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Haha i lost 1lb! HOW?!!!

title is another stolen one from Facebook. One of the blokes puts this as his status every time he looses! and i like it!


Another month done and i don't know how i did this month and its been so pants i don't really even want to review the month!

 OCTOBER! geewizz how can it be October at the end of the week!
Aims for October.
Find my MOJO.

i only have 2 official wi's in October so i'm not gonna be too ambitious. ideally i'd like to be at 16 6.5lbs by the end of the month, thats only 4lbs away, i can do that!

As i might have mentioned my friend sally mentioned she needed to lose 1lb to get into the 100s well i needed to lose 36lbs! and now its only 35lbs.


so here are some focused mini goals

Get back to 16st 6.5lbs = lose 4lbs
Get to 16st 3lbs 20% = lose 7.5lbs
Get into the 100s = lose 36lbs 35lbs

Need to decide how to record it. ????

Onederland

Is a place i want to be.

I'm still in a bad food place but i think with the stress of work and the fact that i think TOTM is just round the corner (prob just as i touch down in Lanzarotte) i'm not worried that bloody stone hasn't been out of my bg except to take a picture on the 1st day i had it.

One of my friends sent a message to a few of us to day this week she only needs to lose 1lb to into the 100's and i've decided to do a new goal, i want to be in the 100's and i'm 36lbs away. So once i come back off holiday i'm gonna do a new action plan to get to the 100s.

I also think that my ultimate goal is more dress size than a weight. i'm not a fan of the whole BMI index and i think i'd rather be a size 14 than aim to weight 11stone.
I've read a couple of articles about |Christina Hendrick who is a UK size 14 on ZGeek.

i think she looks amazing as a size 14.

The mail online also posted this article about the happiest dress size , TBH i didn't really read the article just pulled out the chart below

As long as i don't go too mad i can still maintain or even lose weight on holiday.

I've sorted out another bag of clothes to give to my friend Sarah as well, it means by giving them away i am never allowed to get that big again.

I still need to find my mojo , i'm going to focus on Xmas

It's only 13 weigh in's to go so thats potentially a stone i could lose (even though i'm expecting another gain this week)

A reminder of what i looked like thast xmas.

 Me in the purple hat waiting to go on the big wheel in Manchester with Laura and Nat.

 Me with Mar having our Xmas dinner on Xmas eve

 Me ON NYE (in the same frock as Xmas Eve) looking a little Pished.

Me Mid November on my Works doo and the Willows in Salford.

still in a bad food place even with that bloody stone

i felt i had to blog just to check in but i need to find my mojo i've been off track since june!

HELP!!!!

i've got my eye on you

I gained 2lbs and now i have my consultants beady eye watching me.

I had my 1st day of training for my new job today.

product knowledge - well telling us to look it up ourselves basically. working out bills manually which i can do.

i'm just watching Jamie's American Food Revolution. And it so sad to see children not knowing what basic veg was a class of kids who knew every type of fast food but not that french fries came from potatoes and that tomatoes were potatoes and when Jamie did the chicken nugget test (where he cuts down the chicken gets rid of all the good bits, blends down the carcass and adds all the extras fat stabilisers skin, makes it in to a patties and fry's them) he then asks the kids who wants to eat it and all the kids put there hands up. even though all the kids said yuk all the time he's cooking it. he said every time he's done the same in the UK none of the kids would eat it. its so sad to see schools allowing kids to be like this!

i'm not jamies biggest fan but i think his heart is in the right place and i think what he's doing is a great thing. it keeps being in the news about this generation of kids are the 1st who will most likely die before their parents!

OMG the kids at this school are not allowed to use a knife and forks, and they can't believe kids in the UK use them and they want documentation to prove  kids in the UK are allowed them, the kids also get chocolate or strawberry milk and the school and government say this is ok! the kids have now got knives and forks and the kids do not know how to use it! these kids are 4-10 years old.

How can these people survive!

BIKE SHOW PHOTOs

This is why you're fat gave me heartburn

One of my FB friends just posted a link to thisiswhyyourefat.com/.
Some mad creations. i know i couldn't stomach any of these dishes. Could you?

i had a lovely day at the bike show will post pics tomorrow as they are on my lap top and i am on the PC. it was a bit of a washout but we managed to drum up a bit of interest in SW and it's motivated me to get back on track.

