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17^th May 2012
Fall down seven times, stand up eight. Japanese Proverbs

I appreciate we’re all busy but I truly believe tracking is a small price to pay to ensure a weight loss!  After my loss on Tuesday morning, I did what I’m renowned for in my own head and I didn’t track that day thinking ‘WOW I’ve  lost 2.5lb and I only tracked Monday – Friday, so I don’t have to bother’, by Wednesday morning, when I stepped on the bathroom scales (yes I know once a week in the meeting, but I needed the reality check!) I’d put 1.5lb of it back on.  So 7 days a week tracking from now on it is, I realised I need to go back to basics and think about what I can have instead of just reacting in the supermarket or kitchen I need to think beforehand. 

I then also realised I was a little bit skint!  So I couldn’t just go out and buy loads of diet meals.  Luckily my cupboard is full of good stuff – if it’s used correctly, I just needed to add fruit, veg and salad which I could afford.  Yes if I could afford a £1.30 bag of chips the night before, I sure as hell could afford a 99p bag of salad leaves, 50p for half a cucumber, £1 for 3 large mushrooms, 50p for a bunch of spring onions, 10p for 2 carrots £1.30 for 3 peppers and 99p for cherry tomatoes, there’s enough salad there for two main meals, I know because I had one last night, and I’ve just prepared the other one for two, I’ve also used some of it to prepare 3 giant stuffed mushrooms and a bit left over to throw in a stir fry maybe.  Yes I spend £6 in the greengrocers and with what I already have in the fridge I’ve already got 3 or 4 meals out of that which is about the same as 4 trips to the chippy and a guaranteed weight gain which would cost £5.99 for the extra week at Weight Watchers to lose it again!  Yep finances may be tight for all of us but a bit of thought means your money can go much further.

I did treat myself to a new journal though, and because I prefer ring bound books I’ve taken all the pages out of the journal, hole-punched them and put them in my Weight Watcher blue folder so I have everything in one place, I now have my A-Z pocket guide in the same place as my tracker.  

To motivate me even more, I’ve taken photos – FRONT – SIDE – BACK, oh my word, the back view was a shock!  I took the photos in my bra and pants too and when I looked at my rear, I realised it’s a view we never need to see that’s why it’s behind us!  I will definitely be getting back to goal now, mainly because I’m actually curious to how different that back view will be when I do ;-)

I started yesterday with Ryvita, but not because they’re diet food but because I actually do really like them.  I made a delicious gammon pasta main meal using Bachelors condensed low fat chicken soup as the sauce (recipe of facebook) and for my other meal I had the salad mentioned about with a packet of Bernard Matthews Coronation Chicken  (3pp & only 99p) and 10 olives (1pp).

I’d got 7pp white wine left in a bottle so I finished my day with that, meaning final score so to speak was 29pp, so used 3pp from my weeklies, but I did earn 7pp on my pedometer.

Yeah it’ll all be worth it when I get another weight loss next week, it’ll be worth it even more when I see my goal weight again on the scales, it’ll be 8 years on August 17^th (3 calendar months away) since I got to my goal, I have about 10 or 11lb to get to it.   

We can do this!  Aren't you glad I didn't share my knicker and bra shots with you!! '-) 

Have a fabulous Friday, it's almost the weekend. xx