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!

nothing good to report

Mumps Bridge is officially gone for ever

food hasn't been great, white bread and a topic to name some of the badness! xxx

½lb off!

at least its a loss!

Still got my crush n Ryan Reynolds so your gonna have to put up with him for a bit longer!

gonna try and make time to dust down the wii this week. i also fancy trying Zumba, a few people have been talking about this , a woman at work and Bitchcakes blog has mentioned it, i have zero co-ordination so might have to find a dvd of it to try before i find a class!

Binge day

The day started off ok. had a driving lesson. went ok apart from the 10 cars beeping me as i kept stalling going up a big hill (ok its only a little hill but its very steep and right on to a main road and they kept beeping and jeering as they speed past me! then i fucked up again 1hour 40mins ok driving to mess it up in last few mins!)

Then we went to Skipton North Yorkshire to see my granparents and i saw some sheep - ekkk i hate sheep , after some deep breaths i managed to take some pics

The Sheepdog sheep it think it quite good, there was also a coronation sheep like bet lynch and this photo sheep

I lost its nose as the man in the pic above pushed me as i took the pic, i'm amazed its in focus!

Food ekkk B A D!

i didn't eat til 2.15pm a butty and a salad and a bag of grapes from Morrisons, then we got home and i have had a white muffin with cornbeef, white bread and turky, some mini jammy dodgers, a mini dairy milk bar, some mini mini cookies, some jam on toast. i can't stop!

half a world away

Song lyrics seem to be the theme of the week - you guessed it i've got oasis on itunes as we speak.

Yesterday i meant to talk about my title, there are three sides to this story. Then i rambled on.

What i was going to say was that i think those words apply to weight loss, for me they do and for people in my slimming world class as well.

I am the weigh-in girl and i notice what people tell me at the scales and what they tell the consultant vary wildly. I also know my self on my weigh loss journey i constantly lie to myself!

when people get on the scales there is a wide variety of emotions and lots are pheeeew i managed to lose/ only gain a little bit it was a bad week, then in class they say they are devastated and don't understand sometimes i want to put my hand up and say you confessed x y z to me at the scales and you were bloody happy with what the scales said. then on the flip side people who put loads on who don't get it at all, then in class the full confession comes out, because they have sat and chatted with people and realised what they've been thinking of as "free" food really needs to be counted and they they are ok with the gain, then there are the people who get that really shock when they think they've had a bad week and get on the scales and lose and sometimes lose good! i love the look on their faces and often say i nearly didn't come, my scales at home made me fear the worst! In class those people are often very modest and tell the truth and say i don't know how i did it.

as i've said before i often kid myself, tell myself that its ok to have 3 pieces of bread instead of 2, low fat spread doesn't count etc.

so my three sides are

What i tell myself - it won't make any difference
What i tell the world - such as i don't know why i've gained
The scales - the all knowing wise wisdom of the world - if i've had a good week, i will lose, if i've had a bad week i will gain!

Ok sometime but only few and far between times when the scales don't know everything, such as water retention.

I also believe although this contradicts what slimming world tells us. they my body doesn't know i weigh in 7pm monday nights so it has to lose and gain between that 7 day period. i believe if you have a truely bad week and lose it will catch up on you no matter how good you are the following week and it think its important not to get complacent if you have a few bad weeks and still lose, it will catch up on us in the end. i also think if you have a fab week and gain not to lose faith that goodness will catch up if you have another good week.

my 4lb loss has spurred me into action.

i have gone over syns today as i had a krispy kreme doughnut for 14.5syns i didn't enjoy iy very much plus i'd already had other stuff and i still haven't had my tea!

one bad food choice does not need to lead to a bad food day / week / month

Happy bank holiday people and i might post again later with todays thoughts and food diary

xxxx

There are three version to this story

your, mine and the truth! Does this ring true to you and your diet?

Ok so its also a line from Bob and Gary Barlows new song. I almost fell off my chair the 1st time i saw it / watched the video. it is trés brokeback mountain!

I'd like to apologise for the Backstreets boys video yesterday but they were a big part of my youth and on the note so was Bob, not so much gary barlow as he is on my list of hated people along with Tom Cruise. Now don't all screem at as i know Gazza has a large following and yes he has written so good songs and i do sing along and his charity work is second to none but i can't take him, there is something in those beady little eys that bi don't like!

BUT i won't post the video to upset you all.

Ok Diet wise - another good day.

didn't have a breakfast as was very nervous about having my driving lesson but i did have a little bit of sliced turkey and a cup of Grapefruit tea - very nice

Lunch
Asda Pitta bread HxB
stir fried steak, onions and mushrooms.