Only a week and a half til holiday. one of the girls from my class is going to lend me a maxi dress (i hope it fits she's a lot smaller than me!)

i've tried on a few on my holiday clothes and they feel ok, but loosing a few more pounds before i go will defo help !!!

my new hair cut has seemed to go down ok today as well we shall see tomorrow when i have to do it myself for work!#

New hair cut

Not the worlds best photos but gives you an idea of my new hair cut, i love my hair dresser she is so funny and i think its the cheapest hairdressers in the world £18.50. I looked in the window of a haor dressers attached to the inside market in town and C&B prices for short hair were from £23.00 and i looks at toni and guy and priced for C&B started at £30.00-45.00 ekk i'll stick to £18.50! can afford to have it cut twice as often that way!

fod wise has been pants!

tomorrow i'm spending the day with my SW Consultant helping to promote Slimming world at a Bike show to help raise money to buy a guide dog

I doubt there is anyone local reading this blog but if you are in the Oldham/ Saddleworth area come down and show your support!

i like

Once again off track food wise, we had a major binge day. It was mine and Tracy's last day on our current team. Monday we start our training for the Residential Contact Centre (General Enquiries to real people!) i'm looking forward to the training but not doing the job. BUT that's another story.

This has got to be the nicest butterfly bun i have ever eaten! Slightly lemoney and beautifully light mmmmmm. Better still homemade by Tracy!

My Food intake for the day has been dismal.
Toast, Honey Roasted Peanuts, Honey Roasted cashews and Peanuts, Salt and vinegar jumbo peanuts, butterfly bun, pringles, pretzels, biscuits, flapjacks, popcorn, walkers sensations and some  more toast.

not sure i can fit this into a SW day!!! haha oh well hoping to be back on track tomorrow!

I've just posted this pic on my Blipfoto site and someone has just comment

"Is it safe to lick the monitor? This is worse than the M&S food ad's used to be" - really made me laugh!

OK down to what i wanted to say tonight.

I love reading blogs and as i've mentioned in an earlier post i have cut a lot of blogs from my reading list - i'm still following 59 people which i think is a fair number. I just wasn't getting rounf to visit people, i've recently discovered google reader and i'm loving that for reading blogs still figuring my way round it so not back to commenting yet.

BUT what i wanted to talk about is what i like about peoples blogs, i was going to link to some faves but i can't pic 3 faves that might be another post.

LIKES
* Lots of photos / pictures  and when i say lots i mean lots, they can be of food, people, scenery, animals you name it and i like it! i also like tales around the pictures, if a blog is all words i tend not to read it properly but i skim over the pictures then i go back to read all about the pic and tend to find myself reading the rest of the post.

* Food diaries (with or without pics) i love reading and seeing what people are eating.

Speaking of food pictures, this is what i had for my tea last night, and it was Well FIT!

It is Mango Chicken Slimming World style, taken from the latest magazine but adapted slightly!
A red onion thinly sliced
New Potatoes cut small (i did mine in quarters but might do then smaller next time)
Chicken breast diced
red and yellow peppers
suger snap peas (added for last 5 mins of cooking)
4 tablespoons of mango chutney mixed with 4 table spoons of water.

put it all on a roasting try and cook for 30-40 mins

i also think it'd be good in a pitta or with rice instead of spuds. (or as well as )

its serves 4 and is 2 syns per portion on EE but well worth it!

Nighty Night folk's x

I want to blog but not sure what to say

i want to do a post where i say lots of things.

i want to do a post on what i like on blogs i read.

Some of you may have discovered i've stopped following you, i've had a mass clearout, apologies if i've deleted anyone in error.

It got to the stage where i couldn't remember who i wanted to keep and who i wanted to delete.

i found myself following almost 100 blogs and i kept visiting blogs and thinking why am i here? it not that everyone isn't great but sometimes i find myself reading a blog and thinking i have no connection with this person so DELETE has been hit, I've also deleted a lot of crafty type blogs, no matter how creative i'd like to be i'm not a crafter so unless i'm close-ish to a crafter i'm sticking to following weight loss blogs.

i'm still on the look out for people who are on Slimming world diet so if you know of any bloggers who are slimming world members please can you send me  a link.

i think i'm gonna hand write my blog and type it up tomorrow .

