Day One Hundred and Forty Two

6.30am Breakfast

Natural yoghurt and a mug of Green Tea.

Its WEIGH DAY again!!! I haven't done too bad on my carb allowance but I have gone over on calories a bit so I am not sure what the result will be today but it is also meant to be our weekly jog tonight so I will do that before weighing again! I will put plasters on my blisters that are still sore and wear decent socks and my new sports bra too :)

8.30am Pot of Green Tea

8.50am Snack
Mini cheddar Babybel

10.15am Snack
Mini Peperami

Oh yeah.... I tried the dress on again with a bra this time and it fits with a bra now :) I reckon I could still lose a few more lbs without it having a major effect on how the dress fits, so I will stick to my new target weight of losing an extra 7lbs, I have already lost 1.5lbs from my original target weight anyway :)

11.55am Mug of Dr Stuarts Detox tea

12.30pm Lunch
Chicken Mayo salad.

Me in my jogging gear lol I hate it when people use their phones to take photos of themselves in the mirror!! ... :/





Here is our route from our jog/power walk today, its was a bit longer and we did it in a shorter time :) My blisters hadn't recovered from last week so were sore and weeping after the jog :(



So I weighed... now this weight is decreased a little from Thursday's weigh in, so from last Tuesday it would have been 1.5lb loss as I stated last Thursday.


Latest weight loss chart:


20.15pm Dinner

Hot & spicy chicken wings with a mug of Green Tea.











TOTAL (Approximate) Carbs for the day: 17g • Calories: 1000

Day One Hundred and Forty One

8.30am Mug of Tea

10.00am Diet Coke

14.15pm Lunch

Celery and primula cheese.

18.30pm Dinner

Roast lamb with mint sauce and runner beans, cabbage, brussells, small yorkshire and ONE small roast potato.

As I hadn't eaten a lot, I allowed myself a small roast potato, which was about 12.5g carbs, again the brussells took up most of my carb allowance for the day, but surely veggie carbs can't be as bad as say pasta or bread?! :/



TOTAL (Approximate) Carbs for the day: 51g • Calories: 684

Day One Hundred and Forty

10.00am Breakfast
Natural yoghurt with mixed nuts and a mug of PG Tips.


14.00pm Lunch
Chicken and bacon with leeks and a cheesy sauce





I went to a 30th birthday and had 4 bottles of Magners and some Bacardi and Diet Cokes.



The leeks and cider upped my carb and calorie intake for the day, my app says there are 11g of carbs in a Magners even though it said about 5g when I looked it up a few weeks ago!




TOTAL (Approximate) Carbs for the day: 73g • Calories: 2213

Day One Hundred and Thirty Nine

10.00am Breakfast
Bacon and scrambled egg with a mug of PG Tips :)






11.15am Mug of PG Tips


12.30pm Mug of Green Tea

14.00pm Lunch
Left over Chinese from yesterday.







I didn't eat all of the Chinese, I think I was still full from my late breakfast! I even left some of the meat, and that is very unlike me! lol

20.00pm Dinner
Unsmoked gammon steak with a fried egg and a can of diet coke.




20.30pm Can of Diet Coke
TOTAL (Approximate) Carbs for the day: 3g • Calories: 1335

Day One Hundred and Thirty Eight

6.30am Breakfast

Natural yoghurt and a mug of Green Tea.

8.00am Pot of Green Tea

10.00am Snack
Cheestring.

I'm off shopping after work for some new smaller clothes as its pay day today! Woop woop :D


11.00 Snack
Mini Peperami.


14.30pm Lunch
Chicken Salsa salad.








19.45pm Mug of Green Tea

20.15pm Dinner

Chinese! - Mixed hourderves (spelling? lol) Mushroom chop suey and special mixed meats in garlic sauce.  According to my app, prawn toast have 0g of carbs but 140 calories




TOTAL (Approximate) Carbs for the day: 10g • Calories: 1418

Day One Hundred and Thirty Seven

6.30am Breakfast

Natural yoghurt with a mug of Green Tea.

Ok, so I have added yesterday's calories to the end of yesterday's blog post too and will update the carbs and cals at the end of each post as I add foods I have eaten, possibly at the weekends this may be a tad delayed, but I will go back and update when I get a chance :)

Just tried another calorie calculator and these are the results for my height, age, sex and weight:

Confusing!!!! I'll stick to my 1270 calories I think! So long as it is well under the 1932 that I apparently need to maintain my weight then I should be good :) I got my calorie watching information from here: http://www.uk-diets-online.co.uk/low-carb-diet-article15.shtml

I was quite impressed with my stomach crunches yesterday as I normally can only push myself to 30, so I have upped it by 10! Yey me! :)

8.30am Pot of Green Tea


9.15am Snack
Mini cheddar Babybel.

