One thing I always do when it’s time to weigh in, and I am sure this will give some people a chuckle, is take off my engagement ring – I know I know, it probably weighs nothing…but better safe than sorry, right? I do have the most beautiful diamond ring though, I have worn it [...]

I was only without my old elliptical for 2 weeks, but it felt like a whole lot longer. I got my new elliptical on Monday, I have used it 6 times since, but I can only manage 45 minutes on it at the moment – I was doing 75 on my old one. I can’t [...]

One of the down sides of trying to live a healthy lifestyle in the UK is that at this time of year, it’s not so easy to get some fresh foods, salads especially – in the summer I practically live of off lettuce, radishes, cucumber etc – but at this time of year I simply [...]

Breakfast: Corn Flakes & Milk- 200 Tea: 2 poached eggs, grilled bacon, baked beans, 2 x medium bread – 600 Dinner: Tomato soup – 170 Snack 1: Crisps – 90 Snack 2: Chicken, 3 cherry tomatos, crab stick – 100 Drinks: Tea, juice, water – 20 Total: 1180 Exercise: 20 minutes elliptical – 200 burned

So I managed to lose a pound this week, great news…but it has left me confused. I usually exercise 5 days a week for any where from 60 – 75 minutes, and I am lucky if I lose any thing, I consider it a good week if I don’t gain. With my elliptical out of [...]

Breakfast: Thick slice toast & low cal jam – 250 Tea: Chicken sausages, mash potato, onion gravy, cauliflower & broccoli – 600 Dinner: Corn flakes & milk – 200 Snack 1: Crisps – 90 Snack 2: Chicken, 3 cherry tomatos, crab stick – 100 Drinks: Tea, juice, water – 20 Total: 1260 Exercise: 35 minutes [...]

Caloriecount.about.com is now my favourite online weight loss community. I discovered it in around October last year, and while I do still use ExtraPounds.com this has overtaken it as my favourite. I like that it has all the features that ExtraPounds does, like the weight and activity logs, the pretty graphs to chart your success [...]

This is yesterdays food and activity log, this is something I am going to try and do on a regular basis, I certainly won’t be doing it daily as I log this on another website and doing it here also seems redundant. But I will do it if I feel I am doing really well, [...]

I hope over the next few weeks to really push myself, like really really as it would be great if I were able to get down to my next mini goal of 12.8 before my birthday on March 20th. It was my birthday last year when I started on this journey and it would feel [...]

This isn’t related to my weight loss journey, but it being valentines day I just had to mention my other half…who is very supportive of my constant calorie counting and ‘must excersize’ attitude. We have been together for almost 5 years, we are engaged, we have a very good relationship – the only down side [...]