Taaaa Daaaah!

Ive built up my exercise bike and boy was it hard work. I couldnt get the pedals on and im still missing some bolts (not loose screws) on the front where the stem joins the main body with the handle bars on so its a bit wobbly, i was losing my temper a bit with it last night so i may try again tonight to do it.
Ive been good on my diet aswell and still walking to work but my ankle is killing me, im off to the doctors on Monday if it still hurts, he'll probably wonder why it took me 4 weeks to go see him but then cheer himself up by pressing it and making me cry!

Lets Start From The Very Beginning...

Well after the feeble loss of half a pound last week, it looks like im still fat as the half pound was put back on this week, grrrrr

Ive decided that on this diet even if you deviate the slightest then you put weight on so this week im determined not to have any syns and not stray. Im at daves at the weekend and im taking him some shopping so i dont eat any bad things, the next test will be Easter at Scarborough rally. Although i was given an Easter egg last week by a sales rep at work and immediately gave it to my dad, which was very very good of me.

Today i have salad for dinner and will be having salad for tea, i also have strawberries which are supposedly a speed food...we'll see!!

My ankle is still sore and ive been walking for 4 days now and i intend to get the exercise bike out of the box tonight...krypton factor here we come!

Portion size ....

That's my focus for this week. Although on the Core Plan you don't have to weigh everything, you are supposed to stop eating when you are full (derr ... it's a pretty simple concept, but one that many of us fatties struggle with). Twice this week I've eaten to bursting point. On Sunday we had a roast (chicken) with all the trimmings (spuds and parsnips done in that low fat spray stuff), but I didn't have a small portion. No. I got the big plates out.

Then last night I had chilli (which was left over from Saturday), but I finished the lot, which could really have fed two people (Andy had already had his, I didn't deprive him). The trouble is, it was so nice. And it had chick peas in it and I love chilli with chick peas in, so I ate until I was in pain.

I lost one pound this week. When I weighed during the week I'd lost 4 and I felt cheated when the scales went back up. But I think I may have may answer. This week I will put less on my plate and I will listen when my body tells me it's full.

(If anyone is interested, I've updated my weight loss stats here. When I've lost 2 stone, I'll be adding a new photo too.)

Yes, a salad!!

I ate out twice on Friday. For lunch we went to Gusto for lunch. Gusto is great. It's £5.99 at lunch time and you serve yourself (as many times as you like) from lovely fresh salads, pasta and pizza. I had a tonne of salad and two small slices of pizza. Then in the evening I went to Prezzos. I took the car as I knew that if I drank I would not be able to control the amount I ate. Plus the ladies I was meeting had booked a restaurant in Woodbridge, so my options were limited to complex buses (i.e. more than one), expensive taxis, phoning my Dad or driving. I chose 'Pollo Siciliana' which came with either fries or 'gratinated potatoes' (that has to be an americanism if ever I heard one). When I ordered I was offered fries, potatoes or salad with my chicken. I chose salad (can you see my halo? can you?). When the plate arrived there was a tiny side salad which I was very disappointed about, but then they brought me a second plate of salad with it! I was really pleased about and it was really lovely. When I was telling Andy about it after, he said "You sound really excited. About a salad." (quizzical look). And yes I was. How times change :D

I also resisted starters and desserts of which my fellow diners indulged in.

I feel like a new person …

I’ve lost 22 pounds so far on this diet and already I feel like a new person. I have a spring in my step, my clothes feel different – mainly more comfortable, but also just different. I’ve had to consign some clothes to the too big pile – which also feels really great. I can put my shoes on without almost asphyxiating myself (all the fat bunches up and squashes the air out of your lungs when you’ve got a huge spare tyre).

And, people are starting to comment that they can see I’m losing weight.

Yesterday I read some of the blog of YP. She started her weight loss journey from about the same weight as me and she’s lost over 100 pounds. What inspired me most about her story is that she now runs. Yes runs!!!! I’ve never been able to run. At school sports day I was always last, at cross-country I didn’t even bother to run, I co-erced a couple of friends into walking at the back with me. YP’s now know as “one of the fast female group” in the running club she has joined and people there don’t even know that she was once a fatty. I just find that so inspiring. That you can go from being morbidly obese (I think that’s what my starting BMI said about me), to being a proper runner. YP has now been at her goal weight for a year. Huge congratulations to you!!!

I’ve never felt so positive that I will achieve my goal.