Marlaine83

Last week was a disaster with regards to diet and exercise. I didn’t make it to the gym once, combine that with the holiday weekend (ie, lots of unnecessary empty calories) and I was just a wreck.

Actually I’m probably being a bit hard on myself. Yesterday I was a wreck. I’m not sure what happened yesterday morning but I just knew that there was no way I was going to maintain, let alone lose any weight at my WW weigh-in, so I just used that as an excuse to eat crap all day. It’s been months since I have acted this way. And for me, confessing it is a good way to deal.

• oatmeal (yay, but boring!)
• sausage and egg sandwich (that’s more like it!)
• vegetarian sausage roll (so did not need)
• flat bread pizza (unnecessary)
• turkey and cranberry filled pastie (yum, but not a good lunch)

Way too much pastry in my diet yesterday. I came home from weigh-in after putting on three pounds and had

• gin & tonic
• pasta with homemade bacon, mushroom and tomato sauce
• 1/2 bottle red wine
• baileys

So basically my goal today is to flush all this crap out of my body. I’m hoping to drink around 5 liters of water and eat clean all day.

So far I’ve had

• oatmeal
• coffee with skim milk, sweetener
• small apple
• salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, tuna w/ light mayo)

For dinner I’m planning on stuffing a pumpkin with browned extra lean mince beef(5%fat), non-fat greek yoghurt, sauteed onion & tomato, bit of low-fat cheese, egg and breadcrumbs for thickening. The pumpkin will go into the oven just before we leave for the gym.

I’ll drop Dave off at kickboxing and head to my gym where I’ll do 40 minutes cardio, and finish up with some arms. I don’t what it is lately but my arms are getting flabby! I’ve always had decent arms and legs (my tummy is where I carry my weight). That all said I’ve got a bridesmaid dress to don at the end of July next year and I’ve go 8 months to shape up a bit. even to just lose twenty pounds by that time next year would make me feel so much better in my own skin.

So yeah, today I weigh 210.5 pounds. I can do this.