Iola's Idiocy

Well weighed myself this morning and exactly the same weight as last Tuesday! Go me - and go that handy 24 hour not happy tummy bug that emptied the contents on the night of the 27th and made eating not something I wanted to do much of yesterday which probably balanced the excesses that the walking and the cold didn't catch. Have now cancelled the WW subscription and feel I can go it alone.... bought some size 12 clothes today too...

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So today was Weigh day 14 and I am now at GOAL... in a very loud chavvy football fan running round the room kind of GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL way. I passed it even - go me! despite the portents of doom of mincepies and buiscuits at today's all day meeting.
I may be disproportionately excited. I am now going to eat Pizza. And my posting will become sporadic - since I'm now "eating sensibly" rather than "dieting"...

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Today the heating at work was broken so I think I probably burned my celebrations off by shivering (gave in and did put my gloves and scarf back on at one point. It's not like its warm there at the best of times!) but I'd best be sensible and point them anyway. Am turning the last of the veg in the house into soup - have done a pretty good job of running the fridge down for once. I forget these sensible pre-going away for 5 days activities so often in my pre-holiday denial periods.

Have suffered no ill consequences from yesterdays dietary adventure other than the shock of looking up the points in bombay mix, I'd thought I'd been overly harsh in my empty the points bank approach till then...

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WHEN am I going to learn - I now only have little tummy and it gets full easily? And just because there is yummy stuff on the table there really isn't space for it to fit in? And if the yummy stuff is bread what's going to happen in about an hour later I'll get that mid-backache that says "eaten too much carb?"

Been out to play today with some friends for a birthday - bit of walking in the snow then back to her place for some food and (for those not driving, ie not me) wine. So lime tortillas and bombay mix are available - fair normal breakfast +lunch combo but 6 point session in the gym+1.5 hrs walking in the park = pretty hungry. Then there's soup and bread - squash and pumpkin tasty goodness + bread. So I'm pretty full. An hour or so later we have some main course - keep to the veggie option and my mate is good and gives me a small amount. but the bread is still sat out. And apparently I'm low on self will today - more bits were consumed and now I'm Mrs uncomfortable. I'm a very silly girl and I bring it all on myself. I shall consider the points bank now empty again (was 10 up based on this weekend's gym attendance) and hopefully Tuesday will be a stayed the same weigh day.

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I purchased the WW scales this week at the class - because they had a discount, I'd got money back from something I wasn't expecting and it struck me that I need to make a significant committment to myself to continue to maintain the effort I've put in for the last few months. (and buying new scales when the old ones aren't broken feels like that to me). I'm well chuffed I did. not only do the scales measure in single grams - so I can have my 75g of flour or whatever (instead of the 74 or 76 the old 2 sets I've had let me do) but they have all the common pulses programmed in - thus overcoming my problem with dried weight not being in points on the web or booklets. I'm reet looking forward to the end of this strange "most food is making me queezy" bug I've still got so I will be exploiting that setting with gay abandon in the near future...

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I thought the extremely rich lasagne I had at my friends Wednesday was the cause of yesterday's acheiness (not having eaten anything that rich for weeks) then first thing this morning my stomach was clearly not in a good way. Lunch really didn't want to be eaten - had the sarnies and felt "full" so gave up 1/2 way through the salad. mid afternoon I start to feel sicky and achey. So maybe I malign the cream based sauce and I'm just fighting some kind of winter lurgy. To be honest not a lot was eaten yesterday either, however evening e

Gah I don't think illness to help diet was on the order sheet for this week!

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Well the "do I go for gold or not?" questions has a very practical answer: today's mood crash says "you GOT TO go for it" A bleakness has descended on me and I'm hopeful it's the kind that will respond to exercise. Possibly not just my growing exercise addiction: the long darkness of December combined with a piece of complete muppetry by someone at work this pm may have conspired to induce waves of gloom. So to keep the gloom away if nothing else exercise is a VERY good idea. tonight I'm off to see friends for tea so tomorrow I think a good hour in the gym is required and there will be time for gym sessions all weekend. If I succeed I may be insufferable next Tuesday... (fail and possibly inconsolable but lets not go borrowing misfortune eh?)

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Another weight loss too - yippee! by some magical sleight of scales (I suspect the trick of virtually no fluids after 2pm) it was 2lb not the 1lb promised by the bathroom scale this morning. Which gives me a dilemma go for goal this week (since it's 1lb away) then risk the trauma of losing it over Xmas (5 days in a house where lo fat foods are effectively forbidden) or hope not to get there this week so there's less pressure over the festive period. Ideally need to lose 1/2lb so if asked I can say 1.5 stone lost though. I think I have to go for it - although clearly not that hard since I'm here now not in the gym like I normally am on a Tuesday...

