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. 🙂
Hey folks
I am not going to make it to Mondays meeting. Can someone make a few smartarse comments in my name?
Hey Andrew
When are you going to put up the photos you took at WW a few weeks back?
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.
Luke went out to the car show last night so I took the oppotunity to cook a beef casserole….which I do maybe every six months. It took ages to cook (I am now unused to the amount of time it takes to cook meat!) so I had a small dinner with B. I told myself that I would save the casserole for lunches and freeze some. Yeah right, it smelt so good that I had a little when I took it out, then more, then more…. I calculated the damage this morning as being about 6 points over. It could have been worse but it means damage control for the rest of the week because I can’t exercise due to my purple slug-like broken toe. *sigh* – self control still an issue….
I gained 0.2, but given the major blowout which happened, frankly I am surprised it was not more.
Some interesting notes:
* this is only the second week in which I have gone up
* this is only the second week in which I have been slack with tracking (the first week was when I went up)
( this is only the second week that I have not pigged out on the WW Choc crisp bars (the first week was when I went up)
Here’s my four week trends:
Week 0 – 4: -5.9 kg
Week 1 – 5: -4.5 kg
Week 2 – 6: -5.4 kg
Week 3 – 7: -3.0 kg
This tells me that I am losing weight still, despite my setback last week, and that the rate at which I am losing weight is slowing. I need to lose another 2.8 kg to hit my 10% goal. Based on these trends, I am predicting that this will happen in Week 9 or Week 10, probably Week 10.
Once I have another three or four data points, I suspect that the gradient will be sufficiently shallow for me to even make a long range predicition about when I should be hitting the top of my goal weight range.
I lost a poofteenth of a kg last night. Although I was happy that I didn’t go *up* I am a bit disappointed that after vomiting/being sick for 2 of the days I might have done a little better. On Saturday night we went out to dinner and I couldn’t finish my beef curry it was so *huge*…I ate about 2/3 of it but it was probably enough to do the damage…that and the fact that I kept stealing chips of B’s plate….
So back on track today. I resolve this week to keep an eye on portion sizes, especially for things like pasta and rice. I actually measured my pasta serve into a cup this afternoon rather then visually doing it and I must say it was significantly smaller then the portion I had estimated.
I am also expecting a bit of a weight gain or at least no weight loss due to a weekend of culinary debauchery.
Fri night was not too bad but i may have done some damage with the cheese and chocolate platter.
Saturday was ok.
Sunday was a full on BBQ with chips dips and pate. I ate a fraction of what i once would have but the Haig chocolate frogs were a sore temptation. I was hoping to get home early enough to work my guilt and some calories off on the exercise machine but instead i stayed out till about 12.0 – 1 ish.
I’m expecting a weight gain this week. However, it’s mainly my own fault.
Tues and Wed were fine.
Thursday was Uni House committee meeting. I calculated how many sandwiches I could have and I think I went over by 1/4 of a sandwich, which was OK. But then the second course for lunch came out. There I am faced with a choice: some pieces of pear, or fine old vintage cheese. Whoops, I went for the cheese, and chased it down with a rather nice cab sav. I did however, politely decline the chocolates (the same ones we had at our wedding)
Friday I was in Sydney for a professional association type conference. More sandwiches there, but lathered with butter and the like. I didn’t feel as though I could stand around scraping off condiments when I was trying to be professional, so I had them. Probably one or two too many. I also had a coulple of choc chip cookies for morning tea. The kicker, though, was the choclate mousse dessert. Whoops again. Tried to make up for it on the flight home by declining dinner.
Saturday was not so bad; I ate fairly well, but miscalculated the number of points of K-Time twists (I thought 1.5, they were 2), so I ended up slightly over for the day.
Yesterday was a complete disaster. 7.5 points bacon, egg and muffin breakfast; 10 points worth of choc chip muffins in the afternoon, a full WW meal in the evening (24 points already), plus assorted nibbles throughout the day. Ouch.
However, my resolve is back. One of the key features of last week was not I was not fully and accurately tracking my points. Time to get anal again.
I had a pretty interesting day with B today (see here for exhaustive details) which involved a huge amount of vomit. Thus I had no problem sticking to the program. Now I know why all those models who “purge” have no trouble being waifs – it’s the smell…. I was wondering if you could bottle “eau de toddler milk puke” for use as an appetite supressing inhaler so you could walk through the chocolate aisle in the supermarket without flinching?
btw – lost 1.2 kgs over 2 weeks and now am back were I was, at nearly 3kgs down. At this rate Paul and I will reach our goal weight together…. but at least the trend is down, I can be patient. Thanks for the support guys, I wouldn’t still be here if it wasn’t for all of yous 🙂