Good morning lovlies!  Hope everyone's woken to some brilliant sunshine to keep the spirit soaring!  I have today and it's rare here at this time of year so I have pulled up the blinds in my office and I'm going to let the sun blind me for a few mins lol.

So last nights plan to have fun with Emmy pants went slightly wrong.  I had downloaded and app on my phone of a baby that laughs, cries, burps and repeats what you say to it, thinking that she would really like it...how wrong was I.  It really scared her and she cried and cried but then we had a good laugh when she stopped crying and said ' No no app, no'  Then every once in awhile for the next hour she would look at me, her lip would quiver and she would say 'baby no app no'.  I know it;s wrong to be amused by this but I am

Anyway I had bacon and eggs for supper last night.  Lean turkey bacon and pached eggs and one piece of seeded batch toast.  It was sooo good.  Sometimes you just have to have breakfast food for supper.  And I gave in and had 2 squares of dark chocolate.  My hubby ate the rest so it's not in the house anymore.

This morning I got an early train to work which meant I would get here half an hour early.  This raised the temptation of stopping at McD's for breakfast which I never have but often crave.  I called my good friend who reminded me that whenever one gives in to the McD's breakfast craving that it is never as good as you remember it to be.  So I walked right past and when I got to work made myself a 40 cal hot chocolate as a reward for resisting!

Today I will have:

Breakfast:  Fat free yogurt with banana

Snack: 2 small easy peal oranges

Lunch:  Chicken veg soup 2 pumpkin seed ryvitas

Snack: Apple and sour cream and onion snack a jacks

Dinner: ???  Maybe tonight will be the baked potato, not sure

Have a good one all xxxxxxxx

Good morning chickadees!  Afternoon here already and I am gearin up to go home and see my lovely little lady.  I have missed her so much today.  She was very cute last night and really made me laugh a lot so I'm hoping for some fun times again tonight!

Food today has been

Breakfast: 1 multigrain toast, light PB and sliced banana (my favourite) 1 orange

Lunch: Forgot lunch today so it was the sandwich man for me and all he had left was cheese and red onion sandwich...on white!!!  I can't even remember the last time I had white bread.  It was pretty yummy though :) 1 apple

Dinner: the plan was to have a baked potato, no butter with cottage cheese, spicy seeds and salt & pepper but I feel I've had enough carbs for one day so will have to reconsider this plan.

I've taken Kat's advice and am not going to weigh myself until Tom is gone (due to start Fri/sat).

I haven't felt like saying much lately, I'm more in the mood to read what's going on with everyone else.  Looking for inspiration I think.

Lots of love to you all and have a fantastic day!

Good morning my lovely friends!  I'm back after an extended long weekend with my dad and his girlfriend.  If was fantastic spending time with them and I only wish they could have stayed longer.

So straight to it...I wasn't very well behaved.  I can make all the excuses in the book but I just didn't excersise self control.  I certainly wasn't as reckless as I could have been (or have been in the past) and food wasn't really too bad, but there was a lot of wine and beer :(  I haven't weighed myself.  Will do it on Monday morning

Today is a new day.  I have brought some ministroni soup, an apple, 2 small oranges, a banana and a fat free yogurt with me to work today.  I'm going to finish this week with light eating then back on my meal replacements for 1 month.  I really have to work on this falling of the wagon, so to speak, every time there is some socialising to do.  Very tricky one.

Feeling quite disapointed in myself so I'll just have to make myself feel proud again!  TOM due on friday so that doesn't help as we all know!  Love the TOM!!!  HAha :)

Off to catch up with you all!  Have a great day everyone

Good morning!  Hope everyone is feeling great today!  I don't have much to report.  Just wanted to log on and say hi and see how everyone was :)

Breakfast: meal replacement hot chocolate

Lunch: low fat cottage cheese, lemon herb chicken and rocket salad (other half of yesterdays lunch)

Supper: Lasagne and salad (not ideal). My dad's arriving tonight and my husband offered to cook, i'll be having a small piece with a big salad.  The good news is that it's made with ground turkey and low fat cheese.

Drink: 1 coffee, 2 teas, 1.5 litres water

No bike today so I will go for a walk on my lunch hour to make up for it.

Have a fab day girls xxxx

I have been so rubbish lately!  Not only have I been enjoying a bit too much wine (and beer) I haven't been as focused as I was before.  Time to regroup!  Had a lovely anniversary weekend and now it's time to get serious!  The one good thing is that I did a lot of exercise biking (is that a word?) and walking over the weekend.

I have my dad and his girlfriend arriving on Thursday until Tuesday and I've warned them that we will do some pretty healthy eating while they are here.  I have said that if anyone wants chocolate or chips or desert of any kind they will have to go out and get it themselves because it will not be in my house!!! 

