Lose Weight and Keep it Off

Friday started off as a great day on the 100 Day Challenge. It was all planned out and was going as expected. Then my husband got home! It’s not that he’s a saboteur when it comes to weight loss. In fact, he’s been one of my biggest supporters but there are times that he doesn’t think before he gets something. Last night it was a packet of crisps (a big one) and a portion of chip shop chips. I’m not really sure which one was worse. Both of them meant that I blew my dailies, weeklies and activity pro points allowances. Completely blew them and ended up in minus figures. But I still stepped onto the scales this morning. I was happy to find that I’d lost half a pound. I’ll definitely take that after last week. I’m guessing the good from the week before caught up to me and helped to balance it out. This week I promise to be good. Very good. It’s a new start for my weekly pro points and I will be getting to the gym tomorrow. That’s a top priority for me this...

Yesterday wasn’t an easy day on the 100 Day Challenge. Tracking wise it was good, but making good decisions wasn’t easy. By the end of the day, I’d finished all my weekly pro points, so I have none left for tonight. I do, however, have five activity pro points if I really want them. There was a lot of chocolate and crisps yesterday as I ate on the go. Despite it not being as busy as last Thursday, I just wasn’t as well planned and just had a bad day overall mood wise. I knew I had the points and made sure I was still within my allowance before I gave in. Unfortunately for me my favorite chocolate is one of the worst when it comes to pro points allowance. Dinner wasn’t as low in pro points as I expected it to be either. We opted against the salad and had fajita wraps instead. I love them, I really do, but they aren’t as good in pro points as a plain old salad. Again, I knew the pro points going in and made sure I had the allowance before I enjoyed them. Where have these...

I know I missed the blog post yesterday for the 100 Day Challenge. I did complete it, but Wednesdays has become a bit of an issue for blogging. It may mean a double update on a Thursday for a while (as long as I have time for that). Part of yesterday was the fact that the sun was out and it was hot. I spent the afternoon in the garden with my husband and daughter, having a BBQ and playing games. It was a great day (and good for the tracking, too). Before I get onto Wednesday, here’s the 100 Day Challenge update for Tuesday. I finished the day on 22 pro points. One of the facts that Weight Watchers gives us is that we can eat up to 30-50% more by not tracking out food. I went through Tuesday taking photos and making quick notes of the food I ate, but didn’t track the points until first thing Wednesday morning. It’s a bad way of doing it, and I found that I ended up not eating enough. So it looks like it works both ways if you don’t track as you go. Not eating enough...

Image: Pixabay This week in meetings, it’s all about recipe swaps. Ditch the takeaways and opt for the fakeaways. While I admit that there are times that a takeaway is so much easier and more convenient, I prefer the fakeaways. The last few days has been all about fakeaways for our household and it’s all thanks to Weight Watchers. I got my days messed up yesterday on the 100 Day Challenge. Today is actually the update for day 5 on the challenge. Sorry! So, I finished yesterday on 26 pro points. That’s my full allowance eaten. It was a hungry day for me, but I made the good choices for snacks. I had a lot of fruit and when I was fed up of that, I had carrot sticks and one small Weight Watchers bar. I was proud of myself. Before tracking religiously, I know I would have had more chocolate than fruit, so this tracking thing really does work—it’s not just a fad! For dinner, we had pork fajitas, all freshly made. The only thing we used instead of making our own was the ...

Image: Pixabay So, you know how I tell you that you should have all 26 pro points because that is what your body needs? Well it really is true, but in my second day on the 100 Day Challenge, I have to confess that I didn’t. I understand where you come from when you say you can’t either. Throughout the day, I had a lot of fruit. I was hungry but thought my dinner was going to be high, so I wanted zero pro pointed snacks to keep myself going. I mentioned yesterday that I was going to be having liver for dinner, and that is usually a high pro pointed dinner for me. In the end, we tried the new Weight Watchers casserole stir in sauce and just made a lamb liver casserole. My husband decided he just wanted that for dinner, because we weren’t really sure how it was going to taste, so didn’t want to waste any potatoes. It was absolutely delicious and my husband had seconds. I just had the one serving and it was only five pro points for the whole thing, because liver actually i...