21 Day Challenge Day 15

Day 15

Food

Breakfast - Belvita Biscuits

Lunch - Ham, Cheese & Pickle Roll, WW Crisps & Boots Shapers Bar

Tea - Steak Lattice & Oven Chips

Snacks - 1 Homemade Shortbread Biscuit & WW Hot Chocolate

Steps 10507

Mood - Great

Back on track today after a 4lb gain this morning.  Not surprised but just wish it didnt go back on so quickly.

I have stuck to plan, I have done the activities I planned and I have not given in to snacks.

Little reminders of how much I want this, That I can do it and that no-one else can do it for me.  I sometimes feel very alone on this journey, no one asking how its going, how I am feeling, no support network close to me so if I dont encourage myself who will.   

15 days into changing habits and I cant say it's making that much difference, but I m not sure if doing it with a trip away in the middle was the best idea. 

21 Day Challenge Day 14

Day 14

Food

Breakfast - Special K

Lunch - Chicken & Pasta

Tea - Ham, Cheese & Pickle Sandwich with Chips

Snack - Cookie

Steps 10642

Mood - Positive

Back to trying to be good, next week all planned and shopped for.  Exercise also planned, adding in a little more each day where I can.

Made myself go for a walk today to add to my steps or I am finding I don't hit my target, feeling quite please with myself.  Not looking forward to weigh in tomorrow but very rarely do I ever look forward to standing on the scales.

21 Day Challenge Day 13

Day 13

Simply rubbish !

I am feeling fed up and very annoyed with myself for choosing badly all day.

I have let myself lose the control I need to succeed and it has put me in quite a bad mood.

Sad times !

21 Day Challenge Day 12

Day 12

Food

Breakfast - Muller Bliss Corner Clusters with Raspberries - (Currently my fav)

Lunch - Chicken Tikka & Sweetcorn Pasta, Shapers Bar

Tea - Chicken Fajita's

Snacks - Picnic

Steps - 9552

Mood - Positive

Feeling good today, or at least better than yesterday.  I have realised that I can not ignore hormones, tiredness and emotions, I just have to learn how to deal with them.

I have struggled this afternoon with the want for chocolate and gave in to a picnic. I can't work out why I felt that I needed it.  I battled with the argument in my head for a few hours but gave in and decided it would be my one snack of today and move on from it.  Since I have eaten it I have been fine so I don't know if it is a myth or if I just want to believe it, but maybe sometimes our bodies just need sugar.  Either way it got me past the feeling of need and stopped me thinking about it or pigging out when I got home.

I am pleased I hit my 9k step target today, even made a point of going out at lunch time to add a few thousand to my total.  Note to myself - dont wear heals to go for lunchtime walks !!

I am feeling a little apprehensive about the weekend, I dont want to lose track of my goals before weigh in Monday but I am already worried about lunch tomorrow.  We are going to help our daughter with some work on her flat and she is promising to go and buy us fish n chips for lunch.  I don't want to offend her by refusing this lovely gesture and don't want to be awkward and say I want something else, BUT I dont want to be bad either.  I need to have an alternative plan so I can be in control but what ?????

21 Day Challenge Day 11

Day 11

Food

Breakfast - Belvita Biscuits

Lunch - Subway Chicken Tikka Flatbread

Tea - Sweet Chilli Cod Fillets, Wholewheat noodles, Stir Fry Veg & Chilli Sauce

Snacks - WW Wafer Biscuit, Yogurt Peanuts, Birthday Cake

Steps - 8661

Mood - Frustrated (still tired)

The current positives are that I am being more food conscious than usual, choosing better choices, avoiding the snacking from the vending machine and getting up earlier.  

Making the effort to cook instead of calling for take away seems like hard work but the end result is always worth it.

BUT I have side stepped from my progress with being away for a few days so felt the need to re-read my original post about changing habits.  I have gone back to staying up late, drinking Pepsi Max later at night and without even realizing I hadn't changed my steps target to 9,000 as I planned.

So back into it with a bit more concentration :

• Steps goal has now been raised and I will need to make the effort to go out for those little extra walks to make sure i hit it.
• Bed as soon as I have finished writing this and alarm set for 6.15am
• Breakfast, lunch and tea already planned for tomorrow so no temptation to partake in fat Friday.
• Cut out the snacks, back to only one thing a day that is not my main meals, they soon add up and as much as I am avoiding the vending machine I am finding alternatives to fill in my day.

Focussed & determined !!!!!

21 Day Challenge Day 10

Day 10

Food

Breakfast - Muller Bliss Corner Yogurt and granola

Lunch - Cheese Snack pot, WW Crisps & Shapers Bar

Tea - Cheese & Bacon Pie with Garlic Thins

Snacks - Birthday Cake & Belvita Biscuits

Steps - 8888

Mood - Sleepy and unorganised

Getting back late last night has meant today wasnt planned in the way I would like it to be but I didnt eat too badly considering.

I am looking forward to being back in control, it's a feeling I like and it certainly helps keep you going for another day.  So tomorrow is all planned and that should be me 100% back on track hoping my few days away have not done too much damage and I can either stay the same this week or even a cheeky loss.

Still tired today and busy with a birthday tea for Jack, hence the birthday cake, so early night and back to early mornings.

21 Day Challenge Day 9

Day 9

Food

Breakfast - McDonalds Bacon & Egg Muffin

Lunch - Weatherspoons Panini & Chips

Tea - Greggs Corned Beef Pasty

Steps - 12556

Mood - Tired

Back home tonight, very tired but I have had an amazing few days with my important people.  As you can see eating today was definetly not recommended for losing weight but it could have been a whole lot worse.  

Very happy with my steps today considering we were travelling for over five hours I still managed to get in a few miles.  Walking around Windsor was a beautiful way to top up the steps.