Day 28 - the fourth weigh day

Really didn't sleep very well last night, not sure if it was my cold or worry about stepping on the scales today.  Sure enough 6.45 saw me half naked in the lounge balancing on my wii board to weigh myself, and bingo another 2 pounds off, hurrahhhh.  That is my first stone gone, only another 5 1/2 to go, not so bad if you say it really really quickly.

Had a good day, very busy in the office but really love this particular client so it was great fun and a couple of the girls there are on WW so we had a good old chat and swapped some tips.

Raced back to pick Lottie up from nursery only to be told she wanted a choc chip cup cake when she got home, have to admit they looked good today and I did think about it, but decided not to bother, I am more a savoury person, so had they been cheese muffins I may have caved in.

So my first goal was to lose 2 stone and in a month I am 50% there, lets hope I can keep the motivation going.

Breakfast
Rice krispy square
Banana

Lunch
Prawn salad with naughty spoon of full fat coleslaw (but I pointed it so it was fine and it was delicious)


Dinner
Grilled Salmon fillet
roasted butternut squash
Nigellas mushy peas - have to share recipe it is so yummy. 
chop half an onion and a whole clove of garlic and put in pan with hot water, boil for about 20 mins, then add about 4 oz of  peas and a pinch of rock salt, boil for another 6 mins.  Drain and put in a food processor with tablespoon of half fat creme fraiche and then blitz,  Yum Yum Yum
Desert - stewed rhubarb.

Day 27 - Cupcakes and Chocolate

Beginning to feel a bit better today and after a lovely lie in (thank you darling) I spent the day playing with Lottie, and tidying the house.  How can a family of 3 make such a mess in a week, still seems bizarre to be tidying up before the cleaner comes, but don't want anyone seeing the mess that we happily make!

Lottie wanted to make cupcakes this afternoon with Mummy's new mixer and strangely enough my willpower was so strong I didn't even feel a flicker of temptation, even when I let her put choc chips in them and then cover them in milk chocolate.  After dinner she asked if she could choose which one she would like, and gosh just like her Mummy she picked the one with the most chocolate on!  Paul had one and insisted I did, saying I must surely have enough spare points to sit down and enjoy one, he made me feel quite guilty for not having one, so I sat down and took one bite and just didn't enjoy it at all, it tasted very sweet and felt very wrong, so I made him eat mine!  I just think that if I want to use extra points I want to use them for something I really enjoy, like a glass of wine.

Can't believe the weekend is over already, in the office tomorrow and out for lunch with my client, so need to resist temptation again!! arrrrggghhh!!!

Breakfast
Crumpet and honey

Lunch
Tortilla wrap with prawns and low fat cheese slice
Walkers french fry crisps

Dinner
Pork medalions with honey and mustard
Carrots, parsnips
Small potato
glass of red wine
Yoghurt

Day 26 - Very bizarre meals!!

woke up feeling dreadful this morning, yes I have well and truly got Charlotte's cold, but was worried about having lemsip as I didn't know how many points would be in it !!! lol, so I resorted to soluble aspirin and sudafed.

Consequently activity levels were low today, and right now I am sitting here watching rugby with Hubby surrounded by snotty tissues, when I should be on a girls night out, oh well think of the temptation I wont have to encounter.

odd day of eating, didn't eat much during the day so needed to make up a few points with dinner, decided to cook some polenta as the last time I had it in Italy it was delicious.  Well all I can say is the Italians obviously cook it with butter or parmesan, in fact anything fattening as it would need something like that to make it edible.  Despite all that I was still picking at it even though I didn't like it and had to give myself a good talking to!

Breakfast
Crumpet with marmite
Lunch
Tomato Soup
1 slice wholemeal bread
Dinner
Steamed prawn dumplings
Mouthful of polenta (Yuck)
Good old Gnocchi
Yoghurts
Snack
1 digestive
1 satsuma

Day 25 - Aaaattttchhhoooooooo

So after another night of just 3 hours sleep guess who is feeling a little knackered to put it politely.  Poor Lottie is full of a cold, and unfortunately so is her Mummmy now!!!

