Iola's Idiocy

Noticed in the gym today that my arms are definately less bingo-winged and it would make sense to confirm this. So I did some measuring and it's odd - arm is 2cm less circumference in last month, thigh 1.5, wast 2 and hip 4cm. So why on earth are all my clothes falling off? that seems a disproportionate response! but generally 1inch everywhere so if tomorrow doesn't lead to being under 10stone (ie some weight loss) I have some compensation. tomorrow is my 10th weigh day.

Today i also had a reminder of the bodies ability to make up for lack of sleep with food - was hungry before tea for the first time in ages because I ran out of food at work. I did foolishly stay up talking very late last night and haven't exactly had a stockpiling sleep weekend so it was hardly a surprise. Started today at 0 points in the bank and a 6point session in the gym has only resulted in 5 points in the bank at the end of today. Which normally wouldn't be a big deal but the gym going opportunities before Saturday are now virtually nil so if I want's beers it's going to be taking points from food to do so....

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Just had a pub lunch which I dread to think what it should point at. And now i feel empty already! given it contained scampi and chips plus a 5oz steak you'd think I'd not be hungry for a week - that much lard! I'm going to have very little else today (points wise - of course there's lots of no points soup that was cooked up this morning) and call it all square after my gym trip before hand. probably not entirely accurate but "don't sweat the small stuff" is rather strong in my head right now!

I suspect that the subconcious pixies are at work here as any weight loss this week = loss of a point a day and this is a very very scary thing. Yyes I know I have to do it to get those last 6lb to go (having finally settled on 9st8lb as goal in my head) but 17 points a day: man - that's scarier than Giant Haystacks kaber tossing...

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despite a 14 point evening I don't appear to have crashed the diet as badly as i'd have expected. Only 4 points over what was in the point bank. Today I'm not sure if I'm hungover or not sober yet or just tired - you know that post booze waking up early thing that sometimes happens even when you could have had a lie in (for the first time in a couple of weeks too!). Have managed to waste all that getting up at 9am by spogging so I'm guessing I was just booze infested.

Best to the gym to earn them 4 missing points and do stuff and see if I really am OK or just faking it. Am not really helping myself by wearing my glasses not lenses - can't believe this was what was normal until 3 weeks ago! Think I know whats happening after the publish post button is pressed.

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today is the day for boozin. Today has also been a moving day as friends have renewed their marriage vows at their memorial service for they girl who was too special to spend a long time here. That was a surprise and I was privileged to be able to share the event. I must be careful not to invent excuses to make this into a big boozin event as it is not my grief and to share times of sorry is different to have ones own - as they so strongly demonstrated life goes on and therefore staying on purpose must also go on. Tomorrow I accept I will feel less than 100% and tomorrow I will still get the points back.

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Hmmm maybe having points in the bank for tomorrow night wasn't such a great Idea. I was on a course today and succumbed to the sweet jar and of course there's no "generic boiled sweets" on the WW pointing thingy. I'll point them as their weight in sugar which makes it, I'm guessing 3-6 points. 6 equates to the points in the bank spare. Hmmm that's not so accurate! Sweets really aren't worth the points, next time I need to remember to bring a bottle of water so when I think of putting a sweet in my mouth I take a swig and think - should 1/2 the sweetie in take.

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Oh my goodness I didn't write anything yesterday - I even "remember" writing something but clearly failed.

Anyway yesterday was making cakes day - I have 3 different types of 3pt cake for this afternoon's tea party. Bramley slices, date and walnut cake and some buns all WW recipies. Date and walnut is definately a winner (I had a slice yesterday). And then my mum's cake of hugeness and joy. I dread to think how pointy. I'm going to assume it's 2 points without the icing and marzipan for a slice since it's mostly fruit and have the marzipan on gym days only.

I went to whaling this morning and am 10stone exactly. So Ray not lost a point yet - boo not under 10 stone on my 40th. but RAY lost another 1lb. and YIP YIP YIPEEEE I've lost over 1stone! I have a healthy BMI and I have lost the diabetes risk waist measurement. Only 4-7lb to go (nope still not decided on the target!) I can see this all as being real now.