Blog is back

Not sure if anyone noticed but my blog was off line for a few days, got some dodgy spam decided it was easier to switch the blog off and delete all the stuff. i've put comment  moderation on.

I had such an amazing weekend meeting the HSMS peeps.
They are all such lovely people and exactly how i imagined them to be! you really get to know how a person is and they are defo friends for life.


here are a few pictures from the day.

All the other pics are on faccebook.

i even managed to lose ½lb!

R Eye P BB

So long, farewell, Cuckcoo....

No matter how sad it make me to say this. I will miss BB. I haven't watched that much of it over the past few years but i did watch a lot of this last series and i did enjoy it. and i am Kinda hoping the Rumours that Channel 5 have bought the rights to it are true?!

Diet, i've been a bit off track the past couple of days but nothing HUGE!

I'm off to Manchester tomorrow to meet some friends i've never met before and i am now booked into a Hotel, my mum is coming as well so my dad and the cat can have some quality father furry daughter time.

I also got the news my 12week job trial at work starts 20th Sept and i have to change my hours to 8-4 that week for the training. I hope i can do this job i really don't want to go down the redundancy route.

I can't say i love my job but i love most (some) of the people i work with, and its not like there are loads of jobs out there. i need to learn to drive so i can get too and from work and also help me get a new better job.

I have even considered applying at BGas but the grass isn't always greener and been there done that do i want to go back . hhhhmmmm not sure. Maybe.

we'll see how the job trial goes and i've got my holiday in the middle of it that will break it up.

one thing i want to say is, i'm sorry i've been a bad blog commenter lately mainly cos i've been a terrible blogger. but i'm finally getting back into it and will try and visit and comment .

i think i'll feel better once i get back to 16st 6½lbs, which is where i was. i seem to get to a mile stone and back track big style. its been months and months since i got my 3½stone award.

when i got it i wrote myself a note to open on or after 6th sept and on it i'd put that 14 st 6½lbs. haha my goodness i'm heavier than when i wrote that note! i am a joke!

Hoping i can be good and not over indulge this weekend, i'm planning on not drinking but we know how well thats gone in the past (remember me saying i got home 5am and not remembering how, and the night i lost my shoes, yeah i still haven't found them, and the come dine with nat night when i don't remember going into town those are all nights when i wasn't drinking!) hmm maybe not drinking is not a good idea for me!

Lalala - I can't think of a title

I can't think of a title, i really can't.

That being said i've had a really really good food day, Feeling a little smug and home that it can last till weigh in on Monday.

Breakfast
7.30am

Posh Cheese on Toast = 2 x HxA and 1 HxB (it's posh cos i say it is, serves 4 says the recipe but i did it for 2 my Hx's is for the portion i had)

Snack
10am - 3.15pm
3 Celebrations = 3 syns (need to double check this)
Strawberries, Carrot batons, Grapes = Free

Tea
3.15pm
Home made quorn pasta = Free

Snack
4pm - 8pm
Grapes, strawberries =Free
1 Celebration = 1 Syn


OOOO someone on facebook has just said they think celebrations are 1.5 -2 syns each - eeeek i hope not cos that means 8syns god i might as well as had a bag of crisps!!!

Did anyone watch this is England '86? i missed 15mins but what i did see i really enjoyed. I've not seen the original film but i am going to borrow it off someone at work.

I was only 5 in 1986. I loved the music in the show and some cracking lines, and my ave bit was them all on the bus singing "Daisy, Daisy...."

<3

Hope everyone is having a good week so far.

I am going to lose weight this week!

I am its a FACT!

Today has been a pretty good food day. I did an Extra Easy Slimming world day.

