It's been a bad couple of weeks!

Well, let's face it, it's been a bad month for dieting really, I've been out drinking beer far too often!

It kind of started when Weight Watchers CUT ME OFF!! *sob* It was a slow realisation, but I gradually noticed that the emails I were recieving were no longer giving me handy tips on how to snack healthily....they were telling me to 'Sign up now, 12 weeks until Christmas'.

It was at this point that I realised when they'd tried to take the dollarz off of my credit card there hadn't been enough on there, and when I'd swapped the detail hurredly for the next time they tried to take the monies...I was too late.

Cut off, I tell you, what is a bird supposed to do?

Since then I've been out many many too many times, and I'm acutely aware that I haven't been eating properly.

HOWEVER!!

I still fit in my 'target' trousers...not as well as I did before..but all is NOT lost. I'm not out for another drinky (unless I see the Jo Jo next week) before I go on holiday, and my sister Nicki doesn't go overboard on the drinky drinky.

The danger in Barcelona will be the inclination to stuff our faces with wonderful tapas, but I think we'll (try to) be relatively sensible...if only to dampen the impact upon our wallets.

So, my intention now is to turn it around a bit. I'm guaranteed to be more than the 11st 10lb I was last time I got weighed. With some healthy eating this weekend and not too much extravagance on holiday I'm hoping to creep back to 11st 10lb and can start again. My aim is 11st 7lb. I started off last night by being good, I had that recipe Philadelphia have been tempting me with on my yahoo account for weeks, smoked salmon and cream cheese linguine. I've brought the cream cheese and smoked salmon in today to have a bagel for lunch.

I'm so good. I can get there. This is my first proper lapse, but I knoes I can do it, with or without stinky Weight Watchers!

Go Team Sproglet!

*whimper*

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Catching up!

Ok ok, epic catch-up to be done here! It appears I haven't blogged here for over a month, this will not do!

Ok, so....looking at my weightloss sheet, I've lost about 6.5lb since I last blogged, so it's all still going in the right direction.

However, I have noticed that I've hit a bit of a plateau recently, this could be for a number of reasons:

1) I've lost a grand total of 2 stone 4.5lb rather quickly and now the weightloss is (necessarily) slowing down.

2) I've not been pulling my weight (get it?) with the diet plan over the last couple of weeks. I have become lacksadaisical with the lager and complacent with the calories.

3) I'm becoming increasingly happier with my shape and size....and the reciprocal effect is that I feel less of a need to improve it. Hence, motivation lowers. My motivation is increasing in the 'maintain what I have now' arena.

It's a neat combination of all these factors I think.

Also! My mum and my sister have recently joined Slimming World. I went along with them on their first day for moral support more than anything and I was pleasantly surprised. As opposed to the dingy place with a few chairs slung around that I attend for my WW meeting, this place was large, airy and light, there were lots and lots of people around, and the meeting leader was absolutely lovely. Very encouraging and full of hints, tips and explanation.

I get the feeling that...after 20+ years in the business, my leader has stagnated somewhat....Jo and I hardly ever stay for the meetings, there's a definite lack of motivation going on THERE. My familys 'leader' (makes it sound like some kind of cult), Loretta, is very young...as in...younger than my sister, that makes me feel really old, and it's a new class so she's a new leader. Full of enthusiasm and ringing round everyone in her group every week! I can't help but wonder if that will fade over the months/years. There's only so much whinging I think I could take from overweight people refusing to make an actual change to their eating habits and then wondering why they only lost 1/2lb last week. Or people elated by 2 weeks of 5lb loss plummeting into a deep depression in week 3 because they only lost 1b. How many times can you explain water loss and safe rate of weightloss before wanting to slit your wrists? Or run into the next room and devour an entire Sara Lee's chocolate gateaux to yourself? (Closely followed and trampled by a stampeding herd of women fighting their inner fatties...and failing....having caught a whiff of chocolate....one part per million is enough). If evolution is just and fair then in 50 years, slimming group leaders will have evolved food pouches to avoid such scenarios. Hamsters have the right idea.

