Weigh In? WAYHEY!!!

Well it was my weight in tonight - the first since I joined e-source...

I LOST 1 WHOLE POUND WOOOOOHOOOOO :D

I needed a weight loss this week, I needed to know that the blogging and tracking and pain from exercise was worth it. 1 whole pound - happy as larry, couldn't be happier! (scottish people will get that quote)

That brings my total up to 11 pounds off! On this it's only a pound, but I had been going to classes for 3 months before. I got to 11 pounds about 4 weeks ago, but I slipped up, my head didn't listen to my heart, and I put on 3!!! So that's me back to the 11 = 12st 1lb.

This is important - namely because I have a terrible habit of getting down the 12st mark and not shifting, then increasing and ending up on the wrong side of 13st again. Fast forward a year of yo-yo fad diets and there is me walking back through the doors of weight watchers to start all over again!

NOT THIS TIME BUDDY!!!

So this week I have set myself the huge target of a 2 POUND weight loss! That's right, me, who cannot loss more than 1lb on a great week, is aiming high and I've already started!

You see, the class me and my mum attend is at 7pm on a Tuesday evening. And for the first wee while we, like many others in the class, saw a Tuesday night as "cheat night". Tracking began on a Wednesday morning, and you got weighed at 7pm, ergo the time between 7pm Tuesday and 7am Wednesday was FREE........

Not anymore - determined to shift this bulk I have started going to a heavy duty circuit training class (we are talking 50mins of high intensity activity points btw) on a Tuesday night, 9-10PM!! Don't get me wrong I am knackered, but it stops me cheating, it stops me eating and I can say with the up-most confidence I can already feel my body beginning to tone up and tighten in places I never even knew existed!

2lbs off EASY - I'm not even frightened about dinner (at an Italian) on Thursday or the friends birthday night out on Saturday. My head and my heart are finally singing of the same hymm sheet: *spotlight on me*

The Singer: Gabriella Cilmi
The Theme Tune: On a Mission

Altogether now: *SING* "I am a woman, on a mission, WHO-O! Nothing can stop me I'm stronger than ever! I'm gonna see this throooooouuuugggghhh"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Company my Class is with - talk about tough love!

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Chocolate Pineapple CheeseCake.....YES PLEASE!

   Ok so this week I have been a little.........frivolous with my weekly PPs....i.e. I had none left by the Saturday (my WI is on a Tuesday....oops!)

I can't help it - there was chocolate cake at the restaurant, and EVERYONE was having a pudding *hangs head in shame*.

I do exercise though - Zumba yesterday and BodyCombat later today - so I am racking up some serious activity points, but I don't like to use them: 1) I think there is too much room for error and 2) my weight loss is more the weeks where I exercise but still within my limits.

So I have really worked hard - reeeeally hard, to stay within my 29 daily points allowance and by jove I have done well. Last night my Mum made fish, chips and beans for tea - but because I knew my points were running low I skipped the chips and had a pile of salad instead. This allowed me to have my banana muffin that I made as well.

The sugar addiction sorted I wanted to try and make something quick and easy for pudding today as well - I love a pudding and sugar free jelly with 0% fat yogurt does not hit the spot for me at all I am afraid.

And there it is (see photo) 1 chocolate and pineapple cheesecake - which took all of 10mins to make and if you make 8 portions, its only 5 pps! I posted the recipe to the recipe swap board if anyone wants it! And trust when I am looking forward to a bodyCombat, a hot shower and slice of cheesecake and a hot cup of tea - who said this diet malarkey was difficult anyway?

Zumba Maddness and the Joys of Baking!

It's all about being proactive! I got fat because I got lazy - I choose to buy a pre-made sandwich at the deli counter because I am too lazy to make my own, I choose a ready meal or take-away because I can't be bothered cooking, and I choose the car wash because I am too lazy to wash the car!

Oh wait - and I live in Scotland - which means that the rain never stays off long enough to let me do it - but you get the jist of what I am trying to say!

The last few weeks I have weight gains and tiny losses - because I am reverting to the old me, the lazy me - that's why I joined e-source, because I am on my computer every day - but I can still be proactive!

So today was my 1st WHOLE day off work (I do a lot of split shifts) in 14 days! The old me, the lazy me - would have went on the bevvy last night and had chinese or chips, kebab sauce, cheese and donner meat (yes - all together!) and lay in bed watching films!

The new me - the PROACTIVE me - signed a tuck-in shift last night, which meant working till 11pm - rather than going out for the sake of going out! The new me, the PROACTIVE me - had her well deserved lie in but also went to the latin exercise class known as ZUMBA 3-4pm! 5 activity points, thank you very much!

And I didn't stop there - the new me, the PROACTIVE me - nipped into the local Lidel and picked up the ingredients for the Iced Banana Mini Muffins (recipe on request) and made them after dinner! A giant mug of tea - 1 muffin (2pps) later and you have one content lady!

Long may the PROACTIVE me continue!

Hello and Welcome!

Welcome to my new blog!!

Feeling like I have conquered the cigarette mountain having been a non-smoker for 7 weeks I have decided to turn my attention fully to my weight loss and fitness gain goals for 2011!

Some people tell you not to make too many new years resolutions - because its easier to stick to one! I, on the other hand, prefer a divide and conquer technique! Make lots of resolutions and statistically I should at least be able to complete 1 by 2012.

Stopping smoking was a biggae - and I am well an truly on the right track with that! I have also been complimented on my outreach work - giving more hugs! Its a running joke amongst my friends that you don't hug Sarah - Sarah doesn't hug! I'm not dead inside or anything - just enjoy personal space.

So with two resolutions firmly under my belt (providing I keep them up until 2012 - I am looking at the next one - weight loss! As you can see I was a heavy starting weight - and at a sad 5Ft 5In my BMI was technically obese when I was 13st.

But to be honest that wasn't the upset - I am on the break-up plan. Having ended my 3 and 1/2 year relationship in March this year I found myself single, stressed, unhappy,  lacking in confidence and miserable - and at 24years old - that is a horrible place to be. I was fed up going to another wedding or another party or another holiday and having the time of my life then being physically nauseous at the sight of the photographs. I carry almost all of my fat between my boobs and my hips - my non-existent ass has been the same non-existent ass that I have had since I was about 16! This results in what fashion gurus call an apple shape. I call it: can't-wear-jeans-because-they-dig-in-and-cut-your-belly-if-you-sit-too-long shape!

So I joined weightwatchers and was determined that this would be the last time I have attempted to lose weight! My mum joined too, not because she had to lose but she was feeling a bit uncomfy and I needed the support. We've been on the plan for 3 months now and weight is (slowing) coming off - the best way (so I am told!).

But the last few weeks I have began to drift away again - which is my usual course of action once I near the 12st mark! I begin to feel comfy and see change, so I stop sticking to the plan, with the result being a 1st weight grain and re-initiation into diet world once more! As my blog was a hugely important tool in my stopping smoking I decided to try it for weight lose.

This is a selfish act - not only do I get to vent but all you lovely people have now entered into a contract of never-ending support and encouragement for me to hit my goals :D

So my next goal is for 8lbs before my holiday (which is in 5 weeks and 2 days!) This is an optimistic - but not unachievable goal if I work hard. The reason I have choose 8lbs is because that would bring me to 11st 8lbs - and I will have physically lost 10% of my starting body weight!

So come on! Get encouraging - or just read, laugh and enjoy! (and if I meet you for lunch - you hide the desert menu! Drag me physically away if you have to....)