Holly's diary

Holly88

Holly88

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Yup, I'm back again!

After a long period of feeling completely disillusioned with calories counting etc etc I feel like I've finally got myself firmly back on track. I joined Weight Watcher's last Monday and I have been really pleased with how I've been doing since. It's early days yet but I'm feeling very positive, which makes a nice change!

Goals
Starting weight: 13 stone 8
Current weight: 13 stone 4
First Goal: 12 stone
Healthy BMI: 10 stone 10

Measurements
Waist: 93cm
Hips: 114cm
Bust: 107cm
Thigh: 67cm
Arm: 32cm
Dress size: 16

I will be tracking 'points' instead of calories (the new weight watchers system takes protein, carbs, fat and fibre into account to work out a food's 'point' value). I don't really think it's that different to calorie counting but mentally it still feels like a nice change to what I'm used to. It feels simpler too, I guess because you're working with simple figures.

So these are the values I plan on tracking here daily/weekly. I'll be using the below format for each post I make in my diary.

Food
Points for today: 0/32
Portions of fruit & veg: 0/5
Glasses of water: 0/8

Weekly Exercise
Hrs&mins: 0/2hours
Weight sessions: 0/2
Resting heart rate: 64bmp

Steps: 0/12'000

I guess I should write a little intro: I'm Holly, I'm 22 and I'm currently a student. I live in Newcastle upon Tyne with my boyfriend of 2 years. I have a small but lovely group of friends and I am pleased with almost every aspect of my life except for my weight. I have been overweight since I was a preteen and although I've lost 3+ stone in the past, I have put back on almost all of that weight since. Although I should give myself some credit that I haven't ever let myself creep back over the 14 stone mark.

I recently joined weight watchers because I felt I needed some real motivation and consistency to get myself enthusiastic about weight loss again. It's great to have that motivation of the weekly weigh-in to stop my defeatist attitude from wrecking my good efforts!

Anyway, that's all for now. I'm planning on taking some pictures of myself wearing clothes I fit at my lowest weight (11 stone 4) but I don't think I'll post them until I can show some progress pictures too!

Wish me luck! :)
 
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Hi Holly,

How are you? I too am a returning member I just came back last week.

I lost 2 stone before on weight watchers but that was on the old point plan and I hear the new pro plan is much better. I was sorry to quit WW but it was one of those times where I missed a week and then the following week was a week before pay day and i didn't have the £5 to go get weighed and then the week after they were gonna take the whole £15 off me so there was no way I was gonna pay that to get weighed, so if you aren't gonna go then just make sure you tell your leader you can't go so they wont charge you for missing a class.

Stick at it though - it worked wonders for me when i went xx
 
Hey Holl, have missed you around here :grouphug: Glad you're back! I'm going back to my WW group on Tuesday so will have to exchange point advice and stuffs!
 
Thanks everyone!

Food
Points for today: 34/31 (-3 from my weekly extra points)*
Portions of fruit & veg: 5/5
Glasses of water: 6/8

*in the weight watchers plan you get 49 weekly bonus points to use if you need them. I seem to be using a couple of these most days but I'm still losing weight so I guess it's working just fine!

Weekly Exercise
Hrs&mins: 0/2hours
Weight sessions: 0/2
Resting heart rate: 64bmp

Steps: not measured/12'000

Well I did ok today.

Breakfast: banana and an apple
Lunch: subway 6" ham sandwich on wheat for lunch with loads of salad
Dinner: homemade beef burger, served in a wholewheat bun with a handful of wedges and a big salad plus salsa

Today was the first day in a week that I hadn't made my lunch in the morning at home (I had been having hummus salad pittas + cottage cheese and grapes) and I realised it was a bad decision because I was SO hungry when I got back from uni today. Plus I didn't have the porridge/cereal I would usually have and had to just grab some fruit on the go. So getting up those extra 30 minutes earlier to have a proper breakkie and make some decent lunch is definitely the right way to go.

Anyhoo ... This week's goals are to try and get some minutes towards my 2 hours of weekly exercise goal. I didn't do any last week as I was just concentration on getting my food sorted out but I think I should at least be able to get out on my bike or do some dance dance revolution!

The great news is that at my first weekly weigh in this evening I had lost 5 lbs. Woop go me. I'm only 3lbs away from being 13stone again and back into the 12 stone range. It'll be nice to be back.

I've got to remember to put on my pedometer tomorrow so I can record my number of steps. I did a whole week of recording and I found I was easily meeting the 10'000 step target every day so I raised my target a couple of thousand higher. We'll see how I do!

Ciao for now :)
 
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Well Tuesday I stuck to plan, then on Wednesday I went out for a friend's birthday and didn't bother to track as I had no idea what the values were! I only ate fruit during the daytime though and then I had a minestrone soup, a (small) goats cheese salad, one slice of my boyfriend's pizza and a slither of birthday cake. So I think I did well to practise moderation. Then last night I went out AGAIN with a friend I haven't seen in weeks. We had pizza at pizza express. I had to save up all my points for the entire day to be able to have a chicken pizza, side salad and frozen yogurt.

Anddd.... I have actually lost another lb since Tuesday! So I'm doing pretty well. The only thing I'm not doing is exercising! But I'm not putting any pressure on myself. I'm just so pleased that I'm sticking to my 'points' (haha it feels lame saying that instead of calories).

Today's been more normal, although I'm saving some points for the inevitable drinks I will be having later (sailor Jerry's rum and diet coke, yum!).

Breakfast: grapes, banana, strawberries and plain fat free yogurt
Lunch: wholemeal pitta bread with salad and ham plus some light mayo
Snack: apple
Dinner: roast chicken, mash potato, broccoli, cauliflower and peas
 
Still going well, although no exercise in sight. Ha! I guess I'll get onto that one in my own sweet time. The great news is that I'm back down to 13 stone now. Ready to crack those 14lbs between me and 12stone!

