Author: Andrew van der Stock

I’ve uploaded the photos from a few weeks ago, but it’s week 8 for us on Monday. TIME FOR MORE PHOTOS!

Also, if you could e-mail me your weekly weight stats, I’ll make up Excel graphs and stick them in your little area at the top of the page. Check mine out for an example.

Before:

Clearing starts:

Which becomes (after buying new plants to replace the dead ‘uns):

At 6 points every 30 minutes for big fat blokes like me, the above clearing and planting represents some 36 points. I wont use it, but it’s really cool that there’s a visible outcome of the exercise points.

Anyone is free to come along and help with weeding^wearning lots of bonus points. 🙂

This is this morning’s weight, without much trying. Coupled with the planned blitz on the garden next weekend, I should be a shoe in for a weight loss.

I gained 0.6 last week though. I don’t believe those scales as my own weighing has been pretty consistent. I think I will stick to the left hand scales, not the right.

I’ll bring my camera. But if someone else could bring one as well, that’ll be good.

We also need a tape measure.

I’ve not had a good weekend. The cold is playing havoc with my emotional eating triggers and I’m finding myself without excuses why I didn’t do the right thing. Let’s just say that carrot cake was involved and be done with it.

Andrew

Don’t give up – you have so few kilogram to go (compared to me!).

I need an exercise buddy – I’ve had none this week, and it’s going to be too hot to garden tomorrow.

I have a cold to top it off, so I’ve comfort eaten a bit of chocolate along with the wine… I don’t expect much (if any) of a loss next weigh in.

The Weight Watchers mix and match book is excellent. Two.5 good recipes out of two.5 so far. I’ve made the marinade for tomorrow’s meal, and it’s DELICIOUS. The marinade is honey / red wine / dijon mustard mix, and the meat is suffusing in it in the fridge. So that’s 0.5 / 0.5. I’ll let you know what it’s like when I roast them tomorrow.

The pork filets in five spice and hoisin sauce on top of jasmine rice with green stuff is extremely delicious. It’s just like the grilled sliced pork I have at Vietnamese restaurants. It’s easy to make and was ready to eat in 10 minutes. Two thumbs up.

Down side is that the sauce (involving a reduction of lemon juice and hoisin sauce) does get a bit sloppy when one is enthusiastically stirring to avoid sticky brown mess on the bottom of the pan.

So there’s this bottle of red that I had to open for the sauce. It’s going down a treat. How many points is 2/3rds of a bottle? Good thing that my total points for today = 7 + 4 + 6 = 17. I hope that 2/3rds of a bottle is like 10 points.

And Jacques, my food bill went up. But it’s not quite the same – I’m shopping for two instead of buying for one. But the quality of the food I’m eating is also up.

http://www.jamieoliver.com/diary/index.html

I wonder if there’s a Oliver translater somewhere, so put in the unnecessary “darlin’”‘s and so on. It does have a pretty picture of him, though.

When I get home tonight, I’ll upload the first week photos (which aren’t very good).

We need new photos – it’s been a month. We should also take measurements. 🙂

If you’re not coming to our meetings, please e-mail the photos to Inger or myself and we’ll upload them.

I’m vanderaj at greebo dot net, and Inger is at inger at mewburn dot net.

-2.2 kg 🙂

I thank the muffins, the lack of lots of exercise, the diruetic effect of coffee, and Monica for enabling my bad chocolate habit. And McDonalds, which I had once during this weigh in period (for which I got a smack over the hand from Monica).

So that makes -4.1 kg in total.

Now that I have a cleaner, I will need to spend more time in the garden.