We'll follow Loretta and see, I hope she keeps it up, she's a lovely lady :)

So now, every weekend I spend with the folks has become almost a competition. I'm asked what I've lost this week and get curt congratulations if I've done well and stern eyeballs if I've stayed the same. Dad has joined in the plan recently and loves bringing up that he dropped about a stone in 3 weeks, at which my mother begins muttering and rifling through the fridge for another sugar free jelly.

My sister and I pretty much laugh about the whole thing....but I HAVE noticed...if she thinks she's not doing well she tries to SABOTAGE me!!

'Another roast potato?'

'Two or three scoops of Ben and Jerry's FroYo? *seductive grin*'

'Oh go on, a kilogram bar of dairy milk won't make a dent!!'

Ok....that last one was a lie, but you get my drift.

I hope that this general competitive weightloss environment isn't adding to my laziness. The weightloss was something I started doing for myself, and somehow it's losing it's magic with others around me keeping up with my progress and comparing it to their own. I've never been the competitive type (mostly cos I'm crap at sports and would never inflict myself upon a team). Maybe I shall ask them to stop talking about it and see if it helps!

Anyway, this week I am trying hard to get back on track.. I haven't actually tracked for about 2 weeks now, but I have today, so back on the weightwatching wagon it is for me.

Wish me luck on my continued journey :o) xx

Countess Cuties

I'm now a countess cutie! It seems that the Sexy Sorceresses have disbanded.

I unfortunately put on half a lb last week, but I made up for it all this week by shifting 3lb! :o) Not entirely sure how I managed that, but I'm very happy about it.

This has brought me to my 2 stone goal!! I've lost 2st and 1lb!! :D Huzzah!!

Ahhhh, just fancied sharing that so I did :)

Halloween Hotties!

My motivation has been somewhat lacking the last couple of weeks, I lost 1lb this past week, and 1/2lb the week before. It's still weightloss, but I know I haven't been applying myself to it, so I'm a little disappointed, in ME!!

This past week was such a bad one in terms of the quantity of beer I drank (again) that I was actually considering bailing out of my weigh-in. By the way...I'm not a raving alcoholic, it's just that the two weeks after I get paid tend to be characterised by a flurry of meeting up with mates that I finally have enough money to spend some time with....and it usually involves large quantities of beer or wine.

However, some of the guys on the WW forum started talking about a challenge. I'd never done one before and I thought it might be a great way to get back my mojo and my motivation - so I've joined the Halloween Hotties Challenge.

We've been put into groups of about 8 people, and we'll track our weight losses/gains for the 12 weeks leading up to Halloween. The group with the biggest total loss after 12 weeks will be the winnerz!!

I have no idea what we win......I think it might just be the good feeling you get from being a winner...which is all good :o)

This will be good because you're doing it for the team as well as yourself, so it's that extra little bit of motivation, and we have a whole website set up where we can chat and encourage each other.

Go Sexy Sorceresses!!

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Confesshiunz of a Fatty - Off the wagon in spectacular style

Forive me Weightwatchers for I have sinned...it has been...er...a couple of days since my last confession.

Before telling you the number of points I consumed yesterday, I shall give you a brief overview of the day:

I went into work prepared for what may be a bad diet day, there was to be a brief leaving do after work followed by munchies before Nicki and I went to Somerset house for Alien and Poltergeist. I'd had my normal branflakes brekkie and all was on track so far.

When Linda walked into the tea room with her little choccie cake I suddenly recalled her mentioning the day before that she was bringing it in....ah, I can factor this in I think.

What REALLY upset the balance was when Greg walked in with a 12pk of favourite KRISPY KREME!!! Argh!!! What are they trying to DO to me! I won't lie and say that this is the ONLY reason I ate a couple, but he had bought them because he's been a grumpy bastard recently and it was his way of apologising, I'd have felt bad if I hadn't indulged. Being honest I'd have eaten them anyway though :)

So....a piece of choccie cake, a crulled original glazed and a raspberry glazed later...I'm in the office bloated to buggery.

Come lunchtime I'm really not that hungry, but we've decided on pub lunch already because of payday!! So we bimble to the pub and I have a half of Starapromen and Linda and I share some little platters, Crudités, houmous and flatbread, and falafel, tzaziki and flatbread. Niiiice.

