I did say I was going to avoid but cheesy garlic bread, burger and onion rings were too much to resist)
• Birthday cheesecake made my sister - it would be rude not to
• Massive plate of chilli, rice and cheese at my Mum's
• Sandwiches
• Sausage roll
• Pizza
• Wine
• Cider
• Curry
• Wetherspoons big breakfast
• Crisps
• Nuts
• Chocolate
• Cream cake

I think that's enough for you all to get the idea that I over indulged, part of me hoped that all the walking I did would mean that the food I ate wouldn't make much of a dint in my weightloss but that's just the fat persons way of justifying the obscene amounts of food!!!

On the Saturday morning I stood on the scales, heard the beep and tried to keep my eyes closed but knew I had to open them to see what I had done. Big drum roll ---- a whole 10lbs had jumped right on that number. That was half of what I set myself to lose 10 weeks before my birthday. I am pretty sure this all went on my face, my measurements hadn't changed. So then I had to start Operation Minus 10lbs. 

So what could I do make it seems this 10lb gain had never happend well I could

1. Eat not very much, maybe eating a whole 1200kcals a day would do it.
2. Cut out all syns no velvet crunch, no curly wurly :'(
3. Do something crazy cabbage soup diet maybe or that miracle juicing diet

I didn't do any of the above I stuck to what I have done for the rest of this year, followed the Slimming World plan 100% eaten all my free food, made sure I had my healthy extras and finally I ate my syns, isn't that what they are there for?

I have eaten some awesome things this week and when I finally figure out how to put a table in my blog I will put my food diaries on here. Everyday I have had a cooked breakfast either eggs and beans (green day) or egg, bacon and mushrooms (Extra Easy day); for lunches I have been having salads, sandwiches and pasta dishes. For tea I have enjoyed lasagne, stilton and vegetable pasta and meat free burgers and SW chips. For syns I have enjoyed Freddo(5), Velvet Crunch (4), ketchup (1), low fat margarine (2),  and Kraft Garlic and Herb dressing (1) 

I will not deprive myself of food as this is when the danger will set in and I would have never got back on track, so after all this how did I do, well, I lost the 10lbs I put on and am now back to 4 stone 5lbs (61lbs) lost.

I must also point out that during all my bad food I had terrible constipation which obviously added to the weight gain and I feel that most of the weight I put on was due to that and also water weight.

So here's to a good week and a reduced number next week. Hope you are all well. xx

Weigh in update: 11th May

This post is a bit late but I have been a bit busy and then blogger was down everytime I tried to get on!

So six days of filming everything I ate resulted in a 4lbs loss :) I am so happy it means I'm back to the weight I was before my Gran died (18th March) it's taken me a long time to get back here and back in the frame of mind for Slimming World but I'm proud that I didn't give up. In the past I would have stopped doing Slimming World after a gain.

I thought I would do a mini review of my week in food.

What I enjoyed the most?

Joes Pork and Herb Sausages, this can be found online http://www.joessausages.co.uk/ they are so gorgeous. Decent sized sausage and the only clue you will find to them being healthier is that the frying pan isn't swimming in grease, they taste amazing.

What I didn't enjoy?
The nights when I got in from work and couldn't be bothered to make anything so had beans for tea

I did enjoy all my food this week, I loved cooking proper homemade meals and enjoyed eating fruit which is unusual for me. I think another thing that helped me was that until Tuesday I had no fizzy drinks and I only ate out once.

A food filled weekend

So Easter weekend arrived and I feel like I've not stopped eating. I decided to not follow the Slimming World plan and just keep trying to limit my food to main meals and snacks on fruit.

Friday

Breakfast: two eggs fried in fry light, chopped tomatoes with a slice of wholemeal bread

Dinner/Tea: Baked cod, marrowfat peas, cauliflower, potatoes and parsley sauce and homemade cheesecake with strawberries for dessert.

Saturday

Breakfast: Porridge and some grapes

Dinner: Ham salad sandwich and grapes

Tea: Went to Nando's so had chicken and spicy rice.

Sunday

Breakfast: Yoghurt and grapes.

Dinner: Low fat chicken supernoodles with a slice of wholemeal bread with banana and grapes.

Tea: Sunday Dinner :) turkey, potatoes, broccoli, sprouts, carrots, pigs in blankets, stuffing, bread sauce and gravy. Homemade cheesecake with strawberries for dessert.

Monday

Breakfast: Half an Easter egg (whoops!)

Dinner: BBQ including a big salad, sausage, chicken, burger and prawns. Homemade cheesecake with strawberries for dessert.

Tea: Nothing as yet but will probably have some soup and fruit when I've finished work.


So as you can see not a great weekend, however, I have eaten lots of homemade meals and kept my fruit and vegetables intake high. Importantly I have had a really good weekend and have eaten no where near as much as I usually do.

The best thing about the weekend has been spending lots of time with my lovely family, I love it when we all get together. An argument with some neighbours over parking threatened to ruin Sunday but I was proud of my sister for arguing back at them in a calm way and she only swore once!

Weight update

Looking through my blog I've realised I've not updated my weigh-in results for a couple of weeks, probably because they aren't that great.

My weigh-in on 17/02/2011 was as I suspected I gained 1 lb. I would like to blame it on the fact that the week before I had a big loss due to being sick and not eating for a couple of days, but the truth is I didn't eat at all well, had a night out with lots of alcohol and a takeaway, a meal out for my sisters birthday and a Chinese made by Mum the night before weigh in.

My weigh-in on 24/02/2011 I stayed the same; I had a long weekend away with my sister and two friends and drank way too much alcohol and didn't eat well at all. When I weighed myself when I got home I had gained 2lbs, by weigh-in day I lost that and was back to my weight of the week before.

So, this week I really must get my arse back in gear and do 100% food optimising. I have had a really good couple of days. I've tried to cook as many fresh meals I could including the meat and potato pie I posted before this; egg, chips and beans and tonight I am attempting the butter chicken curry from the latest Slimming World magazine.

I also made the custard and nutmeg tarts from the magazine and they are gorgeous, I will do a post with pictures in the next couple of days.

Hope everyone else's diets/healthy eating is going well.  Thanks to everyone who has followed my blog and commented.