Monday, July 30th, 2007, 5:14 am
This blog title probably won't mean very much to anyone who isn't obsessed with their weight, but having lost 2lbs this week, I am finally down to the last mini goal that Weight Watchers set. I have now just got slightly less than 10% of my own body weight to lose. This is pretty damn good actually!
This also has several implications, it means that my weight loss is likely to slow down now and I will only be able to average approximately 1lb a week as comared to the 2lbs a week I was managing beforehand. This has the knock-on effect of slowing everything else down too! It will be approx 18 weeks (or 4 months) before I get to goal - even if I never STS or gain any weight!.
I will also need to increase and sustain, regular daily exercise to make sure I don't start plateau-ing. The will to do this is not a problem, but as the old saying goes, "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak", and having sustained a hip injury, I am unable to run or do more than about 20 mins of cycling at a time.
Another couple of hiccups in the plan, appear shortly in the form of hosting a family party for 30-40 people (with all the added pizza and alcohol implications!) and 4 weeks in France, the gastronimic centre of the universe! I just hope I can STS on the week of the party and limit myself to 2lbs a week gain in France!
Sadly, I haven't been able to 'make up' the setback I suffered 3 weeks ago while spending a week on the core plan, so whilst I have lost 5lbs during this 12-week MSN challenge, because of the anticipated weight gain in France, it is sadly unlikely now that I will hit my pledge of 3lb loss over all.
Still, we can't all be slimmer of the week, every week, and one of the goals I have set myself on the fitness challenge board, is to try to be more flexible in my approach. It's no good being obsessed about getting to goal - then have all the weight go back on. Indeed I read a statistic on another weight-loss board recently, that less than 30% of dieters retain their goal weight 18 months after achieveing it. I want to buck that trend and be one of the 30%! I need to use this last phase in my weight loss journey to start implementing plans to sustain this way of eating for life. I certainly can't go the rest of my life without having treats so I need to learn to include them (and the resulting weight implications) now. I'm also looking forward to joining magneticjellybean's group for long term weight maintenance - http://groups.ivillage.co.uk/weightmaintenance to help with tips and support. Shame I'll have to wait another few months before I can join!
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007, 7:18 am
Good heavens, even though it has rained overnight, we seem to be on course this morning for two days of sunshine on the trot. I can hardly believe it. I have grabbed the opportunity with both hands and spent the last 2 1/2hours in the garden, doing all those little jobs that you wait for a break in the weather to do.
I've weeded all four of my vegetable borders in the allotment section at the end of my garden. I've dismantled yet another of partner's Mum's winter hanging baskets (which she otherwise throws on the compost heap) and planted up the primroses, little conifer trees, daffodil and narcissus bulbs and cylamen corms in my borders. They will come back in my own garden now for a few years to come (if I can keep the slugs off them lol!)
I've potted-on nearly ALL of my nursery and special-needs plants which were only in 3 inch pots, in to 1 litre pots or bigger, in preparation for my 4-week absence next month, when they will be at the tender mercies of friends who have said they will water them while I am away!
I have a section of my garden behind my shed, for all my nursery plants and that's where I put all the self-seeded shrubs I dig up and cuttings I take from my own garden, as well as any special-needs plants that friends would otherwise throw away, to see if there's any life left in them. One year when partner was working for a well known high street plant retailer, we had any number of free plants which had "died" in the shop through lack of water and were otherwise going to be skipped. We succesfully nurtured nearly 3/4 of them back to health!
I've potted-on another two tomato plants which I'm growing under glass, so as to have an earlier crop if possible, and three pumpkin plants which I was given only three weeks ago, in tiny pots. They will go outside in the ground when I go in holiday, to save them having to be watered 3 times a week!
I've put out the last of my home-grown busy lizzies in to my plant troughs outside the front door, and finally I washed and scrubbed all the freed-up pots ready to go back in the potting shed hopefully free of any fungus or other soil borne disease which might otherwise hurt a new baby plant.
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007, 10:43 am
I had a wake up call from lulabell, one of my boardies today about letting the weather get us down. She finally said, enough is enough and I don't care - I'm going for a walk in the rain and it won't kill me! Here's the reply I posted to her, which I think has a lot of relevance for any of us who are feeling low and bereft of exercise because of the crappy summer weather.
"You're absolutely right. What on earth is wrong with walking in the rain, if you have a brolly, wellies and a waterproof coat! And if you have kids - they LOVE puddles!
Someone who was helping me on my own journey back to health said something similar to me last year, when I mentioned I would go walking "if it was nice". "Why, only if it's nice" she asked me in return, and I was stumped. I couldn't think of a SINGLE reason not to go for a walk in spring or summer rain, even if it's chilly, you end up generating your own body heat inside your waterproof. We have coats, we have brollies and we won't dissolve!!!!
Well done you for your inspiration and for getting us back to reality! - so who else out there is going to brave a walk in the rain!!!! Tell us all about it!"
...and thanks lulabell!
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007, 1:03 pm
Hello girls, me again, and I just wanted to share some more exciting news with you. A mere 4 weeks after getting my first CL shield on Running for Fitness and Fun, I have just been given the opportunity to CL my second board and it's Weight Watchers, with the lovely cl-joycebabe.
I'm all excited again and have come over all unnecessary!
It's worse than buses, isn't it girls, you wait months for one, then two come along at once - think I'll draw the line at two for the time being though!
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007, 9:56 am
The good - hooray, Mellers is feeling human again, and like the weight of the world is not actually on her shoulders. Not entirely sure why but getting out for a bike ride in the sunshine and having a cold beer in a pub for only £1.39 per pint yesterday (and sangria in the garden afterwards) certainly helped!
The bad - have to admit that I STS this week (that's diet-speak for Stayed The Same!), It's particularly frustrating as I stayed within my points allowance all week and exercised regularly! Oh well, I have surprisingly already come to terms with it as, comparing it to the 5lbs I put on the other week, it's small fry and this is a healthy eating plan for life, not just a goal oriented journey to a specific weight. Slow and steady as a very wise person has said to me.
The cheery - my wall is back! For some weeks now, the teckies at iVillage have struggled to let us see old wall messages, other than about half a dozen back. That was such a shame but they have been promising for ages to reveal them again. This morning, I see that I can finally look back on some of the cheery and friendly messages you iVillage lovlies have sent me over the last 4 months or so and it warms the heart!
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