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Well that's the end of the Experience. It's been emotional. It's been dietary challenging too - thankfully I saved a lot of points last week and did lots of exercise so hopefully challenged not damaged. We went to an Indian buffet last night - tasty treats! And lots of little bits of different things so hopefully the saved points were sufficient.

Had a good Experience and feel somewhat emotionally drained now but will be on top of the world tomorrow! Lots of positive comments from people about my "look" and "energy" (those from people who remember me from before were most valued of course). Ex-buddy was gorgeous and flattering and wonderful for my ego. My new buddy was a challenge and having a housemate for 4 days more so - really brought it home to me how much I need to stop using WW as an excuse for not getting back out there! I've lost the ability to be with people but not actively trying to keep them entertained. I will get weighed tuesday morning then at least I'll know if I'm only 5lb from the end....

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So slack - no post yesterday! Was rather busy, so busy not all points got ate so I have excuse. I've taken today off work as I'm reviewing the ISA experience and frankly not having to go to work between the thursday and friday evenings is very sensible.

So today I'm cleaning (yes really not on the laptop at all) and cooking the apple and parsnip soup from WW mag for my folks who should be dropping by sometime for lunch with a cake. Hmmmm that'll be interesting. Since my mothers fruit cake is the best in the world EVER (mostly dried fruit stuck together with a small amount of flour and treacle) I can see this being pointed in a challenging way.

A gym day is also required since I'm not at work and maybe some garden play later. I love frivolous long weekends!

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Today I had dinner out cancelled at the last minute so my shopping trip happened before my evening meal - the inevitable happened and large numbers of not on the list items were in the basket. I am however becoming the queen of efficiency points and managed to have corn on the cob WITH REAL BUTTER as part of my evening meal, and it still only was a 7.5 point meal. Not just with butter but with ENOUGH butter too. If I am successful in sheding 1lb this week I will be down to 17 points a day so I better enjoy it while it lasts...

That or work out how to convert bitch points to food points because I'm getting good at gathering those at werk.

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Ray for me! despite the HUGE wine amounts over the weekend I am now 13.5lb lighter than at the start of this epic mission. That's 1.5lb lost this week. And it turns out I can't do sums. I am between 5 and 8lb from target weight. I can't decide if 9s10lb is the better goal or 9.5stone, I'd put 9.10lb on my online tracker but had been telling people 8lb to go after last week.. (because 10st2 - 8lb is of course 9st 6... yup I really was getting it badly wrong and 9st 6 is a stupid target). I think I should go for 9.10lb on the membership thingy... And because their scales are weighing a lot heavier than mine (9st 10 is 61.8kg. But on my scales I'm 62.3 kg this morning, so by the time they think I'm 9st10 I'll be under the magic 60kg for the gym weights anyway)

I am extremely pleased about this as today blew goats and so it was a great uplift. I am going to be sad enough to want that "silver 7" next tuesday so will turn up to a WW class on my birthday.
I do hope I'm not disappointed.

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Have had a girlie weekend away - which for me involves lots of walking, lots of wine and good food. 3 nights 4 people, so 3 of us each cooked 1 evening meal and 1 person did 2 lots of puddings. All very WW friendly food and the wine was pretty much balanced by the walking. Will see if this really was the case tomorrow at Weigh-in. I had horror reigned down on me for the foodstuffs I'm not keen on (we have a new phrase for distasteful things "the pork face" apparently it's very expressive!) eg I like vienetta and don't like haagendass or ben and jerries ice-creams. clotted cream ricepudding, sticky toffee pud, chocolate mud cake? Nope they are all blergh... Although this may explain why for me this whole WW thing is less awful than some people find it. However right now it's a right pain and I'm finding it a bit of a nightmare staying on track. Hopefully a few days off the booze will fix the stomach balance and the carb cravings will go away.

