I made a few changes and reverted back to some old habits that I had let slip. I think perhaps I was getting a bit confident with my weight loss and wasn't being as careful as I was back in the beginning.
Some things that I changed were going back to meal planning, I used to always do this but I had let it slip and was improvising a lot, so I sat down and made a meal menu for the week and that really helped me to stay on track.
one of my dinner plans was to have fish, I would like to start having fish at least once a week. I found these lovely lightly crumbed sole in the freezer in Aldi. The crumb has roasted pepper and garlic going through it. They were delicious and one fillet worked out at 4pp.
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| Lightly crumbed pepper and garlic sole from Aldi with baby potatoes, carrots and broccoli |
This week in the meeting we discussed eating on days out, summer is coming to an end and we may have some last days out coming up. we chatted about whats acceptable on a day out, how many points we think is ok to use and things like that. we all agreed that that around 40 - 50 pp was not so bad, obviously only if you have the extra points from your weeklies.
I didn't really have a day out this week but I did have the afters on a wedding to attend last night so it was really a night out. I was going with my Boyfriend, my brother and his wife, who were spending the night with us. I cooked us a yummy chicken curry for 6pp a portion and we also got 2 bags of chips from the chipper to share and I had a good handful but pointed them at 14pp. I had cleverly volunteered to be designated driver so I wouldn't drink all my points or heaven forbid go over my points with wine.
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| before and after picture of me in the dress. |
Last week I decided to try on one of my dresses to see if I could wear it to the wedding party. I had worn it to a wedding afters last december and it was so uncomfortably tight that I couldn't wait to take it off again. Now though its the perfect fit, I can eat and drink in it without feeling sick and the waistband digging into my tummy. I could dance the night away and not feel self conscious. I danced so much last night I must have earned a couple of activity points at least!
I forgot to take a decent picture of me wearing it last night, I had a whole 50s glam thing going on, softly cured hair, red lipstick, eye liner flicks, the whole lot and I really felt pretty. I do have some dodgy camera phone pictures.
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| Camera Phone Pic - Will and Myself. |
Normally on these occasions when the finger food was produced I would have eaten my weight in cocktail sausages. Oh I love cocktail sausages! Last night though I allowed myself 2, a little taste to not feel deprived and that was enough to satisfy me. I also didn't resist having some wedding cake, it was chocolate biscuit, yum! the cake was sliced up into very small finger slices and I just had the one, so not too much damage done there. I hazard a guess at 6pp? there was also a candy buffet table at the wedding and I did eat a couple of jellies but I pointed them too. I was very proud of myself, I would tend to be one of those persons who would eat some jellies and the conveniently forget about it!
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| Camera Phone Pic - My Dad and Myself |
so in total I used 23 of my weeklies, a few chips, a small bit of cake and few jellies, not bad I think. I am very pleased with myself anyway. I felt very in control and to top it all off I have never ever gotten so many compliments from people telling me how great I looked. I had people I didn't even know come over and say I looked beautiful, so I was going around with a big swelled head and a smile on my face. weight watchers is paying off big time! I am almost looking forward to next weeks weigh in because I know I have made the right choices and the party wont have effected my weigh in, or at least it shouldn't!
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