I’m finding it really hard to get back into exercise.
I sprained my thumb in October and haven’t really done much since.
It shouldn’t have effected my exercise routine that much, other then netball, but I used it as an excuse not to do anything.

So far this year I’ve played netball once and went for lots of walks. I was running 5k 2-3times a week and swimming and playing netball and going to the gym before I got injured so it isn’t enough.
I love exercising and I actually enjoy the gym so I don’t know what’s stopping me from getting back into it.

So I’m off to the gym tonight and dreading it. I’ve got the 5k training plan back out and going to start working my way through that then move back onto the 10k plan I was following end of last year. I’m also thinking about getting a bike.

Weight in 13/1/09

I lost half a pound last night, which I’m happy about because I found it very hard last week to get back on track.
I’ve decided what I need to do is Core this week, I’m going to weight and point like a good little (big) discovery girl but I’ve redone my weeks menu plan back to what I used to eat on core.
There wasn’t that many changes really, got rid of the bread and cheese I’d put down just because I had points to use that day and if I have chips they will be core chips.
I feel better just looking at my plan for the week now.
I’m back to 9lbs from goal again and trying to stay positive that I will make it to goal this time!

Wed 1st October 2008
My first day back on track went well. I felt in control and stuck to the plan.
Helen, Emma and Ethan came for dinner (Ethan didn’t eat anything with him only being 7months old but he did give some nice cuddles).
I made a potato bake type of thing made with potatoes, mushrooms, ham and passata. With that I served mixed veg and a veggie burger for Emma and Helen. I did add cheese to the potatoes, 5 points all together. I put down that I had 2.5 points for the meal even though I was good and put most of the cheese onto Helen and Emma’s plate.

Thu 2nd October 2008
Second day of being good and its going to be a hard one.
I’ve got netball tonight and would normally grab a sandwich but instead I have fruit to eat on the way to netball and will make something to eat when I get in. I’ve got some leftovers from last night so just have to heat it up when I get home.
That’s the plan, now I just have to stick to it!

Doing my first proper timed 5k run on Saturday. I’ve done a couple of 5k’s recently but not really pushed myself or bothered timing them so tomorrows the day I find out where I’m at.
What I plan on happening is a slowish start and then picking up the pace at the end. What will probably happen is I start off too fast and have noting left at the end and have to slow right down or even walk.

What I really want to know is where I’m at for starting a 10k training program. I’ll have a better idea after the weekend and will then pick a training program.

My cousin is supposed to be coming out for a run on Sunday with me. She’s just starting off but it is nice to have someone tot train with.

I’ve also realised that since none of my family are doing the RFL this year I can get all of them to sponsor me! The past 2 years there has been about 4 of us so we have split the family between us fro sponsorship, this year I get them all!!!!!

I lost half a pound at weight watchers last night taking me to a total loss of 64.5lbs. Only 5.5lbs from goal!!!!!

After signing up for the Race for Life again I realise how much I slacked off over the winter with my training.
At the end of last year I was running 3-4 times a week and at least 2 of those runs were 5k+

I did a 5k run at the weekend in 40minutes and it killed me. I was doing the same run in 30minutes at the end of last year and it didn’t hurt in the morning.
And my little 2.5k runs I do when I cant be bothered used to take under 15minutes but now take 18minutes and kill me.

The good thing is this time last year I wouldn’t have managed 5k without at least one walk in the middle so I am still fitter then the same time last year.
This means it shouldn’t take as long to get to back to running 5k in 30minutes again.

The difference is this year I want to take part in my first 10krace (cancer research run again) so I need to double the distance I can run in 6months. So i need to up the miles i do each week by increasing the length of my runs and I must go out for at least 3 runs a week if I want to be ready by September.

Also, I really want to get to goal weight before the summer, I’ve got about 7lbs left to lose but have been at this weight for 6months now and need a good kick to get me going again.
I don’t think the yummy pizza I eat at the weekend is going to help me lose weight at this weeks weigh in hehe

I’m picking my goal weight with my leader next week.

I know it supposed to be 11st 6lbs for my height but I’m hoping she will let me have a higher one like Sarah (my old leader) was going to.

I was thinking 11st 13.5lbs, that way I get my 75lbs certificate.
Its just over a stone so it should put me comfortably into a size 12 as well.
And it drops me down to the next stone. (technically 2 down because I’m 13st 0.5lbs right now)

Start weight 17st 4.5lbs
Current weight 13st 6.5lbs
Goal weight 11st 10lb (ish)

· Next silver seven (2lbs to go)
· Drop to next stone (7lbs)
· Size 12 jeans
· Run 5k without stopping
· Run for 30 mins without stopping
· Start using the pool at the gym

Went to weight watchers last night feeling great

I’m down another notch on my belt and have had a really good week. Been to the gym 3 times and out for a run once. My back is feeling better and my sessions at the gym are getting longer and are almost back to normal.

Got on the scales smiling, I lost 3.5lbs last week so I wasn’t expecting a big loss, but I was expecting to lose.

Then the weight flashed up, 13st 6.5lbs, I’d stayed the same.

After almost a year at weight watchers I know staying the same is better then putting on, and a big loss can affect the next weeks results.

But I felt thin!!!!!!!

I was more confused then anything, but my weight loss has always fluctuated and there’s nothing I can do about it.

I didn’t pig out when I got home, I had a little whinge and the WW pizza I’d planed on having (not impressed, the oval bites are so much better) and went to bed.

Its still playing on my mind a bit, but I’m trying to use it to make me more determined to do well this week.