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OK so can I in all honesty point 1 1/4 hrs in the mosh pit at a Pogues gig? Some of the time you are bouncing up and down like a nutter and some of the time you are ducking elbows and some of the time you are just bouncing gently from side to side to the slow songs. Or do I stop being obsessive and just hope my calves don't ache as much tomorrow as they are currently threatening too.

This mornings excitment was significantly less high octane - I worked out how to change my scales between metric and imperial. Bizarrely they seem to read differently in one than the other (the %body fat changed) but that was probably just power of carpet.

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Apparently I'm now officially a diet bore. Met some friends last night after they'd met up first. One who I'd not seen for a while greeted me with a booming "have you been dieting?" Before the'd actually looked at me! The other with a "have you put on weight?" then said she'd been set up to do so. One of the friends they'd met with is also doing WW and I would say is having the same level of success, clearly I go on too much for her liking and she's complained. Had hoped writing this blog would prevent me doing so, clearly I've failed. Oh well, we live and learn.

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Today I have a fine salad when I went out for lunch with friends. I'd squeezed the gym in first so thankfully I didn't think twice about the whole "dressing" issue - those lovely comments in the weekly booklet periodically about how dressing are the pointy bit of dining out... Anyhow the best thing is that it's a few hours later i'm ready for my tea now and I don't feel all lead in my stomach from pub chips. Also a bus strike means that I have a valid excuse to drive tonight (because the idea of beer or wine still turns my soul to ice after thursday) so I envisage a joyful evening ahead, different people so I'd rather not explain why I'm chosing not to drink....

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Ah now yesterday evening was annihilated by the power of wine. I was stunningly drunk due to no food. Apparently I was very funny. Today breakfast didn't stay where it was supposed to - this hasn't happened in years! fortunately I was on a course and it was a bus ride away since I couldn't have driven legally till about 5 pm (and still wouldn't want to) However the lack of food meant the points bank wasn't broken and today there's been little desire to eat. Also more bizarrely I don't appear to have done the usual stomach acid hangover thing. So whilst going out tonight is not something I'm willing to consider the diet hasn't been as badly damaged as it could have been. And I suspect that's my drinking urges curbed for a few weeks now...

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Days with a reasonably tasty low point evening meal already mostly prepared are pretty neat. Note reasonably - WW sweet and sour sauce is a bit runny but it definitely is improved by reheating - and I have supervegtastic tofu S&S left for tomorrow evening too. This meant there was room for fruit cake no worries, jelly has been made for a few days puds now too. Before I started this a friend commented that when she was pointing she felt the need for pudding in a way she didn't "normally". Now I'm on 17 points I do get where she's coming from - that sweet dish does round off the meal and send the "right stop eating for the evening" signal. In a way that a sweetie just doesn't. Thankfully jelly with fruit in registers as a "proper pudding" in my world.

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Today was 9st 10lb or 10% day or 3lb from goal day or lost another 1lb or any other way you'd like to put it's a good day for fat club bird. I feel a bit more positive about trying to just eat 17 points a day, I've only got 3lb to go, I went to the gym and got 5.5 more points so I now have a more healthy looking points bank (there's some in it) and well lifes good. The lady I usually talk to has lost 40lb in 16 weeks and we were wondering what people were doing shelling out the money and then not taking it seriously as we walked down the road afterwards. I think that we've neither of us done formal diets before makes our approach a little less flexible than some peoples...

And I also discovered the continental points system is not coming to the UK soon - or if it is they haven't told the class leaders this fact yet!

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this 4.5 point stew I made. It's pants. Now in 15 years of making stews in the oven I've not made a pants stew before so it's a bit of an ego blow. I mean stew - easiest thing in the world isn't it? seal the meat add about twice the volume of onions, carrot, swede and 1pt stock Or a bottle of beer and usually 1 other veg and 1 tin of tomatoes per 500g of meat. bring to the boil and slap in the oven for 2 hrs at 180/gas mark 4. Somehow I broke the stew: I assume it's the celeriac, that or the lack of tinned tomatoes. Mental note when experimenting only changing one variable at a time is more likely to result in success.

