Well, after last week's small gain, I am very pleased to announce that this week I lost 2lbs, bringing my total loss to date to 47.2lbs!
It's a good loss for what has been a difficult week which included a Curry & Quiz night at the rugby club, which included a few beers and 2 portions of curry! I felt quite cross with myself later for having the extra curry, but I blame it on 2 things - 1. It tasted very nice and 2. I'd already had a few beers by the time the curry was served, which helped to reduce my weightwatchers resolve somewhat!
The Curry & Quiz night was, of course, followed by England v Ireland on Saturday afternoon, when, of course, there was more beer to be consumed followed by a very nice Hairy Bikers Chilli.
On Sunday I decided that it was time I thought about adding something more to my exercise routine of going on the crosstrainer 3 times a week, so it was off to Asda where I recalled seeing some Kettlebells at a resonable price. I bought the largest, which was 7.5kg for £12.00. When I got home, I finally laid the rubber matting, that I got a while ago from Costco, on the garage floor ready for some early morning exercise on Monday.
I started the exercise on Monday morning with 5 minutes on the CT to warm up and then attempted to folloow the instructions for a few kettlebell exercises that came on a single sheet of paper with the weight. I got on OK with it, but I'm not sure that I'm doing the Kettlebell Swing right and I do need to have a set routine to follow otherwise I'll just end up playing at it. Since yesterday morning I have found The Cube Dwellers Beginners Kettlebell Workout which I will try to follow for a while. The guy on there does suggest a 16kg kettlebell for a man, so I already feel a little inadequate! I'll try out this workout for the first time tomorrow!
Thankfully the Rugby is now over, so there are no more excuses for drinking too much beer for a while now, so hopefully my weight loss can pick up the pace a bit now - I'd really like to get back up to averaging 2lbs a week, but only time will tell if that will happen.
Good luck with your weight losses, I'll report back next week!
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Weigh-in - Week 37
Apologies for my late posting this week, I guess I was a little disappointed with my small gain of 0.2lbs at my weigh-in yesterday. I should know by now that I'm going to have the odd gain, especially after having a few beers and a curry on Sunday when I watched England beat France in the Six Nations.
I suppose the reason I didn't post yesterday was that I was hoping to report a loss after a Sneaky Peak this morning - unfortunately the SP was an STS, so I guess I'll just have to accept it and move on.
This weekend is likely to be another tricky one - I'm going to a "Curry 'n' Quiz" night at the rugby club on Friday night and then it's England v Ireland to watch in the pub on Saturday afternoon, so lots of opportunity to consume excess Pro Points, if I'm lucky I'll Stay The Same at next week's weigh-in.
After this weekend there's no more excesses planned until Easter, when it's my birthday, so hopefully I'll resume the downward trend.
I'll report back next week, meanwhile good luck with your weight loss journey.
I suppose the reason I didn't post yesterday was that I was hoping to report a loss after a Sneaky Peak this morning - unfortunately the SP was an STS, so I guess I'll just have to accept it and move on.
This weekend is likely to be another tricky one - I'm going to a "Curry 'n' Quiz" night at the rugby club on Friday night and then it's England v Ireland to watch in the pub on Saturday afternoon, so lots of opportunity to consume excess Pro Points, if I'm lucky I'll Stay The Same at next week's weigh-in.
After this weekend there's no more excesses planned until Easter, when it's my birthday, so hopefully I'll resume the downward trend.
I'll report back next week, meanwhile good luck with your weight loss journey.
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Weigh-in - Week 36
Not a great deal to report this week - just a small loss of 0.4lbs but it is going in the right direction. I would have liked to lose more and felt that I should have done as I was well within my points allowances for the week, with the only minor hiccup being a trip to "Noodle Nation" on Friday evening. I really didn't know how to point the meal, so pointed it at 30 pps for the food, which used up my daily allowance and then I used some of my weekly points for the drinks.
This week was a measurements week (I take my measurements every 4 weeks) and I am pleased to report that, even though my weight loss has been a little slow of late, I have lost 2cm from my chest and 2cm from my waist since week 32.
On Saturday I made a rather nice Steak & Ale Stew in our Slow Cooker. I cheated a bit by using a packet for the sauce (Colemans Slow-Cooker Sauce I think), but the beer I used was Rebellion "Roasted Nuts" and it created a really tasty stew. I had it with roasted butternut squash and a small dumpling for a total of 12 pps. It was so nice that I had the last portion for dinner this evening. Next time I make it I will probably double the amount of sauce because it had started to reduce a bit too much before the stew was fully cooked (the carrots were still a bit hard), another half an hour would have done it, but it was delicious all the same.
I'm beginning to build up a good selection of easy to prepare low point but healthy and filling meals, so the plan should remain satisfying and continue to work. I'm eating more fruit and vegetables than I have ever done and am feeling much better for it.
