Day 141 weigh in

So this week, I've had better lunches as I got rid of the Dunkers, and instead I found some healthy style (not the unhealthy ones!!) vegetable crisps, nuts, dried fruit etc. This has made my lunches much more balanced. 

My dinners have been mostly ok. I've had jacket potato and tuna, turkey escalope and salad, chicken dippers and salad. My only one bad night was quite bad though... We went to an all you can eat Chinese!! After two plates I was full, clearly my stomach is shrinking due to my small lunches and breakfast, I was quite grateful!! 

It's been a very busy week, with parents briefing one night, going to the O2, prom tonight, and cinema night!! This means I haven't been out for a jog this week. I will be going tomorrow though, and I'm going to aim on about 4k if I can. Even if some of it is long stretches of walking. Race for life is just too soon. 

My 7 minute workouts haven't been that successful either. I always do them at night, but being so busy, and tired, I've just forgotten. The good thing is that it's not because I couldn't be bothered, it was purely be forgetting!! 

Next week I'm in PGL. that means full board food. Will certainly try hard to keep on the straight and narrow with just salads as much as I can!! Although It's an adventure camp, there isn't much room for going our jogging etc, still, I will try to make sure I get some fitness in. 

So I weighed in this morning at 15 stone 9lbs. This used to be a weight that I would often be at... It was my plateau weight before I put the extra few stone on. Hopefully next week I can try to lose a couple more. 

Update

I've been rubbish today!! I ran out of bits of food at home, so no food for breakfast. I took a yoghurt and raisins to work but only managed to have time for the raisins all day!! Then we went straight to the cinema at 6pm and I had a big bag of popcorn in there. Then on the way home about 10.30pm we got a Chinese takeaway. I didn't have lots though, I felt guilty and quite aware that I had done really badly!! Still, jogging tomorrow. Will try to get on the straight and narrow!!

Weigh in :-(

Day 134... I had been weighing every day to see how I was doing. I was on the route to losing a pound this week, however, yesterday evening I didn't exactly think properly! We had a really lovely dinner but it was pasta heavy, something I don't normally have. Then when coming home late, I bought a small doner kebab. I knew this morning that I felt heavier, and I have actually put on a lb. 

In terms of exercise, I did the 7 minute workout two days ago, but last night I was just busy and never got the opportunity. However I will try to do it tonight. Also, I'm going to go for a jog tomorrow. I'm going to aim to lose the 1lb I put on, plus more, just this weekend. Lots of salads and portion control!! 

Day 132... Still going?

So, I'm starting to lose my focus slightly. I've not been awful, I'm doing ok, but I'm not rapidly losing weight anymore. I guess a lot of the reason is because I've shifted two stone, and now it starts to get hard. Despite jogging about 7k a week, it's not really helping me lose weight. I jogged 3k on Saturday and was pretty good all weekend, but the weight isn't really moving.

So I think I need to reflect on everything and try and start again. I am just over a third of the way through my diet and I've lost 2 stone.  I want to lose about another 3 stone. With still about 7 months to go, I think I can do this.

My current diet consists of a banana and green tea for breakfast, during the day I have a muller light yoghurt, a packet of snack a jacks and a dairy lea dunker. I don't drink much in the day. Then in the evening I try to eat before 6-7pm, and I normally have something with salad, although occasionally I'll have something a little heavier. Normally we have fajitas, or a meat with salad. Last night we had tuna jacket potato, tonight is tomato omelette.

I used to jog every couple of days around here, but it's giving me shin splints, so I have to go further afield onto grass! I was going to go tonight but my legs are still really aching and I think I need to give them a break. Instead, I'm going to go for a really long jog next weekend in the park, on Saturday. I want to try to get to 4k next weekend.

I am, however, going to make sure I do my 7 minute workout every single night that I don't go for a jog. That will keep my fitness up and hopefully burn a few calories too. 

I'm also going to try to drink more!!

And finally, from next Monday, I'm going to change my diet at lunch time. I'm going to keep the yogurt, but although my other snacks are calorie controlled at 100 calories each, it's not exactly the healthiest, and is really just tiding me over until dinner. I don't have a lot of time, so packaged things do help me. 

I'm going to try a few things and see how I do. Firstly, trail mix. Perhaps some carrots and humous too, and grapes. Rice cakes seem popular on most websites as an ideal snack, so I think I will keep the snack a jacks, but stop with the Dunkers, and switch to trail mix, and see how that goes. 

Day 125... Still alive!!

Ive not posted in a very long time!! It's been busy, and then my internet has been broken... So a quick update: 

In Norfolk I was fairly careful... I had healthy breakfasts, green tea whenever possible, although we did have fish and chips for lunch on the Saturday.

I've started jogging much more. Every couple of days I do 2.5k, but running on Tarmac is really painful for my shins, so I can't jog more than that! Tonight I'm going to go somewhere different so I can try jogging on grass instead and see if that helps.

I weighed in yesterday at 15 stone 10 lbs, so another 2lbs off. It is going slowly but I'm less good with my eating habits now. I need to try a bit harder with it. I still have a banana for breakfast, yoghurt, snack a jacks and a dunker throughout the day, but then my meal in the evening is starting to get larger. I will try to curb back. 

Tonight is stew, so I can be careful to not eat the potato or rice, and steer clear of dumplings, and aim for more of a soup!!