Back to Minus Square 10!

So I haven't been very good at updating this have I?

Well it's November 2015, a year since my last post.

My last post I said I was 12stone 10lbs or 82kg, today I weigh..... 92.4kg or 14st 8 lbs!

I honestly am disgusted with myself, why did I let all the hard work I did last year go back on and more! I weigh heavier now than I have done in 2 years! It's shocking! I've noticed the weight piling on the last few months, things are stressful for me at the moment and I'm finding myself comfort eating a lot. Or I'm using, ah sure I'm starting the diet on Monday, I'll have a takeaway as my last supper!

But no, enough is enough. It's the 24th November right now, tomorrow will be the 25th November which brings a month to Christmas Day, I'm going to set myself a target of 14 stone by then. I'm taking it baby steps.

All I need to lose is 8lbs, 2lbs a week. I can do this!

The Aftermath....

Well I suck at keeping my blog updated!


I managed to survive the month challenge I did and my losses were;

• 19th July - 13 stone 4.5lbs or 84.5kg
• 21st July - 13 stone 6.5lbs or 85.6kg
• 28th July - 12 stone 11.5lbs or 81.4kg
• 4th August - 12 stone 7.5lbs or 79.7kg
• 11th August - 12 stone 7lbs or 78.6kg
• 15th August - 12 stone 5lbs or 76.6kg

I achieved a loss of 1 stone 2lbs in just 4 weeks, I was absolutely estatic!

Here are my before and after pictures. 

I notice the difference in my chin, my belly is less bloated and less back fat!

However, fast forward to 9th November (almost 3 months since I last went to the gym and stuck to the food plan), I decided to do one on one personal training with the instructor again.

I weighed in at 82kg which is 12 stone 10.5lbs, so I had put on 5.5lbs since I stopped going to the gym and eating the right foods! I'm actually glad it wasn't any more and it didn't push me back over the 13stone mark!

I'll try to keep this updated as I go along in the next month in my one-to-one personal training sessions!

Week 2 Food Pics

Didn't take pictures of all the food I had in Week 2 but took pictures of what was new instead!

Seabass for the first time! 

Omelette with spring onions and green peppers!

Yum yum pitta bread!! 

Week 2 of Mission Impossible

So this week was going to be a test, I was working in the country for 3 days of the working week AND it was a bank holiday. Working in the country meant I would miss 2 days training but I managed to ask the trainer if I could jump into the advance class on the Tuesday as I was missing one!

The week started out well, and then I was off to the country on the Tuesday with food in hand. The first test came on the Wednesday when I was out with colleagues for lunch, there were no salads I could get that matched my plan (i.e. not enough greens!) so I opted for a wholemeal sandwich with tuna and loads of lettuce and cucumber. The next day I went to a cafe to meet with my manager and oh my god, the cakes were looking at me so bad, especially a lemon meringue pie! I stuck with green tea and said I was going to have a big salad in an hour and managed to resist that way.

Went to a sandwich bar where they did up a gorgeous salad for me but they had no balsamic vinegar or olive oil so opted for a Ceaser dressing which I told her only a little bit but she poured it on! The Friday then, I went out for lunch again! No salads this time, I opted for what said, a Chicken Sandwich (served on wholemeal pitta bread). It came out absolutely dripping in mayo and sauce and wasn't a wholemeal pitta, I ate it and felt crap after it so drove 2 hours back to Dublin and hit the gym for an hour!

It felt good to be back in the gym sad as it sounds! Got home about 7.30pm then and now I could rest! I had no plans for the weekend unfortunately or fortunately so ended up doing a good shop and cooking food all weekend AND I didn't have any alcohol!

I did get a huge craving for a chipper on the Sunday though after I went to the gym, the day before Week 2 weigh in, I went to my local Tescos and it's surrounded by a Subway, a pizza place, a  burger place and McDonalds and a chipper! Before I probably would have went to the chipper and ordered myself a big bags of chips (I'm actually drooling over them now!).

So Monday morning, a bank holiday Monday morning I might add and it was weigh in time... *duh duh duh*

28th July - 12 stone 11.5lbs or 81.4kg
4th August - 12 stone 7.5lbs or 79.7kg

I had lost another  just close to 4lbs or 1.7kg!

Absolutely delighted! This brings my total loss to just under a stone, in just 2 weeks! So delighted with myself that I decided to have a nice breakfast at a local cafe to treat myself and still be on plan! The cafe which is called The Lo-Cal Cafe serves healthier options such as turkey rashers and sausages.

I opted for The Healthy Hangover with a green tea, absolutely delicious. This was my healthy cheat meal, still on plan but with a few added things I shouldn't be eating i.e. the beans AND bread & butter. It was soooo worth it though!

My gorgeous brunch!!! 

Cute little teapot! 

