Sunday Weigh In 11

It's now been 11 weeks since starting my new healthy lifestyle.  I decided that each Sunday I will post up my progress, whether successful or not in the hope that it encourages me to stay positive and keep going.  Knowing that I will be sharing it all here will hopefully keep my willpower up!  In order for me to keep track and look back for ideas, I will be listing my food diary here as well (and who knows, it might inspire others to have a go too!)  It also gives me somewhere to put all the photos of the yummy food I love to take as it always looks so good!

This week has been a bit up and down.  I've still been aware of what I'm eating but haven't been as bothered as usual as I've just been so tired.  Sadly my blood tests last week didn't show up anything useful, only that my inflammatory markers were up which is to be expected with a throat infection.  The throat swab was clear too meaning it was most likely a viral infection, as I suspected anyway.  I just wish I knew why I keep getting ill so often!  With all my healthy eating, I would expect my immune system to function a bit better!!

Breakfasts have been a bit random or missing this week as I've struggled to get up and organised in time and haven't been hungry until much later than usual either.

Monday: 

Breakfast - none

Lunch - pork (leftovers) sandwich (lettuce, tomato, light mayo), orange juice

Dinner - chicken curry, made from jar sauce with added aubergines, onions & peppers, rice, 1 slice wholemeal seeded bread, skimmed milk, cherry Muller fruit corner

Snacks - Wispa Gold

Exercise - none

Tuesday:

Breakfast - leftover pasta from weekend

Lunch - supernoodles

Dinner - chicken curry leftovers with extra added tinned tomatoes and peas, rice, chapattis, skimmed milk

Snacks - cup of tea

Exercise - none

Wednesday: 

Breakfast - tuna pasta

Lunch - leftover curry & rice, 1 slice wholemeal seeded toast, no butter

Dinner - sushi, mushroom pizza, salad (lettuce & tomato with Pizza Express low fat dressing), skimmed milk

Snacks - wotsits, cup of tea

Exercise - 30 mins walking

I should point out that I had 2 more slices after this!

Thursday:

Brunch - Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, orange juice

Dinner - daal, paneer saag, chicken tikka masala, rice, 2 x macarons, skimmed milk

Snacks - chocolate cake (from our neighbour), smoked salmon, skimmed milk

Exercise - 1 hour walking

Friday:

Breakfast - boiled egg on white roll, low fat butter, cup of tea

Lunch - smoked salmon salad, chocolate cake, skimmed milk

Dinner - Mahj's Steak & Stilton salad (but with St Agur instead!), raspberry yoghurt, 1 mango, orange juice, 1/2 glass red wine
Snacks - quavers, slice of light leerdammer, banana roll, 1 boiled sweet, cup of tea, semi-skimmed milk

Exercise - none

Saturday: 

Breakfast - slice of light leerdammer

Lunch - harissa chicken sandwich, apple & grapes, dragonfruit vitamin water

Dinner - chinese (lamb with cumin seeds, 5 or 6 boiled prawn & pork dumplings, 5 fried pork & chive dumplings, garlic aubergine), glass of white wine

Snacks - elderflower cider, 3 x macarons

Exercise - little bit of walking, to/from trains/buses

Sunday:

Breakfast - vitamin water (fruit punch)

Lunch - I decided to treat myself as I was a bit upset about losing my favourite scarf last night (I left it on the train back from Edinburgh) and decided to have a coke as my free drink since it was a such a warm, sunny day but on the condition to myself that I would walk the 30 mins back home from town rather than take the train - 6 inch subway (chicken tikka, lettuce, cucumber, tomato, olives, peppers, red onion, small amount of chipotle sauce) white chocolate and macadamia cookie, few mouthfuls of coke (as by the time I got home to sit in the garden it had gone flat anyway!)

Dinner - the other 6 inches of the sub, remaining vitamin water

Snacks - quavers

Exercise - 30 mins marching home

And the results this week:

Weight last week - 12 st 7 lbs

Weight this week - 12st 5lbs

Loss/Gain this week - -2lbs which is surprising considering my lack of exercise lately

Total Loss - 13 lbs

NEARLY at a stone, whoop!  Hopefully the nice weather will last and I will get back to walking to work every day and feel a bit more lively and motivated next week!