I got my first stone.

It finally happened, after 14 weeks I have gotten my first stone!

On tuesday as I stepped up on the scales I really wasn't holding out for much success. I had gone to the cinema twice during the week, both times having popcorn and sweets, oh and ice cream on one visit! I had gone out for pizza and also had chips last week too. I was expecting a loss, but just a small one. I lost 2.5lbs totaling 14lbs in total and my first stone. I wasn't expecting that, but I was delighted.

I have really started to step up my activity and i think its definitely contributing to my weight loss success  I have roller derby training every sunday for 2 hours that earns me 15-18 activity points. I do a skate fit class every tuesday for 1.5 hours and that amounts to another 15 points, I also went for an outdoor skate with my friend while she cycled, we did 2 miles and are planning on doing it a couple of times a week and that got me another 3 activity points. so thats a lot of points! But i try and not use my activity points. I will only use them if i am really really stuck, like if something unexpected came up and I was all out of points.

I had an idea a couple of weeks ago to host a weight watchers style pot luck, where everyone coming would bring a long a weight watchers friendly dish - a snack, salad, dessert, side or main. Something that the person liked to eat while following weight watchers. I also thought it would be good to put a limit on the food, points wise. So I decided that each serving should be between 0 & 5 pro points.
I proposed the idea to my leader and she gave me the go ahead to annonce it in tuesdays meeting. so the event is all set for friday the 5th of july and I am very excited about it.

I had planned to take some pictures of me wearing some dresses that I now fit back into but I fell while out skating yesterday and I am suffering from some whiplash. I will take the photos for my next post.

A big catch up - The last 2 weeks.

A lot has been going on in my life lately. I moved house 2 weeks ago and only now has the internet been sorted out, oh how I missed it. I am Glad to have it back now so I can get back to blogging.
I have had 2 weigh in's since moving, a ''college reunion'' of sorts (really just a night out in dublin with my college friends) and my masters interview. I think all of these things impacted on my weight loss for the past two weeks, mostly the college reunion...oops, that one was a major slip up.

Moving house was definitely a positive both for my life in general and for my weight loss, needing a bigger place to live has resulted in a 3 storey house with 2 flights of stairs resulting in 32 steps to get to the top where my bedroom is. I go up and down those stairs countless times through out the day and I am already finding it a little bit easier to do. On purpose, I leave things in my bedroom that I know I am going to need later, so that I will have to use the stairs again. I know it seems a bit crazy but its working, my first weigh in after moving was Tuesday 4th June and I lost 1.5lb.

The stairs - there is a turn at the top and they keep going.

Now for the ''college reunion'', I hang my head in shame when I think of all that I ate and drank for the 2 nights in Dublin. How I managed a stay the same on Tuesdays weigh in I do not know, maybe its because I made some really good choices while also making some bad ones, maybe its the stairs in my house or the 2 hours of skating I did on Sunday. I don't know, but I was delighted when I came off the scales. I really was expecting the worst.
OK, so here is confession time, I started my trip off on Thursday really well with a good breakfast, weetabix and skimmed milk. I packed a lunch for the bus that was 11points. I met my friend for a late lunch and ordered a salad for 5pps. That turned out to be my dinner because I never managed to have one until later in the night when I grabbed some chips after drinking, uh oh. This is when it starts to get bad. 2 large glasses of rose. 1.5 cans of beer and 2 vodkas and soda water. I was feeling a little hungover Friday morning and myself and my friends went out for breakfast and I ordered a medium full Irish breakfast. I pointed it when I came home on Sunday, I left my tracker in cork so I tracked everything when I got back. The breakfast was 30pps! later that day I went to visit a friend and there was a plate of donuts and biscuits on the table. I had a donut, 5pp and 3 digestive biscuits 5pp, that's a lot for 3 biscuits! on leaving my friend gave me a present of a mini bag of cadburys caramel eggs as she knew they were my favourite. I ate 4 of them that day for 8pps. That evening I met my sister for dinner and a walk on Dun Laoghaire pier. We shared a Cajun chicken burger, fries and onion rings and we had a scoop of ice cream after we walked the pier, all totalling 26pps.

Myself, in the centre, at the ''college reunion''

So now, you think I might have tried to rectify myself on Saturday when I was going back to Cork, but I didn't, I don't know why but I couldn't stop. I bought myself a muffin for the bus home and got a McDonald's when I arrived back in cork at lunch time and then attended a spontaneous BBQ that evening and drank Malibu.  So not only did I use my 49 weekly points, I somehow managed to use another 49 points! wow. Now you see why I was so happy with a stay the same.

On Wednesday I had my interview for the masters I have applied for, I don't think it went well and I was quiet upset when I came out. That resulted in me comfort eating for the evening. Will took me for dinner and a movie to cheer me up. I ordered pizza for 18pps, which was the the smartest option available and stayed within my daily allowance. I had planned on sharing popcorn with will and taking it out of my weekly allowance. I wanted sweets though and I decided to have them because I felt terrible, I had 100g of pick 'n' mix. We were meeting wills dad at the cinema and he wanted to get ice cream from the Ben and Jerry's bar and William said he would get some too. So what did I do? I had some too! It was the start of a new week though so I had all my 49 weeklies so I took it all out of that. I still have a few left to get me through the weekend. We are going to wills moms for a BBQ on saturday, but is should be a really healthy one becuase will's mom is very health conscious. This evening I made a batch of butternut squash and marshmallow brownies from the Weight Watchers members favorites book. I am going to take them to the BBQ. I made them on monday too and froze most of the batch and I can defrost in the microwave whenever I want one.. They are so good and a great chocolate hit for only 4pps a piece.

Fresh batch of brownies straight from the oven.