Back to work and another little slice of choccie cake in the afternoon.....sigh

Then the fun really begins.....

3 pints at the pub at Troys leaving doo, chicken pitta and spicy rice at Nandos. We get a whole chicken to take away for Somerset House.

All in all this horrendous day came to....wait for it......

56 points!!

That's 56 points!!

I'm allowed 23 points!!

That's 23 points!!

So, one asks, what am I going to do to make up for this ridicuous indiscretion?

Well......mum and Nickis meal plan for today will save me about 13 points today I think, I'll try not to eat any snacks etc.

I want to go shopping in Croydon and I'm considering walking there or back, but that might just make me hongreh!!!

Tomorrow I'm covering the mela with St J so I reckon there'll be a bit of walking around.

Monday night I'm salsa-ing :D Last minute exercise FTW!!!

I might pull it back and be able to stay the same :o)

Cross your fingers for me people, cross your fingies, not that I deserve it lolz!

Orgasmic pitta pizza from heaven

For weeks I've been watching the guys on the WW boards rave about pitta pizzas. I thought they sounded quite nice, but didn't think much more of it.

Whilst scouting the boards today they came up again and they popped into my head whilst I was wandering round the Co-op trying to gather some inspiration for dinner.

I stayed the same at WI today, which is nothing short of a miracle given my excesses over the past week or so. I normally treat myself if I've lost......not sure that should extend to STS, but....what the hey, I also bought a cheesy twist! NORTEH!!

Being quite hungry when I got in, and still entirely in ignorance of the wonderful experience to come, I ate my cheesy twist with a cup of tea.

Aafter looking up the points value of such a beasty I became depressed and immediately needed more food, so I turned to my actual sustenance for the evening.

OMG!!!

I swear, this was better than normal pizza...and I don't know if that's because I haven't had pizza for almost a month....but it was some good shit!

Here's my recipe for Heavenly Pitta Pizza: (for one)

1 white/wholemeal pitta bread
Around 150ml bolognese/any pasta sauce you like
Around 1tbsp tomato puree
1 small clove garlic, chopped finely
2 slices of onion, chopped roughly
Quarter of a pepper, chopped into batons
3 cherry toms, halved
seasoning
Small amount of feta cheese

Mix the sauce, puree and garlic together, spread on the pitta bread

Sprinkle the rest of the ingredients on as you like and season to taste

Pop in oven on gasmark 6 or 200 degrees C for 12 minutes

NOM NOM NOM!!!!

Obviously you can stick just about any ingredient you like on top o this, but the way I've done it comes to roughly 3.5/4 points, ideal for dinner :o)

Oh My!! So much to catch up on!

On a great note...last weigh in I achieved my 10% goal...huzzah! 21.5lb down :D

On a less positive note, I've consumed so much alcohol this week that nothing short of self-imposed starvation, running a marathon, and the biggest emergency poo in the world is going to help me to have lost for Tuesday. I shan't complain though, for it is my own fault.

I've said in past posts that having a bad week every now and again, although disheartening, is good for you I think. The weight seems to have been coming off far to easily, especially the last few weeks. The tracking has begun to slide and really I need a kick up the bum to stay on track before it all goes to pot, it hasn't yet, but there is certainly the danger.

My sister and I held a Weight-watchers friendly BBQ yesterday, which I think went down quite well with our mates. Here's our menu:

Meat:

Piri Piri Chicken wings

Home made beefburgers (WW recipe with added garlic)

Curly cumberland sausages (which no one asked for so we got away without)

Lamb kebabs (TESCO bought....so maybe not so diet-friendly)

Home made bean burgers

Stuffed peppers

Fish:

Whole trout

Prawn and scallop skewers

Oven-baked garlic salmon

Sides:

Mediterranean cous cous

Potato salad

Pitta bread and houmous

Sweet potato wedges

Garlic bread

Afters:

Fruit skewers drizzed with white/dark choc

BBQ apple crumble (which also didn't get made in the end)

Errrr....I think that's it! Problem is, there was so much stuff to prepare that Nicki and I got hardly any time to spend with our mateys!

