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Weight Watchers Weigh In - Week 7

After a fantastic holiday in Spain where nothing was off limits I nearly fell off the scales this afternoon when my leader told me I had STAYED THE SAME!!!!

I am so happy & proud. On holidays I ate big meals & didn’t snack in-between. I drank a lot of water & swam (attempted doing some lengths!).

I rarely had dessert but we did go to the most amazing ice-cream place in Estepona, as you can see I was stuffing my face with my Banana Split (low calorie, not!), well, at least there was a bit of fruit in it!

When we landed back in Dublin on Thursday we headed straight to the Elephant & Castle in Temple Bar so I could get a chicken wing fix in before starting WW again on Friday

On Friday, we did a big food shop & planned the meals for the week. I had 3 walks too to try and get rid of the holiday indulgence.

This coming week I plan to try out some more recipes, I will share any good ones I find of course.

I am also planning to do Bark in the Park with Muffin, although she sprained her paw this morning, so we will have to see how she is, poor thing.

As I mentioned in this post here about a hashtag on Twitter last year #SeptemberStone. I’d really love to loose a stone in the month of Sept so I’m going to try my very best to do it but won’t get too upset if I don’t but I think the goal will keep me focused.

Hope everyone else is having a good week.

Mwah

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I’m Back! First Vlog & Urban Decay Naked Palette

Mwah

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Weight Watchers Weigh In - Week 6

Six weeks in, I’m still drinking my water, my tracking went out the window by Week 3 but I am trying and… it’s paid off. Down another 1 1/2 ibs this week. Bringing my total weight loss to 10 1/2 ibs. I am delighted My leader, Assumpta says that’s a dress size but to me a dress size would be a stone but I’m not really arguing!

I bought these harem pants or as Brian says my “MC Hammer / Simon Cowell” trousers well before I started WW and they were sooooo tight. I hadn’t gone near them since I started my weight loss until last Friday and they were so loose I could fit a small person in with me!

I am so delighted with my progress & kinda shocked I haven’t had a week where I go up or stay the same but I fly out to Spain on Saturday and I’m afraid as I said last week WW will influence my decisions on holiday but anything goes as I promise to get to a class asap once I’m back.

I’m also going to miss our little fur baby while on holiday but Muffin is going on her holidays to her Grannies with a big bag of treats & she had her hair cut again with Orlagh from Smoochable Pooches so I’ll leave you with a sweet little photo!

See you mid August for the next weigh in but keep going guys and I love getting all the emails, tweets & comments so keep them coming!

Mwah

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Weight Watchers Weigh In - Week 5

Me on my 21st Birthday (size 12), one of the photos that inspired me to join WW

So I got away with my over indulgence in London last week, however I was expecting the delayed reaction but luckily enough I am -1ibs again this week. Some might think -1ibs isn’t a big acheievement however I think it’s bloody brilliant! I may add it’s my TOTM too so even the bloated feeling has lifted since I was on the scales

This week I made the Beef & Guinness Casserole I mentioned in Week 1. It was delicious and I made it for my parents. The recipe says fillet steak so that’s what I bought however upon reflection, sirloin would have been just fine & saved a few €€€!

I also learnt of a restaurant in Stepaside called Stone Grill attached to The Step Inn which offers the “Meat on the Stone” cooking option which is hugely popular in Portugal & Spain so myself and Brian went to try it out. The food was absolutely delicious and the staff were fantastic. I had the Taster Plate which consisted of a tuna steak, sirloin stead and a skewer of prawns with a side salad & chips (I did stuff a few in my mouth!) for €20 it was good value. I wasn’t too keen on the tuna & I think I would go for the fillet next time (€24).

My exercise was pretty non existent this week, a quick walk down the pier on Monday evening with Brian & Muffin.

This week is my last full one before my holidays, and I’d love to kick it up a notch because as soon as I get to Dublin airport, it’s game over! Well, I’m not going to do anything ridiculous, I’ll know what choices to make but put it this way I won’t be tracking my points!

How did everyone else get on this week? Any more recipes for me to try? Who knew WW would turn me into a domestic goddess!!!

Mwah

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Weight Watchers Weigh In - Week 4

I had a dilemma this week… I have been in London at a conference for work and to say WW went out the window is an understatement.

While I did try to be on my best behaviour it was incredibly difficult and not helping was the fact we were promoting Boxerchips, our fab range of crisps.

