Losing Weight with Slimming World Week 22

Earning my 2 stone award with Slimming World really spurred me on to keep going. I am determined to make this work and get to target by my birthday in May. This last week I felt really positive about everything and made changes to speed food wherever I could. It was half term so I knew it wasn’t going to be easy, but with the right choices I knew I could lose more weight!

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The Slimming World food I ate

Meal planning was a little all over the place due to half term as I said above. We had our usual risotto after last Monday’s meeting. There were a few times where we ate out.

On the Tuesday the family went for lunch at The Bell in Yeovil, a hungry horse pub. The big plates were on offer that day but I was able to choose sensibly from this and had a plate of sizzling steak with peppers, mexican rice and a salad. It was delicious!

Rex and I went to soft play on the Wednesday and had a lunch date afterwards at the Subway. I was really pleased to see that they did salads which were free of syns! I had chicken tikka with a little bit of ranch sauce which added 2 syns.

On Thursday I made up my own chicken curry and on Friday I made the chilli which everyone raved about at last weeks meeting which is in this month’s Slimming World magazine On Saturday we had bolognese. I replaced the rice with the curry and spaghetti with the bolognese with a side salad. I also had some mackerel with the curry (I know, odd choice but it was good!).

On Sunday, we met up with Ross’ parents for lunch and I had a roast. My favourite go-to meal when we are out now!

Favourite Discoveries of the Week

I carried on enjoying half a mashed banana mixed with two eggs and cooked in the omelette pan – but not every day. I found out that Asda did their own reduced calorie ice cream. The Halo ice cream is normally priced at £5 but the Asda brand is a much more reasonable £2 so I shall definitely be turning to that! I chose the Peanut Butter flavour.

I also had a packet of Hula Hoops Puft – which are delicious! At 3.5 syns a packet, they are definitely going to help with my crisps cravings.

How I felt

I felt pretty good – bar one day last week which I found difficult emotionally and wanted to eat ALL the chocolate. I didn’t though and the ice cream definitely helped!

Exercise

You know what I said last week about a better routine? Yep, didn’t happen. No thanks to half term! This week Ross is away for a few days but I shall be taking Rex to soft play and certainly doing some exercise where I can. I did use my kettle bells again as well as walk into town quite a few times. I also had a big walk around Cricket St Thomas on Saturday as I was doing an engagement photo shoot. The nice weather is definitely helping.

The Slimming World meeting

Another good week and happy me on the scales. I even braved it and wore my new Joe Browns dress and not my usual weigh-in clothes!

We had lots of great chats in group and I took away lots of tips – including one from Deborah about the Slimming World Peppercorn Sauce. I shall be hunting that down this week so I can use it for dips and pasta dishes.

I didn’t actually confirm my new target in the end last week, but I did this week. I also agreed to make pancakes for our free food feast at next weeks meeting as I can take my crepe maker.

Weigh-in

Weight at the beginning of my diet: 195.5lbs

Weight last week: 167.5lbs

Old Target weight: 156lbs

New Target weight: 152lbs

Weight this week: 166lbs

Loss for the week: 1.5lbs

Total Loss so far: 29.5lbs

My thoughts

I am really happy with that. I think that we all have a couple of weeks where we stall a bit and if mine is only to gain half a pound then I can deal with that. I certainly want to start getting fitter now though – that photo shoot really took it out of me on Saturday!

My goals for the next week

This week I am to try for a 2lb loss again. I feel that replacing rice and pasta with free food salads really helped and I shall be doing that again to keep giving myself the best chance for another loss next week.

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