:wavey: Hello, welcome to my self indulgent diary! :sign0144:
About me:
I am 25 years old. I'm single and I have a daughter who is 8 years old. I work as midwife in the North East of England. I'm a bit of a foodie, I have shelves of recipe books and love to cook and eat! However I'm also a bit of an emotional eater and tend to over-indulge in bad choices as a way of
treating myself. However I'm now of the mindset that the best thing I can for myself is to lose weight, I will feel better about my appearance and more confident. Also it is my birthday in December, I'll be closer to 30 than 20 then and I need to get my weight under control now. I would like at least the option of having another baby one day, I have a lot of PCOS symptoms and worry that being overweight is most likely affecting my fertility; and if I do I don't want to be categorised as 'high risk' because I'm overweight!
I'm hoping my food diary will be quite varied, I like to try out new recipes and at the minute I'm enjoying planning and adapting meals to fit in with weightwatchers propoints plan, although its important to me that meals are still tasty so I will probably use points where some people wouldn't. My daughter has a way more varied diet than I did at her age, but is still a child and would happily eat fishfingers and mashed potato for most meals! So some of our meals are also adapted to her tastes, although she regularly tries new things, and probably just as regularly doesn't like them, but I remind her she has to try something at least 10 times before she can decide if she really likes it or not!
Weightloss and goals:
I've been officially following the plan for just over a week, although I did have a few days before that where I made an effort to eat well.
8/11/11 weight 15st 2lbs
11/11/11 weight 15st 0.5lb
18/11/11 weight 14st 10.75lb
I'm hoping :cross: to get down to 14st 7lb this week, and my mini goal is to get under 14st by Christmas. :xmascheers:
I've set my goal weight at 12st 5lb for now, even though I would still have a BMI of 26 (so overweight) at this weight. I've chosen it because this is around what I weighed when I got pregnant with my daughter, I was a comfortable size 12, and this is probably the time when I felt most confident (although I was also 16, had just left school and had started working in a bar, so probably some of that was the confidence of youth combined with male attention!). I might end up lowering it to aim for a healthy BMI when I get a bit closer.
I have never really exercised and I don't see myself joining a gym any time soon, however I would like to improve my fitness, I have a couple of exercise dvds which I enjoy and have started to walk more over the past couple of weeks.
The food:
So far today I've eaten a bowl of porridge made with skimmed milk and mixed spice and brown sugar sprinkled on top. 6pp in total although I didn't manage to eat it all so I'm counting it as 5pp. I'm currently trying my best to like porridge! I know it is good for me, its filling, and that I should really make an effort to have breakfast every day, but I still don't enjoy it much! :yuk:
I've also had an apple.
I'm going to have leftovers from last night for my lunch, chicken and bean stew 11pp.
Tea will be Warburton's square tortilla pizzas, my first time! Not quite decided what I'm going to have on it yet.
I have a propoints allowance of 34 a day at the minute. To be honest I struggle to use them all eating 3 healthy a meals a day with fruit as snacks/dessert.
I used some of my weekly allowance last week when I had a moment of weakness with some chocolate biscuits, :sign0007: I don't think I will use any this week but at least they're there to fall back on if any more chocolate incidents occur!
About me:
I am 25 years old. I'm single and I have a daughter who is 8 years old. I work as midwife in the North East of England. I'm a bit of a foodie, I have shelves of recipe books and love to cook and eat! However I'm also a bit of an emotional eater and tend to over-indulge in bad choices as a way of
treating myself. However I'm now of the mindset that the best thing I can for myself is to lose weight, I will feel better about my appearance and more confident. Also it is my birthday in December, I'll be closer to 30 than 20 then and I need to get my weight under control now. I would like at least the option of having another baby one day, I have a lot of PCOS symptoms and worry that being overweight is most likely affecting my fertility; and if I do I don't want to be categorised as 'high risk' because I'm overweight!I'm hoping my food diary will be quite varied, I like to try out new recipes and at the minute I'm enjoying planning and adapting meals to fit in with weightwatchers propoints plan, although its important to me that meals are still tasty so I will probably use points where some people wouldn't. My daughter has a way more varied diet than I did at her age, but is still a child and would happily eat fishfingers and mashed potato for most meals! So some of our meals are also adapted to her tastes, although she regularly tries new things, and probably just as regularly doesn't like them, but I remind her she has to try something at least 10 times before she can decide if she really likes it or not!
Weightloss and goals:
I've been officially following the plan for just over a week, although I did have a few days before that where I made an effort to eat well.
8/11/11 weight 15st 2lbs
11/11/11 weight 15st 0.5lb
18/11/11 weight 14st 10.75lb
I'm hoping :cross: to get down to 14st 7lb this week, and my mini goal is to get under 14st by Christmas. :xmascheers:
I've set my goal weight at 12st 5lb for now, even though I would still have a BMI of 26 (so overweight) at this weight. I've chosen it because this is around what I weighed when I got pregnant with my daughter, I was a comfortable size 12, and this is probably the time when I felt most confident (although I was also 16, had just left school and had started working in a bar, so probably some of that was the confidence of youth combined with male attention!). I might end up lowering it to aim for a healthy BMI when I get a bit closer.
I have never really exercised and I don't see myself joining a gym any time soon, however I would like to improve my fitness, I have a couple of exercise dvds which I enjoy and have started to walk more over the past couple of weeks.
The food:
So far today I've eaten a bowl of porridge made with skimmed milk and mixed spice and brown sugar sprinkled on top. 6pp in total although I didn't manage to eat it all so I'm counting it as 5pp. I'm currently trying my best to like porridge! I know it is good for me, its filling, and that I should really make an effort to have breakfast every day, but I still don't enjoy it much! :yuk:
I've also had an apple.
I'm going to have leftovers from last night for my lunch, chicken and bean stew 11pp.
Tea will be Warburton's square tortilla pizzas, my first time! Not quite decided what I'm going to have on it yet.
I have a propoints allowance of 34 a day at the minute. To be honest I struggle to use them all eating 3 healthy a meals a day with fruit as snacks/dessert.
I used some of my weekly allowance last week when I had a moment of weakness with some chocolate biscuits, :sign0007: I don't think I will use any this week but at least they're there to fall back on if any more chocolate incidents occur!
I've just calculated the pp, the whole pack (12 small squares) is 27pp or 2pp per individual square. I considered just binning them, however I've only used 4/49 weekly pps, so I'm just going to put them in the cupboard and might have a couple later. They do look yummy!
