Weigh In Day: Week 1 of 12

As I explained, I am now back on Cambridge Weight Plan and I have been following the SS (Sole source) plan for a week. So its my first week on Cambridge but 10th week as far as weigh ins with my consultant, and since I only put on 1.25lbs since I saw her last I decided to count this week as week 10, but its really week 1. Does that make sense? I hope so! Anyway, down to the nitty gritty of what I lost this week....

-16 & 1/4lbs!

Yep! In one week I managed to lose over 1 stone! 1 stone 2 1/4lbs in fact. I was amazed, as was my consultant but its a great personal achievement and shows what being on slimming world, then 3 days off any diet, then straight on CWP and sticking to it does for your body. I think going from CWP to SW was a mistake for my body, its so high carb based and CWP is so low in carbs I think eating v low carb for 10 weeks then 3 weeks of high carb really contributed to this first week loss. Or week 10, lol!

In total as my pic shows I've now lost 64 1/4lbs and its in only 10 weeks, so im really happy with that. Im really on target for my goal for 3 months, I wanted to lose 4stone in 12 weeks, and Im already 1/4 of the way there. I may even get 5 stone off, who knows. Im prepared for a much smaller loss this week since that loss I had was huge! But onwards and inwards I go, towards my goal!

We are just a Couple of Losers!

Since its Valentine's Day today, I thought I would share a couple of photos of my husband and me:

The top one is from our wedding day, 3/3/12. It was such a romantic and magical day that I will never forget. I was really happy and didn't care that my dress was a size 26 and I weighed around 25 STONE! But I didn't care one bit, because I was marrying my best friend *awww* lol!

The second one is from today, 14/2/14. We have now lost 9 stone since our wedding day between us (and gained a beautiful daughter!) using a combination of different methods to help us both lose weight and I am continuing on using the Cambridge Weight Plan to lose more and hubby is eating healthily. We are much healthier now and I would say happier in ourselves, you can really see the difference!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Wake Me Up Before You Go Go : A Breakthrough!

Last night I had a really down night, I felt rubbish and at 10.30pm I wanted something tasty, and nothing would satisfy me so I drove to Tesco ( at 10.30pm!) and bought ice cream and doughnuts and malteasers and then ate all of it. Did it make me feel better? Did I feel fulfilled and satisfied? NO! I felt uncomfortable, over full, sick and still fed up, but not more-so because I'd eaten all that rubbish! Then I couldn't sleep for thinking about it.

Our alarm clock is one which you can dock your iPhone and have it wake you up with music, and it was on shuffle. So I woke up to a song I've not heard before, called "Jump" by Gary Barlow. I woke up as soon as I heard the first bit of music and lay there listening to it and it really put into words how I was feeling. (Here are the lyrics in case you don't know the song)

Its basically about how you feel really rubbishy and down and you know what you have to do to make you feel better, to make your life better but you are too scared to do it in case you fail. And yes, you might fail but as long as you try again you will be stronger afterwards. It really touched me and made me think. Why did I 'need' to eat chocolate and ice cream last night? Well, since I still felt rubbish after I ate it, it obviously wasnt the chocolate I wanted, but I have associated feeling down/depressed/annoyed/rubbish with eating that kind of food so thats what I wanted and in my mind 'needed' to make myself feel better. I actually thought I was feeling depressed BECAUSE I was 'dieting' but that is obviously not true. So, my breakthrough this morning is to not dive straight for 'bad' food when I feel bad, but to try and dig deeper and try to find out what I actually want, what I am feeling. Its about time I sort this out and crack it before I end up putting the weight I've lost back on and more and more. Im almost 29 and I really want to sort myself out, get my weight off before I end up fat and 30!

"...maybe once or twice you’ll fall flat on your face

But when you move on you’ll be twice as strong..."

Slimming World Switch-a-roo Week!

Start Weight: 23st 11lbs

Start BMI: 49.2

Current Weight: 19st 8.5lbs

Current BMI: 40.5

Loss this week: -5 1/2lbs

Total Loss: 58 1/2lbs

First weigh in this morning at my new SW group and I've lost 5 1/2 lbs. Very happy with that with the amount of food I've eaten this week. I went to the later group this week which is a real 'Granny Group' but they love a good recipe and their slow cookers. They seem nice enough. I got a recipe for a 'chocolate cake in a mug' which I will try this week and share on here. 

Goal for this week:

• Stick to plan and within my 10-20 syns a day (I get 5 extra syns as I'm over 17st).
• Eat 1/3 super-free with each meal.
• Lose 2lbs at WI.

Nothing too exciting from me today, tomorrow a new recipe for ham and hashbrown omelette! 

SHRINK SHRink shrink.......

Its time I made myself a blog, Ive attempted it before but never quite got the hang of it and I think I made 2 posts in all. This time Im going to get organised and make it a blog worth reading.

My journey so far..

I decided I needed to lose weight.... actually thats not true, Ive always needed to lose weight but I just didnt WANT to do it and couldnt be bothered, so I ballooned to a shocking 25 stone in March 2012. I got married and had my honeymoon and then I saw the photos!!!!! I hadnt realised that I had got to the size I was, I was wearing size 26/28 clothes but even that didnt really get through to me. In April 2012 I found out I was pregnant, and over the next 9 months I actually lost weight. My daughter was born in Nov 2012, and I was deliriously happy so my weight was the last thing on my mind. 
In September 2013 I was definately getting annoyed with my weight, not being able to buy nice clothes, and my daughter was going to be having her 1st birthday in November so I decided it was time to lose weight. In October I started doing the 'Cambridge Weight Plan'. I found it really easy as I was so very determined and between October-December 31st I lost 5 stone, which got me to 18st 11lbs! Very happy! 
I had to stop Cambridge as I have a chronic pain condition and the doctors have increased my pain medication and told me to take them with food, and REAL food, not pretend food. So I had to make a decision...
On Tuesday (14th Jan) I joined Slimming World and had my first weigh in at group, turns out I now weigh 20 STONE so I put on 1stone 3lbs in about a week off any plan. Not great but better than it could have been considering what I ate! So thats where I am now. I am in my first week on SW and sticking to plan and finding it amazing how much food Im allowed. 
I hope that wasnt too boring, but wanted to start with a bit of history and my journey so far.