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walking weekend - well hopefully the weather means there'll be plenty walking! I have diet fear and diet sod it feelings in equal measure today. I had a real sod it moment last night on my return from the pub and went 3points over what I had in the "point bank". (since I pointed it clearly it wasn't a crashed and burned moment!) This is the 2nd week I've had one of those over the point bank moments. Clearly the novelty has worn off and now the work bit begins. Arrgh. Today I feel off colour, how can 2.5 pints affect my mood so badly?

I guess Tuesday whaling will tell how reasonable I was over the weekend. to the dales now see you monday!

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I have a colleague who is very good at making postive comments just often enough to feel like my own personal cheerleader, not so often I feel she's stalkerish. Today she nearly overstepped the mark as she dragged me into her team office to show off all my efforts (perhaps it was her way of trying to suggest I'd lost enough now who knows, certainly that was the comment from one of the chaps) but they were lovely and made the right "bloomin eck you have done well" noises. I do know all these people so it was only just a bit weird. I definately recommend finding a cheer leader to anyone who is making significant effort to change something about themselves though - i was walking on air for the rest of the day.

In other more down to earth news I have yet again shown myself that cheese sauce with cornflower is not something I'm skilled at. Fortunately the sprotting broccoli was tasty enough to override the sauce crapness.

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conference in London for work today - plenty lo-fat lo-carb so lo-point lunch options so only rated the meal at 8points (good going for conference food, I figured 4 points for the lemon tart filling and fruit i had) and it was super tasty. Decided that war with the 5.30 train when I had an open return was unnecessary so had a cup of tea with my sis and got the 7pm one instead. clearly puddings are so alien I failed to feel very hungry and the carrot sticks +ww cheese thins were actually sufficient for train food!

My sis was on good form -and she noticed (with a hint or 2) that I wasn't packing so much chin as previously. Of course she successfully dressed the compliment up with a barb but I honestly think she doesn't mean it. Given she describes herself as a body facist anything that indirectly acknowledges weight loss is good in her head. Her comment was along the lines of "deterred the slide into becoming Jenna for another decade" Jenna, my mother, is not a good example of maintaining the figure you once took such pride in after the age of 38 it is fair to say. there are several people who claim I'm exactly like Jenna in every way but I'm not convinced. I've heard me laugh this decade and I know how to do non-competitive exercise for a start.

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lost 1/2 lb this week. which is good because it's a loss and I was 1/2 expecting to stay even but i still feel a bit flat. I've got the "gilr week" excuse but that seems daft - I don't think I get much crazy weight stuff to do with that. I didn't do the best I could last week so I got what I deserve. And I am now the lightest I've been since I've owned scales so it's hardly any wonder I'm going to find it a bit harder now - I've owned scales for at least 10 years...And And And

But it still feels like wailing day not weighing day.

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I accrued a very large number of bitch points today at werk - sadly I still haven't worked out how to convert these to food points - so in an attempt to rebalance my "karma" I went to the supermarket for a friend in need this evening. OK that's a fib. I went to the supermarket for my friend because she's having a rough time at the moment and I was going anyway and so it was an easy thing to do. But I like the idea of trying to eat bitch points.

It did entail going to an alien supermarket. It really is very hard shopping in a supermarket you don't normally use. I do get hopeful that they might have different WW products to try but sadly this wasn't the case today. And they didn't have a few of the things either of us wanted. How do Asda always seem to do that - some I can understand, celeriac is maybe a bit unusual but leeks? LEEKS? what kind of supermarket doesn't have LEEKS? or LOW FAT CREAM CHEESE. Call yourself a 24 hr supermarket and have 6 varieties of flavoured LF cream cheese but no plain one? I know Asda isn't quite in the Morrisons quality league for cheese, fish and fresh veg (which may have been a theme on both shopping lists) but I'd have thought one in a posh village on the edge of both Leeds and Bradford might have been trying a bit harder....

Weigh day tomorrow - my WW lady is keen to find "valid" reasons for weight gains I notice so will I get the disaapointed face from teacher with a muttered "oooh is it THAT time ?" or will it be another 1lb down only 8 to go...

