Weigh day Wednesday.

Today is my 5th weigh day of the year and I am happy to report I lost 2lbs! 

I have finally said goodbye to the pesky 11.5lbs I gained over the 3 weeks we had off for Christmas. I am now 3lbs away from my lightest recorded weight! 

I have 1.5lbs to loose to get that six stone loss again! Feels like ages since I got a silver seven so going to work hard to try and loose that 1.5lbs for next week!

It feels SO good being focused and on track again. 😀

Transformation Tuesday.

This is my newest comparison photo. They are taken almost two years apart. I am down about 81lbs since starting weightwatchers (I say about as I get weighed tomorrow so it should be more then that!) 

I am a different person to who I was back then. I now have confidence, I now (mostly) make better food choices and I can wear normal person clothes from the normal people section. I don't have to settle for old fashioned geared towards 50 something year old women because that's the only clothes that are made to fit the person in that first pic.

I am getting closer to the person I want to be as my weight is nolonger holding me back.

22nd January weigh in and a small short term goal?

I'd had another good week with filling and healthy. I ate food I enjoyed as well as one meal that won't be getting made again. 

I did a lot of walking so was fairly confident that the scales would show a good loss. That was until I woke up Tuesday morning and I felt horrible and bloated for no real reason. Later on my reasons would be know. - dreaded Mother Nature! Gutted. She always effects my weightloss with either a very small loss, stay the same or a tiny gain. I went to bed feeling disappointed as my hard work this week wouldn't show on the scales on Wednesday.

I went to class on Wednesday feeling lousy and bloated. I was fully expected a big fat 1lb gain so was plsently surprised with a tidgy half a pound loss. My emotions was a bit conflicted; happy I had lost but sad because *I* felt I had worked hard enough to see more of a loss on the scales.

I left with the hope that my hard work last week and this coming week will give me a better result next week.

Looking at the bigger picture; I am down 8lbs in just 2 weeks. I have 3.5lbs left of the weight I put on over the 3 weeks off at Christmas and then an additional 2lbs to get to my lowest weight as of yet. 

I have set my self a small goal, I am back up to 80lbs lost so have 20lbs to get that next certificate. It's 17 weeks till mine and DH's 5th Wedding Anniversary and I would love to have it by then, in fact I want to weigh 12st3lbs as that would take me to a total of 7st 7lbs total loss. I feel with hard work and dedication that this goal is more then achievable! 

I am a terrible blogger.

I promise my self that I need to update my blog, but truth be told 'life' is just passing me by. Right now I am going to make it a late New Years resolution to update here regularly.

So what's new?

I am down 79lbs since September 2012. It was more but then Christmas got in the way and I gained 11.5lbs in 3 weeks. Good news is after a week back on the plan I am already down 7.5lbs on that gain, so that's good!

I am still a weight watchers monthly pass member and I still attend my weekly meetings. I try and walk at least 10,000 steps a day and let me tell you some days that's easy, others it is not.

Right now, I am partaking in the weight watchers simple start plan; I am currently on week 2. I am keeping the same routine as week one as didn't want to use all my 49. I am sticking this out in the hopes I can shift the rest of this Christmas gain. 

The whole idea for simple start is that for new members filling and healthy or pro points (the other two weight loss methods) can seem to some people like jumping into the deep end. Simple start promises to ease new members into it and help old members back on the straight and narrow.

Anyway... That's my quick update.

I'll be back soon

What a month.

It's safe to say I have had a very hard month. I have not really had chance to sit down and blog what's been happening. I have managed to post some things on Facebook.

My last blog post said that my dad was in hospital, unfortunately he never got better.

Late 2011 my dad was diagnosed with Lung Cancer, By the start of 2013 it had spread to his brain and in June we found out it had gone to his spine then not even weeks later his blood. My dad fought with grace and dignity right till the very end and peacefully on the 26th of June in the arms of his wife and children he left this earth.

One of his friends said that 'there are not very many people who, on their death bed ask after their family and what they have been up-to' that was my dad. Always asking after others making sure everyone else was taken care of before him. 

We cremated my dad 1 week and 2 days later in a beautiful ceremony that he would have been proud of although he'd have hated all the fuss around him.

Then 3 days later me, hubby and the girls jumped on a plane for 12 days to sunny Menorca. We had a great time and made lots of lasting memories as a family. We laughed and had so much fun. The food was also amazing but the portions was crazily large. I would often share some of mine with the baby! 

We landed back on Friday 19th and I really tried to get back into tracking and pointing but I was still in holiday mode.

I went to weight watchers on the 23rd expecting a very large gain - it had been 4 weeks since I last went and got weighed and hadn't tracked properly in that time. 

I gained 11lbs. It works out about 2.75lbs per week. I have been back on the wagon for 6 days now and I am feeling so much better! I no longer feel so bloated or lethargic. My energy is back and I will have this grief/holiday weight off in no time.

I am looking forward to what the scales show me tomorrow as I've been almost angelic this week! 

I am still here.

I am still here, I am still on track, pointing and going to my weigh ins. 

With my dad still being in hospital my choices have not been the best but I have kept within my allowance.

This week I have lost 1.5lbs bringing my total up to 69.5lbs in 40 weeks. 

I also took a comparison picture this week. I am half a pound away from vein half way through loosing weight. 70lbs down 70lbs to go although I don't look at it like that. I like to break it down into 7lbs increments as it makes it easier to get to that goal.

Anyway... This picture! 

If this is my body half way through I can't wait to see the end result now!

Where have you been?

I Would like to apologise for my quietness since Thursday last week. I haven't really had much time to my self let alone be able to make a blog post/inform people of my eating and exercise choices.

My dad was diagnosed with lung cancer almost two years ago. Unfortunately as time has gone the cancer has gone to other parts of his body making it so he now has terminal cancer and on Thursday he was taken into hospital, so any 'spare' time I have had has been spent with my family who are over an hour away. 

Emotions are very raw as we don't 100% know what is going to happen.

We have not been home till late and then just come in and then we crash into bed.

As the week has been pretty hectic my evening meal choices have not been fantastic BUT they have all still been pointed and tracked. 

I am still in control of my food and have not given into the urge to binge eat my feelings and that is a huge accomplishment for me. I even took my own weight watchers chocolate bars to the hospital with me so I wouldn't buy any chocolate from the gift shop.