Breakfast

42g All Bran, a banana and a cherry Muller light  = HxB (shameless plug of my slimming world mug that i won last year for being my groups Woman of the Year)

Snacks
between 9am - 1pm

Plum, Chicken Mugshot, grapes and Yogurt / Jelly mousse = Free

Lunch
Ham salad, Lettuce, Cucumber, Sweercorn, Ham, ELF cottage cheese.
A Bag of Physalis  that i ate half with my dinner half mid afternoon. = Free

Snack 2pm -6pm
Plum and an apple = Free

Tea 9.30pm (after Driving lesson thats why it was so late)
Roast chicken quarter and roast veg.
An Apple =Free

A mouth full (or 2) of quorn bolognaise (tomorrows dinner and tea) = Free

Now to the bad points i've not had an HxA (calcium choice) or any Syns, you are meant to have between 5 -15 a day, i was going to be having a pita bread with tea but it was changed as my mum couldn't find the chicken pieces in the fridge so we had chicken quarters instead and my Snack i took to work was a mini bag of Maryland Mini cookies, but when we discovered it was 7syns for the bag Tracy confiscated them at my request! And you know what i haven't missed them!

Need to raid Aldi's Super 6 veg offers on thursday and make some meals up!

got the new Magazine and there is a bloke that lost 7st 11.5lbs in 20 weeks!  the difference is amazing! I may have found my SW mojo.

I'm also helping out on the SW stall at a motor bike show in a weeks time so i need to keep my mojo so i can help promote the group ! xxx

Gained 2.5lbs

BOOOO HISSSS.

only got myself to blame.

Got told i should be courting today . Haha i'm pretty sure work think i'm gay as i have never really dated but its only cos men are ever interested in me, not from lack of wanting it. But i guess i need to learn to like myself before i can expect others to like me.

I also think i have trust issues, ever day in the paper you see x has cheated on y with z. why would i want to leave myself open to that?

There was a cartoon in the metro last friday "this life" by Rick Brookes. it's too men sat in a pub with a speech bubble over one of the " i suppose what i look for most in a girl on a friday night is a bleariness of eye and a lack of self - respect"  and i guess this sums up what i think of men. they want one thing. i guess it doesn't help the lads i know are all kinda slapper's. i don't know one guy that i believe would truly be faithful. Now i'm not saying woman are angels and i know plenty of girls i could tar with the same brush and are pretty sure arn't faithful. but i feel myself so disenchanted with the whole idea of relationships. i guess i am trying to protect myself but i am only hurting myself more by being lonely.

Ok enough of the self pity. the pity party is over please take your trash on the way out!

Tomorrow is yet again a new day and i will have a bloody good weight loss week!

night folkes! x

Tagged Tagged Tagged

Mark tagged me with some questions after his inital panic see yesterdays comments as i've been tagged once, i'm gonna answer his questions but once again i'm not gonna pass it on, for no other reason than sheer laziness

• 1. If you could choose one movie to watch daily for ever, what would you choose?
• well i can watch any film on loop and i usually do- but it would prob have to be The Breakfast Club or Evita 
• 2. What is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you?
• ooooo pointed question - errrr far too many to mention. i fall a lot that can be quite embarassing
• 3. You are allowed to take one trip in a time machine, when would you travel to?
• i don't think i would, after i read a short story in school about someone who travelled  back and stood on a butterfly and fucked up the whole of the future i don't wanna risk it! (even if its with David Tennent and his Tardis! ;0)
• 4. If you could go on a date with any celebrity (past or present), who would it be and why?
• Well Mark i know who you think i'm gonna say but i'm not.I am torn between 2. Can i cheat? hmmm well i'm gonna Steven Fry and Hugh Laurie. Steven is a pure genius and so id Hugh but he's a bit of eye candy as well 
• 5. What is your favourite website that has consumed a lot of your time recently?
•  Again i can't have just one. Facebook.com and Blipfoto.com
• 6. A genie is willing to grant you a single wish. What would you wish for?
•  in the words of D:REAM for everything to be all-right
• 7. What was happening, the last time you cried tears of joy?
• Its been a while i can't really remember
• 8. How would you survive a zombie apocalypse?
• with a lump of Wensleydale cheese - make of this what you will it seemed like a good idea when i typed it

Are we etched in stone or just scratched in the sand?

