I think I might be doing rather well ...

Another 1½ lbs off this week and I'm feeling very good about it. I do feel bad for my diet buddies though, as it seems they're not finding it quite so easy.

I am really finding this time that I was "in the right place" to start a diet. Whenever I've dieted before it's been either because I have been pressured into it by others or that I just feel I probably should give it a go.

This time, I woke up on a Monday morning in January and just thought "Right. This is the time I'm going to do it. I'm ready." And it seems I was right.

The times I've tried and failed were many, but this time I AM DOING IT!!! HURRAY!!!

Im Still Fat But Have I Mentioned My Holiday?

I put on 2lbs this week and after talking to my leader at fat club she agrees it will be due to my injection just before Christmas cos i had actually lost 1/2 a stone before i had it, grrrrr!
Weve agreed that i will go on my holiday and enjoy myself and then get back on track again after, im not going to go mad and eat everything in sight........... as im fully aware the more i put on the more i have to lose, but i feel more confident now i am additive free!
And i still have time before summer to lose at least 2 stone so watch this space.

I will do more blogging before the end of the week and then catch up with you girls in a couple of weeks xx

Wierd ...

I've got a packet of tissues on my desk and they must be exactly the same colour as a packet of shortcake biscuits cos every time I catch them out of the corner of my eye, I think of shortcake biscuits. I'm putting the tissues in my drawer now ... "Willpower - Don't leave me now!!"

Hurray Today ...

I am indeed a very jammy git. I've managed another 2½ lbs off this week. I was worried I'd have put on when I actually counted how much I'd drunk this week (you don't want to know). But I have once again been a total angel on the food front and I've also managed quite a lot of walking. So yay for me and another yay for Minxxy who texted me to say she'd lost 3lbs this week.

No pressure Fi ;)

Weigh Today

Good morning girls, yes weigh in day is here, im not confident about any weight loss although i do feel thinner but then again i didnt realise how fat i was, ha ha! I will text my weight update to Donna this evening and will tune back in later today to see how she got on. I will look for a minxxy update tomorrow..........good luck girls!

Yay and yay again, im in!

This has talen me ages to get in but im there, ive no idea what ive done and i suspect that ive also created a scootergoth blogsite.......
Ive been moderately good food wise, plenty of fruit and veg and quorn and ryvitas and cereal.
Today i have homemade soup and all my veggies are chopped ready for steaming for tea tonight.
Ive got one week to go now until Tenerife and i think i will put weight on unless its too hot to eat, heres hoping!!

I have a period, but I still walked to work and used the stairs ... blimey days I am so pleased with myself.

I'm feeling a bit lonely on here ... Fi? Minxxy? Are you having problems converting to "New Blogger"? Or have you just desserted me?

Blimey Days I'm good ...

We’ve just been up to Southport for a couple of days visiting Andy’s kids. Normally this would be an excuse to come off the rails and eat out and eat bad things. This time however, IS DIFFERENT.

Our first eating out experience was Weds lunchtime. McD’s as usual, but FOR. THE. FIRST. TIME. EVER. I ordered a salad! The first week of my diet in January was the first time I’d ever ordered a salad in a restaurant, and I thought McD’s wouldn’t get the better of me. But guess what??

“We’ve run out of all of our salads.” WTF. So I ordered chicken strips and a bottle of water. I don’t know if it came with fries or whether the McTard just assumed I wanted it ‘as a meal’, but they gave me fries with it. I resisted. I had to move them away until the kids ate them for me, but I resisted.

Next challenge: A meal out at the Slug & Lettuce. I was tempted. George decided on Sicilian Chicken, which sounded lovely, but I (for the second time that day) ordered Chicken Caesar Salad. Why was I so disappointed when I got a plate of lettuce with a few pieces of cold chicken, 3 croutons and a load of not-very-enticing dressing? I was expecting a lovely munchy salad with lots of variety in it for £8.25, but on reflection, Chicken Caesar Salad is just lettuce, chicken, croutons and dressing so it was my stupid choice. G’s chicken was lovely though (I had 2 bites). Andy had the same as G and said it was lovely. There wasn’t a huge amount of it though, so I could probably have had it.

Next challenge: Dessert. I resisted (although I did try one bite each of George’s hot chocolate puddle pudding and Dylan’s sticky toffee pudding).

I have to admit that I did neck 3 pints of Amstel with my meal and then another couple back at the hotel.

Sunday morning. McDonalds again!! Surrounded by McBacon Rolls and Bacon/Sausage n Egg McMuffins I ordered porridge. Yes, porridge. “Would you like jam or syrup with that?” “No Thank You”. (I’m sure it will be delicious on it’s own.) I had a sachet of Splenda mixed in. It wasn’t too bad.

And on the journey home, not able to face another McD’s, we called at Tesco where I picked up a salad whilst the others had sandwiches.

I am very, very pleased with myself.

I really am a jammy git ...

3 drinking sessions and I lost 1½ pounds!!!

Stupid alcohol ...

The last few weeks I’ve proved that you can still enjoy a drink or two (and even the occasional curry) and lose weight. However, this week I’ve taken it too far. The demon alcohol got it’s grip on me and today when I go for my weigh in, I think I’ll find that 3 drinking sessions in a week IS NOT GOOD.

Keep everything crossed for me. Food-wise I’ve been an angel.

We'll still be us ...

"You know, I'm bloody proud of myself for turning my life around and I've never been at all ashamed or contemptous of my former heavier self. " (that was Diet girl btw, not me)

Diet girl answered a question I had been thinking about for a few days with that statement on her blog today.  I've now lost 12 lbs in 4 weeks and have a load more to go, but already there's contempt sneaking in for people-who-are-fat-but-don't-do-anything-about-it.  I guess I'm starting to worry that I will become some self-righteous horrible thing that thinks everyone should do what I have done (and I haven't even done it yet!)

I was relieved to hear that both she and some of her commenters agreed that they feel protective of their former (bigger) selves and proud of what they’d done rather than being loathsome of what they were.

Just thought I’d share that.

84/12 = 7

I’ve just calculated that I’m exactly 1 seventh of my way to my goal.  Should I be working?

Grrr and Grrr!

Week 4 and i have still stayed the same for my first Grrr, for my second Grrr - some tosser tried to steal my car last night and because of their brain dead status only managed to jimmy out the drivers and passenger side locks and still didnt get into the car resulting in me now not being able to get into my car.

Happy Waitangi Day ...

It’s weigh-in day today for me and Fi.  How did you get on Minxxy?

I’ve had a good week food-wise.  I had a beerfest Sat night, which I’m a bit concerned will seal my fate this week.  And today is Waitangi Day, which me and my (ex-)BT buddies celebrate (apparantly by filling our mouths with orange peel and pulling faces) along with the New Zealanders.

I’m going to try to eat less curry than usual and drink less beer, but it will be a challenge!!

Why Doesnt Very Light Laughing Cow Cheese Taste Like Cheese?

Im allowed to eat 6 of the buggers on my healthy A choice per day, tiny problem.........it doesnt taste of cheese, in fact it doesnt really taste like anything. It didnt even make my dry crispbread taste less dry. I dont think i will be bothering with it anymore, i might go back to Dairylea instead.

Fucking Hell .....

I just calculated my BMI on here.  Drum roll please …………………..
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It’s 43.  Does that mean I’m dead?

Now come on girls ...

If you need some motivation to get to your first ½stone ladies, just look at what I received in the post last week. Does it make you wanna go out and run? Get out those celery sticks and work out and I promise to replicate this little gem for anyone who can lose their 1st silver 7. I may even colour it in silver. You lucky people.