19th May 2014
If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go
together. African Proverb
An amazing day, thanks to everyone
who has made a donation to what is an incredible event! The work that Race for
Life funds, helps turn ladies like Natalie into a survivor not a statistic! The race was both emotional and enjoyable and
I’ll say no more except it looks like our team are set to raise well over
£1,000 so thank you to everyone who’s donated and if you’d like to take a look
at the photos, click this link.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152354633760862.1073741860.595730861&type=1&l=8603b4f744
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Our fundraising page is https://www.justgiving.com/natalies-fight-club
I earned over 22,000 steps on my pedometer which equates to
an extra 7pp unfortunately that didn’t cover our celebratory lunch! What a giggle we had, it’s quite dangerous to
put a group of Weight Watcher ladies together in on restaurant I realised many
years ago! I was very well behaved on my
main meal, we were at a Toby carvery and to be honest I just didn’t want to
queue up for my dinner (it’s like being back at school when the queues Sunday
long!) so instead I ordered a grilled salmon salad, I even removed the croutons
and they’d put the sauce in pots so that was easy – my lunch was indeed Filling
& Healthy. Then the dessert menu
came, bless AnnMarie she had done a no cake for 21 days challenge which ended
yesterday so it would’ve been rude not to indulge with her, we couldn’t decide
between apple crumble and custard (13pp) or Lemon cheesecake sundae (17pp) so
we had the crumble each and three of us shared the sundae to say we’d tried
it! Luckily it wasn’t that fab so we
only had a couple of spoonfuls and I was full so I left a few ProPoints worth
of the crumble also.
Oh and I just have to share the video of AnnMarie working
out how many of her weekly ProPoints her dinner had cost her, it just shows
that even after losing 5 stone and achieving her goal she’s no different to how
all of us are – we love food and that will never change, we just find a way to
balance it ;)
My tracker says despite this indulgence I did manage to
cover the indulgence of the day with my weeklies and activities unfortunately
the bag of cheese and onion crisps and lemon curd green yogurt I found later in
the kitchen weren’t covered and I’ve stayed the same this morning, I was on
course for a pound loss Saturday morning too (yeah I know I shouldn’t get on
the scales more than once a week but you lot do ;) !) I’m actually okay with the result, my 8 week
challenge was not to gain which I haven’t and I still have a few weeks to get
into the next stone bracket. As long as
I’m healthy and happy, I know the weight will come off if I continue on the
F&H path and tell mom we can’t have cheese and onion crisps in the house,
although having said that I didn’t actually enjoy them so maybe my tastebuds
are changing.
Yesterday was all about feeling blessed I have to say,
especially as I watched Natalie sharing dessert with her daughter and for a
moment I contemplated what might have been had her treatment not worked! Thankfully it did and according to the
statistics I read on the back of the portaloo door at the race for life event
yesterday, death from cancer had gone down 20% in the West Midlands so that’s
just awesome news and long may that percentage continue to grow, as the posters
said “jog on cancer!”
Looks like another BeYOUtiful day, enjoy it even if you are
at work and remember to EatGorgeous. xx
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