A stolen line from someones facebook status. i saw it last night and it kinda spoke to me then i noticed who'd posted it. (errr the lad a dreamed about the other night- spooky!)

but are we etched in stone or just scratched in the sand, cos i know what i want to be but fear i'm the other

I need to etch a big line and stay there, i need to forget all the bad dieting day (i've eaten 2 stale doughnuts today!)

felt crap for eating it but i'm still blogging. i had a bloody nice tea - egg n chips (with white bread shhhhhh)

gonna have gained weight this week yet again, i need to focus and stop giving in to deamons!

last night i said i was gonna tag people like river did to me, but to be honest i really can't be bothered, its not that i don't love u all in blog land but not tonight jospehine! x

I had a dream

and it really freaked me out.

hard to explain but my dreams are often very realistic, involving real people i know and in colour.

last night i dreamed i was doing something for charity - not sure what and lots of people were at a house of a friend near my old school (i dream about this house a lot - especially its loft but my dream loft is quite different to the actual loft) anyhoo some of us decided to go to the shop and get sweets for what ever this even was (i'm guessing it was the beer walk as we were all in some kind of fancy dress) and i was with 2 friends and behind me where some people from work and then my friends brother came up hugged me and said how well i looked then kepted whispering things about the other people in the shop making me laugh, my friends were giving me funny looks then he said something about the people from work (not sure who they were but you know when you just know them) then he kissed me on the side of my mouth and then i woke up.

it was so real but i knew it wasn't cos of where we were and i live 4 miles from my old school and 25 miles from work so i know those people wouldn't be here. its all very weird its  not like i've seen him or any of the people for years, i haven't  been reminiscing or anything, i was speaking about doing the beer walk next year but with people i'm friends with now.

very odd, i hate dreams it's been haunting me allay.

i went to see the sorcerers  apprentice today. OMG in my opinion it was SHIT!!!! i hated every min of it. admittedly there were some funny bits but i hate nick cage almost as much as i hate tom cruise!

 As my friend said as the credits rolled,"let us never speak of this film again!" Not my cup of tea at all!

***EDIT*****
The Beautiful River over at Losing on purpose Tagged me so i thought i'd answer these now and i'll tag people tomorrow xxxx
Your questions:
1. Who is your hero? Why?
My hero, i think hero is such a strong word. I don't have a hero but i think there are lots of hero's out there, arm services, emergency services, mums, dads.
2. Do you have a garden where your grow your veggies? If not do you try to buy organic or do you find it costs way too much?
We have a mini allotment at the back of the garage where my dad grows stuff, we don't tend to buy organic as we just buy what's there and i am becoming an increasing fan of Aldi's super six
3. Do you use exercise videos? What's your favorite, why?
Nar, i use the Wii of occasion!
4. Favorite workout music?
errrrr i don't really work out
5. How do you measure your progress? If you haven't reached your goal yet, do you own any skinny clothes you keep to remind you of your goals?
measure my progress hmmm errrr well i have the blog i have a spreadsheet and i have a journal thats a bit like a scrap book but because i've been in such a bad diet place i've been neglecting it all
6. Do you have any secrets to keep your energy up for the workouts or your day in general?
not really.
7. I like Patrick's super power question so what would your super power be if you could have one?
the power to fly
8. If you had the opportunity to move to anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Sydney Australia! i loved it when i went and i could go back at the drop of a hat!

Just realised its September

So 2nd post of the day best do a quick review and some goals.

1. i lost 2lbs this month yay its a loss but i'm still heavier than i was back in May!!! Grrr

So thats all i can say for July

So some September goals:

1 Lose weight! Doh!!!
           I have 4 wi's in September - i could lose 8lbs if i knuckle down to it and that would get me into the 15's.
6/9
13/9
20/9
27/9

Then i go to Grotty Grotty Lanzarotte! (haha i make it sound like i'm not looking forward to it!)

2 Dust down the wii

3 ditch the just.

Today was a food day from Hell, i'm off tomorrow i can plan and start a fresh - September 1st was gonna be my fresh start but not many schools never go back on 1st Sept.

sooo tired

no get up and go a bit like hello kitty here!

worked til 8pm  its taken it out of me! having a day with a friend tomorrow cinema or ikea or both. 

diet = thumbs down today been cold , tired or miserable = bad food. 

tomorrow is a new day!