Off with those pounds

Well 2.5 of the pesky buggers off anyway. I am very pleased with that given my loss of focus a little bit last week. Tracking everything is definitely the only answer. Even with last night's post weigh in Chinese, I was only 3 points over for the whole week using my Activity points (I don't usually point my after weigh in meal, but try and make sure I have enough points left). Need to try and stay out of the activity points this week where possible.

I don't have much going on socially for the next few days, so that's a minor blessing. I've dinner out with a couple of girlfriends tonight, but I've only got Cottage Cheese and Salad to tide me over 'til then, so in theory, all should be good. Other than that, I've a lunch on Friday at a friend's house and I am taking the food, so I should remain in control.

The rest of the plan of action for this week is to keep up with the gym. I am hoping I can walk again by tomorrow after Monday's PT, so I can do a reasonably intense work out. I will also get myself to the gym on either Saturday or Sunday. Matt is having a minor operation on Friday, so the weekend should be fairly dry and therefore I won't have the excuse of a hangover to stop me.

8lbs down in 4 weeks with a 10 day holiday in the middle. I'll take that.

Things I've eaten today

Chocolate Philadelphia. 2 Pro Points for a mini tub and fairly lovely. I imagine on a digestive biscuit, this'd be bloody lush. I'm not usually that bothered about sweet stuff, but this was very nice.

Spoon is required to get all of the chocolate cheesy goodness out of the tub.




Pop chips - 3 pro points a bag and very tasty. Available on offer on Waitrose at the moment. I urge you to try them.




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Dear Mr. Personal Trainer....

I know I pay you a lot of money every week to help me to get fit. I know that I am right fatty and when I first met you, my fitness levels were shocking. I also know that we've seen a big improvement in my levels of fitness. However, you are literally beasting me. Seriously, I can barely move any muscle in my body today. Smiling feels painful. Can we please cut this out?

I know you wanted to punish me last night for almost cancelling my session, but did I really need to do such an intensive session? Honestly, 4 different exercises, for 40 seconds and repeat x 3, is really bloody hard for a fatso like me after I've already done sprint intervals on the cross trainer. I know I managed a plank a few weeks ago, but really, expecting me to hold it for 40 seconds next to that really fit bloke who can hold a plank for about 3hours, well that's just evil.

When I told you my lunch might make a reappearance, I wasn't joking. Just be glad I'd already cooked dinner otherwise I'd have been getting a KFC on my way home as the thought of standing for any longer than 10 seconds was beyond me. I had to sit down in the shower for goodness sake.

Oh and apologies for the swearing. I didn't mean to call you that horrible name.

So, in summary, I really appreciate your assisting me in this getting fit malarkey, but next week can we please just be a little bit nicer to each other?

Thanks in advance
Linzerello (literally broken).

the best laid plans

Happy Monday y'all. Another lovely day chez Linzerello, almost takes the edge off a Monday morning.

This week has not been as focussed as I'd like. I've been stupidly busy, which makes me take my eye off the ball a little bit. Everything has been pointed and I've ended up having to use a few of my activity points, which I really don't want to do. 

So the plan didn't quite go according to plan. I ended up missing the gym on Wednesday as I had to work late. Thursday went ok points wise but no exercise as I was visiting a friend, thankfully she'd made vegetable curry so that was healthy, but I succumbed to a little bit of Sticky Toffee pudding which wiped out 9 points (seriously 2 spoonfuls - eek). Friday, again, didn't make the gym as I got there and discovered my gym pants had a massive hole in the backside, seriously not a good look. Thought I'd go for a swim instead, but there was a children's swimming lesson on, so I took that as a sign that I should just go home and drink wine instead. The small consolation that I pointed the wine isn't really anything to be proud of.

Friday night's wine meant Saturday morning's gym session was really difficult. Exercise on an empty stomach and somewhat dehydrated is tough, I almost threw up on the cross trainer and had to stop after 25 minutes and a few strength exercises. That afternoon, I went for a walk along  the river in Henley with my friend and her baby while Matt and her other half played golf, so that was something I guess. 

