Weight Watchers

[Diane65]

Good morning everyone.
Menu of the day:
Special K clusters with milk and a black coffee (300 calories)
Garlic sausage and salad wholemeal roll, natural yoghurt with fresh blueberries, a kiwi and a satsuma. (350 calories)
Weight Watchers Jamaican Jerk chicken (350 calories) pineapple (it was massive and needs eating up) and coconut yoghurt (150 calories)
Cadburys options (50 calories)

I have a free evening so I will be able to do both my work out and a 2 mile walk. I've got a virtually free weekend -only task is to book a city break and a holiday so that isn't exactly hard work (3 days off and then I'm only working until lunch on Tuesday- what a cushy time I've got ahead) so loads of time to fit in extra exercise.

What is everyone else planning for this weekend?

[Preston1990]

Best of Luck for your weigh-in Biggins

As Diane has allready said, Well done for showing that remarkable restraint in the face of a hotel full cooked breakfast. Hotel breakfasts were one of my huge downfalls when I was still working especially the buffet style help yourself ones.

Thanks MrG for posting that useful information about fat loss. And also for recommending the Sparkpeople videos on youtube. Wow, there are loads of them - I had a quick look at them late last night and will be selecting some of them to do on a regular basis. Fantastic to have such a choice as well as it's probably beneficial to keep on mixing them up and trying different ones. That should stop the body from recognising a routine and keep it guessing as to what the hecks going on.

I will mention the weightloss to my doc when I'm next there and ask if I can see the practices nutritionist. I am also standing by for instructions regarding resistance (weights) training. I'm intrigued and would love to give it a go but I will need to check that out with the doc first because although he was encouraging about exercise in general he specifically said don't do any heavy lifting. Of course there's heavy lifting and heavy lifting isn't there! Maybe dumbells wouldnt be considered as bad as hauling tree trunks etc.

I like the sound of the chickpea dahl Preston it sounds delicious - another thing for me to try

It is really delicious - we b*y cans of it from ASDA but I'm sure most supermarkets will stock it.

Are you not going to the Toddler Poisoner's today Diane?

Today’s Menu

1) Two Weetabix, handful of blueberries and skimmed milk.

2) Raw Carrot batons to chomp on as mid-morning snack.

3) Chicken and Vegetable Kebabs (Courgette, Aubergine, Onion, Red/Green/Yellow Peppers) done on barbecue if weather permits - with Salad (Rocket, Watercress, Celeriac, Carrot, Black/Green Olives, Sweetcorn) and Cottage cheese.

4) Hmmmm….Not sure yet.

5) One slice of toast with slightly more than meagre scraping of scummy pork liver and apricot pâté


Good luck with your eating and exercise plans everyone - Drink loads of water especially before meals. Not only does it help to stay hydrated but you'll feel fuller whilst eating less food so you can stop eating sooner.

Keep Off the Slippery Slip!

[biggins]

Well no weight lost this week - can't say I am surprised but I am consoled by the fact that at least I didn't gain any weight. Will write out a hundred lines - Must do better next week!!

Don't know if I will have much time today for a long walk as I am waiting in for a delivery -sometime between 9am and 3pm!! Hate when they can't give you a two hour delivery slot as it usually means they will arrive at the last gasp!

Haven't been swimming in the last few days either as I have a cut on my toe which has a dressing on it so can't go in the water.

Have a good weekend everyone.

[weliveandbreathewords]

You certainly know how to put a girl off her cake

Certainly regretting the slice of raspberry cheesecake I had yesterday!

In other news, Im now 8st 13, not sure whether this is due to fat loss, water loss(retained loads during the heat) or muscle loss(since I havent been able to go near a weight machine in 3 weeks)

D:

[jojojoanne]

it happens like this sometimes, biggins .. you'll probably lose more than you expect next week .. or the weight you lost turned into muscle .. either way, the good work you've done will catch up with you!!

[TheyCallMeMrGlass]

Well no weight lost this week - can't say I am surprised but I am consoled by the fact that at least I didn't gain any weight. Will write out a hundred lines - Must do better next week!!

Don't know if I will have much time today for a long walk as I am waiting in for a delivery -sometime between 9am and 3pm!! Hate when they can't give you a two hour delivery slot as it usually means they will arrive at the last gasp!

Haven't been swimming in the last few days either as I have a cut on my toe which has a dressing on it so can't go in the water.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Dont ever worry about times you dont lose any weight. We all hit that wall at some points, its called plateauing. It may just means your body have now adjusted to your routine if it has been the same for over 4 weeks. If it has been the same, it is time to give the body a shock to the system by modifying your exercises. Keep up the swimming but now go for different stroke styles. So if you were doing the crawl all the time, mix in Butterfly or breast stokes. Feel the effort, so you know you getting a really good workout. Also, try intervals too, with your most favourable swim stroke. So say its the crawl, swim at a moderate pace for 2 mins, then in the next 20-30secs, swim as fast as you can. Then repeat 10 times. I promise you will be burning more fat than ever if you do this :)

Also as Jojo mentions, you may not have lost weight, but you may have lost body fat and gained muscle (even better!). If you dont measure body fat, you wont really know but its a possibility as swimming is almost acts a substitute for resistance exercises as the water becomes your equivalent of weights resistance.