Went on a play date with Lottie this morning and managed to avoid all chocolate biscuits, but alas have not moved as much as perhaps I should have because I have felt pretty rotten.  Have a horrid sore throat, but still haven't resorted to my friends Ben and Jerry, who are, I feel, the only ones that could make it feel better!

Breakfast
Crumpet with honey

Lunch
bagel with 1 slice low fat cheese and 1 slice of roast beef
bag of Quavers
2 clementines

Dinner
grilled chicken and salad in kebab
2 small glasses of wine - medicinal only!!!

Day 24 - Comments, some kind, some not!

Whilst I have a number of clients, some of which I work for remotely, it was to a long standing one that I went today, and into the office I hadn't been in since October.  It was lovely to see some old friends, and I was dying to see one in particular who has just lost 3.5 stones with weightwatchers and was one of my inspirations.  Unfortunately she wasn't in the office today and when I asked her colleague how fab she looks as she must surely do, the very skinny colleague (and I feel this is important) said, "well yes she's lost a bit of weight so I guess she must"  I nearly hit her.  The girl has lost 3.5 stone doesn't she realise how amazing this is or how hard it has been for her, god these people who are naturally thin just don't get it do they!!  OK rant over. 
The nice comment I got was from someone there who asked had a lost weight and said i looked so healthy, wow weee!!!! 

Finished work and headed straight for the gym which was a struggle as I only managed 3 hours sleep last night as Charlotte has a cold and was up for most of it, poor love.  Managed to run for 1.5 minutes then walk for 1 and run for another 1.5 and it wasn't as hard as last week, so lets hope I can just improve it a little each week.

Breakfast
Rice krispy square
1 banana

Lunch
Prawn Salad with olives - no dressing, no nothing really

Dinner
Quorn fillets in spicy tomato and olive sauce
Gnocchi
ww treat
Very small glass of wine.

People will notice I eat a lot of gnocchi, so its time to share a tip I learnt which makes it fab.
Take a handful of fresh gnocchi and put it straight on a baking tray (no need to boil it first) squirt with frylight 1 cal oil spray and put in hot oven for 15 mins, bingo, mini roast potatoes for only 5 points, yum yum yum!

Day 23 - a Northern Dinner

for any non northeners reading my blog today I apologise as you surely will not understand the attraction surrounding blackpudding! Although I believe it is making appearances on posh southern restaurant menus these days! Well I couldn't believe that they aren't really that high in fat, and they are so scrummy.

Not much to report today as busy work day.  Think its going to be a long night though as Charlotte coming down with a cold and has already woken crying out half a dozen times this evening, oh well who needs sleep anyway!

Breakfast
1 crumpet with 1 teaspoon of honey

Lunch
1 bagel with two slices of low fat leerdammer and grilled tomatoes
Bag of walkers french fry crisps
2 satsumas

Dinner
2 slices of black pudding topped by one poached egg
small baked potato
Mushrooms with balsamic vinegar
Yoghurt

Day 22 - Holiday Plans

Thoughts have begun to turn towards holidays and what we are going to do this year and I have to confess to being slightly excited by the prospect that I may not look quite as much like a beached whale as I did last summer.  It has really pushed me on.  I bought a new top from Monsoon the other day in 2 sizes smaller and am determined to be in it by the summer.  its been my dream to be one of those girls you see in fitted t-shirts and straight leg trousers, or denim skirts in the summer, however maybe that is a dream for next year!

Breakfast
1 slice wholemeal Toast
low fat leerdammer cheese slice

Lunch
bagel with prawns, mushrooms and creme fraiche (loved it so much yesterday thought I would have it again)
2 satsumas

Dinner
Chicken breast with honey and mustard
Gnocchi
Asparagus
Low fat yoghurt