My 13 Week Challenge - Week 3: A Huge Sigh of Relief

Tonight I had my 3rd weigh in of my 13lbs in 13 weeks challenge.

Week one, I did plenty of activity, but over did it with the Easter chocolate and gained 2lbs.
Week two, I kept up my activity and worked hard at making the right food choices, unfortunately 2 days before weigh in my period came and I gained another 2lbs, I was so upset and annoyed that I couldn't bring myself to blog about that one. I moved on from that and used my anger as fuel to have an absolutely fantastic week.

This week, I kept up my activity, I even went on a 13km walk with my friend and I clocked up 28 activity points over the week. I put in a huge effort with my food and stuck with Simple Start for the week. I did go off track for one meal out when my parents came to visit, but I managed to reign it back in right away and I am so proud of that. I had a very enjoyable week and I feel great.

So you can imagine my huge sigh of relief when I stepped up on the scales tonight and finally saw a minus. I was secretly hoping for 2lbs but I wanted to be OK with any loss so I was trying not to get my hopes up. I lost the 2lbs, but not only did I lose the 2lbs I had my single biggest weekly loss ever. I lost 4.5lbs!

Thank Goodness! I am so relieved to see a loss after 3 weeks. It was definitely well deserved on my part. Now I am on schedule with my 13lbs in 13 weeks challenge.

8.5lbs to go and 10 weeks left. I can do it!

A great start with a Chorizo & Feta Omelette

Happy New Year to you all!

This week is back to class time, as the kids get back to school, us weight watchers members get ourselves back to class and on the scales. It's a scary, daunting prospect for a lot of us, but it's a step in the right direction and its onwards and downwards from there!

I have a lovely recipe to get you inspired and you won't feel like your on a diet at all, thats the joy of Weight watchers, nothing if forbidden you can have everything in moderation, so there is no need to eat dry, bland food in order to loose weight.

Chorizo & Feta Omelette

Serves 1

7 Pro Points per serving
or
3 pro Points on Filling & Healthy

2 Medium Eggs
1 Tbsp Skimmed Milk
1 Tsp Oregano
Salt & Pepper to taste
30g Chorizo, diced
30g Light Feta, diced
1 small Onion, diced
1 tomato, halved & sliced
1 tsp Balsamic vinegar

Heat the grill to 200 degrees.
Whisk the eggs, milk, oregano, salt & pepper in a jug and set to one side.
Spray a small/medium frying pan with fry lite and heat to a high heat.
Fry the onions for one minute & add the chorizo, fry for a further minute.
Reduce to a medium heat.
Add the tomato & balsamic vinegar and simmer until the balsamic has caramalised with the tomato.
Pour over the egg mixture and sprinkle the feta over the top.
Cook until bubbles appear on the surface.
Place the frying pan under the grill until the omelette is fully cooked (alternatively you can flip and cook the other side on the hob)


Serve with home made potato wedges or a side salad & enjoy!

Diet ''Cheat'' Cake!

I want cake...I want cake now!

Sometimes in life you just need a piece of cake. The great Thing about weight watchers is that you can indeed have your cake and eat it. Thats the topic I was discussing with my members in my classes this week. A slice of cake in a coffee shop (or even home made) can cost you up to 19 Pro Points! But there are lower alternatives available. 

Last weekend while away for a weekend with my friend Mandi we simultaneously got cake craving, Funny how that happens! Both of us ae following weight watchers so we started thinking about what we could make that wouldn't cost us too much from our Weekly Pro Point allowance. Mandi got to google searching and came across a very strange concept for a Weight Watchers friendly cake.

The concept is taking a box cake mix and mixing it with a can of diet soda in replace of the oil and eggs.

I am not normally a fan of using box cake as I love to bake from scratch but the idea of a low Pro Point cake was too good so we decided to try it out using Betty Crocker Devils Food Cake Mix and a can of Coke Zero. We ended up with a lovely moist chocolate cake! We made some extra light cream cheese frosting  and the cake worked out at 6 Pro Points Per slice! Apologies there is no photo of that cake, it got gobbled up before I thought to take one.

This weekend I decided to try out another cake using the same concept as the chocolate cake. 

I found the Betty Crocker Orange & Chocolate Swirl mix on sale in Tesco for 1.59 and decided to try it out using a can of Tesco Orange Zero, a 4 pack cost 1.69 so not only is this a really tasty Weight Watchers friendly cake, its very affordable too and works out at 4 Pro Points a slice.

Diet Orange & Chocolate Swirl Cake

4 Pro Points per serving

Serves 12

1 Box Bettry Crocker Orange & Chocolate Swirl Cake Mix

1 330ml Can of Orange Zero 

Preheat fan oven to 160

Spray a cake tin with fry light

Follow the instructions from the box adding the can of soda in replace of the oil & eggs.

Bake in the oven for 30 minutes, until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

Cool on a wire rack and serve.

Really, it's as easy as that and nobody would know it was from a box or Weight Watchers friendly!

You can try out any variety of box cake & diet soda combination and let me know how it turns out if you try your own.

Sarah x