Snack
Mullerlight yogurt
plum
slice of turkey

Tea
Sw Lasangne Free + 1 HxA (cheese)
Filo and Cherry tartlet 5 Syns

Snack
Little dairy milk bar5 Syns

I have developed a very childish crush on Ryan Reynolds - no idea where it has come from but now i <3 him!

He has beautiful arms! 

I know you think i may have lost the plot but he has something about him! 

Sorry normal service will be resumed shortly!

Everybody, Rock your body right!!!!!!

Everybody
Rock your body
Everybody
Rock your body right,
Backstreet's back alright!

Oh my god we're back again
Brothers sisters everybody sing
Gonna bring the flavor
Show you how
Gotta a question for you
Better answer now
Am I original
Yeah
Am I the only one
Yeah
Am I sexual
Yeah
Am I everything you need
You better rock your body now

(Chorus) Everybody yeah
Rock your body yeah
Everybody
Rock your body right
Backstreet's back alright

Now throw your hands up in the air
And wave 'em around like you just don't care
If you wanna party let me hear you yell
Cuz we've got it going on again


when trying to think of a title this song got stuck in my head - so now its in yours!!!

Sorry for another absence - you guessed right i was off the wagon!

But here i am reporting for duty again.

Diet wise i'm still FAT! but not miserable. yes i am still over my current lowest weight but hey ho - worse things happen at sea!

As of WI monday i am at 16stone 8lbs (232lbs)  i'm 2lbs away from 50lbs loss (3stone 8lbs) i'd really like to get that this week.

Last monday i lost 4lbs - not quite sure how, all i can think of is that this morning Mama nature arrived with a little gift and i wasn't wrapped in a red box with a bow like the tv ads show! Also another lie of TV ads they always say you feel really hot at that time of the month but i'm the opposite very very cold!!!!

Speaking of TV has anyone else noticed when ever they record (i have recordable freeview) on Channel 4 there is always an episode of friends going off!

Celebrate Sucess not Mourn Failure

I have been a bad blogger and a bad dieter and i have said time and time again when one goes the other one goes. BUT i am here and i am blogging so i must be half way back on track.

i feel like i want to do this not just that i can do it.

On slimming world website there is a members area for people who go to the classes we get a new "secret" password each week. within the members area there is a page to record your weight loss and when you reach an award (each half stone / 10% / target/ Slimmer of the week) it gives you a virtual award - see my side bar for my awards, when i logged on this week i spotted my 3½ stone i cliked on it and it made me realise how far i've come.

i have:

• 7 half stone awards
• My 10% award
• 5 Slimmer of the week awards
• 1 Slimmer of the month award

So thats not bad going really for 19 months slimming!

its spured me on i want more awards!

• 2.5lbs off being back at 3.5stone loss
• 3lbs off my lowest SW Weight
• 9.5lbs off my next official award

How far have you come already?

There are 19weeks til Xmas - or so facebook says! How far can we get by then?

My main goal for this year is to have lost more than 26.5lbs which is what i lost last year (it had been more but life got in the way!)

on SW website it also gives you a predicted weight loss if you set a target my target is set at my 2nd 10% weight of 16st 3lbs and on 4th jan this year sw said i'd get there by 23rd Aug. in my mind i thought it'll be way before then but its 3 wi's away and i'd really like to get it by then!

Here's to everyones sucess to date!
AND
Here's to our future sucess!
We can do this!!!!!!

a Hmmmmmmmmmm day

Was going ok til i went to Crown Point with my friend Sarah and i end up with a butty from Greggs was the lowest calourie one but still not brill, then i had some crisps in the car on the way home and found some time out bars in the fridge and had more than i needed.

For my Blipfoto journal this week i'm using Will N Syn as my inspiration tonight i was a bit bored of action / senic shots of them and i though me and my friends always take self portrates arm out streched point and shoot so i decided to do a fake this is what Will N Syn would take! geeky i know but made myself laugh! Theses are the 2 shots i took

I like the bottom one best!

Sky sports are showing TV Ads with Eric Cantona and it has re-ignited my lurve for him, i keep posting his pic on my facebook and i think people are getting bored i thought i'd be rude to blog and leave him out so here he is again! ( i think i might have blogged him a few days ago but can't remeber
!)

 Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!

Kinda on track

The bears did there job again but towards the end of the day i have given into temptation!

i had one of tracys rice crispy square, 3 mini brownies (only 1 cm square). i've had more bread than i should have and i had a cornetto after my tea! ops!

oh well its not a massive over shot and its less then i have been having so i'm not going to worry about it!

