Sunday Weigh In 18

It's now been 18 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 so difficult to stay motivated with the exercise since it's been raining pretty much every day!  I've been taking the car to work again as I just can't face getting all soggy walking in it!  Also Pilates is on a 2 week break and I really haven't gotten back into my exercise routine at all with swimming and body pump.  I did manage to make myself go for a swim on Friday lunchtime though (thanks Amy for the push!)

Sunday:

Breakfast - 2 veggie sausages, ketchup, seeded roll, sparkling water

Lunch - salmon and prawn cous cous salad, cup of tea, sparkling water

Dinner - 'City Kitchen' Prawn linguine, cranachan

Snacks - maoam sweets, raspberries

Exercise - screen printing tiredness?

Monday: 

Breakfast - paella!, apple & raspberry juice

Lunch - cheese salad roll with coleslaw, Brannigan's crisps

Dinner - mozzarella (we suddenly realised we had to finish what we brought back!) and tomato salad, lemon oil, balsamic, pepper, basil, chicken kiev, oven chips, apple juice

Snacks - cherry yoghurt

Exercise - none

Tuesday:

Breakfast - 1 scrambled egg

Lunch - baked potato with tuna & sweetcorn mayo and salad

Dinner - Two Fat Ladies - risotto, bread, sea bream, veg, prosecco x2, sparkling water, dessert cocktail

Snacks - harissa style chicken & bean salad, cherry yoghurt

Exercise - none

Wednesday: 

Breakfast - 2 scrambled eggs, 2 bacon medallions, cup of tea

Lunch - fuller for longer puttanesca chicken pasta, milk

Dinner - salad, wasabi peas, yoghurt, small glass red wine (dinner in the bath :) )

Snacks - chilli wotsits, salt & vinegar squares, milk

Exercise - none

Thursday:

Breakfast - tuna pasta, milk
Lunch - tuna pasta with sweetcorn

Dinner - chicken liver parfait, oatcakes, salad, ox cheek, horseradish mash, jus, water, glass red wine

Snacks - quavers, cherry & ginger royale

Exercise - walking round town

Friday:

Breakfast - tuna pasta with sweetcorn, 1/2 sachet latte

Lunch - Baked potato with chicken & sweetcorn mayo, salad, sparkling water

Dinner - chilli snack a jacks, fruit box (melon & grape)
Snacks - cherry yoghurt

Exercise - 30 mins swimming

Saturday: 

Breakfast - bacon medallion, veggie sausage, 1/2 pot baked beans, grilled mushrooms, 2 scrambled eggs, slice of grainy wholemeal bread, apple juice, 1/2 cup of tea

Lunch - tuna sandwich, wotsits, milk

Dinner - Girls' Night - pizza, dip, garlic bread, potato wedges, champagne, wine, chocolate pot, small slice of apple tart

Snacks - orange juice

Exercise - none

 

And the results this week:

Weight last week - 12 st 4 1/2 lbs

Weight this week - 12 st 5 lbs

Loss/Gain this week = +1/2 lb

Total Loss - 13 lbs

I definitely need to step up my exercise game if I want to continue with a bit more weight loss.  The most difficult reason I haven't been able to motivate myself (other than the weather!) is that I am now very happy with how I look meaning I've levelled out a bit around this weight.  I would still like to tone up a bit more (I really haven't done much exercise since May really) and will be continuing with this diet (since it's not really a diet) anyway as I love it and it's so much healthier than before.  Having said that, this week has been full of a lot more wintry style comfort foods and been a bit pasta heavy, plus there were two nights out when I just ordered what I wanted (including creamy desserts), not to mention a girls night in with naughty treats!  So I'm not bothered about 1/2 lb gain at all.  I plan on heading back to body pump tonight though to continue my good work in being overall healthy.