Monday, 15 February 2010

Party on Dude!

Had a great time at the friends 40th birthday party on Saturday night. My normal tipple of Morgans & Diet Coke were going down a storm, and seeing as I was sitting at a table with people that I don't know all that well, I decided what better to break the ice than a round of shots............................

Anyway, I know everyone at my table a darn sight better now he he. Largely ignored the buffet table, but had a small piece of quiche, some salad and some coleslaw so not too bad.

Drifted lethargically through Sunday and caved this morning to have a sneaky peek at the damage. I am 1lb up from weigh in on Saturday. On the upside, hubby did not buy me any chocs for Valentine's day opting instead to get me a couple of books - no points in those at least.

Once again, I will be working hard this week to undo the weekend gain and and lose another little bit in time for Saturday.

Saturday, 13 February 2010

Safari - so goody

Well I lost 1.5lbs today and it feels great to be back in the swing of things.

Damien (hubby) and I went out for an Indian last Saturday night which was lovely but a ridiculous amount of points spent. Suffice to say, I have been clawing back some points all week to compensate.

I worked fairly hard and consistently on the exercise front all week. 5 x 3mile walks in the evenings after dinner, and 50 minutes last night on the Wii fit. I invested in wii fit plus, and had great fun with the new features as well as the old hula hoop and step plus favourits.

I think in reality, that my losses would be greater if I didn't spend Mondays to Fridays compensating for the weekend damage.

I would say I will try harder on that front, but realistically it won't be starting this weekend. I am out tonight in my home town, going to a 40th birthday party. With my planned meals today, I will have eaten 15 points, and that only leaves 3 extra for alcohol. That just won't cover it I'm afraid.

My good friend and fellow WW'er started back at classes with me in January. She got her (new) starting weigh in, bunked off the next week, attended the week after that, and has bunked off the last 2 weeks. She is so hacked off with herself at the moment, and I am genuinely sorry for her. I am willing her to get her head back in it, but its that old adage about "no-one can do this for you". Hate not being able to help her with this - we've talked at length about the whole subject - but she has at least come out on the walks I've been doing this week. Her starting WW is what motivated me to start way back in the beginning, and I kind of wanted us to finish together what we started together.

Wednesday, 3 February 2010

Reasons to be cheerful

So I'm back in the weightloss zone, but struggling slightly with my paltry 18 points. Some days slightly over some days slightly under, so over the course of the week it evens itself out. That said I have been back attending classes since 16th January and have had 2 losses totalling 3.5lbs. Not startling, but steady and consistent and better than gaining!!

So, keeping with the positive vibe, I have decided to list the anticipated highlights of the next couple of months.

1. I am going to be an Auntie for the very first time. My niece should be making her arrival anytime between end of Feb and 10th of March.
2. My sister - responsible for making me said Auntie - lives in Belgium. That means I will be taking a week off work to go visit her, my brother-in-law and most importantly, my niece - yay!
3. I will be earning lots of activity points by kidnapping the niece and going for nice long walks pushing a pram in the Belgian countryside.
4. I have a semi-posh dinner/dance event happening in March. It's all of my oldest and best friends and their other halves, so excellent company and a chance to put on the gladrags.

So lots of lovely things are happening, and on top of my reasons to be cheerful, I have decided I need a small "To-Do" list. I am a bit of a procrastinator by nature, so I intend to get my finger out on the following:

1. Make a donation to the DEC, for Haiti
2. Bag up the too big for me clothes that have been heaped in the spare room since October last year (yeah really, talk about out of sight out of mind) and get them to the PDSA charity shop.
3. Get the house decorated. I mean we're only talking emulsion and a bit of glossing here, it's not like I have to renovate, but the thought of spending precious weekends that way is off-putting to say the least.

Yup.....................