Weigh In

<sigh>

A completely deserved ''stay the same''.

After my bad day last week I never quite managed to pick things up again. I'm disappointed in myself (especially being only week 2!) but I will look at the positive and that is that I only ate between 1500-1700 each day, which, while obviously too high to lose weight on, meant I didn't gain and I haven't binged.

I'm going to be super 'on it' this week as I have my birthday celebrations coming up this weekend. It's my 30th so no way will I be calorie counting food and drink while I'm out!

First wobble!

Well I suppose it's natural and we're human- it happens.

I gave into a bit of temptation yesterday and ended the day on 1750 calories. Grrr.


My husband (usually very supportive) bought some cake when he was at the shop. I ate quite a bit of it. Then I decided to pick up 2 calorific pre-made sandwiches from the supermarket for lunch. Never do these things by half, eh?

BUT, unlike usual, that's where it ended. I decided that what I'm trying to achieve here is worth so much more than a bit of saturated fat and sugar.

I'm totally back on it today and hopefully one bad day won't affect my week's weight loss too badly.

McDonalds, you let down!

So, I decided as I'm not on a 'diet' I will continue to eat the things I like but slightly more in moderation. I'm not massively bothered by McDonalds burgers, big macs or anything but I'm quite partial to a Sausage and Egg McMuffin for breakfast (and a doughnut). Seeing as they're so calorific, I had to sacrifice having both breakfast and lunch and had it as 'brunch' instead. I was soo looking forward to it (sad) but it was RUBBISH! It was luke warm and seemed like it had probably been sat there for ages. The muffin had a sort of staleness to it. I was quite pissed off and my husband suggested I take it back to complain but I'm not very assertive in these situations so I chose to leave it. So, for the first time ever, I actually left half of a McDonalds meal uneaten.

The past 2 days I've managed 1100-1200 calories even though I still feel the temptation to drop to 1000. I hop on the scales every morning and this morning I weighed the same as my weigh-in on Monday which I know is fine- I still have until Monday to show a loss, but it was a bit disappointing. Worry that I won't lose on 1200 calories.

First Weigh In!

I've lost 5 pounds!

Really happy with that. I've never lost that much in a week before. I know that will be partly down to consuming 1000 calories per day. I honestly didn't feel like I was eating that little most of the time.


I will be eating 1200 calories from today but the ''old'' me, the impatient me, the me that wants to hurry up and get all this fat off my body wants to stick at 1000 calories and speed up the process.

<SLAPS SELF>

I must be patient this time. The weight will be more likely to stay off then.


I've got my 30th coming up in a couple of weeks and while I'm not going to stuff my face pointlessly I've no intention of calorie counting yummy meals out! You only become ''old'' once! Haha.

Day 6- keep going!

I found yesterday hard- especially the evening. Apparently Day 5 is notoriously hard when changing your eating habits for the better.
The evenings have always been my worst times for eating anyway. I've never had to worry about over-eating or binge-eating in secret as my husband always eats far too much anyway. So there's no ''shame'' in over-eating. In fact it's since meeting him 12 years ago that I started eating more than I should.

I'm trying to mostly eat soups for lunch rather than my usual sandwich. I've heard a lot of people talk of the benefits of cutting down on bread so I'm giving it a go and aiming to eat bread no more than twice a week.

I'm planning on having steak and chips for dinner tomorrow. It will be the heaviest meal I've had this week so being that it's the evening before my weigh in I hope it doesn't ruin my loss.
I'm only going to eat a small amount of steak and, for the first time ever, I will attempt to make my own chips and oven cook them with that 1 calorie cooking spray. Will see how that turns out!

Pick 'n Mix vs Pea and Ham soup

So I'm on Day 4 now.

The kids are still off school until next week so I had to take them along with me to do a supermarket shop. Just for a few bits. If you've read my previous post Binge Eating you will know I have anxiety 'issues' with going to the supermarket and because of my binge tendencies the supermarket is like paradise.

I was OK today, I think because I'm in that early stage of motivation. Give it a couple of weeks and I may find it a bit harder!


The kids wanted some pick 'n mix sweets. I LOVE pick 'n mix! I let them fill up one of those cups they all seem to use nowadays for £2!! Flipping expensive, if you ask me.
They had all my favourites- pink and white mice, strawberry milkshake bottles, cola bottles and I had to just watch! *sob*

It was such a delight to come home for lunch... until I actually ate it. I've never had Pea and Ham soup before and I tried it for lunch- never again!!! Yuck!

Oh well, a sneaky peek on the scales seems to be showing a 3lb loss so far- yay! That will keep me motivated and away from the pick 'n mix. :D

2nd day on plan...

...has been ok!

Bearing in mind, I've cut out all chocolate, crisps, fizzy drinks which usually feature HEAVILY in my diet.

I have felt hungry on a couple of occasions. But I've not experienced any bad headaches (yet)

Admittedly, I didn't quite manage all 1000 calories yesterday- I think it was more like just under 700 calories (very bad, I know)
It wasn't intentional. It's just that I didn't fancy eating a banana I had planned on and didn't need quite as much cheese as I had predicted with my dinner.

I have, however used my whole 1000 calories today! :D

Really need to work on my apathy for fruit!