Food accountability

So far so good this week. I've managed Spinning class on Wednesday night and Dynamic Yoga last night which I think almost finished me off. We had a different teacher as ours is on holiday and he certainly didn't mess about. I am not overly good with my strength or balance, but am hoping that if I keep going to the class, I can only improve.

In a vain attempt to keep on track with food and having been spurred on by Karon (or Twinkle!) doing it last week, I've decided to photograph what I am eating. Then at least I'm a bit more accountable if I am posting it here every day - no more snaffling things without admitting it to myself. If I keep this up over the weekend - this might help me understand how completely off track I normally go!

So here is yesterday - a pretty good day for me:

Breakfast - 1 sachet of Oatso Simple with 180ml of Skimmed Milk, 14g of Raisins (SunMaid Snack Pack) and 1 small banana. Cup of Red Bush tea and 750 ml Water - 3.5 points

I actually found this kept me full until lunch time - normally I'm staring at the clock every 5 mins.

Lunch - Bowl of Home made Sweet Potato and Butternut Squash Soup and a Tiger Roll. Can of Diet Cherry Coke, 750 ml of water - 4 points


Mid afternoon snack - Packet of Pickled Onion Space Raiders with 50% extra free. 2 points. I love these!
I also had a small skinny latte from Costa for 0.5 points.

Dinner - My version of Carbonara and Garlic Bread. I had a fairly hefty portion as I was very hungry after Yoga, normally I'd have less pasta with this.

80g Dried Pasta (4)
2 lean rashers of Bacon (3)
1 onion
Portion of Mushrooms
30g Les Kol Cheese grated (1.5)
1.5 Medium Eggs (2) - I cooked this for 2 of us, so I didn't half an egg for myself which might be quite tricky!

Cook pasta. Dry fry onions, mushrooms and chopped up bacon. When pasta is cooked add to the bacon mix. Mix the eggs with salt and pepper and the grated cheese. Take pan off the heat and stir in the egg mix to coat until egg is slightly set but not over cooked.

Also served with half a crusty roll spread with lurpak lighter and garlic and then grilled.

11.5 points in total

Total for the day 21.5 points leaving me 4 to save for the weekend.

Phew.

Work has been fairly busy this week which has kept me out of trouble - I am definitely a boredom eater so the fact I am flat out works pretty well for me.

Matt's brother is down for the weekend - this always involves a lot of drinking, so I am going to have to try and reign that in a little bit, the scales haven't budged (well apart from 0.5 up this week) for 2 weeks. I so want to see a new number on the scales on Weds!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and this hideous weather isn't causing too much trauma for anyone.

Recipe

Recipe for the Fajita stack is here :)

Not to self - Don't get drunk the night before WI

Half a pound on - but I am pretty sure that's down to the copious amounts of alcohol I got through last night. Not at all clever. I am not even sure why we decided to have a drink on a school night. Popped to the pub after work and I had a couple of G&T's (slimline of course) and then we got home and it all went downhill from there. I'd cooked that Chicken Fajita stack that I was raving about a few weeks ago and I had mine with Spinach and oven roasted cherry tomatoes - bloody lovely:

So that was only 6 points worth of food. But then we opened a bottle of wine... and then another one. Doh. I went to bed feeling fairly squiffy to say the least. Ho hum, you live and learn.

Had my first physio session yesterday - not really sure what to make of it to be honest. I guess it was more of an assessment than anything else, but the physio was running late and therefore spent most of the time looking at the clock, which somewhat annoyed me. Anyway, she told me my balance is shot (I kind of knew that already) and that the ligaments are damaged and weakened from my repeated spraining of it. I've also got a collapsed arch and am over compensating for the sprain by walking more on the inside of my foot. Anyway, I've got a wobble cushion that I need to work with for the next 2 weeks to try and improve my balance. I have a feeling I am more likely to fall off the bloody thing and do even more damage, but we'll give it a go.

Made a slight faux pas with today's lunch - bought a couple of rolls yesterday so made myself some sandwiches with Parma ham, spinach and a bit of pesto. Trauma is each roll is 4 bloody points. Only leaves me with 8.5 points for dinner tonight so I'll have to go low pointed so I can save a couple in case required at the weekend. I've booked in for spinning so that should earn me a few as well.

I am going to do my best not to let the weekend blow it all for me, I really want to get my 50 pound loss and its within touching distance.

Physio and flashing

First of all, thank you everyone for your lovely comments on my last post regarding the dress. I may even wear one more often now that I have mastered the art of tottering in a heel.... well, thats perhaps a tad optimistic, I can stand in them for around 3 minutes at a time, that's progress.

Despite my best efforts the past 2 days, I am going to finish off my WW week -15 points. Not at all the end of the world and I am hoping it won't result in a gain given you are technically allowed 6 points a day for maintenance, but somewhat annoying that my lack of control at the weekend undoes most of my hard work. I've also not done any form of movement since painting on Sunday - I was in bloody agony all day yesterday from said painting which made any form of movement somewhat difficult. Anyway, tomorrow we shall see. I'll be digging out my lightest of clothes, removing all jewelry and possibly underwear in a vain attempt to see the scales move down. I'd get weighed naked if my fellow WW'ers didn't mind.

Working from home today as I've finally managed to arrange physio on fat ankle. Got my first session later so I am hoping it will be beneficial, my ankle is still large, but really hard so I am not overly sure what's going on there. I guess that's because I work in IT and didn't spend years studying medicine. Let's hope the physio can work out whats happening with it!

Unfortunately physio means I am going to have to miss Knitting Club tonight as I won't be able to make it over to Twickenham in time. Bit of a shame as I was looking forward to it and my knitting is not exactly coming along in leaps and bounds. I've had to resort to buying myself a scarf as the 2 inches I've so far managed just wasn't going to cut it in Winter.

