First Sparkler

I was very pleased to receive in the post this morning a little certificate from my weightwatchers leader with a Number One ribbon on and little note saying "Well done your fist sparkler" for aving reached my first silver seven last week. It was a really nice pick me up on a day when I felt like I couldn't really be bothered counting points and trying to eat healthy. Diving intervention perhaps ;)

Goals

My weightwatchers week starts on a Wednesday but I like Mondays as a starting point (come on now who doesn't?) so each Sunday evening I'm going to start setting myself some small weekly goals to work towards and then review how I've done at the end of the week. Most of them will be weight related as this is as weight loss blog but some of them will be focused on other aspects of my life as well.

Weekly Goals:

1. Drink more water - I am so bad at this I would rather drink a diet soft drink but they are just SO bad for your teeth.
   
2. Get in 3 exercise sessions - can be treadmill, bike, weights, DVD, whatever but get some exercise!!!
3. Reach my 5 a day!!

Not to hard. I've already been trying at these so now I just need to up the effort a little!

Clean, Clean, Clean

I spent this afternoon cleaning out my kitchen. I got the curtains down and put them in the wash, then I cleaned out the pantry, the food cupboards and the fridge. Washed down my white goods (fridge, microwave etc!), scrubbed the floors....it looks and smells real good in there. I totally rearranged the food cupboards and put a lot of the tinned stuff on to the pantry shelves so at least now I have a good idea about what food I have in my kitchen. It just wasn't organized enough before.

A man from Severn Trent came out today and cleaned out the drains as they had got all backed up. He said the problem was somebody has been poking sticks down it - we have a child living next door so more than likely he was the culprit! Aww well he's only little. It certainly smells nicer now. I wasn't here when he came but he told our other neighbour that our cellar should smell tons better as apparently the vents for the drains run under it and so the smell wasn't just the damp of a normal cellar it was also the blocked drains. Oh yeah - real healthy that!

Wedding plans are going good. I've still gotta sort the decorations out though. I've seen most of what I need on ebay! Yey ebay!

Wedding hiccups

We have a slight problem on the wedding dress front. I should have foreseen this but really....I didn't! The dress I brought is getting loose in the bust. It has to fit perfectly in the bust because it's a strapless dress, therefore my bust is the only thing holding my dress up darn it! Wow see how many times I wrote bust there? I decided to try it on this morning just to see..come on its my wedding dress. I didn't think 10lb would make a heck of a lot of difference but well apparently it does in the upper body area! On the plus side at the moment the hips of the dress are fitting just perfectly instead of just that little bit too snug, this is a good thing. I don't see any point getting the alteration made this week as I have 8 weeks to go and hell I could loose some serious weight in that time. My mum says she knows someone who will take it in for me so I can leave it for another 4 weeks at least. Past that I'll have to get it done. Why do I have the idea I might be wearing pins down the aisle!?
Despite the last minute wedding panic ?*sighs* I am very very happy that it's getting loose! Yey me!!

BIG YEY for me!!

Last weeks weight: 16st 5lbs
This weeks weight: 16st 2lbs
Loss: 3lbs
Total: 9.5lbs

Bring it on. I did better in London than I thought. Now just some hard work this week to make sure that Krispy Kreme dougnut doesn't catch up with me! Woohoo!

I'm hoping that with a nearly 10lb loss already that by the time the wedding rocks round in December I will have made my first stone (14lbs!), being as I have 8 weeks left think that should be reasonable as that's only 0.5lbs a week. If we looked at 1lb a week then I would have lost a total of 18lbs by the wedding. Either would be lovely and anything more than that, well...we'll see shall we. If I've learnt anything it's not to put too put too many time restraints on my goals. When I reach them, I reach them and it will all happen in its own time. There's no point rushing this, it's not a diet but a change of lifestyle and one that I want to sustain.

Greased Lightening

Sorry I've been a little quiet on the blog this week. On Wednesday I finished up Uni for two weeks but still with a heap load of work to do and then on Friday I headed down to London for the weekend. I'm not going to lie and say I was an angel when it came to food but I could certainly have made a lot worse choices over the weekend. So if I gain any weight I'm ready to deal and move on. I've got straight back on to counting my points today and I'm gonna exercise as well ;) get me!
Our treadmill finally arrived on Thursday (yeah! only two days late!) and Dad brought it back in the car for me. So now I have a lovely shiny new treadmill to walk and jog on. Matt is loving it too. So it's healthy eating and exercise all the way and I'll see how I do on Wednesday!

Weigh In number three

Starting weight: 16st 11.5lbs
Last week: 16st 7lbs
This week: 16st 5lbs
Loss: 2lbs

So in the two weeks since starting weightwatchers I've lost 6.5 lbs which I think is pretty darn good and also means that if I lose 0.5lbs next week I will get my first silver seven in my weight card :D I want my silver seven next week. I'm gonna have my work cut out because I'm going to London this weekend to see the stage show of Grease but I am determined eat well and get as much walking in as possible.
My treadmill wasn't delivered today :( they did try and ring but I missed the phone call so I guess I'll have to ring them tomorrow and try and sort out another delivery date.