WC 02.11.18

Can anyone guess how many
smartpoints are in this?

  So today we're talking about getting back on track. I'm being my own weight watcher leader because I'm not going to weight watchers until at least the new year and if my group doesn't start back up then I'll just see how this goes.

Yes getting back on track. It might feel as though you have lost all control, that you can't get back on the right path.

I've had a couple of weeks off, well three actually and this last week I didn't lose anything but I didn't gain anything, which is just as well because the previous two weeks I put on 7 pounds! Ops.

But not reversible! So I decided, this week I am going back on! Diet and my running making sure I get at least my 10,000 steps in the day. 

In my fridge peak...

I got a ton of fruit and veg and I've made a plan for the week! And it looks yummy!

I'll probably be updating this more often now and be interacting more with my social medias. I think!

rest this week
total loss: 4 Stone 9 pounds (nothing to turn your nose up at) or 65 pounds

Who knew loosing weight could
look this good?

a cry for help!

From now until the new year it's me on my own doing ww online.

The group I go to on a Friday morning has always had a low attendance, I'm not sure why because I know Monday night's are busy but basically our leader (or coach as they are calling it now) has left and the leader who used to take that group can't  do it until new year. 

The problem is that Friday morning in Stanley was good for me, most Fridays it's just me and Joseph, it's the daytime so I wouldn't be dragging anyone out on a night time and I know some people will say 'get Phil to have the kids and go' but you know something being home by 6pm every Monday night is a big ask, we have our Family night on a Sunday night because he doesn't make it back for 6pm so to put the pressure on so I can go to WW just seems a little harsh, especially since we arranged Family night on a different night for this reason.

So I'll use my Wii fit scales, they are pretty accurate I mean not half pounds accurate but it'll do and the weeks I can afford to I'll double check on the scales in boots I'll keep my weigh in day the same just because it's easier then changing it! So... this should be fun... online support and everything!

Yey!

So I'll try and focus this blog to be my support group so voice your opinions people! And it will be wellness as well as weight because it's all important!

I'll be honest, I've been struggling the last couple of weeks, I mean it could be because since the end of august there has always been someone ill in the house and I'm just tired of trying, thats a possibility, it could be stress or a combo of all of it really, no support of a meeting has hit me hard so, going to try my best to do this, I maybe blogging quite a bit.

Also, I got all the way to the last of my 0-5k challenge and I haven't completed the 5k, but there is a good reason. So what happened was that I started off walking at a pace on the running machine and my walking pace was 4 on it and my runnning pace was 6. Now the last week or so I was finding that 6 was in fact now fast walking and no longer runnning, but when I sped it up I couldn't keep up with it as long, so I'm going to go back a few weeks and start where I know I can run at a faster pace 6.5-7 and keep it up, it looks like I'm going back but I'm really not, as well I want to step it up to 10,000 steps at least a day plus my run.

Becasue you know something by the end of the year I want at least my 75 pounds lost (preferably 100) ten weeks and I think to get to 100 its 35 pounds thats 3.5 a week at least, starting from next week if I'm right about my weight which of course I may not be because I have been EATING!  So we'll see!

1 Year Week 2

Now

The beginning

I know its been a while since I wrote a weigh in post, I seem to be saying it a lot. I've had a lot on my plate and I've not had the chance to just sit and write in my posts. Several reasons not all good not all bad some were even more life style changes, some was getting the balances right so its been a good adjustment all together.

So it has been a little over a year since the first picture was taken and I can't quite believe its happened this fast, that I've stayed the whole year, it both does and doesn't feel like its been a year. 

People might ask if in the first photo, or at least when it was taken was I happy. Truth, yes, I was happy, I wouldn't say my own inner happiness has changed. I was not miserable and why I went to weightwatchers again, honestly Yasmine had said some of the other girls made comment on my weight to her and I didn't want her getting upset over it and my mother was bugging me to go back (and believe me the latter was a very big contributor to the situation I'll do anything not to be bugged about something), because as ever, my mother is the sound of my conscious. Its true, I've told my husband that when my conscious calls it sounds like my mother on more then one occasion, a lot of growing up she told me she's 'leave it to my own conscious' instead of telling me  yes or no, I suspect its so I could learn consequences, though I've said it before I sometimes wish I had someone telling me yes or no but then how would I grow!