So after missing my offical WW class yesterday my dilemma this morning was to go to an alternative class for weigh in or skip it till next Weds & try undo the damage. My fear was that I would continue on my downward spiral if I mitched this week so after a quick Twitter poll I headed along to the Rochestown Lodge class this morning.

And boy was I glad I did! I am surprised and delighted to announce I have lost - 1ibs.

Now, I am under no false illusion that there may be a delayed reaction to my few days of indulgence but now that I am back on Irish soil I am going to have a good week & continue to do my best until my holibops in August.

The photo I chose to include this week was a fabulous fillet steak I had for dinner on Monday night in London, yum!

Hope everyone is having a good week.

Mwah

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Weight Watchers Weigh In - Week 3

In the word of JayZ, “can I get a woop woop!”

Today I am beaming from ear to ear as a proud owner of my first (and hopefully not last) Silver 7 from Weight Watchers!

I felt I was good with my food all week & I exercised a fair bit but for some reason I felt heavy. My personal goal this week was to loose 1ibs to make my half a stone benchmark and by golly I did it.

On Friday night as a treat I picked up pizza bases from The Artizan Pizza Company (I think) in Thomas’s in Foxrock, they are 5 points, the tomato sauce is free, points for the cheese obviously & veg were free too. Could afford to have them every night of the week but certainly fulfilled the pizza craving.

I also made the Pasta Arrabbiata as promised and it was fab. I even threw in a few prawns from M&S with the leftover for another evening meal.

I also really enjoyed the AquaFit class in Stillorgan last week, I definitely felt it the next day.

This week will be tough, I am away at a conference for work Mon - Weds & will also miss my weigh in (could be a good thing) but with my holidays fast approaching, I plan to go to a meeting on Thursday when I’m back to keep me focused.

I’ve lost 7 pounds in 3 weeks, it would be a massive achievement to try and do another 7 before my hols in August and reach a stone but I don’t want to get my hopes up as I reckon I might plateau as my body is getting used to all this healthy food. We’ll see, I can only try my best!

Thanks again for everyone’s support & suggestions, couldn’t do it without you,

Mwah

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Weight Watchers Weigh In - Week 1

So it was D Day earlier this afternoon… I am happy to say I have lost 2 1/2 pounds on my first week of Weight Watchers.

So… How did my first week go? Well, there were Ups and Downs… The support I got from everyone was overwhelming, from comments on my orginial blog post, to texts, tweets & emails. Thank you again, it gave me a boost every time I looked at a packet of crisps! The downs, it was my TOTM (time of the month!) not ideal week to start, but was there ever going to be a good one!? It did nearly push me to fall off the wagon but with Brian’s help I stayed steadily on!

I also enjoyed various forms of exercise.. did I just say “enjoy” & “exercise” in the same sentence!!! I went walking, swimming (10 lengths) and I also got the getrunning app for my iPhone & completed Run 1 although I was a little bit out of my depth with it, I need to walk before I can run I think if I can walk faster for a few weeks first and build up my fitness it would work a lot better. I’ll see how I get on this week. I think Muffin is also enjoying the new regime, even she was wrecko after our walk / run.

Was I hungry constantly? Not at all, I managed my points & spread my 3 meals a day & fruit snacks well. I mostly stuck to my daily point allowance.

After class today I strolled through Dunnes & picked up a few goodies to try, Nachos Cheese pack - 1 WW point, New Weight Watcher White Pitta Breads - 1 1/2 points each & Ryvita 1/2 point per cracker.

I find breakfast of either porridge with skimmed milk or an apple, banana & blueberries with a yoghurt keeps me going till lunchtime. For lunch a wrap with tuna or chicken or even prawns good & maybe a bowl of strawberries to get me through to dinner. Dinners have been stir-frys, fish & chicken mostly. I am trying new things & loving it.

This week I plan to get my cook on and make the WW Spag Bol recipe & Catherine has hooked me up with a great recipe from the UK Weight Watchers site for Beef & Guiness Casserole so I may even fit that in as well, I am guessing Brian will be happy seeing as though it includes his favourite tipple!

How is everyone else getting on? Please keep sending me your tips, recipes and suggestions, if I am going to stick to this I need to keep things varied…

Catch you next Weds for Week 2!

Mwah
P.S. What better way to celebrate than a Summer Pamper Session at Carter Beauty, Blackrock! Stay tuned for review in the coming days!