I am planning things like turkey chilli, chicken stir-fry, homemade veggie wholemeal pita pizzas, soups for lunch and healthy cereals with skim milk for breakfasts.  I am lucky that they are not complaining about the 'rules' lol.

Today:

Breakfast: cereal bar, coffee with skim milk

Lunch: 1/2 a lemon & herb chicken breast, 100g low fat cottage cheese & rocket salad, no dressing.

Dinner: will be a homemade burger (no bun) and a salad with light dressing

Drinks: 1.5 litres water, 2 cups tea and 1 coffee I had with breakfast

Tonight I will do 40 mins on the bike

Lots of love and positive thoughts going out to you girls.  I hope you haven't been straying like me!  xxxxxxx

Morning lovely ladies! 

• 2 glasses of wine
• Chicken salad, dressing on the side

• Morning, 40 mins on bike
• No wine!
• Something light, depends on where we go

•  a seafood starter
• steak and salad main
• a very small maybe fruity dessert
• Unfortunately I will probably not be able to restrict the wine to 2 glasses!

Quick one this morning, but back later.

Pleased to say I'm back to pre- weekend weight.  Have been really going to town on the excersise bike.  Hubby got on last night and claimed that he found what I was doing 'easy'!  Jerk.  I mean that in the most loving way :)  Anyway I decided to ignore it because I know he finds it hard to keep up with me when we walk somewhere together.

I did 3 meal replacements yesterday and 3 x 20 mins on the bike, plus walked into, around and back from town pushing the stroller and a lot of shopping.

Catch up with you all later, have a great day everyone!

Hello ladies, how are you all?  I hope everyone is doing well with their healthy eating and in all other aspects of life.

I finally got my computer back this morning!  You sure miss it when it's gone.

So I'm going to give a quick rundown of last week.  I started adding a low carb meal a day to my meal replacements and that was all going well.  I had come to a bit of a stand still with weight loss and seemed to be stuck at 146.4 for a week.  I had done a bit of research about weight plateauxs and it said to raise your cals a bit and raise your excersise intensity.  So that was the plan and it coincided with date night on Friday.  We went out for supper and I had 4 glasses of wine, shared a starter of antipasti and had a light pizza (thin crust with the middle cut out and a salad in the middle, light cheese etc) no desert.  On Saturday I had some mango for brkf, a large skimmed milk latte for lunch and som cherrios for supper the 4 mini cup cakes!!! On sunday I had 1 toast with thin low fat peanut butter for breakfast (at noon) and omelete and a small amount of oven chips (fries) for dinner.  And this morning my weight is 149.8!  So back to meal replacements.  Also over the weekend I had uped my bike to 2 x 25 min higher intensity workouts a day.  So I figure the gain is probalby mostly water retention.  Hope so anyway.  This has really delayed my progress.

Got to go Emmy keeps bringing me books to read and trying to close the laptop! LOL

Update:  Had a really good day.  Had no trouble starting back on meal replacement, drank lots of water and had plenty of excercise.  First we went shopping, on foot with the stroller and I walked as fast as I could the whole time which was about 2 hours.  Then went to meet hubby from train with 22 lb Emmy in a carrier on my back, about 20 mins fast walking.  Then did 30 mins high intensity on my excersise bike.  ...and have been very nicely spoilt by my lovely husband.  All in all A+

xxxx

Hello Girls!!!

I'm so missing getting on here everyday!  I think about posting and reading how everyone is doing all the time .  The good part about it is that when I can't go on the computer I get on my bike or go for a super long walk and I am really seeing the results.  I'm already thinking about getting to set my next goal!

I'm super busy at work today so probably won't get to catch up on all your diaries but hopefully will squeeze a bit in at lunch time.

Hoping to get the computer back on Saturday! 

Have a wonderful day everyone

Good morning Angels!

I'm sorry I haven't been here this week to catch up with you all.  My computer at home seems to have died a spectacular death and this is the first day I have been in the office this week.  So I will probably be MIA for awhile until it either gets fixed or replaced :(  I will at the very least be back at work next Wed-Fri and will be able to catch up a bit then.

I seem to have lost a couple of pounds which is a thrill and a half!  But I haven't been using my exercise bike as much as I intended so I need to get on that.  I have been adding a meal a day to my meal replacement diet for the last week.  Low carb, such as chicken & broccoli, steak & salad, omelettes, cauliflower & cheese soup.

I hope you are all doing well.  xxxxxx

HEY!  I DON'T HAVE NEW NEXT TO MY NAME ANYMORE :)