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Taken down by pudding!

curvy0girl — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:11:11 +0000

Well I saw my brother off at the weekend Had a lovely time though, although we ended up going out for dinner and I did great on the main but couldnt resist pudding! But hey we gotta live right?! So extra good week this week needed to make up for a bit of over indulgance at the weekend. Made sure I exercised today too and dusted off the wii fitness coach, I think that damn computer generated woman was trying to kill me! If I’m honest though I really enjoyed it (blimey is that me saying that!) I’ve set my commitment on it to 30 mins Mon-Fri so really want to keep that up, also going to throw in a bit of boxing as I have a punch bag at home and that is SO good for releasing a good bit of aggression and tension!

Hope all my fellow dieters out there are well and starting the week happy and positive

Bon Voyage

curvy0girl — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:26:40 +0000

Woke up this morning to a delivery from Avidlite (They do a cheaper version of the Celebrity Slim shakes and meal replacement bars etc…) love getting parcels especially when they contain food! I ordered a selection of atkins choc bars to try and omg thought I had died and gone to heaven they are YUMMY! Must remind myself though that just because they are a ‘diet’ product doesnt mean I can eat my weight in them I was going to do a workout this morning but I am off down to Birmingham to see my wonderful brother today so the exercise was abandoned in favour of getting all my stuff together etc… (ok this is a feeble excuse must try harder on the exercise thing…..!)

I love seeing my brother and dont see him nearly as much as I would like to with him living in Birmingham Trouble is its going to be even harder to see him soon as him and his partner are moving to France to start up a B&B. I was so upset when they first told me but from a purley selfish point of view because obviously it was going to be even harder to see him then, however I soon put that aside as I know this has been a dream of his forever and I am just so happy for him The thing is we havent been in eachothers lives for very long which in itself is a long and complicated story, but basically we only found eachother just over a year ago on facebook (where else!). We had never met before then although I had always known about him and thought about him all my life. When we met it was like we had never been apart and we have grown SO close in such a short space of time. The though of him being even further away is hard because I missed him for so long and I dont want to miss him again…. That being said it will be great for cheap holidays as my brother keeps reminding me! So anyway I am off down there for a bit of a farewell party, what that will mean to the diet Im not sure but I am going to try to be as good as possible!

Weigh In Result

curvy0girl — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:27:31 +0000

I am VERY happy to be able to say I lost 5lbs this week woohoo!!!! I feel FANTASTIC I can honestly say this is the most in control I have felt on a diet plan, I still get the days I want to pig out and forget about fat and cals and carbs (Im only human afterall!) But I really feel like this plan is changing the way I think about food and my eating habits in general. I was down in the dumps yesterday after the accident and the urge to stuff chocolate into me was massive, afterall chocolate solves everything does it not! BUT rather then sit there telling myself I couldnt and just want it more and more til I drove myself mad with frustration and shoved of much of it in my mouth as I could find, I had a bit just a couple of squares and because I hadnt sat there building it up in my head a few squares was enough. Now its early days and I dont want to think Ive got this diet lark cracked oh no my friends I have been there before and it has bitten me squarly on the bum in the shape of a big mac and fries! However I do feel like I am making steps in the right direction and that I feel pretty damn pleased about

Not such a very nice man….

curvy0girl — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:31:43 +0000

Had a really terrible day today It started out fine and went off to work this morning as normal then on the way to work I was overtaking a car on the dual carriageway and the accelerator pedal in my car got jammed and was stuck down to the floor, so of course my car picked up an almighty speed and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I pressed as hard as I could on the break but the car was obviously still revving so it hardly touched the speed. It all happened so quickly and all I could think to do was to get myself off of the dual carriageway so I didn’t hit any other traffic. I veered off the road up onto the grass verge and into the hedge it was a very scary experience. I’m thankful to say I am ok and not badly hurt just a bit of whiplash really I was VERY lucky. So I have spent my day waiting for my car to be picked up and hanging around A&E to see a doctor (I waited 2 hours for a 20 second check up!). Home now though and apart from feeling very sorry for myself I am also extremely angry at the AA man who it seems caused the problem! Its a long and dull story that I wont bore you all with but basically I had to call out the AA last week because of a problem with the accelerator (different problem) and the guy who looked at it for me today said that what he had done to ‘fix’ it had caused the pedal to break today!!!! I am livid, anything could have happened to me or my family today, the accident could definitely have been a lot worse.

