Weigh in

Another week, another weigh in. Much better result this time though. After last week's gain, I've lost 2kg this week. This brings my total weight loss to date to 7kg/15.4lb. My points have been dropped again, I'm guessing it goes down by one for every 7lb you lose.

I was better with breakfasts this week, and I think that has made a difference. Last week featured cake for breakfast on more than one occasion, but this week I stuck to a bowl of Fruit & Fibre and some fruit, usually melon. I also incorporated more vegetables into my lunches and dinners. I still had some cake and chocolate and crisps as and when I fancied them, and last night featured a three course meal and a glass of wine, but I was well within my weekly points.

The WW site apparently thinks I'm losing weight too quickly. I should only be losing one or two pounds a week apparently. Any ideas on what I can do differently?

Here are a selection of my meals last week:
Spaghetti bolognese (I've been trying to stick to wholemeal pasta and the butcher's mince is very lean)
Baked salmon with brown rice and salad
(Good) sausages with boiled potatoes and vegetables
Omelette with spring onions and capsicum/peppers with brown toast
Risotto (it was a packet one which I don't normally use - had half with mushrooms and half in stuffed peppers with low fat cheese)
Low fat philadelphia with crudites
Shaved turkey and salad in a wholemeal roll

Oh the other big news is that I've dropped a dress size! I bought some new yoga trousers this week a size smaller than normal. I also wore some linen trousers I had in the wardrobe that were a size smaller than normal.

Missed a week

I didn't post on Sunday. I did weigh myself though. I had a 500g gain. I'm not entirely sure why, I kept well within my weekly points and tracked everything. My eating wasn't as good as it had been though, even though I didn't go over my points. I had a fair bit of cake, and visited McDonalds as well. I also had a lot less fruit and salad throughout the week. It seems that even though I'd kept to my points, the fruit and salad make a big difference. It could also be that the big loss the week before meant that I had a bit of a readjustment last week.

Only two more days until this week's weigh in, so I'll see if it was a one off, or if I'm going into a bit of a plateau.

Danger day

Gah, the baby woke up for a feed every two hours last night which means I'm exhausted this morning and craving sugary foods like chocolate and coke to stay awake. I don't drink tea or coffee unfortunately.

Luckily there's not too much chocolate in the house or I'd eat a whole family bar, I think.

3rd weigh in

I've been neglecting my blogging duties a bit the past week. I had a bit of an up and down week. There were days I found really tough and I used a lot more of my weekly points this week. I know they're there to be used, but I don't want to get into the habit of using them all because I think that when I'm no longer exclusively breastfeeding and I lose the extra points, I'll struggle to stay within them.

Despite a couple of not-so-good days, I still managed a very good loss. 2kg! That's 4.4lb for those who don't do metric.

I did do a lot more activity this week. I went back to yoga on Monday night, which was great. I've really missed it. It was a bit more intense than the pregnancy classes had been, as you'd expect, and I was aching for a good few days afterwards. I also did more walking, taking the girls into town and walking around on a couple of days as well. I'm pretty much fully recovered from my op now (just the ocassional niggle) so I'm hoping to be able to do even more exercise.

So this week brings my total weight loss to 5.5kg (12lb), which means I've met my first goal, which was to love 5% of my body weight. My new goal is to drop 10%.

I've been doing measurements as well and I've lost 4.5cm from my hips, 4cm from my waist and 3.5cm from my bust.

How did you do this week?

2nd weigh in

I got my silver 7 star. Woohoo!

Lost 1kg this week, or 2.2lb in the old money. Not as good as the first week, obviously, but that's to be expected I guess. I used more weekly points this time, as we had pizza last night and I had lunch out one day and didn't make the best choice.

That brings my total loss so far to 3.5kg/7.7lb.

My daily points have dropped by one now.

So I'm feeling positive again after a couple of down days. Hope I'll be able to keep up the momentum this week and not slip back into bad habits.

Positives from this week:
I've been honestly tracking everything, even the rubbish.
I've lost some weight.

Negatives from this week:
Not making the best choices while eating out.
Falling back into some bad snacking habits.

How has everyone else done this week?

I think it's going to be one of those days

It's only 9:30 and I've already eaten 8 propoints worth of crap. Need to get off my backside and get some fruit to make up for it.

Those doing WW, what do you do on days like this?

Mid week update

Half way through week two and I'm still managing to stick to the program pretty well. I'm trying to save most of my weekly points as we're having friends over for pizza.

I've switched to wholemeal bread and pasta and I've been eating loads of fruit and veg. I've also tried to reduce carbs in the evening by having smaller portions. We're having cottage pie tonight though, so that is likely to undo my good work.

Here are some of the meals I've been having:
Roast chicken with salad (no roast veg!). I was a bit naughty and ate the skin but I counted it.
Sandwich steak with dry fried mushrooms and onions, sweetcorn and green beans.
Chicken (left over from roast) risotto. 12 propoints for a heyuge serving.
Grilled chicken breasts with salad and potato and sweet potato crisps.
Turkey and salad in a wholemeal roll.
WW Tuna in thousand island dressing with green pepper, celery and spring onions on a toasted bagel.

I'm having a real hollow day today. No matter what I eat I still feel hungry. I might need to dip into those weekly points and have some biscuits!

First weigh in day

The first week went pretty well. I only used 11 of my weekly points, and that was over two days. The other days I struggled to eat all of my daily points. I managed to get some activity points as well by going for some long, if slow, walks. I don't feel that I'm eating all that differently, and if I want something, I'm having it. I like having the flexibility of the weekly points to either eat more if I'm hungry and have used all my daily points, or to have a chocolate without feeling guilty.

I managed to buy some scales on Thursday so that I could do my first weigh in today. Because I was taking my starting weight from the hospital scales, I don't know if it was exact, so don't know if this week's loss is a true loss or if I was already a little lighter after surgery, but I do feel like I've lost weight this week.

So for the big reveal: My loss this week was 2.5kg! I'm very impressed, especially as it doesn't feel at all like I'm "dieting".

In other news, I managed to find two dresses I really liked and bought them, so I now have a lovely floral 50s style dress and a black and white maxi dress. I even straightened my hair yesterday! It's all change here.

Here's hoping that week 2 is as successful.