The trout on the BBQ is nice, if anyone wants to know how here it is:

1) Top, tail and butterfly a whole trout (you usually get the ready gutted at the fishmonger)

2) Marinade in olive oil and garlic...and anything else you like for at least an hour

3) Stuff with a strongish herb like lemongrass, dill or fennel, and lemons, onions and garlic (trout doesn't have a strong taste, you need to add flavours you like)

4) Wrap in foil and cook on a fairly hot barbie for about 25 minutes, flipping halfway.

You may like to cook your trout for less time, but I was adamant not to kill people with uncooked fish :D

Nom nom nomz, argh I want trout now!

Catch-up!

Oh here we go people :o)

I was pleasantly surprised at my weigh in after Italy. I think I was 7.5lb down....bear in mind I had missed 2 weigh ins. That's just over 2lb a week. It must have been all the walking, that bloody duomo did it I swearz :o)

However, the next week was my first bad one :o(

Here is the exact email I sent my Oggers the day after fat weekend!!

Oh well....I'm pretty sure I'll have my first gain this week.....yep....pretty sure

I was ok until this weekend, having working scales at mum and dads is hell. Weighed myself either Friday night or Saturday morning and I was below 13st, lost maybe a pound and a half...not too shabby I says.

The on Sunday we had an indian meal. Even that wasn't too bad, I did go over by about 7 points for the day when I worked it out, but boy it could have been much worse. I had tandoori fish so no cream. No starter, and I didn't really touch the bombay potato and left the cauliflower bhajee to Nicki and dad. I did however, have half a pilau rice, halfish a garlic naan and shared a choccie pud with Nicki.

Oh....and 2 bottles of kingfisher

Yesterday was the clincher though. TGI Fridays....and I'd resolved to be so good. Stevie is a bad influence on me!

I had Starter AND pudding! I thought...hmmmm, all these battered chicken things and whatnot.....I'll have the mushroom alfredo for starters, sounds healthy. Little did I know mushroom alfredo was sliced mushrooms swimming in creamy cheesy sauce with grease flotaing on top and a bit of spinach chucked in for some green. A HUGE portion at that! Oh.....with a garlic ciabatta on the side.

Mains.....I had New York chicken linguine, not too bad considering the horrendous racks of ribs etc I could have been consuming....not as good, however, as the salad or salmon I could have, and should have, been consuming. Ho hum.

Why did I have pudding??

Again, not the worst pudding, I had pudding minis, you pick 2 from a selection, and I picked the bloobry cheesecake (bloobry mousse with a crushed digestive at the bottom) and raspberry (raspberry what you may ask?....I could have payed £1.50 for a raspberry), it was a moussy thing. One of my five a day I reckon. One of my 5 a day hidden in sugar and cream and E numbers....oh yes.

Then!

THEN!!!

Out came the choccy cake stevie made for Nicki, with silver and purple decorations as per her instructions. I HAD to have some of that otherwise Stevie would have been upset...that was my excuse anyway. Woe is me. And woe is my waistline.

Oh.....and 2 pints of Becks.

Ha ha. Weighed myself when I got home and I was like 13st 3lb, bear in mind I hadn't had poo poo or wee wee though.

I may have to starve myself and walk to meet you in Angel just to try and stay the same at weigh in.

Alas....these things do happen, lets looks on the bright side...plenty of motivation for next week....and at least the tracker won't be telling me off this week...I took its advice :o)

And, I was 13st 2lb, only a lb of pee pee and poo poo apparently!!

However, after a good week last week I weighed in on Tuesday at 13st exactly, so I've taken off that extra 1.5 plus some, and can start again :o)

People are starting to notice it now too which is lovely!

When I have a moment I'll start blogging my recipes, I've discovered a passion for cooking, nom nom nomz!!!

Italy and Dieting

Oh my, well....things HAVE been a bit sparse around here haven't they?

Maybe it's the shame

The deep, deep ingrained shame.

When I returned home from Italy (home as in home to my house, not home to mum and dads, where I recouped for a couple of days), I had a little letter waiting for me. Inside was a little note from Gerard, 'Hope to see you soon'.