Saturday night involved Chinese and Wine with friends, I ate a lot less than the other two ladies, but drank (more than) my fair share of the wine, saw the clock change from 1259 to 0200 and woke up at 0600 to the sound of my friends children shouting. Ouch.

Yesterday was another busy day, I drove home from my friends via the car valet (managed to completely flash the valet men who must have thought I was a right dirty stop out), came home, woke Matt up (lazy arse) cooked brunch, did Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred, showered, collected a friend from home from the train station, went baby visiting, went to the pub to enjoy the sunshine (diet cokes for me) and then for dinner at a local Italian, came home, tidied up and made up the spare bed for my friend and then went to bed. Phew.

Today, food is planned and seems to leave me with 20 points to spare. I know WW doesn't work like this, but if I don't need those extra points, I am not going to force myself to use them to try and make up for some of my excessive use of points over the last few days.

PT tonight will be bloody hard work on account of my feeble attempts at exercise since my last session. Really not sure what the scales will show me tomorrow, but we'll not stress too much. I'm still trying and that's half the battle!

I don't have much on this week other than dinner with a couple of girlfriends on Wednesday, so hopefully I will have a much better week. 

The skinny one....

Unfortunately I'm not talking about myself here, but a ready meal I picked up for lunch today when filling my car with petrol at our local Tesco Express.

I think these are only available in Tesco's, but this was blooming tasty for 8 PP's if you need something quick and full of flavour. They are made by City Kitchen who don't use and additives or preservatives in their ready meals.

I had the Skinny Thai Coconut Chicken and it was bloody lovely. On first glance, I thought it seemed a bit tiny, but I can confirm I feel very satisfied having sampled that for lunch. There was a lot of chicken, a good amount of sauce and just the right amount of rice. Not at all spicy either, just very fresh and tasty. They also do a Skinny Bombay Chicken (also 8 PP) which I am sure I shall sample at some point.

(City Kitchen haven't asked me to sing their praises - in fact they aren't aware of my existence and I'm not getting a load of free ready meals in return for this... unless they want to send me some then obviously I won't complain).

and the scales said...

.... 1.5lbs on. I am happy with that really, the last time I went on holiday I gained 6lbs so it's not the end of the world. I've been living on crappy ready meals since we got back from Cyprus as I've not had time to go shopping so I imagine that's not helping overly. I felt like Violet from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last night when I stepped on the scales. Too much salt and a longish flight maybe? Anyway, I'm still 5.5lbs down so it's all good.

PT on Monday night was totally hard core. I was a bit smug that I'd been to the gym 4 times so it shouldn't be too much of a shock to the system. What a mistake. My trainer clearly thought he needed to take it up a notch and increased my cross training sprints from 1 minute to 2 - no steady increase, just straight in there doubling  the time. Feck a doodle, I'm not sure what he thinks I am. He also had me lifting heavier kettle bells, lowering my squats and so on. The man is evil.

So the plan of action for the rest of the week to hopefully get the weight off:

Gym this evening - mini PT session. Dinner at Tampopo afterwards. Stir fry for me.
Tomorrow - Low pointed breakfast and lunch as visiting a friend after work and not sure what she is cooking.
Friday - Gym, then come home and cook a curry - my first Friday at home for about 8 weeks!
Saturday - Swim in the morning, then off to a friends for the night. Take away and wine with the girls - weeklies will be used for this. We are having Chinese so I can point in advance.
Sunday - Gym - some form of home cooked Sunday roast with a lot of Veg.
Monday - PT again. Ouch.
Tuesday - get weighed and lose 2 lbs.

Easy.

Wedding accessories

A shameless plug here, but 2 of my best friends have just set up their own wedding accessories site. Their stuff is amazing and I'll very likely be sporting something of theirs in August.

Go take a look and try not to swoon overly.

Back with more weight related topics later....

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