WI - Wednesday 26th January 2011

Well I was slightly surprised with a very small gain this week - put on half a pound which puts my current weight at 12st 1lb.  I'm not too sure why, I'm pretty sure I was within my points for the week but I had been having sandwiches for my lunches and bread does have a tendency to bloat me a bit.  Needless to say I was pretty down when I left my meeting last night and proceeded to get chicken satay and egg fried rice for my dinner along with a milkshake and some chocolate - comfort eating at its best!  

Anyway, I have drawn a line and am focused on doing well this week (easy to do as my points restart on a Thursday).  The only thing which I thought could jeopardise my week was a client lunch today (at Zizzi's) but that wasn't as bad as I thought - menu today was as follows:

Breakfast:

• Toast with jam - 7pp
• 1 banana - 0pp

Lunch:

• Bread board (I had a couple of piece of olive bread) - 6pp
• Strozzapreti Pesto Rosso (Pasta, spicy chicken with spring onions, crème fraîche and red pesto) - 17pp
• 2 vodka and diet cokes - 4pp

Dinner:

• 2 egg omelette with onion, mushroom and small amount of chorizo - 5pp

Snacks:

• 1 M&S white chocolate cookie (from a box selection) - 3pp
• 2 5ths of a 100g bar of Milky Bar - 6pp

TOTAL - 48pp out of 29pp -  19 weekly points used

I really thought lunch today would have been worse than it was, helped that no wine was ordered and no time for dessert :o)  19 points over is not bad in my opinion!

Anyway, I'm focused and ready to take on the week - hope your all good and ready for the week ahead

Woop woop, its the weekend!

So it has been a stressful week, very busy at work which normally turns me to feast on chocolate!  But since WI on Wednesday (in which I found out I had put on 2lbs putting me back up to 12st 5lbs - could have been a lot worse considering the last two weeks I hadn't stuck to the plan at all!) I have stuck to the plan - menu's as follows:

Thursday:

Breakfast:

• 2 weetabix - 3pp
• 1/4 pint of ss milk - 2pp

Lunch:

• 1/2 packet spicy couscous - 5pp
• 15g sultanas - 1pp

Dinner:

• Sweet & sour prawns with noodles - 12pp

Snacks: 

• Pineapple & Mango - 0pp
• Low fat hummus & carrot sticks - 3pp
• Curly wurly - 3pp

TOTAL - 29pp out of 29pp

Friday: 

Breakfast:

• 2 weetabix - 3pp
• 1/4 pint of ss milk - 2pp

Lunch:

• 1/2 packet spicy couscous - 5pp
• 15g sultanas - 1pp
• Prawn, tuna and veg sushi pack (from Tesco) - 6pp

Dinner:

• Haddock fillet (from Aldi) - 4pp
• 40g (dried) pasta - 4pp
• Veg - 0pp

Snacks: 

• 1 banana - 0pp
• 7 Roses chocolates - 9pp
• Crisps (from Aldi) - 4pp

TOTAL - 38pp out of 29pp (9 weekly points used)

So far so good I think :o)  

Going out tomorrow as Stew and I have tickets to see Stewart Lee in his new stand up show (can't wait!) - will probably grab dinner out so really glad about the 40 spare weekly points!

Stewart Lee - comic genius

Snow and non-tracking = bad WW week....

This week has been a complete write off - was doing ok on Monday (after the Chinese binge with the mother-in-law on Sunday) but then disaster struck - London was finally hit with the snow, Tuesday I managed to track ok and was within my points (woop!) but had trouble getting home on the train due to the ongoing snow falling, by Wednesday morning we had about 6cm in southeast London and this caused the trains to stop working!  Therefore I had to bus the 10 miles into the City, which took me an hour and a half, I was frozen by the time I got off and went straight into Pret for a hot chocolate and a chocolate croissant, from that point on my tracking went out of the window.

Not my station but one of the many South Eastern train stations where trains services were 'disrupted' due to the adverse weather...

For the rest of the week I had to find alternative routes to and from work, each as stressful as the next - its silly really as usually door to door my journey is 40 mins (including the 10-15 mins walk to each station) but it has been taking me on average 2 hours.  stress & cold = comfort food needed - everyone at work has had the same issue so there has been biscuits and chocolate bought on mass to be shared.

We also had our work Christmas meal Friday night, we moved it from 8pm to 4pm due to the snow and people being able to get home and lets just say there was lots of food and booze consumed all round.  Had a mega hangover on Saturday and also found my back to be incredibly sore from walking on the icy pavements (must have jarred it on the way home Friday night).

Too much vodka = hangover and lots of comfort food

All of the above plus the snow preventing me getting to my meeting on Wednesday has made it a disastrous week.  But I have decided to restart today and take the hit on Wednesday at my meeting to see what the damage is - don't have anything planned for this week so food wise I should hopefully be ok (fingers crossed!)

Chinese food - why is it so good but so bad?!

So it happened, we ended up going for drinks and then chinese food last night, have no idea what the points were as we had the set menu and had a bit of everything, guessing it was very over my points (including the remaining weekly points I had left).  Two weekends in a row to break the diet, not bad!  

Anyway, well back on track again today and taken it upon myself to make a chilli in the slow cooker ready for tomorrows dinner so I can get convinced to go out for dinner again :o)  Menue for today was:

Breakfast:

• 2 weetabix - 3pp
• 1/2 pint ss milk (includes the excess amount of tea I had at work today as it was bloody freezing in the office!) - 4pp

Lunch:

• 1/2 packet of couscous - 5pp
• Cherry tomatoes - 0pp

Dinner:

• WWFH Shepherds Pie (frozen) - 6pp
• Baby corn, asparagus, broccoli - 0pp

Snacks:

• Pineapple and mango chunks - 0pp
• low fat hoummus and carrot sticks - 3pp
• 48g galaxy caramel chocolate - 7pp

TOTAL - 28pp out of 29pp

So it finished my dinner and still had 8pp left hence the chocolate indulgence - gotta love this plan!  And with only a couple of days until WI I need to be really strict and keep within my daily points, shouldn't be too difficult (hopefully!)