'Hope to see you soon'

Translated: 'Where are you Chubberson? How dare thee miss my meeting!! Where were you? Eating cake down a dark alleyway??'

Or something along those lines.

I have in fact, missed 2 meetings, the first because I was off work and had to get down to mum and dads with my luggage, and the thought of traipsing back up to North London just to be weighed filled me with woe. The second being because I was stuffing my face with PIZZA!!

Yes, you read that correctly, pizza, nommy nommy pizza. It was the best pizza ever too, from Pisa...ironically.

Actually, to be honest, I wasn't as bad as I could have been, apart from the day I had a picnic in Villa Borghese, oily foccacia, salami and Pomodoro cheese really isn't a WW recommended meal idea! I think I consumed roughly 37 points that day. I have a picture to prove it that I'll put up for you later.

What I tended to do was have one large meal for lunch (pizza pizza) and then a bit of a snack, if that, in the evenings. I was usually so knackered by the evening I'd just collapse in bed and snooze. With all the walking I was doing I'm pretty sure I burnt off most of the calories I was consuming.

I did have gelato........3 of them :o)

2 of them were chocolate...yes

1 of them was vanilla and raspberry.....with bits of chocolate in :o)

They were divine, I have no regrets!

The gelateries are amazing in the way they display their gelato. I have one very bad picture, it's always behind glass! They have amazing mountains of swirly gelato, and some of them stick things into it to show you what flavour it is, like the coconut will have bits of coconut stuck on the front, and the strawberry will have strawberries buried in the top. It's food porn is what it is! Should be banned.

I've started faithfully tracking again now I'm home. Oglet and I's little faux par involving gallons of beer the other day shall go unmentioned.

Ooops

Sorry Gerard, but it had to be done. You may or may not have your revenge at the weigh in tomorrow....wish me luck ladies and gents...

New Measurements

Yus, I have put up some new measurements for your perusal.

I measured myself over the weekend at my folks and I'm unsure whether it was a trick measuring tape, or I was having a skinny day, or that I'm having a fat day today, but I could have sworn I'd lost 3 inches on the waist then. I shall not torture myself with that, for now I am 36 inches, I have lost 2 inches on my waist :o).

I haven't lost anything anywhere else, so I can see where I carry all my spare lard, in a big tyre right around my middle much like this:


I caught a programme earlier on one of the only channels I recieve on me telly, '10 things you need to know about losing weight', apt don't you think? There was a guy on it who didn't look overweight at all, but they gave him an MRI to reveal his 'visceral' fat, the fat surrounding your organs inside you. He had quite a bit. Apparently this is the first stuff to go when you start losing weight, so this could be what I'm losing, making my waistline go down a bit. This is all good news and encourages me to keep up the hard work.

My legs and arse are always the last place it goes anyway, I'll get there eventually, when I end my exercise fast :o)

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Weigh in Numero Three

I appear to have become somwhat confused somewhere along the line. I think I started out at 14st 2.5lb, not 14st 2lb. Damn Gerards handwriting!

I lost 1/2lb this week, not as good as previous weeks, but I was expecting it. Complacency sets in when 4lb seems to drop off with no trouble each week, I needed a less successful week to get me focussed again. Due to my initial misreading of my weight chart I am still 13st 8lb (last week I was in fact 13st 8.5lb, but in denial). The lovely Oggers lost 2 1/2lbs this week! Applause all round methinks, it's lovely to have a significant loss, well deserved and I hope it makes her feel better :o).

We had a birthday do to attend after WW so it was all poised to go down the pan, but I think we pulled it back rather well. We had Leggera pizza for dinner at Pizza Express (I had vouchers baby, oh yes....cheapskate). Those are the pizzas with a hole cut in the middle, and salad inserted in the hole. It was rather delicious, even if it was served on what appeared to be a cross between a chopping board and an artists palette. Not bad for 8.5 points.

After this, Jo suggested that we walk from Angel to Oxford Street, we had plenty of time before the drunken hoarde were to turn up at the pub, so why not? It wasn't a tiresome walk either, I quite enjoyed it, did have to buy a diet coke in Burger King to use the loo's though. We had a momentary wibble thinking we may have gotten lost whilst looking for Great Titchfield Street, but I was finally redeemed when we found it at last! Phew....I must admit I was starting to doubt my memory and sense of direction.

