A stone lost :)

Well here I am. We are nearing the end of June and I have lost.... wait for it.... a stone since January :) I am very proud of this. It was mid-May when I lost the stone and its been up and down since with a lot of fun along the way!


Boom! I've hit the plateau! I have another stone and a half to lose but its not looking easy. This is familiar terriitory for me but i will get around it this time. One minute i'm giving it my best and the next minute i go as laxed as ever! :o

Nothing worth having comes easy xx ;)

Keep on truckin'!

ELEVEN pounds down since January! happy days :) My friend sent me this pic on whatsapp after my weigh in and I was just bursting with pride!

 

I even went on holiday to Prague and put up 2 and a 1/2 pounds only to have it lost again the following week (Easter!!) along with an extra half pound.

 

 I've realised that this healthy lifestyle is my routine now and theres no logical excuse for going back to the old ways! I really look forward to my planned treats and my mini milestones! (more about those in my next post!) They keep me sane!

Then your bubble can burst very quickly! On Friday, I was told by a child at work that i had a big fat tummy! :( Good observation akills shown by the young boy but believe me, I am working on getting that tummy into proportion with the rest of me!

Here are some of the week's obstacles:

Getting a free box of sweets for spending over €75 on groceries!
An unexpected invitation to lunch at a friend's house

Lets keep this show on the road! ;)

Finished studies!

  

Well the good news is that I am finished my studies in Childcare for the foreseeable! My hours at work have gone back to normal and I am now an expert at budgeting in anticipation of a major reduction in my wages which never happened!! I'm getting my hair done tomorrow at a hairdressing college to save €€€! Things are settling down on the workfront so we may put the career/ job change on the long finger for now ;) Besides, I love working with the kiddies, never a dull moment!

Weight aggghh!!! right i did everything right last week (i think!) and gained a pound. Those weeks would wreck your head! I made five small changes this week to see if i can have a loss on Thursday!

 

I think I can't drink enough water to help me lose weight! I demand eight hours sleep a night this week also. I just won't lose a thing unless i'm well rested. 

 

 If only a prince would wake me up!!! ;) 

I'm going to do the Darkness into Light walk for Pieta House on May 10th this year. I'm afraid it will take me a long time so i have measured a 5km walk from my house so I can get some practice in! 

 

 Enjoy the long evenings and stretch those legs!

More than a Moment of Weakness

 

I went to my weight watchers meeting this evening: up a pound and a half!!! I'd be the first to tell you that this is a fair result of this week that shall forever be known as my week of weakness! I indulged and I did things that I knew I shouldn't have done. They gave me very little satisfaction and I did them anyway. That packet of ginger nuts, numerous jaffa cakes, a cupcake here (worth it!), a slice of apple cake there! The past catches up with us sooner or later.

Now in fairness I braved the meeting and I am putting this week behind me and moving on; focusing on that holiday coming up in April. 

Time to learn from the mistakes and come out on top... Happy Struggling!

My Little Angel

So the struggle continues.... Today I went for a walk. I had an unsatiable appetite which i attributed to my antibiotics for an ear and sinus infection. The diet and will power ran away in the evening but promised to come back first thing tomorrow!

I completed some course work for my last module in my childcare FETAC level 6 course. I'm nearly finished the last of the training I currently intend on doing in childcare. I am relieved that I've come this far, even though I'm not sure what direction I'll take next.

The important thing is that I am here. Less than eighteen months ago, I lost a little friend. She was two years old when she was killed in a car crash. It was a traumatic time for all of us that knew her and upsetting for many people who didn't know her. I often wonder what she would have done in her first twenty five or thirty years of life. Maybe everything would have worked out fantastically for her or maybe she would have gone off the rails along the way. Maybe we would have had a lot of things in common. Either way, her life came to a premature end and I am now lucky enough to have a little angel watching out for me in heaven. I will always strive to do better and make the most of the opportunities that she never had. 

                                             

It's all about having GOALS!!

I was never any good at sport but I do have goals on the brain. I am an Irish woman in my mid twenties. I'm single, poor and overweight and my goals are to change all of this before I'm thirty! I have just over five years to work on this! That seems like enough time, but I currently feel as powerless as an irate supporter on the sideline. Yes i could walk up to the people putting obstacles in my way and punch them between the eyes but that would take me away from the game entirely! 

I am single. I have always been single in spite of some men who played the honorary role as my 'almost boyfriends'. I'm not currently holding auditions but when I do, you'll be the first to know! I firmly believe in the 'if its meant to be, it will happen' ethos. I am at a loss at the moment as to how to address this situation so we'll put that one on hold (its a touchy issue for another day ;))

I am broke. I'm living with me mammy and me daddy. My hours in my part time job have been slashed recently. I work in childcare but I don't intend on staying in childcare any longer than a couple of years. In a few years time, I would like to be working in a public service position (office type work). I plan to go down a volunteering route to get some experience in office work with my newly acquired free time. I don't even know if i would like office work per se but I have a degree in Geography and History that I would love to put to some use. Ya i might not know exactly what I want but I am gonna find out and make it happen!
                                                        

Now the one you've all been waiting for and i've been weighed for! I am overweight. My name is Briget and I am food lover. I need to lose 27 pounds having lost 8 and a half pounds since the turn of the year. I am enlisting the help of Weight Watchers here. I have always had body image issues and first joined weight watchers in 2010. I found their points system hard to work with so I am attempting the filling and healthy plan this time around. I think my weight is going to be the first thing that I manage to successfully transform. I'm hoping to be fully slimmed down by Christmas 2014. More about this soon!

                                                         

So i've lost sight of the goal posts in the past. I've been hit by my own ball bouncing off the crossbar. I've kicked many shots over the bar and many more have gone to the right and wide! I've had the ball tackled off me. I've broken rules and I've forgotten what sport it is I'm playing. I have time to change all of that now. I need your support. Sure we're not even at the end of the first half yet and i'm still in the game...