I'm also definitely back into the routine with my exercising on the crosstrainer - I'm doing it 3 times a week and managed to beat my own personal best twice last week (13.8K in 30 minutes according to the crosstrainer). Pretty soon I'm going to have to introduce some other exercises to prepare myself for the surfng lessons in our summer holiday, I'm not really sure what exercises would be best though.
That's all for now, I'll report back again next week.
This week was a measurements week (I take my measurements every 4 weeks) and I am pleased to report that, even though my weight loss has been a little slow of late, I have lost 2cm from my chest and 2cm from my waist since week 32.
On Saturday I made a rather nice Steak & Ale Stew in our Slow Cooker. I cheated a bit by using a packet for the sauce (Colemans Slow-Cooker Sauce I think), but the beer I used was Rebellion "Roasted Nuts" and it created a really tasty stew. I had it with roasted butternut squash and a small dumpling for a total of 12 pps. It was so nice that I had the last portion for dinner this evening. Next time I make it I will probably double the amount of sauce because it had started to reduce a bit too much before the stew was fully cooked (the carrots were still a bit hard), another half an hour would have done it, but it was delicious all the same.
I'm beginning to build up a good selection of easy to prepare low point but healthy and filling meals, so the plan should remain satisfying and continue to work. I'm eating more fruit and vegetables than I have ever done and am feeling much better for it.
I'm also definitely back into the routine with my exercising on the crosstrainer - I'm doing it 3 times a week and managed to beat my own personal best twice last week (13.8K in 30 minutes according to the crosstrainer). Pretty soon I'm going to have to introduce some other exercises to prepare myself for the surfng lessons in our summer holiday, I'm not really sure what exercises would be best though.
That's all for now, I'll report back again next week.
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Weigh-in - Week 35 - 15% Off!
To say I'm chuffed would be an understatement, especially after the ups and downs of the last couple of months! I've now set a new target in the WeightWatchers tracker of 16st 11.2lbs, which will be 20% of my starting weight.
The Sneaky Peaks have continued though and I can say with some certainty that if it wasn't for the beer consumed during the England v Wales match and the following Curry, I would almost certainly have lost more, as my SP on Saturday morning showed 17st 10.0lbs. I'm not upset by this though, the whole idea of the weightwatchers plan is to lose slowly and steadily without depriving oneself of the food and drink that one enjoys. And I did enjoy the beer and the curry!
For this coming week I have an empty diary, so no nights out, no meals out, or at my mum's, and no rugby to watch in the pub. With the complete lack of danger on the consumption front, I should be in for a good loss at next week's weigh-in - what's the betting I have a gain?
See you again next week!
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Weigh-in - Week 34
Stayed The Same!
Well it makes a change as, on recent form, I would have expected to have a small gain this week just as I have done after every loss since the beginning of January!
This week I was actually expecting a small gain as that was what my Sneaky Peeks were telling me to expect, especially as I went to my mum & dad's for a family meal (including my outlaws) on Sunday. I find it very difficult to control my food intake when I have a meal at my mum's because, not only is she an excellent cook, but she also insists on offering several differing deserts, each of which has to be sampled. I made some educated guesses at the points, but I wasn't at all surprised by my SP result yesterday morning.
Having said all that, it leaves me very pleased to register an STS at my official weigh-in today. I do think I must be about due a good loss soon though!
Some of my regular readers (do I have any?) may remember that a few months ago I gave up wii fit jogging due to suffering from Achilles Tendonitis, well on Friday I decided that the pain from it has almost completely gone (it only hurts first thing in the morning and only for the first few minutes after getting up) and I would try and restart the Couch 2 5K program. Since I do quite a lot on the crosstrainer, I felt that I would probably be able to start at Week 2, Day 1 - this was a mistake! Firsly running/jogging uses a slightly different set of muscles than the crosstrainer and my thighs were stiff until this morning! Secondly my Achilles Tendonitis came back with a vengeance! I was in quite a lot of pain with it all day on Friday and less pain, but still all day, on Saturday! This morning it seems to have reverted to it's pre-jog levels. Needless to say I won't be trying Couch 2 5K again until the pain has completely dissappeared for at least a couple of months, and even then I shall start on Week 1 no matter how fit I think I am!
Anyway, I'm looking forward to another week of tracking and exercising (on the crosstrainer every other day) - the only thing that I have planned that might cause a bump in the road is watching England v Wales in the pub on Saturday afternoon, which will obviously use up a few weekly points. Luckily I don't have a ticket to the match as that would be even more costly in terms if ProPoints (I did enter a Daily Mail competition to win a pair though, so fingers crossed!).
I'll report back again next week!
See Ya!
Well it makes a change as, on recent form, I would have expected to have a small gain this week just as I have done after every loss since the beginning of January!
