Week 3 - disaster week

Well the wedding went well at the weekend but the diet didn’t!  Saturday was drink, drink and more drink with lunch and dinner being pub grub (don’t even want to think of the calorific impact).  Then at the wedding on Sunday I don’t think I have ever drank so much sparkling wine and white wine, they just kept topping your glass up and it would be rude to say no!  Monday was hair of the dog and then introducing my other half (OH) to Nandos for lunch – he loved it but he is a spice junky to he went for extra hot.  My lips were burning after my hot wings so god knows how he managed an extra hot burger! 

That being said the rest of the week was a right off, Tuesday was a feeling sorry for myself day so I ate and ate and ate to feel better, Wednesday was dinner and drinks at my friends house – very tasty but pretty calorific and then last night I just couldn’t be arsed so picked at things to eat meaning that instead of having a low calorie dinner I had lots of high calorie bites to eat.

The exercise has been non-existent this week which is not good so it’s fair to say that even though I have not weighed myself I wont have lost any weight.

This week has made me concentrate on where I am going wrong so thought I would do yet another list and try again to stick to things:-

1                    Don’t drink so much, not just for the calories but for the fact that it makes me tired and de-motivated.  OH is off this weekend so we will be having a quiet night in with wine on Saturday and Sunday dinner on Sunday (haven’t done that for ages) so diet will effectively start up again Monday.

2                    Be more organised – if I have milk in the house I can have cereal for breakfast or make a bowl of fruit the night before that way I am not temped to pop into Tesco on the way to work and buy a calorific sandwich which takes up most of my calories for the day – they don’t seem to stock many of the lighter choices ones and if they do they taste like cardboard!

3                    Exercise more – 30mins a day is better than doing 2 hours one day and feeling stiff/sore the next day.

So if I can stick to this with 9 weeks to go I can buy myself some nice underwear and some nice new work clothes to celebrate the fact that I am on the road to being less of a fatty boom boom!  A pound a week would be great – fingers crossed for the will power! xx

Week 2 (10 weeks to go)

So I have decided that my weigh in day will now be a Friday – the longest possible time from the indulgence of the weekend to get the pounds back off again.  I also think that my last post was rather premature as I think the weight loss that day was simply dehydration as a bottle of wine had been consumed the night before so gave a false reading as I stood on the scales two days later and it was back up to the original weight.

I have now weighed myself today and I have officially lost 2 pounds (no wine at all Monday to Friday this week!) which is pretty good considering my eating habits have not been great plus I did have a few drinks last weekend.  This being said I have been out running last Thursday (as per my last post), 30 day shred Saturday, 30 day shred Sunday, running on treadmill Monday, spin class and a 10 min treadmill run Tuesday and a run last night.  By the way 30 day shred is my number (7) resolution now.  I have heard it works and has given me sore arms/bum/stomach the next day after doing it, so here goes.  On a separate point I’m not convinced about the acai berry capsules but hey ho they can’t be doing any harm!

Now as well as the holiday incentive I have 3 other motivations this week to lose it:-

(1) none of my clothes fit so I wear the same thing all the time to work

(2) I was telling a customer that my friend had 13 weeks left to go in her pregnancy and I think he thought I said I was 13 weeks preggers and asked for clarification before congratulating me, yep it does look like a baby bump but I can assure its not!

(3) one of my friends advised me that I used to be skinny and now I am normal – ie you have got fat and a colleague at work said ‘its harder for people who used to be skinny when they put on a bit of podge’ ie you are no longer classed as skinny and are slightly podgy!

I am off to yet another wedding this weekend and will try not to over do it (who am I kidding) but will be back to it on Tuesday when I am home though I am out at a friends next Wednesday for dinner, oh dear.  I have booked to go to spin first so then it doesn’t matter what I eat/drink, right???

I have been good with the exercise but know from experience that it can take a while for exercise to count so am not going to weigh myself next Friday – though I will keep up the blog but will leave it two weeks and hopefully by then there will be a bigger change. 

And finally from the ramblings of a slightly obsessed mind, my new mini target is to have the dress that I wore to the 2 years ago for the interview for my current job fit me without feeling tight around the stomach…………..

I accept the challenge, now just to convince my willpower to do the same! xx

1 week

Well after a week of pretending to be good and actually not being, I have lost 2 pounds.  Not idea how or where I lost them as I have been on a bit of a food binge after a massive hangover from the wedding - basically ate anything I could get hold of after drinking many many drinks at the weekend.  I also slept in for work yesterday which meant I was an hour late going in (not good) and then had crap for lunch, pizza and salad for dinner and tooooo much red wine as I had a catch up with a friend last night which invariably invovled wine of the red variety.