Breakfast: banana, small coffee
Snack: half a graham cracker (my canadian friend brought some for me to try)
Lunch: chicken salad sandwich on wholegrain bread
Dinner: sweet and sour chicken with rice and a large veggie stirfry
Dessert: Hotel Chocolat drinking chocolate made with semi skim milk (yummy)
Snack: apple

Food
Points for today: 31/31
Portions of fruit & veg: 5/5
Glasses of water: 4/8 (need to drink more!)

Weekly Exercise
Hrs&mins: 0/2hours
Weight sessions: 0/2
Resting heart rate: 64bmp (11/06/11)

Steps: 0/12'000 (grr keep on forgetting to put on my pedometer)

In some ways I am kinda liking these 'points'. For instance, I'm finding I'm making better choices than when I was calorie counting: a small bar of chocolate can be the same calories as a large apple, or a regular banana, but with the points there's a definite incentive to choose the fruit over the chocolate because fruit is zero points every time. It's also nice not to have to weigh everything because fruit/veg are free.

However, I feel less in control when I'm counting these points because it does seem like such an estimate. And us scientific girls aren't so comfy with estimates. On the other hand I guess it's good that I can't get obsessional (I have a tendancy to do that), which only leads to failure for me because I can get so defeatist/black and white in my thinking.

Another thing that bothers my is that the 'science' behind the calculation of the points seems a little wishy-washy but, in all honesty, I'm happy so long as I'm losing weight. And there's the added bonus that for now it seems less stressful/time consuming to count points than calories.

Anyway, enough ranting. Time for dinner!
 
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Wooop... I was just under 12 stone this morning (and 13st1.5lbs at the WW meeting). I hope to lose another 2lbs by next Tuesday's weigh in.

Breakfast: porridge and milk
Snack: banana
Lunch: ham salad sandwich, packet of crisps and an apple
Dinner: 2 x mince, onions and peppers in flour tortilla, with salad and salsa
Dessert: tinned peaches
 
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Woohoo go you :)
Keep it up. Wish I could say I was 12stone and something lbs....maybe one day....

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Breakfast: none
Lunch: ham pitta salad sandwich with a little salsa and cheddar cheese
Snack: apple, maltesers
Dinner: mince, peppers, onion, kidney beans and chopped tomatoes, served with rice
Dessert: banana and grapes

Too lazy to type more!
 
Thanks :)

I'm feeling pretty good today, horrible impending exams aside! I'm happy to feel like I'm actually doing something at the moment.

Breakfast: banana
Snack: apple
Lunch: ham salad sandwich, low fat cottage cheese, grapes
Snack: 1 crunchie (I ate this slowly across the day, haha to extend the yumminess)
Dinner: 2 x chicken hoisin wraps with cucumber and spring onion plus a side salad (weird combo, I know, but I had to have salad because my stirfry had gone off!)
 
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You're doing so well! I was down 1.5lbs this week at WW so it's obviously working! Keep up the good work gorgeous girl!
 
Thanks Han! Well done to you for the 1.5lbs :D

I bought an awesome dress today, which is a nice change because I've tried on so many lately and hated how I've looked each time. I tried to find a picture but couldn't find one online. It's basically red draped on top and fitted navy blue on the bottom. I'm hopefully going to wear it when I go out tomorrow night.

I can't wait til I'm a size 10 (because I will be! Just you wait ;))... There were so many dresses I tried on that I would've like if I just had slimmer/more toned arms/legs and a bit less tummy/more of a waist. I'll just keep on dreaming for now!
 
Breakfast: porridge, milk, banana and 5g sugar
Snack: apple
Lunch: 1/4 coronation chicken sandwich, 1/4 ham salad sandwich (free lunch, weird choices), small (I mean small!) handful of crisps, 1 digestive biscuit
Snack: grapes
Dinner: lighter choices ready made lasagne, broccoli, cauliflower
Snack: 1/2 bar of chocolate

Not a brilliant day nutrition wise but not terrible. I've walked 13'000+ steps today too, which is great.
 
Can't be bothered catching up on my food diary in detail but I've stuck to my point allowances and I weighed 12 stone 12 this morning so I'm pretty pleased. Already met my -2lb goal a day before weigh in. Just got to hope it sticks around :)

I had a giant meal at Nando's on Saturday but had only had a ham sandwich in the day time so it didn't jeopardise my diet.

Overall I'm pleased with how I'm doing. Although I really haven't done any exercise yet. I'm pretty stress-o with work at the moment and I had the WORST pms like mood swings over the weekend - not exactly excuses but a big reason why I haven't been making much effort in the ole exercise department. But also a reason why I'm even more proud to have stuck with the food plan!

Anyway, that's all :) Will update with my weigh in tomorrow!
 
Thanks Amy!

Breakfast: porridge, milk, agave syrup, strawberries
Lunch: ham and salad in a wholewheat pitta with a tiny bit of mayo/mustard
Snack: banana, apple
Dinner: bolognaise sauce made with lean mince, grated courgette and carrot served with salad and wholewheat pasta
Dessert: a little bit of posh chocolate :)

I weighed in at WW tonight, I've lost 2lbs since last week (although my home scales said I'd lost 3lbs this morning ;)). I'm very pleased with how things are going, I'm hoping I can keep it up!

My pants have started to get loose again - very happy - Annddd... I'm back under the obese BMI (again, haha, I remember saying I'd never be obese again, oops!) :D Just got to get into the normal category and out of the overweight one and I'll be the happiest person ever!
 
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