Losing Weight with Slimming World Week 24

I started this Slimming World journey back on 24th September and I still have not got bored of the whole thing! In fact, I really enjoy it and promote it to anyone who will listen (not that I am getting paid to do that mind you!).

I have to admit that I was getting a bit bored of cooking from scratch and just wanted a break so, this week mainly consisted of Slimming World ready meals!

Table of Contents

The food I ate

As I said above, I survived mainly on Slimming World meals last week. I took Grace to a hospital appointment in Yeovil on Tuesday and afterwards we went to Iceland in Yeovil and I picked up a load of Slimming World meals. Thanks to the tips from last week’s meeting, I also got a couple of pots of the peppercorn sauce plus a free soup.

Of course, Tuesday was also pancake day so I had to make those yummy syn-free pancakes once again!

The only meal I cooked properly last week was the Slimming World Chilli once again! P 70 of the current Slimming World magazine if you would like to try it.

On Sunday, I was at Haselbury Mill photographing a 60th wedding anniversary celebration. The wonderful family kindly gave me lunch. It was a carvery and I was really pleased to be able to load up with vegetables. The meat was gorgeous too – really melt in the mouth 🙂

Favourite Discoveries of the Week

The only discovery I made last week was that I can now fit into size 12 jeans again!

How I felt

Following on from my note in the above section, I went into M&Co on Friday as I was getting to the stage where I needed another pair of jeans. I bought a black pair in a size 14 just before Christmas and these were starting to feel a little lose on me. I was a little bit worried I was jumping the gun – but I needn’t have been! I bought a lovely pair of blue denim lift and shape jeans from M&Co and I am so happy with them. I also bought a lovely shirt in their sale.

Exercise

See last weeks post on this. I need to start walking the walk now instead of keep banging on about it. I am doing some exercise but definitely not enough. There is no point in losing all this weight if I am not going to feel fit. That said, I am chasing around after a toddler quite a lot!

The Slimming World meeting

I don’t know if I have ever said this, but I really love the group of people I am with. They are all so friendly and supportive. They all ask each other how they have been and I am starting to bump into people outside of the meeting and chat to them then too.

It was lovely to see Naomi back. She has been to a couple of other groups due to various family commitments but it looks like she is back with us now.

I worked out whilst in group a few statistics which you can see below in the ‘My Thoughts’ section.

Weigh-in

Weight at the beginning of my diet: 195.5lbs

Weight last week: 165lbs

Old Target weight: 156lbs

New Target weight: 152lbs

Weight this week: 164.5lbs

Loss for the week: 0.5lbs

Total Loss so far: 31lbs

Current BMI: 24.3

My thoughts

So, I worked out that I have 12.5lbs to go until I hit my target. I would like to do that by my birthday on 18th May. At the moment, I am averaging 1.30lbs per week. With 9 weeks to go, I need to average 1.38lbs. It is going to be tight but I could just do this with exercise and a couple of extra easy weeks.

I can’t do an extra easy this week as I am up in Birmingham this weekend for The Photography Show. This means that I will be walking around a lot and probably forgetting to eat! But I am not sure what there is to eat when I do get round to it!