Targets this week
- Stay within point over the weekend
- 1 x run outdoors
- 2 x gym sessions
- 1 x netball match
- 1 x swim
- Follow week 2 of run easy RFL training plan when at gym and out for run.

I’ve decided I don’t post to my journal enough. I post in different communities, but not in here. So all that changes today.

Ok, lets get everything up to date.

( Weight watchers )

( Race for life )

( Training )

( Holiday )

( Not smoking )

Woohoo! I lost 4lb:D

Changed what I’m doing at the gym and it seems to have worked.
I’ve done the race for life the last few years and was looking at the training plan, its 6 weeks so I thought it good to do before Christmas. I’m doing the beginners plan which is slightly less then I was doing on the treadmill but I thought the intermediate would be a little to much and I didn’t want to get my self down if had trouble with it.
I’m very happy and now the lightest I’ve ever been, 14st 1/5lb!!!! Looks like I might get to be below 14st for Christmas, which is a little goal, I set myself.

I had such a hard weekend. Went to my cousins on Friday and drank my bottle of wine and didn’t want to stop. So I had a few vodka and coke (no diet coke, only had the full fat stuff!) Then on the Saturday it was a friends hen night. We went out for a meal first (don’t ask what I had, no way it was weight watchers friendly!) then went to a few bars. I had a few diet cokes but I also had a few bottles of beer and even more wine!
I haven’t tracked this week and I’m really regretting it now, I can do naughty weekends because I go to the gym a lot so make up enough points to cover it. But because I didn’t track, I just don’t know!
I did go to the gym Saturday and Sunday and I’ll be going Tuesday. But with out my tracker I don’t know if its going to be enough.

This is a reminder to me to TRACK!

Track, track, track, track……and track!

I’m also going to buy a journal this week. My tracking is getting worse and worse and I need it get sorted.

On a positive note, I have a netball match on Thursday, which I’m really looking forward to. We won the last one so everyone is hopefully going to be motivated and we cant but together a good run of matches.

Lost 1 pound this week! It’s the first time in awhile I’ve lost two weeks in a row so I’m very happy about that. As soon as I got back from holiday I felt like my head was back into weight watcher but the weight just wasn’t coming off. I’d do the same thing two weeks in a row and lost one week and put on the next. I know this can happen, I was (still am really) considering changing from no count to full choice but in the end I think it was the same problem I had before I went on holiday. The more I went to the gym the more I have to do to get the same result. I was losing weight and my fitness was increasing so I needed to change what I was doing to react to that. I think I have it sorted now but I’ll have to give it a few weeks to find out.

At the meeting last night we ended up talking about weight loss patterns. For me, I can do the same thing two weeks in a row and one week lose and the next put on (or lose a lot less). My leader was saying she has on person in her other group that will only lose 1/2lb each week, no more, no less, but has been doing that for ages so is ok with it.

I was wondering if anyone has a pattern to their weight loss. And for the people that have been doing it longer and/or have a lot to lose, how it changes over time.

Just thought it might be interesting and possible helpful to hear what yours is. I know it helped one member of my group to hear that that I never lost same two weeks in a row.

Good luck everyone!

Lisa

I got weight last night and I’ve put on 1.5lbs!

I have to be honest and say this is the first time I’ve put on and not known why. All the other times I could put it down to drinking too much or eating rubbish. But I tracked and was good.

I’m really down and confused right now but after I calmed down last night I have a few ideas

1) I’ve been going swimming instead of the gym or running. I give myself less points for it but maybe I still over pointed the exercise.
2) I do no count and had toast for breakfast a lot last week. Now I had points left to have toast but I don’t usually do it!
3) My work moved office a month ago; I used to walk home from work each night, which was a 30minute walk, five times a week. I’ve always done this and didn’t add the points onto my tracker. Now I have to get the bus home, and although I do get off a stop or two early its still nowhere near the 30minute walk I used to do.

So for this week I’m not having no more toast for breakfast, no matter how many points I have left and I’m only going swimming once. I have a netball match anyway tonight so couldn’t have went swimming. I know doing a few long sessions at the gym is better then lots of short ones for me so I’m going to do 2-3 2-hour gym sessions.

I will hopefully see the results next week when I get weighed, but I’ll give it 2-3 weeks and if it doesn’t work I’m going to see my leader, maybe I have to change to full choice.

I'm going to try and post once a week after my weight in to help me keep track of how i'm doing, how i felt things went that week, anything new i tried and any problems i'm having.
Its so easy to have good weeks and forget about it, i want to remember what i did that week that made it good. Mainly so I can then forces on the positive when things go wrong!



Well, I lost 2.5lb last week and just bought a dress for the second time in maybe 10 years. It’s a black dress that shows your figure. It looked quiet good on, don’t get me wrong, my belly isn’t a six-pack yet and my hip are maybe a little too curvy but I have my waist back. It is a size 16 which I was surprised fit, I still think I’m a lot bigger then I actually am. I have to remember to take the size I think I am, and the next size down into the changing rooms. I can get away with 14 jeans but I’m top heavy so didn’t think the dress would go near me. Got a wedding to go to in 4 weeks so if I can lose a little more before then I will wear the dress. I think there are some members of my family that won’t have seen me in a dress since I was a kid and at the wedding a lot of people that haven’t seen me since I’ve lost the weight, I’m really looking forward to it but a little worried about the attention I might get.

I’ve written this so went I hit a rough patch with weight watcher I can come back and read it and remember what I’ve already been though and all the positive things instead of getting caught up in the negative.

I’ve called it my success story so far because I am very happy with how far I have got, even known there is a long way left to go. There is light at the end of the tunnel.


( “My )