Band Land is the place to be!

Hey all...

Just wanted to give a shout to my mate Maria.....
Did Elle get her letter?? I posted it to an address from memory... I sent it to number 10... is that right? If not, Number 10 have her letter. I have also lost your email address with the computer muck up, so drop me a line babe. Let me know how you are doing!!!!

So, Band's are the new black. If you are porky, and don't have one, well you better get on over to Belgium and bag yourself a deal. I LOVE MY BAND.

We had a rocky patch in our relationship over the last couple of months, I said some things, it said some things right back at me... But we have made it up and are getting a grip!!

I am loving this eDiets thingy! Its wicked. I'm loving it loving it loving it.

I have had wine, biscuits, an Indian meal out, lovely dinners filling lunches and breakfasts and am losing weight easily. I am also finding that I am eating less... How weird is that???

I think slim fast and me were like a match made in hell. I was committing adultery to my band!! I am SORRY!!!! but it has forgiven me totally. I am on the right track now. Its 1am and I am full from dinner which I had at 9pm.

Today for instance I have had the following:

2 bananas for breakfast - just fancied it

lunch was boiled rice with a kind of curry... aubergine, onion and lentil's with tomato juice made with olive oil and sugar - but in moderation and accounted for!

dinner was braised beef and mash.

2 muller lights for a snack later on.

total cals: 1274 HOW COOL IS THAT!

I am chuffed to little mint balls.

So my new weigh in day is on Monday's like it used to be. I am really sorry for screwing about with my weigh-ins, and I didn't like not being on some kind of plan. It was not good for me to be free like that.

Next Wednesday will be exactly 6 MONTHS on since I had my gastric band fitted I will take a photo and record my weight again... But I will do it on Tuesday this week as that's when I get weighed in at tesco just this week... (see later on in this post!)

Then I will be keeping with this regime and I am looking forward to see the result for august, as I think I might finally nail the 16 stone barrier and get to those 15's. I am positive I can do this now.

Other news... ummm Well i got a right bargain yesterday. I picked up a folding caravan for £500. Absolute result! we had a trailer tent for the last 3 years, but its just about as knackered as a tent can get, although it has done us an incredible turn considering. We have had some fun times in that tent. Really good memories... anyway, My Dad phoned me up about midnight on Tuesday and said he knew a bloke who was selling one. When he told me the price I nearly ripped the phone of the cord! (well actually its cordless... but you get the picture!!)

They are about 12 grand new! This is 20 years old, but it is IMMACULATE. So i drove down and picked it up yesterday... all the way to Sussex and back. Took ages as traffic was a nightmare!!! Then when we got back we didn't really have much time to coo and ahhh over it because we had to get to the Theatre for DS's show. His show opened at the theatre in P at 7pm and it was really great. Its the first time he has done a stage performance to a paying audience and it was really nerve wracking as a parent!! He did well bless him.

But that's about it. So much for a rest now its the holidays! I need a big style break, not that its going to happen any time soon!!

Tomorrow we are of to clean out our caravan... not the folding one, but a real 23ft job that we have inherited of my mother in law. It needs a good scrub up, so we are cleaning it out tomorrow and then sleeping in it the night, then the next morning we are off to take DS to his weeks camping holiday as a 'secret agent' so that will be cool for him. Then we go back to DH's Mums pub to run a Karaoke for the evening and the following morning (Sunday... that's if you are still with me!) we are driving our shiny new caravan to FRANCE!! Then we are parking it at our chosen campsite and staying there for 1 night and coming back Monday night but LEAVING our caravan in France in Storage so that we can have it as a little weekend getaway on the north coast of France!! Wicked... Mad but cool.

So that's why weigh in will be Tuesday this week only.

So I am excited about that. TB is trying desperately to persuade TB's hubby to come with us so that all 4 of us can have a laugh and eat cheese and drink wine under the stars of the French coastline, but hes having none of it at the moment. I think she will work on him!!

Anyway, probably wont be posting until Tuesday or so, so check back with you then... also will have been weighed!! HURRAH.

Weight Loss Stories at Good Housekeeping

Good Housekeeping Magazine has some nice weight loss success stories they've recently posted to their online site. Here is one of their success profiles; Robyn Spieler. She lost 70 pounds in less than a year.

She did this by cutting out the carbs and by going to the gym four days a week. See more about her story and other stories at Good Housekeeping here.

Weighed in today.... 2 and a half pounds off!!

Oh thank goodness...
Weight is going down again.
I have lost 2 and a half pounds this week. I am over the moon... especially as I have only been doing the totals plan since saturday, and the slimfast thing didn't really work out all that well because I was so hungry.

I am really glad.
My weight is now 16 stone 11. YAY! Not as low as I was a couple of months ago, but I have really got it now.

I LOVE MY BAND.