Defo feel like i'm in the right place to  back on track now x

You know you've had a good diet day when....

.... you come home and want to blog!

 

 Remeber Will Power and his bird Synthia Day well they have come to stay with me this week and so far so good.

Feel like i can do this again. I have been pretty good till i came home and had some cheese then i had an omelette with some more cheese, then i realised the only Carbs i'd had was some SW Chips so i looked at what i'd have and discovered it wasn't Extra Easy day but an Original day. Therefore i have done it!!! Day 1 back on track!


Food

Breakfast:
Frozen Friut
Lunch:
Ham & Chicken Butties HxB
Home made Chicken and Veg soup
Tea:
Sw Chips
Ham, Orange pepper, Cheese and Mushroom Omelette. HxA and 1 Syn.
Snack:
Velvet Crunch Crisps 4 Syns
Banana
3x Plums
Rice crispy square (home made for someones birthday) 5 Syns
Jelly and Strawberries 1 Syn
Donut Necterine
Apple
Slices of Ham
½ pack Aldi Cheese & Chilli crisps 3 Syns
Drinks:
2 x Tins of Diet Pop
1 x Black Tea
3 x Cups of Water
1 x Fruit Tea
2 x Peppermint Tea

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14 Syns Phew 1 to spare! and i do feel that i have rounded up as the jelly is 1.5syns for the full pack and i only had half and the ALDI chilli things are 5.5 per pack and i had less then half as they were minging!!!

Roll on a good loss on Monday!!

Little Miss Happy

Yay!!! i stayed the same!!! Iam little miss happy - sadly little miss sunshine is the closest i can find!

I have Will and Synthea to guide me through my week. photos to follow!!

i have 8 WI'S until my holiday i want to lose at least half a stone by then.

i am aiming to lose 3lbs this week, that will get me back to where i was 16stone 6.5lbs and that just a small stop before 50lbs loss.

I CAN DO THIS!

Fresh Start On Monday

Had another pretty cruddy food day.

main meals are ok its the snacking it has to stop!


I've just watched Fantastic Mr Fox - I <3 it!I wanted to see it at the Cinema but didn't get round it.

It reminded me of (same writter / director so not surprising) a stop motion Royal Tennembauns.

There were some cracking lines and GC is exactly how i imagined the FMF to be! Some people have critisied it for its lack of definate location and its mix of animals some not found in the UK or US but my god people its a film - to me films (unless a true story) shouldn't have to be set in a real place. its in Roal Dhal / Wes Andersons mind. who cares if one species is only found in Brazil my god these foxes had TV , Walkmans, Newspapers you don;t see these film buffs mentioning these as film makers diliberate mistakes! (sorry been reading the goofs on IMDB) peopleput on some petty things on there.

I once got some mad at some geek i emailed in to point out they'd misheard what was said (this wasn't on a major film it was Connie and Carla of all things but they'd pissed me right off!) Sorry i digress back to FMF.

The image below is the same as on my copy of the book. it was my fave Roal Dhal book, i loved all the ones i read but FMF out weighs them all in my opinion!

Sorry to blog about non weight topics but i feel i need to get back to blogging and have nothing good diet wise to report!

Time for an update

July has whizzed by in a blurr of not being a good slimming world girl.

i have prob had over a million syns and not really enjoyed any of them! (well some of them!)

ever since the come dine with Nat I've been off it!

my friends haven't been going to SW and I'm not relying on them to turn up as i go to group with la mama but i do feel that they are a reflection on me. and i know this diet isn't for everyone but one min they are enthusiastic next min i feel like they are taking the piss!


on the plus side i've lost 1.5lbs this month, but still not back at my lowest! 3.5lbs off it and that elusive 50lbs!

August goals

Lost 3.5lbs!
Find some motivation

Had my 1st driving lesson for 8/9 years yesterday - me no likey! (but it has to be done!)

 

Is my my driving school - pretty cheap prices and he seems nice - much nicer than my 2 old instructors. i did starting and stopping (i hate living in a hilly area hills suck!) changing gear, tomorrow is my 2nd lesson and i just hope it doesn't rain! i'm mastering turning left and turning right tomorrow! OMG i is scared (i need a LOL cat just for me!)

