Whoopsie

Haven't updated again in a while, as pointed out continuously by Sophie :P

As of yesterday I am down to 12st 4lb! Which I'm happy and disappointed about. I was hoping I'd be down to about 12st. 2lb now but weigh day on the 10th showed I'd put on 1lb then last week I lost 2lb. Sadly I didn't get any exercise in this week because I managed to pull muscles in my legs which meant I couldn't do anything all week. But back on the exercise wagon tonight hopefully so I can do lots and lots this week and hopefully get down to 12st 1lb on Thursday, just in time for my London weekend :) (Where I will likely put it all back on by Sunday!)

I have noticed I've been getting less and less hungry during mid-morning and mid-afternoons now. Even evenings after meals I've really cut down on my snacking.

I was evaluating my targets too yesterday. If all goes well I could be down to 11st 6lbish for the end of August. Assuming I can get there, I can then easily get down to 10st 6ish (if not more!) for the middle of October. Meaning I'll be skinny for when I got to Belgium! 10st is also well within the healthy range on the BMI scale which means I could probably stay 10st for a while quite happily, even through my total goal is 9st 6lb. Still, I suppose 6lb isn't too much after 10st. I think I'll be able to do it :)

I need to change the exercise I do too. I read somewhere that a mix of Aerobic exercise and toning exercise makes the most difference to your shape when losing weight, so I need to step up the toning exercise a bit I think!! Will probably try and do aerobic until the end of August and pick up toning Septmber. If I do toning exercise 4 times a week that should be enough to get me looking good, or so I hope!

I can't wait to be skinny!

Slip up?

Friday night, neither me or my "better" half could be bothered to cook, or do washing up for that matter. So we decided to get take away. I tried to be healthy, but as one knows, there is no such thing as a healthy indian takeaway! I ended up having Chicken Balti and Pilau rice, and even then I only ate half of it. I think it was about 22 calories for the meal, plus another 6 for a Bhaji picked up in Sainsburys. It was still higher in fat than I should of been allowed but considering before when I would have indian I would eat all the rice, and the chicken, and have a bhaji AND Naan bread with it at least, I didn't do too bad. I had to take 3 points off my allowances yesterday but I managed fine :)

So I'm back on the cross trainer later, want to do a half hour if I can. Going to make a playlist of some metal tunes to keep me going. I had made a playlist dubbed "Metal Workout" on my Windows Media Player so will be going for some of that I think!

Weightloss Keep Cool Tip: Jubbly Lollies. They are the ones you buy in a box and freeze yourself. They are only about 20 calories a lolly and low in sugar so won't damage your teeth! They come in 4 different flavours, Tropical, Orange, Strawberry and Blackcurrent. Apparently they also do smoothie ones but they are high in sugar and more calories. Tesco have them 2 for £2 at the moment so go! Buy some and keep cool in this weather!!


Also thought I would share my first recipie to the world :) I found this on the net and tried it out, and by god its lovely!!

What you need is:

• 4 Blocks Medium Egg Noodles, (65g each )
  
• 2 Chicken Breasts, Skinless (approx 150g each)
• 1 Jar/195g Stir Fry Sauce (we use Sharwoods Hoi Sin and Spring Onion)
  
• 4 Button Mushrooms
• 1 Medium Courgette
• ½ Yellow Pepper
• ½ Red Pepper
  
• 1 tbsp Olive Oil
• 4 Spring Onions
• 1 Red Chilli or 1 tsp EPC Very Lazy Chilli (optional)

If you don't like Courgette then experiment! Have Tomatoes instead or have Mini Cobs etc etc.

Oh and don't forget, you will need skewers!!