The pub was lovely and Jennymays mates were fab too. We had 3 pints each and then wibbled home. I must try and remember that Jo doesn't have as many points to spare as me. Jo kindly bought my drinkies last night as I am well and truley skint until Friday....thank you Oggers! Love you :o). I snacked on 8 crackerbread in bed and woke up in a pile of breadcrumbs with my phone squished underneath me....lucky I even heard the alarm!

Ahhh, right, so I'm more focussed for this week after a disappointing 1/2lb loss. Still a loss though, canny complain.

I wonder how the Friday Pubcrawl will fare for me.......argh!! :o)

Ebil Beer

What did I say about beer being my major downfall??

The last 2 nights I've been out drinking the brown bubbly stuff, 4 pints each night....yesterday may even have been 5 pints. 4 pints = 12 points, that's half my daily allowance. *Shudderment*

So, this weekend with the parents I need to be extra good and might even do some skipping or something in the garden. They have a treadmill too, maybe I can hop on that for a bit.

Fingers crossed for good results next weigh-in

In other news I had a cous cous salad just now, quite nice, didn't eat it all, and the falafel was a bit minging. Turned it over to look for nutritional value to calculate points, and it says:

Calories: 350+

Sat Fat: Very low

Well that bloody well helps doesn't it??

Knobberz

Woo Hoo!!

Oh yes! Weigh-in last night and I've lost another 4lb, thats 8lb down now, going in the right direction.

I can definitely feel it in my clothes, I was pulling my jeans up walking down the street this morning. I've gone down a notch in the belt, but because it's so old and battered it always ends up in the same notch. I think if I start changing it now the old thing may just give up the ghost entirely and fall to pieces! Time for a new belt methinks.

I had been slightly worried this week, as, although I was eating all good stuff, I was very busy and wasn't eating at regular intervals, maybe even skipping meals and stuff. There was the concern that my body would think I was trying to starve myself and start laying down emergency blubber! Luckily that didn't happen :)

Little slip last night, Jo and I had 4 pints at the old Rose and Crown, celebratory fat drinks :o) At comedy tonight too....argh, might be on the G and slimline T again :)

Sorry I haven't been blogging every day (as if you're that bothered), but I've been so manically busy this week I haven't had a chance to blog! I KNOW, heinous. Next week looks to be quite empty at the moment which is nice....I need to chilllll, holiday in under 2 weeks time, huzzah!

Yes....a week in Italy will be a test to my determination! Mmmmmm, gelato.

Weigh-in

Woo hoo! I managed to lose 4lb this week, fabulous. Just have to keep it up now, that's going to be the hard part, especially with a couple of drinking sessions planned this week. I shall persevere, I COULD drink less, yes....I COULD *riffles through points book for low-point alternatives*. I so won't.

You may have noticed, I've put my cringe-worthy measurements....oh yes. 38 inch waist, I do believe that puts me at increased risk of heart disease. Yay for me, lets knock a couple of inches off that shall we? I'll never be a slight little thing unfortunately, I'm just not built that way, I'm sure 38 inches isn't necessary though.

My personal aim is to be able to fit into a pair of trousers I was wearing back in 2006, I love those trousers and refuse to throw them away, I CAN fit in them again! I CAN and will, that's my goal. If and when I attain it, I shall post a picture of myself in these trousers. I'll be happy then :)

I made chicken kievs for dinner today, it could have been slightly more successful. First off, I had one tiny chicken breast and one massive one....so I was going to end up with wonky kievs. You have to pound the chicken flat then, I had nothing to pound it with, except my own fists. So there I was in the kitchen....punching a dead chicken.

I'm not sure I pounded it enough, as when you put the filling in and then roll the kiev closed, you're supposed to 'fold' up the sides to contain the cheese filling. I had nothing to fold and the cream cheese immediately started oozing out of then ends whilst I made a feeble attempt to 'seal' them with cocktail sticks! GAH!!