This is the type of car i'm learning in! its quite a nice car. just need to crack on with it. after tomorrow not got another lesson for nearly 3 weeks as he's going on holiday but will give me plenty of time to crack on with the theory test. on the plus side i did better in my 1st practice one than my mum who's been driving 30 years - have a go yourself here. The pass mark is 43. just need to do some hazard perception practice- got a DVD for that but so far i can't seem to crack it!

need to get back on track diet wise. just can't seem to get full. bad times!

might ask for will power this week!

hello again'

i'm still alive and kicking!
i had another crumby week, gained hlaf lbs

hoping to regain control this week and get abck to blogging soon x

AFK

I'm still alive i haven't drowned despite the hosepipe ban and the dreadful rain that has followed since North West Water declared the ban.

I've been bad really really bad.

TOTM has finally hit ater about 3 week buold up (TMI Sorry) feel in control i gain 3.5lsb last week but i have now lost that

hope to lose 2.5lbs this week then i'm back to where i was but craving food any food

as Puss would say "feed me if you dare!"

Need a kick up the bum

i lost 2lbs this week! YAY!!! but booo i'd been so good all week but let myself down at weekend - least there was no booze!

Monday and today i've blown it can't stop eating, feel constantly hungry. no idea why except TOTM may be on its way. overy pain, empty belly feeling and a general dfeeling of gumpiness has hit me!

i need to regain control!

i'm planning on going to see eclipes on saturday and that will be lunch out with my friend and her neice. i've started to re-read the book becaue i have been confused by the ckips i've seen. but its been ages since i last read it and i'm mixing up 3 of the books. not doing too bad i'm 236 pages in and only been reading for 30 mins at a time since sunday (not bad going) its funny i remeber the main bit like the end and how the books starts and some of the main charactures but i'd forgot wee get some of the cullens back stories and the 3rd wife tale. hope wee manager to get to see it. we're not prebooking as we have cineworld cards and are not prepared to pay twice. we did that for new moon and they put 2 showings on and our screen was half empty. Watch it back fire on us this time!

Is slightly in love with PuSS In Boots!

I love him and i know he's a cartoon cat but OMG!!!!

I had a mother daughter day today. Started off by a spot of shopping (normal behaviour!) then i treated la mama to a trip to the cinema to see Shrek forever after! it was Trés Good! i want to see it again! i'm not even bothered about missing out on a midnight showing of Eclipes because i saw Shrek in 3D!!!!

Food wise well not the best but it was a treat day.

Breakfast - Scrambled egg on a brown roll. ¼ HxA, HxB and 3 syns.
Rest of the day - Nandos. Half chicken  with Mango and Lime coating, half a large portion of chips, half a regular portion of spicy rice (FREE!) half portion of coleslaw. 3 Coke Zeros, white coffee and Shhh a Naughty Nata (custard tart to you and me!)

and i've had a glass of red wine (about half an inch) with sprite zero to make a sort of sangria

Not sure on how many syns i've had but hey ho at least i've not eaten anything else, no sweets or popcorn at the cinema, no cake or hot dogs at Ikea (cos we went there after Nandos!

i spent £43! ouch but i'm happy with my purcheses! i got a pink standard lamp - its like the one below but baby pink and it was £19.99 in the sale the red and nickle colours were still full price. i've had to leave off the arm part at the back on the lamp but once my room is sorted  i'll put it on.

i also got 2 wooden storage boxes one like the one below and the other with drawns the siz of CDs and they fit on my TV table that i use as a bed side table one on the shelf where the DVD player should live the other on top with my CD player and fan on (and some other crap!)

IKEA is ace! i really need a new bed off to browse the website. hope every one has a good weekend

and please have a look at my Blipfoto page and if your on there please let me know i'll come for a nosy x

Find me HERE!
xxxxx

July will be a good month!

i have decided

i will lose 5lbs minimum.
i will track
i will stick to syns as much as possible

i spent £49.50 on a count down (12 slimming world classes for the price of 10!) so i did save almost £10.00 but paying all that out in one go to blow it and gain weight. i'm not going to do it! yes i gained last week but that was june! i have 10 wi's left (until 6th Sept) i will make each one count.

Food today hasn't been brillient but still within syns

Cadbury light choc mousse 3.5syns
strawberries in sugar free jelly ½syn
cherries
5 x small plums
Plain jacket potato, lettuce, tomomato, ham and turkey
apple
Mash Pizza - see picture. didn't turn out as i expected but i couldn't find the recipe so i made it up!

Instant mash flattened and baked. then topped with passata, cheese, fresh tomato, ham, onion and then put back into the oven. the mash was still very mashy so it was a lump when put onto the plate. need to find the recipe to find out how to do the base, but it tasted yummy! and all free apart from 1 HxA for the cheese.

For desset i had 2 sliced of toast HxB + 1 syns for the flora extra light.

Packet of monster munch 5.5syns
= 10.5syns so far. not too bad really