This week I lost 1.5lb which I am happy with. I also got my 5% and 10% milestones calculated to give me some interim steps to aim towards. I like to stay to the meetings for extra tips to keep me motivated. Today was focusing on then skills to support lasting weight loss:
- Eat healthily
- Controlling portions and staying satisfied
- Moving more
- Planning ahead
- Thinking positively
- Monitoring your weight regularly
- Organising your surroundings
- Getting the appropriated support from friends and family
- Staying focused
- Making time for yourself
I think I have got most of those covered to some extent although there is still room for improvement in one or two areas.
I suppose you are all wondering how I got on with eating out last night. There weren’t any very healthy choices, so I went for the chicken option. The chicken was stuffed full of goats cheese and sun-dried tomatoes and wrapped in Parma ham. It was accompanied by summer vegetables and something that was called a bacon floody! This turned out to be a potato and bacon rosti. It was all very nice and far to big a portion for me which was a good thing because it meant that I was too full to even contemplate a dessert, all of which looked very calorific. Hopefully it won’t add the 1.5lb back on next week…
Whilst sitting waiting for the food to arrive I remembered that there used to be a little saying on the gate as you entered the car park. It seems to have disappeared over the years but it used to say:
This gate hangs well
and hinders none,
refresh and pay
and carry on
Hi Cherie, just found your site and im reallyenjoying the pics of Hardiwick Hall. I too rejoined Weightwatchers last night. I love baking too much and im paying for it – good luck with it all you sound really motivated!
Thanks
It has taken me a while to get my head in the right place, but I am really determined now.
Good luck with your weight loss too
Keep at it and blow half of Britain away.
I will do my best
I thought of two things while reading this, Cherie…things that help me. If I eat out, I almost always am served too much food (especially in the States) and so will eat half of it and take home a doggie bag. Two meals for the price of one. Also, awhile back I heard that if you eat a meal in faster than 20 minutes, your body will tell you you’re still hungry. So I always try to slow down while eating. That seems to help. Anyway, for whatever it’s worth. Congratulations on trying to stay in control. If only everyone did!
Thanks Ginnie
Thankfully I am a naturally slow eater which is perhaps why I have a smaller appetite than most people.
‘….chicken stuffed full of goats cheese and sun-dried tomatoes and wrapped in Parma ham….”
Very, very naughty indeed, CP
Believe me that was the best of the options LOL They also had Belly Pork with various trimmings which would be not quite the thing at all!! At least I could leave some of the stuffing as the flavour had infused through the chicken anyway
I have lost quite a bit of weight lately and I can tell you that stress is GREAT for weight loss.
I find it is always best to write everything you eat down [and times] on really small paper as it gives you a chance to review. I belonged to Weight Watchers many years ago. Do you recall those little tubes of candies you could buy where you can eat a million of them for a point? I nearly CHOKED TO DEATH on them[a few times].Those I’d avoid.
I used to lose weight when I was stressed now I tend to comfort eat instead, which is not so good.
They do still have those sweets but I haven’t had any for a while. I used to enjoy the liquorice ones.
I am religiously writing everything down otherwise I would go astray.
I like your precision – 9st 8.2lb. That last 0.2lb will be the tricky bit (And don’t go and overshoot down to 9st 8lb because you’d look like an anorexic model then). Good luck.
That 0.2 made me smile when I saw it, I am not sure how it got there! I decided it was close enough and that life was far to short to try and sort it out
Hopefully I won’t look like an anorexic model because that might mean I would have to have a brain transplant to go with the look!!!
Congratulations! Yes, it’s a bit hard to combine a social life and diet plan. But good friends will not put temptation in front of you. And skipping dessert is the best option. “Refresh and pay. And carry on.”
Thanks Claudia
I was hoping they might have some sorbets which are always good when you are on a diet. I know they do them sometimes, but not on this occasion, it was probably for the best.
Well done you. I am trying to be inspired by your attempts but I’m afraid my weight is yoyo-ing rather than following a downward course.
I think you have a good point about eating slowly. I eat far too fast and have a large appetite.
It’s also true about the stress, when I split from my husband 3 years ago, I went from 9st 7lbs to 8st 10lbs in about 8 weeks!
My weight was yo-yoing for ages which is why I decided to make a concerted effort to stop the effect.
Finding low calorie filling food is a good thing if you have a large appetite, it will help on the downward trend.
Well done! I’m trying to eat more slowly. Putting down my knife and fork in between mouthfuls etc. Weigh-day tomorrow for me. I’m not hopeful …
Thanks Liz and good luck for tomorrow
One of the things I do have in my favour with dieting is that I am a very slow eater which means I end up eating smaller portions.