Dear me I have been a very bad blogger. OK lets start with Wednesday. I had my first weigh in on Wednesday and only lost 300g. really not impressed but also not too surprised. I'm still having a few problems with break old habits. The biggest one is alcohol, who knew I was consuming so many point with those drinks!! So It's time to turn the partying down a couple of notches. On the upside, I was at Dan Murphy's on Saturday night trying to pick a responsible and low point beverage and found a drink called Bundy Bare. Now I am a big fan of bundy and was trying to find something easy as the party was outside so mixing my own drinks would be problematic. So Bundy Bare was the answer. They have created bundy with diet cola!!! It's great so all I have to count is the nip of rum!! i think it worked out to be 1 point per drink so all in all it was alot less points spent and still a good night. :o)
I'm still having a few problems with getting to the exercise part. on Saturday my boyfriend and I walked about 3.5km's in total which was nice, and didn't really feel like exercise either. I also told him last night that I need him to push me to do my 20 mins of Zumba in the morning. He really tried this morning but i justified it by saying we had Pilate's on tonight so I'll still be doing exercise today. Turns out our Pilate's class was cancelled so I will have to do some zumba when i get home.
I have also fallen into a bit of a trap that i want to check on how I'm going fairly regularly, again my B/F thinks this is a bad idea because weigh fluctuates but lately it's just been going up and not down at all. I'm starting to get really frustrated with it because I've been really good this week and stuck to my points and would really like to show up to my WI on Wednesday and have more than a 300g loss. My B/F said that because I'm doing more exercise than I use to do that it's going to take a bit for the weight to fall off because my body is working some of the fat into muscle. Did anyone else have this much trouble to start with??? I really thought the first couple of weeks were big weight losses because you make such a big change in your diet. I was also thinking that maybe measuring once a month will help. What's your best way of tracking your progress if the scales aren't nice to you???
Hey Hez,
ReplyDeleteI don't drink much but I do know that alcohol can definantly add up in points for you, good on you for findding a lower point alternative.
Exercise is most definantly a good way to help your body loose weight & the last week has been horrible for me because I weigh myself lots!! the problem is that I have done zumba, my exercise bike, yoga or walking every day (I promised that if I was allowed to buy zumba then I would have to exercise every day till it was paid off - that's 3 months worth)& the weight is not shifting - but I feel way better!! try taking your measurements & make sure you're getting enough water in.
Make sure you get that exercise done - try writing it down if that will help you. That's what I use my whiteboard for then I tick it off once i'm done :)