I was trying to use it as my only weapon, but now I have really got my head around it. The band is a secret weapon.... Whereas before banding I would NOT been able to do the Totals plan without veering off drastically every day, this is now SOOOOooooo Easy its untrue. I am absolutely stuffed full to the brim. I stop eating when I want to, and I feel satisfied. Its not quite 1000 cals, but its usually about 1500 on average. I will still lose weight that way too!!

So I am happy. I think another small fill will totally sort me out. Its been a while since I saw him now... 3 weeks, so it will be a good 5 weeks when I see him again. I think I should. I really don't want to be messing about any more.

I read a lot that people drop a load of weight, then put some back on until they "get it!" and then they lose. I hope that's where I am at now. I feel completely happy with myself.

Today I have had:
Breakfast - 1 x banana and a glass of pomegranate juice.
snack - 2 apples
lunch - WFF Honey chicken and veg
dinner - Pasta with cheese, onion and tomato and 100g of oven chips.
AND a glass of red!!! Yeah!

Nice, and total cals today is 1600.

cool

I have also just finished re doing my Utility room... (I never seem to be relaxing do I? I think maybe I am hyperactive....) It looks so much better. I should have taken a photo before I started but honestly It was rough. I still have a bit to do.. I have to re-decorate and remove a few shelves of the facing wall where we used to keep books, but other than that its sorted. I am so happy. I never knew that Ikea delivered and had an online service or I would have looked ages ago. The internet keeps me poor!! HA HA.

Take a look... I love these boxes... they were only £8 each. Bargain. The only problem was they came flat packed in 21 boxes.. GROAN. My fingers still kill after screwing them all together yesterday.

Looking Ten Pounds Slimmer on Camera

Can a camera make you look ten pounds slimmer? The HP Photosmart camera has a 'slimming feature'. And it really does work. Here's a photo of Libby before and after using the slimming feature on her camera. See more details about how this deceiving magic works at a blog by Regina Lewis.

eDiets totals plan is going well.... not hungry anyway

Well, its day 3 of my new regime... How many can one girl have??
I am like the Imelda Marcos of diet regimes.

*sighs*

Its going well. The first day, Saturday, was obviously fine, but yesterday I went a bot over the top. Not on purpose, but simply by not knowing the plan and reverting to type... e.g. Slimmingworld.

So I went over my days 'Totals' but the calories were not awful... 2254. That's pretty good i reckon.

Today has been good though. I have got in some serious exercises in the form of an alan key and 168 screws to twist home. My hands KILL and my arms are aching like mad. The boxes which were the result look fabulous and will form my shelving system beautifully. Its a series of arranged boxes (oiled pine from IKEA) for shelving which I am having cover one wall in my utility room. It should make the whole place look a damn sight better.

This morning for breakfast I had a bbq'd chicken breast from last night with some coleslaw, a muller light layers and an apple. That kept me going right up until 5pm when I had 100g cake which I had baked. Then I had Bami Goreng which I LOVE from Eismann. Its an Indonesian dish of noodles and chicken and spices which is all wok cooked. Its lovely. So we all had that, and i had another muller light too. So today I have eaten just 1255 cals. I still have 3.8 Totals remaining (what a rubbish name for them... should be points or units or something... how queer).

I am about to watch Big brother and I am now leaning heavily towards either Brian to win. I think he is a sweet guy, naive, but sweet and gentle and sensitive. He deserves it most out of all of them I think.

I am also FRUSTRATED completely with Facebook and eBay because for some reason they seem to stop loading the page too often recently... its WELL ANNOYING. anyone else had that trouble??

So, night all... be good!

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eDiets again

Right. I have had ENOUGH of slimfast I think its MERDE. It is NOT filling me up and I am starving---but NOT wasting away like I want to... :o(((((((

Very upset.

So I thought I better join either Weightwatchers online or something when remembered that Tesco teamed up with eDiets a while back. I remember reading it in tesco. I get weighed in tesco too so it all makes sense...

So I have signed up for 10 weeks on eDiets TOTALS plan.

Today has been a BREEZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean it honestly.

This morning for breakfast I had my last slimfast (well.. Tesco's own ultra slim anyway)
Then for lunch I had a WFF meal - Honey and Mustard Chicken with veg and mash
Then I had a snack - Cadbury's animals 25g
Then for my dinner I have had pasta with a stir in sauce.

I am allowed 19 TOTALS A DAY(bit like weight watchers points I guess)

My WFF meal was only 1 and a half!!! HA HA. That's well cool. Means those meals are really really good for me. I have finally done something right for a change.

My pasta was 7 and my sauce was 1.5 so that was cool.

With all that grub I still have 5 points to use. I am bloated and content and happy with the world. How cool is that. It also tells me I have had 1420 cals today. That's less than I have had all week on slimfast!! Just shows doesn't it! 19 Totals = 1600 calories or thereabouts.

So I am feeling good.