This week I was actually expecting a small gain as that was what my Sneaky Peeks were telling me to expect, especially as I went to my mum & dad's for a family meal (including my outlaws) on Sunday. I find it very difficult to control my food intake when I have a meal at my mum's because, not only is she an excellent cook, but she also insists on offering several differing deserts, each of which has to be sampled. I made some educated guesses at the points, but I wasn't at all surprised by my SP result yesterday morning.
Having said all that, it leaves me very pleased to register an STS at my official weigh-in today. I do think I must be about due a good loss soon though!
Some of my regular readers (do I have any?) may remember that a few months ago I gave up wii fit jogging due to suffering from Achilles Tendonitis, well on Friday I decided that the pain from it has almost completely gone (it only hurts first thing in the morning and only for the first few minutes after getting up) and I would try and restart the Couch 2 5K program. Since I do quite a lot on the crosstrainer, I felt that I would probably be able to start at Week 2, Day 1 - this was a mistake! Firsly running/jogging uses a slightly different set of muscles than the crosstrainer and my thighs were stiff until this morning! Secondly my Achilles Tendonitis came back with a vengeance! I was in quite a lot of pain with it all day on Friday and less pain, but still all day, on Saturday! This morning it seems to have reverted to it's pre-jog levels. Needless to say I won't be trying Couch 2 5K again until the pain has completely dissappeared for at least a couple of months, and even then I shall start on Week 1 no matter how fit I think I am!
Anyway, I'm looking forward to another week of tracking and exercising (on the crosstrainer every other day) - the only thing that I have planned that might cause a bump in the road is watching England v Wales in the pub on Saturday afternoon, which will obviously use up a few weekly points. Luckily I don't have a ticket to the match as that would be even more costly in terms if ProPoints (I did enter a Daily Mail competition to win a pair though, so fingers crossed!).
I'll report back again next week!
See Ya!
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Weigh-in Week 33
Once again this week I was Sneaky Peeking and, once again, it has been shown to be a bad idea:
Tuesday (Weigh-in) 18st 0.2lb
Wednesday 18st 1.0lb (bugger!)
Thursday 18st 1.0lb
Friday 18st 1.0lb
Saturday 17st 12.4lb (woohoo!)
Sunday 18st 0.4lb (bugger!)
Monday 18st 1.4lb (bugger even more!)
Today (Weigh-in) 17st 13.0lb (woohoo!)
I think that the increase on Sunday & Monday was probably caused by the beers that I had on Saturday whilst watching England struggle against Italy on Saturday afternoon, even though they were well within my ProPoints Allowance - I had 13 Weekly and 18 Activity Points left at the end of the week.
Having finally reached my Christmas target of below 18stones, I have now set myself some mini-targets:
- 17st 11.9lbs 15% of my starting weight (this is my next major target actually)
- 17st 7lbs 7th silver star (not that I collect them as I'm an online WighWatcher)
- 17st 6lbs 50lbs loss and also the wight I was when I got married 14 years ago!
- 17st 0lbs 8th silver star
- 16st 13.99999lbs Under 17st
- 16st 11.2lbs 20% of my starting weight
- 16st 7lbs 9th silver star
- 16st 1lbs BMI of 29.9 which would make me "overweight"
- 15st 13.99999lbs Under 16st
- 15st 10.5lbs 25% of my starting weight
Before I finish, I just want to shout WELL DONE at Tom Hicks for reaching his goal last week! Tom's blog has been one of the things that has inspired me to stick with WeightWatchers, I you haven't read it, I recommend that you do - he's been through all of the highs and lows and has managed to get there!
See you all again next week.
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Weigh-in - Week 32
After my dissapointment of last week, I decided that I would have some Sneaky Peeks (SP's) - here is my SP story and, I think, a pretty good indication of why they are not a particularly good idea:
Tuesday (Weigh-in day): 18st 1.2lbs
Thursday (1st SP): 18st 0.4lbs Happy :-)
Friday 18st 0.4lbs Happy :-)
Saturday 18st 0.4lbs OK
Sunday 18st 0.4lbs Happy (had some beers yesterday - watching the Rugby)
Monday 18st 2.2lbs What the ...? Sad :-(
Tuesday (Weigh-in day): 18st 0.2lbs Happy again :-)
I should point out that I weigh myself at home, so all of these weigh-ins were on the same scales and before breakfast (about 07:45 during the week and about 09:00 Sat-Sun). It seems odd that I can remain the same for 4 days, then gain 1.8lbs and then lose 2.0lbs in 2 days. I am, of course, very pleased that my official weigh in day was today and not yesterday, but I will be interested to see what I weigh tomorrow. See? I'm already back in the habit of Sneaky Peeks! I'd worked quite hard to stop doing that!
I think Sneaky Peaks are even more unwise when using different sets of scales because these can vary hugely. My advice to anyone that asks is avoid Sneaky Peaks, but, if you must have them, make sure you're using the same scales and do them at the same time of day.
Looking forward, I hope, to being in the 17's next week!
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