Love it lots!! Manson at his best!
I cant believe a week has passed already and its weigh in day today. I am nervous for a couple of reasons 1) not had the healthiest diet this week and 2) I have to go to a different group.
Now, don't get me wrong, I have not cheated on this diet, not once this week, which when you consider I am out and about and working 15 hours a day at the moment, is pretty amazing! I have been grabbing bits from tescos when I need them and doing my best to eat healthy. My main diet is fruit, with a meal of rice and chicken breasts during the shift. I have eaten out twice in a week once was a jacket potato, salad and baked beans (YAY go me, I live dangerously) and the last meal was noodles with, yip, you guessed it, chicken!
The second reason I am a bit nervous is going to a new group, now don't get me wrong I haven't moved or changed, I just cant get back to the normal group the fantastic 4 attends on Tuesday, so I have found one near where I was working. Even when it came to weighing in I wasn't sure I would do it.
I turned up, parked the van, took a deep breath and walked in.... nothing happened. I walked over to the desk and paid my weekly "I'm fat so I have to pay to attend tax" where the lady introduced herself and made small talk for about a minute. Went and weighed in, the lady there said well done and then I walked out. No drama, no fuss, no pointing and laughing. To be honest this group seemed a bit younger than our normal group and the counsellor didn't once mention her condition. If I am still working near hear next week I will probably go to this group again, I might even stay to group session as well, time permitting.
So, how did it go? Well I lost 7.5 lbs this week (3.4Kg) which i thought was quite good, but I missed my 10% body mass award by 3lbs.... so next week I will smash that one out as well! Go ME!
So lets recap briefly, starting weight 30St 8lbs (194.14Kg) 4 weeks dieting..... weigh in at 27st 11.5lbs a loss of 2st 10.5lbs (38.5lbs or 17.46Kg) not bad going really! Although I would like to claim this success as mine, it is truly dependant upon the support team I have in Kerry (without whom non of this would be happening), Dan and Kellie, as well as everyone else. So thanks everyone!
The rest of the fantastic 4 also lost this week!! Go F4!! Bringing our weekly total to 14.5lbs!! Another week down and another stone gone between us!
Our total weight loss to date is 79lbs!!! (35.83Kg or 5 Stone 9 lbs) that's half an adult human being! (normal size, not my size lol). In 4 weeks? See we truly are the Fantastic 4!! Keep it up peeps.
Here is to a leaner fitter summer!
We got to fat club and there was no queue to weigh in! result! So we paid our money, and made our way past the "You must by this branded bar" table to the scales. That is where the good mood ended. Kellie weighed in first, and Kerry and I (who were still buying the bars, magazine, raffle tickets etc) felt the change in atmosphere from 50 feet away. I can only liken it to the scenes out of The Day after Tomorrow. When the cold arrives and everything is instantly frozen, the temperature drops about 300 million degrees in an instant, that's what it felt like. Dan then jumped on and the bell rang, just to add insult to injury. Kerry weighed in, and then myself.
The fantastic 4 as we are now calling ourselves (somehow I ended up being the thing... go figure) weighed in with an impressive loss of 12.5 lbs this week! This brings our total weight loss up to 64.5lbs for the group!!! That's 29.25Kilos for the metrics out there! Or 4 stone 8.5lbs for the English out there. As parents of 8 Children between us, that is one of our children in weight we have lost! (Which would be handy)
The girls did not have there finest week, they stuck to the diet and they exercised and had a lower weight loss than they were expecting, but they did have a weight loss! It is headed in the right direction and if they were not then there would be a problem. However, you try and tell Kerry and Kellie that! Go on, I dare you! Us lads, well we ruled the roost again, this week it was Dan's turn to take the slimmer of the week prize with a weight loss of 6 lbs. I followed him up with a weight loss of 5lbs. So well done Dan!! Keep it up mate!! (I'm so winning that sticker next week).
So, 3 weeks in and I have lost 31.5lbs (2 Stone 3.5 lbs, or 14.29 Kilos) which from my starting weight is 7.5% of my body mass. Which is not bad going for a less than a month!
Got to run off to work, will blog later....
Today's thought....
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
This weekend proved a real test of the
We were round the in-laws, when it was asked if there was any take away we could have. Kerry and I hit the books and websites and started planning. We went for Chinese in the end and I think Kerry managed to keep her meal down to about 8 points! I went all out and blew 38 Syns in that evening on Sweet and Sour Chicken, Chicken Chow Mien, Rice and 2 shots of Captain Morgan!! YUMMY!! (2nd Mistake) I had the syns available to me, so I thought use them! However I spent the next 36 hours feeling guilty! So Sunday and Monday were spent on about 1 Syn. I now feel better about it, but hope it has not killed my weight loss this week. Weigh in tomorrow and I am feeling nervous.
Generally (apart from Saturday) we have followed the diet to the letter, increased our free and super free foods and tried to eat 1/3 2/3 split. We have both also noticed our appetites have got smaller! Which is probably a good thing as £200/week on fresh fruit was a little expensive!
I have not made it to exercise this week, which is a shame, but I don't feel too bad about it. I know if and when my weight loss slows down I still have exercise and portion control to fall back on to speed it up again.
Still all in all, not a bad week, except the guilt and now feeling nervous!
They (for there was 2 of them) caused us some quite considerable trouble and cost us a lot of money. For several reasons which I will not go into here, insurances would not pay out etc and we lost a motor vehicle through it. We had to take a loan out to replace the vehicle, we had to buy a new front door and we lost approximately £2,000 worth of electrical goods and bits and pieces. Now we got a few bits back but not a lot. On top of that the emotional trauma suffered by Kerry was huge. As well as replacing all the stuff and replacing the door, we had to install an alarm as well.
