one out of two ain' t bad!!!

I haven't done any ironing but i have been on two walks an hour each and 30 mins on the Wii fit.

My walk was around the Water works (also known as Strines dale country park) i can't believe its only 15 mins walk from my house its like stepping into another world, no traffic noise and once you go up the hill its a relativly flat course. i did do a detour up a big hill twice the 1st time to see what was at the top of it the second on my walk i was with my mum and we went to the top of it and sat in a bench in the sun!!! Yes the sun was shining!!!!! yipeeeee.

Some Steps before you get to the Park its self

The Welcome sign

The Map I walked round the lower one

The 1st waterfall you come to before you get to the main ressie

The 1st view of the ressie

Me !!!!

Another view

 

love this view

 The Finish point BUT i circled 3 times didn't plan to take any more pictures but couldn't resist the Geese

The Geese- they were a proper little family. was quite scared as i walked past them. and on my 2nd lap i got mauled by a giant dog. imagine an afgan hound but with poodle fur, was very excitable!!!

I tried the below dress on in Debenhams today.

It's a Wallis one and was only £15.00 in the sale but i'm not quite sure about the whole zigzaggy ness of it all. safe to say i didn't buy it!

And below is what i wore today:

I thought i may as well make use of debenhams mirror as i was in the worlds biggest changing room!

To Syn or not to Syn?

Well i did and this piece of Soreen weight 30 grms and was 4.5Syns!!!! ekk i've gone over yet again!!! bugger i'm never going to lose this 1 bloody pound!!!

I am thinking of stealing an idea from: just realised i don't know her name but click her and you'll find her blog. She has started giving her self stars for meeting certain things each day. i love sticker and stuff so am going to work out what i should earn my stars for.

i'm thining drinking 2 ltrs of water (i might start with 1.5lts to start). 30 mins of excercise and then following plan correctly ie keeping to Syns and Hx's ?

Going to start properly with the star system from Monday.


I'm going out for a meal on Saturday night with my mum so thats gonna be a day well over calouries / syns its a tapas place i went with my friends a few weeks back and it was worth every syn!!!!

Click for the menu:
Relish @ The Grotton

best go to bed, its an hour later than i think it is as we watched Australias biggest loser on plus one as we were watching outnumbered on BBC1 and now i'm all confused

xxx

*** Photo Comparison challenge

STOLEN FROM: CBGBlog


I'm feeling in a photo comparison mood. I think everyone should do this. That is why I have made a new challenge (my first one).

PHOTO COMPARISON CHALLENGE
Guidelines:
1. Find a photo of you at your highest, a photo that made you realize you needed to change your life, or just a photo of you when you were bigger.
2. Take a photo of yourself today.
3. Upload them onto your blog and take a look at them.... I mean... really take a look at them
4. Compare the pictures and write something positive about yourself that you notice has physically changed. Compliment yourself! We all compliment ourselves on things we are doing to change our lives (not eating cookie, working out, etc). We don't compliment ourselves enough on the physical changes that are occurring.

Once you have done this....  feel free to take the photo comparison challenge button and put it on your blog. Let people know that you are making changes and being positive!


PLEASE..... comment on this blog entry once you have done this so I can take a look! Would love to see what wonderful things everyone has to say about themselves. Also, take a look at other peoples blogs who join in on the challenge..... give them some compliments about physical things too.


(If for some reason you can't take a picture and upload today.... I encourage you to do this by Friday. You don't need to primp and prep for the picture. That is the whole point. Love yourself today for whatever reasons!)

I'm going to do this tomorrow when i'm off xxx

Do The Bunny Hop

As i mentioned a couple of weeks ago my mum got to target and i am so proud of her. In the paper at weekend there was a picture of the worlds biggest bunny and it weighs 3.5stone which is what she has lost!!!! it was funny because just before we realised she said she wouldn't fancy that sat on her knee, its not all that long ago she was carrying that round all day every day!!!

What seems to be a new feature on my blog here is what i wore today!!!!

First picture taken this morning as i set off for work, second picture as i got home this evening.

The top is a hand me down from my mum and its a primark size 16 (a very generous 16 but one none the less)

This is the bunny of corruption!!!! 5½syns!!! but bloody nice!!!

I've decided to start high lighting my food diary so i can see easily what types of things i'm eating.

Pink = Super Free
Yellow = Free
Green = Healthy Extra
Blue = Syns.

I've had a red (original) day today.
Drinks:
1.5ltrs of water
200ml flavoured water
1 can of coke zero
Food:
2 x turkey bacon
2 x small wholemeal bread
2 x tangerines
salt and vineager potato thins 4 syns
Suger free jelly with fresh strawberries and grapes
turkey salad (lettace, beetroot, tomato and cucuber)
Cadburys caramel bunny 5.5syns
Grapes
Muller light apricot flavour
2 x low fat sausages 2syns
Brown roll HxB
Half tin of spagetti

Feel so much better for being on track.

it's my day off tomorrow going to get up early and go for a walk and get my ironing done!!!

xxx

I was feel back on track but some cadburys mini eggs might have been my downfall!!!

Well i started off as a really good day apart from the person i sat next to work i want to say so much about her but what i will say is after a rather reluctant good morning she ignored me all day, rolled her eyes every time i spoke which safe to say wasn't very often! i've never known anyone face right so much (i was sat on the left of her!) and this is no kid he is 40 something. grrrrr i'm not in til 10am tomorrow and i know my Team Leader needs a desk fro 9am i've told someone on my team to make her have my desk and i'll find myself one at 10 am -12pm when someone else on my team goes hime. i can not face another day sat next to her.

Any way i digress as per usual.

Food diary :
 Drinks :
1.5ltrs water
400ml fruit tea
2 x tins of Coke Zero

Food:
Mullerlight Apricot Yogurt
Frozen fruit salad
Pear
Plum
Mini Ham Salad
Strawberries in Strawberry Jelly ½syn
Tuna, pasta, sweetcorn, cucumber, salad cream 1syn
Pink lady apple
fresh strawberries and grapes
2 x weight watchers hoola hoops 8syns
pork chop, boiled potatoes, cauliflower
cadburys mini eggs 6syns
Some more cadburys mini eggs 2syns
fake velvet crunch crisps 4syns
Some more cadburys mini eggs 2syns
 Ham and turkey roll with salad cream  1 HxB and 1syn
 24/15syns!!! Opppps

At lunch time i decided to go for a walk, instead of going to Tescos which is my usual walk and becasue i knew i would buy something bad i walked twice round the Reebok (Bolton Wanderers foot ball ground)
Its not the most exciting of walks and thr ground is samller than it looks. only took me about 20 mins to go round twice

The Start point of my wander

The Logo and meorial stones outside the

A flag

Some more flags

The bridge between the Reebok and the Arena

 

The view from the bridge

This is what i wore to work today. i did sort my fringe out by platting it before i left he house! 

Not sure what to wear tomorrow but as i' on a late i need to be comfy so it might be leggins and a dress or long t-shirt. 

Its funny really i don't really see much differnce in myself from the beginning to now but i was adding a picture of me from the week i joined slimming world to last weekend to a group on facebook and i surprised myself how differnt  i looked. its funny how it creaps up on you.
 

This isn't the picuture i posted ot facebook it must be stored on the main PC but this is one took at the beginning of Feb 2009 and i think i can see a differnece is. I have no idea who the lad is. when we go out we come home with pictures of us with all these random people!!! but it was the best picure of me frpm this particular night out!

I'm a little bit of a loser!

YAY i lost ½lb!!! its far more than i deserve so it just shows even a bad week can come good and i am determined to lose at least 1lb this week to get my 3st loss!!! (42lbs)

I am a marketin mans dream - i can feel myself being sucked in by these Reetone shoes. i want my bum to look like that! (do they come with real life airbrushing?)

I want them so much i even went into a sport shop to look at them in real life! but at £80.00 they are way out of my league! so when they are in TK Maxx for £20.00 or less i will have some and not before!

Does anyone watch Australias biggest loser? i love it. i won't say anything in detail as i've been disapointed before reading stuff about differnt serise of biggest loser on peoples blogs who are a couple of weeks ahead.

but i will say its getting interesting and they put me to shame!

I'm watching flashforward as i type and feeling a bit freaked out. i'm on the episode where they go to Somalia and i feel quite brave watching it on my own as i never watch things that scare me alone (can't watch lost now i've left uni as i don't have my candy to watch it with (flatmate) )

Back to work tomorrow, not really looking forward to it. but only 5 weeks and i will be in T'gypt!!!! :)

4 wi's left!!! relaistically i will be in the 16s when i go away and i feel quite excited by it!!! xxx

weigh in T minus 2.5hours

feeling nervoud about wi, my scales is showing a loss at the moment but you never know what might happen by 7pm tonight!

