Losing Weight with Slimming World Week 10

Following the Slimming World plan is getting harder as it gets closer to Christmas. However, I won’t let it beat me and I am still finding plenty of lovely things to eat despite the larger temptations at this time of the year.

Last week I put myself in a place where I looked at food as purely functional for the most part and decided to treat myself a little more at the weekend.

Table of Contents

The Slimming World food I ate

Last week we agreed to let the plan go out the window a bit. I wanted to try and catch up on work so that I will be completely clear in time for Christmas. As a result, Ross and I agreed to fend for ourselves on the food front. I lived on vegetable stir fries for the majority of the week whilst Ross cooked for him and Grace. I also made Rex’s food.

With that in mind, I decided to prepare a nice meal for Ross and I when Grace was staying at her friends on Friday night. I chose a recipe from the Festive Feasts book which I had bought at the previous week’s meeting. It was a recipe for maple-glazed chicken with cheesy ham and leek stuff. I had no leeks so substituted them for peppers. I also made the syn-free roast potatoes and the whole thing was delicious!

On Saturday, we put up our Christmas tree and I ALWAYS have a mince pie when we do this. I wasn’t about to give that up this year so I made it extra special with some Konditor and Cook ones (voted best by the Telegraph!) and it was absolutely delicious. I had forgotten though, that it was the 1st December and I could have one of the Options sachets from my advent calendar. I knew I had had my syn quota for the day (I normally allow myself no more than 10) so decided to save it.

I had another roast on Sunday at my mums – but stayed off the Yorkshire puddings. There was also dessert of crepes and strawberries. I just had strawberries.

Yesterday, before the meeting, I was up in London for a Christmas lunch with some business colleagues – plus I was there to do some photography. I was a little concerned as I knew that the weigh in was that evening, so I played it safe and had a superfood salad with corn-fed chicken breast (I did remove the skin!).

Favourite Discoveries of the Week

Definitely re-finding the Options sachets all over again AND the fact that I could eat one mince pie without feeling guilty!

How I felt

It was all a bit run of the mill last week. I felt like I took everything in my stride and am really starting to find my groove with this way of eating now.

Exercise

Once again it was mainly walking in and back from town. I also trekked around London yesterday with a big camera bag on my back so I am certain that helped!

The Slimming World meeting

Whilst I didn’t make it to the actual meeting because I was on my way back from London, I did make it in between sessions to at least get weighed. I knew that, if I had gained, then I would stay for the 7pm meeting to drum up some support.

I was fully expecting to either stay the same or gain so I was over the moon when I came in with exactly the same loss as I had had the previous week! I stuck around to chat to Becs for a little bit before coming home to a lovely tuna salad and one of my hot chocolate drinks.

Weigh-in

Weight at the beginning of my diet: 195.5lbs

Weight last week: 179.5lbs

Target weight: 156lbs

Weight this Monday: 177.0lbs

Loss for the week: 2.5lbs

Total Loss so far: 18.5lbs

My thoughts

Surprised wasn’t the word with yesterday’s loss! I am SO pleased. I am hoping to keep going this way up to Christmas and then cut myself a little bit of slack before another huge push to reach my target by February. I am now only 2lb off my next award, which is the Club 10 (losing 10% of my body weight).