Also managed to lose my wedding ring after making the pizza, its somewhere in the kitchen but cannot see it anywhere.  So the list of things currently lost/broken is now extended to the following:-

1  Passport (lost)
2  Driving licence (lost)
3  Wedding ring (lost in the flat so findable)
4  Iphone (broken, screen smashed and I have tried to fix it myself, not a good idea.  All the screws are out  and cant decifer how I am supposed to put the new screen on...... do not try to fix an iphone after a few glasses of wine)
5  Hard drive with all photos, music etc - need to pay at least £75 to fix this!

I seriously need to get a grip of myself and get onto the weightloss properly and sort out my life.  On a more positive note I am going for a run tonight with a friend so at least that is some exercise. 

So refering to my first post my thoughts for weight loss have now been extended to (4) use the Zaggora hotpants that I have bought already, make you sweat like a mo fo but fingers crossed (5) take the acai berry pills I have already bought, seriously its not hard to remember to take a pill (6) use the groupon deal for fatburn that I have - 8 treatments of fat burning and then more importantly remember resolutions 1-3!!!!! 

11 weeks and counting until the holidays when I must have the weight and the lost/broken things resolved by then.......................

Soooooooooooooo woke up this morning thinking it was Sunday - since my last post the diet has not gone well and I was ready to turn over and go back to sleep until the other half pointed out it was Monday morning.  Head not great and still very foggy and slightly (very) hungover I got ready for work and prayed for 5pm.  Now trying to shuffle papers around my desk so that I at least give the illusion of doing some work, not good!

As I said the diet has not gone well, went to the hairdressers on Thursday night and was within my calories for the day then my friend (who is the hairdresser) asked me if I wanted some wine - two bottles of rose later we decided it was time to go home.  So up on Friday morning and getting ready for wedding number 3 of this year.  Many many (too many) drinks later it was Sunday and I was watching the Olympic closing ceremony with yet another glass of rose, hence the feeling shit today.  Was planning on going to the gym after work today but think it will be bed instead - I can clearly see where the motivation has gone but need to get a grip and actually get excercising or I will end up the size of a house.  Hopefully my next post will be more positive!

Hello from me

I have enjoyed reading several people's blogs over the last month or so.  The first one to take my interest was Busy Ali Bee with her witty stories and great information and recipes for baby food - some of which is also adult friendly.  I then went on to follow Frugal Queen and Yellow Suitcase as they have inspired me to take up making/renovating things myself (though these are all at the idea stage right now and nothing has actually been made – laziness gets in the way of the creativeness!).  I don't have a baby to give you any inspiring/interesting anecdotes on and get too easily distracted by nights out and nights in with the almighty vino to actually have any too interesting to blog about so decided I was going to be a reader, not a writer. 

This was until I stepped on the scales the other day and was not in such a great mood - I am the heaviest I have ever been and officially can’t get into any of my clothes.  Decided it was definitely dreaded DIET time - not a great time to decide this with two weddings to go to this month but need to start doing exercise and stop lunching so much (two courses at lunch are not a great idea but taste sooooo good) and cut out the vino/crisps/nuts/whatever I can get my hands on as my body/bank balance cant take it anymore!   I knew it was slowly creeping up but didn’t realise it was this bad. 

So today I had fruit for brekkie which I normally love but because I had to had it I wanted a bacon roll!!! My thoughts are therefore (1) more exercise ie gym at least 4 times a week (realistically not going to happen) and (2) eat less - I am using an app on my phone but it doesn’t seem to like wine and g & t’s  for some reason as they make the calorie count sky rocket, think there must be something wrong with the app! and (3) drink less...........................

The crux of it is I am off on holiday in 12 weeks time - can I lose a stone (or more realistically 10 pounds) by then?  Usually I give up after about two weeks of dieting but for the sake of my sanity and the other beach goers I am intending to blog about this so that I can avoid the beached whale look on holiday.  I am hoping that the blog will show me a pattern for when I eat too much or when I don’t exercise enough so that I can try and sort things out.  Now to be fair I am not mahusive at all but I would like to be down to roughly the weight I was when I got married 4 years ago.  So even if no one else reads this blog (not sure if they will) then it will hopefully be of some use to me.

Anywho off to get my hair done for wedding number 3 of this year.

Enjoy then sun while it lasts. xxx