Right, so I'm past the halfway mark, only another 2 weeks to go and I know if I can go 2 weeks without drinking any sugar drinks, no crisps or chocolate, I know I can survive another 2!!!

Week 1 Food Pics

So... in my first week I took pictures of the foods I was eating to help remind me what I should be eating in case I get stuck for ideas.....Have a look below...

 

 

I found as the days went by, I was feeling a lot more fuller and less hungry and inclined to snack. When I snack, it's usually on berries or nuts or those delicious Nak'd bars which are so healthy, mostly on the Cashew Cookie one though but the Cocoa Orange and Berry Delight are too delicious and I could have 4 of them!

I limited myself to one bar a day and try to keep half of the bar for an evening snack if I have the first half in the afternoon. 

Week 1 of Mission Impossible

It was Sunday, my first day of training was Monday and I barely slept the night before, went to bed at 11pm, woke at 1am in a panic thinking I slept it out, and again at 3am, 4am and 5am where I just decided to wake up and get ready! I was so nervous going to the gym, arrived super early, so early the gates were still locked! 

The first day of training wasn't too bad, a lot of weight training and light cardio, I came home, prepared my breakfast and lunch and off to work I went feeling motivated and positive. I told my work colleagues I was doing this challenge and if I was tempted by bad foods, to please stop me. The second day I woke up early again, so decided to head into work early at 8am and went for a light jog/walk around the park for 45 minutes (go me!). I also started to get really bad headaches, this was probably from the sugar and caffeine withdrawals! 

The week went on, things started to get easier, the key is to prep my dinners in advance. The only thing that I was nervous about was we went out to dinner with work colleagues to Milanos. I wanted the dough balls so bad but instead ordered me a salmon salad and had a raspberry sorbet for dessert, perfect! I also went to the gym on days I wasn't training except for Saturday because my legs were like jelly after Cardio Fridays with Mission Impossible. 

So on the Monday morning, it was weigh in time! I mentioned that I got my weight taken by the trainer on Thursday 17th July before the challenge started and I weighed in at 13stone 4.5lbs, however, cos I knew I was starting the challenge, I binged on loads of takeaways and fast food and ended up putting on another 2lbs in 3 days! 

19th July - 13 stone 4.5lbs or 84.5kg

21st July - 13 stone 6.5lbs or 85.6kg

28th July - 12 stone 11.5lbs or 81.4kg

I had lost a total of  9lbs or 4.2kg! 

I was delighted with myself! Over half a stone gone in the first week and for the first time in my life, I am actually 12stone something! This really motivated me and I had to get into my head that the first week is going to be the biggest loss and that I shouldn't expect a weight loss like that every week! 

Onto Week 2! 

Back blogging.....

So here I am again, back to my blog. 

I started this blog back in January 2011 when I first joined Slimming World, I think I updated it pretty much twice a month with my progress then I stopped. My last post was in September 2011 which was 1 month before my mother died and I returned to college that month also. With all the thins going on I didnt have time and I suppose I just forgot about.

My last post said I weighed 13 stone 9.5lbs and I was trying to break through my 13.5 stone barrier which I did. I kept going to classes and following the plan but not as strict was I doing.  I'm not gonna post every single weigh in seeing as its nearly 3 years ago so I'm gonna do a 6 month update since I began my weight journey in Jan 2011.

Jan 2011 - 16 stone 11.5lbs
July 2011 - 13 stone 12.5lbs
JJan 2012 - 13 stone 8.5lbs
July 2012 - 13 stone 4lbs
Jan 2013 - 13 stone 13.5lbs
July 2013 - 14 stone 1lb
Jan 2014 - 14 stone 9.5lbs
July 2014 - 13 stone 4.5lbs

So as you can see, my weight loss initially was fairly rapid, my lowest weight recorded was 13 stone 1lb and that was in February 2012, I gained 2, lost 1, gained 2, lost 2 etc... never have gone below that.

Also, I stopped going to slimming world in May 2013 as I was yoyoing for a year between same weight and it was bugging me, so I stopped and returned in Jan 2014, I put on nearly a stone in just 8 months, its scary how weight can creep back up.

Since this year, I've lost nearly 1.5 stone and that's by following SW again but I've also started to do gym classes, and I suppose the reason why I'm doing this now again is that I'm starting a 4 week Mission Impossible challenge this Monday 21st July. I've been trying to do gym classes but they're restricted at certain times and I'm not too familiar with how to use gym equipment, so I think taking on this challenge will help me and teach me how to use the equipment properly if I want to go to the gym in my own time.

It's training 3 times a week at 6.30am in the morning (god help me!!!) And comes with a food plan. I'm hoping I'll see results in 4 weeks and hopefully hit 12 stone something and tone up!!

I'll try to update this blog weekly or on days I feel crap and need a boost. So enjoy reading!!!