In the end they did actually taste quite nice, though the chicken was a bit dry, maybe I shouldn't have cooked them for so long more garlic was required though. More garlic is ALWAYS required.

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Days 3, 4, 5 and 6

I'll do you favour and not detail all the points and meals that I had over this period ha ha. I'll just pick out a few highlights for you :o)

Friday - I was quite good! We didn't do pub lunch in the end after all and so I went and bought a jacket spud with coleslaw from the refectory, plus a little salad pot thing. I made butternut squash chips in the evening, which didn't go quite to plan, they needed to be thinner and crispier. I shall succeed in the end.

Saturday - For lunch I made my king prawn spag again for dad and myself, and for dinner we made mmmmm, garlic 'butter' salmon, this stuff is gorgeous, just do the following:

Take a fillet of salmon and cut a piece of foil big enough to wrap it up

Place the salmon on the foil

Chop up a clove of garlic and sprinkle it on top

Put a couple of knobs of butter on top of that (I used Bertolli extra light)

Wrap it all up in the foil and bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes (20 for smaller fillets, 25-30 for larger fillets)

YUM! With stir-fry vegetabubbles.

Sunday - Was bit of a naughty day, good lunch, chicken bagel. Dinner was bad, but oh so good!! Toad in the hole with 2 sausages wrapped in bacon, and roast tatties. I think it worked out at about 17.5 points, but I had some saved up from other days, and 4 taken of my total for the walk that morning.

I was extra naughty and had a bit of ice cream with some mango chunks too....woe is me

Monday - Norty norty, went to Strada for lunch and had 'Panzerotti Porcini', or mushroom ravioli, in butter. about 11.5 points I do believe. We also shared garlic and rosemary pizza bread, and a melted chocolate pudding....owie!

So for dinner I had a green salad with a bit of feta sprinkled over the top. I was over yesterday, but not by too much, only a couple of points.

All in all, I think I have about 6 points in the bank for this week that I didn't use. The true test will come when I'm weighed this evening though....shock horror, I shall be back to tell you all about it and finally give you my measurements, I got a measuring tape this weekend :)

The evil wine

I blogged too soon last night! I was coerced into an evil glass of wine by my landlord...that put me one point over, gah!!

Lets see what today brings!!

I just had another pear by the way :o)

Day 2 - Chilli day

Today was good, I wandered into work this morning with a tin of toona and extra light philadelphia in my bag.

Now, they say a small tin of tuna (70g) is one point, so I had a normal tin (140g). So instead of one point it's 2, but I can cope with that, a tin of tuna...no problemo. Half a wholemeal baguette, cut open, philly on both sides, now comes the fishy bit. Does anybody actually realise just how much tuna there is in a tin of toona? 140g I hear you say....NO!! It's a conspiracy. Somehow they manage to stuff a whole tuna into these tins, I swearz it.

There I was sat at my desk, rolls piled high with tuna, tuna on my plate and half a tin of tuna still sitting there. It's a sad sad day when you're sat eating tuna out of the tin with a fork, all the while thinking 'this CAN'T be just two points...shut up, the book said......the book doesn't know everything....TOONA!!'. I was determined not to leave any to stink out the office. In the end I had to admit defeat, I sealed the can and the remaining contents in a little sealable bag (partly for safety and partly to seal in the smell) and chucked it in the bin.

Funnily enough I wasn't really hungry for a while after that little adventure. I'm very impressed with my dinner though, king prawns, garlic, chilli, tomatoes, rocket and spaghetti. Um yum, if you want to make it here is my recipe below (adapted for WW):

2 tomatoes, skinned and chopped

1 clove garlic finely chopped

1 small med-hot red chilli, finely chopped

8 king prawns

40g spaghetti

Handful of rocket

1 tablespoon olive oil

Cook the spaghetti until al dente, prepare your other ingredients while it's cooking and a few minutes before it's ready:

Hob on medium/high, put the oil and garlic in the pan together.

When the garlic starts to sizzle, put the chilli in.

Sauteé that for a bit (minute?) and put the tomatoes in, sauteé again for a minute.

