Weight Loss Progress W7

This is week 7 of my New Year diet, and this week I lost 1 pound! Not a great deal, but atleast I’m still losing weight. My total weight loss now is 7.5 pounds! But I definitely need to up my game!

Week 4, 5 and 6 Weight Loss Progress

Now as you will have read, or realised, I haven’t been posting these weight loss posts like I said I would. My initial plan was to post every week with an update of my weight loss and how I have done it, and then every month an update of my weight loss in inches. I did this for 3 weeks and everything was going smoothly. I had lost a total of 8.5 pounds since New Year. In Week 4 I lost another pound totally 9.5 pound weight loss. However after this week I became extremely busy and my blog suffered because of it. I haven’t done my weekly weight loss posts, my Glossybox reviews or any other post.

Weight Loss Progress Week 3

I should have posted this on Wednesday but I have had such a busy week – apologies. In the last week I have lost 1 pound I know that doesn’t sound like a lot but added to my total since the 2^nd Jan I have lost 8.5 pounds, so I’m just pleased that I lost something, especially after the cheat week that I had!

This is last week's post: http://megandoesbeauty1.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/lost-another-3-pound-heres-how.html

Lost Another 3 Pound, Here's How

This is my second week of my New Year diet, and this week I have lost 3 pounds! That makes 7.5 pounds over all! Half a stone in just two weeks. I am so made up and excited to finally be getting back into dieting! I am starting to feel much healthier. I already feel like I have more energy, I wake up in the morning much more easily, and all the extra water has made my skin look so much brighter!

You will find last week’s post here: http://megandoesbeauty1.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/i-lost-45-pounds-in-5-days-heres-how.html

So let me tell you how I’ve done it this week..

My diet is basically slimming world, but with a few twists as I’m quite fussy, love junk food and hate veg and salads!

So let me start with this week’s top tips!

Top Tips

Treat yourself If you are craving a biscuit, or a bag of crisps just have them. If you don’t allow yourself to, you will just become miserable. You are more likely to stick with a diet if you allow yourself the OCCASIONAL treat.

If like me, you also hate the gym, try to stay active as best you can, do things like take the stairs or walk to the shops

Drink plenty of water, it helps you to digest food and also makes you feel fuller!

Try to swap old foods for healthier alternatives

I always stick to counting saturated fat, I don’t take notice of calories or sugar, saturated fat is what we store, so that is what I concentrate on and I love carbs! This diet works for me and it helps me lose weight. Not all diets work for everyone, but this is definitely worth giving a go!

What I Ate

Wednesday 7^th Jan

Granola and semi-skimmed milk

Muller Light yogurt

Jacket potato and beans

Fruit pot – Strawberries, grapes and pineapple

Chicken and pesto in flatbread – ASDA

Walkers baked crisps

Chicken bites

Handful of wine gums

On Wednesday I was at a meeting in Bristol, so woke up in a hotel, were thankfully I could get granola and a yogurt, then went to our Bristol office were I had my jacket potato and beans and fruit pot. Then spent the whole of the evening travelling home. Hence all the cheat food! The chicken flatbread was the healthiest thing they sold in the convenience deli section at ASDA, it was actually gorgeous and not too fatty. The crisps were a little naughty – but atleast I picked baked. And chicken bites are great because they’re just little pieces of chicken! So healthy. And wine gums are a great alternative to chocolate as they contain no fat – but do have a lot of sugar so don’t eat more than a handful.

Thursday 8^th Jan

Granola and semi-skimmed milk (again a small bowl – 30g)

Beans and a Jacket potato

Apple

Grilled Gammon, fried eggs done in Fry Light and spaghetti hoops and slimming world wedges

And a handful of wine gums

Beans and a jacket potato are great. On Slimming World they’re syn-free and it is so filling – don’t put any butter on though! Grilled gammon and spaghetti hoops are also syn-free. Make sure to grill your gammon, never fry and make sure you remove all fat before cooking. Fried eggs are great if they’re cooked in Fry Light!

Friday 9^thJan

Granola and Milk

Super Noodles – curry

Muller Light

Chicken skewers and rice

Granola is a great alternative to toast – however it is not amazing, so make sure you only have a small bowl – 30g. People think Super Noodles are really bad for you because they’re quick and easy to make, however they actually don’t have too much saturated fat in and the spice makes your metabolism kick in!

