Jo's Journey

the gym!

So we went for our induction on Monday night, we really just saw how everything worked and had a little go but had our first 'proper' session on Tuesday and since then we have been 3 times and yep, we're off there again today.

I haven't gone hell for leather as i didn't want to wake up in the morning and find i couldn't move but so far so good, no aches and pains and i push myself a little bit further every time.

Today i have been out and bought a new swimming costume in a size 12, how chuffed am i ?!?!
(the one in my wardrobe was a size 22!)

So after convincing hubby to also get some swim shorts we are going to finish it off with a swim and jacuzzi, shame they don't have a joint sauna or i would drag him in there too, i love sauna's but i doubt i have the patience to sit in one alone.

Other than that i don't know what else i will do this weekend, maybe a walk in the peak district somewhere nice if i can find somewhere quiet to avoid the BH crowds.....unlikely eh?

when i decided i was going to stop blogging, i suppose i didn't think there was a reason any more and i did doubt that many people actually read my ramblings but comments that i have had on here and from other people elsewhere have proved me wrong so here i am again.

Well i have had an 'ok' week, the tracker is set at 21 points per day as i changed it to lose the holiday gain, i have to admit i went over most days, not by many but the good news is that i lost 2lbs at wi so i am now only 1.5lb away from my lowest weight.

Hubby is delighted to have lost 7.5lbs last week and i must admit i am finding it a help that he is on the plan, as i have reported before, since goal i have found it harder to resist the odd cake or sweets so now of course as he is not eating them it makes it easier for me to say 'no thanks' too.

This week should be interesting as i have finally joined a gym, initially it's only for a 4 week trial, hubby wants to do it more than me but i will give it a go and see how much i use it before i commit to the 12 month contract.

Saying that i really enjoyed the induction last night so we are off tonight to have a 'proper go' and strangely enough i am really looking forward to it :o)

If nothing else it will keep me away from the tv and the usual temptation of eating rubbish in front of the soaps!

What it will mean at the scales will be interesting to see.

I think i have come to the end of my blogging journey, i don't really have anything interesting to say anymore (if i ever did!)

Thanks to everyone that has followed me and helped with support and motivation to get to goal.

Best of luck to everyone that has yet to get there, stay positive and you can and WILL do it! :o)

Well i went to class today having had 4 full days back on plan and believe it or not i am pleased to report i have gained 3.5 lbs.

So all in all considering i was only on plan for 4 out of 14 days i am quite happy with that and bearing in mind both my scales and the Wii said it was 13lb this time last week i think that's a darn good result!

Back to basics and Karl (my hubby) has now decided he wants to follow points so with luck and hard work a good proportion of that gain will be gone within a few weeks! :o)

So off we went to London, i 'think' i was pretty good considering, foodwise i was certainly more careful not to just eat for the sake of it and exercise wise over the 2 days we walked 24 miles and i earned 14bp's....

So why did my wii fit tell me i had gained another 4lbs!!

Well anyway, there's nothing i can do about it, be it retention, totm(sorry fellas), pills prescribed to stop totm (which i stopped as they turned me into a raging looney) or whether i was just a big fat pig!

I am back on the wagon, i got through yesterday, day 1 back is always the hardest i find, and i am determined to do my best until Tuesday where i WILL go to wi and face the consequences.

I know i am still under goal but i am still rather bleedin cross with myself, it might sound mad but as much as I say I wont go back to old ways and weight, gaining anything at this stage makes me feel like it's all going to miraculously creep back on overnight :o(

Well we got back yesterday from our annual punk festival, absolutely shattered and according to the Wii a massive gain.

Last night i jumped on the wii and it said 13lbs, this morning, which is likely to be more accurate as i normally weigh on the wii in the morning and it said 9lb, better i guess but still a massive amount compared to the 2.5lbs i gained last year.

I did only have the full english breakfast 2 days out of 5 but obviously that made no difference, then again, the toast with butter on wont have helped, we didn't fall into the kebab shop late at night so i can only think it was the smirnoff ice and the fact that every time we went for a coffee i ended up having hot chocolate that came with cream and marshmallows!

I did wear my pedometer and in the 5 days i clocked up 30 bp's and walked over 60 miles, that obviously made no difference, good job it wasn't a 'lazy' weekend eh?

I haven't gone to WI today, partly due to the fact we are off to London tomorrow and i have a mountain of washing to do and the fact that my daughter came down with swine flu while we were away and i think she just wants her mum at home today, and of course coupled with the fact a 9lb gain would be pretty depressing, so the plan is to get back on the wagon first thing Friday morning and see if i can get the gain down a bit by next Tuesday.

Loads of people noticed that i was 5 stone lighter than last year's festival and one of the band members even had me sit down and talk diets with him, seems kind of weird sitting with an old punk talking carbs and every time i saw him he shouted 'oi skinny' at me!

The b&b were lovely as usual, we arrived to a bouquet of flowers in our room and when we got back Saturday night they had decorated our room with 'happy anniversary' banners, cards and a bottle of bubbly, we had to laugh as the Red arrows did a display at the weekend and they made a heart(pic below), think it was for us? Lol

Anyway all in all we had a fabulous time, loads of fun even if it is shattering but as soon as London is over i will worry about the weight then, chances are we wont be going anywhere til xmas anyway so plenty of time!

Here's a few pics, we didn't take many of us and i wont bore you with pics of people you wont even know.

Oh and one of Karl's dinner that i bet he couldn't finish, i was wrong,but he very

nearly did!

After a lot of hard work (if you don't count the Saturday night) i managed to lose 4.5lbs, so that's all of last weeks gain gone, just in time for my holiday!

I'm very pleased it's gone but i know the next 2 weeks are likely to show a gain, off to Blackpool for the festival today, i am going to weigh in next Tuesday as normal, it would be fabulous if the gain was as small as last year (2.5lb) but i wont hold my breath as i don't have as much of a goal this year so i will admit i might just not be quite as good as i was then....

But,

I am going to try hard to resist the Kebab shop on the way home in the early hours each morning and skip the burgers (they are about the best burgers I've had so no promises!)

Then it's off to London next Wednesday but i WILL be back on track on the Friday so no more excuses as nothing else is planned for ages.

but sadly they went right out the window!

My mate and i started off being the first at the pub so we got a bottle of wine, not even 2 glasses out of a bottle so not bad.
Got to the Chinese restaurant and it all went horribly wrong, 2 plates of Chinese later and a bowl of desert i had failed!
I did stick to Malibu's though rather than my usual smirnoff ice and only had 5, so drinks wise it was a lot better than it could have been.

We called it a night about 11.30, i had been up since 5am so i had had enough, got to bed about 1am and was then up again at 5.30am, what's that all about?

Just remembered, we stopped in a shop to buy mate some booze and they had a hersheys nutrageous, don't see them very often and they are delish, so i had one, but we'll gloss over the eh? Shhhhh....

So off we went for a walk to Carsington again, i like it there as it's a decent length walk so by the end of yesterday i had done 26,000 steps, 11.5 miles and earned 6 bp's.

I am hoping the exceptionally good week pre Chinese and the good day i had yesterday and will have today will counteract some of the Chinese.

We will see!