Put the prawns in, and cook for 1.5-2 minutes, to make sure the prawns are heated through (assuming you bought pre-cooked....or lazy prawnage).

Drain your spaghetti and put in a dish, put your king prawns and bits on top. Add the rocket and mix it through a bit....ta da. You look like a culinary master but you've only taken ten minutes...that's my kinda cooking!

Ok so what points have I used today?

Brekkie - Bran Flakes and 1/4 pint skimmed milk = 2 points

Lunchings - 1/2 wholemeal baguette, tuna, tablespoon of cream cheez, salad = 9 points

Dinner - Ok, I confess, 12 yes, read it....12 king prawns, toms, rocket, 40g spag, olive oil, chilli, garlic = 4 and 3/4 points (3/4 is the prawns ha ha)

Snackage - Pear, 250ml orange joose, 2 teas = 3 points

Grand totali =-19 points (I'll round up that 3/4....grudgingly)

This leaves me with 6 points to use up, I could save the points....but I won't. I bought some Sainsburys 'Be good to yourself' cheesecakes as a treat, I shall have one of these...worth 5 points so I'll have saved one.

Tomorrow might not be quite as successful....pub lunchings :o)

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I just had a pear...I thought you should know

Watching the Weight, Day 1

Well, I think I was doing quite well until the end of the day...but I knew it would go downhill then as I was out for dins with my sister. I'd already looked up the points in a Tori Katsu curry (8.5), but then we had mini spring rolls, veggie ones, 3 each.

I went home and looked up spring rolls in my eating out book....feck me!!....5 points EACH??

Now, my question is this, what size spring rolls exactly? Hmm? Cos, I had, like, 3 MINI ones. Does 3 mini ones add up to one average spring roll? Or are those evil little bastard things 5 points each? This makes all the difference between going over by one point or by eleven points.

I have decided that I'll just go over by one, I've still gone over, which I'm led to believe is bad, can't do much about it. I'll save myself the guilt of believing I've consumed almost half my daily points allowance over the top though.

*sigh*

So yesterday I had:

Brekkie - 30g (very roughly as I don't yet have scales) bran flakes and about 1/4 pint skimmed milch

Lunch - Rocket and Feta salad, 40g feta. Half a wholmeal baguette (strictly speaking should only have had 1/4...norty!!)

Dinner - Tori Katsu curry, 3 spring rolls, jasmine tea...my my that's bad!

Snackage - apple, pear, and juice freshly squeezed from an orange (about 200ml ish). Oh and 2 cups of tea, one with skimmed and one with semi-skimmed milk.

So, actually, if it hadn't have been for that eating out, I'd have been quite good, by the way, I'm allowed 25 points a day. Up to dinner I'd only had about 11 1/2 of them!

When I get a measuring tape I'll start doing that too, I seem to keep forgetting, I wonder why....

Don't ask me why I torture myself with pictures of yummy fatty food :(. Image cred

Weight Watchers!!

After the disaster that was last week, we finally made it to Weight Watchers last night.

We filled out our little forms and got on the scales...I tipped them at 14st 2lb! I'm unimpressed by that, and that was WITHOUT my shoes on. My aim would be to get down to 11st, but I'd be happy with 11 and a half. This is a lot of weight to lose, I'd better get cracking really hadn't I.

So we got bullied into the monthly package, which does work out cheaper as long as you go regularly enough, and we got the essentials pack for free :D. So I've got my points guide, eating out points guide, all kinds of recipe ideas starters bumpf, tracking books and this kind of stuff...and a pen, I love my pen.

Jo was rather miffed when we sat down and worked out how many points we each had to stick to. Mine was about 24 and jo's was 18, but after I explained that it was because I was taller and fatter than she was she seemed happier. We had a little motivational talk by our 'Team Leader' and off we went to Tesco to fill our cupboards and fridges with healthy wares.

I had my last indulgence last night, sharing a bottle of wine and a packet of salami with my housemate, now I'm on the diet, lets see how it goes.

I'm going to do all kinds of embarrassing things like putting my weight and size measurements up here, oh yes, motivational or what?

I have no shame :o) I hope you enjoy my journey as much as I do /insert irony/sarcasm/