Method

1. Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil, add the noodles, return to the boil and simmer for 4 minutes (or per pack instructions).
2. Cut the chicken breasts into 1" chunks and place them into a bowl. Add ¾ jar of Yellow Bean Sauce and stir chicken to coat. Set aside.
3. Preheat grill.
4. Meanwhile, quarter the mushrooms; slice the courgette into ¼"/½cm pieces; deseed and slice the pepper into 1" squares.
5. Take each of the wooden skewers and make up the kebabs, starting each with a quarter of mushroom and then alternating chicken, courgette and pepper (as you wish), and ending each with another quarter of mushroom.
6. Place the kebabs onto the grillpan and cook for 10-15 minutes, turning frequently, until chicken is cooked.
7. Once kebabs are cooked, heat the oil to smoking point in a wok, carefully add the spring onions and chilli and stirfry for 1 minute. Add the noodles and remaining sauce and stir to coat. Heat through.
8. Serve kebabs on bed of noodles and eat immediately!

I'm sure there are various alternatives for the things in this recipie, swap the chicken for Prawns or fish, not sure whats available world wide but there have to be some varients of everything world over!

Here's the science bit...

Nutrition Information Per Serving (Serves 4)

| 391 calories | 6.2g fat

| 26.2g protein | 57.9g carb

| 3.2g fibre | 1.4 fruit/veg

So all in all, pretty darn good for you :)

Shall now go, make my new playlist and do some exercise!

Weigh Day!

Thursdays for me are Weigh Days. The day I step on the scales at work and I see what my weight had decided to do for the week.

I weighed in last week at 12 stone 10lb. I was pretty chuffed to drop 3lb. However, when I stepped on the scales this week, I was down a further 4lb bringing me back to the 12 st 6lb I was before I stopped my diet for a while. So I'm back down to being a stone lighter than my original weight! Which has made me happy :)

So I'm officially officially back to dieting. back to weight loss now I've got that half stone off. I would like to lose 10lb for when I go to London in August, which will bring me down to 11st 10lb. Would be lovely to be that I have to say :) Well on my way to my second stone too with that (of course if I were to lose 14lb in the next 4 weeks I would not be complaining!)

So tonight I did some exercise, 15 minutes hooping, 15 minutes Cross Trainer. It wears me out but I love doing it. Might give it a miss tomorrow though. A night off won't do me any harm :)

Exercise!

Well my Cross Trainer came on Tuesday. Was very exciting. Sadly by the time we had figured out that half the instructions were wrong and managed to put together it was a bit late for exercise so I had to buy pass it till Wednesday.

So yesterday, I came home and I got on that cross trainer. Admittedly its probably not the smartest thing to be doing in a heatwave, but I want my exercise and damn, I am going to get it. So I ended up on the Cross Trainer for 20 minutes, which for a first timer, and in the heat, I didn't think was too bad. I did 15 minutes forwards and only 5 minutes backwards. I guess my legs just aren't used to going in that direction and all the muscles it decided to use creacked at me so I thought it best not to push myself too far these first couple of times. It was great though. I could have done more if my legs hadn't given up on me, I wasn't feeling too out of breath. Which means I guess I'm fitter than I thought.

To make up for lack of Cross Trainer exercise (I had aimed for 30 minutes) I went and played with my hula hoop for 15minutes. My current high score on my Hula Hoop is keeping it up for 4 minutes. I didn't time myself much yesterday but I think I was too hot from the cross trainer to care about whether or not I kept my hoop up.

So it's weigh day today and we shall see where I land on the scales later. I'm hoping to be 12 st 8lb. That would be great but I don't think I feel like I've lost weight this week, so we'll see. I have been good with my food, sticking to my plan as always. Although I guess I did have fish and chips on Friday that I shouldn't have. But other than that I've been good as gold. And I've done exercise Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, so I've been burning off calories. Hopefully it won't be too long till I can get down to 11st 13lb :) Thats my dream for now. I would love to be that for the beginning of August, I think I have about 5 weeks or so. I don't think it'll happen but as close to 12st I can get between now and then would be fab.

Also started my diet journal. It's a little hardback book in which I have put my photos from my last entry, a print out of my BMI and will now be updated daily with the amount of food I eat, the amount of points I eat and how much exercise I do etc. Then I will know where I am on everything and can't over eat :) Hopefully.

Well wish me luck. The scales call!