You are doing fantastic so far though Biggins

You certainly know how to put a girl off her cake

Certainly regretting the slice of raspberry cheesecake I had yesterday!

In other news, Im now 8st 13, not sure whether this is due to fat loss, water loss(retained loads during the heat) or muscle loss(since I havent been able to go near a weight machine in 3 weeks)

D:

How much you lost? Sounds good though

[Diane65]

Are you not going to the Toddler Poisoner's today Diane?

If you're trying to trick me you have failed I had my treat day yesterday

Well done Biggins for keeping the same weight

[TheyCallMeMrGlass]

Best of Luck for your weigh-in Biggins

As Diane has allready said, Well done for showing that remarkable restraint in the face of a hotel full cooked breakfast. Hotel breakfasts were one of my huge downfalls when I was still working especially the buffet style help yourself ones.

Thanks MrG for posting that useful information about fat loss. And also for recommending the Sparkpeople videos on youtube. Wow, there are loads of them - I had a quick look at them late last night and will be selecting some of them to do on a regular basis. Fantastic to have such a choice as well as it's probably beneficial to keep on mixing them up and trying different ones. That should stop the body from recognising a routine and keep it guessing as to what the hecks going on.

I will mention the weightloss to my doc when I'm next there and ask if I can see the practices nutritionist. I am also standing by for instructions regarding resistance (weights) training. I'm intrigued and would love to give it a go but I will need to check that out with the doc first because although he was encouraging about exercise in general he specifically said don't do any heavy lifting. Of course there's heavy lifting and heavy lifting isn't there! Maybe dumbells wouldnt be considered as bad as hauling tree trunks etc.

I like the sound of the chickpea dahl Preston it sounds delicious - another thing for me to try

It is really delicious - we b*y cans of it from ASDA but I'm sure most supermarkets will stock it.

Are you not going to the Toddler Poisoner's today Diane?

Today’s Menu

1) Two Weetabix, handful of blueberries and skimmed milk.

2) Raw Carrot batons to chomp on as mid-morning snack.

3) Chicken and Vegetable Kebabs (Courgette, Aubergine, Onion, Red/Green/Yellow Peppers) done on barbecue if weather permits - with Salad (Rocket, Watercress, Celeriac, Carrot, Black/Green Olives, Sweetcorn) and Cottage cheese.

4) Hmmmm….Not sure yet.

5) One slice of toast with slightly more than meagre scraping of scummy pork liver and apricot pâté


Good luck with your eating and exercise plans everyone - Drink loads of water especially before meals. Not only does it help to stay hydrated but you'll feel fuller whilst eating less food so you can stop eating sooner.

Keep Off the Slippery Slip!

Awesome tips Preston You sure are quenching your thirst for knowledge with all the right ingredients! You are definitely going to be a supreme authority in health and fitness :) Every tip spot on, I'm already learning new stuff from you with your menu plans itself, you've come up with some snack ideas I never thought of, yum ! :)

[weliveandbreathewords]

Well I was 9st 6 after America mrG, so i'm back down to normal again which is good :-) swing all my friends from uni due to everyone coming back though, so today had a lunch buffet at ming moon., went out last weekend with bf and has a nandos before snow white on Tuesday, so i'm definitely steering seat from the take away food for a while, going to try running first thing in the morning so its out the way, later on in the day I know I won't bother, or will struggle to.

[Diane65]

I am also standing by for instructions regarding resistance (weights) training. I'm intrigued and would love to give it a go but I will need to check that out with the doc first because although he was encouraging about exercise in general he specifically said don't do any heavy lifting. Of course there's heavy lifting and heavy lifting isn't there! Maybe dumbells wouldnt be considered as bad as hauling tree trunks etc.

My dumbbells that I use to tone up my arms are 2.5lbs per dumbbell which I use when I'm doing my DVD as I want arms like Jennifer Lopez (I can but dream) not like muscle woman and also the resistance bands are more to do with using your own body weight (I've only read up about them so have no experience of using them - basically I don't really know what I'm talking about) not heavy weights but as you are not a girl it will be a bit different. We will wait for MrG and his expert advice.

I will pick some dahl next time in Asda and I will certainly be copying your aubergine and courgette kebabs as I always tend to go down the pepper, mushroom, onion and tomato route.

Well done rawr_xoxo, that is a fabulous weight loss.