Anyway suffice to say I am now feeling pretty crappy and trying really hard to resist the urge to comfort myself with food, humph:(

Lets Get Physical….

curvy0girl — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:19:00 +0000

Well I feel extra smug this morning as I have managed to drag myself out of my bed (which let me tell you is no mean feat!!) and take the dog for a good walk before I head off to work. Cant say I relished it when the dreaded alarm went off but I have to say I feel pretty good now and dare I say I actualy enjoyed it! I find sticking to exercise extremely difficult I get really into it for the first few weeks but then I end up not being able to keep up that pace and stop altogether. So this time I am trying to find a balance that I can stick to as whichever way I look at it exercise is needed if I really want to shift these pounds….

Weigh In Result….

curvy0girl — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:33:06 +0000

Well I put a pound on this week and tbh I’m pretty pleased with that considering the weekend I had last weekend! It was my step-sisters hen weekend and a group of us went down to Bournmouth, we had a fabulous time but as you can imagine there was LOTS of alcohol and a fair bit of eating out etc… So to come back from that with only a pound I dont think is too bad

Been extra good this week so hoping to see that little pound and more besides off by the time of my next weigh in on friday!

Apologies for my Absence

curvy0girl — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:53:22 +0000

Well its been a while since my last post and there are lots of reasons for that. Number 1 I am coming to the end of my degree (less then 12 weeks left woohoo!) and the work load has just been intense I have had so much work to do on my portfolio and on placement its just been manic! Number 2 I had a diet crisis and i guess I should have kept in touch with everyone as a way of getting through it but if im really honest I was ashamed as I felt like i had failed However looking back on it i definitely dont feel like that anymore The short story is that I decided weight watchers wasnt for me. I believe in the programme and know it works for lots of people but it just wasnt working for me. It was making me obsessed with food I was constently counting point values and thinking about what I could and couldnt have. So I had to re-evaluate and look at what would be best for me. So after much thinking and research I have decided to give Celebrity Slim a go. For those of you that aren’t familiar with it it follows the principles of a low carb diet with a meal replacement shake/soup/bar for breakie and lunch and a low carb dinner and snacks inbetween. The idea is you do it for 8 weeks then start introducing low carb meals back into your diet instead of the shakes. Now I was extremely sceptical about this sort of diet and I know a lot of other people are too BUT it has already changed the way i think and feel about food and I feel much more in control then I ever did on weight watchers. Plus I lost 4lbs in my first week and have my second wi tomorrow so fingers crossed for another good one!

Anyway hope you are all doing ok out there whether it be weight watchers you are doing or any other diet

Ah so I can do it…..

curvy0girl — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:12:37 +0000

Well I am very pleased to say that despite my terrible mood yesterday and wanting to eat anything and everything insight I resisted the urge to binge!!!! I feel SO proud of myself and although I’m still on a bit of a downer (long story!) I am determined to avoid trying to fix it with food. I have identified that the most difficult times for me food wise is between about 3pm and 6pm I really seem to crave junk around then and get myself all in a tither because I know I cant have it. So I guess I need a plan in place to stop the craving or at least give myself something to take my mind off it, any ideas?!

Anyway off to my little boys first parents evening now, hoping for a glowing report what I get though lord only knows!

Feeling Low

curvy0girl — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:35:37 +0000

After a really positive start I feel like I’ve hit a bit of a brick wall this past couple of days I’m not sure why but I have been feeling pretty low and my answer to that feeling in the past has been to comfort myself with food. Of course that is exactly why I now find myself on WW and although WW is great for monitoring what you eat it doesnt solve the problem of emotional eating. I can count points and make the right choices which to my credit I have been doing despite feeling like this but it doesnt make the feeling or the craving go away. I just want to binge on something fattening and tasty and I feel like I wont be happy until I do…..how do I get rid of that feeling??? I feel like this is the crux of my problem with food and I feel like I will never lose the weight I want to lose until I find away to deal with it.

I hope you are all doing better then me today and I apologise now for the horribly feeling sorry for myself tone of this post!

Weigh In

curvy0girl — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:43:05 +0000

Well it was weigh in last night and I lost 2lbs woohoo!! I am really pleased with that and feel like its just the boost I needed Celebrated with chinese (typical eh celebrating weight loss with food….I know I’m not the only one!) it was all within poins however so i was feeling extra smug afterwards

Today however I have definitely gone way over on my points as mum took us all out for dinner and Ihad steak and chips and all the trimmings and a choc sunday for dessert. It was lovely and I enjoyed every mouthful I am determined to make sure I have balance in my ww journey and I really feel like that means you give yourself the occasional times off. Don’t get me wrong I am fully aware that occassional really does have to be occassional but if you are always strict with yourself I think you just end up craving it more and then end up binging. If it means i dont lose any weight this week then oh well it will come off next week, I’m going for long term weight loss this time. It has taken me a long time to get my head around the fact that its not a race to the finish line its about stopping off along the way and enjoying the journey too. That way you still arrive and when you do you’re not so sick of it that you want to leave immediately and never go back again.