Also discovered Tesco Light Choices salad cream is less calouries than Heinz extra light salad cream (and 90p cheaper a bottle) (all tescos is on 2 for £1.80 where heinz is £1.95 a bottle) its a BARGIN and really nice.









I have had a day of bread so far which isn't good  but i've enjoyed every slice.

i had a bacon butty on whole meal bread for brealfast and then. tuna sweetcorn and cucumber on granery for my lunch / tea (going to Slimming world at 7pm so needed to have something to keep me going until after class)

I also got a fab necklace watch today. i've wanted one for a while, and i did see one in dorethy perkins a few weeks back it was very plain and not quite right. Then this afternnon on the way back to the carpark my mum diverted in to River Island and because i am too fat to buy clothes in there i went to look at jewlery and saw the prettiest necklace it was £12.99 and i though ouch thats a bit much as i turned it over because i thought it was a locket i discovered it is a watch!!!  i had to have it!!!

Happy Days!!!

I Survived!!!!

Yipeee i made it home from my night out without going to a club!!!!Now don't get me wrong i love going to Clubs and the one my friends were going to is my fave, BUT its £10.00 to get in on a Bank holiday. they have an ibiza terrace tonight which will be packed, it will be full of kids (in lees there were so many young people (people who looked about 14/15) with Tokes wrist bands on for prepaid entry so they will all be there and its just not worth the hassle. PLUS i have been really bad food wise this week i couldn't face any black sambucca shots which are par for the course when we go in there so Midnight i did my best cinderlla impression and fled!!!!

I was also feeling hungry and the call of the takeawy was calling but luckily the friend who was also going home at the same time put me in a taxi 1st so i couldn't go in!!! yay them!!!

I got home and made 2 cornbeef butties on wholemeal bread and some english mustard. it wasn't a pizza or chips and cheese or a burger but it was nice and i also had some velvet cruch crispy things with it it was pretty lush. i still feel a bit hungry but i'm going to resist!!!!

I know this pic of cornbeef doens't look very appatising but i can say my tesco cornbeef looked a lot nicer than this!!!

This is what i wore tonight, i did keep my cardie on and a scarf on almost all night as we ended up sat outside in milan as it was sooooooooooo cold even with the heatlamps on!!!! BRRRRRRRRR you can tell its the Bank holiday weekend!!!!

I also got a couple of compliments that the top was nice and it suited me which was nice to hear!!! the top is lovely its a silk blend and for a whole £7.00 in last years H&M sale a bargin  (even more so that my mum bought it for me as a surprise) it didn't fit then but it does now!!! Yippppeeeeeeeeeeee

Once again i didn't got for a walk, well i did walk to my grans we went for tea and i was carrying half the food. 

I'm determined to go for a walk tomorrow i fancy going round strinesdale ressie but not sure what the path round it is like and it may be too muddy!!! 

fingers crossed it stays dry!!!

its also WI day tomorrow 7pm!!! got my fingers cross, it if stay the same i will be HAPPY!!!!

i always do the same as i am within spitting distance of an award i muck it up!!! i need to break that cycle!!! i want that award and certificate!!! 

nighty night xxxx

Bank Holiday Fun!

I is going out!!!

I'm not 100% sure i want to go out but i am doing! i'm young i should go out. I'm deterimined only to go to lees and come home when they are going into town! We shall see (thats my lifes mantra at the moment.

I really need to hav my fringe cut as its way too long .

BUT i actually feel ok in what i'm wearing to go out! i'm wearing blue jeans, a blue silk mix top from H&M and i'm taking a grey cardie as its blook cold out therem with turquoise shoes and a navy bag!!!

the aim is to go out at 8pm, i was ready at 7.30pm and i'm 99% sure we won't be going out til 9pm!

i'll take a pic before i go out!

i just hope its a good night x

Prisoner zero will vacate the human residents or the human residents wil be incinerated

Doctor Who is back and i'm half way through the 1st episode and i hate to admit this but i think Matt Smith will do ok!

I never thought i'd let anyone replace my darling david tennent but while he's not fanciable he is comical and i want to watch more episodes!!!!

Today has been a pretty good food day, but i am craving bread.

I have really missed my walk today stuck in work for 10 hours. we'd taken potato hash and it needed to be warmed up. typical as it was quite sunny at dinner time. but never mind the tater ash was gooooooo!!! with brown sauce and only 2 syns!!!! and there was loads and loads of it!!!

we also had roast beef, roast potaotoes and veg for tea we'd forgotten the yorkshire puds but it really didn't need it. and save me some syns! was only 1 syn for the gravy!!!

you gotta love slimming world!!!! 

