Sunday Weigh In 22

It's now been 22 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 I wasn't very well on Monday - felt really sick and had a very sore stomach so wasn't at all hungry after breakfast and could only manage to force down some macaroni cheese (it was the only thing I could think of that I wanted to eat) and obviously skipped swimming.  It's also been very wet again this week so there hasn't been as much walking.

Sunday:

Breakfast - 2 slices cheese on toast, skimmed milk, cherry tomatoes

Lunch - cous cous salad, 

Dinner - basil grande cocktail, mussels & toast, T-bone steak, garlic mash, sour cream & chives, watercress, red wine, water, mouthful of fudge cake & red velevet cakes

Snacks - 1 slice prosciutto, olives, dried strawberries

Exercise - none

Monday: 

Breakfast - baked beans, slice wholemeal toast, 2 scrambled eggs

Lunch - none

Dinner - macaroni cheese, slice wholemeal bread, fruit

Snacks - none

Exercise - 30 mins walking

Tuesday:

Breakfast - slice wholemeal bread & butter

Lunch - 1/2 ham salad sandwich, 1 slice cheese & ham on toast, skimmed milk

Dinner - stovies, cupcake

Snacks - yoghurt, quavers

Exercise - 30 mins walking

Wednesday: 

Breakfast - veggie sausages on white roll, ketchup, cup of tea

Lunch - salad & ham, skimmed milk

Dinner - Chilli made with Turkey mince, brown rice, 1 wholemeal pitta,  low fat sour cream & chive dip, coriander, 2 small glasses red wine, fizzy water & cordial, cupcake

Snacks - 4 haribo

Exercise - none

Thursday:

Breakfast - leftover chilli & brown rice
Lunch - Yo! Sushi, fizzy water

Dinner - leftover chilli & brown rice, slice of wholemeal bread

Snacks - 2 oranges, 3 haribo, 

Exercise - walking

Friday:

Breakfast - 2 veggie sausages on seeded bread, orange juice

Lunch - leftover chilli & brown rice, low fat natural yoghurt, 

Dinner - @ pizza express - 1/2 garlic bread, Romano pizza, caffe reale (figs & mascarpone), Bailey's latte, fizzy water
Snacks - @cinema - cherry sweets, jelly beans, sweet & salty popcorn

Exercise - tidying up!

Saturday: 

Breakfast - chilli, mini pancake & nutella, milk

Lunch - M&S buffet - sandwiches, macaroons, coke, soda water, profiterole, crisps, mini frittata, cosmopolitan

Dinner - antipasti, thai curry, rice, salad, meringue & cream & fruit, rose wine, water

Snacks/supper - mojito, french martini, champagne

Exercise - 3 hour circus skills class, dancing

And the results this week:

Weight last week - 12 st 5 1/2 lbs

Weight this week - 12 st 7 lbs

Loss/Gain this week - +1 1/2 lbs

Total Loss - 11 lbs

I've not been taking this seriously enough with all the eating out and my weight is creeping back up again a pound at a time.  Still struggling to stick to the exercise and being good with eating.  Need to get more organised again!

Sunday Steak - What I wore

When out for our Sunday evening with Roz and Barry, I wore my tie dress again :) along with a very special scarf that I just finished hemming that day!

My new favourite posing spot ;)

Dress - Enienay
Coat - H&M (old)
Scarf - Made by me!
Brooch - ebay
Bracelet - Next (old)
Necklaces - Tiffany & Hunter Goldsmiths
Bag - Mulberry
Shoes - Schuh

  

I've just realised it was a bit of a dragonfly overload but that brooch is always on that coat!

Sunday Steak

So our much anticipated Sunday roast turned into Sunday steak.  We went along to meet Roz and her hubby at Grill on the Corner on Sunday for a lovely roast only to be told that they had sold out, beef, pork AND chicken!  Gutted!  Instead they offered us 40% off the rest of the menu.  Sounded good but it turns out that we could actually get that any night anyway since Roz has a member card, plus we were supposed to be getting 50% off the roast.  We asked if maybe we could get a free glass of wine each to make up for our disappointment but were told the 40% off was all they could offer us.

Anyway, we started with a lovely cocktail in the bar, Roz had a Passionfruit Sling and I had a Basil Grande, both were delicious!

Dining room

Since we weren't having the roast dinner we all decided to have starters.  This time I tried the mussels with the white wine and cream sauce, I would actually say they were the best I've had and the perfect sized portion, not an intimidating pile for a starter - I used the slices of toast to make sure I got ALL the sauce!

Nik had the calamari which was definitely fresh as it wasn't your usual rubbery rings, it was the whole thing all chopped up and deep fried.  The piece I tried was delicious and although I'm not really bothered by tentacles I can't quite face eating them ever since I saw this (read more here if you want to know the science).

Calamari

We decided to order a bottle of red wine to go with our mains as we'd all decided to have steak and Roz had spotted a card in the bar with recommended wines on and noticed a Pinot Noir from Hungary (apparently it's the new New Zealand!) which we thought we would give a try as it was only £19.  Sadly it turned out that card was old and they didn't have any of that wine left either.  This time the manager came over to explain and apologise and since it was our second disappointment he had brought us over a different Pinot Noir which was worth £37, I was thinking we'd get it for the same price as the other but he told us it was not going on our bill!  Result = one delighted table.  Turns out it was even from a vineyard that Roz and Barry had been to and the wine was delicious (I really need to find another word but delectable sounds too silly!)

Roz went for the fillet steak, Nik had the Rib eye and Barry and I went hardcore and had the T-bone!

Fillet Steak & chips

Rib eye Steak & chips

T-bone steak & garlic mash

We all loved our steaks - all cooked almost perfectly (mine was a little too well done, I'd asked for medium-rare) and scrummy (also sounds silly but hey-ho!)  Barry and I were unsurprisingly stuffed but Roz and Nik managed dessert.  Roz had the red velvet cake I'd had before and Nik had the fudge cake (I had a taste of each!)

Red Velvet cake (and a rather measly amount of cream this time)

Warm chocolate fudge cake

We had a lovely evening with fabulous company and will just have to try booking again (maybe for lunch next time!) for the Sunday roast!

Roz & I outside

Salwar Kameez as a dress

Remember my Salwar Kameez I had made for my brother-in-law's wedding weekend in May?  Well just one week later I was able to wear it again - as a dress!  I had thought at the time that it would also make a nice dress which is why I asked for it to be made with no sleeves and shorter than the usual so it would sit just above the knee.

How I wore it - Indian Style

Unfortunately I seem to have lost the photos of me wearing it except this one of all of us at dinner at Zen in Durham.

 

I therefore decided to wear it again on Saturday night for dinner out with Nik (was meant to be going back to Chaophraya Thai but night out with the girls was cancelled as Sarah was unwell, so lovely hubby said he'd take me for dinner since I was disappointed).

 

As it has silver and gold detailing in the dress I can wear gold or silver accessories which is fab!  This time I decided to team it with two layered dragonfly necklaces.  I also used a slick of my turquoise eye-liner and my gold/green eye-shadow.