700g Aww Yeah!

So I didn't reach my goal of getting to the 10kg mark this week, but 700g is still pretty awesome! I was better this week than the previous week but my big letdown still seems to be the weekend. I need to do something about that... plan better maybe? Not sure. Sleepy this morning and don't feel like thinking about it.

I will be away next Monday morning so I am going to leave my next weigh in until the 12th April. That gives me two weeks to smash that 10kg and make some progress towards 10%! Unfortunately we are going to Cairns for a wedding so I need to be very in control - I have volunteered to be the designated driver which will help.

 

Fingers crossed, healthy pumped, let's go!

100g & 1 point

I lost 100g this week, which puts me at 109.9kg! This is exciting because I am under 110kg AND I go down to 23 points per day. Now I am a mere 900g off 10kg lost and I am going to set myself a mega-challenge to lose that 900g this week.

Monday is Good

These last two weeks have not been my best. I was better this week than the previous week but I wasn't really tracking, and I was making poor choices. I also only went to the gym twice which is a second week in a row that I've failed to make my minimum sessions!

 

A fresh week, a fresh start. I've started by doing the things that I know work for me. I have planned a weeks worth of meals for me and my partner, and this morning I went to the grocery store and bought the foods I like for breakfast at work. I feel good and I'm going to the gym tonight.

 

I forgot to step on the scales before I jumped in the shower this morning, but hopped on afterwards with wet hair. I was stunned! I have somehow managed to lose 300g in the last two weeks of awful. That puts me at 110kg. 9kg lost! I wouldn't be surprised if my fortnight of bad eating catches up with me and I gain or stay the same at next weigh in, but I'm so close to getting back to 10kg lost, and then I'm full speed ahead to 10%! 10% will be my next star on the chart from weight watchers as I have previously made it to 10kg down.

 

Poor Loz is sick today, get well soon Loz!

via: http://blackandwtf.tumblr.com/post/441783592/via-becky

McDonalds

So, what do we think of Weight Watchers and McDonalds teaming up?

 

Personally, I have to agree with option number 2 in the following article: http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=121514

 

I think it is good for McDonalds because having WW onboard will get more people through the doors, of course they'll feel like they're eating well because of the WW endorsement, then they'll buy the same old awful fatty food.

 

It could be useful for people who use WW to know what the points values are of the foods they want if they have to go to McDonalds in a pinch.

 

To be honest, I think that WW is being painfully capitalist and putting the health of the nation second here. I am pretty disappointed in this decision.

Bad Week

Last week on Tuesday morning I dropped my beloved man at the airport to fly off to some mine in the middle of nowhere for two weeks for work. All was going fine that day still. Then I ate my lunch. About 30 minutes later I started feeling unwell, it just got worse and worse, so I went home. And then my vegetarian week went to hell. I tried to get back on track, and then it went to hell again. So I gave up. Unfortunately I also gave up on counting points, or even trying to make good choices, until Sunday became my worst binge eating day since I restarted this journey at the beginning of January. I chose to not weigh in on Monday morning because I knew it wouldn't be pretty and I wanted to start my week on a positive not a negative. Unfortunately I also woke up with a headache, which quickly got worse, then much, much, much worse (I haven't had a migraine since I was a teenager but this sure came close). I'm pretty bad at controlling intake when I'm not feeling 100%. I totally ate badly yesterday as well.

 

Today I am back at work. I have what I am describing as a "headache hangover". I have a headache still, not as bad, and I feel fuzzy and out of it today. But, I've remembered why I am on this journey this morning, and am tracking again today. I have had toast with jam for breakfast and a skinny flat white (without sugar - I have finally found a coffee shop that makes coffee so well that I have no need of the sugar! and it is right downstairs from my office!). So that's 3.5 points for the toast and 1.5 points for the coffee. 5/24 thus far.

 

This evening I think I will make a pie with filo pastry and take it over to my little brother's house for dinner - his girlfriend decided to call it quits on their relationship this morning and I want to go and cheer him up!

 

Now, I just want this headache to go away... and my darling man to come home... he was going to come home on Friday this week but then his parents asked if he wanted to go and stay with them for a couple of days (he has to go home via Townsville on the way back from the mine) and so I told him he totally should go and hang out with his parents (they are truly awesome and I dragged him down to Brisbane with me and away from their awesomeness so he should definitely to see them). So I won't have my back-up conscience back until next week so am going to have to rely on myself this week. Go me!

Sneaky Copycat Take 2

As Fiona kindly pointed out the picture didn't show up in my last sneaky post! Sorry... I can't edit my blog from work, but I can add new posts (it's an email thing...) so here is my second attempt to post that graph!

Vegetarian Week

I decided to make this week vegetarian week, as I have a lot of vegetarian recipes but they never seem to get made! I have an exciting list of meals planned:

 

Day 1: Coconut Jasmine rice with green onions & cilantro (which I assume is corriander)
Day 2: Eggplant Moussaka
Day 3: Marinated Tofu Kebabs
Day 4: Mediterranean Feta Pizza
Day 5: Crepes with Sauteed Mushrooms
Day 6: Cheese & Spinach Quiche

All was going well... until yesterday I got terrible stomach pains after lunch and ended up going home. When I got home I got hungry. I started craving a greasy fat dripping grossness of a McDonald's burger. Instead I settled for what I could grab from the freezer which happened to be a chicken and vegetable pie. Ugh. Yeah. So last week I commented on Fiona's post regarding what causes you to go off track and said that for me it is the fatal combination of tiredness, hunger & laziness. I guess I can also add sick / feeling sorry for myself to that list...

 

Anyway, tonight I am going to have the coconut jasmine rice and move forward and leave behind my disaster that was yesterday. Wohoo!

Sneaky copycat I am

I'm copying my friend Loz here, with my entire visual weight history with WW:

A loss, a loss, a loss!

I lost 500g this week, which takes me to a total loss of 8.7kg. I am happy happy happy!