A fab first week! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So last week as you know I joined slimming world.

Weigh in was last Thursday evening. I was so nervous going down.
I must have been in and out of the toilet all day with nerves!!
To my amazement I shed four and a half  pounds!

I could not believe it! I still don't believe it.

I did stick to the plan 100% so for that I got rewarded.

I still could not believe one week of slimming world and

I lost that amount of weight! I did slimming world a couple of years ago
and I never ever lost any more than 2lbs in one week. 

Everyday I have my skimmed milk for my healthy extra A

and weetabix or shredded wheat with strawberries for my Healthy

extra B.

Every day I had 2 oranges, an apple, a pear and strawberries.

Dinner was a slimming world meal of some sort. Generally protein of which

was some form of meat free and speed foods. These are your veggies
and carbohydrates.

I also consumed a limited number of syns each day as I knew I had
a pretty heavy weekend ahead. Usually I would eat all my syns which is 15
per day. I was having max 6 a day and saving the rest for my weekend.
slimming world do not recommended you do this but if it works
for you there is no harm.

I also had one day of exercise as I had a football match last Wednesday.

However..... its now week 2! 

The weekend came along and so did Beyoncé in Croke Park.

She was fairly good but for €120 standing ticket I expected her production

to be alot better. It mainly consisted of her strutting up and down a catwalk like stage and a huge

screen behind her.

Myself at Beyonce in Croke park.

Its Amazing what shedding a few pounds 

can do for your confidence. I felt great at beyonce the weekend

and more importantly I enjoyed myself, There is no point in

missing out on events or things in life just cause your trying to lose 

weight. Life is still going to happen so enjoy it while you can. 

I drank by the bucket load of alcohol over the weekend. I did not however

over indulge in food I still ate as slimming world healthy as possible. I am hoping

that will somewhat stand to me come weigh in on Thursday! We will see!

 It's back to the grindstone today and I have a couple of days to real it back and hopefully
un-do some of the damage before weigh in.
So all going well I am hoping I'll stay the same!

All that is needed is a little planning. Fail to prepare
prepare to fail is what they say!
Last week at group I bought the slimming world
diary and its really good. I am definitely
going to use it to my
advantage.


Anyway I am going to post most days from
now on. So ill keep you all
posted on my week ahead!

Chow for now

Annie Mac
x

♫ Hi July ♫

Wow The months really are flying in!

I have not been concentrating on my blog as of

late but that is about to change!

Last night I took the jump and joined slimming world.

I was at home and decided I needed to take the first step 

and think how I want to achieve any sort of goal this year.

I got into the car and went to the Bracken Court hotel in Balbriggan

where I knew there was a class on at 7:30.

I was a tad early as I just got up and left my house it was 7pm.

I went into the room and just joined there and then, I did not stop to think.

Next I knew I was a member, weighed in and sitting down 

ready for my first class of 2016. I was not at all surprised 

when I stood on the scales. I had gained 7lbs since the last time I had

properly weighed myself which was before holidays in May.

The goal over the next three weeks is too shift this "holiday/lazy mode" weight. 

Each week I am going to set myself mini targets. This week my target is 2lbs.

If I lose anymore its a bonus! 

Slimming world have two options. Extra Easy and SP. 

My plan is too the extra easy plan Friday to Sunday and extra

easy SP Monday-Wednesday. Thursday will be weigh in day.

The SP plan is a tad stricter and is 

used to boost weight loss. This is why I will use this after the weekend.

I also plan on using as little syns as possible 

and save them for the weekend. Slimming world do not recommened 

this but it is something I want to try as in the past slimming 

world has not worked for me as well as I would have hoped.

Sandra is the name of the slimming world rep 

and she is so nice! I also knew a few faces which 

really put me at ease. Some I even went to school with! 

It was nearly like a loreto convent reunion!

Everyone in the class is really nice and I am so 

looking forward to sharing my journey with them over the next

few months. 

Today is day one and all is going well!

I am actually really enjoying it. 

I did however forget my lunch going to work this

 morning :(

#clever

Its my Dad 74th birthday tonight so we are going

out to the lime kiln in Julianstown for dinner. 

As a result I have not eaten any syns

today and I have just eaten speed food all day.

I will try to choose wisely while I am out but obviously 

it wont be cooked as slimming world friendly as I would like.

I will just reign it in and pull it back the rest of the weekend and week.

The one thing we have to remember is there will always be events in

life and we have to make the best of them. That's the good thing about 

slimming world you can still eat out and just make better decisions 

about what your eating.

Well I hope you have a great

weekend!!

Chow for now

Xx Annie Mac xX