Do you feel different now you've lost the weight? Well, yes and no.
I'll sometimes sit there and seriously say to my hubby "I feel as fat as I did at the start." I won't have ate anything to bloat me, I just feel it and I know its ridiculous but again seriously, sometimes I think the first picture is still what I feel like.
It'll be when I'm groggy or bloated or on my ladies time of the month, or when for some strange reason I can't climb the hill from my daughters school back up home. There was one day near the end of last term actually I remember I was having an asthma attack, I was pushing the pram up the hill, there was pollen everywhere (which does make my asthma worse) there's a bit just before you get to my street, you do have a sharp incline still to complete but there's just some greenery with trees and there's a round bit in the middle where you can sit so I sat down I took my inhaler and I remember thinking "I can't do this because I'm fat. Why am I bothering?!" And I was nearly in tears thinking I was still fat and I looked down and what I saw, didn't match the imagine I had of myself when I thought what I did just a few seconds earlier. "No." I thought shaking my head "You can't do this because you have asthma, its up hill its not an easy walk. You find it hard because you have asthma."
But then there's other times when I've completed something which I know fine well I couldn't have done a year ago, even nine months (Like the 5K runner above and yes I ran those times!) and it hits you all over again that I am changing. In all of this, I am changing.

12 Months of Weight Loss

Some weeks have been frustrating you can see below that my weightloss hasn't been straight down all the time, though thankfully none have been a massive leap upwards... Sometimes I've been more because I've been building up muscle, I've felt smaller I know I am, and then I step on the scales and they are the same or higher! 

Has it been easy you made it look easy? Why Thank you for saying so, but, no, no it has not been easy, it IS NOT easy, because I don't think this journey will really end.

Do I want to eat the chocolate over there? Yes I do. Do I? Honestly, sometimes yeah.

Last week I really tracked my food...
really really tracked it!

Standard Mars Bar 12 SP.  (or 449 Cal)

12 Smart Points could also serve me a spaghetti and meatballs recipe (in fact that is 11SP!)

The choice is mine, the Mars Bar can sometimes be satisfying and is worth the fact that you get to eat fish and veg for tea that night (I currently get 23SP a day with 35 weeklies!)  But ultimately I choose the spaghetti and meatballs.  And not eat both.

My favourite snack is popcorn (at 3SP for 30g its a steal!) 

Sometimes it felt as though my hard work, hasn't paid off, my Coach will tell you! And sometimes its frustrating. In making some positive changes you invoke some negative ones until we learn to balance it. 

People have noticed. Its obvious its coming off, but there are people who I see so regularly say it too. Both my kids go swimming (have swimming lessons) so I'm up at the swimming pool often, and because I get in the pool with Joseph have seen it all in a swimming costume! Joseph's swimming teacher and one of the lifeguards both say it! 

And I love how men try and approach the subject. Some don't at all with me, will talk to Phil about it and its because they don't want to offend me, I know thats why, and I guess some women would get upset by a man saying "You look like you've lost weight." And maybe it might have been slightly insulting after loosing a pound or two but when you've lost over 70 of them... I'm guessing its okay to notice! and whats funny is that their wives just out and say it! One friend I've known for years the conversation went something like this

Him: "You're looking well." 
Me: "I am thank you."
Him: "Has it been a deliberate decision or....?" 
Me: "It's been deliberate, and hard work."
Him: "Good, good on you." 

Not once did either him or me say anything about weight, but it was obvious what we were talking about, ladies and gentlemen that is how you do it! 

I don't want to talk too long because I don't want it to seem like a lecture, because even I get it wrong, you know I'm not perfect at it, but I'm getting there with it, sticking with it is important. I've still got a way to go, but you know something, I've made it this far! 

So if you've made it this far, thanks!

Total Lost

5st 2 lb (or 72 Pounds) Loss this week: 3.5 pounds

Average weekly loss 1.3

lb (I'm okay with that!)

92 Days of Summer Day 92

So here I am at the end of the road!

Lots of you already know I passed the 1 Million mark earlier in the month hence why there have been no updates, but what have I been up to since?

1) I reached my goal amount for the money raise to Diabetes UK and surpassed it, I've raised £150! Thank you everyone who contributed small and large amounts I can't tell you how important it is to raise all the money we can for such important causes!
2) I've also walked another 260,969 steps! So thats a total of 1,260,969 Steps in three months!
3) I actually did start to run! And I've stuck to it, three days a week I've been either running outside or on my treadmill I got for my birthday and I'm about to start week 5 of the 0-5K challenge, and I'm half way to achieving it according to my app! Fridays training included 5 minute walk warm up 3 minute run 2 minute walk, 5 minute run 2 minute walk 2 times, 3 minute run then 2 minute walk then a 5 minute walk cool down. Honestly I thought it was impossible but I did it, now next week, week 5 day 5 minute warm up walk, one  5 minute run 3 minute walk then a six minute run an a 3 minute walk then a five minute cool down... it might be my breaking point, but who knows what I'm capable of now!
4) I've also got a couple of friends together and we're going to do a 5k run/obstacle course called a colour run in June, So its something fun and cooky for me to look forward to but something to train towards too, I don't think it matters if you run or walk it but I want to be prepared 
5) my body (especially my legs and bottom have toned massively!) I'm not loosing lots of weight but I'm not gaining either and with my muscles building up again this is a real plus! So I'm not too concerned my weight has come to a standstill at the moment.
6) I got Phil running too! He's just finished week one of the zero-5k I think when we decided to get the treadmill it really gave him motivation to do something. 

