10% YAS!!!

So today is the last day of my old plan as I have left my WWer meeting and have decided just to do the plan myself using the online tools. So I decided to weigh myself today on my wii and use that as my starting point.

I have apparently lost a half pound :)) woohoo!

This takes me to my 10%. Which means I have lost 10% of my starting body weight :)) Its a great motivator and tomorrow is going to be the start of the next chapter of my weight loss journey. My targets are the same, I want to be at goal for my 26th birthday and wear a size 12 dress :))

Will keep you  in the loop as always!

Motivation is....

Small knockback but moving on!

Ok so after a pretty bad week, coupled with it being THAT week, I put on 1lb. Not ideal, 1lb of fat is quite a lot (well when it comes off its huge) and I usually bluff a STS when I am naughty. Obviously too naughty this week!

But I won't let it hold me back. Because once again I have proved to myself that when I don't stick with the plan I put on weight, and when I do stick to the plan I lose. Pretty simple really!

So this week, despite relocating to my parents whilst essential car maintenance is done, and a night out planned with the gang, I will stick to this plan. I want another 2lb lose!

Also, my cheeky pound on means I've been bumped back upto 27pps a day! Woop! an extra choccie for me!

Slightly less successful week 2 with 2 days to weigh in

Well after a proper boost, 2lb loss last week, I have not been the weight watcher angel I know I can be. A house warming on saturday involved my buffet, which I did point...kinda....and lost track of what I ate (salad and fruit trays weren't even opened), alcohol on top of that and then a chinese takeaway sunday (and the other half Monday) to feign off the hangover and complete my weekend of self indulgence.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVED every minute of it!

I have also completed my hour of pole dancing and managed 2 runs on week 4 of the couch to 5K plan as I am meant to running a 5k in May with other WWer girls in my class. So I am hoping I have completed some damage limitation on that front.

Just need to wait and see on Wednesday, but whatever the result I KNOW I can do this this, I've proved it! Goal for 26!!

1st Week Weigh In!

Ok, its not exactly my first weigh in, I've been on this plan for what feels like forever. BUT if you read my last blog entry you'd realise that last week was about drawing a final line in the sand and giving this plan a fighting chance, putting 110% into this for 2weeks, and if the result is not what I want then I would walk away.

Well, I stayed within my points, I tracked everything and I was good. I also had a meal out on Saturday, a night out Saturday night and a meal out on Sunday :)) Good diet huh!?

What I never got round to was SHRED, in fact all I managed was an hour of pole dancing class, of which I am only a beginner and therefore not working as hard as I will be in the future if I keep it up :s

Well...drum roll please........................2 WHOLE POUNDS OFF!

The last time I lost more than 1lb in a week was awwwwwway back at the start of my weight watchers journey, when you lose more anyway....boo.

Just goes to show you what you can do when you put your mind to it!

So the good work continues for this week as I continue to live the plan! This week I am having a housewarming party, but plan to point EVERYTHING I make for the buffet and stick the list in the drawer, that way I can eat and not panic about tracking. Well if your having a houseparty you may as well be safe in the knowledge lol!

2ndly I am defo going to try up my exercise again. I have pole again tonight, but I NEED to get out for at least 2 runs if I am going to attempt the 5k in May!

So guys, stick with me, as for a change I am sticking with myself!

Pole Dancing and Paper Parcels

This week, and the next, I am determined to give the plan 110% to see if I can really do it and evaluate the weight loss. Then I plan to make a conscious decision on wither or not this plan is actually going to work for me!

So yesterday I TRACKED everything - including the 3 sneaky digestives and choccie philly that i had! I also decided that I needed to find a new exercise, one that I enjoyed and found more interesting that just running. Based on my friend's amazing transformation, not only physically, but mentally, as a result of pole dancing I thought I would give it a try.

So I went, alone, along to a class in Kilmarnock. I was the only beginner there, everyone is a level 2 or 3. AWKWARD! Plus side was I got my own pole and a full half an hour of the teachers time. In fact, the teacher was so encouraging, and friendly, that I was instantly put at ease. She told me I need three things: control, confidence and OMPH! I am certainly lacking in the last two....in fact probably all three...but this is what I hope I to gain. I had to strut my stuff around this pole, wiggly my hips, my boobs - it's not sleazy, but it is about being sexy! Even at the end of the hour I felt very sexy :) and sore...oh boy did I hurt...

My shoulders, biceps, triceps, hips, thighs....ouch-y! A hot shower and some stretching and am not too bad today...but decided that my shred story may have to wait till tomorrow to begin.

As part of my new motivation I decided I would try make a weight watchers meal out of the magazine. Cooking for one can be great, you can have what you want, you don't have to worry about other less healthy people demanding nice things you don't want to spend points on.

However, it can also be really difficult, because you have to make all the effort. Sometimes recipes seem a bit much bother for the sake of just yourself. BUT today I went shopping and thought I would try the Trout in a Paper Parcel recipe in my WWer magazine (p50). And here it is -----> TADA!!! Not only was this a challenge as it was fish, it was also fish I'd never tried before. BUT it was absolutely amazing :)) and for like 8pps (11 in the mag but I changes a few bits round and used a smaller piece of fish!)  it was fresh, light and tasty dinner that allows me 4pps for the rest of the evening (a wee glass of vino me thinks!!)

Last Chance Saloon

I am at a stage...again....when I am fed up....at a point...again....where its make or break time....and I am probably sick of writing this as much as you are sick of hearing it.

WeightWatchers doesn't seem to be working for me....or maybe I am not working for WeightWatchers. But I am too heavily invested now to back out, so here we go - and I sincerely mean it this time when I say...this is THE last time. Whatever happens...

Goal: I want to be at Goal for my 26th birthday - thats 1st and 4-11lbs (I haven't really set a goal yet, but that gets me into a healthy BMI range) thats about 28 weigh ins, an average of 1/2-1lb a week - very very doable!!

Mini Goal: 10% (which is only 31/2lbs away!) for end of April - that's 1lb-1 1/2lbs a week...also very doable.

Mini Goal 2: the next 1stone mark: 12 and 1/2lbs away - ideally for my imaginary holiday at the end of July :)) 15 weeks away: a lose of less than 1lb a week.

All these goals are totally achievable: and here's the tools:

1. My weight watcher food scales - NEED to use these bad boys much much more!
2. My Pedometer - NEED to remember to put it on every single day!!
3. My 30 day shred dvd - getting stuck into that Thursday Morning!
4. My C25K podcast download - free from the NHS website - I will be running 5ks in 9 weeks!
5. E-source: more time and dedication to my online support!
6. TRACKING: this has lagged MEGA style - back on this, even if I have to write it down then put it online!!
 7. Photos: Going to get my FAT photos printed and stuck all over my kitchen! Skinny photos are going onto the mirror!

Tomorrow I am going to my meeting, assessing the damage, picking myself up, dusting myself off and getting on with this plan! I have no nights out, no meals, no distractions this week!

But this really, truly, honestly, is it! No more moping, no more saying "it's a fresh start". Its officially make or break!