I also made the unfortunate mistake of flashing at the Gardener today. We live in a ground floor flat and ours is at the back looking onto the garden - no one is ever in the garden so I've gotten into the rather bad habit of not closing the curtains when I am getting dressed. Imagine my horror (and definitely his) when I stepped out of the shower in the en suite with the door wide open to see the Gardener staring back at me through the bedroom window. Poor, poor man. I am really hoping he is short sighted. Hopefully he won't recognise me with my clothes on.

Ooooh and at lunchtime I bought a couple of bottles of wine as they were on offer in Morrisons - I was asked for ID!! I could have kissed the lady, I am a fairly haggard looking 33 today (I'm normally 33 obviously but not normally haggard - lack of sleep). I think losing a bit of weight off my face has made me look younger - I was also told that by my friend last night who I used to live in Prague with. I popped over to Windsor to see her last night for dinner and to see her 9 month old son - he's adorable, anyway, I digress..... She said I was looking really young at the moment. I presume she meant it in a good way and not that I was resembling mutton in my attempts to dress a bit trendier of late :)

Busy weekend

Once again I've really struggled to stick to points over the weekend - me + socialising = points disaster. We had a lovely meal out with friends on Friday, I made a vague attempt to be good with my first 2 courses (parsnip soup, although I am sure it was full of cream and then coq au vin) but dessert I opted for treacle tart with clotted cream. This plus a few vinos and then 3 cocktails, didn't really make for the healthiest of evenings!

We had a christening yesterday - for which I wore a dress and a pair of heels. I actually felt quite ladylike for once -I usually feel like a man in drag when I wear shoes higher than half an inch. I'm less of a boiled egg on stilts these days however. Not really the best picture but you can kind of get the idea. I can't wait til my calves are less humongous.

There was a buffet at the christening and I tried so hard to be good - but I probably went way over points again. It so hard to estimate when you're not in control of the food. Self control when I am hungry is something I struggle with.

Today hasn't been hideous points wise, I've spent most of the day painting the en suite, which I think is a proper work out - I've even got blisters on my hands! Popped out for a couple of hours with my friend to look around the shops and ended up £90 worse off! I had vowed not to spend any money so that was pretty useless. I've only had a baguette from Pret all day so I should be ok to have steak and chips later.

Back to proper planning tomorrow. I need a loss this week.

Dynamic Yoga - another name for torture

Oh my poorly aching body. I've only done the one dynamic yoga class - prior fat ankle, and I don't remember it being so painful. I've pains today in places I didn't know I had. I was always of the belief that for a larger lady, I was fairly supple, but Jesus Christ, some of the positions people get themselves into - not a chance. Have a look at this little puppy:

Honestly - how is that humanly possible? The teacher was heading off on holiday today for 3 weeks so I reckon she was making sure we didn't forget her by trying to cripple us before she went. It worked. It doesn't help that my friend is the supplest person known to man and she can bend herself into all sorts of knots while I am huffing, puffing, wincing and struggling to support my vast girth on one leg. I'll get there though. Maybe.

With last nights pizza, I went a couple of points over, but I'm not stressing too much given I'd done an hour of Yoga. With Dynamic Yoga you move really quickly between all of the poses, so you do tend to work up a bit of a sweat as well as hideous pain in every muscle in your body. Am I selling it??

Food today is sorted. Toast for breakfast. Have 1.5 point slow cooker chicken curry for lunch with 2 points of rice. Leaves me with 18.5 points for dinner tonight, plus the 11 I've banked so far. I won't be drinking loads as my friend is pregnant so I feel pretty bad for her if we all end up getting blotto, I'll maybe let the boys do most of the drinking and just have myself a couple of glasses of Vino so I can hopefully maintain some control. Food at the place we are off to is amazing so I am really looking forward to it.

I'm hoping I won't get flooded in before that, the weather is absolutely hideous at the moment, I was practically driving through lakes last night to get home from the gym. Not sure my poor little Clio is equipped for under water exploits.

Right then, lunch is calling. Have a great weekend everyone.

Bumbling along

I've managed a day and a half of being on track - so far so good. Let's hope it stays this way. Last night I did Spinning, even though it was the last thing in the world I felt like doing, I'm finding it hard to motivate myself to move more when its dark and miserable outside. Glad I went though, we had another new trainer and he was cool. This sounds a bit daft, but he has just been travelling for 6 months so has lost some of his fitness - I kinda liked the fact that he was sweating and as out of breath as the rest of us, it made a nice change from Robo Trainer who barely breaks a sweat.

Dinner last night was Low Fat Sausages with mashed Swede, Onions, Mushrooms and Leeks, Bisto and a couple of Yorkshire Puddings. Absolutely lovely for 5.5 points. Managed to save 2 points for the weekend as well, go me!

Today has been good foodwise as well. I've got 15 points left for dinner (after I have been to dynamic Yoga - ouch) so my mate is coming round with a pizza - should be able to have a couple of slices with some salad and still save points for tomorrow. I'm finding zero point butternut squash soup is my absolute saviour at the moment. I make it really thick so it feels really indulgent. Lovely at the moment with miserable weather.

Other than that, not much to report. We're out for dinner with friends tomorrow night so I won't be massively good then, Saturday we have a Christening and Sunday we've lunch with other friends. Why does my socialising always seem to revolve around food??! I guess my progress has been kind of slow this year as I have been determined that WW would become part of my life as opposed to it becoming my life. I still want to socialise and enjoy myself, so that means I'll go over points some times. I suppose I prefer it my way as I'm more likely to stick with this for the long haul.