I was going out on a night, I'd get Joseph off to sleep then head out, thing was there was a couple of nights it was approaching dark and I realised it really wasn't safe for me to be out running on a night, Phil agreed and we looking into treadmills, I actually got the one we have second hand off Facebook marketplace it was local so we went and picked it up at a really awesome price!It was an early birthday present to me too! Yasmine has had little goes on the treadmill but we haven't used it in front of Joseph and he seems to be ignoring it for now!

Also I've been going to weightwatchers for over a year now! 

When I went back initially, I didn't think I would achieve much, especially since, this for me is the run up to Christmas, but I didn't do it half heartily I did actually try. So much has changed in that year, what I eat and how I eat, as well when I've noticed things about my diet.
1) Gluten is not my friend. So the beginning of September I also stopped eating gluten, well what happened was I made the recipe for the 2 ingredient dough and although it is delicious and completely fine to eat, I was getting massive headaches and stomach cramps after having it, I would be ill, and I noticed it was a repeat pattern with Gluten and dairy. I'm not 100% Gluten free yet, a couple of sweet treats do cut in but I am getting better at it and I would say I'm 90% Gluten free. My bread, my wraps, my pasta my stock cubes are all gluten free.
2) Dairy is a little different. I did swap my milk over to unsweetened almond 'milk' immediately and I didn't eat much yogurt anyway so that been cut out that alone has been a huge improvement! however I would say that I'm probably about 60/40 on diary products. When I'm in the shop and I'm buying stuff for me the chocolate is the dairy (higher in smartpoints too so I don't eat as much) my milk is dairy free, but my cheese is still the eatleen cheese and the reason being is that if thats all I'm eating it doesn't have a bad effect on me, there is no noticeable difference, so it stays in for now. Also if I'm out I will have a dairy ice cream, but some of you might have seen I said I felt sick after eating some on Thursday night and I didn't eat the whole tub I was given, I gave about 1/4 of the tub to my brother in law to finish off. So I'm slowly converting my dairy, but then again I think that is an intolerance rather then the gluten which just makes me feel ill! My back aches my stomach aches my head hurts it awful! So I really have avoided gluten.

So over all its been an interesting year. 

An even more interesting three months,

I'm not finished yet, but I am at a milestone. 

Keep you Posted

Lorna x

92 Days of Summer Day 70, TODAY IS THE DAY I COMPLETED MY 1 MILLION STEPS!!!!

I DID IT! I'm exhausted, a little bit: crazy injured my feet hurt but I did it!!! 
So these are the final figures from each day I know they are a little different from the ones published but these are the final figures each day from my fitbit!

1 Jul: 12,583   
2 Jul:16,108       
3 Jul: 13,282
4 Jul: 12,989
5 Jul: 15,461
6 Jul: 12,301
7 Jul: 12, 642
8 Jul: 12,055
9 Jul: 13,299
10 Jul: 13, 940

11 Jul:  17, 469
12 Jul: 12, 486
13 Jul: 13, 875
14 Jul: 14,951
15 Jul: 12,507
16 Jul: 12,720
17 Jul:16,246
18 Jul: 13,634
19 Jul: 12,611
20 Jul: 19,019

21 Jul: 13,690
22 Jul: 16,087
23 Jul: 12,044
24 Jul:12,711
25 Jul: 12,035
26 Jul: 12,607
27 Jul: 12,589
28 Jul: 12,011
29 Jul: 17,564
30 Jul: 17,268
31 Jul: 14, 509

1 Aug: 13,100
2 Aug: 16,875
3 Aug: 10,350
4 Aug:15,275
5 Aug: 17,585
6 Aug:12,046
7 Aug:22,137
8 Aug: 15,248
9 Aug: 20,846
10 Aug: 16,159

11 Aug:  12,813
12 Aug: 2,706
13 Aug: 15,201
14 Aug:17,578
15 Aug: 16,537
16 Aug:15,771
17 Aug:14,197
18 Aug: 25,205
19 Aug:10,054
20 Aug: 12,684

I DID IT!!!!!

21 Aug: 14, 228
22 Aug: 12, 972
23 Aug: 17,620
24 Aug: 17,207
25 Aug: 9,383
26 Aug: 3,056
27 Aug: 15, 675
28 Aug: 11, 268
29 Aug:15,063

30 Aug: 16,511
31 Aug:12,463
1 Sept: 14,326
2 Sept: 7,974
3 Sept: 17,625
4 Sept: 14, 753
5 Sept:13, 360
6 Sept: 22,489
7 Sept: 13,345
8 Sept: 18,177

TOTAL: 1,004,057

92 Days of Summer Day 69

Steps today: 13,188
Steps so far: 985,723
Steps to go: 14,277

what I should be doing!

