June 17th 2016
New York New York!
After reaching my target weight a month ago, I went on holiday to New York. This could have been disastrous for my weight but I continued to food optimise where possible while allowing myself a few treats. I am lactose intolerant so by default my plane meal had no butter, no cream and fruit instead of dessert and cheese. We were self catering for the first 5 days in Montauk, Long Island and knowing we would have to eat out for every meal for the second half of the trip, we were cautious not to spend too much on food and ate most of our meals in the studio apartment plus some picnics on days out. Once in New York City I always had melon with my breakfast and generally salad with lunch and dinner to make sure I was getting my speed foods in. We also walked miles...clocking up an impressive 70 miles over the nine day break.
Weigh in
Thinking I had been as 'good' as I could without depriving myself of the things I love (mainly wine and cocktails!!) I returned to class last week and to my delight I had lost half a pound! This week (14th June) I weighed in again and had lost a further 1.5 pounds, giving me my One and a half stone award in this class. In total since my weight loss journey began in January 2014 I have lost 2 stone which was my ultimate goal!
The Dress
So yesterday myself and 16 of my friends and family set off for Royal Ascot Ladies day to officially start celebrating my 40th Birthday, we had a fabulous day and even the weather was amazingly kind to us (despite continual torrential rain and flash flooding closer to home). As we were catering for everyone, and it was a celebration, I decided to have a 'day off' which I know goes against Slimming World philosophy but actually having eaten bread, pastries, crisps, cakes and chips for one day I felt really sluggish by the end of the day (alcohol and an eight hour round trip probably didn't help!!) and today I'm back on it with melon and ham for my breakfast!!
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Thinking I had been as 'good' as I could without depriving myself of the things I love (mainly wine and cocktails!!) I returned to class last week and to my delight I had lost half a pound! This week (14th June) I weighed in again and had lost a further 1.5 pounds, giving me my One and a half stone award in this class. In total since my weight loss journey began in January 2014 I have lost 2 stone which was my ultimate goal!
