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.

My week...

So this week has been a week of celebration for us. 

On the 22nd we celebrated our anniversary a day early, 23rd was our actual anniversary and the 26th was my 25th Birthday!

I have been perfect all week apart from the 22nd and the 26th where I didn't point or track anything apart from the activity points I clowns up on my pedometer.

To be honest, this is my first gain since Christmas. It hasn't upset me as I knew it was going to happen. 

I can get it off and hopefully more next week. 1.5lbs is my goal that I am working for, for next weeks weigh in.

3 days ago I started the Zumba sculpt and tone... I am in day 3 and I am not sure I am seeing much results yet. I am enjoying it though and working up such a messy sweat so something must be happening.

In other news... I must be getting wiser as my wisdom teeth are trying break through so I am in a lot of discomfort and taking painkillers every four hours. 

So, the scales this week showed a teenie tiny 1lb gain. 

Onwards and upwards and moving forwards!! :)

Zumba!

For my birthday on Sunday my hubby got me the 'Zumba Fitness' set, it comes with 4 work out DVD, two toning sticks and a total body transformation guide.

In the guide it has a couple of workout options:- let's get started, 10 days accelerated fat loss programme and tighten and tone program.

I decided to start with the 10 day tighten and tone programme! Yesterday was day one and oh my gosh! It was so fun! I worked up such a sweat and earned my self 10 activity points for just 45 minutes exercise. 

Day two consists of a 20 minute express session followed by 20 minutes of the flat abs dvd. 

I can't wait to do this once the girls are on bed tonight!