Week 1 - Almost Over

D Day is tomorrow and I am dreading getting on the scales and seeing what lays ahead of me. It's been a great week and I sure have put my heart and soul into resisting temptation.  

I have craved chocolate ALL week and in my house resisting that temptation is VERY hard.  My boyfriend gave me a 1.15 Kilo box of Whitmans Chocolates for Easter, and my folks gave me mountains of chocolates as well, AS WELL as other giving me Lindt bunnies.... There is just soooooooooooo much chocolate.  Everyday I have had to see that damn box of Whitmans chocolates and I seriously could have sat down on friday night and eaten half the box!! But I am pleasantly surprised that I have had no chocolate this week (this is coming from a person who use to eat at least one chocolate bar everyday!!!)

Had a tough challenge last night at my friend's place for dinner last night.  We had a pretty healthy BBQ and I was careful of my portion sizes but I caved and ate a gluten free beef BBQ sausage and man it was so damn good, I could have eaten 10. Why oh why do bad foods taste so good???

I am also very happy with myself that I have not used any of my 49 weekly extra points or any of the points I have earned with exercise.  I hope I can keep this up? Hopefully the next few weeks with get easier for me?

Exercise, well that seems to have been quite easy for me.  Proud to say that I have exercised 4 times so far this week and I will be going for a walk with my mum this afternoon after the rain clears up.

Very excited about cooking dinner tonight. Will be making Spicy Tomato and Butternut soup, which is the in the week 1 cookbook.  It's zero points which excites me a lot, means I can have a bread roll with some low fat melted cheese to nibble on with it!  Will definitely report on the results on that.

Look forward to updating tomorrow after weigh in for the verdict!

Fingers crossed!!!

The Beginning

A couple of Monday nights ago, I caught up with 2 of my best girlfriends for a Mexican Fiesta. Over dinner, we got chatting about the lack of happiness with our weight, and made a pact to all go on the weight loss journey together. My friend Hannah was already going to Weight Watchers, so I decided to join her at her meetings so we could embark on the journey together. My other friend Lanz, was also going to join up with us on the following monday, but she couldn't wait and decide to go back to Jenny Craig. Alas we were disappointed she wasn't joining us, but when making the pact she agreed to exercise with us.


Monday rolled around and I rejoined WW. I'm a Lifetime Member back from 2002. I've put all the weight I lost the 1st time PLUS about 25kg more.


I walked into the meeting 15 minutes after the starting time and the leader barked at me and told me I was late!!! At this point, I was ready to leave!!!! Not a good start, did not feel welcomed at all. I messaged friend Hannah and she begged me to stay. I stayed reluctantly.


It was NOT a happy reunion with the scales, when I jumped on and realised I weighed more than I thought. Initial thoughts were "Wow I am never going to get all this off".


I stayed for the meeting and walked away feeling focused and ready. I sat down with my folks on Monday night and they are also going to go on the weight loss journey with me. I spoke with my work mates and told them as well, so they can also help me stay on track. My boyfriend James is also very supportive of me and is going to help me as well!!


Hannah and I have done Zumba monday and tuesday nights, today we are going for a walk around the river and we have also teed up a walking date on friday after work. Our promise to each other is 4 times a week we are going to exercise together.


Now into my 2nd day of the 1st week, and I am weighing all my foods religiously, tracking every mouthful I have on my iphone and ipad apps (so handy for tracking) and I find this is definitely keeping me more focused!!


Let's see how the rest of my week goes??


Fingers crossed!!!