Fresh start tomorrow!!!! i do hope i have a loss this week but if i don't i really will know why!!!

hoping for nice weather tomorrow then i can go for a long walk as all the shops are shut!!!! x

How Many People KNow How Much You Weigh?

With the exception of the virtual world of BLOG and a couple of WL forums there are very few real life people who know what i weigh.

And when i think about it i'm not actually ashamed of how much i weigh now. in the grand scheme of things it getting more of a common weight. i can think of quite a few people who are a similar weight to me.

BUT why i don't tell people is because they know how much i've lost and could easily work out my start weight. i won't even share my BMI for the same reason.

I bet there are only 5 people who know how much i weigh and even then they don't all know they exact amount

1. Mum - i've tried to keep it from her but she kinda had to weigh me on monday night so i know she knows
2. Helen - SW consultant
3. Sarah and i've not told her how much i weigh for ages but she knows the region. This sounds bad but i'd love to know how much she weighs. we were always within half a stone of each other me being the heaviest and a while ago she told me her weight which was almost 2st more than i am now but i think she might have put a bit more on. 
4. Tracy at work and she only knows i'm about the same as her (ahem about half a stone more but whats 7lbs between friends? ;O) 
5. Lisa from SW - but she weighted me a few times at the start of sw and she's prob forgot and if she hasn't she kows how much i've lost so i hope she's mentally subtracted it!!!

Its funny because i do the WI i still don't really know how much everone weighs, which is prob a good thing for people. its only when  i put the card in the PDA or when they give me there book. i often find me doing a double take at them.

I have really let myself down this week food wise and i blame the dairy milk!!! its yummy yummy goodness!!!! EVIL!!!!!

If i lose weight this week it will be a miracle. Saying that my scales are showing a loss and the Wii fit is showing a loss. it also shouted at me as i didn't achive my WL goal (i was a lot lower than it!) Mt Wii Fit board has issues and made me do my centre of gravity with my eyes closed (i fell off the board laughing when it said "open your eyes )

Anyone got wii fit +, i have and i have completed the chicken game!!!! well the begginer level i couldn't resist taking a pic of me as the chicken i think i look very fethcing. what do you think?


This is my beloved H&M Shirt. When i say mineI haven't bought it as its way too small but i love it. i saw Holly Willowby wearing it after i 1st saw it in the shop then on last weeks flash forward the nursi ngassistand girl was wearing it. and becasue its on sale i decided to try it on. its an 18s (US 14)

I was really amazed that it fastened. Still i'm not going to buy it as its too small but i love it!!!!

As i mentioned in an eariler post in was my parents pearl wedding anniversy last monday and although my dad didn't buy a card he did come home from Costco with these beautiful tulips. it was a massive bunch and this is my fave picture from the 10 i took of it!!!

I also went for another walk today. we intended going down the old railway lin but i was way too muddy so we went the same walk as Tuesday but becasue we'd detoured to go down the railway lines we walked just over a mile. 

I'm going to start filling in my Fit logs again i want another certificate!!!!!:)

Although i know its hilly near me its only when your at the top of one you realise how high up you really are!!! (ear poppingly high!!!)

this was meant to be a quick post haha oh well.

may not blog tomorrow as i'm working 8AM -6PM!!! YIKES LOOK AT THE TIME  11.41pm i'd best get some sleep. xxx

Officially Obese

It appers i am no longer clinically obes, Just plain old Obese. i can live with that for the moment my BMI according to the NHS website is 38.4. 

Recommended BMI Chart
Underweight	BMI less than 18.5
Ideal	BMI 18.5-25
Overweight	BMI 25-30
Obese - should lose weight	BMI 30-40
Very obese - lose weight now	BMI greater than 40

when i started my BMI was 45.2 Blimy o'reliy!!! its gone down 6.8 points!!!!

Now i've said before i don't think thats its the best measure of healthy but its nice to not be clinically obese any more!!! :o)

I'm going to have a look at these later as i need to measure myself:

Body Fat Calculator
waist to hip ratio calculator

I've looked at a couple of websites and healthy waist size is mean to be a better measure than BMI but the healty measurement varies from 32-35".

I can't remeber what my measurements are off hand but they are defo more than 35"

will re-measure later once i'm upstairs xxx