Month 7 - Who knows where the time goes, or what happened to Month 6!!

Goodness me, time really does fly when you're having fun!

I've really been enjoying things recently.. feeling loads better from shifting some more weight and generally feeling quite healthy. Its all good.

Food:
I've been eating loads of lovely food, thanks to the Weight Watchers plan and checking out the Slice of Slim blog.. I kind of adapted one of the 'pizza' recipes and made it my own, plus it was something I could throw together quickly... Sorry I have no pics of this, its so tasty I just eat it before I get a chance to take a picture..

'Pizza breads'

Ingredients:
2 Warburtons Wholemeal Thins, seperated.
4 tablespoons of passata
chopped spring onion
chopped peppers
chopped mushrooms
fat free cottage cheese
garlic salt
oregano
basil

Method
Turn on grill to 'high'
Toast the Thins (I usually toast them in a toaster)
Then spread a tablespoon of passata over each thin (on the holey side, not the crust side)
sprinkle with oregano and garlic salt
spinkle over vegetables
carefully dollop cottage cheese onto each Thin
sprinkle with basil
place under the grill until the thins brown

Eat it all up and enjoy. Its so fast and easy to make and tastes just like real pizza.. I have 2 Thins pile up the veggies on it and love it.

Otherwise with the food, I've tried to be careful, but have had a couple of blow outs. I had a day when my fella had brought over a tub of Roses and between us we demolished the lot. I felt very out of control that day.. serves me right really. I've yet to get on the scales and see the damage. It wouldn't be so bad if I'd had a few, but the whole tub between us.. was a bit, well, mad. If those were the only points I'd had all week, I imagine it wouldn't be so bad, but I'd already used points on having a herb scone (approximately 4 points) and eaten some Cadburys Pebbles and around 8 Weight Watchers bars. Some days the cravings are hard to satisfy and it becomes almost an obsession. I even tried having my 'go to' of toast with jam... but it didn't satisfy. It was a minor blip and I'll be better this week. Preparation is the key in all honesty.. that and being 100% honest with yourself. I'm aiming to stay on track this week...

Exercise:

Well I changed things around at the gym, and started to include some weights in with the aerobic exercise. Which started well, then I caught a virus, which knocked me back a bit... I kept going dizzy everytime I went to the gym, so I decided to take a backseat and not work out as much. I started back again a couple of weeks ago and soon picked back up again. It does make me feel brilliant and I can see the changes in my body. Exercising also releases loads of endorphins, which make me feel really good. So even if I don't 'feel' like it, once I'm on that treadmill and working out, its amazing.

Lifestyle Coach:

I'm due to see P on Wednesday, and I'll try and update you again then.. wait until he sees the difference. It might not be loads, but its definately something and its all going in the right direction generally.

So, here's the reveal

Me on 10/11/14

Last week I weighed in at:

13 stone 11 and half pounds!!


Vital Statistics

Chest: 44in

Waist: 37in

Hips: 43.5 inches




Its going down slowly.. and in the pic I'm actually wearing a size smaller jeans.. I've gone from squeezing into a 16, through to a large 14.. might not be massive, but its a big difference to me. I'm hoping to get comfortable in the 14s over the next few weeks.

2 whole inches off my waist!!! That's great for me!!

Since starting the Lifestyle Programme I've now lost 2 stone and half a pound.

So, here's the comparison pic from the start of the journey..

I can really tell the difference now.. can you?