Saturday 10^th Jan

Bacon, beans, eggs and one piece of dry toast

Tomato, chicken and basil pasta pot – CO-OP

Special K Cracker Crisps – Salt and vinegar

Subway

Walkers Baked Crisps

Handful of skittles

On slimming world you can have a syn-free breakfast which is great. If you cut the fat off your bacon and grill it and fry your eggs in Fry Light then it is all fairly healthy. Only have one piece of toast and don’t butter it! I was out all day with my friends so I grabbed a pasta pot from CO-OP which is my favourite – I adore it. And it isn’t TOO bad. And then on the evening I got in late, couldn’t be bothered cooking, so I went to Subway – naughty me. I got a 6 inch with teriyaki chicken, lettuce and sweet onion sauce – No cheese! (It killed me to say no to the cheese)

Sunday 11^th Jan

Bacon, beans, eggs and one piece of dry toast

Chicken Fajitas

Popcorn – sweet (0.8g of Sat Fat)

Too many wine gums

So the fajitas I made by frying chicken in Fry Light adding the packet spice, onions and peppers. I then warmed through low fat tortillas, and served with lettuce, low fat cheese, low fat onion and garlic dip and salsa! Popcorn is a great alternative to crisps as it has hardly any sat fat in it. And there is no excuse for the wine gums – I got carried away

Monday 12^th Jan

Granola and Milk

Slimming World Chilli and Rice (Recipe below)

Muller Light

Turkey skewers and boiled potatos

Few Harribo gummy bears

Salt and V popcorn

Turkey is great because it is even more healthy than chicken. Cut it into chunks, roll in spices and put on a skewer and place in the oven. Serve with potatos – but don’t add butter.

Tuesday 13^th Jan

Granola and Milk

Super Noodles – Curry

Muller Light

Banana

Slimming World Spag Bol (recipe below)

Exercise

I went to the gym on Tuesday night, but that’s all I’m afraid. Not much of a gym bunny!

I did 30 minutes on the cross trainer, 30 minutes on the bike. 3 sets of 10 on one arm weight machine (no idea what they’re called but it focused on shoulders) and 3 sets of 10 on another (again no idea but it focused on chests). And 3 sets on 10 squats on the power plate

Recipes

Slimming world Spag Bol

Fry minced pork in a few sprays of fry light, add in chopped onions and peppers! Once all fried add in a tin of chopped tomatoes, 1 tsp garlic paste, 1tsp cumin, 1tsp oregano, season to taste! Eat with dried spaghetti.

Slimming world Curry

There are lots of slimming world curries that I love, this is just one!

Fry chicken in fry light spray with onions, once fried add 2tsp of root ginger, 2tsp garlic, 1tbsp of curry powder, 1tsp cumin, ¼ tsp of turmeric, a tin of chopped tomatoes and 300ml of chicken stock.

Slimming World Chips

Chop up a large potato, either into wedges using the skin or chips after peeling. Place on a baking tray, spray with fry light and cover in salt and pepper and mixed herbs! They are gorgeous!

Slimming World Chilli

Fry minced pork in fry light, with onions, peppers and carrots. Once fried add in tin of chopped tomatoes, 1 tsp garlic paste, 2 tsp cumin,1 tsp cinnamon, 2tsps paprika, tin of kidney beans, tin of baked beans.

So all that food, all that cheating, and hardly any exercise and I still lost 3 pounds in 7 days! Each day I drank 2 litres of water, but also drank diet fizzy drinks along with a few cups of tea and milk. Just try to swap for healthy alternatives, I don’t really like salads or veg and have to force myself to eat them, it’s much easier for me to stick to hhealthy carbs and avoid fatty foods, oils, butters and sauces. I didn’t drink any alcohol this week. It’s my friend’s birthday this weekend so I know that we will have a heavy drinking session for our night out in Machester – so I thought I’d try to give myself a rest this week.

Please try it out and see what you think, see if it works for you, or tell me all about your weight loss program and your story! Also let me know any recipes that you have tried and loved! If you have any questions or need any advice please email me! megandoesbeauty@outlook.com. And I’ll check in on Wednesday and let you know how I did!

New Year Resolution

Happy New Year guys! Hope you all aren't too hungover from last night and are all having a lovely day seeing in the new year with your friends and family. 

With it being the first day of 2015 I thought it would be appropriate to finally put my resolutions and plans down in writing. I've never really been one for making resolutions, I never really saw the point in picking one day in the year to make loads of changes to myself, and then I hit 2013. 2013 was by far the worst year of my life. The life plan that I had and that I had been working towards for my whole life wasn't the life plan that the universe had for me. I spent the last few months of 2013 being miserable and wallowing, so I decided that I would start 2014 by trying to change my outlook on life and by making my first ever New Years Resolution. So at the start of 2014 I decided to have just one resolution, this was to lose weight. I started 2014 (after comfort eating my way through 2013) at the heaviest I have ever been in my life. I was a size 16 and was totally miserable. I allowed myself to have January 1st in order to enjoy our New Years family meal and I started on the 2nd. I started slimming world and then by April I started seeing a personal trainer once a week and going to the gym. By my summer holiday in August I was a comfortable size 12 and had lost 2 stone and 4 pounds. After August I put on a couple of pound but maintained a total loss of 2 stone. However during December I have allowed myself to have a month long blow out eating every fatty food that I can get my hands on.