10.15am Snack
Mini Peperami

Do you know what I really need? A good POO!!!!! - Not been since Monday and I'm turtle necking and can't go :( Maybe that's what too much wholemeal and granary bread has done? White bread has the opposite effect! :/

11.20am Pot of Green Tea

Oh my GOD! I just did the BIGGEST poo I have ever done in my whole entire life!!!!! (It hurt!!) Must have been about 17cm long and 4cm wide, no joke! No wonder it struggled to come out!! I feel SO much less bloated and lighter today! Maybe I should weigh myself again tonight? lol ;)

12.30pm Lunch

Chicken Mayo salad.

So I weighed myself again after my massive poo! Can't have quite been the 5 pounder I thought it was but I guess I probably gained a few lbs via food since Tuesday? Well, I lost 1lb in weight since I weighed on Tuesday anyways:

I did more balance tests to find my Wii Fit Age too, turns out its 29:

Not sure if you can tell from the below photo, but I am 1lb below target weight as I lost 1lb according to the Wii Fit scales, but the dot for today looks lower than the other lowest dot, so I had a look at the BMI as the scales always tell you your weight in BMI then you have to go to the weight option to see how much weight you lost.

So, I went back to the other 1lb below target weigh-in and it said my BMI was 23.53

and todays BMI said 23.49

I put my new weight (1lb below target) into my iPhone app and it said my BMI was 23.52, so I changed the weight to 5.5lbs and it said a closer BMI to the Wii Fit, so I actually have lost 1.5lbs after all... I think?

17.50pm Dinner

Chicken salad with mayonnaise, green chillis and jalapeños with a mug of Green Tea.

TOTAL (Approximate) Carbs for the day: 4g • Calories: 882

Day One Hundred and Thirty Six

6.30am Breakfast

Natural yoghurt with a mug of Green Tea.

8.20am Pot of Green Tea

The tops of my legs are killing me today!! I struggled to get out of bed this morning! lol Really must warm up next week! As well as wearing sensible socks too :) The best thing about jogging with friends is that they encourage you to keep at it and where I would have stopped jogging and switched to a walk they say we'll stop jogging at a certain landmark, which pushes me to jog that bit further than I would of had I been on my own :) It will be a weekly thing and hopefully we will eventually be about to jog the whole way without the walking in-between, but apparently that is the best way to start so that you don't give up!

9.45am Snack
Cheese string

11.15am Snack
Pepperami

12.30pm Lunch
Chicken Mayo salad.

I have downloaded an app on my iPhone called Daily Burn (its a free one). I have added all my food eaten since Saturday as I can't be bothered to go back further than Saturday and I have posted my carb intake for the days since Saturday. There is also a calorie counter option, so I might start using that too and set my calorie intake at 1270 ( I used a calorie calculator so that I could lose 7lbs in 2 months and thats what it said).

I did 40 stomach crunches today :)

18.00pm Dinner
Smoked mackerel and brussel sprouts with a mug of Green Tea





Can you believe there are 32g of carbs in that many Brussels?! Jesus! This app will come in handy, I thought all green veg were good carbs.



TOTAL (Approximate) Carbs for the day: 37g • Calories: 1243

Day One Hundred and Thirty Five

6.30am Breakfast

Natural yoghurt with a mug of Green Tea.

Well, its WEIGH DAY again!!!!! :/ Bread consumption will be the only bad factor over the past week I think, and the pancake roll! As well as lack of exercise!! Going for a jog/speed walk with a couple of friends tonight at 6pm so I will weigh and eat after that! :) Its either chicken or fish tonight for dinner, depending on the dates on the packets!

Feeling a bit bloaty again today! Not a good feeling on weigh day!! Maybe there were extra carbs in the Chinese sauces last night, but I did leave a load of sauce on my plate, so it could have been worse!

I had a bottle of wine with diet lemonade on Saturday night too! (forgot about that!)

8.30am Pot of Green Tea

9.00am Snack
Mini cheddar babybel.

11.15am Snack

Pepperami.

12.30pm Lunch

Chicken Mayo salad.

I went for my jog with Siba and Jo and struggled with my breathing! It was like my lungs weren't getting enough air into them or something? Also got a blister on the back of each heel! I should have known not to wear trainer socks when going for a jog! D'oh! Here is the route that we jogged and power walked :) All 3.61miles of it!

And my weigh day result is:

Weight loss chart:

If you click the weight loss image to zoom in, it looks like I lied about reaching my target weight 7 dots in from the right! But if definitely said my target weight as do the last 2 dots and the 4th dot in is 1lb under target weight! I think I have said before but the Wii Fit doesn't do 1/2lbs or 1/4lbs which may explain the different dot positions for target weight and my actual weight at the moment might be 1/2lb under target or my first target weight dot could have been 1/2lb over target?? Who knows?! lol

19.30pm Dinner

Smoked mackerel with cauliflower and grated cheese with a mug of Green Tea.

TOTAL (Approximate) Carbs for the day: 12g

Day One Hundred and Thirty Four

6.30am Breakfast
Natural yoghurt with a mug of Green Tea.

