Nervous......

I am going to my friends house today to have a picnic.... an indoors picnic with a chick flick :).

Only trouble is I am a bit nervous. She insisted on getting all the food and I am not sure what she will have got. She knows I am trying to lose weight and she is not one of my sabateour friends but its me ...I mean I do tend to go out of control unless I plan everything. The positive is I still have my 49 weeklies and 17 activity points so I should be OK. I just want a good weigh in this week.

Going to pick up some flavoured sparkly water on way there so that the drink at least is 0 point.

I know one definate feature will be jelly sweets.....oh dear my arch enemy. Must remember to look up the ppoints of them just before I go to shock myself into not eating TOO many.

I think its important NOT to avoid these situations tho, I know that I am going to be battling for the rest of my life, so its important that I face these things head on, otherwise I am in danger of becoming a skinny recluse.

Planning and preparation.....

OK so its essay day today....rewriting an essay I failed last semester. Really want to get it out of the way if possible this weekend, however I am aware that essay crisis affects my will power and I often fall off the weightwatchers wagon at these times !!!


I have organised my workspace to encourage me to stay on track....no choc in the house, but a healthy bowl of fruit by my side and a large bottle of no sugar squash within easy reach.

I am also planning to use study breaks to engage in a zumba session from my DVD and also go to the park for a walk to get the old grey cells working again. This should help me achieve some activity points in an otherwise sedantary day!!!

Hopefully this means that my concerns from a couple of days ago regarding my study leading to an increase in junk food and a weight increase, will be a thing of nightmares only. If only I could be as strict with my writing regime lol.

Have a good weekend all!!!

Look into my eyes.....not around the eyes.....

Right so I am back on it!!! The 4th day of staying on track. 3 days out of 4 days done zumba DVD. Every day got to the earning zone on ww pedometer (one day earnt 7 points ...never to be eaten !!!).

Yesterday when I was talking to a friend she had asked if I had considered using a mind over matter CD to support my weight loss journey. She has recently lost 4 stone afteter years of yo yo dietting. She looks fabby. I, wrongly, presumed someform of extreme intervention, eg gastric band or a diet where you will not eat food for months, or some scary personal trainer but NO.

She tells me she has been following a healthy eating plan (as it is she follows Rosemary Connelly, but I recognise ww , SW and RC generally follow the same principles of getting us to do healthy considered eating). So what was her secret?

She informs me she has been using a motivational CD alongside her healthy eating. She said she pops it on at night ( barely hears it before going to sleep) and she has found that the combo of a healthy eating plan and the CD works. I mean, she looks great, she eats well (seen that at work) but teh weight loss is evident. So I found myself thinking all day at work....mmmmm I wonder? I know I used to use Paul McKenna CDs and had success with them whilst I did them....BUT I felt at times they did not work with ww as they suggested dropping dietplans.

Fate in her wisdom sent me a prompt. I opened my email and found a 'groupon' voucher to get a CD that worked with weight loss plans but motivated you to stay on track at £7.50. Now money is tight, but even I could not ignore that one. I text my friend and asked her what CD she had used............would you believe it she was using the same one that I had the email for.....now I had to order definately my friend fate :)

Don't for a minute think I am opting out.....what I am trying to do is cover all angles.......I am follwoing my ww diet plan religiously, looking at healthy food intake. I am doing my zumba and going to attempt to increase me sessions at the gym, alongside walking more, but I am guessing every little helps.

I have made a choice, I am in this for the long haul.....I do not want to take tablets, surgery is not for me but healthy eating, exercise and a bit of mental support sounds like a plan to me!!!!

Have you ever used hypnotherapy or mind CDs?? what is your experience?

dissertation reality and weight loss

OK so today is when it really starts :) weight loss journey and dissertation and wedding planning!!! Today marks the point of the start of my new life ....quite scary really!!!


Tonight I have my prep tutorial on my dissertation which is scary enough in itself but I have also decided to do ww properly starting today and as I get married Nov 2012 then really I need to start getting my head around that too.......I am not an academic, but I did want to look at improving my clinical work hence the Masters, a decision made in the distant mists of time when my life was very different than it is now and there was no hint of a wedding on the horizon. My thoughts towards the 15,000 word project are interesting and laughable, I go through periods where I believe I am mad, and others where I am just proud of myself for getting this far. Deciding on what and how to do it is my next challenge and hopefully this lecture will help me decide........But the pitfalls of study definately include, food for pleasure, junk food for convenience and choc for stress. My dissertation for my degree looked at eating habits in students.....the outcome wasn't great...study = stress= erratic eating = weight gain........why oh why could I not be one of thsoe people who lose weight with stress??

Are you still with me? Please stay along for the ride...I can promise essay crisis, zumba, tears, laughter, despair, triumphs (hopefully) wedding disasters and possibly the occassional bridezilla moment.....your support and comments would definately help.

Gained half a pound....will be whale and chips I had in whitby

well this is week one....ground zero....new start (AGAIN ...I hear you cry lol). Spoke to my leader and she has agreed to weigh me each week ( I am a clerk and I tend to sneak on scales whilst she is doing the talk and its not doing me any good!!!!) and encourage me to lose 1 lb a week. If I can lose that each week I will be at goal the week of my wedding!!!!

Wouldn't that be amazing???

The half pound gain this week I am actually quite proud of....a few days camping for my summer hols involved 2 barbecues, chilli and nachos, pizza and a whale and chips in whitby.....nom nom nom. I did not point HOWEVER....I did only eat 3 meals a day, made considered choices...beans on toast instead of full english, sharing naughty things like cream scones instead of gorging self, and thinking about when I was full rather than eating it all cos I have paid for it. We also walked for miles, I kept on my pedometer and I have done my zumba.......so yes I do feel proud of my 1/2lb gain.

So the plan....

1) track everything

2) eat more fruit and veg

3) try to do at least 20 mins exercise 4 times a week (zumba , walking, gym etc)

4) Try to earn at least 1 point a day through daily walking on pedometer (yes I bought a new one after drowning old one.)

How disappointing......my weight is the same 5 months on

I need to pull my finger out. If I lose a lb a week from now until my wedding I will be at my goal weight the week of my wedding. Wouldn't that be cool.

I have just spent a week in a pod with Keith and eating has been a wee bit erratic. BarB Q, fish and chips and pizza were on the menu...no snacking as such but I don't normally eat the aforementioned and I have not tracked. We did a lot of walking 1 day earning 8 bonus points on my pedometer so I may just get away with a sts on tuesday weigh in. I am going to try and keep my Blog up to date as when I blog I seem to lose.

If this photo isn't enough to get me back on track nothing is lol.......look at that dough baby roll!!!! Attractive!!!!

So thats my mission 1 lb a week starting now. I did my zumba express last night and I am going to try and do it it 4 times a week. THis is not impossible as it is a 20 minute work out....just need to get my arse in gear lol.