Anyway it may be the celeriac, I've just put 2 sticks of celery in my soup of the week and it too tastes a little dubious. I think that I may have to accept that liquidy celery flavour is not to my taste. (in fact the only time I like celeriac is in 2:1 potato+celeriac mash). Of course that doesn't change the fact that I've 6 portions of soup to eat but I'll live - there's always tabasco to wipe out all other flavours....

tomorrow is weigh-in/whalin'/wailin'. Here's hoping for another 1lb away, but more realisitically I'll expect a 1/2 lb loss based on yesterday's chip trauma and todays non-gymness.

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Hmmm I have no idea how to point today's lunch so I think I'll go for "everything in the bank" and hope it does the trick. (ie today's points +10) Went to a pub lunch with a friend who has had more positive periods in her life... She was wonderfully complementary about the weight-loss etc but it then became clear that she didn't quite grasp the concept of a diet where there isn't anything that's "not allowed" since every meal choice enquiry was preceded by an "are you allowed" so every response was "yes" some were then enhanced with a "but actually I don't want..." (you know the people who don't really get the idea that what they like is not necessarily what everyone likes... Gravy and Coffee with milk in it are both on my strong dislikes list and have been for the 20 years I've know her).

Anyway lunch soon became a rant-fest of all that is evil in her world and how it's all interlinked. As usual it was presented in an "it's all your fault way" which is somewhat infuriating as I am assigned views, values and opinions that are not mine in the discourse. However it's probably very good for me to not be the primary talker in at least one social situation a month.

I'm now having the same experience as last sunday - 3 hours after a pub meal a lead weight appears inside and I feel like I'll never eat again. Must learn that the reason chips taste a bit pants is because my tummy isn't very keen on trying to digest them. In another 3 hours I suspect there will be soup and in the morning the world will be digested. I am very glad i decided it would be OK to be late and go to the gym first!

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Today I did some leaflet delivery so I counted it at light exercise. 3 hours later and I rack up a whole 7 points. 1hr in the gym gives me 5.5. It's not really a good deal this light exercise malarky is it? I was walking and pushing things through letter boxes so I don't think that it constitutes more on the scale though. I have however managed to do an important chore and get personal benefit from it so I should be glad. How it can only be 9800 steps is beyond me. I think my pedometer is shonky.

I also have come to the conclusion there's something magical in the 1/2 points a box sweets from WW. yet again I've eaten these and found myself feeling stuffed. Despite it being after a normal size 5 pt lunch felt really very full for a good 3 hours like I was walking off christmas dinner! I'm not sure if it's good or bad for you to feel that way but I might need to purchase some to discourage eating whilst in the frozen north in a few weeks...

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The 17 points was lived with yesterday and I think I'll manage it today. I got a wonderful compliment from the weighing lady at the hospital (me being over a stone lighter than when I was last there and all) and she's a slimming world follower who is clearly not having a successful time with it. Then she complained about "too much choice" and I sort of lost sympathy - if you want a diet that actually tells you what to eat you really are barking up the wrong tree with the points based ones...
tomorrow I have 450 leaflets to deliver - will I count it as light or moderate exercise....

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and this was a bit of a fail. I had 18 points in food! then I went to the social club for a meeting and 1.5 pints were consumed. Hmm I went to the gym on monday and only did 15 points yesterday so at least there were points in the bank but it's going to be a hard day tomorrow when it's 17 for real. I appear to be fighting off a cold and having a "girl" day so I was carb craving too which explains the 18 points. it was lovely that one of the more bonkers members of the group this evening noticed my weight loss though - and her parting words were "don't loose any more!" see people who've always been stick thin (and she is, 87 and a size 8-10 without that crazy baggy skin that indicates old person weight loss) don't get this - I know I was one till I was 30.

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Well there's a turn up for the books. Today I weighed in at 9st 11! so the sneaky wearing of jeans last week probably did mask what should have been an under 10st weight and I got that extra point for a week. But this week it is definately 17 points a day. And she wrote down a target weight of 9-7 so definately 4lb to go. And I can never be 10 stone again if i want to maintain the gold membership.... (for it is lost at target +5lb). And I then I will get to say "I lost a stone and a half", smuggly a lot. Which makes me a bit of a looosser since that was want swayed me from the 9-8 target...

The other lady is bonkers - saying "ohh you can be target before Xmas - I say who wants to be target before Xmas?
1 - it's too late to cancel the monthly pass (since mine expires on the 28th)
2 - it's too much risk I'll loose it if I don't get the walking in whilst the gym is shut
3 - not hitting target will help motivate me to not be at all excessive over the festive season - I'll want to maintain where I'm at.
4 - hitting target in january will be a bit of a lift since then i'll know just how much debt the festive period has induced and I'll be wanting a good pick me up.

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