Less and less, day by day

Val was nagging us to keep a diary last week. She's desparate for someone from one of her groups to be a sucess story in the magazine. She tried to sell it on how motivating it would be for us to see someone from our area suceed but really she just wants there to be some story saying "Yeah, my leader was Val, she helped me loads". As you might have guessed, I'm not desparately enamoured with her at the minute. The stories she occasionally tells us are really annoying and sickly. I'm not very good with inspirational stories - too cynical I guess.

Anyway, as part of that she was trying to get us to keep diaries about how we're feeling about our weightloss so that when we write our sucess stories we can look back on them and that reminded me of here. I think that I am going to start writing here a bit more again. Not trackers but miscellaneous thoughts. So, where are we now?

Well, we're where we were about 3 months ago. I'm still hovering around 11st (actually 11'4" at the moment) and well, I just don't want it enough right now. There's too much other stuff going on and I just don't have time to focus on dieting. I'm still going along to WW for a couple of reasons though, even though it costs. Partly, I just don't want to give up where I've got to so far. It's a bit achievement for me to be hovering just above 11 and I don't want to let that slide. And then I know that I'm going to want to get the other stone off eventually - I'm not satisfied with my weight/body shape as I am right now. When the summer passes (and I've been there a year) things will quieten down for me again. I'll hopefully have more energy and perhaps more inclination to be disiplined about exercise again. I'll come back to it, I guess is what I'm saying. I'm not giving up and I'll come back to it.

Curses! Afternoon lassitude at work, combined with the leftovers from the training lunch in the kitchen have caused me to eat

- a handful of M&S tortilla chips
- an M&S cheesy puff thing
- an Eccles cake
- a chocolate marshmallow thing

Probably about 6 points right there! I guess I'll have to skip a bit this evening to try and make up for it.

Chilli beef wrap: 260 kcal, 1.1 sfat
Salt and vinegar fries: 85 kcal, 0.1 sfat
Choc muffin dessert: 150 kcal, 1.1 sfat

Well, I haven't updated this for a while, but I just have to today because I weigh 10'13''! How cool is that - a number with a 10 in front! And only 13lb to go until goal! That's still a while of dieting - I seem to be losing about 1-1.5lb a week at the minute so it might not be until June but still - nearly there! I was particularly good last week (no wine or caffine) so that probably contributed. I might try to cut back on wine a bit more in general and see how that does.

Yay! I got 1.5lb off this week which means that I've lost 2 whole stone now! I'm on the home straight - only 1st2.5lb to go :) In the next few weeks I should get to under 11st too which will be fantastic. I'm not treating myself to anything specific for this milestone because I've got my birthday presents and all but I do feel really chuffed. I can do this.

OK, so first up I lost another pound this week. It's a case of slowly and surely right now. I could be losing faster, but it's more important to me at the minute to not be denying myself stuff but still be enjoying my food. I was really pleased that I got another pound off this week. And, I went into Next on the way to the meeting to buy a belt to wear with my jeans. And I bought a size 12-14 one! It fits and everything! It's on the first hole at the minute, true, but it'll be fun to watch the inches drop off by counting down belt holes :)

I managed to lose another pound this week, which I'm pretty pleased with. Friday night was drink and snacks at Jeremy's and then Saturday was dinner out *and* extra drink at the OCC delayed Xmas do. I did get a reasonable amount of exercise done though - I went to aerobics for the first time on Friday which was a bit of a killer! I'm a bit annoyed with the gym atm for mucking up the boxercise class which I'd really had to drag myself to because my cold was really bad yesterday. Lets see if they can get synergise right. I very nearly got a pasty on the way back as a treat but then I decided that I might make it along to the pub this evening in which case I'll need those extra points for drinking :) Alex isn't eating at home tonight so I get to have seafood pasta stew stuff again, which should be nice, although I think it needs a bit more soy sauce to really make it work.

So, I'm finding it difficult to rein back in after my Christmas break - I'm just feeling tempted a lot at the moment. I've been given a diary for Christmas so I'm using it to keep my trackers in and I'm just going to post random thoughts here and weight loss progress.

So, I've lost 1.5lb this week which puts me on 11st 5.5lb which is a new low. Which is good considering I indulged myself quite a lot this week. I've been spending my exercise points, which I don't normally do, but I am having a bit of a post Xmas blues so I figure I could do with cheering up. I bought some Tesco healthy living sponge puddings last week which were quite nice and I've got some weightwatchers yoghurts now, so at least if I treat myself I won't go to far over or anything.

For some reason, I am seized by a horrible temptation to eat my lunch now. This would be a bad idea.

Hmmm. I keep forgetting to post up the trackers, so I guess I'm going to forget that for now and restart tracking in the New Year. Or at least, restart posting trackers - I have been tracking, just on the back of the shopping list and so on. I weighed in yesterday and I had lost a pound this week, despite going to Adrian's party, which I was pretty pleased with. I'd planned for the party and saved up lots of points for it, but I wasn't quite sure how it had all balanced out. I'm now on a new low of 11'6" :) Less than 1.5 stone to go :) I'm hoping to do OK over Christmas, but I'm not going to worry about it too much.