WI - Wednesday 12th January 2011

To be honest I wasn't expecting much from this WI as I didn't feel like I had lost anything but I must say I was very pleasantly surprised!  Got on the scales and my current weight came up as 12st 1.5lbs - a whopping 4.5lbs lost!!  Woop woop!!  

Me and my 'Girls' on our night out - I'm in the middle

So after a great week I had a night out with the girls last night - it was so good that all tracking went out of the window, loads of cocktails and a few shots combined with a platter of food.  On the plus side there was a fair amount of dancing so that's good from an exercise point of view!  I have decided that the best way to proceed is assume all of my weekly points have been used and just stick to my daily points for the rest of the week, hopefully that should counteract the damage caused!  At least it happened on the first day of my tracking week, much better than closer to WI :o)

Got my Zumba class tomorrow morning, really looking forward to it.  I have also been looking into other exercise plans and have come across the 'C25K' jogging plan - as anyone who knows me can confirm I'm not a runner and I don't seem to be built for running to be perfectly frank.  But this plan has peaked my interest and from reading about other people's success with it I feel I should be able to cope with it (although I'm not too sure about being able to do the 3 runs a week as its still really dark - so I may just start off with 1 or 2 a week until it gets lighter in the evenings).  I'm thinking of trying out the first session on Sunday morning, figure if I go out as soon as I'm up and about I should avoid too many people in the park. 

2011 is here, time to get down to business

So Christmas and New Year have been and gone, I had a great time, spent time with my family and close friends and have had loads to eat and drink.  I have even sampled one of my Christmas pressies which was an ice cream maker by making a full fat custard based black cherry ice cream which was lush!  

However for the last couple of days I have had a stomach bug and over Saturday and Sunday I ate the grand total of 2/3 of a slice of bread with marmite, a tiny ham sandwich and 3 fingers of a kitkat Sunday evening.  Feeling much better today although still not got my full appetite back (which is probably a blessing!) so I guess it is a good time to start back on the ProPoints.  Going to ease myself back in by sticking (or trying to) to 29 points per day until after WI on Wednesday when I'll give myself the extra 49 weekly points again to use if needed - although to be honest not much happens in January so shouldn't be having any big nights out!

And as I'm not too good with New Years resolutions I'll make one I really think I can keep - from now on my ice cream maker will be making frozen yogurt for me to consume and not full fat creamy based frozen delights :o)

Roll on Wednesday so I can see what the damage is and wipe the slate fully clean!

One more WI till Christmas....

Another hectic week at work and people have started bringing in tins and tins of chocolates "as its almost Christmas!" - despite this temptation I managed to stay on track this week and when I went to WI yesterday I had lost 3 and a half pounds!  So I'm down to 12st 1.5lbs which is good, and it has given me the motivation to stay on track this coming week as well (I was considering just not tracking now until the new year - I know that's not the best way of doing things but it is easier and less stressful!).  

So I worked out what I have coming up this week and the only stumbling block is a night out with some of the guys and girls from work on Saturday (weather permitting - snow has been threatened again this weekend and we know that seems to grind Greater London to a complete halt!) which will mainly consist of a meal at an Indian restaurant - I figure if I try and not use any of my weekly points between now and then I can use them all on Saturday and not worry too much about it, going to study the menu beforehand and decide what food I'm having which should help as well.

And the way I see it, after WI next week it is basically Christmas!  I will have just one day left of work (I have booked Christmas Eve and the time in between Christmas and New Year off) and I can really get into the Christmas spirit :o)  

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!)

Uh-oh, party time....

Well this weekend was good but in a bad way!  Was on track on Saturday, we had been to the cafe to have something major before the party and this kept my hunger away until we got to the hotel, then I had some crisps which was fine.... then I had half a Snickers duo.... then the party started so had a glass of champagne, 3 sex on the beach cocktails, a couple of double vodka's and diet coke, some cupcakes, sandwiches, onion bhaji, mini quiches...... lots of dancing though which was good!  And then the wedding cake came out, 3 layers, each one a different type of cake!  So I shared a slab of the chocolate layer with Stew and then had some of the fruit layer as well - it was a great way to end the night!  I went to bed thinking that it was ok and 'tomorrow is another day', draw a line and start again....

.... didn't get much sleep due to the firm pillows at the hotel being too firm for me and the soft pillows being just as firm!  So when we got up for breakfast I ate lots to get my energy up - Special K with milk, fresh fruit salad and a spoonful of natural yog, bacon sausage beans mushrooms couple of hash browns and a grilled tomato to finish - it was yummy and deffo needed.  Ended the day with tuna pasta which was not weighed out at all.... lets say tracking was out of the window yesterday!

So today I have been back on track, menu was:

Breakfast:

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

Lunch:

• Ham sandwich - 7
• ready salted crisps - 4

Dinner:

• Haddock fillet - 4
• 40g (dried weight) rice - 4
• Veg - 0

Snacks:

• Banana - 0
• Apple - 0
• 1/2 big tub of low fat natural yog, raspberries and banana blitzed together - 4

TOTAL - 28pp out of 29pp

So back on track today which is good, hope the weekend doesn't affect WI on Wednesday too much :o)

Second week on PP and gotr a party tonight!

Last couple of days have been pretty standard with work and all but Stew and I decided to get KFC last night as we were both really tired and grumpy - it was yummy and I only used 11 of my weekly points so that made it even better!

Thursday and Friday menu's looked like this:

Thursday:  

Breakfast:

• 2 Weetabix - 3pp
• 1/4 pint SS milk - 2pp

Lunch:

• 1/2 packet of Couscous - 5pp
• 15g sultanas - 1pp
• Cherry tomatoes - 0pp

Dinner:

• Moroccan tagine sauce - 5pp
• Diced chicken breast - 3pp
• 60g (dried weight) rice - 6pp

Snacks:

• Peach slices - 0pp
• Banana - 0pp
• 25g salted pretzels - 3pp

TOTAL - 28pp out of 29pp

Friday:  

Breakfast:

• 2 Weetabix - 3pp
• 1/4 pint SS milk - 2pp

Lunch:

• 1/2 packet of Couscous - 5pp
• 15g sultanas - 1pp
• Cherry tomatoes - 0pp
• Homemade smoothie (banana, raspberries, apple and low fat natural yog) - 2pp

Dinner:

• 2 drumsticks  - 10pp (5pp each)
• 1 side-breast - 6pp
• Reg fries - 8pp

Snacks:

• Peach slices - 0pp
• Apple - 0pp
• 25g salted pretzels - 3pp

TOTAL - 40pp out of 29pp (11 weekly points used)

This leaves me with 38 weekly points which should cover me for the wedding/30th party we are going to tonight.  

Went to the cafe this morning to have something substantial (and we have next to no food in the house!) and I worked out I had about 16pp leaving me with 51pp for the rest of the day, just have to try and not eat loads at the buffet!