So, after a while Kerry got a little bit better, and was feeling more comfortable at home, when all of a sudden, out of the blue, our property started coming under attack. First the new vehicle we had bought (new to us, not new new) got vandalised. It now has a couple of scratches one of which is through to the metal all the way down the passenger side. Then our doorbell got stolen (I know petty), and then I went to pick Kerry up one evening, on returning home the front of our house had been covered in Curry sauce.
All of this has been reported to the police. As yet no one knows who is responsible and to be fair we are not likely to find out, I don't blame the police, they feel as helpless as I do in this situation.
One of the things that we have now had to do is place CCTV cameras on our property (at the recommendation of the police) to try and a) catch who ever is doing it and b) deter whoever is doing it from striking again. Now this seems to be working, as nothing has happened since they have been placed in the windows (at a cost to ourselves).
Today I returned home from work to be confronted by the father of the lad who burgled our house demanding to know why we have CCTV cameras and accusing us of pointing them at his house and spying on him. He implied that I should be embarrassed by being robbed and the actions of his son is not his fault. He feels persecuted and does not think it is fair, even though he admitted to breaking the law to me on several occasions. He followed me to my house and kept on and on that we were filming his house (and yes admittedly the cameras do look like they point in that direction, but his house is not being filmed) and at one point I thought he was going to try and follow me in. I turned and blocked the door and told him that I want nothing to do with him, his family or his son and no one in my family wants anything to do with them. I think I made the point quite clear as he skulked off back into his house.
I was quite angry at the time, not that I showed this, and I am now quite bemused, if my son had robbed someone (God forbid) I think I would have half killed him, profusely apologised and offered some form of reparation, nothing like this has happened, in fact quite the opposite, apparently now we are persecuting him, and far from apologising, it appears as if he thinks we are in the wrong for getting burgled. I did suggest that perhaps if he feels persecuted then he should move away, but he seemed disinclined to acquiesce to my request.
Oh well, I wish I could help him but to be fair, I really don't want to.
Hello, I am back, sorry about the absence but life took over and I really could not be bothered to expend the energy needed to walk up the stairs to get the laptops :o) (that's better, and more truthful)
This post should have been finished and out Wednesday, however, it is now Thursday and I have still have not finished it... So pretend it is Wednesday and it will all make more sense!
Tuesday is weigh in day for the fab 4 (Kerry, Kellie, Dan and I) and it is with some interpretation that we approached it this week. Firstly, we all got off to a roaring start last week, secondly we have all been talking today about how rough we feel. Now lets get this right, I don't mean rough as in ill, I mean rough as in bloated, lethargic, generally not right.
Add that to my scepticism, about how you can eat so much food and lose weight, Kerry's abnormal insistence that her body will not lose weight or if it does its half a pound a week. The mood was generally down... also if we are honest none of the 4 of us actually like our counsellor, she is at best 'Walter Mitty' and at worse simply incompetent! However, the timing of the group is right for the 4 of us all to make it, so it is what we have. (We also happen to be the loudest, most opinionated and youngest members of the group I think!)
This week there was some faces we had not seen before, the 4 of them sat at the back next to us and promptly started eating! (I have to add that these 4 are also quite thin!). This set Dan off on an incandescent rage, which strangely enough he held back on when he blogged, but catch the post here... However, we duly lined up, paid our money, took our turns on the scales and then sat through an hour of psycho babble and poorly explained nutritional advice. Now please dont get me wrong I dont think the diet is overly bad, and I dont think the organisation that runs it is particularly bad either, in fact, if you have to go to a fat club then it is one of the 3 I would suggest. Its just our counsellor...
Now.... the weigh in itself... this week I lost 9lbs (4.08 Kilos) giving me a total loss of 26.5lbs (1 Stone 12.5lbs, 12.02 Kilos) which is not too shabby and won me slimmer of the week. The others all lost as well with safe, healthy sustainable amounts. This week the fab 4 lost 17lbs together, bringing our running total to date up to..... weight for it.... (sorry could not resist)..... 52lbs!!!! (3 Stone 10lbs)
Well done to all 4 of us!!! Way to go team!!! Keep it up!!!
Todays thought....
Just a quick update, will post full diaries tomorrow...
Weekend has been hectic, have been out at work and a party and a day out with the kids today.... Hectic ...
Still, managed to stick to the diet and it has not been too bad at all, mainly thanks to Kerry and the amazing planning she has put into it all!!
Today's thought.... Be Prepared!
4th May Food Diary
06:45 Red Bull Sugar free, 2x Hi-Fi Light Cranberry (B)
07:10 Banana
08:45 Red Bull Sugar Free
09:30 Coffee
11:00 Apple
11:45 H2O, Banana
13:00 Lean Ham, Boiled Egg, Sweet Chili Chicken (1.5 Syn), Lettuce, Sweetcorn, Red Pepper, Cucumber, Celery, Potato's
13:30 H2O
17:45 Sweet and Sour Chicken (3.5 Syns) Noodles, Red Onion, Cabbage, Carrots
20:00 Melon, Pineapple, Apple, Strawberry, Raspberry, Blueberry, Blackberry, Meringue (2 Syns), Muller light yogurt cherry,
22:00 250ml Semi skimmed milk (A), Hi-Fi bar (5.5 Syns)
Today's thought..... "If you're going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill
