Low fat cheese is rubbish

It is. It melts in a really weird way and tastes wrong. Bleh.

Anyway. I lost a pound this week, woo :) Which is a nice surprise after the foodie, non-points-counting weekend I've had (see previous post)! I bet it'll catch up with me next week though. Next Thursday I'll be telling you I've put the six and a half pounds back on, ha :P

A weekend away

At the weekend, we went up to the Lake District for a family get-together. It was really lovely - my parents had rented a gorgeous place called Eskmeals House for a joint celebration of their Ruby Wedding and my Dad's 65th birthday. Various members of the extended family came up, and it was great to see everyone.



Lots of very yummy food and wine was consumed over the weekend - needless to say, the diet was put on hold for a few days! We had caterers on the Saturday night and had a dinner of soup, then beef, then sticky toffee pudding or pavlova, then cheese and biscuits, then a very full belly :P My brother-in-law made a cooked breakfast for all 20 of us the next morning too. Nom nom nom. I doubt very much that I have lost any weight at all this week ...

Here's how the dining room looked just before we left:





I wish I'd taken a photo of the room when it was full of food and people. I don't think folk would have taken too kindly to being photographed while eating though!

My boyfriend Simon and I had the top floor of one of the wings of the house to ourselves - a gorgeous bedroom and surely the warmest bathroom in the world.







I think we could very happily have lived at Eskmeals, but we did have to leave.







Bye-bye big house!

Ouchie

My knee hurts because there's too much weight on it, so I'm comfort eating. That's sensible. Although, does it count as comfort eating when you're genuinely hungry?

Only lost half a pound today. Bit miffed, but it's still something. We're getting a curry tonight though, so I'll probably put it straight back on :P Haven't had a curry since I started on Weight Watchers, so I'm looking forward to it! There's a shocking amount of points in a curry though ...

Weigh-in day

I didn't lose 3 pounds today as I had hoped, but I did still lose a pound, which is good too. I was really disappointed though, which is silly. I'd just built up the idea of losing half a stone in three weeks in my mind, and convinced myself that it was going to happen. Moral of the story? Lower your expectations.

No, that can't be right ...


In other news, my big brother is in Weight Watchers Magazine this month:



Well done Dave :)

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My pedometer thinks I'm evil. It tells me I have done 6606 steps today. That apparently counts as 'healthy' though, so I won't get too paranoid about it. I did 13800, or 5.2 miles, yesterday too. I always knew shopping was good for you.

So I started Weight Watchers last month, nearly three weeks ago now. I started at 12 st 7.5lb, pretty bad since I'm only 4' 10.5" tall (not that 'tall' is a particularly appropriate word!). At my last weigh-in, I was 12st 3.5lb. I keep thinking of long-term goals - the original one was to lose 3 stone by September, which is certainly doable. Although, since I lost 3 pounds last week, and if I lose 3 pounds again this week, that will be half a stone. So I've been thinking that if I keep up the same pace and lose half a stone every three weeks, I will have lost the 3 stone by mid-June. Which would be nice.

My mum keeps saying how proud she is of me, bless her. I've been meaning to start a weight-loss plan for, well, years now, and I'm feeling quite optimistic now that I've finally started. It's really not as hard as I thought it would be either - it's more about changing habits (like my epic snack habit) than giving up the foods I like, so it doesn't feel like I'm making big sacrifices. Though I have been craving a curry and a peshwari naan lately ...