I'm wondering if my initial idea of just adding carbs at weekends might be okay? I'll include Fridays in my weekends as I finish at lunch times anyways! So I have had bread this weekend, tomorrow is weigh day so I'll see how I do! Better do some exercise, need to tone still, so maybe have another go at the Wii Zumba? The cat moans like anything though, she doesn't like it when I'm standing up and she can't sit on my lap!!! LOL


8.30am Pot of Green Tea


I brought a new bikini on Friday when I went to exchange my tent at Tesco in Royston, I have been wanting a bandeau bikini with some support for ages but couldn't find any in my size and actually found one in this Tesco, but not seen it at other Tesco stores! So I grabbed it and tried it on when I got home, but the bikini top felt a bit big, so I measured myself again to check my bra size hadn't changed, and it only blooming has!! Cup size hasn't changed, but chest measurement has so I'll have to take it back or it will only fall down for my walks along the beach! D'oh! I'll have to see if its in the closer Tesco stores first before trekking back to Royston!


12.30pm Lunch
Left over kofte kebab meat and salad.

I've been a good girl and done the 20 minute beginner class on wii zumba. I am sweaty and my leg muscles ache so it must have done something! Now to reheat my Chinese...

17.50pm Dinner
Left over Chinese.




I took some new photos of me with my old work trousers that used to be tight lol

It even used to be tight around the thighs!! lol!!!!

TOTAL (Approximate) Carbs for the day: 13g

Day One Hundred and Thirty Three

9.00am Mug of Green Tea

10.30am Breakfast
Two small slices of granary toast with butter.



13.45pm Lunch
Mini toasted wholemeal pittas with cheese. That's the whole pack gone now! I wonder if there will be a weight gain from the bread consumption?!



18.00pm Dinner
Chinese. I still have half saved in their pots for tomorrow.
Beef & mushrooms, pancake roll (I know pastry has carbs), special chow mein and spicy chicken wings.



TOTAL (Approximate) Carbs for the day: 115g - too much bread I think!!! LOL

Day One Hundred and Thirty Two

11.00am Breakfast
Bacon and scrambled egg on a slice of granary toast with a mug of tea.




13.45pm Lunch
I had some of the leftover meat from my kebab.




20.30pm Dinner
I had 2 bits of chicken and 6 minted lamb skewers at a BBQ accompanied by a bottle of white wine and diet lemonade (spritzas).

TOTAL (Approximate) Carbs for the day: 39g

Day One Hundred and Thirty One

6.30am Breakfast

Natural yoghurt and a mug of PG Tips.

8.30am Pot of Green Tea

9.00am Snack
Mini Cheddar Babybel


10.30am Snack
Pepperami

14.20pm Lunch
Camembert with mini wholemeal pitta breads.











Just spent over 2 hours cleaning my flat and I'm knackered!!

16.52pm Mug of tea











If you are thinking 'bread has carbs in it', well I am trying to add a few carbs into my diet to try and see what helps me maintain the weight. I also brought a loaf of granary bread, might have some toast and butter for breakfast one day or something.

19.00pm Dinner
Bodrum Special kebab. I only managed the doner meat and most of the salad, must have been my late lunch!

Day One Hundred and Thirty

6.30am Breakfast

Natural yoghurt with a mug of Green Tea.

Having a 'feeling slimmer' day again today :D Must be all the salads I have been eating?! I still have a bit of cash left over from my hot tub holiday so I might treat myself to a Bodrum Kebab tomorrow! Not had one in a while!

It might be the Wii jogging that has made me feel slimmer too? I'll have to try and keep that up again now...

8.30am Pot of Green Tea

8.45am Snack
Mini Babybel


11.00 Pot of Green Tea


11.30am Snack
Pepperami


12.30pm Lunch
Chicken Mayo salad.

I really fancy some sticky toffee pudding again!!! Maybe I can allow myself some at the weekend to help 'maintain' my weight? Hehe! I did want to try carbs at weekends to see if that maintains my weight! ;)


Just had a look on the Tesco website and the sticky toffee pudding with the least calories comes in a tin!!! - 44.4g carbs for 1/3 tin! I find puddings quite filling! Shame they don't come in smaller tins!

17.30pm Dinner
Mince beef with onion, garlic, passata and a sprinkling of Italian cheese.



21.00pm Mug of PG tips

Day One Hundred and Twenty Nine

6.30am Breakfast

Natural yoghurt and a mug of White Tea.

8.30am Snack
Cheese string

8.45am Pot of Green Tea

10.40am Snack
Pepperami


I am in the office on my own today so snacking early as I have no one to talk to lol

11.30am Pot of Green Tea


12.30pm Lunch
Chicken Mayo Salad. I really enjoyed this :)

I might weigh myself again later as I am feeling a bit lighter today :D


A few people have asked me how long I will keep blogging my food updates for and I guess the answer to that is up until the wedding? I might blog a final post of me in the bridesmaid dress after the wedding so that I can show that I achieved my initial goal :)

NOT my dress, just a random dress measuring pic :P

I weighed myself again and am back at goal weight :) woop woop!!

I post the chart picture as well to show that I have gained and lost weight and I'm not just posting old photos of my Mii losing pounds :)

I did a 30 minute Wii jog today too! - first time in ages!!

18.40pm Dinner

Chicken & Bacon salad with mayonnaise and Italian cheese with a mug of Green Tea.