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Had lunch at a friends today - went to the gym 1st in case it was going to be non-diet friendly (which was nice since the cheery bloke from the gym clearly likes to collect people so engaged me in some constructive exercise related conversation whilst crosstraining. May even follow his recommendation of going to his exercise class sometime soon. I'm usually a not talk to anyone person in the gym I confess....).

Turns out that some people who've never dieted really do excellent diet friendly food - cod and bacon with brocolli and baked potato and poached pears with grilled marzipan on top. Absolutely fabulous. Suppose I should get on with making the soup of the week...

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today I got my contact lenses sorted and spent 20 mins looking for new glasses before giving up and concluding there are NONE I like at the moment. So I now feel less guilty about going for the somewhat more expensive contact lenses. what have contact lenses got to do with dieting - well not a lot directly but I am finding that the improved feel good factor I'm getting from the "looking good" comments I'm getting is somewhat addictive and there's definately more of them floating around when I'm wearing lenses (probably the "you look different can't put my finger on it must be weight" mental process so many people seem to have).

Still having birthday celebration concerns - that have slipped into Xmas period concerns too as I've worked out the likelihood of hitting target weight before then is slim (if I continue to loose at the current rate it may be possible by 22/12/09 but I'm guessing that's not the most probable outcome). Thanks to H for the constructive advice - I'm definately of the store up the extra points by exercising persuasion too. (45 intensive mins in the gym=2pints). My real fear however is of the hangovers. they are pretty bad at the best of times but the lack of fat really does seem to be wrecking my stomaches alcohol tollerance. I can't see any way round this one since one sniff of alchohol seems to do it. I suspect some googling may be in order to find things other than mint tea and antacid with amazing stomach settling powers....

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Haven't been to the gym since Saturday. Yesterday i had 3.5 pints, today I had a hangover. Stomach hangover. Now i didn't actually go over the points for the week but I'm now no points in hand which is not a very good thing for this stage in the week. I think I'm hitting the start of the battle zone - people have been making nice comments, I'm over 1/2 way there and I need to keep it up and it's getting hard. Also I have a birthday in less than 3 weeks, how am I going to cope with the beer intake as I've committed to a boozy evening. Oh dear I've been more optomistic haven't I?

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wore a skirt for work today since so few of my trousers fit. It's astonishing how different a reception and how much people notice you have lost weight when you change your way of presenting yourself. Yes I know all this theory but it's been a while since I've experienced it in practice and it's been never since it was so widespread. I can see me enjoying all this too much and then coming to earth with a bump soon....

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today i weighed in at 2lb less than last week. I rock - despite Saturday night I still lost weight. I lost more weight than I expected too. I'm now 9lb from goal or 11.5lb lighter than when I started so over 1/2 way there. I'm not doing a good job of conveying how chuffed I am about this am I? I was really worried I'd plateaued and was about to hit a wall and get all dispondent. I'm going to be tiresome amd smug again I can tell. I'm beginning to dare to hope that I'll be there by the time I see my family again.

I also purchased 3 1/2 price cook books so have further succumbed to the commercial machine of WW but frankly it was less than a tenner and a good diversity of recipes are in there - including a whole book of 1 person recipes

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I went for a massage this evening and my massage lady commented on how much slimmer my legs looked. Yay! I say. My stomach may still be recovering from the unexpected onslaught of lard from Saturday night (I've concluded that the B&Jerries icecream that tasted really rather grim was pure lard from the way my digestive system has decided to stop and I keep tasting grease in my mouth) but hopefully it'll have processed and disposed of it all by 6pm tomorrow.

I got a hand me over suit from a lady at work - as in never worn - sadly it may be a Next 12 and the jacket is a lovely cut but I think the trousers are definately of the girlish rather than womanly cut - apparently it's called "boyfriend" style - no hips style if you ask me. We agreed that i'd keep it for a month if it still doesn't fit then we find another more deserving owner.

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