This is mentally INSANE! I can not believe how close I am to finishing this! I can't believe it!
And you know something honest?

I have been shattered!
There are days I've more or less decided I've had enough for that week and I won't do many more, but then I do!

I've learnt that my body can do it, but also to rest my body that's important too.

I'm no longer afraid of the school run despite it being a 2 round trip (4 miles a day) although I did do this sometimes in deep snow at the beginning of the year so... hey even the rain is better then snow!

Since the beginning of the year when I really decided to step up on my exercise, its made a huge difference, I'm not saying I don't have my off days were I feel like its all for nothing... I feel big and bloated and I wonder why I do it at all,
If you told me that by September I would be attempting running, I would have told you you're crazy!

One of our friends said to Phil it was amazing what I was doing and Phil said he'd always admire my ability to choose a goal and just go with it , when I made up my mind to do it I just do.
I love my Phil for admiring it so much, the truth is I rarely make up my mind to do something, and I make it sound like a bad thing. Let me explain...

I think about something, I think about doing things, I pro and con doing it, I'll ask people, I'll research and still sometimes I don't start either because the pro/con has tipped it for me or something that has needed my attention has happened in the meantime and I loose the original motivation to do it.

But I've had this walking bug for almost 2 years now, Joseph probably can't remember a time I didn't walk with him (and probably why he insists on going "out" even if its raining.

I did a 10,000 step challenge last year for a week 10,000 steps for 7 days, it was pretty amazing but then I stopped for a while afterwards and didn't get back on until the new year. I have been slowly moving towards this kind of goal for a while, now I would love to say I will continue to walk and run, but truth is come winter and its freezing outside I can't guarantee anything! 

I know I want to keep my fitness up, even in the winter, it may involve jumping around my living room but I do want to do it!

However 1 million steps in 3 months, well I will have done it in 70 days, does that make it easy?

No.

Its hard, its hard to keep yourself motivated, its hard to complete even at this stage I'm thinking "I could have the weekend off...." and it wouldn't matter I'd still complete in time.

Is it worth it?

For the charity absolutely! One of my friends donated today making my goal but I don't want that to be the end of my fundraising I would love to raise more! (So by all means click and donate!!) 

Is it worth it for me?

As a challenge, it has been a challenge! It would be a challenge over three months, I think there are people who have done it quicker, I think there will be people still doing it, but its a huge commitment, everyone who has done it its a huge commitment and whether it took a week a month or the entire time WOW! Aren't we amazing!

I don't think I would be this kind of intense for my own training though, I think I would give myself more time off (and evidently I could have) definitely taking things a little easier from now on, but also changing the pace with my running (yes I'm continuing that at least until the end of September!) 

Its taken a long time to get here, so although even to my husband it seemed like I said "I'm going to do this..." and it came out of no where, really its something I have been building up to, I've been researching and working on and a challenge like this which has been so long term and needed so much of my time would have been impossible even when I did the walking for a week last year.

I joked with a distant relative that I would be running the GNR with her next year...

Although I have seen a colour run I'd love to do next year... But I think I would need someone to do it with, it would be a little depressing on my own... any takers??

https://www.colorobstaclerush.co.uk/about-the-event.html

92 Days of Summer Day 68

 Haha can you see I have a running spot? It actually kind of ideal it is quite flat and close to home so you can see where I started on both work outs (the red marker and the yellow and green are where I've walked and run going round as part of my training I don't know if you can see there's more then one line its because I was going round and round and the dark blue is the finishing five minutes.

Looking further down you can see my fitbit caught onto the running (as sports again) and when I stopped to catch breath is where it rest the recording hence why there is so little time between recording each one. But I got to look at the stats in 15 minute intervals 0.5 miles 0.9, 0.6,0.9, 0.6=3.5 miles! Oh yeah!!! 

So I'm not going running tomorrow so this is my first week of running done  
Sat: 2 miles
Mon:  3.5 miles
Tues: 1.3 miles
Thursday 3.5 miles =10.3 miles
WOW!!! Thats just in running!! Wow! I am going to smash that aim of 25 miles running for the medal! 31.11 miles on my feet since Saturday! But the next medal up is 50 miles, I don't think I would manage that, we have Yasmine's and Phil's birthday this month... well we can see! I can change it if I need to, that is the good thing about virtual racing!

You can see too I definitely do more then walk when I do my running (the one later in the day at about 2pm is a lot smaller then when I'm running at strength! 

Having said that I am shattered!! Some of you know I've been asking friends about recommendations for hurting hip bum leg area, silly me just kept going!! walking and walking and walking! 

This is my LIONESS POSE! 

Until

Steps today: 22,127
steps so far: 972,173
Steps to go: 27, 827